Home stager success stories

I've been teaching home stagers how to make money doing what they love since 2005. There are thousands of Staging Diva students all over the world and I've written a FREE report about some of their home stager success stories.

Inside "Ask Staging Diva: Can a regular person like me become a successful home stager" you'll find 10 real-life examples of people whose lives have been changed by their home staging careers.

You'll get a behind-the-scenes peek at inspiring home stagers and learn about how they took a leap of faith into their own staging business, how they've used their natural decorating talents to help specific clients who have had trouble selling their homes and more.

Whether you're an aspiring home stager or an established pro, you'll love this FREE report. Click here to get your Stager Success Stories report right now!

By the way, if you'd like to read more free articles about how to make money as a home stager, I do most of my blogging at Home Staging Business Report, so that's where you'll find all my current posts.

Please pop by for a visit. There are some great discussions going on right now in the various post comments from both new and established home stagers.

Learn how to use Twitter to grow your staging business

If you aren’t already using Twitter to market your home staging business, it's probably one of these two reasons that's keeping you from getting started:

* you don’t see how "tweeting" could possibly benefit you as a home stager
* you’re much too nervous and intimidated by the technology to sign up

Having a Twitter account should be a requisite for operating a business today and if you don’t have one due to one of the above reasons, you need to order my newest book: Home Stager’s Guide to Twitter.

Click here for full details and to see the full table of contents of this essential guide for home stagers.

What if fear stopped Oprah from moving forward?

Oprah announced on her show last week that after 25 years, she'll be ending The Oprah Winfrey Show in September 2011. Of course, she won't really be retiring. Aside from her current media empire, she’s working on launching her own cable TV channel and will most likely have her own show on there.

Last week I watched a television interview taped with Oprah 24 years ago and in it she was asked “what if your new show fails?” Without missing a beat she replied, “I’ll be OK. I’m not defined by my TV show.”

Imagine if she had let the “what if I fail” question stand in her way back then! Read more about this topic in a recent post on the Home Staging Business Report.

Keep on marketing your home staging business

No matter how busy you are, or how busy you're worried you might become with the growing popularity of your home staging business, you must never stop marketing it!

I go into more detail about why in a recent post on the Home Staging Business Report. You can read that article here.

Getting a professional email address for your staging business

When you have a domain name for your home staging business the first thing you should do is set up a matching email address. This is especially important if you’re using a cutesy email address such as, pookiebear@hotmail.com or something similar. You absolutely can’t use something like that for your business, you need a professional sounding email address.

To learn how you can go about setting up a professional email address for your home staging business, click here to read a recent post at the Home Staging Business Report that covered this topic in detail.

Aspiring home stager ignores friends' advice about "credentials"

I received a comment on one of my blog posts last year from aspiring home stager, Katie Mines. She mentioned that she was finding the decision of where to get her home staging training an overwhelming one. She was learning a lot from my newsletters and blog posts, but someone was advising that she take a course that would give her some real "credentials" instead.

Read about how Katie decided to heed my advice instead of her friends' and learn more about her success as a home stager in this article on the Home Staging Business Report.

Marketing a home staging business goes beyond price

I’ve never made any apologies for being one of the most expensive home stagers in my city - and I have been since I started my business. Just because everyone else seemed to be fine with giving their time away for almost nothing didn't mean I had to do the same.

Instead of trying to compete on price I focused on marketing so I would be perceived as the expert home stager in my market. My goal was for people to come to me when they wanted the best.

If you promote your services as being cheap, you're going to attract penny-pinching clients who don’t value what you have to offer.

Read more about how marketing is more than just about price, in an article on the Home Staging Business Report.