Monday, December 01, 2008

Staging Diva Featured at YoungEntrepreneur.com

I was very pleased recently to find an article I wrote featured on YoungEntrepreneur.com.

Please check out the article (which takes lessons learned from the gym and applies them to business) and leave your comments. I'm sure you will find my observations helpful in growing your home staging business.

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Intrepid entrepreneur and home staging expert Debra Gould, also known as The Staging Diva, has been running her own business since 1989. She knows how to make money as a home stager and has taught over 1000 others to use their decorating talents and run their own home staging business in the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Beware of home staging training companies promising jobs

If you're being tempted by ads for home staging training companies guaranteeing employment upon graduation, please be careful.

I hear many stories from people who have enrolled in a program with the understanding they would be given jobs when they finished, starting at $31.45/hour. Sadly, people are finding that maybe these claims really are too good to be true.

There are a couple of problems, that I can see, with these claims.

First of all, home stagers make much more than $31.45/hour and secondly, home staging is not a field that offers guaranteed employment because home stagers generally run their own small businesses from home.

You can read more about this topic on the Business of Home Staging Blog.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Home Staging featured at CNNMoney.com

Back in July of this year, CNNMoney.com published a 21 page feature article on Home Staging. It included a description of what home staging is, my tips for selling quickly in a slow market and lots of before and after shots of my home staging projects. According to the article,

"Debra Gould, founder of Staging Diva has helped scores of homeowners clean up, rearrange, and style their homes to command top price."

I was pleased that the article linked to the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. This exposure in the media always leads to more work for Staging Diva Graduates who are listed in the directory.

You can read the article here.

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Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Staging Diva on This Old House!


In July of this year, I was thrilled to discover that I was featured in a front page story on the This Old House website with some of my best home staging tips. What great exposure for the home staging industry and especially the more than 900 graduates of the Staging Diva Training Program and enjoyed some great leads I got from that article.

Read more about the entire This Old House experience on my Business of Home Staging blog.


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Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.