Without a doubt, home staging can help sell a property. Even in this slower market, with so many home sellers having postive results using the services of an expirienced home stager, it is no surprise to find that time and again the blogging stagers here on Active Rain write posts to share their
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12/04/2007
Jackie Peraza recently wrote a good post entitled Banner's, Bloggers and Staging that I encourage you to read. In is she asks an important question about Stage It Forward and what is happeing under its "banner". I've learned that if one person is thinking thoughts like this... others are too. Que
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12/01/2007
While I have learned much from fellow members here on Active Rain and in Stage It Forward... I have to admit there are some member's posts I follow more regularly. What they have to say about Home Staging and the Home Staging Industry time and again captures my attention. So recently when Jennie
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11/29/2007
A winter's drive over the holiday weekend gave me a chance to reflect on all that I see going on in our industry. As I stand back and look WHO we are and WHERE we are... the more I am sure this industry is not quite YET ready to handle the BIG vision so many of us want. I see our collectivey indu
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11/25/2007
Oddly, of all weeks, I stumbled on a old song... we all have heard before. But sometimes an "old" song can sound new. In light of recent Home Staging Industry issues and dialogue... this song holds a hope-filled message that seems to fit our needs, wishes and dreams. The song simply reminds us t
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11/20/2007
Yesterday both Chicago and Manhattan successfully held their respective Stage It Forward (SIF) ROUNDTABLE discussions.Earlier today I spoke with Val Allocco who was the facilitator for in Manhattan. Val said that their group had about 15 attendees at the luncheon sponsored by American Furniture R
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11/17/2007
On Monday I introduced SIF Quarterly Qwik Staging Stats (QSTAT) program to the stagers here on ActiveRain, and yesterday I introduced the concept to the Realtor community in a post called REALTORS... Will Staging Stats Crack Your Nuts?. While that post was fortunate to be FEATURED on the main pa
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11/07/2007
You have all read the stories and/or watched the HGTV shows triumphantly boasting... "SOLD in one day after home staging!" "Multiple offerings after home staging!" "SOLD at first open house after staging!" But even after all these great staging experiences have been reported in various medias, th
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11/06/2007
This past Saturday something small yet amazing happened in an industry... and it is all because of ActiveRain. The home stager's group Stage It Forward turned one year old. Now this might not seem like much, for those of you are NOT home stagers, but for us this is remarkable and HUGE. For prior
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11/05/2007
Well in less than one hour the first Stage It Forward Roundtable Discussion will be taking place in Scottsdale.Many of you emailed asking that I send you the questions we gathered from stagers all over North America... so here they are. I thought that posting the questions we will be discussing w
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10/22/2007