Diana's Blog

I need help on a problem that I have all the time in my job as a home stager.  So this is the deal, I'm looking for some tips on how to talk myself and my business up to clients on the phone.  You know the phone call, the real estate agent has suggested your services to the client, but the client...

Today I go in for shoulder surgery, and one of my major worries is, how will I blog on AR?  My arm will be in a sling for 2 weeks and I'm worried I'll go through AR withdrawal!  Hopefully I will make a speedy recovery so I can get right back to it.  Make sure you all blog a little extra for me be...

Well, you win some and you lose some.  Yesterday the Packers looked a little lost in the cold and didn't win the NFC Championship.  All of us here in Wisconsin are looking a little forlorned this morning.  We were all so sure it would be the Packers and the Patriots in the Superbowl.  All I can s...

Well, those of you who thought my "client to be" wasn't interested were correct.  I called her back, per many of your pieces of advice.  She blew me off!  I was quite surprised.  Being new to working with this real estate agent, I mistakenly believed that if he sent me to a specific seller, that ...

When being asked by a real estate agent to contact one of their clients, how often is too often to call them back.  I was asked by a REA that I work with to contact a client of his regarding getting their home staged, he said they were expecting my call and needed my services.  I called the numbe...

Wow!  That's all I really have to say about this website's members.  As a new member and a new blogger I really didn't know what to expect.  I had an issue I needed to find a solution for (a smokers house that needed staged) and all I had to do was put the question out there.  I received more tha...

I have a client whose husband is a smoker .  He smokes inside the home and I'm having trouble convincing her to have him stop smoking in the house.  I have already told her how buyers don't like the smell of smoke, and with all the competition out there now, that she has to do everything she can ...

Well, I had a long, well though out and witty blog entry all set, but when I went to post it, it was erased.  Aaaagh!  Sometimes I just hate computers!  Basically what it said was that I'm having trouble with marketing myself and my business and I'm looking for advice from the Real Estate agents ...

As you all know, this has been a tough real estate winter so far.  We are all in the same boat-lots of inventory and very few buyers.  Many of you know how valuable Home Staging can be in this volitile market and have already used my services or the services of another Home Stager.  Home Staging ...