HSMS Ep 7. The 7 Things Your Home Staging Website Needs
Welcome to seventh episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this episode, I will explain the 7 parts that every home staging website needs. You can click the play button on the...
HSMS Ep 6. Truth about Website Keywords for Your Home Staging Website
Welcome to sixth episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this episode, I will explain the truth about keywords for your home staging website. You can click the play button on the...
HSMS Ep 5. The Costs of 4 Options for Getting a Website
Welcome to fifth episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this episode, I will explain the 4 different options for getting a website for your home staging business, and the cost of...
HSMS Ep 4. 4 Types of Content for Your Website
Welcome to fourth episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this episode, I will explain the 4 different types of content that you can have on your website. Utilizing these 4 types...
HSMS Ep 3. 8 Things to do for Good SEO on Your Home Staging Website
Welcome to third episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this episode, I will explain the 8 ways to give your website good SEO. Doing all 8 of these items well will give your...
HSMS Bonus Ep. Hub & Spoke Strategy for a Home Stager’s Marketing
Welcome to this bonus episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this bonus episode, I share a discussion I led at the June 2018 meeting of BIRC (Boston IAHSP Regional Chapter). This...
HSMS Ep 2. Why Your Home Staging Business Needs a Website
Welcome to second episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this episode, I will explain the four reasons that your home staging business needs a website. You probably already know...
HSMS Ep 1. Introduction to the Home Stager Marketing Show
Welcome to very first episode of the Home Stager Marketing Show, brought to you by Stager Sidekick. My name is Mike, and I am the Stager Sidekick. In this inaugural episode, I will provide an introduction of what the Home Stager Marketing Show will be about and what...
Website Builder Review: Wix vs Weebly vs GoCentral
Did you know that you can make your own website for your home staging business? You can, and creating a website can be pretty easy with a website builder. Of the many DIY (do-it-yourself) website builders available, they often come with website templates to help you...
14 Blog Topic Ideas for Home Stagers
What do I write about in my blog? That is a frequent question I hear from home stagers when we talk about their website. That question is often the reason many home stagers put off starting their blog.The truth is that blog topics for home staging websites are right...
2 Simple Ways to Make Your Pictures Actually Help Your SEO (watch video)
Here's a little secret that you may not know about all of those beautiful pictures of your work that you loaded to your website. Your website pictures probably aren't helping your SEO. Google doesn't care about them. Yahoo doesn't know they exist. Bing...
3 Important Characteristics of a Website (and How to Get Them Right) (watch video)
Appearance, functionality, and what is beneath the hood. If your website does all three of those things well, you probably have a great website. If your website only does one or two of those things well, then you may not be getting the full potential out...
Good SEO: It Might Not be as Important for Your Website as You Think
SEO and SERP are two hot words these days that anyone with a website wants to have. However, there are many cases when home stagers really don't need to have good SEO or good placement on the SERP. It's true! First, let's define SEO and SERP: SERP is the acronym for...
Presentation to BIRC
The Boston Chapter of IAHSP (BIRC) holds a meeting each month for their members. This month's meeting on November 16, 2017 was held at Churchill Living in Medford, MA. Churchill Living was a gracious host. BIRC invited me to present to their members at...
Invoicing and Accounting Made Easy for Home Stagers (with video)
Being a home stager is fun and exciting work. You get to be creative, get to work with a lot of great people, and get the satisfaction of knowing that your skills and hard work helped someone during the stressful process of selling their home. Then that fun...
Home Stager Website Templates, the Good and the Bad
Home stagers have so many options to get a website these days. A common option is to use a website template to build their own website. Is using a template right for you and your home staging business? We will discuss the good and the bad of templates for home...
How Much Does a Home Stager Website Cost?
Home stagers have a plethora of expenses for their business. Although the importance of a website is obvious, the fact is that a website is another business expense. So how much is this extra expense going to be? And is the expense of a website really worth it? The...
Review of the GoDaddy Website Builder for Home Stagers
Most people know GoDaddy as the place to buy a domain name for their website. GoDaddy is where many people start when they want a website. GoDaddy also offers a complete online package for people and businesses. They have a website builder called GoCentral. They...
The One Thing that can Really Harm Your Website Google Ranking
There is one thing that your home staging website may have right now that Google and other search engines don't like. Having it on your website will get it penalized, damaging your website's SEO. Some people don't even realize they have it! What is it that could be...
5 Reasons Home Stagers Need to Blog
If you are a home stager with a website, you have probably heard that you need to have a blog. It's technically not a necessity to have a blog, as most home stagers don't blog, but blogging can be a game changer for your website and your business. For home stagers...
Welcome to Stager Sidekick
Welcome to Stager Sidekick! You're probably here because you are a home stager, right? And you don't have a website, or you have a website that doesn't quite live up to your standards, right again? We can help. We make websites specifically for home stagers. Not...
My Home Staging Website Isn’t Showing Up On Google!
I frequently hear from worried home stagers that their websites aren't showing up on Google. They added keywords, they list the name of every town within 50 miles, and they load pictures. Why isn't their website showing up first in Google? Unfortunately, it's not...
How to Start a Career in Home Staging
Get accredited training and earn your Graduate of Staging Diva certification using the affiliate button below.The thought of starting a new career in home staging can be exciting. For many people who are good at decorating spaces, getting paid for home staging seems...
The Truth about SEO for Home Stager Websites
SEO is something that every home stager knows they need to have for their website. But most home stagers are just not sure how to get it. There are truths about how to give your website great SEO, but there are unfortunately a lot of incorrect assumptions made by...
Job Tasks for a Home Stager
This article includes affiliate links. Have you been considering a career in home staging? It seems like the perfect fit, because you enjoy decorating rooms, rearranging furniture to get a different flow, and have the traits for a successful home staging business....
Traits of Successful Home Stagers
You have a great eye for knowing how to arrange a room. You enjoy repositioning furniture in your home. You love to shop for new accessories to change the look of a room. You would love to turn your passion into a career. So you ask yourself, is that enough to...
3 Reasons a Home Stager Needs a (Good) Website
Does a home staging business need to have a website? Yes! A website is critical for your home staging business. Just ask anyone who needs a home stager and turns to Google for help. Does the home stager's website need to be good? Absolutely! Even though "good" is...
7 Reasons to Get a Home Staging Certification
For many home stagers, a earning a certification makes sense. However, the home staging industry is not regulated, so there is not a requirement to get a certification and there is no such thing as a home staging license. (Note: you can read our post Does a Home...
How to Get a Domain Name for Your Home Staging Business
Getting a domain name for your home staging business is the first step to getting a website. It is a fairly easy process, but one that most home stagers may not even know where to start. First let's define what a domain name actually is. The domain name is basically...
I Have a Website for My Home Staging Business, Now What?
You have a website for your home staging business. Congratulations. Now you have to get people to visit it. A home stager's website is not the Field of Dreams. Just because you built it, doesn't mean that they will come. On the first day you have a website, you...
Job Outlook for Home Stagers
Spoiler alert! The outlook for jobs in home staging is very good. Of course, that is the Stager Sidekick opinion of home staging job outlook. It came from doing some research, some analysis, and some observation. Then we put all of that in a bowl, mixed it up, and...
Does a Home Stager Need to be Certified or Licensed?
Get accredited training and earn your Graduate of Staging Diva certification using the affiliate button below.If you are considering getting into the home staging business, one question that you may ask yourself is "do I need to be certified or licensed to be a home...
Meet Stager Sidekick at RESA Convention 2017
If you are going to the RESA Convention 2017, Stager Sidekick wants to meet you! Hi, I'm Mike from Stager Sidekick. I am going to be in Las Vegas during the RESA Convention. Although I won't be at the actual conference, I am planning to be at The M during the day....
Top 11 Things to do in Las Vegas During RESA Convention 2017
The Real Estate Staging Association Convention 2017 is coming to Las Vegas, NV in January. After spending hours each day inside a convention hall, listening to speakers and having conversations about staging, you will probably be ready to explore some of...
A Website is the Curb Appeal for a Home Stager’s Business
Home stagers know the importance of curb appeal. Those first impressions of the home you are staging are critical. Curb appeal sets the tone for the visitor of the home. Good curb appeal gets the shopper in the home and visualizing themselves living there. A lack...
Home Stager Website: Build or Buy?
A website is important for every home staging business. However, the process of how to get a website sometime poses a challenge. The first option to consider is whether to build your own website or to buy one. Don't worry home stagers, businesses in every industry...