Today I Googled my name to check up on my search ranking for home staging in my area. To my surprise I discovered that my staging articles were posted on other home stagers websites. No need to play plagiarism police, they all cited me as the author although no one linked to my site which would have been nice.
The most surprising thing was that I discovered that I was in 2 articles for HOME STYLE MAGAZINE! I had never seen the articles published and I was excited to read them. If you want to check them out you can see them below. Many thanks to the author Patricia Rivera for including me.
You may want to check out your own name from time to time so you can keep your marketing and press up to date. You never know what you may discover about yourself!
I was recently nominated for the RESA Professional Stager of the Year. If you would like to vote for me please click here.


Hi Gregory,
I actually knew about the articles for HOME STYLE but I had not seen them. I was interviewed for them some time ago but did not know that they had been published. I did not know others were using my articles on their site but I am ok with it since they are giving me credit. I just wish I woud get a link too. Sorry for the confusion. KH
What a nice surprise to find out that you have been quoted in those magazines! Although I would have thought that the author would have contacted you prior to doing so. I hope you can find back issues so that you can add them to your portfolio.
Hi Kate;
How funny that you would just submit this blog as I had the most bizarre experience over googling two nights ago. Actually it's usually my daughter who will google my name, my business name and the radio show to see where it pops up and then she'll tell me. Well, the other night I did a google on myself ( gosh...that almost sounds illegal ) and I was happily looking over all of the pages I had under just my name and thought wow this is great! Then I got a few pages in to it when I noticed there was another person with my name and she was a model in N. Carolina. How interesting I thought...well let me check out the other " me ", I mean, having the same name as a model might be interesting....OMG....lets just say it gave new meaning to the term staging naked!!! I won't go in to the details....but she proves another point...location,location,location...and gravity has not been friendly! I nearly fell right out of my office chair. Once I got over the total shock of it all, I laughed myself silly and shared the story with friends. It's going to make for great blogging material for my other blog " The Martini Manuscript ". So by all means...I agree google away...but be ready for things you never knew existed!!!
Cheers
Hi Kate - congrats on the magazine articles! At least those who used your posts did attribute you as the author, but I agree with you, a link to your blog would have been nice. Now that I think about it, I just might contact those who used your posts and ask that they include a link to your blog as a condition to keep your articles up there. Yep, that's what I'd do.
Congrats again!
Ann