One of the things that I have done of late for my clients is to help them out of the "my house has been on the market for ever and nobody has been brought through in two months" syndrome is to do what I call Stale Listing Staging.  Here's how it works:

A client calls in either frustration or desperation because their house is on the market, the listing is stale, and no-one is interested.  OK, so they have finally gotten around to hiring a professional stager. The strategy that I use is for the client to temporarily take their house off the market (and make sure that it is removed from the Multiple Listing Service and that any signage is taken down during the staging).   I then work my usual magic.  De-cluttering, re-arranging, getting rid of the puce carpeting in the rumpus room, giving the house some more curb appeal - you get the idea. 

Once the house has been staged, it is re-listed with their Realtor.  It will now come up on the MLS as a new listing.  It can even be advertised as a "freshly staged home."  The Realtor schedules an open house (which I usually attend to keep the real estate agent company, and to keep them from being alone in the house) to kick off the new and improved listing.  A new set of photographs has been taken for the listing and the new photographs are used on the MLS and in any marketing collateral.

Often, I ask the real estate agent (who I ALWAYS call to tell what the homeowner and I are up to) to invite some of the perspective buyers who have already seen the house to come back and take another look.  Chances are that they won't even recognize the house!  And these houses sell within a month or so if not faster.

So this is a call to arms for Real Estate Agents - convince, beg if necessary, your clients with stale listings to enlist some serious professional help, in the form of a Professional Home Stager.  They'll thank you for it, and they'll sell their home!