ACTIVE RAIN MEMBERS I NEED YOUR HELP, PLEASE ..FOR KIDS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES!
Several years ago, I wrote our personal story of a tragedy about my son that was killed, and how it has changed thousands of kids lives across the United States.
This is a contest that I need your help to nominate and vote for
MARK J REYNOLDS MEMORIAL BIKE FUND
The contest is CLOROX CLEAN-UP CONTEST and they are giving away $10,000 grants for kids.
There is currently 8 kids that need a special adapted bike due to disabilities and these bikes are $500 apiece. Please take a minute and nominate and vote. It does not cost you anything only a little time.
All this content in one fun packed day! Prizes, gift certificates and cash, contests, networking and guaranteed at least one tip that will earn you the cost of admission. You can't afford to miss this! Visit www.StagersLISTExpo.com and click on Metro New York!
Keynote Speaker Christine Rae Speaker at California Association of Realtors Convention October 2009, past recipient of RESA Innovator award, President of CSP International Training Academy, trainer and author of Wiley Publishing's Home Staging For Dummies (& a Resource for the Rest of us). This book is a terrific tool which guides the reader to discover that staging is a specialty that the average person needs professional help with.
Christine's talk, 5 Mistakes Businesses Make, 5 Steps to Turn Your Business Around, 5 Market Driven Trends to Build Revenue will inspire you to take action to turn your business around. She challenges you to answer, "What keeps you from the success you want?" You will leave motivated and ready to turn your business around. Businesses need to grow and change to increase their market share; learn the trends that can help you reach your financial goals. What heights do you want to achieve in 2010?
Melissa Marro Founder of First Impressions Home Staging & Interior Redesign, IRIS, CSP, Dewey Trainer
Melissa will be presenting Marketing for Explosive and Consistent Sales. Learn how to effectively market your staging business with a minimal budget for consistent and explosive sales without cold calling or placing expensive media print ads. Melissa will cover e-newsletters, agent "lunch & learns", neighborhood and agent farming techniques and more. Master these topics and you will be able to break free of the ebb and flow of the sales world and launch into increased, sustained sales and bookings.
Melissa will also have a workshop titled Overcome Objections - Increase Sales. Having trouble closing the deal or even setting appointments? In this session Melissa will teach you how to overcome common industry objections masterfully and with confidence. Melissa's company has had incredible success in their marketplace, once managing 40 staged properties in one month! Learn simple, proven techniques and increase your presentation skills with this informative workshop.
Leigh Hagen Photographer, professinal stager and cofounder of LH2 Staging, Leigh's work has been featured on the cover of Home Staging for Dummies, Midwest Living Luxury Tours, and International Staging Magazine Staging Standard.
Leigh is presenting our lunch workshop, Photos - the final ingredient. The Sale Begins in the MLS. Photographs sell your work, your talent and your staged properties IF they reflect what you've done. Learn how to take better photos, what you need in a camera and how to utilize your photos to sell more by marketing yourself and your work online and in your portfolio through brilliant photos.
Suzy Minken Home stager and Feng Shui practitioner
Suzy's workshop is Feng Shui - The Home Staging Connection. Suzy blends home staging and Feng Shui with great success. Staging IS Feng Shui. Feng Shui does three things: 1. Harmonize space, 2. Neutralize space from negative emotions, 3. Direct energy to a specific goal. For home stagers that means creating space that buyers "feel" at home in. Learn how home staging and Feng Shui blend and compliment each other. Realtors know how a home feels makes a difference in what properties buyers will spend more time viewing. Stagers use these techniques all the time. Suzy will teach you why it works and help you understand how to use them with purpose and intention for even more success and SOLD properties.
Chris' workshop is Websites, Blogging, SEO - The Key To Building Your Business. Learn how you can get a web presence on YOUR budget. Do you have a website? Do you know it doesn't have to be expensive to be effective? If you have a website, is it active, engaging and bringing you business? You may only need slight changes to improve your existing site dramatically? Do you know that blogging is bringing Realtors and home stagers across the country business? If you answered no to any of these questions, this workshop is for you! Drive business to your door without spending a fortune doing it. Take this workshop and receive a FREE blog header for the blog platform of your choice.
How to Create and Solidify Realtor Relationships
We have three successful professional home stagers to talk about how they create partnerships with their Realtors and continue to get business. Sid Pinkerton has been featured on TLC as a home staging expert and has staged hundreds of apartments in Metro Nerw York in the last six years. Kate Hart is an award winning home staging expert, has helped hundreds of families prepare homes for sale, has mentored and trained thousands of Realtors and home stagers. Lynelle Hartman has been a trainer for the two largest staging training companies in the US, trains in the Dewey Color System and authored a continuing education course on vacant home staging.
President Obama has said he is opposed to discriminatory ballot measures. It’s time for him to do something to stop them.
The President can do something today to prevent future ballot measures designed to take away LGBT rights by asking the federal court to rule that Proposition 8 and similar measures violate the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The case is set to be heard in U.S. District Court in early January — so please act now.
In solidarity,
Geoff Kors Executive Director Equality California
P.S. With emotions still raw from Tuesday, we need to make sure we turn our anger into action. Pledge to volunteer. We need help calling to get our supporters involved, office help, and people to join us in going door to door to talk directly with those who are not yet on our side. Volunteer >
When was the last time you got tested? Have you talked with anyone about ways to protect yourself against HIV?
Come to the RCC on Friday, Nov 6 & Monday, Nov 9 between 6-8pm and you will get:
FREE HIV oral rapid testing- You will know the result in 20 minutes with 99.7% accuracy;
FREE safer sex counseling;
FREE condoms & lube;
Peace of Mind that comes from knowing you are taking care of yourself!
Rainbow Community Center (RCC) 3024 Willow Pass Road, Suite 200 Concord, CA 94519-2588 Phone: 925.692.0090 Fax: 925.692.0091
The RCC also offers counseling, support groups, food services and so much more. If you'd like to donate to help this wonderful organization, please click here. If you'd like to learn more about their programs and services, visit their website.
I received this email from my friend Adryon and I think it's a cute way to remind us that she's raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by participating in Team in Training. If you'd like to see more information about Adryon, visit www.AdryonRocks.com. Then donate if you can. This Winter my grandpa, who passed away from Multiple Myeloma, will be one of the team's honorees.
I think you should dress up as a PHILANTHROPIST! It's a super easy costume to make - you don't even need to leave your house or even your chair! Plus, everyone will be dressing up as The Cat in The Hat - why not step outside of that box!
This Sunday, Nov 1, 2-4:30pm at the RCC No on 1 Phone Bank Make the difference on the last weekend before Nov 3!
Join Courage Campaign in helping protect marriage equality in Maine!
After a bill to allow same-sex marriage in Maine was signed into law on May 6, 2009, Maine became the fifth U.S. state to recognize same-sex marriage and the second to do so through legislative process rather than through a judicial ruling. The law would have taken effect on September 11, 2009, but will now be subject to a potential "people's veto" in Maine's November elections.
The stakes are extremely high in Maine. Right now, the same people that launched Prop 8 are airing fear-mongering TV ads in Maine that are carbon copies of the ads they aired last year in California.
In an election that is so close, a robust and disciplined field campaign can make all the difference. The Maine "NO on 1" campaign needs help making voter ID and persuasion phone calls. And that's where you can help.
Come make calls the whole time, or just some of the time. We need you!
Rainbow Community Center (RCC) 3024 Willow Pass Road, Suite 200 Concord, CA 94519-2588 Phone: 925.692.0090 Fax: 925.692.0091
According to the hummingbird website www.RubyThroat.org this is extremely rare.
Couple things I learned while visiting www.RubyThroat.org were that hummingbirds are rarely seen in Europe and those are birds that have escaped captivity. I had no idea they didn't have hummingbirds in Europe.
I also learned about hummingbird moths, which apparently act so exactly like a hummingbird that they are often mistaken for baby humming birds. Hummingbirds do not leave the nest until fully grown, so you won't see a baby one flying around anywhere.
I just thought that was interesting, and it did remind me to fill my hummingbird feeder. : )
www.LH2Staging.com. Lynelle Hartman is one of the pioneers in the industry working as a trainer for the two largest staging training companies in the US. She also trains in the Dewey Color System and has authored a continuing education course for stagers on vacant home staging. Lynelle and her partner Leigh have perfected the art of staging vacant (as well as occupied) homes in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photography of their work has been showcased locally and in magazines. The best home staging trainers understand the industry because they run successful staging businesses and stage every day alongside their peers. In addition Lynelle had a 10 year Real Estate career and understands Realtors and their clients.
Lynelle will be a part of our Professional Home Stager and Designer Panel at the Real Estate Home Staging Expo on November 12, 2009. You won't want to miss this! The panel will focus on How to Create and Solidify Realtor Relationships.
Join us and learn from Lynelle and our two other Panel Experts, Sid Pinkerton and Kate Hart. Learn how to solidify your Realtor relationships and keep your business thriving in ANY market.
www.HartStaging.com Kate Hart, an award winning home staging expert, has helped hundreds of families prepare their homes for sale, personally mentored and trained thousands of Realtors and staging professionals on the benefits of staging as a property marketing tool. She has been featured as a staging, design expert on HGTV, CNN, Fine Living Network and 50+ publications including Better Homes and Gardens, Everyday with Rachel Ray, Family Circle, Luxury Homes Quarterly. Currently the spokesperson for Mirror Mate Frames she is working on a book "Are You Selling a Used Home or a Pre-Owned Domicile?" soon to be released. Find out how she builds relationships with Realtors in her local market.
Kate will be a part of our Professional Home Stager and Designer Panel at the Real Estate Home Staging Expo on November 12, 2009. You won't want to miss this! The panel will focus on How to Create and Solidify Realtor Relationships.
Join us and learn from Kate and our two other Panel Experts, Sid Pinkerton and Lynelle Hartman. Learn how to solidify your Realtor relationships and keep your business thriving in ANY market.
www.FromDrabtoFab.comSid Pinkerton was featured on TLC as a home staging expert. Sid has staged hundreds of apartments in Metro New York in the past six years. "Even in this market, we continue to have more than 90% of our staged properties of those within 7 days," says Sid. Sid says his clients are the Realtors and he is acutely aware of that. Sid's business is referral and word of mouth only. Learn how Sid turned his love of Real Estate into a passion that earns him a six figure income with NO outside marketing. We will talk about Sid's philosophy and how he maximizes the Realtor relationships in a challenging and unique marketplace, New York City.
Sid will be a part of our Professional Home Stager and Designer Panel at the Real Estate Home Staging Expo on November 12, 2009. You won't want to miss this! The panel will focus on How to Create and Solidify Realtor Relationships.
Join us and learn from Sid and our two other Panel Experts, Kate Hart and Lynelle Hartman. Learn how to solidify your Realtor relationships and keep your business thriving in ANY market.
"Chris does my website and we have been working together for a year. In one word she is AMAZING! My invoice each month is pennies compared to what I get from her. She also does my promotional flyers... I have recommended her to everyone I know and they are never disappointed."
- Kym Hough, www.Staged-to-Sell.com
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Keynote Speaker Christine Rae
Melissa Marro
Leigh Hagen
Suzy Minken
Chris Fisher
How to Create and Solidify Realtor Relationships
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