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Continuing Education will Ignite your Staging Passion and helps your Business Grow to New Levels

By Linda Barnett

Home Stager with Home Matters Property Stylist Group, Indianapolis, Indiana

June 21, 2009 04:32 AM

continuing education photo Last month along with Teresa Meyer of Stage a Star in Cincinnati, I had the privilege of sitting in class with CSP Elite Instructor, Melissa Marro. The day begins with warm welcomes and some sharing of our lives and experiences and soon we got down to the business of the day which was to learn about the CSP elite program. Our understanding was to learn how to educate our real estate community on the importance of utilizing stagers in their marketing plan. This course is not a "how to" stage but rather helps real estate professionals gain an understanding of how staging can be added to their marketing plan and helps them to distinguish themselves as a value added, service oriented professional.

For me this course did an excellent job of explaining the evolution of real estate sales and teaches agents to become current with staging services as a viable resource for marketing their properties; not to mention that this stager/agent partnership will transform the way in which real estate is marketed and sold today and into the future.

The most important part of this course that I found particularly interesting was how it answered the question about why if most Real Estate Professionals say that they believe staging to be a crucial and an effective step in the marketing process, why are there so few agents actually utilizing staging? Well, for me, the answers are there in this program. This course answers misconceptions about home staging and offers sample scripts on how agents can respond to their client's questions and concerns.

This program helps support our industry growth as I see it. Here's one Stager that is looking forward to training my real estate community. I'm extremely confident that in doing so we (stager and agent) will gain new real estate partnerships as a result.

But I must say before I leave this blog, that I wonder now, what else could I be needing in my staging career that could benefit me and my business and should I make it my business to find out more about what's out there in the continued educational world. As a seasoned veteran in home staging and former real estate professional, I'm not excluded from and should never be without opportunities to learn and grow in this field.

Are you thinking about continued education for yourself and your business too?

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Ginger Foust

Certified Staging Professional - Oakhurst, CA

Home Stager Oakhurst CA, Dream Interior Redesign & Staging

This sounds like a very interesting class Linda and no doubt if Melissa is teaching it there's a lot to be learned. It sounds like just what I need! I did look over her list of where she's teaching and there's no locations even remotely close to me so hopefully she'll head for the west coast someday soon. (Are you listening Melissa?) I am a true believer in Lifelong learning and I'm looking forward to the RESA conference this winter! See you there??? Thanks for sharing your views of this.

Jun 21, 2009 07:13 AM

Marina Vazzana

CRE-A-TIVE Staging & Redesign - Durham Region - Oshawa, ON

CSP, Home Staging Oshawa and Durham Region

I agree with your title. I took the CSP course last year and have just recently taken a refresher which is an awesome part of what Christine offers by way of support. I left feeling "ignited". You have me thinking the new course - CSP Elite is a must do. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm.

Jun 21, 2009 09:59 AM

Linda Barnett

Home Matters Property Stylist Group, Indianapolis, Indiana - Indianapolis, IN

Home Matters Indianapolis Indiana

Ginger; I happy to share my view of this program. Your are absolutely right about lifelong learning; it is always an ongoing process. I hope to see you in Vegas as well.

Marina; We all need alittle ignited from time to time. Education is the key to alot of future successess. Thanks for your comments.

Jun 22, 2009 05:48 AM

Melissa Marro

Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL

Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

Hi Linda! Thanks for the awesome mention. I'm so excited about this course I could bust! Tomorrow I'm teaching the Elite Instructor program again and our very own Anthea Click will be attending. We spent all day together and are getting ready to go out to dinner downtown - Jestine's of course!

Ginger - I am listening, but Oakland is the terriotry of Joanne O'Donnell, so unfortunately I probably won't get to teach there. On a brighter note, I just turned in my application for speaker at the RESA convention, so maybe there? Either way, I'll be there!! See you then!

Marina - Elite is really for agents, but frankly there is still a lot for stagers to learn! I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed your CSP training so much and you are right that having the refresher course is fantastic for your business. It helps you relearn what you didn't even realize you needed when you took the course initially!

Jun 22, 2009 10:01 AM

Gary Barnett

Home Matters - Indianapolis, IN

Home Matters Property Stylist Group, Indianapolis

Justine's? Melissa, a real friend would not taunt those that know where your talking about! God, I can taste the fried Shrimp, Okra and cucumbers.

Jun 23, 2009 08:27 AM

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