Training Programs

Your Mid-West Instructor

Linda Barnett founded Home Matters in early 2004 and today operates one of the fastest growing Home Staging companies in Indiana. Linda was trained in 2004 as an Accredited Staging Professional (ASP(TM)) and extended her training in 2009 by becoming certified as a CSP™, CSP™ trainer and CSP™Elite trainer. Linda is also an Indiana State certified instructor through the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency and the Indiana Real Estate Commission and has been offering certified training to Home Stagers and Real Estate agents for several years, including a GRI Continued Education class for the Indiana Association of Realtors at the IUPUI Campus at Kokomo, Indiana. Linda served as Technical Editor for the Home Staging for Dummies book, which was released by Wiley Publishing, Inc. in May of 2008.

Linda has received media coverage from television segments as well as many newspapers and magazines articles. Linda and her teams' extensive body of work earned her a nomination for the 2007 Professional Stager of the Year Award from the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) and have been named "Best in Class" Home Staging & Redesign Company by the F.C. Tucker Real Estate Company for 2007 & 2008. Home Matters also enjoys the highest ranking among all Indiana staging companies by Angie's List. Also in 2008, Linda became Presidents of the Indiana State Chapter of the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA). Linda is proud to be a CSP™, CSP™ trainer and CSP™Elite trainer and looks forward to helping others with their home staging training.

Classes Offered

CSP Certification

No other training organization offers such a comprehensive approach to starting a home staging business.

• CSP 3-Day Stager Course (Details below)
• CSP 1-Day Elite™ Agent Course (Details below)

CSP 3-Day Stager Course

Start your own Staging business today! Earn the Certified Staging Professional designation when you take our 3 day intensive program.

The Certified Staging Professional workshop is an intensive, comprehensive program taught through hands-on interaction, group exercises, and in depth practical application of work samples geared to prepare the participants to enter the staging industry with the confidence and experience necessary to succeed.

Whether you are a Decorator, Designer, Organizer, Real Estate Agent - this program is for you!

CSP Home Staging Training Program Highlights

• Resource Manual & Class Instruction - 350+ pages with trainer
• Staging Industry Statistics
• Key factors in the Home Staging Market
• How to sell to different kinds of people
• 8 Pricing Modules
• 4 types of consultations - step by step processes
• Reporting Systems - including unique and innovative staging tool the CSP Room Ready Hand Book
• 7 Samples of Contracts, Proposals, Letters, Bids and Quotes, Vacant pricing charts
• List of different streams of income available to a certified staging consultant
• CSP Tool Kit - recommended list
• 10 Simple steps for staging a room
• The 6 F's of staging; Includes elements of design, scale, floor plans, traffic flow, and more!
• 8 common problems faced when staging
• Color - Including CSP Staging Safe Colors, elements of color, color planning, Choosing paint and more....
• Rental Furniture and how it works
• Storage options
• Building your inventory
• Open house checklist - showing instructions and 20 minute time saving tips...
• Knowing your clients - 29 pages to increase your knowledge of the Real estate Industry, includes: determining the role of a stager, objection handling, and identifying secondary target markets
• Business start-up - 5 crucial things
• Presentations to Real estate Agents
• Building a staging team
• Anatomy of an effective business plan
• 56 page Marketing Resource - Success of Marketing written for CSP Stagers by Marketing Guru Angela Brooks
• Hands-on Experience Field training - Day 3 Stagers actually stage a home on the market!
• CSP Support Access to Resource Center for CSP graduates
• Listed on "Find a Home Stager" directory
• Access and availability of branded promotional material
• Free Refresher attendance of the CSP Program
• The Staging Standard Magazine
• Annual Education Conference
• Plus CSP M.O.R.E.

Memberships

Membership Advantage Card
Preferred pricing for one year membership to RESA
One Year International
Discount Affiliate Memberships

Certified Staging Professionals provides additional marketing material, tools and telecasts more details in class and on the CSP Resource Center

To register or for further information contact linda@homemattersllc.com or click here to register. Call 1-888-STAGING (782-4464) for your free informational packet.

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What past students have said about their training!

CSP 1-Day Elite™ Agent Course

Maximize Real Estate Results with Home Staging

• Are you a Real Estate Professional looking for a marketing edge?
• Would you like someone else to tell your clients about the sensitive issues before putting their house on the market?
• Would you like to have a great reputation with your peers? Be known as the real estate professional whose listings are a "must see" when they are working with a buyer?
• Do you want to learn how home staging can attract more listing appointments?

The CSP Elite™ Program is for you!

This comprehensive workshop provides insight, principles, best practices and strategies for agents to assist property sellers to maximize equity gain during the sale of a property.

The in-class program is delivered during a one day training (6-8 hours), making it easy to digest and fun.

It comprises of three modules and an open book exam. Each module is designed to build a home staging foundation from, Why do home staging; to how to communicate, market and implement home staging practices in a basic fundamental and easy to understand fashion.

Upon successful completion of the exam, participants earn the prestigious CSP Elite™ Affiliate designation and are granted permission to use the CSP Elite™ Affiliate logo in all marketing and promotional pieces.

Real Estate Professionals learn:

• The impact home staging has on buying and selling decisions
• Home staging evolution; what it was and what it is & why you need to know
• Explore case studies and staging statistics then how to integrate them into presentation packages
• Benefits for you, seller and the buyer to implement home staging in the selling process
• Four factors that determine a sale
• Facts, trends and statistics you can use
• Why good photography is essential to effectively list a property. What does a photograph tell the buyer?
• Getting the seller involved in the staging process and how the real estate professional and home staging consultant keeps the seller motivated throughout the process.
• Cost vs. Value; which projects brings the biggest return when selling a property and where home staging fits into the return on investment.
• Types of consultations
• Curb appeal, color and room design principles; crucial stats which emphasize the importance
• Pricing & who pays; plus much more!!

The CSP Elite Program Includes:

1. Education and Information for the real estate agent who wants to add market driven service to their business.
2. Designation - symbol of quality.
3. Uniform pricing for consultations.
4. Quick response from Professional Elite Stagers through a convenient easy to use process. (Telephone, Online and Fax Request)
5. CSP Elite Marketing Kit: Comprehensive customizable listing/marketing documents, DVD's and more.

Now Home Staging services are easier than ever to add to your marketing plan. Call 1-888-STAGING (782-4464) to secure your CSP Elite Information Guide.

To register or for further information contact linda@homemattersllc.com or click here to register

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