RESACON VIRTUAL SPEAKERS

hOSTED BY THE  STAGING INDUSTRy’S ONLY NONPROFIT TRADE ASSOCIATION

Hosting RESACON Virtual Live Keynote Sessions Only Open
To VIP Ticket Holders With Live Q&A Opportunities 
– Announcing Full Line Up Soon! –

Christina Daves

PR to Profit – Creating Buzz in a Noisy World

Christina Daves, DIY Publicity Strategist, is the best-selling author of, PR for Anyone™ – 100+ Affordable Ways to Easily Create Buzz for Your Business, that shares her journey of getting exposure for a product she invented, www.HealInStyle.com. Her second book, The DIY Guide to FREE Publicity is a #1 bestseller on Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

Having no resources for advertising or hiring a PR firm, Christina taught herself everything she could about generating her own publicity. She has appeared in over 1000 local and national media outlets including: The Steve Harvey Show, Dr. Oz, The TODAY Show, local affiliates of NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, magazines such as, Forbes, Success and Entrepreneur, Sirius XM Radio, The Washington Post, and many more. She also has a regular segment on Good Morning Washington.

As a result of this success, she launched PR for Anyone® to help other small business owners have similar success. Together with her students and clients, Christina has generated well over 8 figures in sales relating to free publicity. She has also used publicity to grow her organic SEO. Her product appears on Page 1 of Google and searching the term “Christina Daves” leads to content solely about Christina and fills the first 14 pages of Google.

Social media has also become an integral part of marketing her businesses. In less than two years she has grown her following of qualified leads to almost 75,000 social media followers and has a verified account on Twitter.

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Vera Jones

NOW I SEE: MOVING FROM BLINDNESS TO BREAKTHROUGH

Vera Jones is a Motivational Speaker, Author, Communication Coach, 30-year veteran Television and Radio Broadcaster, and Syracuse University Hall-of-Fame Scholar-Athlete. She is most widely known for her veteran women’s basketball analysis and reporting for various networks over the past two decades including ESPN, Fox Sports, Madison Square Garden Network, NBA-TV, and the Big Ten Network. She is also often recognized by her appearance in a Goalcast video with over 47 million views.

Vera is a Certified Trainer in Workplace Conflict. She earned her master’s degree from S.U.’s prestigious Newhouse School of Communications where she first developed her interest in the psychology of interpersonal communication. As President of Vera’s VoiceWorks, LLC, and Founder of the Perseverance Speaker’s Academy, she passionately pursues her purpose by inspiring and coaching others in various motivational and leadership training forums.

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Matthew Finlason

show me the money Purchasing Inventory that will Sell & Rent for Top Dollar Revealing New Streams of Revenue and Clientele. 

Matthew Finlason is a fixture and one of the premier leaders in the home-staging industry forecasting emerging new trends in home staging and real estate.

His company, Matthew Finlason Design, Inc., provides home staging, interior decorating, interior design, home remodel, and luxury rental services throughout the USA, Canada, and the Caribbean. Matthew has curated internationally over 3000 luxury residential, commercial, and vacation home properties.

His work has been highlighted in Architectural Digest, Dwell Magazine, Design-Milk, Arch Daily, Style at Home, Dot&Bo, Curbed LA, New York Times and his resort homes in Modern-Tropical publication.

Matthew has starred on HGTV’s The Stagers, HGTV Showdown, and HGTV’s Selling LA; his work regularly featuring on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing, LA.

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Mimi Brown

HOW TO SELL MORE, SELL BETTER, AND CLOSE MORE DEALS

Amelia Mimi Brown is an award-winning global motivational speaker, coach, author, and serial entrepreneur.

Mimi, as she affectionally known, mission in life is to assist people in becoming the best versions of themselves and thriving in the face of adversity. Mimi is well-known for her contagious energy, enthusiasm, and captivating speaking style. Her down-to-earth demeanor instantly makes her audiences connect with her in a real relatable way.

Mimi’s spunky and sassy approach to personal development will give you practical and actionable techniques that you can use to enrich your life and career. With over 15 years of leadership, communication, consulting and training experience, Mimi knows how to rock a platform, connect with a crowd, and have people laughing while learning.

She is the author of three books: AMP Up Your Success: 52 Tips Every Leader Should Know, AMP Up Sales: 71 Tips to Skyrocket Your Revenue and Be A Communication Rockstar: 52 Tips To Gain Connection, Skyrocket Confidence, Reduce Conflict. Mimi’s personal highlights include being recognized as an Elite 40 Under 40 honoree, media personality on WDIV’s TV show Live In the D, Michigan Meetings and Events Magazine’s Best Speaker of 2020 and contestant on NBC’s, Biggest Loser.

When not speaking or coaching, Mimi can be found sweating her way through hot yoga, or bribing her snobby cats, Kitty Brown & Macy Gray, with treats in exchange for snuggles.

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Annette Grant &

Sarah Karakaian

How to stage short-term rentals

Spoiler Alert: It’s not just about where to put the couch

Thanks for Visiting has always been about short-term rentals. Annette and Sarah met at a Columbus, Ohio City Council Meeting fighting for their right to host homes on Airbnb.

The two shared a belief that the short-term rental industry needs hosts to be more hospitable. Every resource they’d come across in growing their own businesses was purely profit driven – and “heads in beds” just isn’t their style.

They had to figure out a lot of stuff on our own and now Sarah and Annette want to give you the behind-the-scenes look they tried to find when they started.

Thanks for Visiting is like Hospitality Prep School for the Airbnb stager or host. You’ll find resources to help you host with heart and improve your processes and systems.

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Cheryl Eisen

From Scrappy Staging to Certified Success: How to Scale Your Business

Cheryl Eisen is a celebrity interior designer, luxury home stager and founder of Interior Marketing Group, Inc.

Known as “the reigning prop princess of New York’s luxury real estate,” Eisen is regularly featured in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Vogue and in real estate design shows on networks including NBC, CBS and Bravo.

With over a decade of industry experience, Interior Marketing Group has become the largest luxury staging and interior design firm in New York City serving the most exclusive real estate in the world.

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David Greenspan

The Path of Least Resistance

David is your Real Estate Industry Coach. His focus everyday is to help his clients bridge the gap between their online and offline strategies.

He is a Real Estate Coach, Marketing Strategist, the CEO and Founder of MindShare101 Inc. and the VP of KiTS Keep-in-Touch Systems.

He is the voice of #MindShare101, and host of The MindShare PodCast. He is a nationally recognized Keynote Speaker, and has been featured in many of our industry related News publications, on Talk Radio, and on Real Estate TV.

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REGISTER FOR AS LOW AS $249 AS A VIP ATTENDEE TO ACCESS ALL SESSIONS

On-Demand Educational Sessions from Industry Professionals

The Real Estate Staging Association is happy to give RESACON 2021 Virtual VIP Attendees access to twenty-one educational sessions that have been pre-recorded especially for RESACON attendees. VIP Attendees will have access to these sessions for six months after the convention to watch (and re-watch) at their leisure. VIP attendees will also have access to our private Facebook Group to get their questions answered by the On-Demand Educational Speakers themsleves.

Adrienne Lord

If You Want To Be a Real Estate Agent

Do want to do more than one small part of the real estate transaction? Are you ready to be involved with the sales process from end to end – not just the staging? In this session, you will learn about the pros and cons of becoming a real estate agent.

Alicia Guerrieri

Marketing Strategies, Tactics and Campaigns to Help Grow Your Business

Learn effective marketing strategies and tactics that can easily be implemented to help grow your business exponentially! You will be provided examples of actual marketing materials that you can use for your own campaigns that will yield phenomenal results. After attending this session, you will be able to take away four key learning objectives that will set you on a course towards effectively marketing your business.

Andress Eichstadt

Get More Staging Jobs with Instagram

How to have less overwhelm and more intention as you use social media as a marketing tool. The blueprint to gaining clients, not just followers, through social media.

Ann Jensen Warren

Photo Styling Class and How It Relates to Home Staging

Ann Jensen Warren will teach home stagers how to think like a photo stylist! Photo stylists work with Creative Marketing Teams to produce photos used in commercial photography. In this class, you will expand your effectiveness as a home stager in your contribution to the Creative Marketing Team.

Bobbie McGrath

Confidently Speaking: Mindset/”Word Bank” Sure to Communicate Your Value!

Have you ever said, “I wasn’t sure WHAT to say!” or …”Oh, man, WHY did I say
THAT?”…or “I SHOULD have said…” when an opportunity to discuss your business came up? Do you think of just the precise thing you SHOULD have said two hours, two days…too late? How would you like learning a system that would prepare you to speak up confidently regardless of when an opportunity presents itself? Join Bobbie McGrath as she shares her tried and true communication techniques built upon 17 years of practical experience. Part lecture, part workshop, this session will have you ready to take a more confident lead within your business!

Cindy Lin

Your 30-Day Home Staging Business Marketing Plan

Learn how to build an effective home staging business marketing plan that is uniquely yours, reflective of your home staging business brand value and personality, and that you can rely on consistently, even when you are busy staging 7 days a week!

Eileen Xu

How to Drive Your Business and Sales Without Pitch

Would you like your clients dying for your services without you chasing after them all the time? Are you tired of chasing after clients and did not get enough clients? Are you have been marketing your products and services but still are not satisfied with the results? Are you feeling posting on social media platforms consumes a lot of time but don’t know what else you can do to grow the sales? Are you frustrated about client hunting and wish your clients can chase you? You don’t have a big budget but want to have successful and impactful success? This workshop is for you!

Elaine Penhaul

Selling By Numbers

“Data is a commodity. And it is the insight mined from this valuable resource that
is the currency that gives you and your company the means to drive organic growth.”

-Matt Shepherd in CEO Today 2018

For staging businesses, like most other businesses, data is an invaluable resource. It gives insight for both marketing and business growth. Many stagers are creatives for whom numbers are anathema.

Kristie Barnett

Beyond Occupied AND Vacant Staging: Diversifying Your Home Staging Business

Diversifying your home staging services can help you appeal to a wider audience of clients and can increase your revenue in any market. In this session, we will explore five specific services to consider offering.

Liz Connolly

Systems For Building a Million Dollar Home Staging Business

Whether you are just considering starting a home staging business, a seasoned stager enjoying the prime years of your business, or considering winding down your staging business this course covers all of the systems, procedures, and processes that you need to have in place to build, sustain and prepare to sell a million-dollar home staging business. This course is the prelude to the course “Selling Your Staging Business for Maximum Profit”.

Luisa Giaitzis

The Secrets of Happiness: Rewiring Limiting Beliefs

It’s your natural state to be in joy, however it’s often covered up by layers of limiting beliefs and programming.

In my workshop, I will give you the big picture so you can see all 6 of the secrets to happiness, which need to be addressed to achieve long lasting fulfillment.

We will focus on Rewiring Limiting Beliefs. We will discuss these limitations that are blocking you from reaching your fullest potential and what you can do to overcome them. If you are ready to unleash the happiness that is within you, then this is the perfect place to start!

Marianne Cherico

Get More Business from Real Estate Agents

Whether you are marketing to Real Estate Agents online or selling to them in
person, understanding how to convey the value that you bring is a game changer.

In fact, it has become more and more important to fine tune your marketing
message so that your Ideal Real Estate Agent Clients (IREAC) can clearly see
what is in it for them when they work with YOU!

I have built my staging business since 2005 by getting over 95% of my business from Real Estate Agents. They have consistently referred me for all kinds of staging and design jobs through the years. As a former Real Estate Agent (for 27 years) I understand what makes them “tick” and that helps inform the way that I communicate with them, both online and off.

In this session we will talk about the “real benefits” you have to offer agents and how to convey them so they choose you.

Hint: It is not what many stagers think it is…..

Rob Mann

Staging Finance 101

So you heard you can make $100,000 staging – what does that really mean? Rob Mann is a senior business leader with over 25 years of experience in: strategic and business planning; P&L accountability; key account planning; business development; talent development; training; operations; productivity improvement; and, leadership development and is excited to present at RESACON 2021.

Sean Dillon

How To Engage Agents With Cold Email

Imagine what your business would feel like if just one new real estate agent made YOU their go-to-stager for all of their listings. We can dream, right?

Well, what if you could actually position yourself to be that go-to-stager with a simple (but not easy) technique that virtually nobody is using?

During this 90-minute training, I will teach home stagers at all levels how they can build relationships with real estate agent using the latest cold-email techniques. This subject matter can help stagers connect, start conversations, and grow their businesses through real estate agent partnerships like never before.

As a branding professional who works with real estate agents, I will provide an inside track on what it takes to build relationships with these powerful home staging partners using a little-known method that gets results–without ads (sorry, Zuck).

Shauna Lynn Simon

Effective Business Systems

Time is one thing that you can never get back once it’s gone, and it’s a commodity that there always seems to be way too little of. You don’t need to find more hours in a day, you simply need to implement effective systems and processes to use your time more wisely.

It can be challenging to be the sales manager, the administrative assistant, the accountant, and of course, the home stager. It’s time to take control of your business and become the CEO.

Work smarter, not harder, and take back your time! Growth can be stunted and challenging without efficiencies in place, but a well-managed business IS possible if you have the right tools. Learn what these tools are, and how to put them to work for you, and take control of the day-to-day of your business.

This class is ideal for Newbie to Advanced stagers – anyone interested in managing their time better, and having their business work for them, not the other way around.

 

Steven Denny

Selling Your Staging Business For Maximum Profit

If you are considering selling your home staging business, whether you are a new stager doing some advance planning or a seasoned stager looking to retire or change direction, this course is for you.

This program is your roadmap to a successful sale and an insiders’ guide to getting more than you ever thought possible when selling your business. The most successful business sales are those businesses that have a strong track record of planning, processes and procedures, record keeping and most importantly accurate financial and accounting records.

Tori Toth

Formulate an Easy-to-Follow Marketing Plan That Saves You Time

Marketing is an evolving process that requires consistency, as you test and tweak,
what strategies will resonate with your ideal clients. It’s important to create a vision, plan and implement marketing tactics into your weekly schedule.

Join us to formulate a marketing plan that will be packed with less random to-dos
and more meaningful tasks that will land you more jobs and move you closer to your goals.

Wanda ColĂłn

Trade Secrets on Using Your Social Media as a Platform to TV and Closing the Deal

Wanda was the interior design host on TLC’s Home Made Simple for 6 seasons and HGTV’s 24 Hour Design for 4 seasons. She will share her knowledge of using social media to brand your business and use it as a platform for tv. She will also talk about the importance of having a YouTube Channel, gaining awareness through your social media, and how to network to get your idea in front of producers and networks like HGTV.

Judy Fobes, Joe Denneler, Victor Dangelo of
VillaNova Insurance Partners

How Your Insurance Policy and Contracts Work Together or Cause Gaps in Coverage

As a business owner, you will be challenged to balance the need for proper documentation (to keep your business secure) with the desire to do business nimbly. 

To ensure that your business will have the best chance to survive a potential claim or lawsuit you must first make certain you are taking the appropriate steps when taking on a new job or hiring people to help you complete a design or staging.

Let the experts at Villanova Insurance Partners, along with its team of attorneys, walk you through the basics including service contracts, subcontractor agreements, and the insurance policies that intertwine with these documents. The class will be sure to not only include many risk management tools you can apply to your practice but keys to success when planning your business safely.