How fit is your business?
Last week I started a keep fit regime that nearly killed me as I hadn’t realised how unfit I really was. It’s strange but for some reason I assumed that my body would pick up right where I left off a couple of years ago when I last decided to start a drastic new body [...]
Wedding Professionals International Conference
Weddings are a trend-based business and Wedding Professionals need to constantly educate themselves to stay on top of the industry. The Wedding Professionals Conference was started 7 years ago with the belief that there is not a single person who knows everything about weddings. If you are not constantly learning and improving, you are doing [...]
Business Tips for Wedding Planners – Tip 1
Money makes the world go around…the world go around…the world go around. Money makes the world go around of that we both are sure, so there for being poor! What wise words from the effervescent musical that was Cabaret. This could be applied to many things in business but I have chosen to focus on [...]
Advertising your Wedding Business
In an era where Twitter, Facebook and Blogs in general are huge parts of both our business and personal lives I have recently been asked by many of our students about whether or not I would recommend advertising in a Wedding Magazine. Hmm…this is not an easy one to answer as it really does depend on the [...]
The Essex Wedding Awards
The Essex Wedding Awards are currently open and we strongly encourage any readers who run their business within the county of Essex to enter these awards. You still have till October 15 to get your award in and the category most relevant would ‘Best Wedding Planner of the Year’. As a planner or designer the [...]
10 Steps to a good Wedding Blog
As most of you know a blog should now be an integral part of your marketing plan and especially so for those of us in the service industry who don’t necessarily have a tangible product and this includes wedding planners. However in order for it to be a successful sales tool you need to create [...]
Funky Wedding Venues
Many times as a wedding planner you will be asked to source a venue for your client and it can often be hard trying to come up with unique and unusual venue ideas. At the UK Academy of Wedding and Event Planning we often tell our students to use the online venue directories to find [...]
Sourcing wedding suppliers for your business
Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch. Matchmaker, matchmaker look through your book and find me the perfect supplier. That’s what your brides expect of you. They are coming to you as the expert believing that they will be entrusting their wedding to your dream team of pre-screened [...]
Show me the Money
Show me the money. Hopefully we all love what we do, but we don’t work for free just because we enjoy it. Getting paid can sometimes cause issues and it is certainly hard as you don’t have a product you can refuse to send when your clients don’t pay you. Even though contracts are important [...]
Business inspiration versus business focus
The hills are alive with the sound of ideas. Ideas are fantastic and should never be ignored. However, don’t let them distract you from your core business. If you are focussed on destination weddings then don’t go hurrying off down the path of garden weddings if it isn’t going to enhance your existing business. Focus, [...]
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