Ever feel like you’re constantly chasing after wedding leads? You know the drill: a couple reaches out, you send over your info, and then… crickets. It’s easy to feel discouraged when potential clients ghost you, but what if I told you it’s not always about you? There’s a key to understanding why this happens, and more importantly, how to fix

Upgrade Wedding Business What does six seconds mean to your wedding business?  Well, when it comes to the online world, it means everything. “When an engaged couple lands on your website, they will decide if they want to learn more about you or cross you off their list of maybes, in only SIX SECONDS.” So, you have six seconds to

Guest Post by Misti Marquette Cooke. This is a completely real and honest post about what I’ve learned about SEO and marketing our destination photography business from Mexico.  For many photographers, we get our first camera and think that once we learn how to use it correctly, we’ll have a cash cow on our hands! It might seem that all

By Alyssa Johnson There is nothing like planning a wedding to bring out the anxious in an otherwise calm and carefree bride or groom. I can attest to that – I just got married in early March, and the whole process definitely brought out the crazy in me. I thought I had an easy time of it, too, because I

I asked wedding pros this question in a recent survey: “What’s the biggest obstacle standing in the way of getting what you want?” There were a variety of answers: “Not enough time.” “I’m too busy.” “I don’t have a marketing budget.” “FEAR.” And one that was probably the closest to gospel truth: “The person standing in my way is me,

One reason that people quite their day jobs and start their own business is because they are sick of the 9-5 game. Everyone knows how things work at most jobs. You show up on time, clock in, get the priorities done, talk to co-workers, and watch the clock waiting for the day to end. Entrepreneurs don’t have that luxury which

It never fails, at least once a week I hit something that makes me think “there’s got to be a tool out there that would help me do this faster.” Well guess what. While technology is continuously evolving there usually is something out there that will help you with whatever it is you need help with. Wedding business tools are

Every business has in their mind that moment. You know the one. That moment that you know you’ve succeeded and made it in business. While goals are good, it’s also good to realize that you need a bigger dream to go after once you’ve made it to that point. On top of that Steve Gadlin points out in the article

                        Where are you stuck? A few weeks I “met” a woman online who had a dream of starting up a blog. Her fear was that she doesn’t know how to do it, that no one would listen to her, that she wouldn’t be any good at it…you know

It’s been said that failure is easy, but success, that is what is hard. It might not seem like this is true, but as anyone who has found true success can tell you, getting there took a lot of hard work. In fact when it comes to business there are two main factors for failure, not being cut out for