So you’ve just started your wedding business and now you need a website. The problem is you don’t have the budget to hire a designer and you need something that looks nice and is fast and easy to use. Where can you turn? Here are 5 build-it-yourself options for professional-looking websites: 1) Strikingly Strikingly offers simple and beautiful mobile-friendly sites

Guest post by Brian Lawrence With so much information buzzing around about “Google-Tool-This” and “Google-Tool-That,” you might feel like you’re going in circles trying to make sense of it all, never feeling sure you’ve got everything you need! That’s why we’ve simplified it for you. Here’s a look at some of what Google can offer your wedding business, with ways

By Brenda Cadman In early March 2014, Michelle discovered that her website had been hacked. She had not been properly maintaining her WordPress based website, it became out of date, vulnerable and consequently she was attacked by hackers. No problem, right? Just go to your web hosting provider and ask them to replace the hacked site with a clean, backed

Question: Am I better off investing my limited marketing budget in SEO or magazine advertising? “Good morning Stephanie & Jeff. I have been in business since 2006 as a wedding photography studio. We started small with 60 weddings per year and grew the company to about 300 weddings by 2010. In and around that time, the economy started hitting the

Now that the New Year is here- is your wedding business prepared? You’ve probably already finished the big things most wedding professionals do at the end of the year: take stock of what you have accomplished and set a goal to book more weddings for next year. But don’t forget to tackle the small stuff as well. These 8 things

Is your wedding business trustworthy? When it comes to once-in-a-lifetime events like weddings, trust is very important. Most couples are anxious about the big day and worried that something might go wrong.  They want to know that you will follow through and make their wedding day the best it can be. So how do you build trust? If many of

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.”  But do you realize this also applies to your wedding business website? With engagement season in full swing, it’s important to be prepared for the couples that will be searching for your services online. Take a look at your website with fresh eyes

Every time Google rolls out a new algorithm update, the SEO world collectively holds its breath and waits to see whose websites get the dreaded Google slap.  We’ve suffered and survived through Panda and Penguin, but this recent Hummingbird update is different. This isn’t just an adjustment to Google’s algorithm; it’s an entirely new search engine.  If we think about

One hot summer day when I was a little girl, I decided to sell lemonade.  I’d seen my friend, Sally, selling out the week before and I wanted to make some money. My little brother and I mixed up a pitcher of Lipton lemonade, then spent hours coloring signs with wobbly letters: “Lemonade 50 cents!” We proudly set up our

  Last month a journalist from our local newspaper called to interview me for an article she was writing about green weddings.  Would I be interested in answering a few questions about how couples could plan an environmentally friendly wedding?  Do I mind if she quotes me? Would I mind.  Seriously? A good number of the people reading that article