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Embracing Fear in Your Wedding Business: This Week In Weddings – Episode 159

With so much unknown about when events will take place again, it’s no wonder that wedding pros around the world have fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of change. Fear about money. Fear about what will happen with their businesses and livelihood. But what if we could use that fear as motivation instead of something…

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Auditing Your Brand: This Week In Weddings – Episode 158

With events not taking place in the coming weeks, all of us in the wedding industry have a little bit of down time. There’s never been a better time to take a look at your online presence and do an audit of your brand. But what does that even mean? And how do you do…

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How to Work from Home Efficiently: This Week In Weddings – Episode 157

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been thrown into a whole new world where it’s difficult to tell what day it is, your workspace isn’t what it used to be, and your “co-workers” (a.k.a. children) don’t understand what business hours are. Welcome to the new world of shelter-in-place and working from home! In this week’s…

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Risk and Crisis Management in the Face of the Coronavirus: This Week In Weddings – Episode 156

If there’s one thing that the coronavirus has taught us, it’s that as business owners we can never be too prepared. Just like a tornado or an earthquake, COVID-19 is a disaster, and now that the event world has a little bit of down time because of it, what should we be doing to be…

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First-Hand Experience with COVID-19: This Week In Weddings – Episode 155

Tom Hanks. Andy Cohen. Idris Elba. We all know what they have in common. And without a doubt, the list of stars who have first-hand experience with COVID-19 is going to continue to grow just as the list of ordinary people who contract it continues grows. Truly, no one is immune. In this week’s episode…

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How to Prep for an Economic Downturn: This Week In Weddings – Episode 154

You guys… what in the holy hell is going on??!? COVID-19 is hitting us all in the event industry HARD, and now is the time to look at your business and adjust as best you can. In this week’s episode of the This Week In Weddings podcast, we’re chatting with Michelle Loretta about ways to…

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Selling to Different Personality Types: This Week In Weddings Podcast – Episode 153

We’ve said it a million times, but without a sale, you don’t have a business. And most of us in the wedding industry haven’t had formal sales training experience. In this episode of the This Week In Weddings podcast, we’re chatting all about sales techniques as well as the different personality types that you might…

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Getting to the Luxury Market by Finding Your Wedding’s Angle: This Week In Weddings – Episode 152

If you’re wanting to make the move into the luxury wedding market, you have to have a high end portfolio. And while not every wedding client may have a six- or seven-figure budget, there are certainly ways to make a piece of every wedding stand out. In this episode of the This Week In Weddings…

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Working with a Business Bestie: This Week In Weddings – Episode 151

If you’ve ever considered going into business with a friend, this week’s episode is a must listen! From the importance of doing things the legal way to figuring out how to cope with different work styles, there’s a lot to consider. And how do you work through conflict in business without it affecting your friendship?…

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LIVE from the BeSage Conference – Meeting of the Minds Breakfast: This Week In Weddings – Episode 150

This week’s podcast episode is a special treat as it’s the first LIVE recording of the This Week In Weddings podcast! Take a glimpse into the Meeting of the Minds Breakfast from the BeSage Conference 2020 in Austin, Texas. Conference attendees submitted questions in advance and during the breakfast we workshop them with the group….

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