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Weddings For Real is a top-rated wedding industry podcast packed with expert tips, actionable strategies, and relatable stories. For over 6 years, we've interviewed the leading voices in the wedding industry, covering everything from client experience and team building to social media, SEO, branding, and the real-life lessons learned as an entrepreneur. With over 280 episodes and 250+ 5-star reviews, we guarantee you’ll find the insights you need to grow your wedding business and thrive.
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138: 3 Tips to Change Your Mindset for More Sales, with Maria Bayer
Do you feel like you’re on the way to achieving your goals and making the money you deserve? Or…is there something holding you back?
Maria Bayer is a sales & mindset strategist, coach & wealth builder. She is the creator of Irresistible Selling – a transformational program and community that helps wedding business owners create a million-dollar mindset, stand confidently in their worth, and book high-paying clients they love.
137: Using Enneagram for Your Business Strategy, with Kristen Edwards
Enneagram. For a better understanding of people we work with, people we’re in relationships with, and most importantly, a better understanding of ourselves. We’ve covered the basics before on episode 87, but today, we’re going a little bit deeper – does your personality come from nature or nurture, if it’s ingrained in you from childhood, how there are healthy and unhealthy versions of each type, and most importantly, how you can use this information to grow your business.
136: Book More Weddings with these Marketing Tips, with Heidi Thompson
What are some of the challenges you’re running into when marketing your business? For many of the wedding pros I talk to, it’s that there are just so many different places that you could spend your time and money – is it in social media? Which platforms? Is it in networking? Is it paid media like Google ads? Is it redesigning your website? Is it Clubhouse? Maybe you want to think about who your ideal client is and where they tend to show up. But then….how do you figure out who your exact client is?
135: How you can leverage podcasting (even without having one)
We have been podcasting for over 3 years now! Crazy but true, we dropped our first 5 episodes on April 4th, 2018. Over the years, we get asked a lot of questions around podcasting, all related to how can someone leverage their business by using podcasting. Well, Jason and I have a lot of lessons to share!
134: Building a Business Exit Strategy, with Donald Thompson
Take a moment to reflect on your business – are you working a job that pays your bills? Or are you building a company? Either answer is ok, but for those of you who want to scale your company to one day have the option to sell it or have someone else be the face of your business, we have some actionable tips from Donald Thompson – angel investor, mentor, CEO…and someone who has sold companies because he’s figured out a way to scale.
133: Selling Styles for Wedding Pros, with Ideaction’s Sam Jacobson
We all have different sales styles – what works for one wedding pro might be different than what works best for you. And it’s those different selling styles that we need to lean into so we can turn our baseline personalities into our selling superpowers. But look out, each selling style has a blindspot as well that we need to be aware of. Wonder what your style is?
132: 3 Pinterest Myths and Misconceptions, with Gabby Pinkerton
You all know the reasons why to focus on Pinterest – it’s great to generate traffic to your website, it’s another platform to get in front of potential couples, and it’s a way to network with other vendors when you’re engaging with or sharing their work. While Pinterest can be amazing, it can also be confusing. Enter Pinterest expert Gabby Pinkerton.
131: Relationship Marketing and StopTheDoubleTap
Over the past year, with the wedding industry in shambles, Don Mamone has come up with a new outlook on his professional life – People First, Then Profit. Today on the show, Don talks about what relationship marketing means to him and why he’s on a mission to #StopTheDoubleTap.
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