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Today we're here with Daniel Wright, Creator of Releventful. It's more than an event platform - It's actually a customer relationship and business management platform. Whether you're a caterer, DJ, venue, photographer, or wedding planner, Releventful can help you grow your business. This CRM provides event industry business owners an all-in-one toolkit that saves both time and money keeping you organized and connected.

Today's Topics Include:

• How Releventful filled the gap in the Event Industry    
• How Releventful became the first “All In One” platform for TEAMS to collaborate, compared to others like 17hats, Dubasdo, etc. meant for solopreneurs.
• How Releventful helps leads not get lost in the shuffle with sales campaigns and 2 way SMS texting.
• Why you might be paying too much in processing fees from other CRMS.
• How Releventful was born by blending a unique set of project management and communication tools. 
• Learn about Releventful’s app that released last month and how it elevates the client experience.
• How their DJ add-on & Song Selection features that will allow guests to request songs on the spot at their event through the app, build playlists, and more! 

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Carissa Kruse is a Wedding Business Strategist and serial entrepreneur who has been in the wedding industry for over 10 years and has built multiple businesses. She's the founder of Weddings By Carue, a multi-state and multi-service wedding business. She has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs through launching and scaling their businesses with strategy and funnels. In her first year alone, she went from zero to $130,000 without any contacts experience or support. She is firmly anti-hustle and teaches your clients to build a sustainable wedding business with long-term vision that does not rely on 24, 7 posting or a flash in the pan strategies.

This is a 2 part series! Today's topics include:

• How to create a perfect Welcome Sequence 
• How Authentic story-based emails make you the expert of your field & build the trust factor with brides
• Why you need a Lead Magnet on your website (and not just a contact form)
• ...and so much more!!

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Flara K is a duo from Montreal, Canada who explore a unique blend of R&B, indie pop, and electronic music influences.  I had the pleasure of meeting this talented group at Indie Week Canada!

Their debut EP titled Anxious, Irrational, Fashionable is a collection of collaborative efforts alongside Mike Clay (Clay and Friends), Shakur Ahmad (Glass Animals), Milo Gore, and producer Lucas Liberatore. The release, accompanied with a month-long livestream RV tour across Canada helped garner attention from various outlets such as Radio-Canada, BBC Introducing, CBC, including a feature with Thomas Power on CBC's Q.

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We're chatting about THE ULTIMATE SALES CRM FOR WEDDING PROS....Zendesk Sell!

In this episode, we'll cover how to use Zendsek Sell for your wedding business. Topics include:

• Keeping Track of Leads through The Knot & Weddingwire AND Following Up
• Defining Your Sales Process
• Building Sales Collateral
• Converting Leads through Email Sequences
• ...and more!

As we step into engagement season, you know to update your Weddingwire and The Knot storefronts, update your website, but what your sales process? The whole essence of Zendesk Sell is to provide an extremely rich view about what the client relationship is about. You will have a full timeline for each person that inquires about your business, including a complete history of emails, text messages, recorded telephone calls!

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Kate Storey is a digital marketing specialist, copywriter and social media expert. As co-owner of Book More Brides alongside her husband, Nick, she helps wedding business owners around the world better understand how to identify their perfect clients, what to say to get them to book, and how to create strategic online content that builds relationships and sales

Topics covered include:

• How to close buy-later couples: Are couples ghosting you or are you ghosting them?
• How to bring in consistent leads on a regular basis (slow and fast methods)
• Blogging & Content Ideas for wedding pros
• How to connect with couples on a deeper level and draw an emotional response
• Email Sequences to keep you front of mind and stand out from competitors

Kate is passionate about helping wedding professionals find the right words that help them speak directly to their couples’ emotional needs (and buying triggers), and add a little fun and personality along the way. She is a big believer in being clear over clever - but her specialty is combining the two to create writing that helps wedding pros connect at a deeper level with the couples they want to book. Her experience extends beyond the wedding industry as well. With nearly 20 years in marketing, social media, public relations, and communications work, Kate has helped everyone from small start-ups, technology and manufacturing companies, national museums and even large corporations like Microsoft create a deeper connection with the people they serve through written and digital communications. Through it all, Kate believes that each business owner intuitively knows their perfect client - they just need a little help sometimes in putting it into words...and that’s where she comes in. When she’s not teaching marketing skills to wedding pros or recording content for the Book More Brides Podcast and YouTube channel, Kate loves going on adventures with Nick and their four children, savoring another cup of caramel creamer-laden coffee and watching way too many YouTube videos.

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HOW TO SET YOUR MUSICIANS ON AUTO-BOOK! Tired of the back and forth trying to confirm all your musicians for gigs? This is the musician and crew scheduling system that manages itself.

HOW TO AUTOPAY YOUR MUSICIANS! Do you really want to be wasting your time chasing your team for their gig invoices and burning cash on costly payroll or money transfer services? We hope not! Let's put it all on AUTO-PILOT.

These are just two of the MANY features we'll be chatting about with Back On Stage founder, Reuben Avery, and Marketing Director, Eric Tsang

​Back On Stage is a highly innovative, web-based productivity app that allows bandleaders and event pros to book gigs in minutes instead of hours. The software automates your gig-booking workflow with client relationship management (CRM), scheduling, communication, and repertoire management tools. It saves us up to 80% of our administrative time and helps eliminate those late-night phone calls and oh-so-familiar feelings of "did I remember to book a drummer for gig X" and "Am I forgetting something?"

Back On Stage is an application that keeps bandleaders and event pros everywhere from losing any more hair! The goal of Back On Stage is to help musicians and event pros optimize their capacity, generate more revenue, and improve professionalism, using a single organizational application. It will provide equal opportunities for all by leveling the band management playing field.

You can sign up for a free trial today at backonstageapp.com

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Want to learn how to break through the noise and clutter in order to stand out as an artist?

Indie Week "in-person" is a live festival that showcased artists around the world to industry professionals with 240 international bands and took up over 25 bars in downtown Toronto. When COVID happened, Darryl took this opportunity to create a massive 5 day virtual experience with 68+ Panels and 80+ speakers! Speakers include Rock N' Roll Hall of Famer, Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Steve Stewart (Stone Temple Pilots), CDBaby, BandZoogle, and many more!

Darryl Hurs has a 25+ year history in the music business including launching and running one of Canada’s largest indie music festivals and conference, Indie Week. Recently hired as the director of market development for CD Baby in Canada. Past positions include design and branding/marketing for Live Nation as a freelancer (projects included a corporate rebrand and logo design, launching VIPNATION.com, work for U2, Nickelback, Madonna, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Dave Matthews) retail buyer at HMV, and booker for one of Toronto’s top live music venues (The Rivoli).

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As Season 1 ends, let's take a trip down memory lane and go over some of my favorite moments from Season 1. Inspiring moments from interviews with The Knot/WeddingPro, World-Renowned Bassist Jeff Berlin, Dubsado CRM, Kool & The Gang's Michael Ray, and more!

Season 2 starts Tuesday, November 2nd! Check out a sneak peek of Industry Professionals & CEOS of Bookmorebrides.com, Back On Stage App, and CDBaby!

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Ambila Nath is a Spiritual lifestyle coach, serial entrepreneur, tarot reader, energy healer, paid international speaker. She went from a 6 figure corporate job to having a spiritual lifestyle business. She knows that the greatest journey you can take is the one to build a relationship with yourself.

In today's episode, we cover:

• A holistic approach to coaching through energy healing and tarot reading
• How tarot readings can allow us to detach our emotions to see new perspectives
• "Too much to handle" vs. "everyday stress"
• How a Vision Board can help you let go of limiting beliefs

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Andrea Freeman started her first business when she was 12, second business at 26, and third business at 31. Professionally trained as an educator and leadership development coach she honed her entrepreneurial skills and scaled her celebrity event planning business to multiple six-figures in annual revenue. After years of synthesizing the peak performance habits of the red carpet celebrities and high net-worth clients she’s served in her event planning business with the mindset work that has worked in her own life/business (as well as with countless coaching clients), Andrea created the H.O.S.T MethodTM. Now she’s on a mission to help service-based business owners realign with their purpose, create greater financial freedom, fulfillment, and make a difference in the world.

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