Get a "Heck Yes" with Carissa Woo Wedding Photographer and Coach

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

Today I share with you my "networking" journey.

I used to want to hide under a rock if my friend told me to go chat with someone that was a leader in the industry. I would get so scared to get stuck in a conversation.

I've gotten better at it and I want to share with you things and mindset shifts that have helped me along the way.

Tips

1. Change your mindset: you don't want to get clients at an event, you want to attract clients

2. After a networking event, you are vibrating high, so go do a IG live, write a blog post. You are at peek "inspired mode"

3. Have an Alter ego. Mine is Clarissa

4. Write down notes after you meet someone so you don't forget what they said.

5. Practice, confidence is. muscle

6. Make offers : high quality only

DM if you would like a website audit

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Happy Woo Wednesday! I have the one and only Heidi Thompson in in the Get a Heck YES house.

Wedding pros, do you want more money in the bank now? You are going to love this episode because it's going to change your mindset from waiting and praying to let's get the ball rolling. You don't have to sit around twiddling your thumbs and quietly panicking while you wait for clients to find & book you.

But because this is the prevailing wisdom in our industry, you don’t realize just how much power you have as a wedding business owner to generate revenue on demand.

Topic: Creating Revenue On Demand

What it means to create revenue on demand on the wedding industry and how NO ONE is talking about it!

When things are slow, you can sell to people in other ways.

You can sell to potential clients, past clients, and fellow vendors.

You can use promotions to make what you're selling irresistible without discounting.

Heidi Thompson is the best-selling author of Clone Your Best Clients and the founder of Evolve Your Wedding Business where she helps wedding professionals grow 6 figure and multi-6 figure businesses without working all the time.

Her business & marketing expertise has been featured on several wedding and business outlets and events including The Huffington Post, Wedding Business Magazine, Sprouting Photographer, WeddingMBA, Aisle Planner, Honeybook, and WeddingWire World.

She is the creator and host of Book More Weddings Summit & Wedding Business CEO Summit. Over the past 10+ years, Heidi has helped thousands of wedding pros of all kinds across 6 continents grow their businesses without working 60+ hour weeks.

Connect with Heidi

https://www.instagram.com/evolveyourweddingbusiness/ and https://www.facebook.com/groups/bookmoreweddingssummit

https://evolveyourweddingbusiness.com/revenue-on-demand

Connect with Carissa

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

Today I share tips on how to become a speaker. I decided I wanted to become a speaker 2 years ago and I have a big announcement.

After rejection after rejection, I didn't give up. I've improved my skills with Toastmasters and networked my booty off.

I'm going to be the main speaker on the big stage for a WIPPA event on June 27th at the beautiful venue https://themuck.org/ : This is for all wedding pros.

Thank you Jasmine from https://www.instagram.com/couturecakery/

Director of Education at WIPPA for making this happen.

If you want to become a speaker too, tune in.

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

We have Meagan Culkin in the Get a Heck Yes house and she has blown up on TikTok.

There are so many things we are already doing within our businesses that can easily be converted into social media content, which allows us to reach new potential clients.

TikTok 101: A Guide to Getting Started: Do you keep hearing about how you need to be on TikTok but don’t know where to start? In this presentation, I will walk you through the reasons why we need to be showing up on TikTok as industry experts, and how to go about it in a way that is easy and approachable; no dancing required!

Meagan Culkin is the owner of Magnolia Collective, a planning and design company that serves both the NC and VA markets. When not designing event spaces, Meagan spends her time offering consulting for wedding businesses, discovering foodie haunts in her new hometown of Richmond, VA, and trying to get her dogs to cooperate for Tiktok videos.

Connect with Meagan

www.idomagnolia.com

https://www.tiktok.com/@magnolia.collective?_t=8cCcNfpZL0V&_r=1

Connect with Carissa

https://heckyesmedia.co/

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

Happy Woo Wednesdays

Hot topic: Why you need a Great Website for ALL wedding pros

Guess what: We added DONE FOR YOU copywriting services. DO you need a website and brand refresh?

https://heckyesmedia.co/copywriting

Cindy is my team member/partner here at heck yes media. if you haven't heard, w

With my expertise coaching  and with the magic of Cindy's writing, voila.

It's about time for your website to work as hard as you do.

Cindy Suzuki, founder of Copybento, helps new entrepreneurs write their own copy through the use of her “bento-box”-inspired copywriting resources. With over 7 years experience in sales and business development, a BA in English, and obsessive neurosis to break things down into easy-to-understand compartments, her guides and resources will appeal to anyone in need of copy that achieves clarity, conversion, and emotional storytelling. She proudly escaped her traditional 9-5 after feeling trapped and anxious and hopes to inspire others in a similar situation to restart, explore their untapped creativity, and build a life they’re proud of. She is a mom of three who traveled across the country to make a home in Austin. She takes 1:1 clients on a limited basis. Follow Cindy on IG @copybento for copywriting tips, freebies, and inspiration.

Connect with Cindy

https://www.instagram.com/copybento/

Connect with Carissa

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

Free mini masterclass - text "vendor list" to 310-582-5464

DM me the word audit to get a FREE website audit

Happy Woo Wednesdays! Carissa Kruse is in the house. The Carissa's are explaining it all today.

The biggest takeaways There is not just one marketing tactic that works, you need to create a marketing strategy that involves 3 stages --> cold, warm, hot!

Hot Topic: How wedding pros can easily incorporate content marketing in their business to gain new followers and keep their audience engaged (no dancing required), so they can get noticed and boost their bookings instead of them getting bored and unfollowing them (or maybe never even hitting that “follow” button at all).

We can also chat about funnels if you think your audience would love to learn more about those too. I can weave the content and funnels together as content attracts the leads and the funnels converts.

Carissa Kruse, is your go-to wedding business strategist, coach + wedding business owner for 10+ years. Her background is in marketing and sales and leaped into the wedding industry when she had the chance. Carissa loves supporting wedding pros in cutting through the chaos while fueling their business with content and funnels (#hellostrategy).

Connect with Carissa Kruse

www.carissakruseweddings.com

https://carissakruseweddings.com/wpcc

Connect with Carissa Woo

Get on your 1st preferred vendor list free mini masterclass

Text "vendor list" to 310-582-5464

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

Happy Woo Wednesdays! A new episode just dropped with the amazing Melissa Rich.

Hot Topic: Make a cool Lead Capture Form

Melissa Rich is the founder of Virtually Done Systems, a business dedicated to all things systems and workflows for wedding pros. She's spent the last 15 years behind the camera as a full-time wedding photographer, secretly enjoying all of the behind-the-scenes work more than her time making pictures. Now, Melissa specializes in helping busy wedding professionals get their lives back by implementing proven, pre-strategized systems, workflows, and automations to take care of the day-to-day tasks that stress them out so they can fall back in love with their businesses and devote themselves to their craft.

Favorite sales technique : How do you get a HECK YES from your dream clients?

Making them fall back in love with each other when they're in front of you, or using the "dangerous" question aka: You could go with someone else, why do you want to work with me?

Free Workflow Building Workbook: A 20 page workbook that walks you through exactly the steps to take to build a killer client experience workflow on your own. https://view.flodesk.com/pages/63d7fc66b4f015f30446e2ab craft.

https://virtuallydonesystems.com/

https://www.instagram.com/virtuallydonesystems/

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Free masterclass: How to get on your 1st venue vendor list

https://app.hiro.fm/channel/get-on-your-1st-venue-vendor-list

Happy Woo Wednesday!

Hot topic: Book your Dream client by prequalifying them

Duncan Blount is a blend of creative energy and entrepreneurial passion. I am the venue manager of La Venta, an event venue in Palos Verdes, CA. I also write music and screenplays. His innovative mindset helps with building businesses, forming effective teams, and hosting memorable events. From public speaking to having coffee one on one, he is open to connecting.

Connect with Duncan

https://www.instagram.com/laventainn_pv/

https://www.instagram.com/duncan.blount/

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

Do you want time back in your lives? Let's talk Automation and Systems today with Adad.

Ada is an Online Business Manager who has witnessed many a time when entrepreneurs end up wearing all the hats in their business and get held back from business growth. She got into Online Business Management because she loves being in your business- literally! By helping entrepreneurs streamling their workflows and providing custom support strategies, she empowers photographers to focus on their creative vision and maximize their business potential!

Hot topic: Automation and tech tools! The OSP space is changing everyday and OBM’s are at the forefront of that, increasingly adopting software solutions that they know work for their specific clients business.

1) Project Management tools- Asana, Trello, Ontraport, ClickUp

2) Automation of repetitive tasks- Use of Zapuer, IFTTT, Integromsat, power automate

3) Customer Relationship Management Tools: Honeybook, Dubsado

Ada's Favorite sales technique: How do you get a HECK YES from your dream clients?

I describe to them in detail what working with me would look like! First, they let me know what they’re doing right now in their day to day, then I explain how exactly I can take it off their hands, and they let me know what they would do with the time instead!!

Work with Ada

https://www.instagram.com/advancewithada/

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo