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Today we talk about the b word boundaries. The main takeaway is Letting you know that is OK to take care of your self! Setting up boundaries is a way to make sure you have time and space for yourself, your business and your family

The start of the new year is the perfect time to set your boundaries so you stay in control and don’t get resentful toward your biz

Some fun things we talk about.

How to make your best practice one sheeter,

What’s your pain in the ass fee? Never heard that before.

Should your clients be able to text you?

Tune in and enjoy wedding photographers and pros.

Link is to my Best Practice Sheet.

https://jentaylorconsulting.com/best-practices/

Connect with Jen

https://jentaylorconsulting.com/design-your-wedding-business-podcast/

jentaylorconsulting.com

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

Happy Woo Wednesdays! Happy New Year! We talk all things sales today with Kelly Peck. She believes in selling is a conversation between two people who want to do business together. Her superpower is teaching people how to sell and stop stressing out about where their revenue is going to come from.

The main takeaway is - Mindset and setting intentions

- What hard questions to ask during their calls

- Have an on-the-spot payment system

Kelly Ann Peck, Business Sales Coach with Sales UpRising, is a respected and trusted source for business thriving. With a career revenue of more than $23 million and 24years as a sales expert, she has helped countless companies reinvent their business model and become powerhouses. Kelly made a strategic shift in 2020 to translate her expertise into consulting services for entrepreneurs and CEOs who are hungry for the next level but remain stuck trying to move from inspiration to results. Her business, Emerson Reese Creative, has recently merged with Sales UpRising; this allows Kelly to have a greater impact to her clients and reach a wider business audience. It is a win-win situation to combine the resources, experience, and client base of both companies and grow stronger together.

- What types of questions to ask to have prospects close themselves

- Setting your intentions for your sales calls

- How to bridge the gap and make sure your prospects talk about their pain points so you can be the guide / expert to be their person

Our Strategic Business Planning Retreat in November! https://events.salesuprising.com/sbpr

Connect with Kelly

salesuprising.com

https://instagram.com/salesuprising

Connect with Carissa

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

Happy Woo Wednesdays! It's engagement season so this episode is for any future bride or grooms.

Today is a fun episode with my bestie and lead associate for Carissa Woo Photography. She has the gift of easing up any situation. Michelle has been shooting with me for 7 years. Besides shooting, we love walking at Wilson Park Torrance with our kiddos. We just ran the Turkey Trot together. We did Orange Theory for a year together. We also love taking tequila shots together.

I love this girl so much!

The hot topic today is Wedding Photography Horror Stories - 12 reasons why 40% of couples hate their wedding photos. Here's what to do instead.

Connect with Michelle

https://instagram.com/michelleluciano

Connect with Carissa

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

Happy Woo Wednesdays! I have Jordan Kentris from A Good Day in the Get a Heck Yes house! We talk about Client Experience today and so much more.

That identifying and honing in on your ideal client can help with sales and connections with your clients

Jordan's ideal clients are passionate about paper so when he geeks out and shares the possibilities they get jazzed about the process. He has have a background in design and love for art history, architecture, and fashion. His experience in user experience allows me to create holistic experiences for clients and their guests.

Bio

Jordan Kentris is the founder and owner of a boutique design firm, A Good Day which was created to serve planners and their eclectic couples, one-of-a-kind stationery that establishes a unique brand for each event. Jordan is a UX designer by trade and utilizes his experience to work with business owners on their branding. An innovator in the industry he was recognized by BizBash as one of the Most Innovative People in 2020 as well as a finalist for the NACE One Awards Innovator of the Year.

Hot Topic

User Experience + Your Ideal Client

- How to use your past clients to help define your ideal clients

- How to tailor your website based on what your ideal client looks for

- How to structure your website for scannability and ease of conversion

Freebie

Promo - 15 minute ideal client bootcamp

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Connect with Jordan

https://www.instagram.com/agooddayinc

https://www.facebook.com/agooddayinc

Connect with Carissa

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

I've been volunteering for Bresee for 6 years. I photograph the big Gala every year at the Tagylan. It's always a night I look forward to. I also photograph families and events throughout the year.  They raised over 175k this year for the kids, just incredible!

Bresee’s mission is to battle poverty by empowering youth and families in Los Angeles with the skills, resources, and relationships necessary to thrive.

Today I have Jason Barr, Teen Tech Center Coordinator at Bresee, in charge of building and breaking STEAM based programs for high school youth in Koreatown, the best town.

Today's hot topic is Telling stories. He has always been a story-teller since he was young and helps his student tell their story. It's time for you to tell YOUR Story.

1. Everyone has a story to tell, so tell yours.

2. Just go out and create, don't worry about who you don't know, worry about who doesn't know you.

3. Study people, watch and listen.

The main takeaway in the episode is that the Youth need arts programs, they need to learn how to code, and how to hack, it's do or die out in these streets.

All high school students have access to our free programs. There are a handful of teen tech centers open right now in LA and a bunch coming soon. Learn the tech skills of tomorrow, today. That's trademarked by me, not affiliated with any other Tech Center. Hit up your local TTC.

Connect with Jason

https://www.instagram.com/sosuperjason/

Donate today.

https://www.bresee.org/get-involved/

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

Sign up for my free masterclass for wedding photographers

https://heckyesmedia.co/5-simple-steps-to-filling-your-inbox-with-inquiries

Happy Woo Wednesdays. I have Melissa Wilmont, creator and owner of Wedbrillant. She's one of my favorite humans and I just met her.

Melissa is a wedtech entrepreneur and believer in everyone with a great idea! She launched WedBrilliant after planning her own wedding and wishing there was a platform to post all her wedding needs and receive bids from vendors to help narrow down choices. She loves the happiness that goes along with weddings, and am hoping WedBrilliant helps take out some of the stress and brings new, dream clients to our wedding pros!

A big takeaway is that marketing as a visibility game. Get in front of your dream clients in a variety of ways, at a variety of times, so they can’t help but see your offerings and fall in love!

Hot Topic:

Layering your marketing efforts: don’t put all your eggs in one basket. 1) Identify outlets or platforms with a high ROI and great visibility and consider sponsoring and having a presence there. If it’s a little expensive, it may still pay for itself. 2) Find ways to reach dream clients that don’t cost a thing: IG outreach, keeping your social feeds gorgeous, offering to refer your vendor friends to new clients and asking for referrals from then. 3) Have great visibility online. Whether it’s through social media, or websites like WedBrilliant, next time someone is searching for your service in your region, your name is sure to pop up.

Freebie

Yes! Offering all new members a free month of WedBrilliant and then it's only $5/month afterwards. Also, our vendors can keep their profiles on WedBrilliant for as long as they want, for free. Members get the added perk of being able to submit bids and connect directly with couples looking for their services! Promo code: FREEMONTH

Connect with Melissa

https://wedbrilliant.com/

https://www.instagram.com/wedbrilliant/

https://www.facebook.com/WedBrilliant/

Connect with Carissa Woo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

Today we have Courtney and Dana dynamic sister duo based out of North Carolina who are perpetual entrepreneurs. They are unapologetically authentic. They don't believe in the BS and aren't afraid to tell you the hard truth.

I get emotional hearing about them growing up while their parents were always working. They had to take care of themselves and while they were doing that, they were learning life skills and teamwork. They started out as wedding planners and then opened up a beautiful wedding venue from the ground up called the Bradford.

They are on a mission to inspire others to take the leap into their dreams and empower you to achieve unimaginable heights in your career.

Hot Topic

Building your dream team
1. Understand who you are as a manager
2. Leaning into your core values
3. Be creative in how you hire
4. Meet your employees where they are at

Connect with Dana and Courtney

www.hustleandgather.com

Connect with Carissa

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

Sign up for my masterclass tomorrow

https://heckyesmedia.co/5-simple-steps-to-filling-your-inbox-with-inquiries

Happy Woo Wednesdays.

I have Hooman Bahrani in the Heck Yes house, a wedding photographer veteran that developed a solution to a problem. He created Wedding Day Timeline. You can have a complete minute by minute timeline in 5 minutes! Bride and grooms, just this out. Wedding Professionals, refer this to your couples. I love the google maps feature.

Your wedding day timeline is perhaps the most ignored but the most important part of wedding planning. Why do couples ignore this? You should figure this out first and it will empower you throughout your planning process.

A timeline should be the first thing you do before hiring any vendors. It will empower you, and potentially save you thousands of $$$ and stress.

Hooman's bio

As a professional wedding photographer, I’ve spent most of my weekends over the past 17 years with couples photographing, planning, and managing their wedding day.

I found that for most couples, the biggest problem was their timeline (or lack thereof). I saw this pattern over and over, and it was costing them both emotionally and financially.

Wedding Day Timeline was born from my desire to help couples have the best planning experience possible.

It not only helps reduce stress but also empowers couples to plan for the wedding day experience they want.

YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES (INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK)

@weddingdaytimeline & http://facebook.com/weddingdaytimeline

Connect with Hooman

www.weddingdaytimeline.com

https://www.instagram.com/weddingdaytimeline/

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Connect with Carissa Woo

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Happy Woo Wednesdays!

I have Nora Sheils in the Get a Heck Yes House, an industry veteran with 20 years of weddings under her belt! Nora is 100% Iraqi, a boy-mom and wife to a man she met working a wedding :) Lastly, her business partner is my sister-in-law!

The Hot Topic Today

Balancing multiple brands is possible and it can be more achievable and simple than you would think!

Nora Sheils is the co-founder of Rock Paper Coin, the first software platform to bring together wedding planners, couples, and vendors into one system for managing and paying contracts and invoices. She is also the founder and lead wedding planner of the award-winning firm Bridal Bliss. In addition to recognition by Portland Business Journal in its 40 Under 40 series, she also earned a spot in The BizBash 500.

Balancing multiple brands with ease

-Set realistic goals

-Develop smart staffing solutions

-Distinguish messaging for each brand

-Give yourself grace!

Get 50% off

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Connect with Nora

https://www.instagram.com/rockpapercoin/ @bridalblissnw, @norasheils

www.rockpapercoin.com

Connect with Carissa

https://instagram.com/carissawoo

https://heckyesmedia.co/

Today she is my co-host for my Lead Generation Masterclass for wedding photographers. I seriously couldn't do it all without her. Lisa runs all my systems and automates my whole life. Yes, I trust her with all my passwords.

She is an organizational Queen!! Today our hot topic is: Bullet Journaling

I started bullet journaling as soon as I got done with this episode and it's soooo much fun. If you want to get inspired to get organized as we get close to the end of the year, you'll want to tune it. Also check out her new podcast called Still Minimum Wage.

In a copy-paste world where boring stock images, overused fonts, and robotic logo generators create design ughs every day, doesn’t artwork made by hand feel extra special? It’s human, makes an emotional connection, and truly communicates who you are.

Like instant ramen, there is a time and place for “instant branding” (I can’t deny my trashy tastebuds). But if you’re looking for something more—something original, timeless, and unapologetically and totally you—we should definitely chat.

Connect with Lisa

https://www.instagram.com/ellettestudio/

Connect with Carissa

https://www.instagram.com/carissawoo/

https://heckyesmedia.co/