Wedding Pro Academy

A wedding business can be a direct route to financial success and provide the opportunity for a dream life with lots of time and freedom - but, it building a business can also feel difficult, overwhelming, exhausting and impossible.  Entrepreneurship is never an easy path, but as Nicole dives into her personal experience going fro $20k/yr to $120k/yr - it is 100% worth it.  Today we discuss what it takes to build a dream wedding business and what separates hobby wedding businesses from  6-7 figure wedding business.  What do they have that you’re missing?

Notable Quotes:

"Wedding business are hugely profitable.  They’re never going out of business (people are always going to be getting married).  They have the potential to give you tons of freedom and they’re also really fun - but - there are some definite differences between hobby wedding business owners and full time successful 6+figure wedding businesses."

"Six & seven figure businesses aren’t trying to cater to everyone, and don’t want to. They’re not offering everything under the sun, because they know their ideal couple and exactly what they want and they’re only catering to them. They’re giving them the best of the best experience, one that exceeds their expectations and gives them everything they want and need, nothing more, nothing less.  They are all in on a type of wedding they LOVE. These are the weddings you’re naturally going to feel called to, the weddings you’re going to be the best at.  The ones that will be your Dream Weddings.  The ones you’ll be able to offer the best experience around because you get them in a way nobody else does. This is when weddings become more fun, more luxurious, easier, simpler. "

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Episode Overview:   In today's episode we talk about why giving away too much is the worst thing for your wedding business and how it pushes away quality brides.  Even if you have the most incredible offer or service, if you're giving away too much (more services, more hours, more edits) you devalue yourself, creating burn out, an inability to scale or raise your prices, and you become unattractive to high quality weddings.  This one mistake kept me stuck at the $30k mark for over 5 years.  I don't want it to keep you stuck too.  Today we discuss why we're unintentionally giving away too much, what it costs you, and how to shift into a more empowering belief of confidence around your wedding business.

Notable Quotes:

"We think that if we include more, we become more appealing, more valuable, but even if we book that one wedding, because we have devalued ourself, we ultimately end up blocking the success and growth we could be achieving."

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Episode Overview:   What is the biggest mistake newbie wedding businesses make, preventing them from booking weddings?  It isn't not having a Niche down, or having a crappy website.  It's a wasting time on the wrong things.  In this episode Nicole breaks down exactly what these "wrong things" are that you could be focusing, and how they're keeping you stuck.  Plus she gives you a better path to get actual momentum in your business and breaks down what you should be focusing on instead. 

Notable Quotes:

"The consequence of this mistake, is that instead of becoming an actual legit wedding business that makes money  (meaning you have actual weddings booked that pay you) you become an imposter (someone who wants a business, but never actually really makes it off the ground and you can stay stuck in this place for months, or years).  This can be an easy shift if you start focusing on the right things instead of the wrong ones. "

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Episode Overview:   Are you ending your emails with "Let me know if you have any questions?" This is a rookie mistake and something that makes it more difficult to book new weddings.  There's a better way.  Listen in to this quick episode to learn what you should be saying instead.

Notable Quotes:

"Asking them if they have any questions encourages them to question your pricing, your package, your value.  This is the opposite of what we want to be doing when we're trying to book a new wedding.  Do this instead ... "

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Episode Overview:   You feel like theres a million things to do and you can't catch up.  You feel lost, like you're not sure you're doing the right thing or on the right path.  You're questioning yourself and your decisions constantly.  You're feeling behind.  Like you should be better at this by now, you should be making more money by now. If any of this sounds like you - you're not alone.  In today's podcast Nicole breaks down why we feel behind, where the pressure comes from and what you can do about it.

Notable Quotes:

"You leave a cushy job and start a business - you are essentially starting from scratch, learning something totally new, something totally different, something with a hundred different skillsets, and you are expecting yourself to be making “Good money” the same money you were making at corporate because everyone else you see on TicTok is having $10k months, and your not. 

Let’s burry this right now. 

Theres an insane amount of pressure on you already.  Feeling behind doesn’t need to be one more thing.  It isn’t helpful.  And - it isn’t true. " 

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Episode Overview:   In this episode I teach you exactly how I book weddings.  A step by step from start to finish.  Learn tricks and tips that have helped me to book weddings from couples without having to do any in person or phone consults.  There is a specific strategy to booking this way but once you have it down it is a game changer. 

Get The Exact Process to Book Weddings: Scripts & Examples

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Episode Overview:   Getting doubts from family? Comments from friends like "why don't you just get a REAL job"?  If you are building a business, this is comes with the territory.  Today we talk about the most common crappy comments I've gotten and how I've learned to have my own back, and believe anyway.  If you've been doubting or questioning if your business is worth the effort, if it's gonna make it, if you should be doing this - this episode is for you.

Notable Quotes:

When someone says to you: "Having your own Business, It’s not secure."

It may take some time to figure out but - it can be secure and it can be scaled.  The truth is that you can make a lot of money in your own business.  It may just take a you some time to build and grow it. 

It’s not like getting a job where you are taught one skill and expected to do this one thing well.  Instead you need learn a bunch of jobs and skills, you need to be extremely driven, open, motivated, and willing to fail and fail and fail until you make it.  But once you make it, you’ll have become a new human, one who can now start any business, one who is confident and secure in his or her ability to start any business.  

If you can build a business and get it to be profitable, you are more secure. You can’t be “let go” or “fired” from your own business, you’ll always have a job, you make your own money, you are MORE secure.

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Episode Overview:   Having trouble booking new weddings?  If this feels true for you, it's probably because you haven't established TRUST with your potential Brides and Grooms.  This episode dives into strategies to establish trust quickly.  Things you can actually work on right now to establish trust and book more weddings.  Some of the strategies may surprise you.  It's a good one, listen in!

Notable Quotes:

"When speaking with a new couple, ask them to to tell you about what their vision is, what they’re looking for, what their stresses and worries are and then LISTEN.  Let them do most of the talking.  Get a feel for what their main worries are instead of trying to sell them right away. Address their worries directly.  Address their vision directly. Address their plan directly - let them know if it’s possible.  Then tie in your services, or your offer to these things.  How does what you do help relieve their worries?  How does what you do align with their vision?  How does what you do help their plan to be more efficient, simpler, easier, better?  This is how you sell without being pushy.  This is how you build TRUST with your couples.  It's more about helping and less about selling. "

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Episode Overview:   Wondering how a wedding business who makes over $100k a year thinks about time, money, freedom, rest and more?  This episode is for you.  In today's episode we talk about 7 mindset shifts that changed the trajectory of my business.  I go deep on these and dissect why I believed the old thought and what it took to shift into the new belief.  Grounding in any of these beliefs will be a major growth point for becoming a match to book more weddings and make more money in the wedding industry.  Enjoy!

Notable Quotes:

I used to think that "People won’t pay that much for my services” but the truth was that I didn’t believe my services were worth more, so I couldn’t confidently stand behind my pricing.  Now I believe "My Couples are happy to pay my prices because I’m the best”.  An easy way to get here is to think about whatever it is that you KNOW you’re badass at, it could just be one small thing like "I'm really good at natural light photography" - ground in that.  Know there are couples, the ones who are looking for this exact thing that are willing to pay good money for the best, are you the best? Could you be?  The more you shift into being the best the more money you’ll make. 

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Episode Overview:   What if it's all happening for you?  This is such a shift in perspective.  One that every entrepreneur should have when building a business.  Your business challenges are there for a purpose.  To grow and expand you in the biggest, quickest ways possible so that you get your biggest soul desires.   This is what you wanted.  This is an opportunity for you.  Listen in on this episode if your stuck in the "uncomfortable, scary, uncertain" part of building a wedding business and need a reminder of why, this could be exactly what you needed.

Notable Quotes:

"When you ask for something BIG you are gonna need to grow big.  Growing big ALWAYS feels uncomfortable, scary, and uncertain.  That’s how you know you’re on the right track.  

” This is your opportunity to BECOME the badass wedding business owner who not only can create this business but who also can hold it."

"What if it were all happening for you? 

• The challenges
• The lessons
• The failures
• The uncertainty
• The scariness

 If were all there for you to become a wedding business owner who is fully evolved, confident, secure, supported, trusting, knowing that she could handle IT ALL with strength and grace.  Because that IS what's happening right now."

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Connect with Nicole: [email protected]

Learn more about The Wedding Business Masterclass: https://weddingproacademy.com/