Become a Top Wedding Planner - Use Associations and Networking Groups to Market Your Business
By Sharon Hill
When you start your wedding planning business you will find different types of business groups that you can join where you can meet other entrepreneurs, network and promote your business. Which ones you join depends on what you are looking for and how much time and money you can commit to making them work for you.
There are three types of business groups that you might consider:
Wedding and Event Planner Associations
Members are wedding and event planners, other wedding vendors, such as caterers and florists, and....
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Become a Top Wedding Planner - Wedding Portfolio Do's and Don'ts
By Sharon Hill
As a new wedding planner, you'll need to create a portfolio of your wedding planning experiences so you can show potential clients what you have done.
Here are some Do's and Don'ts for putting together your first one:
DO's
Invest in an attractive, high-quality photo album or binder. Remember this is a representation of your work, make it impressive. Make sure you use clear, sharp, high-quality photographs taken with a digital camera, not a cell phone. Cell phone photographs are often too grainy when they are printed. Take the time to....
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Destination Wedding - Planning the Adventure
By W. Green
Where do you get married? In the groom's hometown or the bride's? What about neither! That's what a destination wedding is. So which destination will it be? Maybe a place you and your fiancée have never been but always wanted to go to. Another way of approaching this is to plan the ceremony at the honeymoon location, that way, the honeymoon can start right away.
As with everything, there are pluses and minuses to getting married somewhere other than at "home." One plus is a world-wide number of choices of exotic locations to pick....
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