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How to Appeal to Amazon-Addicted Couples

Today’s couples want transparency, clear communication, and they want you to deliver on your promises. Here are 3 tactical ways you can shift your biz to meet Amazon-addicted couples right now.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

How to Achieve Balance as a Wedding Pro

Whether you’ve been in the industry for one year or ten, we all know how working in the wedding industry can be extremely busy and stressful…especially during peak season. That's why I’m sharing my best self-care and balance tips that can help you stay centered and healthy, even during the busiest of wedding seasons.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

5 Myths About the Wedding Industry

With such a large and growing industry, it can be easy to cast judgments about the wedding industry as a whole. Today I’m sharing five myths about the wedding industry that you need to stop believing to fully set yourself up for success as a wedding professional in 2023.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

6 Wedding Planner Intern Project Ideas

Are you a wedding planner that has an intern or are you considering bringing on one in the future? You may be racking your brain for ideas to keep them busy throughout their time working with you. Keep reading for six wedding planner intern project ideas.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

How to Respond to A Negative Review as a Wedding Pro

If you've been in business long enough, you've probably received a negative online review…or several bad reviews. I know I have as a wedding planner. So, how do you respond to a negative review as a wedding pro? Read my top five tips for handling a negative review below!

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Top Tips for Combatting Imposter Syndrome

Learning to combat imposter syndrome and quiet our inner critic is one of the more challenging things we'll have to do as business owners. But I'm here to share my lessons learned to help you get past your limiting beliefs and overcome imposter syndrome starting NOW.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

Wedding Planner Offboarding Guide

In this blog post, you’ll find 5 offboarding tips for wedding planners. Your wedding planner offboarding process is just as important as your onboarding process. This wedding planner offboarding guide will have you getting referrals time and time again!

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

Top 5 Tips for Your Welcome Guide

A welcome guide is typically a wedding professional’s most underutilized and underestimated document in the entire client experience. Some wedding pros have them and some don’t yet, but I hope you will have one after reading this blog post. Some wedding pros haven’t updated their welcome guide in years, and some have guides that are forty-seven pages and overwhelm their clients. Your welcome guide is the place to set boundaries, ease anxiety, and build trust with new clients. Here are my top five tips for your welcome guides.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

A Wedding Planner’s Guide to Hiring a Virtual Assistant

If you’re at this stage of your business that I like to call the messy middle, now is the perfect time to hire a virtual assistant to handle some of the tasks that you don’t enjoy and that take up time you could be using on something more enjoyable. Here’s a wedding planner’s guide to hiring a virtual assistant.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

Top Tips for a CEO Mindset

While as a wedding planner you may think of your job as executing a perfect wedding day, there's SO much more that goes on behind the scenes as an entrepreneur. Here are my top tips for developing a CEO mindset as a wedding planner.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

9 Ways to Be a Better Wedding Pro During Busy Season

The more we talk about the busy season as wedding pros, the more I think about the ways to stand out during the craziness. Below are my top 9 tips for being a better wedding pro during the busy season. These tips will ensure you are intentional and considerate when working with your clients and fellow vendors this season, and they'll truly set you apart in all the best ways.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

How to Plan a Styled Shoot

As a wedding planner, styled shoots are a great way to market your business. However, they can sometimes be a lot of work and overwhelming, so it’s important to learn the tips and tricks to planning styled shoots before jumping into planning.

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Megan Gillikin Megan Gillikin

How to Get on a Wedding Venue's Preferred Vendor List

One of the questions I get most often in my Planner’s Vault membership is: How do I get on a wedding venue’s preferred vendor list? I brought Shannon Terrant, founder of Wedding Venue Map, onto the Weddings For Real podcast (episode 168, which you can listen to here). She began her career in the wedding industry as a caterer and then she moved on to being a wedding coordinator. After ten years in the industry, she took a break and saw a white space in the wedding industry. She saw the need for couples to be able to search and sort to find the perfect wedding venues in their wedding locations, so she created the Wedding Venue Map. Keep reading to learn Shannon’s top mistakes to avoid and tips to stand out when working to get on a wedding venue’s preferred list.

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