Wedding Pro Academy

Episode Overview:    Things I wish I knew in my First Year of Business - from the 3 questions you can ask yourself to know you're going to make it to the importance of creating boundaries around your work and personal time.  With what feels like a lifetime of wedding business knowledge ( 14 years of experience and a six figure business) this is the advice I'd give to my younger self in year one.  ...

Episode Overview:    How do you find & define your niche in the Wedding Industry?  When is it time to niche down?  How do go all in on this new niche AND make money in it?  We discuss all of these things and more in today's episode.    Notable Quotes: "Niching down. That was scary, that was hard because essentially you’re going to have to start turning weddings away.  You’lll have to decide an...

Episode Overview:    Struggling to book weddings? If yes - this episode is for you!  Today we talk about five reasons most wedding businesses struggle to book weddings consistently, what your doing push Brides & Grooms away and how to fix this.  Join Nicole as she breaks down some advanced marketing and messaging strategies that take most businesses years to learn.  Download the full guide: "...

Episode Overview:    Wanting to get onto the coveted Wedding Planners "Preferred Vendor List"?  In this episode we'll talk about exactly how to get noticed by established wedding planners in 2025.  We're not holding back in this one - I'm giving tips on exactly how to reach out, what to say, how to stand out,  how to build a connection and what not to do.  This is an episode you won't want to miss...

Episode Overview:    Are your thoughts & beliefs repelling or attracting Bride & Grooms?  We don't often slow down enough to really look into our mindset but your beliefs could be the thing holding your business back.  Today we breakdown mindset hacks to figure out what is actually going on in your subconscious and how these beliefs could be preventing you from making the money and experie...

Episode Overview:    Are wedding wedding businesses profitable? What do wedding photographers, wedding planners, wedding officiants and hair & makeup artists actually make?  Give me the real numbers!!!  What influences these numbers, and how do these wedding vendors make more profit?  How come my wedding business isn't profitable? What can I do right now to make my wedding business more profit...

Episode Overview:    Nicole shares what she'd do if she was starting a brand new wedding business from scratch.  She gives a no-nonsense guide with 10 simple steps to jumpstart any wedding business quickly.    10 Steps to Build a BRAND NEW Wedding Business F.A.S.T 1. Choose a Name that has specific Keywords in it (location you do business, the word "wedding" and what you do) to help with Google Ra...

Episode Overview:    Why over-selling can push potential couples away and could be holding you back from booking more weddings - and what to do instead.  Plus specific strategies to implement now to build trust and connection with couples that increase booking rates and make sales fun and so much easier.  Notable Quotes: "Over-selling could look like talking more than listening, trying to prove th...

Episode Overview:    Wondering what to do when you aren't busy with weddings, you aren't getting Brides & Grooms reaching out?  This is the perfect time to be working on your marketing.  In this episode we discuss 10 FREE ways to market your wedding business.   Nicole will share what she's done personally to get couples to find her and why these things work.    Notable Quotes: "The more ways t...

Episode Overview:    Every successful wedding business has spent years setting up back-end systems for their business.  Systems and processes are essential to scaling, plus they save you time and make things easier.  In this episode, Nicole shares the a few of her favorite back-end systems for her wedding business.  Notable Quotes: "Systems & Processes make your business easier.  It becomes a...

Episode Overview:    What makes a successful wedding business? What are some common traits that all successful wedding business owners have and why are these specific traits so important?  Today Nicole talks about 17 Traits of Successful Wedding Businesses and goes over why these traits matter.  Notable Quotes: "You gotta be tenacious and just go all in.  When things get bad, and they will, you go...

Episode Overview:    Today Nicole gives you some insight into how she built her 6 Figure Wedding Business.  She talks about where she started, the roadblocks she's faced, and breaks down some of the biggest lessons she's learned along the way.  This is a deep dive into her wedding planning business story and what it took to get to where she is today.  Enjoy! Notable Quotes: "You gotta be tenacious...

Episode Overview:    Today we go over 5 Simple Strategies to Book More Weddings.  If you're having trouble getting couples to lock in wedding dates with you, you'll find this episode super helpful.  There are some key elements that need to happen before a Bride will be all in on working with you and these strategies will help you to seal the deal.  Notable Quotes: “After years of experimentation,...

Episode Overview:    Why are some wedding businesses so successful, while others struggle?  What do they have that you're missing?  In this episode we discuss an unspoken foundation that all successful wedding businesses have built, one that has allowed their businesses to flourish.  Nicole goes over 4 essential pillars that create trust, this trust builds a solid foundation which becomes a magnet...

Episode Overview:  In episode you'll lern how to balance your energetic vs physical actions in order to create massive amounts of success in your wedding business.   If you're having trouble booking new weddings or feeling stuck in your wedding business you may be off balance and in this episode we explore why things could be out of alignment.  We'll discuss what makes new couples show up, specifi...

Episode Overview:  If you're in the Wedding Industry, you'll notice how most wedding vendors are in a perpetual grind - taking on as many weddings as they can, completely exhausted.  Although, this is where most of us start off, it doesn't have to be where we stay.  It is possible to create a dream wedding business that doesn't burn you out.  One that makes you good money, over six figures a year,...

Episode Overview:  In this episode we cover a simple strategy that will help you to book more weddings - mastering the art of listening.  We'll discuss how to listen in a way that builds genuine connection so that couples feel heard and understood.  I show you how I use this skill to book new weddings and explain why listening over selling works so well.  Plus, I give you real life examples of how...

Are you starting a wedding planning business, but feeling stuck on how or where to market your services?  You have a good amount of experience with family and friends, but no real experience outside of that?  Perhaps you keep running into dead ends competing with more established wedding vendors who have already taken up the sacred "preferred vendor lists".   Don't quit yet, this is how we all fee...

In this episode we talk about why sending a cold pitch emails to wedding planners in order to get more business doesn't work and I give give you 5 easy strategies to build connections with wedding planners that actually work.   If you're a wedding photographer, videographer, have a favor business or any other type of wedding business and you've been dying to connect with planners but you haven't h...

Why are some wedding businesses super successful, while others struggle?  What things do they have in place that others do not?  In this episode we go over some big picture concepts of what is really needed to build a successful wedding business that can withstand the test of time.  Plus, we get into a common mistakes that repel potential weddings (or brides).   This one goes deep, we go over how...

If you're hesitant on going all in on your wedding business, or thinking of starting one and need some reassurance that you're on the right track - this episodes for you.  A short backstory on how I got into weddings and why it was the one business that finally stuck.  Plus 6 reasons why a business in weddings is the best business.  

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