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Episode 37: Productivity Tips for Wedding Pros

Episode 37: Productivity Tips for Wedding Pros

Episode 37: Show Notes

Do you wish you could be more productive? Our modern life makes it so easy to be a victim of “shiny object syndrome”. Also, mindlessly scrolling on IG or Facebook isn’t helping us live our best lives either. We want you to work smarter, not harder, and part of that is mastering your personal productivity. This week, we bring you tips to increase your productivity and talk about productivity resolutions we are making for 2019. Listen in, and become more productive in just 39 minutes!


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Key Takeaways:

  • Get rid of distractions! Don’t work with your phone on your desk. Turn off phone notifications. Anything that dings at you or makes a noise needs to be silent while working.
  • To-do Lists are King! Whether you making a monthly, weekly, or daily to-do list, it’s best to write it down and get it out of your head and onto paper.
  • Multi-tasking isn’t real. Don’t get caught up in the Superwoman status of a multi-tasker. Mono-tasking is where it’s at.
  • Consider Batch Scheduling.
  • Try the Pomodoro Technique – 25 minutes of work followed by a 5-minute break.
  • Eat the Frog: Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your “frog” is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don’t do something about it.
  • Consider only checking your email once or twice a day. Use an autoresponder to remind clients of the timeframes.
  • Touch-it-Once email method (TIO): The basic idea behind “touch it once” is that whenever you get an incoming task in front of you, you decide right away what to do with it.
  • Create a morning routine and a nighttime routine that serves you and your life (outside of your business) well.

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Episode 36 – Tips for Keeping Your Email on Brand

Episode 36 - Tips for Keeping Your Email on Brand

Episode 36: Show Notes

You may have never considered this, but every single email you send out into the world IS your branding. Are you surprised? Your clients and other professionals in your life will interact with your emails far more than will interact with your website or social media. So, how are you making your impression via email? Are you “giving good email”? Listen in for tips, tricks and best practices for stellar emailing! Also, find out which fonts Mindy and Renee really hate. Happy New Year, rockstars!



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Key Takeaways:
  • Email is an extension of your brand!
  • Always have a URL branded email address (no Gmail or Hotmail).
  • Use your email signature to convey your brand. Make sure it’s concise and professional.
  • Spelling and grammar is an important part of your brand! Don’t be lazy on email!
  • Include a CTA (Call-To-Action) in the body of your email
  • Make sure your punctuation matches your intended tone. Maybe reconsider all those !!!!!

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Episode 35 – Year in Review 2018

Episode 35 - Year in Review 2018

Episode 35: Show Notes

In this final episode of 2018, Mindy and Renee look back at their first 30-something episodes and highlight the topics that resonated the most with you, our audience. No surprise that Pricing was our most liked topic, with 2 pricing episodes in the top 5 of the year! Who doesn’t love talking about money, right? Our Top 5 rounds out with Wedding Management, Pinterest, Instagram, and Vendor Referrals – further proving that you guys are the smartest and savviest audience in podcast-land. Tune in as we recap the year, plan for next year, and announce two fun new ways to connect with us! Thanks for listening, and we will be back with you in one short week … in 2019!



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Key Takeaways: Top 5 Topics of the Year
  • Pricing: Don’t base your pricing off of your competition, you don’t know if they are profitable!
  • Wedding Management: Stop calling it Day-of or Month-of Coordination. It does not exist. Let’s move away from this limiting language.
  • Pinterest: Creating content specifically for Pinterest, aka, cover photo collage to drive engagement from Pinterest to your website.
  • Instagram: Stop posting blurry photos! Make sure your captions make sense, tell a story with every photo
  • Referrals: getting more referrals from your peers is a KEY part of growing a strong business and strong brand

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Episode 34 – How to Stop Negotiating Your Price with Maria Bayer

Episode 34 - How to Stop Negotiating Your Price with Maria Bayer

Episode 34: Show Notes

On today’s episode, we chat about all things sales with special guest Maria Bayer. We tackle confidence, mindset, how to sell without being “salesy” and what to do when a potential client asks for a dreaded discount. Maria shares actionable strategy and amazing tips to help you up-level your business and become oh-so-profitable in the process. “Change your mindset, change your life!”



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Our Guest – Maria Bayer

Episode 34 - How to Stop Negotiating Your Price with Maria Bayer
Maria Bayer is a sales & mindset strategist, coach & wealth creator. She is the creator of “Irresistible Selling” an online group coaching program she designed to help creative business owners book high-paying clients quickly (often on the spot!), grow their business and design a life they love. Maria teaches the authentic selling and mindset strategies that helped her triple her income in less than a year, and go on to book over $25 Million in sales from companies like Target, Best Buy, Ulta, Office Max, and Hyatt. After working together, Maria’s clients often 2x -5x their revenues year over year as they continue applying her strategies. Maria also leads a private Facebook Mastermind group of talented creative business owners called Learn Collaborate Flourish. Maria is a national speaker and has authored and co-authored several Kindle books, and her articles have been featured throughout the creative industry. Maria holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and currently resides in the Scottsdale area with her husband Tim and fur-baby Gia, usually with a cold brew in hand.

Key Takeaways:

  • Why “sales” seems to be a dirty word to creatives.
  • How to get over your own mindset about pricing your worth.
  • Part of the sales process is educating your client on your value.
  • Confidence is key!

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Episode 33 – 5 Social Media Trends for 2019

Episode 33 - 5 Social Media Trends for 2019

Episode 33: Show Notes

This week, Mindy leads a fascinating discussion all about Social Media Trends for 2019. What’s in store for us next year? Augmented reality, more authenticity, ChatBots, Alexa, and MORE! As you know, we love social media, so we are here for it all! Listen in as Renee shares her encounter with a chatbot, Mindy discusses her boyfriend Lin Manuel-Miranda, and we share our social media goals for 2019. Also, hear more about Mindy’s yearly online course, Step Up your Social Media, and visit our website to get a special discount code specifically for our listeners! Let’s dig in!

Key Takeaways:

  • Instagram is moving away from overly curated images to more authentic images and captions
  • Augmented reality (aka face filters!) are going to be even more popular, get on the trend!
  • LIVE Video is still hot and increases engagement. Facebook video vs. IGTV vs. IG story videos, which is best for you?
  • ChatBots will become more popular and useful for small business owners.

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