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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Connect with Nicole: nicole@weddingproacademy.com

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

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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Connect with Nicole: nicole@weddingproacademy.com

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

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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Connect with Nicole: nicole@weddingproacademy.com

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