How to scale your wedding industry business online

How to grow your Bridal Beauty Business

Hey Beauties im taking on a MASSIVE project and that means i need to get laser focused on whats important. I’ve learned from the first time that ive expanded my business that the number one thing i needed to do was to take a step back so that the foundation of my business was set up properly and what all of my ducks were in a row.

This is going to be a big project for myself and my team and what needs to happens at this time are a few important factors for anyone growing there business to asked themselves.

_What do you want your life to look like a year or two from now

-How often do you want to be working

-What income goals do you have for each month

-And what are you major goals in business you want accomplished and by when

By knowing the answers to these questions you will save yourself a ton of time by only working on projects that support those goals. If you struggle from time to time of putting way too much on your plate then now would be the best time to scale back on those projects and only focus on task that will move you closer to your end goal.

How to be more productive with your time

Being productive with your time an energy is going to play a major factor in this season of grow and you need to make sure that you are using your time wisely.

“ Time is the one thing we can not get back after its wasted”

You need to write out all of your goals that you have for yourself for this year and map them out. i suggest making a big plus sign on a piece of blank paper and in the top left write urgent. In the below section write out not so urgent. in the right top corner write out important and in the below section not important so you know the major task you need to focus on.

This will help you create your monthly goals list so you can break down your weeks to get more done in less time.

Create a Simple System

This is my number one favorite part of the business creating systems so that they flow smoothly. Without systems you lack organization and a clear plan of action. I have a few base systems that every business need to have in order before they start to scale so it makes your life simple and you save a ton of time when things start to grow rapidly.

-System for new inquiries to go through

-System for new hires to go through

-System for Booking new Clients

I love to keep everything simple for my clients by keeping all of their details from contracts,booking details and payments. I do this by using Honey Book because all of my task can be put on auto pilot so it runs while i sleep.

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If you are currently running your business while juggling a 9-5 than honey book is a must have for your business. With the link above if you decide to use it in your business it only $20 bucks a month. Its basically your personal assistant but way cheaper than hiring one.

Lastly You need to keep your head clear

“Business is 80 mindset and 20% strategy”

What you think to yourself will basically come true. So if you think you are not capable of doing something than you will prove yourself right. A few ways that i love to keep my head clean while working are

-Starting my day off with a morning routine

-Listening to podcast

-Meditations

-Visualization

These are all helpful things that you can do in the morning/mid-day/or night to make sure that you are operating and running your business from a mental state of abundance and not scarcity. If you are in a mental desperate state of mind because bill are due and you need to make an extra $500 for the month any post you create from that energy will give off a desperate vibe and turn clients off.

Anytime you go to do anything in your business check in with yourself and see what you need in that moment to reach your goals an operate from integrity and things will happen for you naturally. If these tips are of any help for you so far make sure you check out today newest and last podcast until the end of march.

How to double down on whats working

How to create a customized brand awareness strategy for your bridal beauty business

Okay beauties question of the day is do you have a set in stone marketing strategy for your creative business or are you winging it? No worries if you dont because ive been there. I would just wake up and post on social, check me emails, and booked styled shoots and i though that that was enough.

It was for the time because inquires would start flying in and we were booking bridal beauty clients left and right but you know what we didn’t do… track what we were doing.

How are you going to what hashtags worked and what tags didn’t work. What images brought you the most business online and which one you can do without posting? Do you know what caption headline gets the most clicks or are you basing this amount like? News flash and not to sound rude but those likes dont matter. Im not just saying this because Instagram is going to soon stop showing like but im saying this because you can get multiple clicks on a photo but yet no like. YOUR ANALYTICS MATTER!

How to track your analytics to make your marketing simple

So im far from a tech person but to find these numbers can be simple! If you have a business facebook or business Instagram account you need to be checking your insights WEEKLY! this way you know what to post more of the following week. Also if your a fan of running ads online this is how you pic what image you will use doing your ad campaign because you want to get the biggest bang for your buck right so use and image that gets (the clicks not necessarily the likes)

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What can one full year of growth do for you and your business?

The Un-Sexy Reality of Personal Development

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Let’s chat personal development. I feel like when i first stumbled across this part of the world a few years ago when i was in 11 grade it was something that wasn’t really talked about a ton. As i get old and surround myself with other business owners and listen to some of there major struggles of trying to grow a business i know for me if it wasn’t for personal development i would not be where i am today.

From over thinking everything

Being a people pleaser

Saying yes to way too many things

And trying to operate while in my comfort zone

Did nothing for me, where i was trying to be in life and the goals i set. We live in a world or instant gratification and we say that we are “ready” for the things we ask for. But in reality we are not yet mentally prepared to take on the new work load we are asking for because we only operate in our “now” instead of what we are working towards.

5 apps you need as a busy entrepreneur

The top 5 apps you need as an entrepreneur to save you from burnout

As entrepreneurs we must try an save our sanity as much as we can. Now how do we do this you ask? But being smart. You need to set aside one day each week where you focus on planning for the week. If you are thinking to yourself right now that you don’t have the time do do this than you might have a bigger problem on your hands.

Time management and organization are not sexy topics i know, but the more you do these things you will come to realize that you can create a heck of a loot of free time to maybe focus on your busy more or even take up a new hobby that you kept telling yourself that you don’t have the time to do for the last 3 years.

Let dive in shall we?

1.Google Calendar

I believe all cell phone, laptops and tablets can access this app. You you are not currently time blocking set time aside today to map out the rest of this week. I love time blocking because it keeps me up on my game and on task. If you still currently work a 9-5 make sure you add those times in as well and work you day around it. When it comes to time blocking here are a few things that you can use as guidelines.

• Add in breaks, time to relax, learning or downtime

• Give yourself more than enough time to get your task completed ..be realistic and stick to staying focus on your work during that time block

• Put a slight buffer in between task so if you happen to run over your not cutting into another tasks time frame.

2.Asana

If you have no clue what asana is their are a ton of videos to view over on YouTube. I am not an affiliate of there program i just love it for its features. If you listen or watch me regularly on my Facebook lives than you know i always talk about writing out your goals and breaking them into smaller ones to achieve them faster. Asana has been my buddy when it comes to those goals. For example if i want to get a sponsorship as an Instagram influencer i could map out my game plan using asana. Id label the project as sponsorship and break it down of every single little task i would need to do in order to make that happen and work backwards

8. Land sponsorship

7.Company views my social media account

6.Pitch myself to company

5.Post and show up consistently only as influencer

4. Gather images for platform

3. Plan out topic content to post about

2 Update Instagram platform

1.Brand a personal brand

3.Planoly

If you liked how simple i just made that check list for a sponsorship and your saying im terrible with my consistency then boom i just solved you problem. Planoly is amazing i have used the paid version and the free version an i’m totally sticking with the free version for my team and i to utilize. Gather a few images for the week or for the month and upload them into your grid. Once you have you images loaded you can move them around and plan out how you want your Instagram grid to look with everything post for the month. Place your images now here comes the not so hard part. Creating your captions.

When creating caption you want to give someone a reason to come to you page. Now to my wedding friends stop saying “Another gorgeous bride” or to my hair and makeup girls “ Makeup by me on this stunning beauty” what does someone post to that? They might comment “Beautiful! or maybe drop some emojis. If your behind on the education of using Instagram for business vs. a business page these comments do nothing for you. Especially if you looking to land a brand deal…you need engaging comments. This is why you need to tell a story, connect with the reader, give them a tip or show your personality a bit. These are all things covered in my social media for creative course that comes out soon!

4.Every Dollar

Okay where are my Dave Ramsey fans at? If you didn’t know im all about being financially smart so this app is just that. You can get the app by itself or join the finical peace university like i did to get the modules and lesson to help you and your family plan for the future. i am not a sponsor however id love to be one lol

As small business owners the number one reason tat businesses fail is because of bad money habits. Lean to track you money daily, weekly and monthly. I’ve made this apart of my DAILY checklist. Knowing your numbers will do wonders for you and your bank account so start a personal and business budget. add up what your yearly expenses will be and get to it.

5. HoneyBook

Not gonna lie this one is my favorite. Ive been using honey book for over 18 months now and im mad that i have not started using it sooner. This baby is an all in one system that makes emailing your clients, sending invoices, contracts and collecting payment a freaking dream.

I can assign task within honey book to my team members and it even syncs up with quick books to make taxes at the end of the year a piece of cake. Now unlike the other apps i am now a new member of the honey book educators program and i do get a few special perks that i can share with you.

This platform is normally $40 bucks per month which is huge saving but the team is letting me offer any of my readers 50% off the entire year….yes the entire year! that’s only $20 bucks a month and its basically your own personal assistant once you set up automation. But i don’t just want you to take my word for it.

Honeybook is letting you try out the platform with a free week trial if you use my link below!

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2020 will be here in the blink of an eye and lets start the year off right! What do you want more of? More money, clients,free time? It all starts by planning for it. Don’t let you ego get in the way by making you think you don’t need to put the work in. We must stay relevant with today’s time as what methods use to work back in the day like handing out cards and word of mouth are slowly fading and we need to leap up or get left behind. I’m so proud of you for reading all the way through now lets stay connected!

How to create a productive work space at home

Yeah ladies i’m back again with a super helpful post. As some of you may know if you follow along with me on social media that i’ve recently moved upstate less than 2 months ago and the very first thing that i needed to do for myself was get my office space set up. Now since moving My boyfriend an i have down sized a good bit which is perfect because that eliminate the problem of unneeded clutter in my office area. I went with a medium size corner in our living room and its been working out perfectly!

Now i think of a work space a bit differently then just a desk that holds my stacks of paper and clutter. But i think of a work space that keeps all of my senses in-tuned. This maybe because i’m a cosmetologist and i’m use to spas, salons and zen like spaces so of course i needed those important factor in my home as well.

1. Office Location

   Choosing the location of where your wanting to set up your office is the most important task. You want to consider a few things when choosing your spot. Lighting, Space, Outlets, and comfort. I choose to go with an area that was close to my patio door to bring in a decent amount of natural light into the area. I’ve down sized the amount of notebooks and binders i use for work to keep a high amount of space open as well as choosing to keep amount of decor of off my desk top.

   Next make sure that your work from home office space is near an outlet to plug in you desk top or lab top while working. Lastly comfort should be your number focus aside from location. Make sure you can efficiently work in the space chosen and that the space is suitable for your needs. Which brings us to number 2!

2. Set your own working standards

   Meaning what is it that you need in a work space. For me i am easily distracted (squirrel brain) an minimal is better and a quite space is even better. The only things that i have on my desk at the month are flowers for a bit of color and greenery because i personally love them. Minimal motivation quote decor to push me through my day with my roll on essential oil that help with stressing, relaxation, and focusing because my mind likes to go a mile a minute. My work binder pens and a good book mostly.

I tend to need more space when i work because i like to spread things out. I use to have a tons of cute decor for my desk but when i actually worked it all got in the way and the functionality was not there at all!

3. Get Organized

I swear when it comes to being organized in work im beyond type A my binder as countless colored tabs and over 100+ clear pocket protectors filled in them. All of my files for my clients that live online in one space has been transfer into printable pdfs that i save an store in my binder. The platform i use makes is so easily and convenient to use without any needs of having a paper trail for contracts, invoices, client files, sending documents and collect payment for easy for me.

By using this platform it reduces the amount of documents i need to print out because they are are stored in a cloud and now backed up in paper form encase internet is not accessible. To check out the platform Honey Book and get 1 free week trial

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4. The Aroma

Now i worked at a space, Salon, Blow Dry Bars, Retail and they all have there special fragrance that you use in the air to promote whatever feeling them like all by smell. Its all about using your 5 senses here people. but were only focusing on sight,sound, and smell.

Did you know that certain smell can help you be more productive while working. I tested it out with a few of my favorite oils in my diffuser.

Hands down lavender was the one that made me feel like the energizer bunny. Lavender is known to help keep you focused as well as keep you calm and relaxed which is a crucial need for me. I love changing out some of the scents in my diffuser as each smell does something different for you. My second favorite is citrus. While working you want to make sure that your working efficiently as well and time blocking task out.

4 crucial habits tied into the success of being a successful entrepreneur

Have you ever wondered has some people can come out of the wood works an be so success which seems like over night. Or maybe you even seen someone who been working hard to pursue their business and their hard work is finally paying off. Its because they learned some of the most important habits it takes to master daily in order to actually get the results they been work towards.

Success Leaves Clues and they’re sitting right in front of our faces yet we still don’t do them…why?

There can be many reasons why we over look some of the most small and simplest of habits and choose to believe that you don’t need improvement on them.

Mastering these 4 habits will transform your life and i think you’d be surprise on what my top 4 are.

• Action Tacker

• Personal Care

• Frugality

• Sharing

These may be a shocker but these are a few of the top 4 habits that’s helped me transform my life from having multiple part time jobs to only working for myself in my bridal hair and makeup service base business. Let just right on into my number habits as its the most important.

ACTION TACKER:

Taking action is in my opinion the most important because some people never even get to step one. I once heard one day while listening to a podcast (you will hear this ALOT as i beige listen to podcast) of how people are living their lives backwards. Image always working hard for someone all you life and people everyone else dream, problems, and desires before your own. You will look up 20 years from now and realize that you never lived for yourself,went for that goal,started that business or even moved an inch on the ideal you thought about 10 years ago.

This doesn’t make you selfish if you decide to pursue your dreams what is selfish is having a gift that you know you can personally help people with and holding it all to yourself. Someone is wanting for you to guide them rather it be on skincare, health,business,coaching and they are waiting for you. The client you say you dont have are out their just waiting for yo to start an I truly believe that in order for use to truly appreciate the time we have on earth is to give our gifts to as many people that needed us to give them to little push they needed to make a change. Which up what their eating to save their health or even get their hair done because they where feeling done and they enjoy the personal time they have with their stylist.

The path to success is to take massive determined actions-Tony Robbins

PERSONAL CARE:

YOLO! who’s heard this before it stands for You only live once. An if you ask me i say that’s even more of a reason to get it together NOW an stop waiting until until the time is right. Sorry to break it to you but there will never be the perfect time to start you just have to do it. Making sure that you are in the most functional state possible start with being a bit more aware of what your eating, how much time you are spending on yourself a day and i’m not talking about doing your makeup i’m talking about your over all well being.

Go an get a massage not being you want it but because you need it. As service providers we are always worried about our clients and making sure we fulfill their needs but we often for get our own person needs. TREAT YOURSELF EVER ONCE AN A WHILE! If your worried about how this time can be used to be productive think of a massage as an productivity booster that you need once a month.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work-Stephen King

Fragility:

Down sizing your monthly bills may be something that you need to look into. Between changing my car insurance, getting a cheaper apartment, cutting our Starbucks runs and actually trying to stick to a monthly budget are things that’s put more money into my pocket that i choose to spend on education.

The amount of money that some are so quick to purchase new clothes, shoes, bags,cars and other flashy material items can be used to accelerate your growth when you implements the steps given correctly. Next time you go to make a purchase as yourself if its needed or wanted and if its wanted think of a smarter way to spend that money. We other mindlessly spend and not even realize it.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving- Warren Buffett

Sharing:

Just like what parents say to their children when they learn how to play with others “Sharing is caring” and if you care about the success of others then share. Share with you loved ones advice that you know can help them with a certain situation. If someone posts a question on Facebook and you know the answer don’t just scroll by and hope someone else tells them the answer. The more we put ourselves into situations of helping others the efforts will come back for us 10x folds.

If your like me and believe in karma then you know you only get what you put out and if your not putting any good or helpful vibes they won’t come back to you in return.

We make a living by what we get; We make a life by what we give- Sir Winston Churchill

Daily Habits are something that we should focus on daily! Think about going to the gym you don’t go into the gym on day one workout for an hour and expect change. These are things that you have to work on over and over again to see a change.

If you’ve made it this far id love to share a huge air hug with you for spending you time reading this article as your support is truly appreciated. I would love to hear what some of your habits that you like to use daily in your life below in the comment section

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