Are you feeling inspired? Sometimes it’s simply the lack of inspiration in our lives that causes us to stay stagnant in our wedding business. I arrived in LA late last night and this morning I’m off to a series of mastermind meetings with my mentor Ali Brown. I know that having this kind of inspiration is going to lead to new ideas in my business and that means more success.
When you’re inspired there’s no limit to what you can do. Emerson said “Oh Human! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you knew what you are.” But most of us lack the inspiration to get to the heart of our true purpose in life. And that’s really sad.
I want to provide you with that inspiration. We are 7 days away from Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE where I will be giving you lots of systems and strategies you can implement in your business, but most importantly I’ll be giving you inspiration. You need to be inspired. Let me help you. Click here to attend with our easy 10 pay option.
Do you have a hankering for a new pair of shoes, a splashy pair of pumps with heels oh so high? If you’re feeling just so- so about your wedding planning business buying a new pair of shoes can make you feel oh so much better about things… at least for a little while. We tend to buy material things to mask our feelings and cheer us up but that feeling only lasts for a short time (even shorter if your heel breaks in a storm grate!) So my suggestion is to spend those hard earned wedding planning dollars on something that will give you more than a moment’s euphoria. You need to invest in strategies that will help you bring in brides to your business over and over again rather than banking it all on those snazzy red pumps making a great impression.
Instead of spending $79.70 on a new pair of shoes why not invest that in our 10 month payment plan to attendRockstar Wedding Planner LIVE? The tips about getting press and media exposure that special guests, Stacey Johnes and Regina Novickis are going to provide at Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE are worth so much more than $79.70 a month…
With more than 15 years of expertise in consumer product marketing, Stacey Johnes has a history of striving to execute the most dynamic client campaigns possible, garnering the results that are expected from clients and beyond. As a co-founder of Media Tonic Communications, she and her business partner have been able to further direct their energies into developing some of the most vibrant companies — including their own — unfettered by creative restrictions and old guard beliefs.
Formerly a vice president at Edelman Worldwide’s Los Angeles office, Johnes has led public relations initiatives for some of the countries most recognized brands including Nissan/Infiniti, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and the National Association of Broadcasters. Johnes also led the Launch/Brand team for the worldwide introduction of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console, one of the most successful product introductions of the last decade.
Regina Novickis, co-founder of Media Tonic Communications, is a seasoned public relations professional with more than eleven years of experience managing brand positioning, public relations and media relations efforts on behalf of consumer/entertainment clients. She is the client manager for some of the firm’s most important relationships such as Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment.
As a planner you want media exposure so brides and industry can view you as the expert. But how do you get in the door with your pitch? How do you even create a pitch? At Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE you’ll learn:
What makes the wedding media sit up and take notice
How to leverage the PR you’ve gotten in the past
Where to look for press now that so many bridal magazines are shutting their doors
Unique angles you can take with the press to make you stand out
These 2 are phenomenal!! One of our other speakers, JJ Virgin, is a client of theirs and I opened up an OK Magazine on the airplane and saw that she was quoted as an expert in the pages. These 2 know how to get you publicity and they are not to be missed at Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE.
So you can take your $79.70 and invest in a new pair of shoes (and potentially new blisters!) or you can invest in a true solution for your business, the strategies and “done for you” toolkit you’ll receive at Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE.
Do you cry sometimes about the state of your wedding business? Do you feel so overwhelmed that you dive into a tub of Baskin Robbins and curl up with a box of tissue?
Hey- it happens!
When you don’t know what the next step should be in your business or where your next bride is coming from it can be scary. Fear takes over and the tears start flowing. But why not take control again? For only 10 monthly payments of $79.70 you could come to Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE and learn strategies that won’t leave you feeling helpless when it comes to the future of your wedding business.
It’s a lot better than spending $79.70 a month on tissues and ice cream.
In fact, just one part of Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE is worth way more than $79.70 per month. Special guests, Kristy Chenell and Katie Hess of Couture Consulting are definitely worth way more…
With an unparalleled branded wedding background, Kristy Chenell has become one of the nation’s leading experts in the wedding business industry. Kristy is the owner and founder of Couture Consulting by Chenell, specializing in brand, sales, and marketing consulting for wedding businesses. While many vendors are stellar in their wedding field, Kristy brings effective and custom business techniques to each company for maximum impact in the industry. She focuses on strengthening brands through emotional engagement, WOW experiences, and strategic positioning.
Kristy’s career spans from sales and brand marketing for Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings to the Corporate Wedding Advisory Board for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. She has played an integral role in both highly branded companies website redesigns and wedding planning guides, and led her respective teams in overall sales revenue. Kristy’s experience also includes working with companies such as Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Modern Bride, and Florida’s bid for the 2012 Olympics. In addition, she has been seen as the Holiday Expert for Denver’s News Channel 2 and News Channel 4.
Loved by brides and the industry alike, Katie Hess’s knowledge of branded weddings is world class, leading her to become a wedding business consultant for Couture Consulting. She has an undeniable talent for uncovering a company’s true identity and designing fresh ways to celebrate that uniqueness.
Katie is highly regarded in the wedding industry and her background with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has provided her brand training bar none. Most recently, Katie opened The Ritz-Carlton, Denver selling and servicing luxury weddings and events, including those of the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Her crucial role at this property included high profile weddings, wedding industry showcases, and the stellar “Down the Aisle” bridal event featuring Austin Scarlett, lead designer for Kenneth Pool and designer from BRAVO’s Project Runway, Season 1.
Whether you have a dream that has been burning inside you for decades or are just at the beginning of realizing what you really want today, your brand is the foundation for your future success. At Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE 2010, Kristy and Katie will focus on helping participants gain a clear, concise, and unique brand strategy to synergize all business endeavors moving forward. Specifically, Couture Consulting will:
Discuss the (4) major elements of your brand and their importance in your success
Provide thought provoking exercises to discover and hone your brand
Coach you in designing a strategic plan to strengthen your brand through marketing, sales, and customer experience
The most crucial part of the development of your company, brand conceptualization, provides direction in order to achieve your dreams.
You probably looked at the subject line of this blog and thought, “What is this going to be about?”
Well, I wanted to make something brutally clear to you. To attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVEyou only have to invest $79.70 each month for 10 months and it got me thinking, what else could you buy for $79.70 a month?
Do you buy wine? Do you buy cigarettes? Then you probably spend at least $79.70 per month on them.
Instead of wine and cigarettes you could have a full “done for you” toolkit. Just one piece of this toolkit is worth waaayyy more than $79.70 a month.
You can walk away and put these tools into place immediately. One of these tools outlines the exact steps I took with my famous holiday sale. Not only did I make $19,000 in 10 days running this campaign once but one of my students recently put these tools into place and she made $12,000 in 2 weeks.
Don’t believe me? Here’s what she has to say: “Going to Rockstar Wedding Planner Live in 2009 changed my life. After finally taking the leap of faith to leave my steady job with a comfortable paycheck, I borrowed a small loan from my parents and opened up my tiny wedding/event planning business. I had absolutely no training in business and I was following in my many competitors’ footsteps. Inother words, I had no niche and no hope of standing out from a vast market.
That is until I went to Ciara Daykin’s Rockstar LIVE event in Los Angeles. Not only did I learn how to stand out as a new business but she taught me how to be a better business woman. I took yet another leap of faith and joined her Rockstar Wedding Planner Legends group by paying money I didn’t have. It may have been one of the scariest things I have ever done but it was also the wisest.
Over the course of the year Ciara coached me and my little business. She had some amazing ideas and the power of brainstorming with her and the rest of the Legends really propelled me forward. My business and marketing strategy are 100% different than they were before stepping into the world of Rockstar Wedding Planner. Before meeting Ciara and joining Legends I only had two clients over the span of one year totaling $2300. Because of Ciara and the power of her mastermind group I made $12,000 in just two and a half weeks!
I couldn’t have done this without Ciara’s hard work and dedication to me and my company. I would be very happy to tell anyone who is thinking of following Ciara that it would be the best choice they have ever made for their business. I—without question or hesitation—will follow Ciara and Simon Daykin for years to come. They are such a dynamic team and truly selfless to be giving little wedding planners like me the knowledge they possess to succeed. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.”
Nicole Nassief, The Wedding League
Worth more than $79.70 a month?
Definitely!
Many times we’re not getting what we want in life because we’re investing in the wrong things. The more you invest your $79.70 a month in poor choices the more you attract scarcity, lack and negativity into your life.
Turn things around today and click here to attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE with me.
Love and wedding planning success,
Ciara
P.S. Worried you’ll miss your wine budget if you invest in coming to Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE? You can have a drink on me at our Welcome Party where you’ll meet many more excited, enthusiastic, high energy, driven wedding planners who’ll help you propel forward in your wedding business. Click here to attend.
I was getting my nails done yesterday and was reading an O Magazine and she had this great excerpt from a poem that absolutely moved me and made me think of you…
“If you stare at it long enough
the mountain becomes unclimbable.
Tally it up. How much time have you spent
waiting for the soup to cool?
Icicles hang from January gutters
only as long as they can. Fingers pause
above piano keys for the chord
that will not form. Slam them down
I say. Make music of what you can…”
- Charles Rafferty from “Against Hesitation”
Don’t you think his words are amazingly powerful?
How often do we hesitate from taking the next step and miss an opportunity completely? In our businesses we especially can get overwhelmed just thinking about the next step (like the mountain) and we build it up so much we actually stop ourselves from believing that the next step is even possible for us.
It’s so sad to be frozen in indecision.
I’d like to help you take the next step in your business but you need to take a step and join me in March at Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE. I’ve made it really easy for you to attend by offering you 10 payments over 10 months. Just click here for the details.
Last year was a tough one for the wedding industry and all our thoughts were swirling around the M word… M0ney! It’s how we buy things, it’s what makes us feel secure when we have it saved up, it’s what freaks us out when we don’t have enough. But have you ever thought about how you really FEEL about m0ney? So many people avoid looking at their finances and feel shameful when the subject of m0ney is brought up (it’s almost more taboo to talk about m0ney than it is to talk about sex!). But we’re Rockstar Wedding Planners and no topic is off limits!
Join your host, Ciara Daykin as she talks about m0ney and how your feelings around m0ney could be driving it further away from you. All your ideas, feelings, and habits around money are learned and you can learn a new way of thinking about m0ney by participating in this call. Ciara will give you tips and strategies to stop living in scarcity and start living in abundance.
Topic: Getting Over Your Fears Around M0NEY
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Time: 1:00pm PST/2:00pm MST/3:00pm CST/4:00pm EST
Not a Become a Rockstar Wedding Planner member? No worries- you can sign up now and your first month is free!
Yesterday was Family Day in Alberta so I enjoyed the day off. But it also gave me some time to think. Ever since I did my free teleseminar last week we’ve had a lot of emails streaming into the office from you.
I’ve heard the message loud and clear from you that you’d love to come to Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE 2010 but that last year was really tough for you (the economy’s been kicking your butt) and you’re having a difficult time making the investment to attend.
Well, I made a big decision yesterday. I was going to raise the price of the ticket to Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE but I’ve decided to keep it at $797. I know the value of the ticket is much, much more than that but I’m really listening to your needs. I’ve even gone one step further…
I’m offering you a payment plan that extends well past the event. You can attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE by making 10 payments of $79.70 over 10 months. That’s less than $3 a day (I’ll bet you spend more on your coffee each morning). This is an unbelievable offer.
So why am I doing this?
I understand what it’s like to struggle in a wedding planning business and that’s why I want to help you. And I know I can if you attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE. I’m putting my trust in you because I know you want to attend and learn innovative ways to double your profits. Click here to take advantage of this offer right now.
I also wanted to reveal that at the event I’ll be giving each attendee a “Done For You” Toolkit filled with copyright free documents of some of my most successful promotions to brides. Just one of these promotions made me $19,000 in 2 weeks. And you can use this toolkit to do the same.
So what do I mean by copyright free documents? Well it means that I’m giving you my full permission to use the copy that I’ve written, that I’ve proven works, that I’ve had big financial success with, in your marketplace. I’ve created the system AND done the work for you, all you have to do when you get home is implement it.
But I’m only offering this to attendees of Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE. Even if I record the event and sell it later (which I’m not sure I’m going to do) no one but the wedding planners who attend IN PERSON will receive my “Done For You” Toolkit.
So that’s my BIG news for today… I hope you’re as excited as I am!
P.S. I’m not kidding… you can pay your admission to attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE 2010 over 10 months with 10 payments of $79.70 by clicking here.
I remember when I was trying to decide if I should go to my first marketing and sales training seminar…
I was totally scared but also really excited.
I didn’t know where I would get the money from to buy the ticket let alone pay for the plane ticket and the hotel room. But I knew that I needed to attend this seminar in order to change my business. So I took the leap and bought my ticket to attend and I held faith that the money would come. I put a picture of the host on my vision board and I focused on going to this event.
And you know what happened?
A cheque arrived from the government- apparently I’d overpaid my taxes- and they were sending me my refund and it covered exactly what I needed to go to this seminar. And I went. And my life has never been the same since. And when you make the decision to attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE your life will never be the same again either.
I’m not saying a mystery cheque is going to pop up in your mail when you decide to come to Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE. But amazing things happen when you make a DECISION. I’ve seen it happen time after time. But it starts with a decision. You open your life up to amazing opportunities and wonderful rewards when you just decide.
So it’s your last chance to decide to come to Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE for the early bird price. It ends tonight.
P.S. Our phone lines are open today all day. If you’re trying to make this decision but need to talk to someone about it then please call me at 1-800-791-5636 ext 710.
I wanted to quickly wish you Happy Valentine’s Day today before I head out with my husband Simon to celebrate. We have a lot to celebrate this year. With a new baby on the way we’re not only celebrating our growing family but also….
Entering into our 6th year in business and hitting six figures in that wedding planning business for the last 3 years in a row
Both working in the business full time
Having the opportunity to travel the world to learn about new, cool wedding ideas and meeting industry greats
Working with so many fabulous couples around North America planning and designing their weddings (including winning an award last year for Best Ceremony Décor in all of Canada)
A growing team of talented planners and support staff who make it possible for us to enjoy a balanced life and a successful business
But I can honestly say that this would never have happened for Simon and I without me approaching him and telling him what exactly it meant to me to have my own wedding planning business.
When I started on the path of taking my company from hobby to business and later to empire I knew I needed his support. I had an honest conversation with my husband and told him how much this meant to me. And his reaction was amazing. Not only did he support me growing my business but we also created a plan for how, when the time was right, he would join me full time. But this meant a leap of faith for both of us and it meant we had to invest in this business with our time and our money.
But we embarked on this journey together and Simon ended up coming with me to a training seminar like Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE. We both saw what making critical sales and marketing changes in our company could do for our business and we chose to make those changes together.
That was the path that we chose and we know that we would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Now working with your spouse isn’t for everyone but in any venture you take in your life you need the support of your partner. So on this Valentine’s Day if you’ve been putting off talking with your spouse or partner about your true dreams and aspirations as a wedding planner then today is the day to discuss this with them. Show your significant other the details for Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE and just put it out there that you’d like to go. Today you may get a wonderful Valentine’s gift that you weren’t expecting.
Click here to access the details. OR, click here for a printable pdf with all the details that you can print off and share with your spouse or partner.
Also, we’d love to have your partner come along so you can share this experience with them. That’s why if you buy one ticket at the early bird price you can add on a partner ticket at a reduced rate. Click here to make it a date.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Love and wedding planning success,
Ciara
P.S. Remember- the early bird rate ends on Monday February 15th at the end of the day. Don’t miss your chance to attend Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE.
Do you ever wonder how you can quickly boost your wedding planning business and bring in more weddings?
I used to wonder all the time- when I’d wake up at 3am with a panic attack wondering how I was going to pay the mortgage that month. Don’t you hate that?
But it doesn’t happen anymore because I’ve figured out 10 sure-fire ways to sign more weddings and increase my income quickly when I need it. And it works EVERYTIME for me and I’ve grown my business quickly to the high 6 figures by using these strategies. So are you curious?
Fast low cost to no cost ways you can bring more brides through your doors
How you can quickly increase your wedding business for the entire year in just one month
Getting your vendors to send you more clients and sending them to you over other wedding planners
Boosting your wedding business even if you don’t have a list of brides yet
And many more wedding planning business boosting ideas…
Will you join me?
All you have to do is click here to sign up for this awesome call. These strategies are new, innovative and low cost to no cost.
So click here to join me on this call- if you can’t make it at that exact time, don’t worry, there will be a recording but you have to sign up to get it.
Love and wedding planning success,
Ciara
P.S. I’ll also be previewing some of the great topics we’ll be covering at Rockstar Wedding Planner LIVE March 15, 16 and 17 in San Diego, California. The early bird price ends February 15th you can check out the details by clicking here.
"When I joined Rockstar Wedding Planner Legends I realized the importance of being seen as an expert by brides, grooms and vendors. Being a part of this group I was inspired to write and publish my own book, "The Simply Elegant Wedding Planner" to highlight my expertise as a wedding planner, which is now sold online and by local vendors."
- Alice Goetschel, Memorable Occasions, WeddingsbyAlice.com, Santa Clarita, California
Join host Ciara Daykin and special guest Lisa Light on this December’s Become a Rockstar Wedding Planner call about planning destination weddings! With 17 years of international event planning experience, Lisa Light has become an authority on destination weddings. She is the author of DESTINATION BRIDE: How to Plan A Wedding Anywhere in the World, CEO of www.destinationbride.com and one of a select few who assists Forbestraveler.com in choosing their Forbes 400. Lisa will be talking about what it really takes to plan out of this world destination weddings and why destination weddings aren’t just all inclusive hotels anymore.
This is a free call for Become a Rockstar Wedding Planner members. Not a member yet?
You probably looked at the subject line of this blog and thought, “What is this going to be about?”
finally taking the leap of faith to leave my steady job with a comfortable paycheck, I borrowed a small loan from my parents and opened up my tiny wedding/event planning business. I had absolutely no training in business and I was following in my many competitors’ footsteps. In other words, I had no niche and no hope of standing out from a vast market.
