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Five Ways to Grow Your Business

Are you feeling stalled out in your business? Get to work this week, formulating your plan for growth. Take a look at these five suggestions to get started.

Customer Service Get a leg up on the competition by making excellent customer service your number one priority. If your client feels like you are doing everything you can and more to take care of them, they will want to tell everyone how great you are!

Expand Take inventory of your most popular services and add on accessories that make them even more attractive. Then add more services that are becoming popular in the marketplace. If you are not constantly growing and improving your product, you will eventually go backward as your competitors move ahead.

Quality Every product or service you put out there reflects on you, so make sure it is your best work every time. Attention to detail can seem like a dying art. Perfecting the little things goes a long way with clients, and word of mouth will spread quickly.

Team Put your goals in writing, then communicate them with your team, updating everyone weekly on the progress. You won’t believe how motivating this will be. Also, ask your team for ideas on ways to grow. Often, the best ideas come from those who are in the trenches.

Referrals Always ask your client if they know of anyone who needs your services, and ask them to contact them for you. This can be the quickest way to get new business. A warm contact is always more open than a cold one.

Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. Business growth is possible; sometimes it just takes some rethinking, imagination, and hard work.

To learn more about growing your business, check out my book How to Double Your Wedding Business in 12 Months.  Find me on the web at EvansSalesSolutions.com for more tools to improve your business. While you’re there, sign up for a Bridal Business Boot Camp in your area!

This week, put on your thinking cap and strive for more!

Sincerely,

Chris Evans

Evans Sales Solutions provides support for those in the wedding industry with training, seminars, products and wedding marketing concierge team.  For more information call: 805-322-4446 or go to EvansSalesSolutions.com

The ESS Team

• Chris Evans - CEO, Motivation, Sales & Techniques Training

• Rebekah Evans - Marketing & Sales, PR & Social Media Manager

• James Mitchell - Internet Expert, Web & Design; Database Design

• Vanessa Carroll - Copywriter & Marketing Content Manager

Wedding Business Expert given mission ‘Bridal Business IMPOSSIBLE’ in Orlando on July 9

Wedding Business Expert-Author, Speaker, Trainer--Chris Evans in Orlando!  Chris will teach you how to 'Double Your Wedding Business in 12 Months' at the Bridal Business Boot Camp! Join us on Monday, July 9 @ the Fairfield Inn by Marriott -Orlando Airport Hotel.

www.EvansSalesSolutions.com


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IMPOSSIBLE?

July 9, 2012-Orlando:  Chris Evans, America’s foremost Wedding Business Expert, is given the "mission" of making the impossible-possible by teaching, training and motivating local wedding industry businesses to take their businesses to the next level on July 9, 2012 at the Fairfield Inn-Orlando Airport.

Chris Evans, speaker, author, business coach and master presenter uses the 30 years in the bridal industry to help thousands of wedding businesses, grow their companies—even in these uncertain times. On June 18-Chicago will hear speaker, author, business coach and master presenter, Chris Evans, who uses the 30 years in the bridal industry to help thousands of wedding businesses, grow their companies—even in these uncertain times.

The full day Bridal Business Boot Camp was created to help those in the bridal industry to learn skills to increase their bottom line.  Wedding Professionals will learn:

• How to stop chasing the bride and have them chase you with Attraction Marketing!

• Why Social Networking doesn’t work-and what to do about it!

• ‘There’s an App for that!’ Websites and techniques that save you time and money!

• Mission Impossible?  How to remake your bridal business for the new economy!

Chris Evans is a fearless entrepreneur and top sales trainer. He's never met a challenge he wouldn't take. Chris’ new mission: fix America's most desperate bridal businesses.... ready to change & grow…..Is it a Bridal Business: Impossible?  Never!

His background in the wedding industry includes top wedding entrepreneur, author, sales trainer and key note speaker and Chris entertains and trains companies with a hint of comedy from writing for the 'Jay Leno' show.  

Chris created the wildly successful Bridal Business Boot Camp in 2008, training thousands of wedding professionals to exceed their expectations in sales, grow their companies and learn valuable business techniques.' This intense business workout, will take them to the next level in sales and more!  Chris is also the Author of, 'How to Double Your Wedding Business in 12 Months!' and, 'The Secret of Sales Success.'

The Bridal Business Boot Camp is a full day event at:

Where: Fairfield Inn by Marriott Orlando Airport

7100 Augusta National Drive, 7100 Augusta National Drive, Orlando, FL

Date:  July 9, 2012, Monday

Time: 9:00 am -3:45 pm

Registration is available by going to: www.EvansSalesSolutions.com  or call 805-428-3851. Tickets increase in price after: June 15, 2012, Seating is limited!

Planning Your Wedding? Use the New Mobile App Biz-E-Bride to Find What You Need

Go mobile with your wedding planning today! Busy brides-to-be only need to use their smartphones to connect to the Wedding Community today! Biz-E-Bride App available nationwide, find it and download today!

Mobile App for the Bride Released Nationwide! Wedding industry experts are ready to serve you! Biz-E-Bride app available for smartphones!


Wedding planning has gone mobile. Nearly three out of five brides use their smartphones for wedding planning. Brides who have smartphones are doing a lot on the go, from taking and sharing wedding-related pictures (58%) and looking up wedding vendor contact information (47%) to accessing wedding planning websites (33%) and managing their wedding gift registry (32%).

Top Features include:
1) GPS-Enabled Mapping which allows the bride to find your Wedding Business location pinpointed on an easy to navigate map. BizEBride allows one touch dialing to call each business.

2) A 'text-back' feature is also available for more information on the business, so that you have all the information you'll need to plan your wedding!

3) Brides will be able to Search by Category, sub-category, type of business, business name or location and so much more....

For a bride planning her wedding, BizEBride will fulfill many levels of need. Are you looking for a local flower shop? Touch the screen...
Are you looking for a wedding dress location in a town the bride is not familiar with? Touch the screen....
Looking for the reception location of your dreams? Touch the screen...........

Planning the perfect wedding, just got easier! Find Biz-E-Bride in your apps area on your smart phone today! The BizEBride Mobile App connects the bride and groom to those in the Wedding Industry with only a touch of a button. www.BizEBride.com

Could two (2) words help you get more business?

by Shane McMurray

When asked “what words best describe your wedding” the majority of couple say Romantic, Simple and Traditional. While these are the top 3 choices of couples we surveyed in 2011, over 70% of the market focuses on two words, Romantic and Simple. We were able to determine that by focusing on these 2 words you can connect with over 70% of the market. Simplify put, start using the words Romantic and Simple in your marketing message and you’ll make a better connection with potential customers.

Here are the words that describe the type of weddings couples are having.

Beach	7%
Casual	25%
Destination	6%
DIY	19%
Elegant	27%
Extravagant	6%
Formal	21%
Fun	29%
Garden	15%
Green or eco friendly	6%
Romantic	45%
Rustic	9%
Simple	42%
Theme	11%
Traditional	35%
Unique	27%
Vintage	11%
Other	8%

 For more info, go to Evans Sales Solutions

6 Ways Your Business Can Benefit From Exhibiting A Bridal Trade Show

Bridal trade shows and exhibitions are a great way of getting your service out there to the new ‘brides-to-be and grooms,’ planning their weddings. You need to know what you want before you go in order to get the most out of exhibiting.

It is one form of advertising that is far and above your best source of face-to-face visits from brides. This type of advertising allows you to meet every bride-to-be in person, build rapport and ask for an opportunity to schedule a more appropriate time to learn more about the vision for her wedding. (The wedding industry exceeds $ even in this down economy.)

If wedding magazines, newspapers, radio or television could offer what this single form of advertising offers for your business, they would charge you 20 times more that they already do. In fact, it’s the only form of advertising that allows you to do more than simply wait around for the phone to ring. Excerpt from the book,’ How To Double Your Wedding Business in 12 Months,‘ by Author & Sales Trainer, Chris Evans. You will need to make sure you attend the right events to match your objectives.

To find a list of ‘professional & highly beneficial Bridal Trade Shows, ‘ go to: www.EvansSalesSolutions.com

Here are 7 ways your business could benefit from exhibiting at a trade show, and how you can make sure you achieve them.

1. Prepare Ahead of Time The main benefit of bridal trade shows and events should be that you’ve got a ready-made audience. The people (bride-to-be, grooms, family members) attending are likely to be those most interested in your product or service. Prepare what you are going to say to these attendees, hand to them to showcase your business, and how you are going to ‘book a presentation’ with them. A pre-show mailing is very useful and is a feature most promoters can help you with. Post on your blog, Twitter, Facebook pages. Send out an email to your contacts list letting them know you’re going to be there, with a map of the venue and your location in the hall.

2. Meet Other Vendors Exhibitions can be really good places to generate new leads and/or referrals from other ‘like-minded’ service companies. Prior to the show opening (once everyone is set up) Talk to as many people as you can. Ask your staff to wander round the venue and introduce your company to the other exhibitors. Make sure you take business cards, good literature and a calendar. Remember, this doesn’t end with the event: follow up. Send a thank you letter, fliers and more to those you have met.

3. Build Your Sales Plan & Goal Before every show, write down a specific number of visits, contacts and new networking partners your expect to generate from the show. Keep it realistic. Setting a goal is useless if you know it’s impossible to reach when you set it. Share your plan with everyone working in your booth, so that they are on the same page as you. Your literature, booth design and outreach from staff should let attendees know what you do in a glance. Remember to design a ‘qualified message” for your staff to say to every attendee,(sum up your business in 30 seconds or less and asking for a visit). More information on how to do this is in the book, “How To Double Your Wedding Business in 12 Months,’ by Author Chris Evans, available on Amazon.