In today's episode I'm chatting with Katy and Roxy, the founders of Wedcon - a UK based wedding industry conference taking place this November in Birmingham! In today's episode they share their own journeys and talk about their vision and heart for this industry event.

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People loved it.

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People were, you know, leaving their feeling armed and told ready to go

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and smash their business motivated.

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Just, just amazing feedback.

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And we've got so many people that came to 2019 event, coming to the 2022 event.

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I'm Becca Pountney, wedding business marketing expert,

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speaker and blogger, and you are listening to The Wedding Pros

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who Are Ready To Grow podcast.

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I'm here to share with you actionable tips, strategies, and real life

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examples to help you take your wedding business to the next level.

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If you are an ambitious wedding business owner that wants to take your passion

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and use it to build a profitable, sustainable business doing what you

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love, then you're in the right place.

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Let's get going with today's episode.

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Today I'm joined by Katie and Roxy from the Wedding Business Hub, having

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built their own bridal boutique from the ground up 12 years ago.

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They now run a wedding industry community, and Wedcon an annual

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wedding conference for wedding professionals, which I'm delighted

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to be speaking at again this year.

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They're best friends who work together and who both love weddings.

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Katie and Roxy, welcome to the podcast.

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Hi, we're so excited to be here.

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Thanks for having.

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Thanks for having us.

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I am very excited to have you here, especially because we've had so many

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technical meltdowns trying to get all of us in the same place at the same time.

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So I'm thrilled that we've managed to get us all together.

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Now, I gave you a bit of an intro there, but it would be great to know

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a little bit more about each of you.

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So why don't you start each of you by telling me how did you end up

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in the wedding industry in the.

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Sure.

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So I started in the wedding industry Yeah, about 12 years ago.

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And kind of kinda, probably like a lot of your listeners actually, uh, I'm one

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of those people that was getting married myself and I saw a gap in the market.

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So I started, um, a little bit of background about me.

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I'd left my job, had a baby at home, my husband was husband to be, was working.

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And, um, when we got engaged and we were planning our wedding, um, The price of

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kind of things was like all setting up and getting a little bit much and with

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only one income coming into the, into the family to kind of plan our wedding.

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And I was kind of looking for a wedding dress and I was

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like, Wow, these are a lot.

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Uh, I I'm way out of my budget at the time.

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So at the time, sort of 12, 15 years ago, there's lots more options now,

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but you had kind of two options.

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One of the, one of it was like, you hoped for the best and ordered from eBay and

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you just, fingers crossed it turned up what it looked like from from China.

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Or you bought second hand and then you had the problems of kind of

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alterations, if it didn't fit, if it was dry cleaned, et cetera.

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So I kind of thought, Oh God, there's gotta be better way to do this.

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Now I'm ended up managing to source my own dress for a few hundred pounds, brand

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new, and it was like a next sample gown.

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And I thought, right, there's gotta be a market for this.

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So I actually was a teacher, pre setting up a business and kind of

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getting back into teaching wasn't, um, wasn't viable with a baby at home and

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my husband worked long hours as well.

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So I was looking for something to do to use my brain, thought about starting a

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business i'd, I'd got some experience.

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In the past running businesses for other people.

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So I, so I was thinking about it and then I just thought, Right,

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there's gotta be a market for this.

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So I tested it out.

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I started my business running it from my bedroom at home.

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I used to have brides come in and try on wedding dresses in my bathroom.

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And then I thought, right, if, um, if I can start from home,

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Then I need to get a shop.

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And yeah, so that's what happened.

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And then Roxy kind of came in because, uh, we were getting

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busier and I needed some staff.

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The Roxy kind of came in and within three months she was full time and,

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and pretty much running the shop.

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Um, and then we, we grew that business together to be a six

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figure business from getting, from getting the shop within two years.

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So yeah, that was something that we were really incredibly proud of.

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And then from from that, what happened was we were, were getting quite a

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lot of traction on social media.

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Um, that was kind of our strong point.

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We were kind of in that Facebook age where Facebook was exploding.

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We really understood that.

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Cause we were of that kind of Facebook gen.

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Um, and we were getting kind of lots and lots of video, video

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views on our Facebook lives.

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We were getting lots and lots of, um, Followers and likes and other wedding

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professionals were kind of coming into the shop, sitting down asking us how we

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were doing it a lot, and it was getting to this point where it was a little bit

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unbalanced and I kept wanting somewhere to be able to go, like once a month, go

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and meet all of these wedding pros, tell them kind of they could help me out with

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some of the issues that I was facing.

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I'd be able to network with them, tell them about what I was

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doing in our shop office at the.

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And they could pick my brain on what they wanted to do, and then I could kind of.

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Breathe and crack on with my job again.

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Um, but what was kind of happening there was nowhere like that.

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So wedding professionals were kind of coming into the shop.

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It got nicknamed social club, didn't it Roxy because we'd always have

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somebody kind of sat at my desk.

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Um, and then, and then I would have to put in those hours at home and it was

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becoming really, really unbalanced.

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And it got to the point where we couldn't kind of balance the two.

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So I thought, Oh, you know what?

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I'm gonna write a book.

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I'm gonna write a book at home as to how we've grown so big, um, on social

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media and all of the techniques that I'm kind of telling everybody anyway.

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And then wedding supplies have got a really low cost way of just accessing that

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information and then I don't need to sit here and talk for hours and hours on end.

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And it was happening at weddings fairs we were getting to as well.

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So I kind of.

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That book in the March of 2019 and we've set up a little

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Facebook community as well.

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Cause I thought, Right, okay, I can hop on alive and let's just ask wedding pros

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if kind of coming together online and networking is something they wanna do.

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And within the first three weeks we've got about 3000 members in the group.

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And we'd taken more in the book sales than we'd done in the

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bridal shop in a month period.

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And that was where me and Roxy kind of looked at each other and was like, Right.

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Okay.

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Um, Especially with the balance at home as well.

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So I, at this point, kind of 10 years on, I was, um, divorced.

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Now I've got two children at home and I was a single parent to those and the

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balance of kind of childcare, I was just constantly tired, constantly exhausted,

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and I had no work life balance at all.

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I actually made myself really, really, so, It was a case of I knew I couldn't

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take on under the business as well as run the bridal star and, um, the wedding

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business hub it was called the Wedding Industry Supplier Network then was just

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overtaking and just becoming this big bigger and bigger and bigger thing.

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And we had events running and kind of seven places in the UK within sort

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of two months that we just kind of made the decision didn't we Roxy.

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We looked at each other and were like, Yeah, we, we need

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to kind of do this full time.

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, Becca: incredible story.

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Very similar actually to my own story, which I love because

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sometimes a business you don't set out to start on a business journey.

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The business journey kind of takes you and that's exactly what's

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happened to me and exactly what's happened to you guys as well.

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So for you Roxy, then obviously Katie said you came into work in the bridal business.

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First of all, like why weddings for you?

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Okay, so my story, it's a little bit different to yours, isn't it, Katie?

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Actually listening to all of that makes you realize.

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How much we have achieved in such a small amount of time.

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I was like, how?

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I feel a little bit

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emotional.

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Okay.

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So, um, my

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journey started, So I was a young mom.

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I had two young babies.

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I was, I was a stay at home mom and I wasn't, I didn't feel

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like I was fulfilling my life.

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It's like I need, I need to find a way, like to not just be a

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mom, but to be Roxy, to be me.

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Um, and I saw an advert, um, actually on Facebook, funnily enough, on, um,

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on social media for, um, a part-time.

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I think it was only a Saturday girl at the time bridal shop

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kind of job application went in.

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So I applied, um, met Katie.

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And

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that changed the rest of my life.

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Since that moment, literally my life has completely changed.

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I went from having two young boys, being a young mom, low confidence, like I

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didn't, didn't feel like I said, like I was fulfilling anything in my life.

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. Um, so I went on from being, being a Saturday girl to working

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full time to then managing the.

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Having a successful business alongside Katie, I would've never have thought

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that I would be where I am today actually, if, if I look back on my life.

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Um, for me, listening to Roxy there, so she came

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into the shop with a stammer.

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She couldn't speak, she wouldn't answer the phone.

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She wouldn't hold an appointment with people.

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I used to have to, I went from running all the appointments and I just gave

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the phone really, and man reception.

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And then it got to a level where I, I like business, and I always kind

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of said, I'm a business person.

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It was never my intention to just have one shop.

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So I always used to say to the team, we, we had Roxy and five other girls that

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at some point I would move on and, and the shop would kind of run without me.

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So we were kind of gearing Roxy up to take on more and more responsibility.

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And you've gone from this person that's, um, had a stammer and was

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petrified to answer the phone.

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She would, she wouldn't answer the phone and she would kind of

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put it in my hand as it rang.

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To, She's appeared on Netflix, on don't tell the bride she's,

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you know, been on this morning.

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There's radio interviews.

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There's so much that we've achieved Roxy, We actually, Yeah, yeah.

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Short space of time.

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So, yeah.

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I'm proud of you.

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Thank you very much.

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It seems like, until I speak it out loud like this, like it almost

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gets forgotten about, doesn't it?

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Because we just kind of are focusing on

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like the here and now and the future when actually look at the,

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the past and the journey that I've been on, I'm proud of myself

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Well, you should both be very proud of yourselves and I love that

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your heart as well, Katie, to talk with Roxy about how you've kind of seen her

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transform over that, and I know that.

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Probably translates into what you do now with the wedding pros as well.

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It definitely does for me because there's nothing better than

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seeing someone go on that journey.

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And if people are listening now, and I know there will be people listening

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who feel unconfident, feel like they can't achieve anything, look around

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other people in the industry and think, I'll never be as good as them.

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Well just listen to the story that Roxy just shared with you about how

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she took one little step, one little opportunity and as she said herself,

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it's completely transformed her life.

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And I don't know about you guys, but whenever I see a wedding pro that

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I've worked with do really great things, I feel like a proud mom.

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Do you feel the same?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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I love it.

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And actually we save them to our phone when, so there's little

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messages that they send us that I said, Oh girls, we've, we've hit a

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sale or we've booked 10 weddings and speaking to you, or whatever it is.

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You know what, I did my work first wedding fair today.

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Or even something as simple as I, I contacted a venue.

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We save them to our phone and we play them back to us.

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Cause you don't always have like great days or days where

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you're a little bit demotivated or especially the winter months.

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I.

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Summer baby.

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I live for the summer time.

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So we save them, don't we?

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And then they're there in a little folder on our phones that just kind of like,

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uh, yeah, definitely get that Becca.

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That's a great tip.

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And again, if people are listening, I've seen suppliers who keep all

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of their thank you cards and have them somewhere in their office.

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So when they're having that down moment, they can glance up and

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remember all those individuals.

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I saw something on Instagram, uh, just last week about how not

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to let one bad customer ruin.

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Every good customer you've ever had, and I think we are really, it's really easy

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for us to do that in the wedding industry.

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And so that little tip about saving those testimonials is so important.

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Now, you guys are out there in the wedding industry a bit like I am all of the time.

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What are you seeing down on the ground at the moment?

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What are wedding pros struggling with as they go into the end of

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this year and into next year?

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I think two things.

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So firstly, what we're seeing a, a lot of is a lot of burnt out suppliers.

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So we had this period of, um, quiet last year, didn't we?

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And this period of uncertainty where we didn't really know what was happening

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and, and a lot of tough decisions to be made, you know, in terms of your business,

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in terms of where you want this to go.

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And then all of a sudden, boom, we're doing three, four weddings a week.

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We're on top of that, still trying to market our business for next year.

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Still got booking inquiries coming in.

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So we're seeing a lot of suppliers that, yes, that they're bringing in

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more money than they've bought in.

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Um, but they're burnt out, they're tired.

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They're, they are, they need a break.

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So for those of you listening, thinking, Yes, that's me.

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You know, pat yourself on the back.

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It's been unprecedented times, hasn't it?

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For, for everybody.

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And I don't think enough kind of onus is put on that like, We don't have

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colleagues to kind of support us.

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And this is what's so important about what we do in terms of, um,

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the networking events and the online networking space that we created.

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One of our values is about bringing people together because self-employment

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is so lonely and what we wanted to do is bring people together

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so that you've got a place yes.

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To pick you up to.

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I'm having a struggle with this today, or do you know what?

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I signed a new contract with, um, a client.

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I raised my prices.

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They've booked the top package, whatever it is, but also those handhold moments,

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whereas if you worked for somebody else, you'd get a boss or a manager

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or a colleague that would be able to kind of support you in those moments.

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So, Yeah, Pat yourself on the back.

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It's been, it is been so tough.

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You're almost at the end of kind of, um, this challenge.

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And the second thing that we are kind of seeing is this, um, internal battle in

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terms of we know that we've got another rocky period ahead with cost of living

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crisis, um, and suppliers thinking about.

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I want to raise my prices.

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I need to raise my prices cause my mortgage is going

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up, the petrol is going up.

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You know, everything's going up at home, but are my, um, clients

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gonna be able to afford me?

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So they're the kind of things that we're finding, aren't we Roxy?

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Kind of just navigating people's brands, um, pricing the packages that they

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offer, maybe the way they should take their payments, and just kind of, um,

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positioning that a little bit better for clients to be able to, to book.

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Um, yeah.

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What about you, Becca?

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Let me throw that one back to you,

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. Becca: Yeah, so for me, I'm

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massive boom in the industry.

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As we were just talking about, everyone had that rollover from Covid, and I

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think some people have kind of sat back on their laurels and thought,

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Great, well, I'm really successful now.

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And now they're looking ahead to next year and the year after

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the diarys looking quieter.

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And they're panicking and they've realized, actually, I've

Katie: 00:14:34

dropped the ball on networking.

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I've dropped the ball on training.

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I've dropped the ball on marketing.

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I've dropped the ball on social media because I've been so busy

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doing all those, those things.

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So my message has kind of been, Okay, that's fine.

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We're here where we are now.

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If that's how you are feeling, let's not sit in that feeling,

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but let's do something proactive.

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To change that . Yeah.

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So if you are feeling quiet for next year, what are you doing proactively to get out

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there and meet other suppliers or venues?

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What are you doing proactively to invest in yourself and your business training?

Katie: 00:15:04

What are you doing proactively to get someone to manage your social media

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because you don't have the time to do it?

Katie: 00:15:09

And I think there's that kind of, we are in that kind of in between feeling,

Katie: 00:15:13

between feeling really booked and then suddenly panicking for next year.

Katie: 00:15:18

How about you, Roxy?

Roxy: 00:15:20

So the, the things that I was gonna touch on, Katie exactly.

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Hit the nail on the head.

Roxy: 00:15:24

And that's, we have this like unspoken, like we think the same.

Roxy: 00:15:28

We are, we like one person, but, but with two people.

Roxy: 00:15:32

But what I think exactly what you said, they're back at like,

Roxy: 00:15:35

sometimes you have to take a look at.

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Your business and what's going on.

Roxy: 00:15:39

And if you can't manage everything, is it a case of you've gotta outsource it,

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get your social media management done, like get, get somebody in to do that.

Roxy: 00:15:46

So that frees up time for you to be able to focus on other things.

Roxy: 00:15:51

I mean, when we were in the bridal shop, we were very guilty of being

Roxy: 00:15:54

busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, and then letting the marketing fall off.

Roxy: 00:15:57

And that is something that we have learned and, and what we like say to everybody

Roxy: 00:16:01

now is consistency all of the time.

Roxy: 00:16:03

That's your marketing, it has got to be consistent because when those

Roxy: 00:16:08

busy periods are done and you've got no bookings in, uh, that's when

Becca: 00:16:13

you know it becomes quite real, doesn't it?

Becca: 00:16:17

Katie, were you gonna say something

Katie: 00:16:18

else?

Katie: 00:16:19

Oh no, I was just gonna say that obviously we have this transitional, um, industry.

Katie: 00:16:23

You know, our client comes in, we work with them, they go and yes, we

Katie: 00:16:26

might get a, bride may come through the door that's kind of heard of

Katie: 00:16:29

us, or the bride might recommend us.

Katie: 00:16:31

But you know, we constantly have this churn of clients coming in and we need

Katie: 00:16:35

to be thinking about that next person.

Katie: 00:16:36

And Roxy just said it, you know, we did it a lot in the bridal shop.

Katie: 00:16:39

We were so busy heads down in the grit of our business with bookings through the

Katie: 00:16:42

door and just not being able to breathe.

Katie: 00:16:45

And then looking at the diary two, three month, four months ahead

Katie: 00:16:48

and thinking, okay, where's, where are the wages coming in for then?

Katie: 00:16:51

So, um, yeah, schedule your social media, get into a flow of your marketing,

Katie: 00:16:57

that works for you, whatever that is.

Katie: 00:17:00

If that's networking, if that's meeting venues, if that's social media,

Katie: 00:17:03

wherever your client is, Pinterest.

Katie: 00:17:05

Um, and just make sure it's all and, and don't drop the ball now because you

Katie: 00:17:10

know, what tends to happen is people think, Okay, I'm gonna be busy for

Katie: 00:17:14

these next three months.

Katie: 00:17:15

So I'm gonna schedule all my social media for the next three months and

Katie: 00:17:18

then they don't really pick it up again.

Katie: 00:17:20

When it comes to the case of the weddings are off, they think, Great, I can breathe.

Katie: 00:17:24

The kids are back at school now I can have a little bit of me time.

Katie: 00:17:27

And yeah, it doesn't take much does it for kind of the socials to go

Katie: 00:17:32

quiet for the bookings to kind of, um, thin out and you know, that

Katie: 00:17:37

next client hasn't heard of you yet.

Katie: 00:17:39

So those people that are getting engaged over the next few.

Katie: 00:17:41

We need you for an incentive so that people pay attention.

Becca: 00:17:45

Absolutely.

Becca: 00:17:46

One thing I often say to my clients is Coca-Cola never stop advertising,

Becca: 00:17:51

like literally the whole world.

Becca: 00:17:52

We all know what Coca-Cola is.

Becca: 00:17:55

We've all drunk it or seen it in the shop, yet they're still marketing.

Becca: 00:17:59

So we as little wedding businesses who most of the world don't know who

Becca: 00:18:03

we are, need to keep on marketing.

Becca: 00:18:05

Now, I spoke at the beginning of the episode about your event Wedcon,

Becca: 00:18:09

which is coming up quite soon.

Becca: 00:18:11

I'm very excited about it now.

Becca: 00:18:13

Spoke at the first we con back in 2019.

Becca: 00:18:16

So when you, uh, together came up with this event, what was your vision for it?

Becca: 00:18:20

What was the heart behind it?

Becca: 00:18:21

Why did you decide to put WedCon

Katie: 00:18:25

it's alright.

Katie: 00:18:25

I was gonna say what what we've done is we've seen other industries

Katie: 00:18:29

have kind of the conferences and events where people came together

Katie: 00:18:33

and there wasn't really anything.

Katie: 00:18:35

Kind of business specific for wedding businesses out there.

Katie: 00:18:38

So you could kind of go to networking events and, you know, meet a

Katie: 00:18:41

plumber or a website designer or a developer or somebody SEO.

Katie: 00:18:47

But as a bridal shop, I wanted to meet venue owners, photographers,

Katie: 00:18:51

videographers, all the people that kind of came before me in the chain that

Katie: 00:18:55

would be able to recommend, you know, my services and my bridal shop too,

Katie: 00:18:59

and, and similarly the people after me.

Katie: 00:19:02

Brides were always asking us, , I need a cake, I need a

Katie: 00:19:06

stationer, or whatever it is.

Katie: 00:19:07

And we would be able to recommend some people and there wasn't really, we weren't

Katie: 00:19:11

getting anything out of networking events, was standing there for two hours being

Katie: 00:19:14

sold at and it was kind hit and potluck.

Katie: 00:19:18

I was gonna find somebody there that was getting married and

Katie: 00:19:21

um, I wanted to do networking.

Katie: 00:19:24

I really did, but I just found it wasn't working for me and I was a single parent.

Katie: 00:19:29

So yeah, we decided, right, okay, we need to put on these events.

Katie: 00:19:32

So we were, we started to put on local networking events and they really hit off

Katie: 00:19:35

quite quickly within sort of four months.

Katie: 00:19:37

We had like 27 areas in the UK for, and we were starting to look abroad.

Katie: 00:19:42

We'd got, um, businesses in Australia asking as if they could

Katie: 00:19:45

put on similar events in Australia.

Katie: 00:19:47

And then we thought, Right, okay, wouldn't this be great if we could

Katie: 00:19:50

kind of pull everybody together?

Katie: 00:19:52

For one event where we give you wedding business specific training, so not

Katie: 00:19:57

anything that you've gotta go and listen to and then adapt it to kind of the

Katie: 00:20:01

seasonal client that we've got or, um, kind of come and adapt it to kind of the

Katie: 00:20:05

language that brides wanna use or the creativity of the industry that we're in.

Katie: 00:20:09

We wanted everything to be specific, tailored to the wedding industry

Katie: 00:20:14

so that people didn't really have to go and do that, adding

Katie: 00:20:16

up themselves when they got home.

Katie: 00:20:19

So yeah, we actually planned this.

Katie: 00:20:21

In crazy time.

Katie: 00:20:22

I think the idea kind of first came to us in May and we put it on in the November.

Katie: 00:20:27

So it was kind of crazy rapid speed that we were like, Yes, let's go for it.

Katie: 00:20:32

Um, we found a venue in kind of like the middle of nowhere, in the East

Katie: 00:20:36

Midlands, that was the middle of nowhere.

Katie: 00:20:41

Um, And yeah, we had a you know, we learned a lot.

Katie: 00:20:44

This is the first time we'd ever put on an event on this kind of scale.

Katie: 00:20:47

And we learnt a lot.

Katie: 00:20:47

I didn't we Roxy, but, um, the feedback Holy was like really good.

Katie: 00:20:53

People really enjoyed it.

Katie: 00:20:54

They found great takeaways.

Katie: 00:20:56

You had a queue kind of out the door for people wanting to talk to you, didn't you?

Katie: 00:20:59

You did.

Katie: 00:20:59

Didn't.

Katie: 00:21:00

Yeah.

Katie: 00:21:00

I remember you were thinking Never gonna get home.

Katie: 00:21:03

. Becca: I did that.

Katie: 00:21:04

True.

Katie: 00:21:04

But it was a great, it was a great day.

Katie: 00:21:06

It was great to see people coming together who hadn't maybe come

Katie: 00:21:10

to something like that before.

Katie: 00:21:11

Yeah.

Katie: 00:21:11

Who hadn't got together on that scale before.

Katie: 00:21:14

And for you, Roxy, did you get feedback after the event?

Katie: 00:21:18

What takeaways did people take away?

Katie: 00:21:20

Did you see people have business results as a result of coming to Wedcon?

Katie: 00:21:24

Yeah, I think kind of

Roxy: 00:21:26

before Wedcon, um, the industry had not seen an event like this,

Roxy: 00:21:31

so, um, It was very, very, you know, nice to see

Roxy: 00:21:35

people booking tickets.

Roxy: 00:21:36

People come in and then on the day

Roxy: 00:21:38

and after.

Roxy: 00:21:39

Um, lots of

Roxy: 00:21:41

feedback.

Roxy: 00:21:41

People loved it.

Roxy: 00:21:42

People were, you know, leaving their feeling armed and told ready to go

Roxy: 00:21:47

and smash their business motivated.

Roxy: 00:21:49

Just, just amazing feedback.

Roxy: 00:21:51

And we've got so many people that came to 2019 event coming to the 2022 event.

Roxy: 00:21:57

Gosh, it seems a long time ago now.

Katie: 00:21:59

We've had a big break in between, but we, we are ready.

Katie: 00:22:02

It's gonna be an incredible day.

Katie: 00:22:04

It's gonna be amazing.

Katie: 00:22:05

I think what was nice to see as well were these people that had kind

Katie: 00:22:08

of chatted online and a lot Good.

Katie: 00:22:10

Yeah.

Katie: 00:22:11

We've got a community of over 10,000 people, so it was a little.

Katie: 00:22:14

Overwhelming for us, wasn't it Roxy?

Katie: 00:22:16

Cause everybody knew us.

Katie: 00:22:18

Yes.

Katie: 00:22:18

They were like, and I was like, you know when someone says your

Katie: 00:22:21

name in the supermarket and you're like, Where do I know you from?

Katie: 00:22:24

We had that feeling a lot on the day where people knew everything

Katie: 00:22:27

about us and we were just like, Hi.

Katie: 00:22:30

So it was, it was overwhelming.

Roxy: 00:22:33

It was so nice to put, um, like faces to names.

Becca: 00:22:37

So nice.

Becca: 00:22:38

Yeah.

Becca: 00:22:39

It's amazing to meet people in real life because for me,

Becca: 00:22:42

online community is incredible.

Becca: 00:22:44

It brings people together all around the world.

Becca: 00:22:45

But again, for me, nothing beats seeing people in person, and that's what I'm

Becca: 00:22:49

excited about for Wedcon this year.

Becca: 00:22:51

Obviously you've had a break from Wedcon, not due to yourselves, but due

Becca: 00:22:55

to all of the world events going on.

Becca: 00:22:57

But you are back this November.

Becca: 00:23:00

In Birmingham, which is less in the middle of nowhere, which I'm thrilled

Becca: 00:23:04

about because , I find Birmingham and I can stay in Birmingham very easily.

Becca: 00:23:08

So it's in Birmingham on the 9th of November this year, 2022.

Becca: 00:23:12

I'm gonna be there.

Becca: 00:23:13

Speaking all about blogging, who else have you got?

Becca: 00:23:16

Speaking?

Becca: 00:23:16

What else can people expect from the day?

Katie: 00:23:19

So we have got an amazing line up this year.

Katie: 00:23:22

We're so proud and we, we actually were inundated with people wanting to speak.

Katie: 00:23:27

So we've really had our pick of the bunch, haven't we?

Katie: 00:23:29

And we've been able to think about what our community needs.

Katie: 00:23:32

We've asked people what they wanted this year.

Katie: 00:23:34

And what people wanted to put into their business.

Katie: 00:23:36

So we have got, um, yourself coming back Becca which is so excited about,

Katie: 00:23:40

We've got Terry Lewis coming back as well, and this year he's talking about

Katie: 00:23:44

something that me and Roxy know a lot of and that's diversifying your income,

Katie: 00:23:49

especially with what everybody has been through in the past two years.

Katie: 00:23:52

He's gonna be talking about how he has diversified.

Katie: 00:23:55

Um, income and why?

Katie: 00:23:57

Um, relying on one income alone probably isn't the way to go.

Katie: 00:24:01

Mm-hmm.

Katie: 00:24:01

, Um, for a sustainable business, we have got, um, she's gonna be talking all

Katie: 00:24:08

about writing copy that converts how to brand your business, uh, and looking

Katie: 00:24:13

all about, um, your messaging and how that gets across to your ideal client.

Katie: 00:24:18

We've got Anna Cordelia talking about raising your prices, haven't we?

Katie: 00:24:22

And charging your work as well and really sharing her motivating journey

Katie: 00:24:26

and how now she manages to run many successful businesses and she does

Katie: 00:24:30

about four weddings a year now.

Katie: 00:24:32

Uh, charging top premium prices, and that is one that we're really

Katie: 00:24:36

gonna be looking forward to.

Katie: 00:24:37

Uh, we have got Robin Weight.

Katie: 00:24:39

He's also gonna be talking about pricing.

Katie: 00:24:42

He's coming at it with a little bit of a different angle.

Katie: 00:24:45

Um, He's a really, really good speaker and bless him.

Katie: 00:24:49

He's having an operation the week before isn't he Roxy, and he is

Katie: 00:24:51

coming and he's still coming.

Katie: 00:24:53

He's still coming.

Katie: 00:24:54

Um, with his boot on.

Katie: 00:24:56

He is gonna have a boot on his leg.

Katie: 00:24:57

Bless him.

Katie: 00:24:58

Um, but we're so, so excited.

Katie: 00:25:01

Yeah.

Katie: 00:25:01

Um, we've also got Jackie Hay on our Jackie Hale runs.

Katie: 00:25:05

A successful wedding business and she also coaches as well.

Katie: 00:25:08

And she's gonna be talking about the 10 steps you need to have

Katie: 00:25:12

a successful wedding business.

Katie: 00:25:13

And she's gonna really have a focus on marketing on that and what's the

Katie: 00:25:17

trends coming up for the rest of this year and for next year as well, so that

Katie: 00:25:22

you can get ahead in your business.

Katie: 00:25:24

We've got you coming to talk all things blog in and I'm sure

Katie: 00:25:26

people are gonna be able to pick your brains on marketing as well.

Katie: 00:25:29

And then we also have got business clinics on the day as well.

Katie: 00:25:33

So if people wanna drop in, say hi to us, want us to have a

Katie: 00:25:36

look at over their social media.

Katie: 00:25:37

We've got an SEO guy, Simon Hogman there as well.

Katie: 00:25:40

So if you wanna come and just show whom your website all included

Katie: 00:25:43

in the pricing, you're not gonna have to pay anything for that.

Katie: 00:25:45

So I would definitely encourage you if you are coming and you've

Katie: 00:25:48

got a little niggle, use us.

Katie: 00:25:51

We're there to be used.

Katie: 00:25:52

Come and talk to us.

Katie: 00:25:53

Come and ask us.

Katie: 00:25:54

Don't go away and, and regret it and think, Oh God, I wish

Katie: 00:25:56

I'd asked that question.

Katie: 00:25:58

Um, the speakers will be there all day to be able to network with them as well.

Katie: 00:26:01

And we have got, uh, networking opportunities, little games thrown in.

Katie: 00:26:05

Becca, I know that you said you were gonna put something together for us, so

Katie: 00:26:08

we're really looking forward to that.

Katie: 00:26:10

And you know what the best thing we're looking forward to when you hit the nail

Katie: 00:26:13

on the head there, Becca, when you said about having an event in real life and

Katie: 00:26:17

getting back in the room with like-minded people, there is nothing like it.

Katie: 00:26:21

And honestly, like we went to an event last week and you just leave buzzed

Katie: 00:26:26

up, buzzed, motivated, wanting to implement things in your business,

Katie: 00:26:29

and we can't wait for people to kind of get that takeaway this year.

Becca: 00:26:33

It sounds incredible.

Becca: 00:26:34

I can't wait to be there.

Becca: 00:26:35

I know that you've got a really great lineup of speakers, and I know

Becca: 00:26:38

that, again, that you've learned from the last event and that you're

Becca: 00:26:41

gonna be back bigger and better.

Becca: 00:26:43

Oh, yes.

Becca: 00:26:43

Roxy if people are on the fence, if they're thinking about coming, but they're

Becca: 00:26:46

not sure, maybe they're a bit nervous about coming on their own, what would you

Becca: 00:26:51

say to people who are thinking about it?

Becca: 00:26:53

Even if you

Roxy: 00:26:54

are very, very nervous, Let me.

Roxy: 00:26:56

Throughout my journey from being, from having low confidence, I

Roxy: 00:27:01

would not even say boo to a goose.

Roxy: 00:27:02

And that is not an exaggeration, um, to where I am now.

Roxy: 00:27:06

Every single time I've nudged myself to do something that I

Roxy: 00:27:09

wasn't sure about doing, or I've managed to talk myself out of doing.

Roxy: 00:27:13

I have not regretted it and I have come out of whatever that is what I

Roxy: 00:27:17

was trying to do or gonna be doing.

Roxy: 00:27:20

And I've come out of it a better person learning more and I've

Roxy: 00:27:23

never regretted one minute.

Roxy: 00:27:24

So just, so just come along.

Roxy: 00:27:26

Last.

Roxy: 00:27:27

Wedcon 2019, there were lots of people that were unsure that came on their own.

Roxy: 00:27:32

Everybody is welcome.

Roxy: 00:27:33

We can buddy you up with somebody if that's something that you wanna do.

Roxy: 00:27:36

Honestly, like we are all about inclusivity, bringing people together

Roxy: 00:27:41

in a, you know, a positive way.

Becca: 00:27:44

And we want you to succeed

Roxy: 00:27:45

in your business.

Roxy: 00:27:47

And not only that, Becca, but at the end of Wedcon 2022, we're

Roxy: 00:27:50

gonna have a little celebration.

Roxy: 00:27:52

So we'll what everyone who's got tickets invited to come and

Roxy: 00:27:55

have a little drink with us.

Roxy: 00:27:57

Cheers.

Roxy: 00:27:57

You know, cheers to the industry because it's been a tough couple of years.

Katie: 00:28:02

And we just want an excuse to have a drink.

Katie: 00:28:04

Let's just like it's almost Christmas.

Katie: 00:28:08

By the time November comes.

Becca: 00:28:11

It's gonna be great and it's gonna be a great opportunity for people to get

Becca: 00:28:14

together in a room, think about business.

Becca: 00:28:16

And exactly as Katie and Roxy have said, if you are thinking about coming along

Becca: 00:28:20

to that event, Come with a purpose.

Becca: 00:28:22

Come expecting to meet new people.

Becca: 00:28:24

Come with an open heart and an open mind to what you're gonna learn, and also

Becca: 00:28:28

come prepared with questions you've got.

Becca: 00:28:30

Katie and Roxy in the room, talk about your social media.

Becca: 00:28:32

You've got this SEO expert.

Becca: 00:28:34

Come with your SEO questions.

Becca: 00:28:36

Come find me and talk marketing all day.

Becca: 00:28:38

I'm more than happy to do that.

Becca: 00:28:40

You are gonna get so much more for your ticket price than just the speaking alone.

Becca: 00:28:44

Definitely.

Becca: 00:28:45

Now, I was having a look at your website.

Becca: 00:28:46

You guys have got two ticket options available for this year's.

Becca: 00:28:49

Wedcon Katie, do you wanna just explain to me what the differences are between

Becca: 00:28:53

those tickets and roughly how much people would be expecting to pay?

Katie: 00:28:57

Okay, so your standard entry ticket and, um, all tickets are limited.

Katie: 00:29:01

VIP is super, super limited, so I'll get onto that in a minute.

Katie: 00:29:04

Um, standard ticket is about 59 pound.

Katie: 00:29:08

Um, for that you get access to the whole event.

Katie: 00:29:11

So we wanted to keep this price.

Katie: 00:29:12

We've actually kept the price since 2019 when we first put

Katie: 00:29:15

on the event because we've had.

Katie: 00:29:17

Couple of years.

Katie: 00:29:18

So we are set to come out of this just breaking even, aren't we Roxy

Katie: 00:29:22

and we had a really long discussion about this, but we felt that that was

Katie: 00:29:24

right for the industry at this time.

Katie: 00:29:26

And you know, we're gonna come with our social media books, so if you wanna thank

Katie: 00:29:29

us by our book at the end of the day.

Katie: 00:29:32

But for that, you're gonna get access to all of the speakers.

Katie: 00:29:35

You're gonna be able to drop into the marketing clinics as.

Katie: 00:29:38

We're in the center of Birmingham, so there is a break for lunch and you

Katie: 00:29:41

are able to go off and have lunch.

Katie: 00:29:42

You're gonna get, um, networking opportunities and then we throw in some

Katie: 00:29:47

tea and coffee, don't we because what's an event without some tea and coffee?

Katie: 00:29:50

So tea and coffee is on it as well for the day.

Katie: 00:29:52

Um, for the VIP price.

Katie: 00:29:54

You get everything you get in standard entry, but you also get.

Katie: 00:29:59

Um, book goody bags that's filled with some of our favorite business books.

Katie: 00:30:04

And also, um, some of our speakers have written some books and, and

Katie: 00:30:07

they're gonna be in there as.

Katie: 00:30:09

You get priority seating, priority queue jump, and you also get your

Katie: 00:30:14

lunch included, and that's a, um, a lunch with the speakers as well.

Katie: 00:30:17

So you're able to kind of go into that breakout room with the

Katie: 00:30:19

speakers, kind of continue your development, continue your learning.

Katie: 00:30:24

And uh, VIP price is 90 pounds, isn't it?

Katie: 00:30:27

Roxy but.

Katie: 00:30:28

We have got like less than four tickets remaining on vip.

Katie: 00:30:32

So we we're coming up to kind of the last push for ticket sales now.

Katie: 00:30:37

Um, and yeah, we wanted to keep, well, tickets are limited anyway,

Katie: 00:30:42

but we wanted to keep, we didn't know what we'd been looking at.

Katie: 00:30:45

Um, November last year was omnicron and everything that was kind of happening,

Katie: 00:30:49

so we made the decision to keep this, um, Smaller than we could have made

Katie: 00:30:55

it couldn't we Roxy But that's in order to keep everybody safe so that

Katie: 00:30:58

if we do need to kind of introduce any sort of socially distancing areas or

Katie: 00:31:01

anything like that, that we can do that.

Katie: 00:31:02

So, um, yeah, there's only four VIP tickets available, so if you're

Katie: 00:31:06

somebody that doesn't wanna leave and you wanna get your lunch included

Katie: 00:31:09

and you kind of want those extra bits and bobs in the goody bags.

Katie: 00:31:13

The goody bags are decent this year, aren't they Roxy?

Katie: 00:31:15

We took the, we took the feedback on the goody bags last year and

Katie: 00:31:18

we were like, Right, we wanna make these so good this year.

Katie: 00:31:20

And, um, yeah, you get that kind of time with the speakers as well, so

Katie: 00:31:25

yeah, they're, they're the options.

Katie: 00:31:27

Um, and like, like we said, if you wanna get a ticket, now's

Katie: 00:31:31

the time to go and get one.

Becca: 00:31:33

I think it's incredibly good value for what people get.

Becca: 00:31:35

I think for that level of industry event, it's really good value and I think, to

Becca: 00:31:39

be honest, if you're listening to this and you're on the fence, pay the money

Becca: 00:31:43

because I guarantee you'll get more than 59 pounds worth of value from.

Becca: 00:31:50

One of the speakers, let alone all of the speakers together, plus Katie and

Becca: 00:31:53

Roxy and their business clinics as well.

Becca: 00:31:55

All of the links for the tickets are in the show notes below this episode.

Becca: 00:32:00

So do go and grab your ticket for Wed con this year.

Becca: 00:32:03

I would love to see you in Birmingham this November.

Becca: 00:32:07

Let's catch up over a cup of tea and talk all things marketing.

Becca: 00:32:10

So go to the show notes now and grab your ticket.

Becca: 00:32:12

And if you've got any questions about the event, either reach out to me or I'm

Becca: 00:32:16

sure you can reach out to Katie and Roxy.

Becca: 00:32:17

Where's the best place for people to find?

Becca: 00:32:19

Uh,

Katie: 00:32:20

you can come and find us on Instagram, so Wedding

Katie: 00:32:21

Business Hub over on Instagram.

Katie: 00:32:23

You can kind of join our Facebook group, the Wedding Business Hub.

Katie: 00:32:26

You can drop as an email, whatever it is you can reach us can't you Roxy

Katie: 00:32:29

We're all over all of the socials.

Katie: 00:32:31

Um, but yeah, if you've got a question, absolutely get in touch.

Katie: 00:32:34

We'd be more than happy to kind of point you in the right direction or buddy.

Katie: 00:32:38

What was somebody like Roxy said?

Katie: 00:32:40

Um, yeah, we're so excited we can't wait.

Roxy: 00:32:43

I can't tell you how excited.

Roxy: 00:32:45

We are honestly, as the days draw closer, we're like, and we are kind of ordering

Roxy: 00:32:50

light and finalizing things for the day.

Roxy: 00:32:52

Oh my gosh, it's so exciting.

Becca: 00:32:53

It's been a long time coming and I know it's going to

Becca: 00:32:56

be an absolutely incredible day.

Becca: 00:32:58

Now, before I let you two go, I always end my podcast with the same

Becca: 00:33:01

question, so I'm gonna come to you first, Roxy, and then you Katie.

Becca: 00:33:04

And the question is, what is the one thing in business that

Becca: 00:33:08

you wish you had known sooner?

Becca: 00:33:11

Roxy?

Roxy: 00:33:12

Uh, and this is something that I always say to people, Um, you can watch

Roxy: 00:33:17

netflix and be successful, . There is no need to have this business hustle.

Roxy: 00:33:22

The burnout.

Roxy: 00:33:23

You've gotta find that balance.

Roxy: 00:33:25

So yeah, you can watch Netflix and be successful.

Roxy: 00:33:28

Love that because I watch a lot of Netflix, so I'm pleased that

Roxy: 00:33:31

you freed me up from that guilt.

Roxy: 00:33:33

And Katie, how about.

Roxy: 00:33:35

Um, for

Katie: 00:33:36

me, I think I'm, I was very much, uh, very tight on where I spent

Katie: 00:33:42

my money when I was first in business.

Katie: 00:33:43

Very much wanted to kind of graft and find everything out myself the

Katie: 00:33:48

hard way and kind of get on Google and find all the answers for myself.

Katie: 00:33:52

But sometimes, and actually more so this year.

Katie: 00:33:57

When we have invested in ourselves, whether that has been a book, whether

Katie: 00:34:00

that has been working with a coach, whether that has been going to an

Katie: 00:34:03

event, and we went to an event last week that cost hundreds and hundreds

Katie: 00:34:07

and hundreds of pounds, we find that we action the stuff quicker, we get bigger

Katie: 00:34:11

results in our business, and we make more money and, uh, more profitable.

Katie: 00:34:16

So, um, I wish really I had, you know, dove in two feet forward and

Katie: 00:34:23

kind of invested a little bit quicker my business and, and realized that

Katie: 00:34:26

it was okay to outsource things.

Katie: 00:34:28

I didn't need to do everything myself.

Katie: 00:34:29

And, um, yeah, I could have learned and got, got the things done

Katie: 00:34:35

quicker by just kind of investing and, and asking for some help.

Becca: 00:34:39

Yes, so true.

Becca: 00:34:42

Ladies, thank you for your time.

Becca: 00:34:43

I'm glad we got the technology to work and we could be together and I'll see

Becca: 00:34:46

you both in Birmingham in November.

Becca: 00:34:48

Thanks, Becca.

Becca: 00:34:49

Thank you.

Becca: 00:34:49

Thank you.

Becca: 00:34:51

If you think Wedcon sounds like the kind of event you want to be going to to help

Becca: 00:34:54

you grow your wedding business, then I would absolutely love to see you there.

Becca: 00:34:58

In November, I'm gonna be there as a guest speaker speaking all about blogging and

Becca: 00:35:02

why Blogging's a great strategy for your business and how to do it successfully.

Becca: 00:35:06

I'm also gonna be around all day, so you can come and chat to me about your

Becca: 00:35:09

marketing questions and just hang out.

Becca: 00:35:11

So if you wanna get a ticket to that event and come and see

Becca: 00:35:13

me speak, you can find the.

Becca: 00:35:15

In the show notes.