When it comes to your event planning business, it is important to be the leader. When you first start your wedding planning business, it’s easy to think of yourself as just an event planner. But once you start booking clients, it is absolutely essential that you become the leader in your business.

Resource: 25 Steps to Start Your Wedding Planning Business

How Are You Playing Small in Business?

Here are ways in which you, as the owner of your wedding planning business, might be playing it small;

• You have a client who is not responding to your emails for months…which makes you stressed about getting the planning done in time. But you aren’t confronting the client about it.
• Your clients run your schedule and expect you to respond to their emails and texts at all times. This is because you have not set rules, boundaries, and expectations with them.
• You don’t have a workflow or calendar of tasks that you do to manage your business and ensure it is on the path to growth, profit, and sustained success.
• There is a vendor who isn’t doing their work and blaming you for the client’s unhappiness. But you are too nervous to talk to the vendor or your clients about the situation.
• You haven’t done all the things to make your business legal and official, even though you are taking on clients.

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When you come up against these types of situations, do you wait around and hope for the best? Or do you confront the problem with grace and confidence so you can resolve it quickly and move on?

Our ability to be responsible and own our leadership role in these situations is critical to our long term success.

I have seen far too many event planners playing small. By that, I mean they are acting like a freelance event planner instead of a successful small business owner. They are waiting for things to happen and hoping for the best. We must embrace and accept our position as the business owner and leader.

We are the creators of everything that happens in our business.

If you want to have big success, you and only you, are responsible for creating it. Have you been playing small? If so, now is the time to step up and be the leader and CEO in your business.

Many wedding planners don’t set aside time to do the CEO level tasks that will help them get out of “playing small”. If this is your first time owning a business, you may not know what business tasks should be done on a regular basis. If you’ve owned your planning business for a while, you may struggle with putting a plan in place to get them done. And we all know that it is a juggling act to keep our clients happy AND to grow and run a successful business.

The Ultimate Business Success Checklist for Wedding Planners gives you the guidance and specific tasks to plan for so you can stop playing small in your wedding planning business.

Ultimate Wedding Success Checklist for Wedding Planners is a 75-page comprehensive guidebook with more than 80 business maintenance and management tasks that are specific to wedding and event planners.

The first chapter is the Detailed Master List of Business Success Tasks. It contains all of the business success tasks (more than 80 tasks!) along with pro tips, descriptions, and links to additional resources related to each particular task. It is organized into these nine business categories: CEO Strategic Planning, Business Workflow & Organization, Staffing & Team, Marketing, Education, Financial, Legal, Technology, and Office. 

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