Author: Eddie Babbage

I'm the Founder and CEO of Timeline Genius. My mission is to make it painless and easy for wedding planners to create awesome timelines.

Wedding Industry Biz

How to Incorporate Personal Branding into Your Workflow

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We are so excited to bring the thoughts of Brand Photographer Amanda Richardson to the blog today.

Personal branding is a critical part of marketing, especially for small businesses and solopreneurs. We recently asked Amanda to share her thoughts on how to create sustainable workflow that included personal branding and this is what she had to say:

“Incorporating personal branding into your content workflow is important for differentiating yourself from other planners, establishing a personal connection with new clients, and making sure your ideal clients are finding you. There are so many couples getting married, but only some are the right clients for you. Personal branding helps make those connections with the right people.”

We had a few more questions for Amanda and know you will walk away with some actionable advice.

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Timeline Genius

Congratulations to our Newest Timeline Geniuses!

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Cheers and big congratulations to all of our amazing planners who became Certified Timeline Geniuses this week! We applaud you for putting in the work to continually build your skills and to elevate the standards for our industry.

We’re proud to show off your profiles and spotlight pages below. Keep up the great work!

Are you ready to become a Certified Timeline Genius? Get your own certification at https://weddingtimelinecertification.com/

 

Katie Decker

Company Name: Gracefully Gorgeous
Location: Seattle, WA

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “It’s always fascinating how someone’s dreams, visions and expectations of that day come to life.”

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Whitney Fowler

Company Name: Whitney Marie Events
Location: Orrville, OH

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “Seeing a smile on my couples’ faces at the end of the day makes my heart happy.”

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Jasmine Heard

Company Name: Jazzed Up Planning
Location: Long Beach, CA
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “Knowing that I helped bring a couples’ vision to life and helped them create the perfect day that will be with them for the rest of their lives is what keeps me passionate about weddings.”

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Nikeva Lawrence

Company Name: SouthWind Events
Location: Chicago, IL
Title/Position: CEO & Lead Planner
What Fuels You? “Seeing couples in love and helping them find ways personal and unique ways to share their love with family & friends keeps me excited.”

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Stephanie Lee

Company Name: A Simple Taste of Elegance Events
Location: San Antonio, TX
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “Keeping up with the trends and continued training and education keeps me passionate about weddings.”

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Samantha O’Donnell

Company Name: Lavish Haus Design + Event Co.
Location: Center Valley, PA
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “Seeing all of the creative ways vendors and couples make their day beautiful is just amazing.”

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Cherish Roeder

Company Name: Divine Inspirations Weddings and Events
Location: Wilmington, NC
Title/Position: Owner/Lead Planner
What Fuels You? “I love watching the joy on my couples’ faces and seeing them truly enjoy their day.”

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Rikti Smart

Company Name: Elite Dream Creations
Location: Orlando, FL
Title/Position: Lead Coordinator
What Fuels You? “I love helping couples enter into a new chapter of life with lots of memories, love, and celebrations.”

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Timeline Genius

[New Feature] Use Client Questionnaires to Effortlessly Start Your Timelines

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Timeline Genius now lets you effortlessly start your timelines by sending an upfront questionnaire to your clients!

Your clients then complete this questionnaire online, and their answers serve as your basic input for starting the timeline.

This feature is available to you no matter how you start your timeline — whether you start with our Genius Feature, one of our preset templates, or one of your own templates or past timelines.

Why is this such a time saver? Because you don’t have to enter the vendors, venues, or other input to start your timelines. You simply review the answers from your clients and approve or reject their input with the click of a button.

Then, you click the “Generate Timeline” button. And voilà, you’ve got a detailed, customized timeline for your event!

To see the new client questionnaire feature in action, just check out the video below…

 

 

Another nice thing about the new client questionnaire feature is that it works as an extension of your branding. For example, your clients will only see your logo — not ours — when they’re filling out the questionnaire.

Our goal is to help your clients see and appreciate the highly professional, tech-savvy service you’re giving them.

We’ve got more exciting features coming your way in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned!

Wedding Industry Biz

How to Make the Most of Your Next Virtual Summit

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Conferences and summits are a fantastic way to continue learning while staying connected to the wedding community. In fact, Timeline Genius was built on the opportunity to connect with planners at large in-person events. But now that safety has required a little more distance between us, we’re grateful to still have the opportunity to connect virtually with our current customers and with other valuable members of the wedding industry through online events. Choosing the right virtual conference or event isn’t always easy, so we spoke with wedding biz guru and all-around awesome person, Heidi Thompson to get the inside scoop on how to make the most of your next virtual summit.

Oh and P.S. Heidi has an opportunity for you to put these tips into practice, keep reading to find out more!

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Timeline Genius

Congratulations to our Certified Timeline Geniuses!

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Cheers and big congratulations to all of our amazing planners who became Certified Timeline Geniuses this week! We applaud you for putting in the work to continually build your skills and to elevate the standards for our industry.

We’re proud to show off your profiles and spotlight pages below. Keep up the great work!

Are you ready to become a Certified Timeline Genius? Get your own certification at https://weddingtimelinecertification.com/

 

Olivia Fernandez

Company Name: Livvv It Up Events
Location: Long Valley, NJ

Title/Position: Owner/Lead Certified Wedding Planner
What Fuels You? “Nothing makes me happier than an even happier bride!! “

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Theresa Ford

Company Name: Simply Elegant Events
Location: Clinton, MD

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I love to see how everything comes together on the wedding day, from the vendors working together to the look on the couples’ faces when the see how beautiful everything looks.”

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Julie Rupert

Company Name: Julie Rupert Events, LLC
Location: Forest, VA
Title/Position: Owner/Lead Planner
What Fuels You? “I love helping people and executing their visions.”

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Alison Sappington

Company Name: Alison to the Altar
Location: Ocean City, MD
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I like the adrenaline of the wedding day, the bride & groom seeing everything for the first time and the Wow!”

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Risa Weaver-Enion

Company Name: Risa James Events
Location: Sacramento, CA
Title/Position: Owner & Chief Wedding Planner
What Fuels You? “I love meeting and working with new couples, especially when I get to learn new cultural or religious wedding traditions.”

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Courtney Wilson

Company Name: Moonstruck Events
Location: Houston, TX
Title/Position: Owner + Lead Planner
What Fuels You? “Seeing how much love they have for each other and how I can make their dream a reality for their wedding keeps me wanting to do this again and again.”

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Jo Wittman

Company Name: Witt & Company Events
Location: Neenah, WI
Title/Position: Owner & Lead Planner
What Fuels You? “Knowing that I played a small part in allowing them to relax and be completely present in their most love-filled day is by far one of the best feelings in the world.”

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Timeline Genius

Congratulations to Our Newly Certified Timeline Geniuses

By Eddie Babbage on

 

Cheers and big congratulations to all of our amazing planners who became Certified Timeline Geniuses this week! We applaud you for putting in the work to continually build your skills and to elevate the standards for our industry.

We’re proud to show off your profiles and spotlight pages below. Keep up the great work!

Are you ready to become a Certified Timeline Genius? Get your own certification at https://weddingtimelinecertification.com/

 

Myiesha Antwine

Company Name: Kiss and Tell Weddings
Location: Ardmore, OK

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I love my clients. I have been blessed to work with the kindest, easy going, most respectful people as a planner. “

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Chrissy Berman

Company Name: JG Serenity Weddings
Location:Dallas, TX

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I’m passionate about helping others create memorable and fantastic events that will be talked about for years to come.”

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Pat Blackwell

Company Name: The Red Coat Ladies
Location: Detroit, MI

Title/Position: Founder
What Fuels You? ” I love Mondays when I answer the phone and the client calls raving about how much they enjoyed their celebration – that keeps me going!”

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Kari Flett

Company Name: Ivory Events
Location: Boulder, CO
Title/Position: Office Manager
What Fuels You? “I stay passionate about weddings because of the couples and the love they have for each other.”

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Timeline Genius

Congratulations to Our Newest Certified Timeline Geniuses!

By Eddie Babbage on

 

Cheers and big congratulations to all of our amazing planners who became Certified Timeline Geniuses this week! We applaud you for putting in the work to continually build your skills and to elevate the standards for our industry.

We’re proud to show off your profiles and spotlight pages below. Keep up the great work!

Are you ready to become a Certified Timeline Genius? Get your own certification at https://weddingtimelinecertification.com/

 

Dana Allison

Company Name: Keyed Up Events
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I love that there is a never-ending need for wedding planners.”

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Sherry Almeida

Company Name: Creme de la Creme Wedding Event Planning and Decor
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I enjoy the clients and being able to continue learning new techniques, ideas while meeting like-minded people.”

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Lorell David

Company Name: i do Events
Location: Anchorage, AK

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I think it’s important to do something that you really enjoy, and I definitely enjoy all the “organized chaos” that comes with wedding planning.”

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Erin McCauley

Company Name: Chestnut & Vine Wedding Logistics Coordinators
Location: Wake Forest, NC
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I want engaged couples to enjoy the wedding planning process as much as I did and then feel like they are guests at their own wedding.”

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Courtney Winn Hamilton

Company Name: C2Celebrations
Location: Huntsville, AL
Title/Position: Co-Owner
What Fuels You? “Wedding clients are full of love and tend to bring a spirit to the table that no matter what is happening in the world around them, love prevails and I love that!”

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Timeline Genius

Congratulations to our Newest Timeline Geniuses!

By Eddie Babbage on

 

Cheers and big congratulations to all of our amazing planners who became Certified Timeline Geniuses this week! We applaud you for putting in the work to continually build your skills and to elevate the standards for our industry.

We’re proud to show off your profiles and spotlight pages below. Keep up the great work!

Are you ready to become a Certified Timeline Genius? Get your own certification at https://weddingtimelinecertification.com/

 

Erika Abigail Bowers

Company Name: Erika’s Elegance Weddings + Events
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I love building relationships and through that, I get a chance to be a part of one of the most important days of their lives.”

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Desinity Ashton Greathouse

Company Name: Greathouse Events
Location: San Antonio, TX

Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I stay passionate by focusing on the love that is shared between two people.”

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Taylor McDonald

Company Name: Premier Events
Location: Eugene, OR

Title/Position: Owners + Lead Planner
What Fuels You? “I’m passionate about weddings because of the love that surrounds these events.”

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Stephany Perry

Company Name: Stephany Perry Events
Location: Tampa, FL
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “Working with couples really does bring me joy. Getting to know them and being a part of such a special day is so rewarding.”

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Amanda Rainear

Company Name: Dovetail Events
Location: Orlando, FL
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? ” Discovering new trends is such an exciting part of what I do, and I love that the industry is living and breathing and is filled with lots of hard-working creatives.”

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Sylvia Sargeant

Company Name: Blue Iris Weddings
Location: Walla Walla, WA
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I enjoy the beauty and enormous meaning surrounding weddings.”

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Belinda Timpo Dekayie

Company Name: Belinda Timpo Weddings & Events
Location: Plainfield, IL
Title/Position: Owner
What Fuels You? “I love to see all the detailed pieces of the wedding come together and know that we were part of the wedding journey.”

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NaPrell Van Buren

Company Name: NaPrell Van Buren Events
Location: Charleston, SC
Title/Position: Planner/Designer/Florist
What Fuels You? “I love seeing the tears of joy of the clients and the compliments from the event attendees about the wonderful experience.”

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