Tuesday, June 2nd – I had made a 2 hour drive to Rancho Cordova for a conference to get motivated in my business ideas. The first speaker was Andy Ebon www.weddingmarketing.net the king of EBS virtual communication. I am glad that I had the chance to see him again just in-case I missed a few things on the first round when I saw him up at Lake Tahoe Hyatt Regency www.laketahoe.hyatt.com. The BLOG world is defiantly a learning process and I am sure each time I will learn something new to enhance my web site search engines. Plus this is a great way to feature each event or wedding that was planned by Felicia Events at Lake Tahoe. Next on my agenda was the young gentlemen Matt Brys and Larry Burrow with Extreme Productions Entertainment www.extremeprodjs.com showing how to sell without selling. It was entertaining how they played off each other to keep you interested (I did stay interested) as they “Painted the Picture” of how to keep your potential client interested and get excited about they’re wedding or event. The next speaker was Tara with Green Tie Affair. http://www.agreentieaffair.ca/bio.htm Green, the New White How to Plan an Ecologically-friendly and Socially-Responsible Wedding presented by Tara Murney, Wedding Planning Institute of Canada She spoke on how to be more environmentally aware for weddings or events. Some of the tips that she mentioned are already in practice in my regular routine of life. Now I need to implement more things that she had mentioned. It is not just weddings that we need to think of being “Green” it is our life style that impact’s everyday. I know I want the future to be bright for my children and my future grandchildren (Not soon). It makes you stop and think about yourself on how we can improve for the future. Lunch break came and I had a chance to see travel pals that got to experience the Philippines as I did. It was a trip that will not be forgotten and a great opportunity to meet wonderful people. Then it was time to get back into the routine of listening to speakers. Well, I can say I picked the right one right after lunch because you were energized by his presentation. Yep, Peter Merry “The Starbuck Effect” – Not being the same as others, being creative. And I know that one…every wedding planner/coordinator has the same wording and it drives me CRAZY! I myself try to think of creative things and try not to fall into that hole of OH HUM the same stuff. Capture attention!! Do I have your attention? As I walked out of the room feeling geees “I don’t want to be the same as everyone else. I have to make sure I don’t fall into that gap.”
Then last but not least was Monica Hart the coach on how to network at mixers. Well, I know I am not shy and I will jump in with both feet but on how to get my name out there she had some great pointers. I can’t say what she told us… you will have to wait and see. So, in all it was a great day and I enjoyed meeting new people. Thank you again to Richard & Julia Markel with AFWPi for making this all possible. www.afwpi.com You Rock!!