I’m not in the wedding industry, but I wonder if a printable wedding planning checklist would be a valuable thing for the people that do plan weddings or the brides themselves?
Speaking of affiliate marketing…
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If I recall correctly, there is a place here in Minneapolis that makes bridesmaids dresses, and they have an affiliate program that Affiliate Marketers could use to earn commissions from wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses.
There are so many ways to earn extra money with Affiliate Marketing, if a person can just stay focused on one industry.
Another great tool that could be used for Event Planning and Wedding Planners, is MailBoxPower. I call this my magic marketing tool.
Are you interested in learning how to sell on Amazon for a side hustle business? This is how to sell on Amazon for fun and profit.
I’m sure you already know that Amazon is probably the worlds largest e-commerce platform online today.
Although there are ways to earn money with Amazon, the percentages for the commissions are actually quite small, so you will need a lot of volume to make any significant income from selling on Amazon.
The Amazon affiliate program, is called Amazon Associates, and you can join for free.
To find the Amazon Associates affiliate program, simply Google the keyword “Amazon Associates” and let’s Google do the work for you.
Once you get your Amazon Associates account, you will be able to get unique Affiliate links for all of the products on the Amazon platform. Then you only need to put those products in front of prospective buyers, and when they purchase a product, you earn a commission.
NOTE: The Amazon cookie duration is only a 24 hour window. I am making my Synergy Affiliate Program cookie duration for as long as I can. Perhaps for a lifetime.
By the way, my Synergy Affiliate Program is applicable for Exhibit Space sales in the Minnesota Event EXPO as well as Membership in the Synergy Collaborative Platform.
And, I will help you make sales. We can also utilize my Magic Marketing Tool to drive traffic for you.
By the way, if any of this is new to you, or are you just want help, please feel free to contact me and we can get on a zoom call, or if you live locally here in the Twin Cities, we can meet for coffee.
Twin Cities Event Planners need Minneapolis event space for the Meetings, Conventions, Fundraisers, Galas, Client Appreciation Events, Employee Appreciation Events, and parties in general.
Certainly, there are event venues that exhibit in the Minnesota Event Planners Expo every year, but Event Planners need to know about multiple types of event spaces that are available in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Here is a link to the Minnesota Event Expos if you are interested in attending or exhibiting or sponsoring.
Because events are dynamic and always changing, the event planners in the Twin Cities need to know about multiple places to host their events. Sometimes their date is booked by another planner, and they need to make a change and find new space.
There are a Twin Cities Business Events happening all the time, at all hours of the day, in multiple areas of the Twin Cities.
Here is a link to a calendar of upcoming business events and activities here in the Twin Cities.
If you are planning an event, or are interested in using live events to promote your business, please feel free to contact me through Synergy Event Marketing, or you can look me up on LinkedIn, Facebook, and the many other social platforms online.
For financial security reasons, you should create multiple income streams to protect your assets.
Here are seven (7) different types of income streams.
Earned Income – This is your day job and most people’s primary source of income. this one’s easy to understand and most people’s primary source of income. You trade your time for money.
Business Income – You own a business. You either make and sell something, or you provide a service.
Interest Income – This is income you make from lending your money out. This might mean a CD, P2P lending, real estate crowdfunding, funding fix-and-flip debt deals, or simply money in a savings account.
Dividend Income – This is money that’s distributed as a result of owning shares of a company.
Rental Income – You own something and you rent it out. Probably the most common is owning a rental property, such as a multifamily apartment building (renting apartments in exchange for monthly payments).
Capital Gains – This is money earned when you sell an investment, like stocks.
Royalties / Licensing – You create a product, idea, or process, and you let someone use it. They pay you a small fee every time they do.
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One of my favorite tools for generating traffic is using the United States Postal Service to send postcards, greeting cards and personalize gifts. The software I use is called MailBoxPower and it’s very powerful. I call this my Magic Marketing Tool, And it is one of my most used tools in my marketing tool box.
Twin Cities meeting and Event Planners are often seeking out Minneapolis restaurants that have catering, party rooms and event space.
Some of these restaurants like Keys Café and Buca di Beppo, Exhibit at the Minnesota Event Planners Expo to meet connect and do business with Corporate Event Planners and Wedding Planners.
I believe the reason that many event planners have turned away from the typical hotel ballroom, and have decided to support local restaurants, is because the hotels pricing is often times inflated and there are strange fees called incidentals added into the final billing.
Also, I think people just want to support smaller midsize local businesses.
The supporters of the Synergy Collaborative, are provided with ongoing digital promotion in addition to opportunity to have exhibit space at the Minnesota Event Expo in March.
VISIT THESE SUPPORTERS OF THE SYNERGY COLLABORATIVE
For EVENT PLANNER’s, one of the big concerns is digital marketing for events and increasing the attendance. There is nothing more frustrating for and Event Promoter, then putting lots of time, energy and money into an event, and then having less than impressive attendance at the event.
The inception of the Internet has reduce the efficacy of posting flyers all over town. The new methods are primarily digital with posting events on platforms like event Brite, Facebook, meet up and other Internet platforms.
My Successful Campaign Strategy
Good old Facebook is where a lot of people seem to be hanging out these days. And the advertising platform is amazing when it comes to targeting a specific audience. The key, is the alignment of the audience with the specific event being promoted. Even if you have a super amazing spectacular event that you are planning, if it does not align with the audience, you will not have maximum attendance. Targeting an audience with the desire for the content that is in the event is vital to the success of a event marketing campaign.
Lead Generation Strategy
The strategy I have had some very good success with, is a combination of Facebook events, EventBrite ticketing, and the MailChimp email platform. These three platforms seem to integrate very well together.
Facebook allows you to create an event on their platform, and then advertise it to a very specific niche audience. Then the registration is done with the EventBrite platform, which seems to be a popular and trusted platform. The EventBrite registrants then integrate easily into MailChimp, and a automated campaign can be set up in MailChimp to communicate to those register for the event to assure their attendance on the event date.
In closing…
I used this strategy to get attendance to the Minnesota Event Planners Expo held here in the Twin Cities. Last year, I spent less than $500, and we attracted over 800 people.
If you would like to discuss an event marketing strategy for your business, please feel free to contact me.
Only the true football fans will be tuning into MN Viking News to get the game updates and calendar.
In addition to the football events, you might want to keep an eye on Twin Cities Business Events so that you don’t miss out on these business networking events.
And by the way, did you know that you may possibly get free admission to certain Vikings games when you become a Synergy Collaborative Member and work with us?
