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Today's special guest is: Donna Sillett Donna Sillett is a Multi Award-Winning Mumpreneur, Transformational Business Coach, International Business Awards Judge, #1 Best-Selling Co-Author, Guest Speaker, Inspirational Weight Loss Blogger & Sustainability Advocate.

With 25 years’ hair & beauty industry experience, Donna has been operating international multi award-winning eco & sustainable salons across Western Sydney since 2004, and has since launched PRIMA DONNA which helps women in business gain national and international recognition for their own entrepreneurial achievements and community contributions. Welcome back to Bridal Business! We are kicking off this season's podcast with our massive 4 Day [virtual] LIVE Event go to https://becomeabridemagnet.com​ PLUS access to our 7 amazing GUEST SPEAKERS, including Donna!

Melissa Mitchell was previously a photographic makeup up artist of 10 years, and understands the importance of believing in yourself and aligning with your authenticity for true success in your business. Now working as a Mindset & Manifestation Coach, she now empowers other small businesses owners to truly own their worth and understand their true potential for abundance - it’s all about feeling worthy so that you can truly step into your power of abundance. Trained in NLP and Life Coaching, Melissa empowers others to own their value for true alignment in their business! Join the program https://becomeabridemagnet.com

Welcome back to Bridal Business! We are kicking off this season's podcast with our massive 4 Day [virtual] LIVE Event go to https://becomeabridemagnet.com​ Today's special guest is: Gretchen Maurer Gretchen Maurer is a former salon owner with 30+ years in the industry. She was a platform updo artist, a published freelance bridal stylist and contributing editor for a number of national magazines. She is the author of two books: Her first is The Business of Bridal Beauty written for the salon industry, published by Milady. The second one, for brides is entitled Wedding Morning Success: Your guide for avoiding the chaos and drama most brides experience. Gretchen created an award winning website back in 1998 called weddinghair.com selling her step by step “hair kits” to brides and stylists around the world until 2008. Currently an indy educator, Gretchen runs the largest updo FB group with close to 20K members and is creator of The Updo System Champion Course as well as other courses offered for sale at www.Updosystem.com. Our 4 Day Advanced Business Course is exclusive to hair and makeup artists growing their business in the wedding industry. You will have your mind blown with all the content in this course as well as see you bookings and revenue increase as you implement what you learn in this EXCLUSIVE business program. PLUS access to our 7 amazing GUEST SPEAKERS, including Gretchen! Find all the details at https://becomeabridemagnet.com

Welcome back to Bridal Business! We are kicking off this season's podcast with our massive 4 Day [virtual] LIVE Event go to https://becomeabridemagnet.com​ Today's special guest is: Danielle Murrihy from Hello SEO. "After 20 years as a hair and makeup artist, I put my brushes down 4 years ago and tried to find a way to earn decent money online. My SEO journey started an eCommerce store and realised very quickly that driving traffic to your site is the single most important thing I tried to hire SEO people – but they just could not get the results I wanted or they tried to push me into expensive marketing options that was not suitable for what I needed. I bought a highly regarded course and took a look at it and panicked. It made no sense at all I tried to find someone who could explain it all in simpler terms and then I found a mentor to work with who helped me to make sense of it all and to discover my SEO strong points and who I can help! I worked with local businesses to get them found in the local map pack and realised without decent Google Reviews they were still going to struggle getting the extra calls and that is where my Google Review Cards came into existence. More reviews mean better rankings and client conversions." This 4 Day Advanced Business Course is exclusive to hair and makeup artists growing their business in the wedding industry.  You will have your mind blown with all the content in this course as well as see you bookings and revenue increase as you implement what you learn in this EXCLUSIVE business program. PLUS access to 7 amazing GUEST SPEAKERS.

Welcome back to Bridal Business! We are kicking off this season with our massive 4 Day [virtual] LIVE Event go to https://becomeabridemagnet.com This 4 Day Advanced Business Course is exclusive to hair and makeup artists growing their business in the wedding industry.  You will have your mind blown with all the content in this course as well as see you bookings and revenue increase as you implement what you learn in this EXCLUSIVE business program. PLUS access to 7 amazing GUEST SPEAKERS. Find all the details at https://becomeabridemagnet.com 

Are you ready to reintroduce your business back to the community?   I feel like as a mobile hairstylist, beauty therapist or makeup artist (cosmetologist) we have a been a little bit forgotten.  So today I am giving you 3 tips to get back to business and how you can keep you and your clients safe moving forward. Want to learn more about this?  Check out my video right here... https://bridalbusinessschool.com/corona

Here are some insights, predictions and warnings for beauty professionals with regards to the path ahead for us. 21 Ways Your Hair & Beauty Business Might Change Post Covid19 - Bridal Business Episode 038 Here are ways 15 to 21 Don't forget Part 1 & 2

Here are some insights, predictions and warnings for beauty professionals with regards to the path ahead for us. 21 Ways Your Hair & Beauty Business Might Change Post Covid19 - Bridal Business Episode 038 Here are ways 8 to 15   Don't forget Part 1 & 3

Here are some insights, predictions and warnings for beauty professionals with regards to the path ahead for us. 21 Ways Your Hair & Beauty Business Might Change Post Covid19 - Bridal Business Episode 037 Here is ways 1 to 7.

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What do you do when you've reached the top?  Today I give you some ideas on how to move your business and self-development forward, when you have run out of capacity to do weddings.

Sue Louise, Makeup Artist, Coach and Creator of Bridal Beauty Pro (App) shares her tips and tricks on how to "mix" commercial and editorial work with your Bridal Business. Make sure you check out Sue's story from when I interviewed her back in 2018.  https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bridal-business/id1448700031?i=1000435021479  

Gretchen Maurer has been a stylist since 1980. I loved updo work straight away and did my first brides while in school. In 1989 she bought a salon and worked it for 5 years. During that time, she was discovered by Paul DiGrigoli at a hair show where she was doing volunteer finish work on Goldwell models. She worked for Paul for a decade doing platform and taught updo classes for his advanced academy. In 1998 she created weddinghair.com which won best beauty site by Brides magazine. She created 100’s of hairstyles and sold 1000’s of step by step bridal hairstyles to brides all over the world over the internet and on Behind the Chair.com. In 1998 her first book, The Business of Bridal Beauty was published by Milady.  In 1999 she was a national speaker for The Association of Bridal Consultants in New Orleans educating wedding consultants all about the wedding morning. In 2000 she went 100% freelance doing weddings up and down the east coast as well as NYC. Being moved by all the drama and chaos she saw at wedding mornings she wrote The Morning of Your Wedding in 2008. From 2005 to 2015 she worked with her husband in a couple of residential recovery facilities as a coach and trauma counselor. Now a certified clarity coach her heart is again all in with coaching stylists through her Facebook Group, Updo and Hairstyle Education. Over the last year she rewrote The Morning of Your Wedding and released this month as an e-book titled Wedding Morning Success: Your guide for avoiding the chaos and drama most brides experience. She is now the creator of a new membership community called https://updosystem.com/

Do you have a contract? Not sure what you should include?  Here are my suggestions for clauses.  

You can either position yourself in this industry to fight amongst the other stylists for a bride or you can create something in your business that is uniques to you, that brides "pick you". Show Notes: http://bridalbusinessschool.com/podcast FREE quiz (find all the right brides for you: http://bridalbusinessschool.com/bridetribe

Do you struggle to post about your special offers?  Do they tend to be dead-posts, crickets, no one engaging? Theres a few reasons for that and I talk all about in today's episode.

We know that Facebook wants consumers to stay on their platform longer and thats a win for us as the longer people engage with your content the more likely they are to build their know, like and trust factor with you and ultimately become a customer.  So how do we keep Facebook happy AND keep our potential customers happy too? Today's episode is all about how to engage your audience. Join Social Media Boot Camp: https://bridalbusinessschool.com/social 

So many of us think that the reason a bride went another way was because they were cheaper but thats not always the case.  Find out today why price is not always the reason.

3 Social Media Insights to Boost Your Hair and Makeup Business Exposure. It's the holiday season and if you want to attract more clients to your business over the holiday season, especially with all those brides getting engaged over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. Then now is the time to get engagement hyped up on your social accounts. Today's episode i share 3 little nuggets to help you with your content.

Is she breathing fire? How can we handle a prickly bride? Or bridesmaid? Or mum?