Sharonhill
Sharon Hill is a wedding and event planner, author, and mentor to new wedding planners.
She started her event planning company, Sharon Hill Events, in 1998 after managing tradeshows, meetings, conferences, and product launches for one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world.
When she first opened her company, she handled events for corporations and Internet start ups around the country. She was then asked by clients to also handle their social events and weddings.
As her business grew, more and more people who wanted to become wedding and event planners contacted her to help them start businesses of their own. In order to help more people, she wrote the ebook, "Become a Top Wedding Planner - Start a Successful Wedding Planning Business." She also now mentors new wedding planners and maintains a blog and article site filled with business and marketing tips to teach them to be successful.
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Become a Top Wedding Planner Blog
http://becomeatopweddingplannerblog.com/
Tips on becoming a wedding planner, starting, running and marketing a wedding planning business and planning weddings as a professional wedding planner.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 449 )
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Wedding Planners – Marketing Your Business Is Your Business
Yesterday I received an email from a company that, for a few hundred dollars a month, will do online marketing for wedding planners and other wedding... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
New Wedding Planners – 4 Tips for Planning The After-Party
Many brides and grooms don’t want the celebrating to end with the reception and may want to consider an after-party. This should not be a last-minute event so... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2012 LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
5 Tips For Selling Your Wedding Planning Services To “Gen Y” Brides
Many of you are marketing your wedding planning services to brides who are in their 20′s and 30′s, members of Generation Y (Gen Y). In the current... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Wedding Planners – Bust These 5 Myths About Wedding Costs That Brides Believe
Many times brides think they know what to do to save money on their weddings. They want to try no-frills and DIY options that actually cost them more time and... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Where Are You Marketing To Your Brides?
A new wedding planner wrote to tell me she has not been able to get on Facebook. For some reason they have decided that she is not a real person and won’t give... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
6 Mistakes New Wedding Planners Make on Their Facebook Pages and How To Avoid...
As a new wedding planner it’s important to have a Facebook page for your wedding planning business, one in which you will use to attract clients and establish... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
5 Ways To Help Your Brides Throw Weddings Their Guests Will Never Forget
One reason brides will hire you as a wedding planner is for your great ideas on how to have weddings that will stand out in the minds of their guests. Read more
Posted on 15 September 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Wedding Planning Drama? – David Tutera Deals With It Too On “My Fair Wedding...
Celebrity wedding planner David Tutera’s show returned Saturday and this season there is a little something different, it’s not just “My Fair Wedding,” it’s... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Become a Top Wedding Planner – Can You Take a Holiday Off From Your Wedding...
You’re busy building your wedding planning business and today, for those of us in the United States, it’s a holiday, Labor Day. Are you taking the day off? Read more
Posted on 03 September 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
5 Challenges Wedding Planners Must Overcome
Wedding planning is a great profession. You help brides make their wedding dreams come true while you get to be involved with all the things you love about... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Wedding Planners – 4 Things You Can’t Expect From Your Fellow Wedding Vendors
What do you expect of your fellow wedding vendors? A brand new wedding planner asked me how to get other vendors to refer her and how to get them to give deep... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Targeting The Low Budget Bride
New wedding planners often tell me they plan to target the low budget bride. Usually this is either because they have had some recent experience planning a... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Help Brides “Think Outside The Box” When Planning Their Weddings
In my last post I told you that celebrity wedding planner David Tutera’s advice to new wedding planners was to get brides to “think outside the box” and get the... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Wedding Planning TIp from Celebrity Wedding Planner David Tutera
David Tutera, celebrity wedding planner and star of the television show, “My Fair Wedding” did a book signing at Joann’s Fabrics in San Leandro, California... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Wedding Planners – Are Sharing Your Political Beliefs Online?
Are you sharing your personal political views on the Internet? I’ve noticed recently that a number of new wedding planners are doing this on Facebook. Read more
Posted on 06 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Why Your Marketing For Your Wedding Planning Business May Not Be Working
I hear this from new wedding planners – “what I’m doing (advertising, blogging, using Facebook, exhibiting in bridal shows, mailing postcards, networking,... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
6 Mistakes New Wedding Planners Make on Their Websites and How to Avoid Them
I’ve been noticing that new wedding planners are making similar mistakes on their new wedding business websites that may be hurting their chances of attracting... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
5 Steps to Take When a Bride “Doesn’t Have the Time” To Meet
When you’re a new wedding planner you’ll find that you’ll get calls from brides who seem very excited to have found you, flatter you about your website, blog, o... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Don’t Let These 5 Unrealistic Expectations About Having A Wedding Planning...
Within the first year of starting your wedding planning business, you might find yourself getting discouraged, and even consider quitting, because you feel... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2012 CAREER, LIFESTYLE, WEDDING -
Plan Weddings Using The 5 Hottest Wedding Themes
Weddings don’t have to have themes, but as a wedding planner you may notice that couples are opting for using themes today as a way of showing guests a side of... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2012 LIFESTYLE, WEDDING