
70 episodes

Refine For Wedding Planners with Amber Anderson Amber Anderson
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Welcome to your new favorite lunch break binge, the Refine for Wedding Planners Podcast. A no BS zone, where Wedding Planners come to be encouraged and challenged with loads of radical honesty, tough love, and actionable ideas!
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Ep 70: Exercising Your Harassment Clause
Harassment is never fun, but telling a client you're leaving their wedding because of it is next level not fun. Today, in this episode, we'll talk about:
Contract clauses
Prevention
Communication and process both in planning and on the day
Things to consider
The fallout
The tools I mentioned are:
Braden Drake's Content Club
Wedding Planning Process Kit
Wedding Pro and Client Management Kit
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Ep 69: Master the Chaos
In an effort to send encouragement and ideas for mastering the chaos of your life and business, I'm coming in for a longer episode where I talk about:
MY STORY
BOUNDARIES
COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR LIFE PARTNER
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS
ALTERNATE ROUTES TO EFFICIENCY
CONFIDENCE BUILDERS
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Ep 68: What is Refine and Who Are We Serving?
Our businesses have experienced so much change the last few years, including Refine. If you're confused by Refine, or so over Cancel Culture, this episode is for you. So today, we want to talk about:
Simplifying - why and in what way
Updates on Refine Portal Pricing
Updates on Refine Collective enrollment
Who were are trying to serve - covering heartbreak to Cancel Culture and walking on eggshells
Having a creative outlet in your business
I referenced joining the waitlist for the Refine Collective, which can be done here!
And exploring the Refine Portal, which can be done here!
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Ep 67: When the Venue Remodels Before Your Clients Wedding
Nothing sends a client into panic quite like a venue remodeling after they signed the contract! I so get it. In this episode, I talk about:
Contract clauses that mutually protect both venue and client
Validating the emotion
Educating the client
Talking with the venue about it
Compromises
The cost of business both for planners and venues
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Ep 66: Advocating for a Client without Hurting a Preferred Partner Relationship
As planners, our job is to advocate for the clients! But we need to also recognize this might mean a moment of tension with a referral base. In this episode, I talk about:
Educating the client
Approaches with the Preferred Partner
The boundaries within mediation
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Ep 65: The Main Point of Contact in the Final Stages
When it comes to the final stages for an Event Management client, the Wedding Planner becomes the point of contact. In this episode, I talk about:
Preparing your client
Having them tell the Wedding Pro
Templates that work
The tone and approach
Why this benefits all involved
Acknowledging there may be times you'll pull the client back in, you aren't taking them away completely
I reference the Wedding Planning Process Kit and the Final Reconciliation Kit in this episode. Click to check those out!
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