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There are multiple significant aspects of planning a wedding - one of those essential aspects is the venue. If you are a happy couple wanting to coronate your love, you should know a few things about searching for the perfect venue. Keep reading to learn more about choosing the perfect wedding venue with these handy tips and considerations.
Read MoreHow to Promote your Wedding-Related Business Online Successfully
Photo by Zachary Hartzell Photography
To successfully promote your wedding-related business online, you need to create a marketing strategy that will help you achieve your goal. Running such a business is specific enough therefore requires a strategy that will attract the type of customers you need. Since you don’t require customer loyalty, but a wide scope audience to get your brand out there, online promotions are the way to go!
Familiarize the market with your fashionable gowns and other products and services you have to offer by focusing on a wide range of audiences online. If you don't know how to do so, here are 6 tips and ideas that will help you set up a marketing strategy to transform your business from a local shop to a known brand!
1. Build an online world-of-mouth community
Online presence and community are essential for a fashion business like yours. No matter the industry you work in, word-of-mouth is always the best promotion. But if you operate online, you cannot control the flow of word of mouth unless you build an online community. Focus on your online presence by creating social media accounts besides your website that will help you interact with your customers.
Spread the word about your brand by offering a discount to friends and family of those who leave a positive review on your pages. It will increase engagement and direct traffic to your brand, as well as, make your existing customers your brand ambassadors.
2. Focus on quality photography
The wedding day is usually one of the most special and important days in future newlyweds' lives. They want perfect organization as well as beautiful memories, and you're there to help them achieve that! Your gowns and fashion attire need to be just like they have imagined it, so to attract future customers and potential buyers, you need to have quality photography of items.
Hire a professional photographer to take gorgeous photos of your wedding dresses and suits that will make each couple want to purchase from you. Don’t just photograph the attire you have to offer, but the whole experience it comes with it. Online photography tends to be the inspiration and attracts people to your business. A great studio for something like this located in the northeast is foxandfinchstudio.com. There is plenty of room to spread out so you can capture behind the scenes photos and clips. This will allow you to engage with your social media following in a more personal way.
Photo by Zachary Hartzell Photography
3. Google and social media ads
Organic reach is fantastic for your business, but if you want to be successful online, you will need to invest in paid promotions. Organic reach won't be enough if you want to achieve success so, promote your business on search engines like Google and social media like Instagram. That way you can target audiences that are characteristically adequate to your brand.
On top of that, with paid promotions, you will choose who you'll target based on social-demographic features and location which will help your business grow. Online ads have proven to be highly efficient for businesses like yours, so carefully target your audience and introduce your products to them with creative ads.
4. Influencers and promotions
Social media posts and ads sometimes aren't enough if you want to connect with the audience on a personal level. Even if you have the prettiest dresses and classiest suits with high-quality photography, you can lack engagement. How can you achieve engagement if you don't see your customers face-to-face when promoting?
In modern times, using influencers and micro-influencers is crucial for businesses. Collaborate with social media influencers that operate within the wedding branch and promote your products via their recommendations. Whether you decide to pay them to take photos in your apparel or gift them a dress for their wedding, it's one of the best ways to get your brand's name out there and gain more traffic to your website.
5. Implement customization options
A wedding day is usually once in a lifetime event that should be special for everyone. Therefore, your wedding business needs to be able to fulfill different kinds of requests in pursuit of originality. Whether you do organizations or focus mainly on the fashion side, implementing customization options will take you further than your competitors! How can you customize your products?
Brides and grooms usually have special requests regarding their apparel or outfits for their best man, maid of honor, and bridesmaids. Help them create the perfect atmosphere by implementing Unmade software that allows them to choose patterns, colors, and shapes of outfits they will wear. With such a customization option on your website, you will generate more revenue and attract more customers!
6. Create blog posts
In the end, you can't run a wedding-related business without creating content regarding it. From social media captions to blog posts, your business's content needs to be engaging and informative at the same time! Achieve that by writing blog posts on your website and guest blog posts on other pages with related subjects.
Help your customers pick your business by solving some of the most common dilemmas wedding days carry like ways to beat pre-wedding anxiety and take care of your mental health amid your big day. Also, don’t forget to optimize your articles for search engines and implement keywords that will make finding your business online easier!
Final thoughts
Running a wedding business is as exciting as it is nerve-wracking. While you're making someone's bug day special, you need to ensure you stay on people's radars when organizing weddings. So, use these tips to promote your business online and gain more marketing popularity and customers!
Lots of updates, we moved into a new space across the hall! Bigger studio, more room for furniture, it's a win win.
Read MoreAllow me to introduce the awesome new lady running things for us at the studio. Her name is Sarah Reese. She will be in charge of managing all things studio related. Our studio is available for an hourly rate. Sarah, or another fantastic lady on the team, will be present for the entire session. She will help you arrange furniture pieces and give advice on what looks good where. We don't personally provide photography, but we or Sarah are happy to recommend one of our favorite photographers for your session, if you want to book our studio. Several photographers have already utilized our space and love it for it's natural light and endless prop options.
We are thrilled to be working with Sarah. She's friendly, professional and has a great eye for details. Sarah is the owner of Story By Design Events, where she offers her expertise in event design. She can help you create a vision for your event, tell your story and pull it all off flawlessly. We've had the pleasure of working on several styled shoots with her and her creativity is fantastic.
If you book our studio and you need help styling it for your shoot, Sarah is available to hire through Story By Design to help you get set up. We are so fortunate to have her on board to take the studio space to the next level.
photo by Ashley Errington at Folino Estate
photo by Ashley Errington florals by Allium Design
photo by Alexandra Whitney
photo by Alexandra Whitney
We love this shoot and I have been dying to share it with you. Gina from True Beauty Marks asked if she could bring some incredibly talented vendors into our studio space for a styled photo shoot and a video. Of course we said "heck yeah!"
We're so happy Ash Imagery is fairly local to us. Michael's photography style is so haunting. Abby and I often note how men seem to photograph differently than women. It's refreshing to see things from a unique eye. Michael's photos are also extra special because in this digital age, he chooses to shoot mostly in film.
Jon and Diane modeled for us. Below are some fun shots of Gina in action.
The dress was from Lovely Bride, and oh my word, it was gorgeous!!
Jewelry by Chelsea Jones.
Belovely provided the breathtaking florals and styling. We adore what they did with our industrial metal shelves.
Cake Life Bake Shop made the decadent cake and blackberry cupcakes.
On hand was Full Heart Films. They made a very creative short film of the shoot. Enjoy the wintry romance!
Thanks for checking in!
xoxoxo, Meg
