How to Scale Your Wedding Business with Hannah Bjorndal
How to Scale Your Wedding Business is a podcast that explores how creative-minded entrepreneurs can build profitable, sustainable businesses through building strong, resilient and long-lasting businesses that are scaleable. The conversations in each episode focus on how to be intentional and avoid all the common pitfalls when preparing for growth and hiring, training and leading a creative team. Host Hannah Bjorndal focuses on strategies that encourage thriving over surviving and working smarter, not harder.
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OVERVIEW
You might not know this, but it was never my dream growing up to be an entrepreneur or small business owner. It also wasn’t my dream to be a photographer. Owning a small business has been an adventure more exciting and fulfilling than I ever could have dreamed!
On this week's episode, I'm sharing 5 things this year that I'm thankful for in owning my business. I hope this episode encourages you t...
FREE GUIDEBOOK: The 10 Pitfalls of Growing a Creative Team
OVERVIEW
This episode focuses on my top insights on how to protect your business, plan for the future, and handle unexpected events, especially if you're a one-person team.
As small business owners, time and resources are often sparse. Without a reliable team, stepping back from your business could lead to a significant loss of income and potentia...
FREE GUIDEBOOK: The 10 Pitfalls of Growing a Creative Team
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Ever feel like there's just not enough hours in the day to get everything done? You're not alone! This episode is all about my personal journey of overcoming that feeling of overwhelm by hiring a virtual assistant (VA). I know the idea of hiring a VA can be daunting, but getting started is actually so much easier than you might think.
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FREE GUIDEBOOK: The 10 Pitfalls of Growing a Creative Team
OVERVIEW
We only have so many hours in a day, and one of the most important things we can do for our businesses and our lives is decide to use those hours wisely. That's the theme behind what we’re talking about today: working smarter, not harder.
This the final week of the 5-part series I’ve been sharing with you on how I doubled my annual revenu...
FREE GUIDEBOOK: The 10 Pitfalls of Growing a Creative Team
OVERVIEW
When was the last time something did not go according to plan with your business? You had a plan or an idea of what you were hoping for or working towards, and then something happened - many times, something that was totally out of your control, and the plans were ruined?
Have you had to do this before? If you’ve been in business a while, I kn...
FREE GUIDEBOOK: The 10 Pitfalls of Growing a Creative Team
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In this episode, I share why hiring the right people led to rapid growth for my company. This is week 3 in a 5 part series about how I doubled my income in 2 years.
RESOURCES
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OVERVIEW
We are currently in the middle of a 5-part series on the steps I took to double my business income in 2 years. If you missed the last episode - Step 1 - go back and listen to that before jumping in to this week. It’s a helpful starting p...
RESOURCES
Vision Casting Workbook: Download for Free
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Join the Insiders Group: Team Building for Creative Entrepreneurs
OVERVIEW
At the beginning of 2020, I fully expected, like most wedding vendors, that the pandemic would hit our business very hard financially and might even put us out of business. But then, something very different happened. In 2020 and then 20...
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BELAY: my top recommendation for virtual assistants
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OVERVIEW
An absolutely essential, core part of building your team is the hiring process: choosing the right people for your team. And the...
RESOURCES
BELAY: my top recommendation for virtual assistants
Schedule a call with Anna and mention Hannah Bjorndal for $300 off the implementation fee
SIGN UP NOW: Dream Team Accelerator Waitlist
Join the Insiders Group: Team Building for Creative Entrepreneurs
OVERVIEW
As you’ve probably noticed, I recently renamed this podcast to Team Building for Wedding Pros, and the reason I did that was beca...
RESOURCES
Vision Casting Workbook: Download for Free
SIGN UP NOW: Dream Team Accelerator Waitlist
Join the Insiders Group: Team Building for Creative Entrepreneurs
BELAY: my top recommendation for virtual assistants
Schedule a call with Anna and mention Hannah Bjorndal for $300 off the implementation fee
OVERVIEW
I remember the first time I realized that there were wedding photographers out the...
RESOURCES
Vision Casting Workbook: Download for Free
SIGN UP NOW: Dream Team Accelerator Waitlist
Join the Insiders Group: Team Building for Creative Entrepreneurs
BELAY: my top recommendation for virtual assistants
Schedule a call with Anna and mention Hannah Bjorndal for $300 off the implementation fee
OVERVIEW
Last December, about a week before Christmas, I sat with tears in my eyes - happy ...
In the creative business world today, being present online is really important. You already know this, right? Having a website and a strong social media presence are a huge part of our daily work - clients find us here, we connect with fellow business owners here. We showcase our work and who we are online.
And yet, there is a big opportunity for online visibility that I think a lot of us are missing. Thankfully, I have an incredibl...
In this episode, we discuss how to diversify your income by creating multiple streams of income. We take a deep-dive into one photographer's journey into photo editing and how she stabilized her business by building an editing company.
Klaire Sabbagh, this episode's guest, is owner of Klaire Dixius Photography. Klaire is a wedding photographer serving the DC area, and also offers Photo Editing services for other ...
As your business grows, so do your responsibilities. If you want to continue growing and scaling your business without burning out or working around the clock, at some point you need to outsource. But where do you even start?
Thankfully, there are professionals and businesses who specialize in helping you with this very thing - they will do the tasks you don’t want to do so that you have more time in your life to do the th...
UPDATE: as of March 2022, Rebecca has openings for new clients! Contact her by reaching out via the options listed below in "resources."
On this podcast episode, I have a conversation about ADHD with Rebecca Tolbert - a therapist and ADHD Coach who specializes in helping women create lives they love.
As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago, I know how life-changing it can be to understan...
Do you have your email opened right now? If you’re sitting at your computer or even on your phone, there is a good chance that the answer is yes. I wouldn’t’ even be surprised if you’re scrolling through it at a stoplight or in line at the grocery store right now.
You hate it, and yet it sucks you in day after day. Three hours go by and it feels like it’s been 5 minutes . . . and you’re somehow still not closer to answering all...
How much time each week do you spend on administrative tasks? I’m talking about sending client emails, booking dates on your calendar, collecting payments, and generally making sure all of your projects are up to date and where they need to be. Is it 8 hours? 10 hours? Half of your work week?
We all know that taking care of customers is essential to having a successful business. It doesn’t matter what type of business you ...
In this episode, we’re talking all about one of my favorite subjects - sales. How to sell to your clients. I know that the word sales makes a lot of people feel icky, but what we’re really talking about when we talk about selling is connection. Making a meaningful connection with a potential client. I have a special guest on the show today who has refined and perfected her sales process for her wedding clients, and we’re having a c...
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