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.
Episodes
80 episodes
5 Things in My Business I'm Thankful For
OVERVIEWYou 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 fulfil...
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Episode 98
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36:14
5 Ways to Protect Your Business for Long-Term Success
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 ...
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Episode 97
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36:35
5 Tasks to Quickly & Easily Delegate to a Virtual Assistant
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 o...
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Episode 96
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44:51
5 Steps I Took to Double My Income in 2 Years (Part 5)
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...
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Episode 96
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35:09
5 Steps I Took to Double My Income in 2 Years (Part 4)
FREE GUIDEBOOK: The 10 Pitfalls of Growing a Creative TeamOVERVIEWWhen was the last time something did not go according to plan with your business? You had a plan or a...
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Episode 95
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26:08
5 Steps I Took to Double My Income in 2 Years (Part 3)
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. First, I'm sharing how hiring, in general...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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27:36
5 Steps I Took to Double My Income in 2 Years (Part 2)
RESOURCESOVERVIEWWe are currently in the middle of a 5-part series on the steps I took to double my business income in 2 years.
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Episode 93
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24:04
5 Steps I Took to Double My Income in 2 Years (Part 1)
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Episode 92
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27:13
How to Hire the Right People (My Top 8 Interview Tips)
OVERVIEWAn absolutely essential, core part of building your team is the hiring process: choosing the right people for your team. And the number one way to determine if someone is right? Interviewing them!I have now been...
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Episode 91
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37:24
4 Different Types of Team Members & Why You Need Them
OVERVIEWAs you’ve probably noticed, I recently renamed this podcast to Team Building for Wedding Pros, and the reason I did that was because this new name highlights the specific subject within the wedding industry which is ...
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Episode 90
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45:07
7 Essential Steps for Growing a Successful Team
OVERVIEWI remember the first time I realized that there were wedding photographers out there that had more than one person in their company. They had multiple photographers who could shoot multiple weddings on any given day and I tho...
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Episode 89
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50:43
Why Build a Team? 8 Reasons that Will Transform Your Business & Life
OVERVIEWLast December, about a week before Christmas, I sat with tears in my eyes - happy tears - surrounded by 3 of my dearest friends and our spouses. We were enjoying festive cocktails, champagne and the most amazing French food i...
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Episode 88
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33:49
How to Get More Clients Through Publications with Lisa Simone Richards
Overview: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 c...
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Episode 86
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46:10
Creating Long-Term Stability: How to Diversify Your Income with Klaire Sabbagh
Overview: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 editi...
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Episode 85
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35:11
How to Prepare Your Business to Outsource with Adrienna McDermott
Overview: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 s...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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49:45
Understanding ADHD to Maximize Your Skills in Business & Life with Rebecca Tolbert
Overview: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 To...
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Episode 83
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1:01:44
Exactly How I Organize My Inbox to Save Hours of Time Each Week
Overvierw: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 o...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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42:46
How to Use Automations to Grow Your Business & Get Your Life Back with Honeybook Pro Diana Wei Fang
Overview: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 wh...
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Episode 81
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54:23
How to Connect with Your Couples to Close More Sales with Lindsay Williams
Overview: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 se...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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1:07:13
Is Scaling Your Business the Right Next Step? 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Growing
Overview:Scaling your business refers to the ability to grow or increase the amount of work (or sales) exponentially in a sustainable, cost-effective way - and by sustainable, I mean financially AND practically speaking. Succ...
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Episode 78
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34:42
How to Show Up Online as an Introvert with Emma-Louise Parks
Overview:Are you an introvert or an extrovert? I’m guessing that you know the answer to that question. But, do you know how the answer to that question impacts your business? Our personalities impact that way we do business, especial...
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Episode 77
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54:02
The 10 Things That Surprised Me Most About Owning a Business
Overview:I was recently talking to a friend who is starting her own business from the ground up and she was asking me what most surprised me in my first year of business. It got me thinking about all the unexpected elements of being ...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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40:30
How to Cultivate a Money-Making Mindset with Amanda Joyce Weber
Overview:What, right now, is stopping you from achieving what you’re dreaming of? Did you think of something specific? Or maybe a few things? For many of us, we feel held back by something - whether it be a lack of knowledge or a ski...
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Episode 75
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57:47
How to Avoid Spinning Your Wheels & Execute a Business Plan Effectively (REFOCUS Week 5)
Overview:I don’t know about you, but I am really good at dreaming up a plan. I am a big-picture thinker, and I constantly have new ideas floating around in my head. Actually executing them and getting results? I am not as good ...
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Episode 73
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35:22