• In 2009, Sage Wedding Pros begins as a little old wordpress blog – my first post was how to track ROI in your marketing! {I had a stationery business at the time and wanted to share some of my ‘pre-wedding-biz’ knowledge.}
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  That year, I published a series called The 13-step business plan… I still have people come up to me to tell me how they wrote their first plan with that. This is one of my favorite exchanges I have in the industry.
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  Later than year, we launched The Simple Plan workshop. People joined me for 2 days of writing out a business plan.
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• In 2010, I began financial strategy consulting to wedding & event businesses looking to scale up based on my ‘previous life’ with Deloitte. (Fun fact: Junebug Weddings‘ founders were my first financial strategy clients!)
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  In 2011, we launched Thursday Therapy the first national solely networking group for wedding professionals.
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  We also began to offer The Simple Plan in a one one one format that today I continue to do in my business plan coaching.
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• In 2012, we release The People Plan, our HR toolbox.
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• In 2014, we launched Be Sage Conference, a conference dedicated to experienced business owners looking for advanced education.
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• In 2016, we began to teach The People Plan workshop for owners and managers looking to improve hiring, training, and management skills.
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• In 2018, I launched our accounting and Quickbooks courses.
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• In 2020, we took on a new name to fit our bigger identity: Be Sage Consulting.

This April, I will be introducing a NEW EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR: Be Sage Intensive. I hope you’ll join me for an immersive experience, in partnership with many industry educators, to create a marketing plan for your business.

WOW! Thank you for being with me! Thank you for trusting me with your business. I love melding all of my experiences into this ‘job’ of mine. It truly is a dream for me to take on your challenges every single day. 🙂

CHEERS to 12 YEARS!

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I’m laying it out in SIMPLE terms here:

If you want to get smarter with your cash, join me for my live online workshop on cashflow planning: http://besageconsulting.com/cash

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Here is what a cashflow plan is… it’s not what you think:

Hope to see you in our LIVE class… we’ll be creating the plan TOGETHER. (And – as always – we don’t share numbers with each other… we do collaborate, but finances are private affairs IMO.)

PS – if you did this with me before… please pass this along to a friendor that you know and love!

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💥 Then March 2020 happened. It rocked my world to lose my workouts. What I had started as a thing for physical health had become a thing for my mental health.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Trying to regain my sanity, in the early pandemic months, I would walk around my neighborhood – not having much energy for anything intense. But, I would end up resentful that I wasn’t doing more. I kept vacillating between the all or nothing mindset.

Well, it’s been almost a year now… and I am still just walking as exercise. And you know what… I’ve learned a few things:

1️⃣ Something is better than nothing.

2️⃣ I see things in my neighborhood I had never noticed before (like plants growing out of a pink wall #miamiliving).

3️⃣ Sometimes low intensity is A-OK… and that’s applicable to business and life.

Have you made peace with ‘something’ this year too?

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PS – Thursday we’ll be on Clubhouse at 4pm EST with Gretchen Culver. She will be LIVE COACHING on small weddings (how to make money with them without losing your minds)!

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• Kate was turning away customers that didn’t fit in with the large-scale events that Glint produces. She realized there was an opportunity for her to introduce an ‘entry-level brand’ for coordination services.
• With the two separate brands, Glint & Snap are able to individually use language that each target audience will connect with.
• Creating separate brands allowed Kate to systematize Snap so that it operates independently from Glint.

Watch our conversation here:

​HIRE Kate to coach you on how to sell entry-level services, SEPARATE from your main bread-n-butter brand.​

ALSO – I’ll be on Clubhouse this Thursday at 4pm EST with Kelly Marie Thompson, owner of Fleur. We’ll be doing a live Q&A on staff development for your event business. Come with your questions for Kelly!

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I’ll be on Clubhouse this Monday, February 22nd at 5pm EST / 2pm PST chatting with Aleya Harris about marketing and money! Can’t wait!

Join us here.

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• How her company culture defines every operational decision in her business – and how it’s a lifestyle for your brand
• How she leads her team as a coach, rather than a boss
• The first step to expanding your team (hint: you need a financial forecast)

Watch our conversation here:

Hire Kelly Marie for a one-hour coaching session for your business.

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• Roxanne is SUPER detailed with her client avatar. (It’s Tracee Ellis Ross… don’t we all have a crush on her?)
• Roxanne creates storyboards. She leans on her English lit background to think about the tale behind the images she’s co-creating.
• Research is Roxanne’s Secret Sauce… and she spends a ton of time and energy on this – LONG before the shoot.

You can watch our conversation here:

​HIRE Roxanne to coach you on her process here.

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