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Planning for a Successful Rebrand: Experts Share Their Experience

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What if I told you that your brand goes beyond logos, colors, and typography? I find that the most successful rebrands for our clients include a holistic reinvention that covers a lot of different specialties.  I had the incredible experience of getting to work with Cinthia Onines, owner and mastermind behind Boda Bliss (previously Modern […]

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Website platform breakdown: Showit vs Squarespace I often talk with our clients about using Showit vs Squarespace, and this is really a tough breakdown when it comes down to it! If you’re a wedding business looking to create a website either yourself or with a designer, you’ve probably heard of Squarespace and Showit. Both are […]

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Showit vs Squarespace: which platform is right for you?

website designer designing a custom Showit website
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Follow these Frequently Asked Questions best practices to provide clarity to your potential clients! Instead of allowing your FAQs to collect dust, follow these FAQs page best practices for your wedding business. There’s a highly underestimated website page in the wedding industry: your Frequently Asked Questions page. When working with our clients, we make every […]

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FAQs Page Best Practices for Wedding Pros

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10 details to update on your wedding business website for engagement season Out with the old, and in with the new! No matter where you’re at in your wedding business, the truth is, that there’s always room for improvement on your website, to make it more aligned with your business. I get it, working on […]

Website Design, Wedding Business Tips

How to Prep Your Wedding Business Website for Engagement Season

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Let’s start by chatting about Showit It’s an excellent website platform choice for creative service providers. If you’re one of these types of business owners (or similar), it might be a great fit: Who is Showit not for? If you’re running a full e-commerce business, Showit is not a good fit for you. I typically […]

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How the Showit WordPress blog can help you grow your creative business

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If you’re looking for podcasts for wedding pros, you’ve found the spot! My goal is to continuously update this resource for you to have a go-to list of episodes to binge – more than just podcast interviews with me! As a creative entrepreneur, I know how lonely business can sometimes feel! It can be easy […]

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Best Podcasts for Wedding Pros Looking for a Website or Branding Redesign

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If you’re ready to undergo a website refresh, here are 10 things you should update. Whether you do it yourself or with a designer, these are actionable steps to get you started. 1. Refresh your images. I wrote a blog post all about how to choose quality, strategic images during your website refresh. This is […]

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Planning a website refresh? Check off these website updates before you launch your new site.

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Case Study: Venue at the Edge’s Custom Showit Website Working on a custom Showit website allows you to stand out by having a website that’s catered to your business’s unique story and needs. Through our 1-week and 2-week intensives, we’re able to customize a website to your goals to enhance your online presence.  We loved […]

Client Case Studies, Website Design

Custom Showit Website for a Wedding Venue

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Years ago, I had my website hosted on Squarespace. Then, I got tired of the block style or required code for Squarespace, and I moved to Wix (I know, I know, designers everywhere are cringing). I liked the drag and drop capabilities of Wix and had used it for a large company I worked with […]

Showit Tips, Website Design, Website Tips

Showit vs Wix: Which web design platform is right for me?

Graphic that says "Which website platform is right for you?" Showit vs Wix.
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Case Study: Venue at the Edge’s Custom Showit Website Working on a custom Showit website allows you to stand out by having a website that’s catered to your business’s unique story and needs. Through our 1-week and 2-week intensives, we’re able to customize a website to your goals to enhance your online presence. While we also […]

Client Case Studies, Showit Website Design, Website Design

Custom Showit Website for a Wedding Venue

Custom Showit website for a wedding venue, Venue at the Edge
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Website Checklist for Wedding Pros and Creative Entrepreneurs If you’re a creative entrepreneur or service provider, you’ve probably already felt the necessity of having an online presence. While Instagram, Pinterest, and word of mouth are excellent ways to get business, your website could be making you money while you sleep. For real.  But what makes […]

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What Makes A Successful Website

Emily, owner of Emily Foster Creative, designing a website. Photo by Moon & Honey Photography
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When you know you need a new website for your business, that’s just one step of the website design process. Then, you have to go down the daunting path of finding the right website designer, and how on earth do you start that? In this blog, I share how to hire the right website designer, […]

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How to hire the right website designer

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Choosing good website photography that’s both interesting and strategic can be one of the biggest challenges of building a website for a wedding or creative business owner. Here are some tips to help. Wedding vendors and ESPECIALLY photographers have the benefit of having so many photos to choose from for their websites. The wedding industry is […]

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How to Choose Your Website Photography

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Custom Branding and Templated Website Design for Darlinghurst Events We worked on this destination wedding planner branding in May 2022 during one of our 2-week branding and website intensives. Darlinghurst Events is a destination wedding planning company owned by Katie Gregory, who comes to the industry with years of experience. Katie needed a new brand […]

Brand Strategy, Branding, Website Design

Brand Strategy Identity for a Destination Wedding Planner

Bride and groom walking across field. Darlinghurst Events logo design is laid over the image.
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(Hint: there’s not a quick right answer) The big question I get from wedding vendors, photographers, and really, any business, is how to pick the best website platform. For service providers particularly, making a decision on a website platform can feel overwhelming. If you’re an e-commerce brand, the answer is pretty simple: Shopify. But when […]

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How to Choose the Best Website Platform

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Branding and Website Design for a Furniture & Countertop Design Business A brand and website design that tells your business’s story is essential. When Rick from Ye Olde Finish Shoppe came to me, he wasn’t getting enough potential clients to find him through his website and his branding didn’t truly speak to his company, experience, […]

Brand Strategy, Branding, Website Design

What Goes Into a Rebrand and Website Design

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This post was originally published on October 4, 2021. Your website: the most overrated and underrated part of your creative business’s marketing. To be honest, before I had a website, it was something I dreaded doing for my business. It can be a huge chore to get together all the proper messaging and imagery for […]

Website Design

5 Benefits of a Website Redesign

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’Tis the season to get engaged… and to prep your wedding business for a HUGE influx of inquiries! I’m celebrating 1 year of being engaged to my fiancé this month, so we were part of that wedding rush last year. We had to find the right venue, photographer, and more before the best options were […]

Website Design, Wedding Business Tips

Your Website Checklist to Attract Clients in 2022

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The most overrated and underrated part of your creative business’s marketing. To be honest, before I had a website, it was something I dreaded doing for my business. It can be a huge chore to get together all the proper messaging and imagery for your business and somehow bring it all together to resemble a […]

Website Design

5 Benefits of a Website Redesign

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