Improving Your Business ProcessesWedBizHour Transcript - 5th of July 2016

by UK Wedding School 12 minutes ago

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Hi all, good week so far?....

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Tonight we are going to be talking about improving your business processes.

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Do you know how many processes you use in a day?

Kayli Parke@StarletWeddings

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@UKAWEP not bad thanks! You? #wedbizhour

Wedding Insurance HQ@WIGinsurance

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Hello #WedBizHour, hope everyone is good this evening now that wedding season is in full swing!

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Venues4Hire@Venues4Hire

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@UKAWEP #WedBizHour great week so far thank you and yourselves?

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@StarletWeddings #wedbizhour Yes good, we have the new website and so far it's getting positivevibes.

Charlotte Elizabeth@PhotoCharl

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Hi #Wedbizhour. I'm new, but I'd love to meet you all!

Wedding Insurance HQ@WIGinsurance

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We've got a few tips on how to improve business processes tonight, can't wait to share them. :)#WedBizHour

Kayli Parke@StarletWeddings

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@UKAWEP oohhh!! Im gonna pop and have a look! #wedbizhour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@WIGinsurance #wedbizhour Yes lost of weekend events, hope the sun holds.

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UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@PhotoCharl #wedbizhour Hi Charlotte thanks for joining us.

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@WIGinsurance #wedbizhour Great, always enjoy your tips. Thanks

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Have you ever thought of streamlining your daily processes?

Charlotte Elizabeth@PhotoCharl

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@UKAWEP I've been meaning to for a while, but I've been so busy something else has alwasgotten in the way! #WedBizHour

Mrs W

Tutus@MrsWTutus

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@UKAWEP It's been an EXCELLENT week thanks! #wedbizhour

Hazel Parsons@HazelAParsons

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On now peeps #WedBizHour hosted by @UKAWEP twitter.com/UKAWEP/status/…

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Silly Jokes@SillyJokes

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Hi #WedBizHour, what process are we talking about?

Wedding Insurance HQ@WIGinsurance

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1. If you are feeling overwhelmed by admin, create the rule of two email check 'blocks' every day -you'll fly! #WedBizHour

Couthie

Moon@couthiemoon

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@UKAWEP Evening. Having a great week thank you. Hope yours is going grand too#WedBizHour

Hanami Dream@Hanami_Dream

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@PhotoCharl Welcome:) always lovely to meet new people #wedbizhour

Mrs W

Tutus@MrsWTutus

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@Hanami_Dream @UKAWEP Things suddenly took an upward turn - feeling very positive &hopeful this week! #WedBizHour

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Kayli Parke@StarletWeddings

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@MrsWTutus @Hanami_Dream @UKAWEP � � yay! Love this! Positive vibes #wedbizhour

Charlotte Elizabeth@PhotoCharl

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@Hanami_Dream Thank you! How are you? I love your cover image, what's the flower called? I'mterrible at flowers names! #WedBizHour

Zoe Mckeown@ZoeUKAWEP

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#wedbizhour The academy twitter login seems to be struggling so I am going to run the chat for abit from my account. Zoe

Zoe Mckeown@ZoeUKAWEP

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#wedbizhour We all have formal and informal structures to our day, but how often do we considerthem?

Jessica

Ainsley@xthisisjessicax

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@UKAWEP Hi there! I've been a bit distant recently but ready to get back into the swing of thingsthis week #wedbizhour

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Hanami Dream@Hanami_Dream

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@PhotoCharl all good here. The buttonhole has a thistle & lisianthus (my favs!) how's you?#wedbizhour

Hanami Dream@Hanami_Dream

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@ZoeUKAWEP Wish I had more time (& energy) in the day to do more of the great ideas I have inmy head! #wedbizhour

Charlotte Elizabeth@PhotoCharl

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@Hanami_Dream It's beautiful, I love the colours. I'm really well, I've been having a sort throughsome of my old weddings today #wedbizhour

Kayli Parke@StarletWeddings

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@Hanami_Dream @ZoeUKAWEP Im the same! #wedbizhour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Formal procedures are things we must get done in a certain way like finances orlegal requirements.

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Wedding Insurance HQ@WIGinsurance

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2. If you work with others, have stand up meetings at the end of each day to catch up on whateveryone has achieved. #WedBizHour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Informal procedures are the ones we set up for ourselves, like calendars and emailfiling.

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH @PHOTOCHARL · 11 HOURS

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I specialise in natural, unobtrusive #wedding #photography #QueenOf #WedBizHour

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Mrs W

Tutus@MrsWTutus

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@StarletWeddings @Hanami_Dream @ZoeUKAWEP ME TOO!! I need an extra day in the week!#WedBizHour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@xthisisjessicax #wedbizhour Hi Jessica, glad you made it.

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@MrsWTutus @StarletWeddings @Hanami_Dream @ZoeUKAWEP #wedbizhour It is true thatwe don't have the time to think about ways to streamline.

Silly Jokes@SillyJokes

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#WedBizHour too many ideas. Maybe schedule some ideas time into the day

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Have you ever thought some aspects of what you do are dysfunctional or repetitiveand there must be abetter way?

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@SillyJokes #wedbizhour Yes good idea, when do you schedule time to think.....

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UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour If you work on your own you are often working with processes that you set up a longtime ago or a pattern you fell into.

Wedding Insurance HQ@WIGinsurance

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3. Inbox Zero. Read about it here, does amazing things to business processes:whatis.techtarget.com/definition/inb… #WedBizHour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Imagine you had a team of employees, how would you describe the dailyprocedures?

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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@WIGinsurance #wedbizhour Yes these tools are great, we just need to allow a little of ourprecious time to make some changes.

Ottawa Events@OttawaEvents101

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How to be productive during wedding season: culturewedding.ca/10-ways-to-be-… #WedBizHour twitter.com/ukawep/status/…

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UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour You know your processes are not working when you start getting delays or sufferfrom poor time management and then added stress

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@OttawaEvents101 #wedbizhour We all need to consider that.

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#wedbizhour We could all start by mapping one of our daily processes ( e.g lead follow ups) as aflow diagram.

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#WedBizHour Are you duplicating any part of the process? Or worse still missing lead follow upsbecause there is a missing link.

Ottawa Events@OttawaEvents101

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@WIGinsurance I agree with this #WedBizHour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Spend 2 minutes pondering what your daily frustrations are? Could they be improvedby a better process?

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Wedding Insurance HQ@WIGinsurance

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Hope you enjoyed our tips tonight, remember to contact us for wedding business insurance!#WedBizHour wig.mx/1WCh9PK

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Often we have not allowed ourselves time to find better solutions or explore newtools, so we need to ask others.

Ottawa Events@OttawaEvents101

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#wedbizhour how to grow your wedding biz with your blog culturewedding.ca/use-blog-grow-…#wedbizhour

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour At the academy our team recently shared her email tidy tip sortd.com What tips doyou have for streamlining..

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#wedbizhour To improve your old processes you may just need to look to technology to make themmore relevant, could texting not email work?

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UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Before everyone signs out for the night, just a heads up that we will be taking awedbizhour summer break through August.

UK Wedding School@UKAWEP

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#wedbizhour Making changes can take a little more time initially but should give you long termgains.

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#wedbizhour If you do make process changes, then set a date to evaluate if it's been a success.

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#wedbizhour You have been quiet tonight, hope you haven't all dropped off to sleep. Same timenext week, thanks for joining us.

Mrs W

Tutus@MrsWTutus

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@UKAWEP *sobs quietly in the corner* #WedBizHour

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