Taming the Runaway Wedding Planner
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As the wedding planning field expands, some couples are finding that planners, like a broken engagement, can cause heartache.
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How the desperate might go about finding Mr. or Ms. Right.
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If the beloved with whom you see âLicense to Wedâ canât stop talking about how great it was, you might want to cancel the nuptials.
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Travel: Our online guide, full of holiday ideas for every type of couple. First up, Rowan Pelling gets us in the mood with her tips on how to get it right
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1.      Meet the press. You will need the press on your side to get your product the attention it deserves. To do that, you will need to write a compelling press release. If you feel you can't do that, Google my name, Jaci Rae, and look up the various press releases. I will also put them on ideamarketers dot com for reference. Look at my articles section and you'll find them.    Once you have a kick it press release, go to prweb dot com and sign up for an account. You can send out a press release for $0, but I suggest a $10 to $40 investment on press releases you want to be noticed. The best days to send out a press release are Tuesday  Thursday. Check out what's going on in the media so you can tie in your press release with the headlines. While your press release is an advertisement, you don't want it to be completely written like an advertisement. It's a fine line you need to walk.    A great resource to get the names, addresses and phone numbers of the people you need to contact in both television and print is the Bull Dog Reporter. However, that might be more than you can afford. If you are on a tight budget, Google top newspapers. Go to their websites and find the contact information.    Don't randomly send out your press release. You need to target your release to the specific beat reporter. Sending your music press release to a sports reporter or your computer release to the wedding reporter won't do you any good.   2.      Do public appearances. Nothing will garner more sales or attention than personal contact and word of mouth. Go to your local mall and ask if they will allow you to do a public demonstration in exchange for what you have to offer. If they won't, ask what the costs are and then go to local business to offer them a piece of the action in advertising if they donate money.    There are many other avenues to spread the news: Local supermarkets, libraries, coffee shops, etc. Music can be sung, books can be read, products can be demonstrated and services can be spoken about and validated if you have recommendations from those people who have successfully used your service.    This will help compel those who are listening to want to invest money in you and your talent. People are more likely to buy when they have a personal experience with the product or person. Make sure to invite the media to your event and advertise it to the hilt to ensure a bigger turnout.     Put up flyers, call up your local cable company and find out how much it costs to advertise. Commercials at the local or regional level during prime time will only cost you $30 a spot (approx.).  That's for advertising on VH1, MTV and many other very high profile shows.    Go to a college that has an excellent audio/visual department. Many students will only ask for the price of the film as long as they can keep a copy for their final exam. If you have a larger budget, many professional services will do an entire commercial for $5,000. A great company is Event Management Services. Ask for Marsha Friedman who is the President. 3.      Use the web to its full advantage. Set up shop on the World Wide Web if you havent already done so. Web sites do not guarantee money, but they are an additional source of advertising for you. Join web rings. While I had seen many of my competitor's use this on their web sites, I never joined one. One day I made a decision to do just that and my Christmas web site went from being unseen to the top five for my search string of Christmas with love and other terms. The results showed up in one week.    If you don't know how to create a web site, you can go to your local college as I stated prior. There are also many web sites like webmonkeys that have quite a bit of information to help get you started. Don't waste money on people who promise you top ten ranking at this point.            4.      Donate your time and services sincerely to charitable events. Eventually you'll be able to donate your item or services and get valuable advertising without cost in exchange. Charities that I can personally recommend are the Special Olympics, Make-A-Wish and Saint Jude's Hospital. Many other charities I have worked with are just as wonderful. They need the help and you do too. Why not help someone else and in exchange, you may be able to help your business? 5.      One of the most important tips is to strategically align yourself with other successful entrepreneurs.
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When people fail to make estate-planning decisions while they are alive and well, the results for their heirs can be costly and stressful.
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What walks in the woods led to: a wedding in the woods, complete with a wedding-party walk.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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I&#146;m on teleconferences several times a day. They&#146;re either great, or a mess. Some people don&#146;t know how to start one; other times there&#146;s no one in charge of moving the call forward or there&#146;s no agenda. Sometimes you don&#146;t know who is on the call. Save yourselves!
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A little planning now can save your loved ones lots of hassle.
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Q: It&#39;s been a wild week for you. Are you still at Barbados, or up here, how did things go and were you as nervous at the wedding as when you proposed?
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If Alesia Latson had not gotten organized, she'd still be single. Latson hired organization coach Robin Blank to come into her home and help throw away clutter, arranging what remained into a neatly organized basement, pantry, and closets. The process was transforming, preparing her to fall in love and marry Brian Latson, after girlfriends signed her up for an online ...
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When you marry someone, you may be marrying some massive financial headaches.
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Over on the ThinkingPHP Blog, Felix Geisendorfer has completed his series of Ten Days of Free Dessert with some useful tips about using the CakePHP Framework.   'm announcing the "10 Days of free Dessert!". This basically means that I'll post at least 1 useful and easy to adapt CakePHP tip begining tomorrow for the next 10 days. I will try to pick things you might not have heard before and that didn't get a lot of loving from the docs team so far.   Here's the listing:  The 7 Crucials of CRUD Become Friends with the Inflector Generate a Random Password Keep Your Cake Fresh (use SVN HEAD) Keep a Custom Configuration File MySQL & UTF-8 Conventions over Ego Render Custom Errors Graceful Error Handling Default Models, Components, and Helpers  Each of the posts contains a description of the feature and some code to show how it's done. It's a great, handy little series of posts for any CakePHP developer to keep in their toolkit to pull from later on.
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Felix Geisendorfer is in the process of moving his blog from Wordpress to a customized "light-weight CakePHP replacement" he's developing to be extended later on. His post shares some of the tips he found so far.   In this post I'm simply going to throw out some snippets to show how I'm currently approaching the whole process in order to give both my insight into what works and what doesn't, while also hoping to get some people to share their insight into migrating legacy apps to CakePHP.   The tip in this post is primarily about the database side of things - his porting over of the information from the Wordpress table model to his new customized schema. His code example for the migration is included.
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Â· Change of strategy after spokeswoman resignsÂ· Couple consult former News of the World editor
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This vendor makes complex, pricey software to forecast call volumes for call centers. And when a customer gets an indecipherable error message in the middle of budget planning, things get crazy.