As the sun sparkled on Canandaigua Lake in a video tour of one of the venues along its shoreline, memories of past wedding venues popped into mind. The first official wedding I was hired to manage was my husband’s boss’ only daughter’s wedding in 1996 on another Finger Lake shoreline, that one in Skaneateles on a beautiful September day. A year after that one on the same glistening lake, illuminated waves crested on the lakeside lawn for a big-time spending groom for his bride. Lake weddings are the best, in my opinion.
With my pink clipboard dusted off, I’ve been helping my son’s friend with his wedding plans happening this weekend. I never pitched the wedding services, but when my son’s friends heard I was an event planner, they asked me for a quote. I happily obliged, landing the special event and working the past six months with this couple. I suppose what’s old is new again when you are a woman entrepreneur.
The Higginbotham Wedding Cape Cod 2024
Skillsets can be placed on the backburner, when our companies grow and expand with new options for customers or because the market demands it. I still remember nervously pitching that first wedding in 1996 to the family so I could start earning money and officially be an entrepreneur. That wedding remains my most vivid event memory after 3 decades in business. Your first is extra special, right?
The copy of that first $500 deposit check still resides in my desk reminding me that I made it in business. It reminds me today, 28 years later, that although weddings and events are unique, they take the same skillset to make them successful, no matter when they happen. We don’t lose our expertise over time or even decades. It’s still there.
Today’s Wednesday Wisdom invites you to think back to the first years of your business’ offerings and see if you are still offering them. If not, why not? Could you reinstate or remarket what you used to provide? If you aren’t interested in going back in time and doing something you used to do, what have you replaced it with, and could you add more to your repertoire?
Don’t forget, we don’t lose what we know, sometimes we need someone new to ask us to assist them, and what we used to offer comes spilling back. Allow some time today to drift back, take notes, and summarize what you may or may not, want to add back to your business life. I will do the same as I take a planning break to look out over Canandaigua Lake this weekend.
Love this! I have just gotten back into Mentoring after not doing it for years. Now I remember how much it “spoke” to me and I am loving it. And I also love following your new/old journey Tracy!
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Love this! I have just gotten back into Mentoring after not doing it for years. Now I remember how much it “spoke” to me and I am loving it. And I also love following your new/old journey Tracy!
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