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TINSTAFL. They say there is no such thing as free lunch, but actually, my twice a month newsletter is 100% free. There is no cost, no obligation, and if you don’t like it you can unsubscribe at anytime. My newsletter has 
Join me, with Mark Shaffer and Rick Brewer, for an afternoon of GREAT information that will help “fire up your engines” and book more weddings in 2011/2012. I’m pleased to be able to work with these two seasoned wedding industry professionals, it’s quite a priviledge. The workshop is free-of-charge, you can’t beat that! [
Q: Chris, we recently read that we can add the email addresses we get from the bridal shows we participate in to our email marketing database without again getting a brides permission, or what I believe is called a direct “opt-in.” Is this right? We’re confused as to what the right thing to do is? [
Officially launching September 13, 2010, the International Association of Wedding Industry Professionals is a grass-root, technology-driven association of Wedding Industry Leaders who share the common goal of promoting the wedding industry while growing their own businesses more effectively and more profitably. Our objectives are achieved through virtual networking, connectivity, knowledge, education, training, and awareness. We use technology to more effectively communicate peer-to-peer as well as with our target audience of new customers who are also using leading edge technologies to plan their wedding day and future life together.As a member you have access to the “Best of the Best” wedding industry leaders, educators, business owners, peer-to-peer advice, and other industry resources 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 
Taking the time each day to login to Facebook, or Twitter, and post is time consuming. Before long you find yourself skipping a day or two, or a week. Then you give up altogether because it doesn’t look like it is working. But Facebook and Twitter are two very important tools in your Internet marketing toolbox. Will you book 20%, 30%, or 50% more weddings as a result, I doubt it. But it does increase your overall Internet visibility and it drives traffic to your website. 
I highly recommend that you think twice before using cheap hosting for your website, especially if you have over 1000 visitor sessions a month. These "$4.95/month hosting" programs are much more likely to have performance problems and also are at a much higher risk of security hacks. Remember, slow loading websites and slow loading pages are the number one reason people leave websites. [
Here are some of my favorite Internet marketing and business building tools. For all intents and purposes, I am a one-man-show. Without the 
The number one reason you build a website is to promote your business and get more inquiries. Inquiries lead to appointments, appointments lead to sales. You do that with a combination of different Internet marketing tools, one being your website. Another is your email newsletter. Another is your blog and still another is social media marketing (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube).
OK… you’re getting two or three inquiries a week from your website and you think your website is working pretty well. Maybe 10 or 12 per month. Wouldn’t two or three inquiries A DAY be better? 50 to 60 per month? That’s 500 to 600 per YEAR!
Q: Chris, we get pretty good traffic but we just don’t get the inquiries we used to get. What do you think is wrong with our website?
