Summer Special 2 - Fab Follow-Ups

So, with wedding season upon us, wedding fair season is pretty much behind us. And how was it for you? Lots of enquiries? Lots of contacts? Lots of requests for information?

Today's Summer Special is designed to help you make the most of your information and your investment.

We'll design a brilliant, interesting and attention-grabbing follow-up schedule for you so you can work those contacts and make the most of those enquiries. We know finding the time to send just one follow up to everyone who left their details can be hard but did you know that some experts say you should aim to follow up for at least a year. Yes, that's right - a whole year of follow-ups.

And you know that makes sense - not everyone books everything for their wedding straight after attending a wedding fair or exhibition. So you need to follow up, stay in touch and keep your brand at the forefront of your potential client's minds.

• If you'd like us to just review your schedule and come up with a plan including ideas and incentives for you, our Summer Special offer is a very budget-friendly £25.
• If you'd like us to write some sparkling copy for you, it's £15 per message (to a maximum of 500 words).

As with our Brilliant Blogs offer, we've got limited space in our diary so e-mail thecandidapple@gmail.com and let's get started.

When you've invested all that money in attending a fair, you also need to invest in following up your leads.

7th April - The Week That Was

I hope that wherever you are when you're reading this is as sunny as my kitchen is at the moment. I'm currently curled up into a chair with a morning cup of tea by my side while the sun floods in through the windows. My dog is by my feet and the house is still and quiet. It's quite wonderful! As usual, I'm amazed that another week has flown by - a spinning mix of longer days and a happy hint of warmer weather in the air. Anyway, here's the week that was...

• A great meeting about something really rather special - news coming soon!
• Baking a beautiful gluten-free chocolate cake - converting one of Edd Kimber's recipes and tweeting with him about the successful changes. Next up for conversion - Edd's Cinnamon & Caramel cake.
• Launching our Summer Specials and getting a great response to the first offer - Brilliant Blogs (next offer coming your way on Monday 8th April)
• Exploring the surprisingly lovely grounds at Reading University with the dog. 
• Arranging a meeting with a fabulous someone in the industry about a project. So excited as this is someone who, in my opinion, has really got it. Can't wait!
• Easter egg accompaniment to reading - this week's book is 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons.
• Getting in contact with my next 'real bride' for Love Scarlett - love 'meeting' new people and talking weddings.
• Booking a couple of holidays and planning planning planning. Much excitement.
• Having a sunny Saturday in the garden, playing badminton with my son (who appears to be better again - hurrah!)
• Blue skies and some sunshine. Enough said.

Son's legs, not mine I hasten to add!

Summer Special 1 - Brilliant Blogs

Here's the first of our Summer Specials and it's a great offer for all you wedding professionals who know that  regular, new and engaging blogs are a great way to drive traffic to your site, demonstrate your expertise to your audience and build a great on-line community of supporters for your product or service.

Finding the time to keep writing over the busy summer months can be tricky - with weddings to attend, meetings with clients, family commitments and everything else, it can be tough to find the time to sit down and type. You might not even find writing terribly easy or you might suffer from the odd burst of writer's block. Whatever the reason, can you afford to neglect your blog?

So, let us help you with some bright and breezy blog posts. Here's what you get:

• A post written just for you - you can either give us the title or let us make some suggestions.
• Up to 500 words of copy, delivered to you as a Word ready for you to style and upload when you want.
• If there's specific messages, offers or information you want included, just let us know.
• Total flexibility - book as many as you want to really get your blog moving or just request a couple of posts to make sure you've got plenty of content to get you through a really busy period.
• Each post costs just £10.

We've only got so much space in our diary from now until the end of August so if you'd like to book in, e-mail us now to reserve your slots - thecandidapple@gmail.com We'll send you the necessary booking form and payment can be made either by cheque, bank transfer or PayPal.

Shhh, don't tell everyone but we might have put a special offer on our Facebook page for those extra lovely people that 'like' us there...

Summer Specials - Starting Thursday 4th April

Another quick post this morning to announce that as of tomorrow, Candid Apple are launching the first of our Summer Specials...

What are Summer Specials I hear you ask? Well, we've been speaking with our lovely clients and other wedding professionals over the past few weeks to find out what help they'd like from us over the coming months and it seems like there are certain things lots of you would like. Things that it can be really hard to find the time for over the busy busy summer months but things that are oh-so essential.

So, we've put together some special offers to help. To help you keep on growing your business while you're out making wedding days wonderful for your clients, to help you keep up all the momentum you've built over the winter months and, most importantly, to help you keep some balance over the crazy summer.

The first Summer Special will be launched tomorrow morning - here on the blog and on our Facebook page. We'll be adding special discounts and promotions for all our Summer Specials on Facebook too so make sure you 'Like' us now (because you're going to love us for the Summer Specials, that's for sure!)

Summer 2013 - it's going to be a good one.