Voting Counts

June 24, 2013 was a great day for me and Erika Swift Events. I started my wedding and event planning business up again and really want to put it out there, really wanted to make it work this year, and be a successful wedding planner all the time.

Last year in 2012, I was checking out all these wedding sites, places to place my ad, and really get my name out there and I noticed the Denver A List. Everything had already been closed and the votes were over, but I made it a goal for this year to be my year.

Yesterday marked the opening of voting for the Denver A List and I have been a marketing fool. I wanted to write a blog post about it on all my blogs for the businesses I have (Grooms Corner, Erika Swift Events, and The Life of Three on Wordpress). I hope that you share in my excitement to help my business grow. Success is in the numbers, not in the people that give you something, but in the ones who support you. Thankfully, I have an amazing support system, not only the people I have met through my blogs, my businesses, but as friends, and family members…it has been an amazing ride.

The best thing about this voting is that it lasts a whole month and I am ready to rock this out! Even if I don’t win, I would like to know where my stand point is and how things are going to play out.

I also have been working on my events, the Mock Reception (Colorado springs brides first) and the Grooms Room Event. This one is starting to be my all time favorite and I cant wait to unleash our groom power on the city.
We also have officially done our last edit for our website and the official site is all done. Check out Erika Swift Events and make sure you stop by and vote for Erika Swift Events and keep following us…we really do love your support.

(PS, you will have to click the lovely picture lol)

A moment that stood still

Yesterday was an amazing day for my career in wedding/event planning. I got a call from the offices of someone I truly admire and respect and have followed since I was 16 years of age. This designer has been my all time favorite, used by Oprah, just recently got married to his partner, and has four (working on the fifth) coffee table books.


Well, I thought of this event for Jan 2014 and sent out an email to his team, asking for pricing on the speakers’ fee, what’s needed to get him out here, etc. I got a CALL!!! A call from my favorite event designers CEO! I was so thrilled and beyond tickled pink. He wants to come to my event…how amazing is that!!! The phone call alone got me motivated to do amazing things, to stand strong in my will and determination of my dreams. The fact alone that he picked my event to attend made me want to do and be better in my goals and dreams and my business.

I want him out here so bad, that I looked into funding, crowd funding, investors, etc. I asked a friend of mine about sponsorships, how to get them etc. I found a lovely and wonderful crowd funding last night and signed up. I am reaching out to my friends, family, and lovely followers to help with this amount and help me be able to get this speaker here at this event. Other speakers have expressed their interest and really want to be a part of this too.

So, I ask that you take a look at my Go Fund Me site and see if you are able to donate anything at all to my business, Erika Swift Events, and hopefully rock the Denver state with an incredible speaker, event designer, and all around wonderful person! If you know me, you know that for me, asking for money (or help) is really hard, however, I am so close to my dreams and goals and aspirations, that I find myself being ok with asking for help. I know having this speaker here will not only help me, but the wedding professionals here in Colorado.

http://www.gofundme.com/esedreams

Twice in one night...Unreal?!

Tonight, I posting twice...I know right! Never happened before!! Craziness...ok ok ok...I digress!!

Im posting tonight (again) for my business opportunity! I started a Social Network for DS Divas. DS means Direct Sales, so any lady (or man) that works in Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware, 31 Gifts, Scentsy, etc have a place to come, network, socialize, see what the top speakers of the industry are saying, recruit, learn to recruit, tips on bookings, and party planning events!

I would so love for you to join me and to learn more about the DS Divas and their hard work they all put into building their business and their passion for their business. Some of these ladies are single moms, moms/wives whose husbands are deployed, taking care of house and home. So its nice to have a place where we can network and grow from one another!

If you have a business (of any sort) you can also join this page, as I would love to see and help your business grow any way possible!!

Check out the site here: http://allhomepartydivas.ning.com/

Hope to see you there!!