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Funktastic Chats

Mike Zabrin

44 episodes

7 months ago

Send us a text 💬 Show Notes Welcome to another episode of Funktastic Chats Podcast! Today, we're chatting with Kate Furst from Zola, the fastest-growing women-led wedding planning platform. Kate shares her incredible journey in the events industry, celebrating nearly 11 years at Zola. She provides an inside look at how Zola has transformed from an e-commerce registry to a comprehensive wedding planning tool that serves both couples and vendors. Kate dives into Zola’s innovative features des...

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Send us a text 💬 Show Notes Welcome to another episode of Funktastic Chats Podcast! Today, we're chatting with Kate Furst from Zola, the fastest-growing women-led wedding planning platform. Kate shares her incredible journey in the events industry, celebrating nearly 11 years at Zola. She provides an inside look at how Zola has transformed from an e-commerce registry to a comprehensive wedding planning tool that serves both couples and vendors. Kate dives into Zola’s innovative features des...

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Funktastic Chats

Kate Furst from Zola Chats How Their New Vendor Marketplace Connects Couples and Wedding Pros

Send us a text 💬 Show Notes Welcome to another episode of Funktastic Chats Podcast! Today, we're chatting with Kate Furst from Zola, the fastest-growing women-led wedding planning platform. Kate shares her incredible journey in the events industry, celebrating nearly 11 years at Zola. She provides an inside look at how Zola has transformed from an e-commerce registry to a comprehensive wedding planning tool that serves both couples and vendors. Kate dives into Zola’s innovative features des...

1 year ago

42 minutes

Funktastic Chats

PARTYSLATE Co-Founder and CEO Julie Novack Chats Expanding Your Digital Footprint

Send us a text Welcome to another episode of Funktastic Chats Podcast! Today, we're diving into how PartySlate can transform your event business with its innovative digital tools and strategies. Whether you're an event professional specializing in luxury corporate events, weddings, galas, etc., this episode is packed with insights just for you. We explore how PartySlate helps event professionals build a robust digital presence, save time, and manage their portfolios effectively. Julie emphasi...

1 year ago

50 minutes

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I always say I went to the "School of Alan Berg"....

Send us a text Today's guest is none other than Alan Berg! He’s the author of seven books, and in our last episode in 2021, we talked extensively about his wisdom in the business of weddings. Some of his popular books include "Shut Up and Sell More Weddings and Events," "Why Are They Ghosting Me?" and his latest, "Stop Selling and Help Them Buy Weddings and Events." Alan speaks to thousands of entrepreneurs like myself and business professionals every year through webinars, live presentations...

1 year ago

49 minutes

Funktastic Chats

Why You Should Treat Paid Ads Differently: Handling Cold Leads vs. Warm Leads from Referrals, with Wedding Advertising Expert, Mark Chapman

Send us a text Why are couples taking longer to book you? Is your website ready to convert a cold audience? Is it relates to gen Z couples, promotion oriented advertising is a thing of the past. This year couples are more attuned to what makes your brand totally different and unique with personality. We're talking about the power of retargeting leveraging Tik-Tok, Instagram, Meta, and Google to show your ads multiple times and in multiple places. Mark Chapman is the founder of The I Do So...

1 year ago

31 minutes

Funktastic Chats

Wedding Biz Therapy with Terrica: From Local Planner to Global Mother Hustler

Send us a text One of my favorite things that makes Terrica different is that she speaks very plainly, so much so you'll think it's a therapy session or your favorite biz bestie. She embraces this role to help over 4000+ wedding pros scale their businesses. Terrica has spent the past eighteen years crafting exquisite weddings and events that captivate and inspire. Her exceptional talent has earned recognition in esteemed publications such as The Knot, Reader's Digest, Martha Stewart Weddings...

1 year ago

57 minutes

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How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market with Heidi Thompson

Send us a text Stand out from your competition as the top choice for your ideal clients, no matter how much you charge and join Heidi's FREE LIVE CHALLENGE MAY 20TH! The Stand Out and Get Booked Challenge Today, we're here with Heidi Thompson. She's the bestselling author of "Clone Your Best Clients" and the founder of Evolve Your Wedding Business, where she specializes in business and marketing strategy for wedding professionals. Heidi helps wedding professionals grow their businesses and r...

1 year ago

33 minutes

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Should You Offer A Photo Booth Add-On?

Send us a text Hey, event pros! We're talking about the next generation of Open-Air Photobooths by a company called Photobooth Supply Company, otherwise known as PBSC. Should you buy a photobooth to offer as an add-on? How does this photobooth company give owners and entry to the photobooth business that they may not have gotten otherwise? How much should you invest? If you own a Salsa Booth, you most likely know my guest today, Simeon Weinraub, co-owner of Jovial even...

2 years ago

39 minutes

Funktastic Chats

Releventful in 6 minutes...3 months later

Send us a text Hey, remember this episode?! How Releventful CRM Filled The Gap in The Event Industry. If you haven't had a chance to listen, or maybe you're currently using something like Dubsado, 17hats, Honeybook, or Active Campaign, you should seriously give that episode a listen! We recorded that episode 3 months ago now, and so I wanted to share my thoughts on Releventful 3 months later. One might say I'm a SUPER USER, as we run our entire event entertainment business from it all ...

2 years ago

5 minutes

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How To Level Up Your Email Marketing with Wedding Business Strategist Carissa Kruse, Part 2

Send us a text Carissa Kruse is a Wedding Business Strategist and serial entrepreneur who has been in the wedding industry for over 10 years and has built multiple businesses. She's the founder of Weddings By Carue, a multi-state and multi-service wedding business. She has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs through launching and scaling their businesses with strategy and funnels. In her first year alone, she went from zero to $130,000 without any contacts experience or support. She is firmly a...

2 years ago

28 minutes

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How Releventful CRM Filled the Gap in the Event Industry

Send us a text Today we're here with Daniel Wright, Creator of Releventful. It's more than an event platform - It's actually a customer relationship and business management platform. Whether you're a caterer, DJ, venue, photographer, or wedding planner, Releventful can help you grow your business. This CRM provides event industry business owners an all-in-one toolkit that saves both time and money keeping you organized and connected. Today's Topics Include: How Releventful filled the gap in ...

2 years ago

53 minutes

Funktastic Chats

How To Level Up Your Email Marketing with Wedding Business Strategist Carissa Kruse, Part 1

Send us a text Carissa Kruse is a Wedding Business Strategist and serial entrepreneur who has been in the wedding industry for over 10 years and has built multiple businesses. She's the founder of Weddings By Carue, a multi-state and multi-service wedding business. She has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs through launching and scaling their businesses with strategy and funnels. In her first year alone, she went from zero to $130,000 without any contacts experience or support. She is firmly a...

3 years ago

31 minutes

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What's in My Playlist: Montreal based Duo, FLARA K

Send us a text Flara K is a duo from Montreal, Canada who explore a unique blend of R&B, indie pop, and electronic music influences. I had the pleasure of meeting this talented group at Indie Week Canada! Their debut EP titled Anxious, Irrational, Fashionable is a collection of collaborative efforts alongside Mike Clay (Clay and Friends), Shakur Ahmad (Glass Animals), Milo Gore, and producer Lucas Liberatore. The release, accompanied with a month-long livestream RV tour across Canad...

3 years ago

17 minutes

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Zendesk Sell: Book More Weddings In 2022 with This Ultimate Sales Tool

Send us a text We're chatting about THE ULTIMATE SALES CRM FOR WEDDING PROS....Zendesk Sell! In this episode, we'll cover how to use Zendsek Sell for your wedding business. Topics include: Keeping Track of Leads through The Knot & Weddingwire AND Following UpDefining Your Sales ProcessBuilding Sales CollateralConverting Leads through Email Sequences...and more!As we step into engagement season, you know to update your Weddingwire and The Knot storefronts, update your website, but what yo...

3 years ago

15 minutes

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How to Close Buy-Later Couples with Book More Brides Co-owner Kate Storey

Send us a text Kate Storey is a digital marketing specialist, copywriter and social media expert. As co-owner of Book More Brides alongside her husband, Nick, she helps wedding business owners around the world better understand how to identify their perfect clients, what to say to get them to book, and how to create strategic online content that builds relationships and sales Topics covered include: How to close buy-later couples: Are couples ghosting you or are you ghosting them?How to brin...

3 years ago

51 minutes

Funktastic Chats

How Auto-Booking and Auto-Pay are Getting Musicians Back On Stage

Send us a text HOW TO SET YOUR MUSICIANS ON AUTO-BOOK! Tired of the back and forth trying to confirm all your musicians for gigs? This is the musician and crew scheduling system that manages itself. HOW TO AUTOPAY YOUR MUSICIANS! Do you really want to be wasting your time chasing your team for their gig invoices and burning cash on costly payroll or money transfer services? We hope not! Let's put it all on AUTO-PILOT. These are just two of the MANY features we'll be chatting about with Bac...

3 years ago

45 minutes

Funktastic Chats

How Indie Week Went Bigger and Better Virtually with Darryl Hurs

Send us a text Want to learn how to break through the noise and clutter in order to stand out as an artist? Indie Week "in-person" is a live festival that showcased artists around the world to industry professionals with 240 international bands and took up over 25 bars in downtown Toronto. When COVID happened, Darryl took this opportunity to create a massive 5 day virtual experience with 68+ Panels and 80+ speakers! Speakers include Rock N' Roll Hall of Famer, Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Ste...

3 years ago

45 minutes

Funktastic Chats

Season 2 Announcement & Season 1 Recap!

Send us a text As Season 1 ends, let's take a trip down memory lane and go over some of my favorite moments from Season 1. Inspiring moments from interviews with The Knot/WeddingPro, World-Renowned Bassist Jeff Berlin, Dubsado CRM, Kool & The Gang's Michael Ray, and more! Season 2 starts Tuesday, November 2nd! Check out a sneak peek of Industry Professionals & CEOS of Bookmorebrides.com, Back On Stage App, and CDBaby! Mentions Michael Ray & Cosmic Krewe Book More Brides Back On ...

4 years ago

23 minutes

Funktastic Chats

Combining Lifestyle Coaching and Spirituality To Give You The Life You Want

Send us a text Ambila Nath is a Spiritual lifestyle coach, serial entrepreneur, tarot reader, energy healer, paid international speaker. She went from a 6 figure corporate job to having a spiritual lifestyle business. She knows that the greatest journey you can take is the one to build a relationship with yourself. In today's episode, we cover: A holistic approach to coaching through energy healing and tarot readingHow tarot readings can allow us to detach our emotions to see new perspective...

4 years ago

49 minutes

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Celebrity Wedding Planner, Andrea Freeman: Turning Constraints into Strengths In Your Business

Send us a text Andrea Freeman started her first business when she was 12, second business at 26, and third business at 31. Professionally trained as an educator and leadership development coach she honed her entrepreneurial skills and scaled her celebrity event planning business to multiple six-figures in annual revenue. After years of synthesizing the peak performance habits of the red carpet celebrities and high net-worth clients she’s served in her event planning business with the mindset ...

4 years ago

46 minutes

Funktastic Chats

Redefine Your Lifestyle To Avoid The Edge of Burnout

Send us a text Is space in music just as important as the notes? If you tuned into my episode with Grammy Nominated artist, Joseph Wooten, you'd know that rhythm forces you to not only give each other space, but to respect each other's space. Take a look at a website that you really like and notice how much space is in between the text and images. How chaotic would the website look if there was no space? 🎧 Listen now to learn: ✨ To shift your mindset & focus on joy and happiness rather t...

4 years ago

42 minutes