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Peep a few little tidbits of SUPER IMPORTANT INFO! I’m rounding up some important updates that I’ve been meaning to share. And away we go!
- a cool new social dining/networking company, which hooks up people like me with a meal-full of like-minded, hungry eaters. I’m a super big fan of Hugo’s – and am excited to connect with anyone interested in weddings, social media, blogging, (or other general interests of mine such as acting, movies, video games, or being a bad-ass redhead). We need 3 more sign-ups to make the dinner happen, so I hope you’ll come join me! I promise that I make a very fun date
2. I’m co-hosting a panel for the LTDlive2012 conference with one of the loves of my life, Anne Sage (of The City Sage and Rue Magazine fame) on The Business of Blogging: Find Your Voice, Find Your Niche: Make Blogging the Most Powerful Tool in your Entrepreneurial Toolkit. Going to the conference? Come see us speak! Not going to the conference? What’s wrong with you, already?!?
3. My good buddy Meg, from A Practical Wedding (one of the best wedding blogs around, I promise you) is coming to SoCal for the final stop on her fancypants Book Tour. She’ll be stopping in Pasadena at Vroman’s on February 12th from 1pm-3pm. Click here to RSVP. I’ll be there with bells on. And that’s a promise. (or a threat. but wouldn’t you rather find out which, in person?)
Hey Hey Hey! We’re looking for a few kick-ass folks to join our kick-ass team. And when we look for cooler-than-cool we know to go to the source: our readers. We need talents across the spectrum for paid positions in ad sales and web development, to internships in media and editorial.
Each position has it’s own requirements but we’re coming to you first because all of them require smarts, moxie and generally bad-assery. So hit us up (or tell your incredibly talented friend to hit us up) and maybe we’ll be seeing a lot more of each other!
But enough chit chat. Let’s dig in shall we?
♥ AD SALES MANAGER:
Our sponsors are what make this blog possible, and we need someone to help manage the sales and upkeep of our advertising department.
- Applicant should have a minimum of one year in ad sales, specifically online ad sales.
- Super organized: creating and managing database of all sponsor contacts, sales, communications etc.
- Excited and determined to generate leads.
- Comfortable with cold calling/emailing.
- Great follow-up skills. Someone who is not afraid to pester but has the people skills to feel like an old friend checking in.
- Knowledge of WordPress and the wedding industry a super strong plus.
Full time. Compensation is based solely on commission.
To apply, send resume and cover letter to jobs[at]brokeassbride.com with subject line “AD SALES MANAGER”
♥ FREELANCE WEB DEVELOPER:
We’re seeking an experienced freelance programmer well-versed in WordPress, CSS, HTML, SEO, and E-Commerce development.
Our ideal developer is good at working in a team situation (ie alongside our designer and us) but is also efficient when flying solo. Excellent with deadlines and attention to detail. This will be for a few larger projects as well as ongoing site development. Preference for LA area but happy to work with any location for the right fit.
Compensation based on experience.
To apply, send resume, cover letter and links to previous work to jobs[at]brokeassbride.com with subject line “WEB DEVELOPER”
♥ MEDIA INTERN:
You’ll be generating and distribute pitches and press releases on behalf of BAB, as well as researching, organizing and maintaining database of contacts in media outlets.
Ideal candidate qualifications:
- Fearlessness (or at least willing to tell fear to go “shut it” ’cause you gots a job to do.)
- Excellent writing and grammar skills
- Great follow up skills. We’re looking for someone who is not afraid to pester but has the people skills to feel like an old friend checking in.
- Highly organized, great with deadlines and very self-motivated
Experience or education in PR or marketing programs a plus. LA local preferred but willing to work remotely with the right candidate if necessary. Most duties can be performed on your own schedule but periodic meetings will be scheduled.
This is an unpaid internship but course credit is available. 10 hours/week.
To apply, send resume, cover letter and writing samples to jobs[at]brokeassbride.com with subject line “MEDIA INTERN”
♥ EDITORIAL INTERN:
A great opportunity for someone interested in the business of blogging. You’ll be helping us reorganize content, strategize new series’, edit and proofread. Requires exceptional attention to detail, excellent writing and grammar skills. Knowledge of wordpress is crucial, photoshop and SEO skills are a huge plus. Unpaid, but credit available. Could easily grow into a contributing position. 10-15 hours/week. LA local preferred, but we’re open to the right person working remotely.
To apply, send resume, cover letter and writing samples to jobs[at]brokeassbride.com with subject line “EDITORIAL INTERN”
I don’t know what magic genie I must have conjured with my various wanton longings for a beachy, margarita-laden getaway… but as if by magic, I was invited to come speak at the Inspire Smart Success Experience in Riviera Maya, Mexico next month (along with a whole crew of tremendously inspiring colleagues)!
I get totally giddy whenever I look at that list of speakers. So many industry heroes of mine… I keep pinching myself that I get to be included in such a stellar line-up of pros. AND IN MEXICO, YO, at the gorgeous Now Sapphire Riviera Cancun Resort! Y’all know how much I love me a margarita. Chalking this up as reason #3,798 that mine is the coolest job in the world.
ISSE Mexico is an event designed to help entrepreneurs in the wedding industry learn, connect, and recharge – so they can return home ready to rocket their business to the next level. Sessions over the 4 days will include:
Branding
Entrepreneurship
Social Media
Getting Published
Getting on TV
What you Need to Know BEFORE spending your $ on Advertising
Photography 101 & 102
Wedding Planning 101 & 102
Blogging 101 & 102
Goal Setting & Selling your Value
Balancing Motherhood and Work-Life Balance
Technology ‘Stuff’ You Must Know
Inspirational and Stress Release on the Beach
Special Private Session for ISS Mentoring Members
And MUCH MORE
The event is almost sold out, but if you’re a wedding pro with a yen to learn how to advance your career while treating yourself to a glorious getaway, come join the party and sign up today! I’d love to see you there!
I’m super thrilled to be featured as a contributor in style-guru Emily Henderson’s holiday gift guide! I’m a huge fan of Emily – she’s so crafty and clever, and couldn’t be sweeter…. so getting to be a part of anything she does makes me do a happy dance. (and if you haven’t checked out her HGTV show, Secrets from a Stylist yet, you’re missing out!)
The guide is lusciously designed by our friend and graphic designer extraordinaire Lindsay from Linz Loves You Designs, and is teeming with holiday design and decor inspiration, as well as gift picks from some of the best bloggers around!
I got to pick out my favorite gifts for pet-owners, and found such adorable goodies that I’ve had to exercise incredible restraint to keep from buying them all for my pup, Paco. This guide might be the death of me. So many great ideas!
Oh, and there’s giveaways involved too. So hop on that.
A couple weeks ago, Hunter and I had the great honor and pleasure of hosting a livestreamed episode of Bridal Wave at the Kenmore Live Studio in Chicago. Bridal Wave is a new webseries that introduces a new bride each week, polls her whole network on typical issues concerning relationships and marriage, and then shares their answers, along with some great wedding planning advice in a tidal wave of bridal advice and support. Their usual host, the fabulous Azure Nelson from OneWed.com was out of town and we were very excited to fill in for her in my lovely hometown.
We’ve never done a live performance of this magnitude, and I was pretty nervous about it, but it turned out to be all kinds of fun! The show’s focus was on DIY weddings, and we had special guest experts Debi Lilly from A Perfect Event and Khris Cochran from DIY Bride join us with some great tips. The people at Kenmore Live Studio couldn’t be nicer, our bride Melanie was adorable beyond belief, and my family and bestie were in the audience. It was a pretty fantabulous time.
And yes, while it was originally streamed live, through the magic of the internets you can all enjoy it at your leisure! Check it out!
Hunter and I will be in Chicago this Saturday to host an episode of Bridal Wave at the Kenmore Live Studio in partnership with OneWed.com, and we’d love for you to join us in the live studio audience, or virtually, via LiveStream!
We’ll be dishing out budget, DIY bridal tips, helping a local bride get answers to her burning questions about weddings and marriage, and bantering as only we broke-asses can!
We’d love to meet you, and would love to have some friendly faces in the audience… so come on down to the studio, or join us at 10am CST on LiveStream!
Saturday, October 15
Audience arrivals – 9:45am CST, Broadcasts from 10-10:30 CST
Kenmore Live Studio
678 N Wells Street
Chicago, IL 60654
Super excited to have been asked to appear on the NBC-LA News last week, to dish on budget wedding tips with anchor-extraordinaire Colleen Williams! But even MORE excited that I get to share the clip with all of you via the magic of the internets!
Please enjoy my brand-new haircut. And please overlook the valley-girl amount of times I say the word “like” during the interview.
These segments are always interesting because it feels like a 500-yard sprint. Time somehow speeds up when the cameras are rolling, and I have to think and talk on the fly which gets my brain into overdrive. I’m so grateful for these video clips, because when I try to remember back to how it went, its all just such a blur, it moves so fast.
How hysterical that they couldn’t say “Broke-Ass” on the NBC news? With all the crazy things they report on (including the piece on the porn star the next night that was tres risque), who’da thunk “Broke-Ass” was where they’d draw the line? So silly! But I thought Colleen’s way of describing it was pretty funny. “broke a-dash-dash, squiggly letters” … love it.
What do you think? Did I represent alright?
Oh, and thanks to Shabby Apple for the sunniest yellow dress to ever be made. It makes me so happy every time I wear it!
That’s right! We’re recruiting a few more contributors to play in our sandbox and rock their broke-asses in our general direction… so we’re going straight to the source. To the goods. To the most bad-ass readership around!
If you’re….
a frugal fashionista obsessed with thrifty threads and knows where to find ‘em……
OR
a wedding pic-porn addict who loves real weddings like a voyeur loves picture windows and sturdy trees…….
OR
planning your own wedding like its your life’s broke-ass masterpiece…..
…. AND you’re also:
possessed by everything wedding-related like in a way that makes you worry for your sanity…..
AND futhermore, you’re:
clever, crafty, smart, sassy, cheeky, funny, mouthy, resourceful, witty, reliable, of questionable propriety, punctual, piquant and (above all), can do it all in writing... then we want you!
zombie bride wants you, too!
Specifically, we’re in the market for contributors in our Can’t Afford It/Get Over It, Real Weddings and Real Brides columns… the roost is expanding! Know how to use creativity as currency? Can you commit to us with as much hot passion as we do to you? Got a voice and know how to use it? Want to gain valuable writing experience and exposure? You might be just our kind of chicken.
If you think you’ve got the chops and want in on this party (its kind of really a super fun party), shoot us an email detailing why you want to be a member of Team Broke-Ass, throw in some links to your favorite writing samples and generally make us love you! ‘Cuz we wanna love you. We wanna love you loooooooong time. (bonus points for entries involving haiku. for realsies. no, I mean it.)
info [at] brokeassbride [dot] com
We’ll be accepting applications alllllll week long. Bring it on, Broke-Ass Masses!
We’ll shout it from the rooftops: We heart marriage equality! And our fabulous bloggy friends over at A Practical Wedding are throwing a fabulous shindig in NYC to celebrate the state’s recent legalization of gay marriage! “Yay New York: A Mass Reception to Celebrate Marriage Equality” is taking place on August 25th at 320 Studio in Manhattan’s fashion district. Check it out, it’s pretty stunning.
It’s gonna be a massive, 200 person dance party/wedding reception/fundraiser/epic celebration! Earlier in the day, two lucky couples will be wed on 320 Studio’s beautiful outdoor terrace (with APW footing the bill!) – and they’ll be celebrating their union in style that evening at YNY! There will be raffles, sweet tunes provided by DJ Whitney Day, dancing, an open bar – you’ll never have more fun celebrating civil rights, AND of course, it’s all for a great cause.
Tickets are $20, with a suggested donation of $40 for Lambda Legal at the door. The aim of this event is to raise $10,000 for LL, to assist them in “achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.” And if you’re not in New York but still want to lend support, check out the awesome regional parties that are popping up! We want as many Broke-Ass Nation representatives at this event as possible, so please buy tix and help spread the word about Yay New York!
