{"id":3811,"date":"2013-05-15T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confettiradio.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2016-09-12T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:56:50","slug":"348-wedding-planning-software-for-wedding-planners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingsforaliving.com\/348-wedding-planning-software-for-wedding-planners","title":{"rendered":"LIVE! #348 &#8211; Wedding Planning Software for Wedding Planners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use wedding planning software to plan your clients&#8217; weddings?\u00a0 Do you really need it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for this topic, I asked for and received lots of great feedback from both the Confetti Radio and the <a href=\"https:\/\/weddingsforaliving.com\" target=\"_blank\">Weddings For a Living <\/a>community about what you&#8217;re currently using to manage your client&#8217;s weddings.<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'>LISTEN TO THE EPISODE<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6498\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/confetti\/content.blubrry.com\/confetti\/confetti-348-20130514.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6498','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/confetti\/content.blubrry.com\/confetti\/confetti-348-20130514.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingsforaliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/blubrryplayer6.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/confetti\/content.blubrry.com\/confetti\/confetti-348-20130514.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/weddingsforaliving.com\/?powerpress_pinw=3811-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>As it turns out, several of you are using a good old-fashioned spreadsheet to keep things in order and an equal number don&#8217;t use any application at all.\u00a0 Imagine that!<\/p>\n<p>For the wedding planners that <strong>do<\/strong> use pro software, one of the favorites seems to be MyWeddingWorkBookPro (MWWP).<\/p>\n<p>Although the plan for this show was to evaluate a variety of options for wedding planning software, I was able to coerce the wonderful Jeff Kear, one of the owners of the company behind this popular solution, to join us (at rather short notice, I might add) for the live broadcast to answer your live questions from the chat room. We learned so much.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have to be completely honest, here.\u00a0 I actually went through the 30-day trial period offered by MyWeddingWorkBookPro, and struggled quite a bit. The issue for me was understanding how to apply its features to the workflow that I typically follow when I&#8217;m planning my client&#8217;s events.\u00a0 I posted an &#8216;is-it-me-or-is-this-thing-not-as-easy-as-I-thought&#8217; question on Facebook and the floodgates opened!\u00a0 Your reactions were mixed.\u00a0 A lot of your comments were about some of the recent changes made to MWWP. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>We heard a very helpful review from Anshwa who shared her experience (on our Listener Talkback line) with another very similar product created by the WeddingWorkBookPro team, PlanningPod.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy, with the help and encouragement of Confetti Insider, Precious, also shared great feedback about how she&#8217;s using Google Apps to manage her weddings.\u00a0 Very clever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion about Wedding Planning Software <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[271,118],"post_series":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LIVE! 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