Wedding Business Center: SuperWeddings.com - Support Services for Wedding Businesses

Put your wedding business message in front of SuperWeddings visitors for highly targeted marketing that pulls. For information on advertising in SuperWeddings! The Newsletter, our highly popular content oriented wedding planning newsletter, view the newsletter advertising rate card.

If your wedding-related business is not on the internet yet, you're missing out on a powerful source of advertising and revenue, and you're allowing your competitors a huge advantage over your company.

Statistics have shown that at least 85% of all brides-to-be (and grooms!) today are using the internet as a resource in their wedding planning. Today's bride expects sophisticated wedding businesses, professionals and vendors to have a web site to assist her in her information gathering process, and to offer her convenience. If your wedding business doesn't have a web site, you are missing out on a very valuable and cost effective way to reach your target market, and you are being out-shone by your competitors.

Don't be left out of the loop any longer; Click here to see how easy and inexpensive it is to have a very professional looking web site of your own. Your website could be up and running in as little as the next few hours - yes, with the plans we offer it can happen that quickly. With our low, low pricing, and terrific packages, there is no longer an acceptable excuse not to have a web site for your wedding business - so what you are waiting for? Get on the net now!

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Register a domain name for your wedding business through Leader Publishing (our parent company) for the amazingly low rate of just $8.75 per year! Already have a domain name? Renew it through us for only $7.75 for one year. Successful business is all about watching the bottom line and controlling expenses. No savvy business person should be paying a penny more than absolutely required. Start cashing in on our super-low rates now. Get more info here.

If you've reserved your domain name but haven't yet launched your website for your wedding business, your domain is considered to be "parked". Bet you didn't know that you can actually earn income from your parked domain. And you don't need to lift a finger to make it happen. For a small one-time fee, you'll receive relevant content to fill the pages of your parked domain, plus hosting, and search engine optimization so that your domain makes you money while until you are ready to launch your site for your wedding business. More info...

Having the ability to accept credit card and check payments on your web site for your wedding business will have a dramatic effect on your sales figures. Statistics show that merchants who provide customers with the ability to make their purchase immediately via the internet experience up to an 80% increase in sales. Accepting credit cards or online checks provides customers with convenience and a sense of immediacy, which encourages them to make the purchase. However, obtaining a merchant account can often be quite costly when one adds up the leasing charges for equipment or software, the commission taken by the credit card company, statement fees, monthly minimum service fees, etc.

A reputable online payment processing service will provide your wedding business with an immediate and very low cost solution for accepting online credit card and check payments. With no equipment or software to lease, your web site can literally be set up to accept credit cards within the next half hour. The service we recommend for your business is the one chosen as the authorized payment processor of SuperWeddings.com over a year ago. For an extremely low one time set up fee of $49 and a very reasonable commission of 5.5% of the transaction plus a $0.45 transaction fee, you can avoid the costs and complications of having your own credit card merchant account. Unlike with a merchant account, there are no application fees, no minimum monthly fees (no monthly fees of any type), no statement fees, no leases, no equipment to deal with. You simply need to insert a few simple lines of code onto your web site, and your site is credit card enabled. Online checks are also accepted for maximum convenience. Having utilized other payment processing services in the past, and having investigated many others, we have found this one to be the ideal online payment processing solution and we give it our recommendation. If after trying the service for a month, you are not satisfied, the company will refund your $49 set up fee. Accept Credit Cards within minutes for a low one-time fee and instant set up, Click Here

SuperWeddings.com is operated in conjunction with The International Institute of Weddings. The International Institute of Weddings is a professional organization within the wedding industry, dedicated to facilitating the highest standards among wedding professionals, and the products and services offered by them. The International Institute of Weddings is committed to setting the standard for excellence within the wedding industry. Membership with The International Institute of Weddings provides members with exclusive access to our cutting edge market research into the wedding industry and constantly evolving trends and includes a subscription to our quarterly trade newsletter, The Wedding Industry Journal, which offers a wealth of information to aid wedding businesses and professionals. Members are authorized to use the name and logo of the International Institute of Weddings in their marketing and promotional materials in order enhance the level of credibility and trust with which they are perceived by the bridal consumer. The Professional Development Division of the Institute also offers a number of intensive training programs for wedding professionals on an international basis. For more information about the International Institute of Weddings or membership, please visit the web site.

The SuperWeddings Professional Development Division offers courses and training, available through home-study, to assist you in developing or expanding your wedding business or career in the wedding industry. Our courses are used by newcomers to the industry, as well as by existing business owners who are looking to strengthen and improve their current operations. View our current course catalog.

SuperWeddings is open to developing strategic alliances and partnerships with other websites or companies for mutual benefit. Have something in mind? Contact us with your proposal.

We accept press releases about wedding-related businesses, products, services, or web sites. Share your news with us, and we may share it with our 2 million visitors per year. Send your press release to the editor. If you would like to include an attachment, please advise the editor before including it with your release. Emails with unsolicited attachments will not be opened due to risk of virus. We apologize that we can only publish a limited number of press releases, however, every press release will be reviewed and considered.

We accept a small number of articles by wedding professionals for publication. Because our site is edited by a recognized wedding expert, we prefer to produce much of our content ourselves in order to control quality. However, although we are particular, you are welcome to submit your article for consideration. Articles are published in exchange for the exposure - no fee is paid on publication. Submissions can be sent here.

We welcome your ideas for stories or features on SuperWeddings.com - yes, even the ones starring you or your product or service. We also accept photo submissions from wedding pros for publication on SuperWeddings.com - If published, your company name, location, and a link to your site will of course be displayed for our visitors to find you. Photos submitted are published in exchange for the exposure - no fee is paid. Make your submissions here.

SuperWeddings.com creator and editor, internationally recognized wedding expert Linda Kevich, is frequently called upon by authors, agents, and publishers to review the latest wedding book titles. If you are the author agent or publisher of a book which you think would be of interest to our 2 million visitors a year, we welcome you to send a review copy to the attention of Linda Kevich or contact her here.

Want to network with other wedding professionals and wedding business owners? Share experience or leads, offer or seek advice, or just develop contacts - maybe make some friends in the industry for the exposure? We'll be launching our Wedding Pros Club soon - its free to join. Want to be added to the list? Just click here and simply put the words 'Wedding Pro' in the subject line (your welcome to add a comment if you wish, but its not required!). We look forward to assisting you in growing your wedding business!