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10 steps for R and R

Whether you are a new or longer term celebrant our 10 Steps for R and R may assist you .....

You can teach some old dogs new tricks !

Heard the one about the therapists and the light globe?

How many therapists does it take to change a light globe ?
Doesn't matter, provided the light globe wants to change. Smile
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10 Steps to take to review and revitalise your celebrancy career
1
 Register for our National newsletter Our Space - Many Voices One Goal click here
2
 Create a celebrant "partnership" or team click here
3
 Investigate and join small business support and advice services click here
4
 Make a business plan centered around your becoming a FAMILY and COMMUNITY CELEBRANT for couples and families in your area click here
5
 Organise your basic resources click here
6
 Make sure you have Celebrant Insurance and Copyright Licence cover
 click here
7
 Create or join a local celebrant network click here
8
 Join a local business network click here
9
 Investigate business alliances and/or packages, especially Senior Birthday, Wedding Anniversary (not necessarily Renewals), Mothers Day, Fathers Day ceremonies as part of a "Party with a Purpose" click here
10
 Register (free), join ACCN ($59.50 or $89.50) and use our Q & A Web-based member forum,  and other services
Access DISCOUNTED Celebrant Insurance and Copyright Licences
AND where-ever possible
contribute to working with the ACCN to develop strategies to promote newer ceremonies.		 click here
1. Register for our free ACCN National e_Magazine
The ACCN publishes a free national newsletter titled 'Our Space" available for all celebrants who wish to subscribe and to contribute.
Top of page 		CLICK HERE  and scroll down the left-hand side to find the Newsletter box
2. Create a celebrant partnership or team
Choose a celebrant friend or colleague (or colleagues) to work with in designing, developing and delivering newer ceremonies. Be each other's roadie, supporter and critic (both affirming things done well and things to do differently or improve upon).

Choose carefully and insure that you can work together for a win:win. ie that all parties fairly and fully pull their weight.

Set goals and times to review progress.

If this is not possible in your own area, look for a Celebrant Colleague in another area that you can contact via the net.

The ACCN has a brand new 'face-book' for celebrants project called Celebrant Colleagues for ACCN members. Another reason the ACCN keeps its standard fee low - to ensure every celebrant who wants to participate can afford to belong.

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3. Investigate and join small business support and advice services
Check out our web links for small business. 
CLICK HERE
4. Make a business plan based around your being a FAMILY CELEBRANT offering ceremonies
    for most or all occasions.
Even if there are some ceremonies you would prefer not to do, those ceremonies can be referred with sensitivity and care onto other celebrants you know and trust to do a good job.

Check out our web links for small business. There are links to downloads for creating business plan and an on-line business planning tutorial		 CLICK HERE
5. Organise your basic resources
If you are going to develop different celebrancy services to those you have previously delivered, then you will need to organise your resources - certificates, memento copies of ceremonies, appreciation albums, "This is Your Life" style albums, DVD, power-point projectors, music, sample ceremonies, poetry, prose, fee structure, invoices etc.
The ACCN Celebrant Shop has tried to anticipate some your needs in this regard CLICK HERE
The ACCN Directory is also being promoted as a place where gifts, products and services for celebrations can be listed at affordable rates. Please promote this part of our website.
And check this out if you have a particular need.		 CLICK HERE
The ACCN also offers a fax service for members without a fax machine. Very handy for URGENT Notice of Intended Marriage

The ACCN is also considering a credit card payment to celebrant service, should a couple or family need to pay by card. Interest payment and a flat fee applies.

Contact us if you would like more information or are having trouble finding something in particular		 CLICK HERE
6. Make sure you have celebrant insurance
Newer work may involve some different risks. The ACCN members group insurance policy for Professional Indemnity and Public Liability cover celebrants for all occasions (and their roadies).
NB some associations also offer group celebrants insurance. 		CLICK HERE
7. Create or join a local celebrant network
Much more can be achieved by celebrants working together, provided all pull their weight.

In some areas, such as the country, this may be easier to achieve that others.

The ACCN believes there is more than enough work to go around provided everyone sees it as their responsibility to work together to educate their local communities about their options.

Contact us as regards your closest celebrant network: click here
8. Join a local business network
Much more can be achieved by building relationships with other small (and not so small) local businesses. Would not an increase range in special occasions offer increased work for receptions places, florists, party hire services, photographers, cake makers and the like ?

Conflict of interest provisions apply only to wedding work. The Marriage Celebrants Section will be listing some "Conflict of Interest" Guidelines on their website in the near future. Other ceremonies do not apply, provided you remain an independent sole trader business.

Contact us as regards other ceremony work: click here
9. Investigate business alliances and/or packages
Senior birthdays and wedding anniversaries, in particular, may require a reception facility, accommodation for quests coming from out of area and party hire services. Such events may be suitable to arrange amongst a group of small businesses as a "Weekend Celebration Package". Discuss with your small business advisor.
10. Register (free), join ACCN (low entry fee) and use our Q & A Yahoo member forum, website forum and other services
To register with us is a simple process and free. You will receive ACCN news as it is available CLICK CHERE
This standard ACCN membership will be the best you have spent for your professional development. We are not an association, but a business supporting celebrants.
Check out the benefits of ACCN membership

CLICK HERE
Surely what you are offering has a catch somewhere or can't be very good when you charge so little ?

Yes the catch is that for the ACCN to work best you are required to do most of the work! You load your own listing, you put the details in that you want in Celebrants Colleagues, you share with others either in a group forum or privately (whilst protecting your own interests) where ever possible. And you become more web and IT confident in the process.

However, the ACCN was not set up to just make money, though I ( Rona Goold) would like to make a wage sometime !

Like most other celebrants, I am a sole trader. The ACCN is my business trading name, just as other celebrants have business trading names. Celebrants buy many other services from other businesses, so why not purchase from fellow celebrants who have celebrants interests at heart ?

I have set up the ACCN to make a difference to the lives of ordinary Australians through supporting celebrants to provide them with ceremonies for ALL occasions, not just the usual 3.

To do that well we do need money. However if enough celebrants work with me, then raising fees for fellow celebrants will be avoided. So tell you celebrant colleagues about us !
Our Questions and Answers ACCN Members Only Forum's primary aim is for all ACCN members to work together to improve the quality and economic base of our 'work/ businesses' by strategies appropriate to celebrancy.

We recommend all celebrants belong to at least one non-profit celebrant association.
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