Sometimes we get turned down. People may say they aren’t interested in featuring your product or service that your wedding business may offer, or that you don’t have realistic goals. It happens to me too. That’s ok.
We can’t control how they will respond to our efforts, our emails, our communication, but what we can control is what we chose to do about it. What we need to know is what to do when someone says no. So they closed the door our face, they said, “Unfortunately, I’m going to have to pass.” Now what? Now we need to decide where we are going to open up our new window.
If you put everything you’ve got into a photo shoot, the design of wedding, your new website, etc.. and editors, vendors, and others critique you or don’t like it, it’s time for you to think about who you’re sending your work to. Who do you want to form relationships with? Who do you want to be working with? Maybe that rejection is a great way to get thicker skin and to empower you to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and realize it’s actually better this way. Now you can give the best of who you are to someone else!
That’s what I do. I look at every “NO” and every closed opportunity or lack of communication as a message to remind myself who I want to be working with and aligning my brand with. I choose to support brands, media, and vendors who also believe in supporting me back. You should too!
If they say no, or even worse, don’t say anything at all, you can decide to say “Ok! I’m moving on.” Someone who believes in what you create and what you can offer will be a better fit for you in the end.
Open your own windows and walk away from that shut door. Free yourself from not dwelling on what could have been, but looking forward to what can be.
Photo by Elizabeth Messina
