WeddingWire.com Brides Choice Award 2010

WeddingWire.com Brides Choice Award 2010 Winner

Kansas City, MO – January, 20, 2010

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Ron Ruth Wedding Entertainment has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for exceptional, Kansas City Wedding Reception DJ Entertainment. The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Ron Ruth Wedding Entertainment is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Ron Ruth Wedding Entertainment is among the very best Wedding Reception DJs in Kansas City and within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds

Thank you to the many Brides and Grooms that placed their trust in my service and performance, for sharing their experience with others and for nominating me for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

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Over the past few weeks I’ve attended a number of wedding industry conferences. In September it was the Wedding MBA in Las Vegas. In November, it was the MMES Conference in Wichita, Kansas. The recurring theme at each was very clear. If you’re not heavily involved in or deeply committed to taking advantage of the almost limitless amount of social media (all of it free, btw), your business is going to get left in the dust.

Wow! That’s a scary thought! Especially since I’ve looked at social media as more of a fad than a trend. But, after listening to those that make it their business to know the numbers and demographics,  Timothy Chi (CEO) & Sonny Ganguli (CMO) with Wedding Wire and Andy Ebon with The Wedding Marketing Blog, my attitude has been shaken. Now, I’m scrambling to get caught up, moving my business into the 21st century and making certain that I’ve covered  the almost limitless, on-line outlets where today’s Brides and Grooms go for information. For me, it’s like running a race where there is no finish line. But, at least I’ve left the starter’s block!

This afternoon I was sharing my angst with Jim Cerone, a good friend and fellow wedding entertainer, who reminded me of  what is really important…taking care of those couples who have already already made their decisions and have contracted my entertainment services for their wedding celebrations. If I continue to give the absolute best I have to offer, they will trump all social networking by enthuiastically referring me to their friends and family. And, yet, here I am blogging about that conversation!

So tell me, where can I find you? What social media sites, networks and tools do you use to find information to help you make decisions? I’ll meet you there…eventually.