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Wedding Plan
By Getachew Teklu
Is planning a huge wedding making you crazy? Why not has a small wedding instead? Ten reasons to plan an intimate wedding.
1. You get to celebrate one of the biggest days of your life surrounded by people who love you. Of the nearly 100 couples interviewed , almost everyone said this was definitely one of the best things about having a small wedding.
2. You can feel more relaxed on your wedding day. Because you’ll be surrounded by friends and family, you’ll feel more at home with your guests.
3. You can save money. You can save thousands of dollars by having an intimate wedding, which means your nuptials won’t have to put you in debt.
4. You can splurge. Some couples choose a small guest list not necessarily because their budgets are small, but because they can pull out all the stops and have a truly lavish wedding.
5. You have more options when choosing a venue. Since you won’t need a large space to accommodate your guests, many doors will be open to you.
6. Have more freedom to customize your wedding to your own tastes. A small wedding gives you the opportunity to get your creative juices flowing and make your wedding a unique reflection of the two of you.
7. You get to spend time with your guests. How many weddings have made you feel like a stranger fulfilling a social obligation? Small weddings aren’t like that. When the guest list is small, the bride and groom can spend time with each of their guests, making them feel welcome.
8. You can make your guests feel at home. Because you will be able to spend at least some time with your guests, they will feel more at home at your wedding. Also, when the guest list is small, guests will have a better opportunity to mingle with most of the others. Chances are that many of your guests will know one another.
9. You can get your guests involved. A small wedding will give you the opportunity to get your loved ones involved in your special day.
10. You can have a wedding that people will remember. Because your wedding won’t be typical — the kind your guests have been to over and over again — your wedding will be more likely to be remembered.
Marketing: Lesson 1
If you want to make money, make me money. 
Benjamin Chiu just earned his master’s in mechanical engineering, but he hasn’t bothered looking for a job yet. He doesn’t need to. The 24-year-old runs a website from his San Francisco condo that nets him upwards of $20,000 a month. Chiu is an affiliate for Amazon and dozens of other online stores. The best part? He doesn’t actually sell anything; instead, his website, bensbargains.net, hawks laptops, backpacks, and karaoke machines and refers all buyers to the merchants’ websites. Every click on a product and every sale that results is cash in Chiu’s pocket—and the seller’s. Everyone makes money off the deal, and that’s why it works so well. Amazon, eBay, Google, and Yahoo sit atop the Web’s food chain partly because they make everybody a salesperson. There are hundreds of thousands of affiliates like Chiu, who promote online auctions for eBay, flog products for Amazon and Yahoo, provide eyeballs for Google’s AdSense, and collect for each sale or click they bring in. The millions the big boys pay out for these services are just a fraction of what they make from them. The beauty of the model isn’t lost on the rest of the world: Hundreds of companies—from Macy’s to Best Buy to Marriott to Citigroup—have now formed affiliate networks of their own. To start your own on-line business click here: http://www.ebiz-u.com/28c73d3
Company Affiliate Sales Affiliate Commission
Amazon.com $460 M $100M
Ebay $300M $140M
Google $1.4B $$1.1B
Yahoo! $1.1B $910M
*Estimates for 2004 based on financial reports and business 2.0 research **gross profit after cost of sales.
Source Business 2.0 December 2004.
