Alan Katz – Scaling from 1 wedding to thousands!I’ve known Alan Katz for years and I love the story of how he got started doing a friend’s wedding, and has parlayed that to a company that does almost 2,000 ceremonies each year! You’ll also hear how he’s deepened his niche with other related services and how he’s been able to get thousands of reviews. Oh, and Alan Katz is the one who told me to end every email with a question… something that I credit him in my book “Why don’t they call me?”Listen to our conversation for some inspiration on how you can expand your niche, become more useful and invaluable in your market, and the go-to when someone needs what you do.About Alan KatzAlan Katz is the owner of Great Officiants. In business 20 years his company is the largest supplier of Wedding Officiants in SoCal and probably the US. With 37 Professional Officiants including Ministers, Priests, Rabbis, Non-denominational, Bilingual, Cosplay and more on the team they do almost 2000 weddings a year. In addition to the Ceremonies on locations. He has a 30 seat Indoor and Outdoor Wedding Chapel, a Beach Wedding Design company that sets-up weddings on the beach, he issues marriage licenses for the county clerks office, he has an elopement division for quicky weddings, a memorial business for funerals, and a singing telegram company just for fun.His company has over 3000 online reviews. More than any officiant in the nation.Alan has won many top awards in the industry. ABC Trendsetter Award, WIPA Top Officiant in the Nation, Best Officiant in LA and Orange County from California Wedding Day and Best of Wedding Wire and The Knot and more. He is a nationally request public speaker on wedding success and marketing.Alan is also featured on TV. He is a regular on local news stations on wedding-related issues and a reality show star on such shows as 90-day fiancé and Spouse House. He was a special guest on the Kelly Clarkson show and most recently he and his wife are on the hit show Prank Panel on HULU (episode 1).He lives weddings every day.All social media is @greatofficiantsIf you have any questions about anything in this, or any of my podcasts, or have a suggestion for a topic or guest, please reach out directly to me at Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com or visit my website Podcast.AlanBerg.comPlease be sure to subscribe to this podcast and leave a review (thanks, it really does make a difference). If you want to get notifications of new episodes and upcoming workshops and webinars, you can sign up at www.ConnectWithAlanBerg.com