Sip & SEO: Get Found. Get Booked

If you work in Asheville’s wedding, event or hospitality industry, chances are you’ve wondered at some point: How are people actually finding my business online — and am I showing up where I should be?

Google is changing. AI search is changing things even faster. And unless SEO happens to be your full-time job, keeping up with all of it can feel like… a lot.

So, let’s have a drink and talk about it.

Join us at Ella in downtown Asheville on Wednesday, September 30 from 4–6 PM for Sip & SEO, the first event in the new Ella Education Series — casual, genuinely useful gatherings designed to bring Asheville’s wedding and event community together to learn something that can actually help our businesses.

We’re kicking things off with Ami Price, co-owner and lead developer of Asheville-based Celebrate Creative, a web design and development agency specializing in wedding and creative businesses. Ami brings a rare combination of deep wedding-industry experience and serious expertise in web development, technical SEO and analytics — which means she understands both the business you’re running and the increasingly complicated internet where your clients are trying to find it.

We’ll talk about local SEO, Google, AI search (yes, including how tools like ChatGPT are finding and recommending businesses), common website mistakes, and the numbers that are actually worth paying attention to. Most importantly, we’re leaving plenty of time for open Q&A, so bring the questions you’ve been Googling at 11 PM and ask an actual expert instead.

No three-hour seminar. No 87-slide PowerPoint. No pretending you understand what an algorithm is doing.

Just good drinks, smart conversation, practical information and a room full of people who understand this industry.

Come have a drink. Meet some industry people. Learn something useful.

Tickets are $15 and include your first drink, with alcoholic and non-alcoholic options available.

Get found. Get booked.