SIP & SEO

An Ella Education Series Event

Good drinks. Smarter business.

Join us at Ella for the first installment of the Ella Education Series — casual, useful gatherings created for Asheville’s wedding and event industry to connect, learn, and grow together.

We’re kicking things off with Sip & SEO: Get Found. Get Booked.

Because having a beautiful website is great. Having people actually find it is even better.

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

SEO and online search are changing fast — especially with AI now influencing how people discover businesses, venues, vendors, and services.

Ami Price, co-owner and lead developer of Asheville-based Celebrate Creative, is joining us to break down what actually matters for small businesses right now — in language you don't need to be a web developer to understand.

We’ll cover:

• Local SEO — Google Business Profile, reviews, consistent business information, and the fundamentals Asheville businesses should be getting right

• AI Search — how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews choose the businesses and sources they surface — and what you can do to become one of them

• Your Website — the technical basics small business websites often get wrong, from missing page titles to broken links, plus how to check your own site in about five minutes

• What to Measure — free tools you can use and the three numbers actually worth checking every month

• Open Q&A — bring your questions!

MEET AMI

Ami Price is the co-owner and lead developer of Celebrate Creative, an Asheville-based web design and development agency supporting wedding and creative businesses worldwide.

She specializes in WordPress, technical SEO, and analytics and regularly speaks at industry conferences about venue marketing, search visibility, and what AI search means for small businesses.

Prior to Celebrate Creative, Ami founded the renowned wedding blog Elizabeth Anne Designs and served as CEO of Aisle Society. Her corporate experience includes more than a decade at Citadel and Blackstone, and she holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.

THE DETAILS

Wednesday, September 30
4:00–6:00 PM
Ella | Downtown Asheville

4:00 PM — Cocktails + Connections
Grab a drink, say hello, and catch up with your industry people.

4:30 PM — Sip & SEO with Ami Price
Talk + open Q&A to follow.

TICKETS — $15

Your first drink is included.

Come have a cocktail, learn something you can actually use, ask the questions you've been meaning to ask, and spend an afternoon with some of your favorite people in Asheville's wedding and event community.

Get found. Get booked. We'll see you at Ella.