How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business

Author: Jill S. Moran

ISBN: 0762724862
Paperback: 197 pages
Publisher: Globe Pequot (April 1, 2004)
Condition: New
List Price: RM
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Product Description
This insider's handbook reveals how to start a successful business planning a wide variety of events from home. Topics covered include purchasing equipment and supplies, writing a business plan, working with caterers and other service professionals, attracting and keeping clients, dealing with legal and accounting issues, and more. Also included is information on professional organizations to join and places to learn more about the event-planning business.

From the Back Cover
Are you the person who always organizes the family reunions, the friends’ birthday parties, and the school fund-raisers? Have you thought about becoming an event planner but hesitated about putting your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you will need to launch and grow a successful business.

Author Jill S. Moran, a Certified Special Events Professional, shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based event planning business. From finding customers to staying in touch with the latest trends and techniques, her step-by-step methods are practical and easy to understand. She even includes “war stories” from other event planners so that you can avoid their mistakes!

Make a career out of planning: Weddings • Birthday parties • Trade show events • Corporate outings • Award dinners • Fairs and festivals • Fund-raising events, and more..

Learn all about:

• Getting Clients and Referrals
• Organizing Your Business
• Marketing Your Talents
• Setting Your Rates and Services
• Hiring Help and Getting Paid
• Maintaining a Steady Stream of Work
• Education and Training

Use these special features and workbook pages:

• Ten Suggestions for Success
• Sample Cash Flow Projections
• Sample Business Plan
• Sample Event Budgets
• Sample Event Production Schedules
• Contract Essentials and Event Ethics
• The Event Tool Kit

Start Your Own Event Planning Business: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success

Author: Krista Turner

ISBN-10: 1932156844

ISBN-13: 978-1932156843
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press (July 27, 2004)
Condition: New
List Price: RM59.80
Price: RM53.80
You Save: RM6.00 (10%)

Product Description
Celebrate All the Way to the Bank..

Weddings, parades, fairs, graduations, conferences, political rallies, fashion shows, what do they have in common? Answer: Everyone would rather have someone else plan and conduct them. That someone else can be you, if you're a professional event planner who knows how to design an event, find a location, arrange entertainment, plan transportation, and do the myriad things needed to bring it off successfully.

Start Your Own Event Planning Business, part of Entrepreneur magazine's highly regarded Startup Series, provides all the tools you need to start, run, and grow one of today's most profitable businesses. Why should you buy this book?

• If you're a highly creative person who likes working with people, event planning is a natural outlet.
• With gross profits in the 30-to-40 percent range, you can easily earn $50,000 to $100,000 per year planning and conducting events.
• You can specialize in a variety of areas, including commercial, political, civic, social and personal events.
• Start Your Own Event Planning Business shows you how to handle everything-conducting market research, choosing a location, financing, buying equipment, finding customers, hiring employees, and much more. It also includes useful sample forms, checklists, and worksheets to guide you through every aspect of the startup process.

If you're good at planning and conducting celebrations, conferences and other events, if you like a flexible schedule, a wide variety of responsibilities and new adventures every week; and you'd like to make a living doing what you enjoy, Start Your Own Event Planning Business is a must-read.