How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business

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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 ...
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Overview

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

dn0 The Event Tool Kit
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780762754298
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
  • Publication date: 7/13/2010
  • Series: Home-Based Business Series
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 462,409
  • Product dimensions: 7.30 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Jill Moran has been the owner of an event-planning business for more than thirteen years and has coordinated events throughout the United States and internationally for both corporate and social clients. She.is one of only 150 people worldwide who have earned the Certified Special Event Professional designation, and she is president of the New England branch of the International Special Event Society. She lives in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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Table of Contents

All How to Start a Home-Based Business books include:

 

1. So You Want to Start an Event-Planning Business?

2. The Home Office

3. Developing Your Business

4. Dollars and Sense

5. Marketing Your Services

6. Developing a Team

7. Legal and Ethical Issues

8. Planning Basics: The Event Process from Proposal to Follow-Up

9. Social Celebrations: Weddings and More

10. Corporate Events

11. Nonprofit and Fund-Raising Events

12. Balancing Your Life

13. Being the Best: Education and Training

Appendix:

* School and Degree Programs

* Professional Industry Organizations

* Recommended Reading

* Internet Resources

 

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 30, 2004

    GREAT REFERENCE

    This book is great for the ambitious person who is new to the idea of event planning. The book gives you a beginners look at the profession, pro's and con's. It is a great reference to have during the long road to starting your own event planning business.

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