Book 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


About 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.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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!

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