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Start Your Own Event Planning Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success, 4th Edition
Written by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and Cheryl Kimball
Narrated by Lisa Flanagan
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Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition, market your business, and more.
Discover how to: Identify a niche and establish yourself within the industry; Build a loyal customer base for large and small events; Implement targeted strategies for planning commercial, political, civic, social events, and more; Promote your business, events, and yourself with Pinterest, Instagram, and other social and online marketing tools; Develop proposals, vendor agreements, contracts, and manage day-to-day operations and costs; Keep within budget using money-saving tips and industry-tested ideas
Everything you need to make your event planning business a successful reality is right here-get the party started today!
Discover how to: Identify a niche and establish yourself within the industry; Build a loyal customer base for large and small events; Implement targeted strategies for planning commercial, political, civic, social events, and more; Promote your business, events, and yourself with Pinterest, Instagram, and other social and online marketing tools; Develop proposals, vendor agreements, contracts, and manage day-to-day operations and costs; Keep within budget using money-saving tips and industry-tested ideas
Everything you need to make your event planning business a successful reality is right here-get the party started today!
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The Staff of Entrepreneur Media
For more than four decades, Entrepreneur Media has been setting the course for small business success. From startup to retirement, millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners trust the Entrepreneur Media family; Entrepreneur magazine, Entrepreneur.com, Entrepreneur Press, and our industry partners to point them in the right direction. The Entrepreneur Media family is regarded as a beacon within the small to midsized business community, providing outstanding content, fresh opportunities, and innovative ways to push publishing, small business, and entrepreneurship forward. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. is based in Irvine, CA and New York City.
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