Basic Tips When Starting an Event Planning Business

Is your entrepreneurial spirit kicking in? Do you want to engage yourself in the events planning industry? If you are, then this post is definitely for you. We will give you a quick overview of what you need to consider should you want to make this your serious business.

Know your Target

You might think that being the 'jack of all trades' is a good idea when you are starting your own events planning business. While it is important to know a lot of things, it is also vital to have focus. You have to remember that there are different events. We have the celebrations, education, promotions to name a few. Each celebration calls for different planning. You must know which one would be your forte so you can do more research on that, making you stand out from the rest of events planning companies. Engage in a specific niche that you enjoy doing before extending your network to other type of occasions.

Make Your Business Legal

Secure the necessary permits required for your business to be able to release official receipts to your customers. Being a legal business also increases your credibility as a service company to your clients. Registering business also protects you and your clients as well.

Building Contacts

Quite frankly, building contacts is never easy. And we believe one should be able to invest a lot of time building network. You should start from your family and friends. Tell them that you are starting up a business and would appreciate if they could refer you to their friends. From there, you can build your own potential clients. Just make sure your services are always the best so you can get the best advertising out there - word of mouth.

Creating Portfolio

Now that you have clients, never forget to document your events. Always have your camera ready to take snapshots of even the littlest details. Create your social media accounts so you can have a wider reach. And of course, always ask for testimonial from your clients and politely ask if you could quote them on your pages. Have a media kit as well that can be easily distributed as flyers to extend your services to potential customers.

Get Certificates

It would also be great for your business to get certificates. This is going to look good and of course, big companies would be more comfortable in dealing with you. So while you can, get certified.

An event planning business is a big business and opportunity you can explore. With the right foot forward in starting the business, success is quite easy to achieve.

It is important that you search for party supplies and resources that will help you start with your business. Getting several suppliers is also advisable to always have possible options in case of bulk orders or unexpected circumstances.

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HOW TO DOUBLE YOUR Productivity And Double Your INCOME

Would you like to double your income and work a lot less? Of course you would. The only question is, "How can you do it?"

You can dramatically improve the overall quality of your life far faster than you might think possible. All you need is the desire to change, the decision to take action, the discipline to practice the behaviours and habits that will help you and the determination to persist until you get the results you most desire and deserve.

Target Market

Let me tell you a brief story about one of my coaching clients. He is a corporate sales executive. Before he became my client, he had been working six to seven days per week, ten to twelve hours per day, and had not taken a vacation in more than four years.

He was earning a six figure income per year, but was unfit, overweight, highly stressed, and not at all satisfied with his life. He felt constantly overwhelmed, with too much to do and too little time.

He was hoping that, at a minimum, during my coaching session with him, I would tell him or give him some time management techniques that he could use to increase his productivity and get his life under control.

From the first day of our coaching session, I helped him to establish a clear sense of direction of where he was heading with his career and life. We analysed each part of his work and personal life.

I coached him to identify the areas where he was getting the best results and earning the most money.

At the same time, we identified the areas that consumed an enormous amount of time but contributed very little to his real goals.

We worked together to make a list of all he was doing. He then realized that there were an enormous number of activities he was caught up in and the responsibilities that he had taken over the years that were contributing very little to his life and his real goals.

I then coached him to set new goals for his work, his family, his health, his finances, and his life in general. He compared everything he was doing with his goals and decided to do more of some things, and less of other things and started doing certain things and stopped doing other activities altogether.

Over a period of three months, I coached and helped him to stand back, analyse his life, and make some specific decisions.

The result was that within three months, he had cut his work from seven days to five days. He had refocused his efforts to the top 20 percent of his clients and organised his activities to acquire more clients.

At that same time, he began reducing and cutting back on the amount of time he was spending with the 80 percent of his clients who contributed only 20 percent of his income. This enabled him to spend more of his time with the clients who provided most of his income.

With his work life simplified, he refocus on his family. Because of his increased focus on his most valuable clients, within a period of time his income increased by 30 percent.

To work a lot less and still double your income, here are my proposal for you:

First, identify the things you do that contribute the greatest values to you and your company or business.

Second, identify the activities of lower value, time consuming tasks and contribute very little to your results, and resolve to either downsize, delegate, or eliminate as many of them as possible, as quickly as you possibly can.

Third, discipline yourself to practice this simple approach and see your results and rewards increase.

By persistent in this way of working, you will become more and more productive. You will accomplish more and more. Your productivity, your performance, your output, and eventually you pay will increase and eventually double.

About the Author

Efe Ohwofasa is a professional speaker, business coach and marketing consultant. He help business owners to market their services more effectively. He coach entrepreneurs to focus their efforts and build their companies faster. He assist executives in reaching new levels of performance and productivity.

Book Efe to speak at your next conference or event. To request for his coaching and consulting services, email him at efe@EfeOhwofasa.com

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