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

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 other 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 work sheets 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 if you'd like to make a living doing what you enjoy, Start Your Own Event Planning Business is a must-read.Entrepreneur Press Staff is the author of 'Start Your Own Event Planning Business Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932156843 and ISBN 1932156844.