Introduction
The purpose of this booklet is to help you, the unfortunate person that got stuck with the responsibility of planning and implementing a banquet, to put on such a great event that, when all is over, you can glow with pride and bask in the compliments and adoration showered on you by those who attended. WOW! Is that possible?
First time planners are often stricken with complete fear! “What? Put on the banquet? Where? How much are tickets? Do we have entertainment? What is the reason? How much do we charge? Oh, no, this’ll keep me up nights!”
Even those that plan events over and over again still fear that something will go wrong and they will be the subject of ridicule.
Hopefully we can allay the fears and quell the butterflies in your stomach by helping you through the entire project. You know how to eat an elephant? – one bite at a time...and that’s what we’re going to do...take one “bite” at a time.
There are a lot of questions you need to ask. First timers probably don’t have the foggiest idea what questions to ask, so, the first thing we’d better do is outline these for you. Perhaps the easiest way to do that is to fill out a form. (I love forms!)
If you were to phone me and ask me to help you make arrangements for a special event, the first thing I would do is reach for a blank form, and over the phone we would fill it out. When I had all the information, I would be better prepared to help you.
Let’s begin with fact finding. The following are things you’re going to have to know or determine. If you’re planning a weekly, monthly, or annual event, a precedent has been set and it’s usually pretty easy to find out how it was done before and then just follow in the footsteps of those who preceded you. But often this event is the first of it’s kind, or else the people who planned last year’s banquet have moved on and you’re left without a clue as to how is was conducted.
For More Information www.allampkin.com or email at info@allampkin.com
No comments:
Post a Comment