What is a check list for Planning Event!

What is a check list?

I would like to help you to organize events giving you control to help in the preliminary planning by providing a checklist of all  items to  be controlled  on an event. A  glossary is provided to help  understanding  terminology .

Preparing the Budget for an Special Event

Preparing the Budget for an Special Event:

Planning is a vital part of any model of management of the organization and within any business operating under modern schemes.
   Today, the preparation of a budget is basic part in the planning of investment and operation of any business. The preparation of well-planned budget is a basic tool to control the Planning and execution of all activities related to organizing an Special Event.

Two of the biggest investors and business man of Latin America

Two of the biggest investors and business man of Latin America: Gustavo Cisneros and Lorenzo Mendoza

Gustavo Cisneros was born in November 20, 1945 in Caracas. He is a Venezuelan entrepreneur and investor, chairman and majority shareholder of the business empire, Cisneros, one of the groups of companies and larger private investments in Venezuela and Latin America, holding companies under his control such as the channel of country's most successful television currently Venevision, Venevision Continental, Venevision Plus, Venevision Productions, Venevision International, Directv, Miss Venezuela, SBP (Business Service Provider), Horn, FISA, the baseball team Leones del Caracas, among others.

Summary: What Makes a Good Event Planner?

Summary: What Makes a Good Event Planner?

Summary: What Makes a Good Event Planner?


An article written by Chris Sherwood called “What Makes a Good Event Planner?” expresses a concert about how event planning it is now one of the most popular career, even during difficult economic times and how an event planner should be prepared.

BUDGET: EVENT PLANNING, EVALUATION OF THE EVENT EXPENDITURES

BUDGET: EVENT PLANNING, EVALUATION OF THE EVENT EXPENDITURES

BUDGET FOR EVENTS:

AN IMPORTANT item that event planners should not forget is the budget. A budget is not only a spreadsheet but a document that is generated as final product of the planning process. A complete budget should include including a detailed list of expected expenses, resources, and associated costs. Also, sources of income and the expected benefits should be detailed. In many cases, the organizers will be forced to work with a fixed budget. On the other hand, it is possible that the event is expected to reach break-even or throw a benefit through registration fees, ticket sales, booth rental, sponsorship, grants, marketing, product sales, etc.  

HOW I BECAME INTERESTED IN THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS FIELD

How I became interested in the Entertainment Business field

“What we think we become”, according to Buddha. This is a quote that I do not forget to achieve my dream in life. I have been interested in the field of entertainment business since I was a child, so it has become necessary or me to pursue my career. There are many aspects in my life that have pushed me toward my future career including musician friends, travel to entertainment venues and experience working in the field.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLOQUIUM – COPYRIGHT TERMINATION (ITUNES – INTERVIEWS WITH DAVID NUMAR – PETER MANNELD)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLOQUIUM – COPYRIGHT TERMINATION 
(ITUNES – INTERVIEWS WITH DAVID NUMAR – PETER MANNELD) 



            In this interview, involved an interviewer and two experts, the discussion covers the historical development of laws that are in place to handle the termination of copyrights. 
The copyright law in the United States of America has its origins in the constitution itself, which preserves the copyright as an instrument to encourage and protect creativity and research and thus maintain the rights of the authors of cultural and scientific developments. 


Business should hire employees for life. Agree or disagree?

Business should hire employees for life. Agree or disagree?

             

             Companies environment are changing very quickly these days.  Those changes are a result of how fast economy is changing. Today companies have to deal with new models of business, introducing changes in products and operations to maintain or improve companies’ financial results.  It will become difficult to maintain employees for life if companies have to change the ways they approach business changes during short or long periods of time. For Example, Motorola, a big American company based on telecommunication technology, is now owned by Google, who has a completely different model of how to approach telecommunication technology business. As a consequence of the new business model imposed by Google, four thousand Motorola’s employees around the world were fired.

Event Planning for your Business App Review

During my research about sources, I found an Event Planner App that would help any practitioner to achieve success planning events. This app was develop by "DocStac" and is called "Event Planning for your Business". Moreover, it works on iPhones and iPads devices, contains several videos and tips that help you to identify niches and guidelines to be considered when planning an event.

Summary of William Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes”, Negotiation Strategies

Jose Miguel Chirinos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc6yi_FtoNo

Blog Post Negotiation

Analyzing William Ury

Summary of William Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes”

Summary:

A video posted by TEDtalksDirector in YouTube,(2010) entitled “William Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes”” is a small talk with a duration of almost twenty minutes lead by William Ury a genius in negation strategies and third party mediator. This video touches with examples important topics that are shown in the book “Getting to Yes”. 

Summary: “Here are 10 recommendations when planning, organizing and staging an event”

Summary:

The 10 Do's of Event Planning

“Here are 10 recommendations when planning, organizing and staging an event”

This article is a list compelling techniques designed to set up a direct approach to be successful during when planning an event like a conference. The article developed ten main points that you should have in mind when planning an event. The website www.EventplannerSpain.com starts by recommending being innovative and creative, thinking different from others.

How to Start an Event Planning Service

How to Start an Event Planning Service

By Jose Miguel Chirinos

An article from Entrepreneur Magazine published on Feb 22, 2001 explains that the industry of special events has grown immensely in the past decade. Moreover, the article defines what event planning is, what questions you should answer in order to be an entrepreneur in event planning.

There are two markets for event planning: social and corporate. 

Entertainment Industry: Theatrical Associations and Organizations in Florida

Entertainment Industry

Theatrical performance has become a challenge for many businessmen in Florida. Since the elevate numbers of venues, spectacles, shows and other activities that are already provided by big international companies and other big companies already established in the state. As a consequence, we can find different types of organizations and societies supporting theater entertainment in Florida. 

It had become necessary to develop and use organizations promoting new theater in Florida. I found interesting a non-profit organization called Florida Theatrical Association. This organization is a presenter of Broadway in Orlando. Their mission states as follow:  “was founded with the charge of educating and developing new theater audiences and encouraging and preserving the presentation of touring Broadway Theater.”  Also, this Association has as a mission to cultivate spectators and expanding the cultural and performing arts across Florida.

 http://www.floridatheatrical.org/index.php

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

Speaker motivates me in many senses, when I have to think about the entertainment industry. He starts by a simple example; one girl asked him a question: what is to success?.  After that, he went to TED and started thinking of how all those people were successful.  He performed a research and found that the first thing that inspires people is passion “ do it for love”.  Then,  “you study the way to work and love it”.

Summary and Critique of a book written by Doug Matthews, entitled “Special Event Production, The Process”

Summary:

               A book written by Doug Matthews, entitled “Special Event Production, The Process” is a comprehensive guide for events and special event production. This book studies the behind the scenes of a special event production. This guide provides an extend study of the fundamentals of budgeting and contracting details. Moreover, it helps developing team management and analyses administrative interests by explaining from planning through technical show direction. In fact, it supports an easy way of learning using full-color pictures, graphs, checklists, glossaries, schedules, and production challenges.

"50 Ways to save when planning meeting"

An article written called “50 Ways to save when planning meeting” is a list compelling techniques to reduce budgeting costs. Including areas like, Planning, Hotels/guest rooms, Meeting rooms, Décor and entertainment, Activities and transportation. This research studies the benefits of following certain aspects. Consequently, it is very useful for any individual interested in saving and organizing an event. Some of the most important aspect mentioned in the article is in six areas.

 Planning: choose your location intelligently, use electronic communications instead of print and consider airports hotels, which tend to have lower rates and fewer transportation costs.

Saving money when planning a mega event

         Entertainment business planning has become a challenge for many businessmen in the area. In the present, budgeting for a specific event could be difficult to handle these days, because of economic situation in many places around the world. Furthermore, when approaching a big entertainment  event many people could be interested in the idea, but they might not realize all the implications that are associated with it. There are many articles, which explain how business planners should take in consideration many important aspects before, during and after the development of an event. As the matter of fact, there is a research study that shows the absence of some important factors to be revised during and development of a entertainment mega event.