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From concept to completion, this quick reference guide provides detailed insight and unique strategies to increase your event planning success. This easy to follow guide includes my own personal systems and analyses to guide you through avoiding general planning mistakes and shows you a ton of ways to save time and money in all major facets of event planning! This fail-proof guide equips the reader with tried and proven tips and creative problem-solving techniques that can be applied to any event of any size - whether it is a launch event, seminar, or multi-day conference - you will look like the professional. In each chapter, you will discover methods to assist with finding your event purpose, mapping out your budget, choosing the perfect location, and narrowing down your target audience. I have also included real-life case studies that you will easily resonate with as they follow the ins and outs of the event planning process. Whether you are a professional planner or a novice, the information provided in this guide will be insightful and relative to planning with confidence and achieving success in all future events!

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Bonita Parker, Owner and Sr. Event Specialist of BMS Event Management Group is a Maryland native. While working full-time in corporate America, she achieved her degree in Business and encompasses extensive business management and marketing insight, as well as over 14 years of experience planning and coordinating corporate conferences and seminars, and a multitude of social events that range from weddings to milestone birthday parties. Her personality is harmonious with the organizational demands of an Events Specialist. As a hobby, she familiarized herself with the ins and outs of event planning by aligning herself with skillful mentors and keeping up with the latest event trends. Melding her corporate background with her entrepreneurial mindset, Bonita successfully manages the day-to-day operations of BMS Event Management Group, as well as oversee the development of her individual company, Bonita Parker Enterprises. A huge advocate for individuals turning their passions and favorite pastimes into a successful career, Bonita incorporated her own education with her years of experience, and devised a 6-week accelerated coaching program where she mentors individuals on the ins and outs of starting your own event planning business and incorporating proven business-building strategies that will generate increased clientele and business success. Her most recent successes included planning and hosting several trade shows and social events that housed known-named individuals like all-American actress Tasha Smith, best known for her role in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married , business guru Stedman Graham; Jennifer Williams of VH1's hit reality TV show Basketball Wives ; R&B songstress Chante Moore; ABC's Secret Millionaire James Malinchak; and Lasse Larsen of VHI's hit reality show What Chili Wants . She has also planned and coordinated a multitude of corporate seminars and conferences for companies such as Vicki Irvin Enterprises - a multimillion dollar coaching practice operated by business coach and nationally-known speaker, Vicki Irvin and overseeing multi-day bi-annual conferences for internet marketer and UFC mixed martial arts trainer Master Lloyd Irvin, Jr. of Lloyd Irvin Mixed Martial Arts Academy. Because of her niche for negotiating price points and saving her clients thousands of dollars on each event, she has been dubbed The Event Planning Queen by many who have used her services.

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