Starting a Children's Event Party Planning Planner Business!

Your Goal?

Planning parties and celebrations for children is a top ticket business ideas. As more parents are consumed with their world of work, a children's event planner comes in handy. The parents can relax and enjoy the celebration without the stress and strain.

As a children's event planner, you may find a specialization (i.e. tea parties & etiquette classes) to all-occasion events (i.e. birthdays, baptism receptions and bar mitzvahs). Parties could be for birthdays, holidays, baptisms, graduations, quinceaneras and any other special event that children may have. Like an all-occasion event planner for adult-themed events, you are usually the one organizing events for everyone you know. So, why not turn it into a business.

You love children and love planning events that children can find magic and joy! You love organizing events of any kind, yet a child's world is special to you.

With children's events, you can get very creative, create a fantasy world and develop themes that personalize a child's event. To keep things running smoothly, your business prospect must have a working business plan--just as wedding coordinators have and social event planners. It may be the time to move this idea from being a "hobby" to a "real business." It is a lot of fun doing something that you truly like and it brings more joy into your life when you have something positive to look forward to.

Your start-up requires preparation, hard work and commitment on your part. The 'business end' must be tended to first. Once you have designed your business plan, you can move forward to designing your first children's event! Remember, it takes effort and is by no means a way to make money the easy way--no such thing. Your reputation must be built.

Perhaps you have always had a desire to become a home-based business operator/entrepreneur or small business owner. Having the tools and knowledge to get started is important.

...the main goal is:

to run it more like a business and less like a hobby

You must decide at what pace to run your business--part-time, full-time or in stages. What services do you offer and what specific child events do you coordinate? Like weddings and all-occasion socials, every town has a need and the trick is to find what is needed and be the best. Find your place in this growing market. The idea is to find the niche in the market for your area that has a gap. I have a long list of child events that you might consider!

Your strategy: a working plan that you specifically design. This business plan makes you "think strategy." We like to plan and organize events, yet the first thing to organize is your business operations. Sound unexciting? Well, perhaps----yet the business plan conveys your goals and demonstrates how you will start your business in order to operate it on a daily basis.

Your Background

As for education, most planners do not have degrees...just years of experience, the talent and the willingness to be an entrepreneur. Word of mouth and building your reputation is key to a successful venture. Basic knowledge of the industry is needed and the willingness to learn more has to be present. Once parents see and hear about your wonderful talents, you will be booked up!

Your Lifestyle

With any job, you must look around at your ‘current living situation’ and ask yourself what lifestyle would you prefer? How would you change your current lifestyle to fit the prospect of running your own business. Perhaps its a diversion or positive change from your current position that you are looking for! While hard work and time go into a business, you still gain more freedom. You can spend time with your family or care for your children (or aging parent). You can strongly proclaim that "family or yourself comes first!"

Either way, a home-based opportunity may enable you to save money on the side and do something that you truly enjoy doing for once!

......more people are turning homeward to make a living

Birthday

Is "now" the right time to start? Where do you want to be one year from today? Will you be any closer to your financial goal? Will you have reality toward your dreams as a children's event planner?

Use the start-up kit below to help motivate you in getting started......design your working business plan and explore your direction.

The business start-up plan section is formatted as self-directed home study, to be completed at your own pace. PLUS! The information is formatted for digital convenience in Microsoft Word or RTF for Mac users. This means that the format is printable and modifiable unlike some programs (and books) that use PDF formats that are NOT modifiable for your needs.

"…..the gates of opportunity swing on four hinges: initiative, insight, industry, and integrity.” (McKenzie)

Open your door to success................Work the Guidebook!

Part-Time : Full-Time : Sometimes!

Kit Contents

Part I: Business Planning & Analysis

Product and Service Determination
Marketing & Promotion
Office Set-up
Market Analysis
Competition level
Management operations
Worksheets fill-in-the-blanks analysis
Referrals
Wholesale Contacts
Contract Elements
Business Analysis
Resource Breakdown
Service & Product Ideas

Part II: Draft of Business Plan

Sample Business Plan Proposal

(20 pages with charts)

Elements of a business plan

Part III: Ceremony Agenda Planning

Structured Events Guide

Quinceaneras
Baby Showers
Baby Naming Ceremony
Child Adoption Ceremony
Family Dedication Day Ceremony
Baptism (private home)
Carnival/Festival
Children' Birthday Parties
Teas

Part IV: Checklists & Forms

Theme ideas
General Event Planning Worksheets
Silent Auction-fund raising
Coordinating Proms

BONUS 1: Powerpoint Presentation: Marketing Your Services

BONUS 2: Serving Food & Hors d'oeuvres for 100!

BONUS 3: Having an Online Retail Store Compliment Your Planning Business! ($19.95 value)

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Start-up Guides

Step-by-Step Guide

Starting an Online Retail Store

If you can dream it, you can make it happen!

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Files are formatted in ÿ Microsoft WORD for printability. Unlike PDF formats, this allows you to modify & personalize the forms in a Word document for your business needs......and, unlike a book, you can re-print the planner worksheets as many times as needed! If you need Macintosh/RTF (rich text format), please let us know.