8 Winning Steps to Creating a Successful Special Event You don't have to have a million dollar budget to create a spectacular event. The goal of 8 Winning Steps to Creating a Successful Special Event is to provide you with the tools to create a memorable event experience for your guests while not breaking the bank. The easy to follow template serves as an start-to-finish guide on planning various types of events from networking socials to elaborate fundraising raising events. Whether you're planning for 20 people or 200, this book outlines the process and was kept short for a relatively quick read. This publication was written for everyday people who may not have a lot of event planning experience or money but want to produce quality special events: church groups, organization planning committees, community volunteers, parent/teacher organizations and many more. Highlights Include: Planning your event budget; Recruiting your leadership team; Producing a winning event; Promoting your event; Fixing event nightmares; and Understanding the difference between events and conferences.
Dwayne Ashley is president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF), an agency that provides scholarships, endowment-building assistance, and education and employment programs to HBCUs. Under his agency, TMSF has built relationships with the Coca-Cola Company, Miller Brewing, ING, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, and Gallup. He is a graduate of HBCU Wiley College and of the University of Pennsylvania's Fel School of Government.
Carol Campbell grew up in newspapers. Her parents were journalists on The Star in Johannesburg and she worked on The Mercury in Durban and The Argus and the Cape Times in Cape Town. This book about karretjiemense was written while she and her husband were running a petrol station in Prince Albert. She currently lives in Durban with her family. Her second novel, Esther's House, was published in 2014.