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How Technology Affects The Events You Plan

How do you stay organized and on top of your events all while juggling your work and home-life responsibilities, and manage to do it with ease? With so much clutter around us - between emails, social media, texting, and the numerous amazing apps available...

In this video blog you will find helpful tools in how technology is affecting event planning.  The most interesting thing that I found was how there are so many different apps that can help you make your event planning business succeed at every event.  Differently something to keep in your back pocket for when I launch my business.      

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Jeff Beals book Self Marketing Power, Is a great easy and fast read.  This is a book to keep in your “tool box”  of help when it comes to learning how to be a successful business leader. Through the chapters you will read many helpful things that will find useful practical lessons that can be easily applied to boost your business.  Among my favorite is How to be a Solution Person where you learn how to take a problem that you may be facing and fix it with a easy solution.  I would highly recommend this for any young professionals seeking to learn how to succeed in the business world. 

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Lobster anyone!! Now you can get it in the air, this my friends is pretty great. I mean who would not want to eat lobster while flying? This can be something very great for the catering industry when you think of the money to be made.  However, it might also cause a downfall when looked at in the presentation of the food. My question would be how would you plate it to make it look presentable so the catering company’s image is not flawed.  It gives me goose bumps just thinking about how those plates look....if you work for catering ever you will understand presentation is key. 

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I am just going to leave this here.....I found it on pinterest and love it :)

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While these were mainly pointed towards people involved in journalism,I think it is a great source for everyone.  In the fact that most networking is taking place theses days through  social media.  It explains how to go about getting people to get the most out of your posts in the short time they actually read them.

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Instagram Hits 400 Million Users, Soaring Past Twitter

Facebook-owned Instagram has grown to more than 400 million users, the company said Tuesday. Instagram's newest 100 million users, which it gained in the past nine months, propel the app well ahead of Twitter, at 316 million monthly active users. It also makes the $1 billion Facebook paid for Instagram in 2012 look like a steal.

OH SNAP this took place in just 9 months!! This goes to show you that sometimes the most easy small business ideas can go further then our wildest dreams.  However when it comes to Instagram I would say this is a outlet of social media we will see being used more and more often by business.  It just makes sense to use it as another out let to promote us as well as your business.  I often use this app at my places of employment to promote what the different company's are doing as my bosses have encouraged us to get our branch out there. Not only can you use this as a promotional materiel, but also as a networking outlet.  It is fast and easy to connect with people from around the world that are interested in the same things you are.

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Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools

Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe [...]

I would have to agree with the article in that the skills you learn in these classes are far more valuable then they tend to be looked at. Coming from a small town I was fortunate enough to have taken vocational classes and while I may be the part of the statistics that go to a four year university.  The skills that I was able to develop and work on while having a tremendous mentor support system to show me how are lessons that I use almost every day.  A great example of this is how I was able to build my own small business model in my AG business class that have proven to be useful as I begin to embark on the great adventure of starting my own event planning business.  So I think that every school should offer a vocational class of some sort as the lessons learned are more useful then just knowing how to build a table with out a marble rolling off.