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The Business of Festivals & Events was written for people who currently work or would like to work in the event planning industry, may it be the planning of corporate events or the producing of events such as concerts or festivals as a professional or as a volunteer. It was written by a 30 year veteran of the industry, who has been teaching seminars and post-secondary education courses about the subject for the past eight years.After reading this book, you will be able to apply the learned skills to your individual situation and make your event more efficient and professional.The skills learned are also applicable to a lot of other fields within and beyond the industry.There are a lot of event planners out there, many of them who are very specialized in one particular area. Once they need to step out of that safety zone is when the difficulties present themselves. Let me put it another way: there are a lot of excellent bakers out there, who know how to make excellent bread, because that is all they have ever done. Ask them to make a great cheesecake and a lot of them will have difficulty - not because they are not good bakers, but simply because they have never been told how to make a great cheesecake.It is the same for a lot of event planners. Most of them never had the opportunity to plan and execute a really large event, but are very good at what they do on a daily basis. The problem that presents itself is that you cannot take the skills you have gathered working on events for, let's say 300 people and all of a sudden apply them to a large event for 30,000 people, because there are a lot of aspects when dealing with a large event that you would never encounter dealing with the small events.Let me give you another example to get this very important point across: If you have ever played with photos on your computer, the point will become crystal clear. If you take an original size photo on your computer and you try to enlarge it, it becomes all fuzzy and unclear. If you use the same original size photo and reduce it in size, you do not encounter this problem and the photo will stay clear and sharp. It is exactly the same, when it comes to planning and executing events. In this seminar, you will learn how to plan and execute the "big event" and then you can apply those skills and size them down to a smaller size event. One thing you cannot do is to take your 'small event' skills and apply them to a much larger event. It does not matter, if you are new to this field or you have been working in the industry for a while. You will learn new skills that you can apply to your situation and this will make you a much better and more professional event planner/manager.Another problem many people face is how to buy entertainment. Almost all events and festivals include some form of entertainment. Most people unfortunately have no idea, how to buy entertainment 'properly'. By 'properly', I mean how to go about it in a professional manner, walk through all of the right steps without any issues or problems.Everybody knows how to buy a television or a sofa. When it comes to buying a car, a lot of people are a little more timid than when they buy a couch. When it comes to buying a house, most people step back completely and let a realtor and a lawyer handle the transaction. But when it comes to entertainment, most people think it is like buying a couch - what could possibly be to it ? Wrong, as in dead wrong.The entertainment business has evolved into a multi billion dollar industry that is predominantly run by professionals just like any other multi billion dollar industry. In this seminar, you will learn how to buy entertainment 'properly' and what your legal obligations are, when you make inquiries.