Starting A Party Planning Business

From weddings, parties, corporate meetings and birthday celebrations it’s always a great thing to plan ahead and smoothen the flow of the event. But few families and businesses have the time and patience to do all the preparations and would want to find someone who they could pay and do all the work for them. Here’s where you come in, as an event and party planner.
Having this kind of business doesn’t need much money to get it rolling. All you need is the patience and hard work to organize these events and make sure everything flows smoothly. There are many aspects of event organizing you can specialize from or you could take all of them. Event organizing doesn’t need any educational background, only your desire to make it a successful event will empower you to do make necessary arrangements and contact persons to help you in achieving your goal: to successfully organize an event or party.
What You Need To Be A Party Planner
Skills are needed in this business, either acquired or learned wouldn’t matter, what really matters is satisfying your client from start to finish. It’s always important to know and research what kinds of services you would be capable of providing (what events can you handle?). This kind of business is much pressured and would have high levels of interaction with different kinds of people. Patience and the understanding of your audience (people who would attend the event) is essential in successfully preparing and steering an event into its success and thus the satisfaction of the customer and money that they would happily pay.
You need to have a strong attention to detail to make sure that you have everything covered and your customers can’t find anything wrong with the event you organize. You should be a good team player; you would be working with different kinds of people. Your client might hire other people to help you with the task or you yourself might solicit or hire someone to help you with organizing the event, certainly being able to work and cooperate harmoniously with these people would not only improve your end result but would also cater friendship with co-workers.
If you do not have any background in party planning a great way to get the hang of organizing would be with non-profit organizations and local organizations. Start out as a volunteer you might meet potential customers and suppliers that could help your business in the future.
Growing Your Party Planning Business Over Time
A business is a lifelong learning process. Never stop and restrict yourself with what you already know, learn and be innovative. There are so many resources where you can broaden your knowledge about party planning. Always do background research on your projects before you start organizing. It would be very useful for the event and for future references. Never hesitate to approach people who are in the same business with you, talk to them and learn from them, they might see you as a competitor but you could always try.

Starting A Perfume Oil Business

Being well dressed nowadays also entails you to have the right scent to go with your outfit and mood. Having a vast variety of selection of scents for today it’s still hard to make quality choices within your budget. Some might even say that she wants a unique scent for herself, a perfume that’s the perfect fit for her. This is where home perfume makers come in to the picture.
This kind of business is very successful for its personalized touch. Hand crafted and naturally made are very in demand in the market. And perfumes are not an exception. A business in home made perfumes are very lucrative and attract many customers because of it is more affordable and still provide a distinct smell or scent.
In the competitive world of perfume development and manufacturing, perfume was thought to be such a multifaceted chemical mixture of essential oils, aromatic compounds, fixatives, solvents, and, if you did not have a celebrity endorsing your product, then it is sure to be doomed. It used to be that if you wanted to manufacture your own perfume or fragrance, you would have to be prepared to spend a large amount for capital. Many suppliers of raw materials had such steep minimum orders that you would have to have the pockets of the industrial giants to be able to even do some research and development. But the Internet has changed that. Many of the ingredients are now readily available over the Internet, including recipes, and many suppliers have minimum orders that are well within the reach of an average crafter, and you can actually start a business for a very low start up cost depending on the kind of scent that you want.
What You Need To Make Perfume Oil
The things you need to get you started are: first, materials in handling, mixing, storing and measuring your ingredients. Having these instruments available to you would make your work easier and would lessen the mistakes that you might commit with measuring and storing your perfumes. Next is the recipe or formulation of your perfume, you need to choose a good recipe or formulation for your perfume. Evaluating what kind of fragrance you desire would give you direction and focus to your work. Research on the descriptions of the ingredients to give you the idea what scents are achieved by mixing certain ingredients.
The next part in acquiring the main ingredients for your perfume and these are mainly divided in to three. First is the fragrance or essential oils, this is the main ingredient of your perfume, always keep in mind that researching about the fragrances or essential oils is very important to acquire knowledge about health risks and its composition when mixed with other ingredients. Remember that essential oils are expensive compared to fragrances. The next primary ingredient would be the solvent; alcohol is mainly used as a solvent. Then the third would be the Fixatives, these are mixed with the ingredients to lower the evaporation rate of the fragrances and oils. Thus a perfume that quickly losses its smell has less fixatives in it.
Growing Your Perfume Oil Business Over Time
Remember that you don’t need to be someone famous or popular just to make your own scent. You only need to be yourself and some time to experiment in concocting your own personalized smell. Having a frame of mind that your doing your own thing would give you the feeling to let loose and explore the possibilities, you may come across some unsatisfactory results but these would surely be a learning process for your and would make you better. One way or the other you would get a selling scent one that would ring in the profits, but don’t stop with one, having variety does have its advantages.
Having some creative scents under your belt its time to go big, try to research and contact wholesale providers of your ingredients. Always be prepared and be knowledgeable in the market of fragrances and essential oils. This way you get the best quality for the best prices. By buying bulk ingredients and making your own perfume and then selling them would earn you profit.
Remember to advertise. Give out sample to friends and relatives so they could spread the word about your new business. Go to local home craft stores and negotiate with the owners so you could put up a stall for your perfumes. Start small; it only takes hard work and patience for all of it to pay off for you.