We reviewed our production calendar this morning. At the end of the month, we’ll have closed on more than 100 events. Our team is hungry and motivated for more.
We’re driven by more. More dates on the calendar, higher guest counts, budgets with lots of zeros on them. I’m proud of our team for this relentless energy.
But what I’m most proud of is what we can do when we’re challenged to work with less.
We recently hosted a Carnival party at a local park for the kids at the Children’s Home Society of South Florida, an organization that provides social services for children who’ve been abused, neglected or abandoned.
Though they weren’t a Fortune 500 client, the process was the same: create a great concept and pore over every logistical detail until you create an experience that wows your audience.
Hanging colorful fabrics from ropes suspended in trees, we designed a row of midway booths where the kids could play games like “Fish Out Of Water”, “Ring Around The Giraffe”, and “Crazy Chicken”. A menu of mini sandwiches, chips and cupcakes had them running around. At the end of the party, they got to exchange raffle tickets for candy and small prizes.
Our team worked hard to make the party unforgettable—staying late to cut out fish from construction paper and paint colorful signs on cardboard, taking lunch breaks at Party City, even spending a Friday night up to our elbows in peanut butter and jelly.
We gave the most of ourselves. And that’s a much more satisfying feeling than 100 successful events can bring.
