Okay I have been busy for last two or three weeks.

And that's why you didn't hear from me.

I was not even active on Twitter.

But I was learning ...in real world.

Not through some coaching or mentorship program

But by organizing a theme party for my social club.

I think Event Management is a very big industry that gives jobs and opportunities to so many people.

Many people of diverse expertise are involved to make something big as this happen.

Now I am not an event manager, nor did I hire one.

I decided to do everything on my own, just to experience how they do it.

I communicated with so many agencies and people, each having a different tone of persuasion and way to sell things.

Ranging from Food Caterer, Venue Booking, Sound System, Decorator, Photographer, Tent and what not. I talked to all of them (and many of each before finalizing to maintain budgeting constraints)

The party finally happened yesterday with some twists due to no-season heavy rains but was fun overall.

Here are a few things I learned.

  1. Persuasion - People persuade you to buy their stuff. Some will even lie to sell. And that's the worst you can do if you are selling. Trusts are built on truths and lying to your prospect customer will only put you in their bad books.
  2. Budgeting - If you are running a company or managing an event, budgeting is very important. You can't spent ruthless hoping that things will work out automatically. And you can't save money by not spending where it actually matters. Effecting budgeting is important.
  3. Don't Give Up - In the last couple of weeks, I with my team had planned so many games for the event, all to be played in open space.
    But unplanned heavy rains yesterday messed up the whole setup. The salt on the wounds was the power failure in the entire area. But we didn't give up.
    We immediately switched to a non-existent Plan B, planned new games for Indoor and shifted all our food caterer to an Indoor hall.
    We didn't let our guests feel that we gave up. Instead we started to keep them engaged in every way possible.
    A real don't give up attitude that I saw from my team.

That was real fun last few weeks in the real world.

Now back to the routine. You'll be hearing again from me regularly with more of my real world learnings.

Best to you

Anshul

PS - The theme of the meeting was Punjabi and it was called Mauja hi Mauja (which literally means Fun Everywhere)