New ideas from MF Productions in event planning and production

MF Productions event design and production

MF Productions is pleased to announce our new workshop seminar Effective Marketing for Non-Profits. Through a hands-on approach, non-profit organizations learn essential tools designed to improve the results of their marketing efforts. Some of the topics covered in this informative workshop include:

The Philosophy Behind the FUNdraising™ Approach

Changing Your Mindset and Consciousness — Thinking Outside the Box

When You Think Small, You Get Small — Setting High and Attainable Goals

To design an event is to plan, intend, aim, devise, shape, generate, imagine, initiate, develop, invent, create, prepare, arrange and strategize your vision, purpose and goals.

PRINCIPLES OF EVENT DESIGN
Follow these rules to success!

Every event brings people together to connect in community; coming together with a unity of purpose.

The FUN factor is key to all events. It is the energy that attracts. You want your guests, clients or employees to enjoy themselves!

You are always planting seeds. Some will sprout now, some later.

For all FUNdraising events, if you focus on having fun and creating community, the money will follow.

IN HER OWN WORDS
By Marinda Freeman, President, MF Productions
Every event is an opportunity to create community, to bring people to together in unity – unity of purpose. I see my primary role as a connector. I create a container where people can create community. Enabling others to easily connect reinforces the goals and purpose of the event. By incorporating these important components – container, connection and community, a successful event can be built upon year after year.

How people are greeted when they arrive and how they are treated during the event are critical to an event’s success. Take care of the people attending your event like you would take care of a guest in your home. When your guests arrive, make them feel welcome and comfortable. This will set the tone for the entire evening.

LOVE IS THE KILLER APP
By Tim Sanders
“…what we need is a definition of love in our professional lives…
Love is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your knowledge, networks, and compassion with your business partners. The secret to being a high-impact leader and the essence of individual and corporate success: Learn as much as you can as quickly as you can and share your knowledge aggressively; expand your network of people who share your values and connect as many of them with each other as possible; and, perhaps, most important, be as openly human as you can be and find the courage to express genuine emotion in the harried, pressure-filled world of work. And one last point: Behave this way not because you expect something in return – a quid pro quo – but because it’s the right way to behave. The less you expect in return for acts of professional generosity, the more you will receive.”
—from the cover article of the February 2002 issue of Fast Company magazine, excerpted from his book, Love Is The Killer App, released February 14, 2002

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark… professionals built the Titanic.

Do not follow where the path leads.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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