There's An Association For That or TAAFT!

• Are you starting a career or business in event planning and production?
• Do you want to advance your current career or business in event planning and production?
• Do you want to move up to a higher paying prestigious position in professional fundraising?

                       

There's an Association for that...........  TAAFT

• Do you want to become a sports promoter? TAAFT!
• Do you want to promote concerts?  TAAFT!
• Do you want to work technical backstage?  TAAFT!
• Do you want to promote film, book, music, art or ethnic festivals?  TAAFT!
• Do you want to find a booking agent or become one?  TAAFT!
• Do you want to find a safe, well managed venue?  TAAFT!
• Do you want to find a professional and well qualified security company?  TAAFT!
• Do you want to find an entertainment attorney?  Event Insurance?  TAAFT!

Trade Associations are concentrated hubs of knowledge, whole networks of experts in whatever field of endeavor that you may be interested in.  Associations publish membership directories of their members and how to contact them and often include the who's who of the industry.  By joining, you can catapult your business or career into the big leagues quickly and efficiently especially when you volunteer to work on their projects and events. In the live events and entertainment industry you might look into:

• www.ises.com  International Special Event Society
• www.iavm.org  International Association of Venue Managers
• www.natb.org  National Association of Ticket Brokers 
• www.plasa.org Intl Association for those who supply technologies and services to event, entertainment and installation industries
• www.ieba.org  International Entertainment Buyers Association
• www.eventplannersassociation.com  Event Planners Association

If you want to work in Nonprofits or want to advance your career while making the world a better place look into:

• www.afpnet.org  Association of Fundraising Professionals
• www.asaecenter.org  The Center for Association Leadership
• www.snpo.org  Society for Nonprofit Organizations
• www.ynpn.org  Young Nonprofit Professionals Network
• www.uschamber.com/institute  Institute for Organization Management

In my book, I provide these links and hundreds more.  Soon, we are starting our website membership organization, "Standing Room Only" dedicated to helping those of you who want to participate professionally in production of live entertainment.  Please leave your name on our contact form or better yet download our free budget form and we will include you in!  We are going to be bringing in experts from every facet of the industry to provide you information earned over many years in their respective fields.  

If you're an entertainment or nonprofit association that wants to be listed in our resource directory contact me at www.eventsmanual.com.