Work at Home Opportunity: Children's Birthday Party Planner
The first Work at Home Opportunity that I want to spotlight is the Children's Birthday Party Planner. This is a job that is easily defined as someone that knows the various details for how to throw a great party for children and can do so with enough skill to hire out their services to others.
A Children's Birthday Party Planner might specialize in children of a specific age range, say children age 5 to 12 that would be interested in things like clowns, pony rides and magicians that the person may have some knowledge of or connections with (such as a cousin that is a part time magician and a friend that runs pony rides at the state fair each year).
To be able to make a business out of something like this, you need to understand kids of your chosen age range and enjoy planning activities that they will also enjoy. There is no margin of error for "they might like this" you need to know the audience and be able to pull off entertainments that they genuinely enjoy and can participate in safely. Otherwise you will sink very quickly in your efforts to launch a new business.
If you can pull it off, then word of mouth will spread from one parent to another and should keep you in work until you can get your marketing figured out.
Things to consider before you start approaching a business like this.
Do you enjoy holding parties for children? Would you be okay with holding a couple of kids parties every weekend and sometimes on weekdays?
Can you schedule well enough that if you do have to overlap and host two parties on the same day you can do it without being late for the second one or running out early on the first?
Do you know where to find things like cakes, party supplies, and entertainment? Can you handle booking for a clown to perform and do you want to hassle with paying entertainers and caterers and such out of what you are paid for an event? Can you provide a good enough estimate to a parent that you will not have to alter the amount unless the parent alters their requests?
Do you have access to a place to store party things that you might want to purchase for your business such as a bunch of tables, decorations, and other things that your would spend a lot of money renting as opposed to just purchasing yourself?
Do you have access to places, or can you easily book a place, where children can go for a party if the parents do not have a suitable place for the party? (Such as trying to host a sleepover paty in a 2 bedroom apartment with a connected kitchen and front room).
Do you know what kinds of foods kids like? Do you know where to find a caterer that can cater children's parties?
These are by no means an exhaustive list of things to be considering, nor is it all pertinent, but it should give you a better perspective on if this is for you or not.
A Children's Birthday Party Planner might specialize in children of a specific age range, say children age 5 to 12 that would be interested in things like clowns, pony rides and magicians that the person may have some knowledge of or connections with (such as a cousin that is a part time magician and a friend that runs pony rides at the state fair each year).
To be able to make a business out of something like this, you need to understand kids of your chosen age range and enjoy planning activities that they will also enjoy. There is no margin of error for "they might like this" you need to know the audience and be able to pull off entertainments that they genuinely enjoy and can participate in safely. Otherwise you will sink very quickly in your efforts to launch a new business.
If you can pull it off, then word of mouth will spread from one parent to another and should keep you in work until you can get your marketing figured out.
Things to consider before you start approaching a business like this.
Do you enjoy holding parties for children? Would you be okay with holding a couple of kids parties every weekend and sometimes on weekdays?
Can you schedule well enough that if you do have to overlap and host two parties on the same day you can do it without being late for the second one or running out early on the first?
Do you know where to find things like cakes, party supplies, and entertainment? Can you handle booking for a clown to perform and do you want to hassle with paying entertainers and caterers and such out of what you are paid for an event? Can you provide a good enough estimate to a parent that you will not have to alter the amount unless the parent alters their requests?
Do you have access to a place to store party things that you might want to purchase for your business such as a bunch of tables, decorations, and other things that your would spend a lot of money renting as opposed to just purchasing yourself?
Do you have access to places, or can you easily book a place, where children can go for a party if the parents do not have a suitable place for the party? (Such as trying to host a sleepover paty in a 2 bedroom apartment with a connected kitchen and front room).
Do you know what kinds of foods kids like? Do you know where to find a caterer that can cater children's parties?
These are by no means an exhaustive list of things to be considering, nor is it all pertinent, but it should give you a better perspective on if this is for you or not.
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