Planning a
corporate party or special event? Don’t lift a finger until you’ve read The Business of Event Planning . In this
highly practical book, author Judy Allen covers every aspect of the process in exhaustive detail. Allen, an author, writer and experienced event planner, contends that events are more than just feel-good activities. Events, she says, must be staged as strategic tools with return-on-investment potential. If you want to know how, she covers all the basics. Even though the book is geared toward large events, the principles can be applied to functions of any size. Allen includes details of proposal writing, itineraries, contract
negotiations, fee setting, high tech applications and security concerns in a post-September-11 world. getAbstract.com recommends this logistical guide to
corporate staffers or event planners who want to master the fine details.