Being asked to work for exposure
Sep. 15th, 2022 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
When you are wandering around on the Internet, you almost cannot help not stumbling across them... posts about 'influencers' asking artists, wedding planners and almost everyone else you can think of to do something for them in exchange for exposure on their channels... I heard the stories from fellow events planners etc...
Well, today I got my first one and it was quite quite insane...
They wanted a Christmas Wonderland, complete with:
- Party/gala for 150 people, completely catered and with fitting entertainment
- Some kind of fair/playground for the children
- Styling for five female family members (including connections to borrow the requisite designer dresses of course)
- And so on...
And that all for exposure and a budget I would not even touch with a ten foot pole.
Well, today I got my first one and it was quite quite insane...
They wanted a Christmas Wonderland, complete with:
- Party/gala for 150 people, completely catered and with fitting entertainment
- Some kind of fair/playground for the children
- Styling for five female family members (including connections to borrow the requisite designer dresses of course)
- And so on...
And that all for exposure and a budget I would not even touch with a ten foot pole.
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Date: 2022-09-16 01:38 am (UTC)Say...you wouldn't mind letting me know who they were would you?...So I can avoid their products in the future.
#servesthemright
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Date: 2022-09-16 10:07 pm (UTC)That said, I have three organisations in my planner for 'end of summer' parties, since evaluations were finished end of July and now everyone's starting in new positions and companies want to show how kind they are to their employees. Could you handle two of those? It's a bit tight, but they all have bare bones plans and contacts listed, I could email them to you?
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Date: 2022-09-17 12:17 am (UTC)Can you send them to me? I should be able to fit in at least one of them, but both should probably work depending on the timing. Next week I have four etiquette seminars to give, but after that I have a lot more space.