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>> I'm Inger Miller and I'm an event planner.

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I own Miller-Hawkins Productions a
full-service event coordinating company.

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Well events that spans a huge gamut of things.

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We do corporate events, social
events, entertainment events,

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nonprofit events so when I speak of
nonprofit, it's golf tournaments, galas;

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corporate events could be meetings,
planning and conferences; private events,

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private social events would be
weddings, parties, etcetera.

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Well we're a full-service company.

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We serve on the premise, "Don't worry, we will."

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So we want to make sure that all of our
clients whether it's a corporate event,

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a social event that they are
guests at their own event.

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So the first thing we need to obviously
talk about is what is the goal of the event?

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What are you trying to accomplish?

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If it's, let's say a wedding for
example, we want to make sure

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that the bride is as happy as she can be.

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That she doesn't have to take care of anything
or we can be as useless as they want us to be

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so I could be there just to hold her hand

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or on the other front we could
be there to do everything.

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We could be just the yes person and I
could say, Okay, here are your venues.

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Choose yes or no kind of thing.

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The best part about my job is again,
our tag line is "Don't worry, we will."

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There's always things happen behind
the scenes that we take care of.

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We're the make it happen people.

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The client doesn't have the
opportunity to know that that happens.

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Lots of corporate events that we do can be fun.

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I like the fact that we're not, we haven't
pigeon-hold ourselves into one genre.

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We do everything, whereas a lot of my colleagues
will either do corporate events or social events

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and for us based upon what's happened
in the economy it's been a blessing

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that we have given ourselves the opportunity to
learn about different areas of event planning

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and been to be able to work in different fields.

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So for me it's all great.

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It's I would hate to be just
weddings or just be corporate.

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We get an opportunity to use what we
learned in weddings, the new trends etcetera

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and bring those to our corporate
clients and jazz up their events.

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It's not the same old chicken dinner
that maybe a gala would have, so.