What to do when organizing a beauty pageant?

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Man, this is going to take a minute.





First you need to know the who, where, when, how, why and how much on both ends.





The who: who's competing? women over 50? young black women? young men hoping to become firemen?





Where: depending on what type of pageant and the extravagance you're going for, you might need just a ball room and some back stage area, or the ball room for competition, meeting rooms for herding contestants, and a block of hotel rooms to keep them in.





Think of either Miss USA or Sunburst Pageants.





The Miss USA system, as well as the Miss Teen USA, herds all of the contestants around in a single hotel for a weekend (at least that's how Miss Teen Texas USA went) and they used meeting rooms as our lunch rooms.





The Sunburst Pageant is a walk up and register (as far as I'm aware) so you don't need hotel rooms and herding areas.





when: Crucial detail, which hinges on which type of pageant. Sunburst Style pageants can be done over the course of a single day if you don't have too many categories or contestants. Miss USA state or local Pageants tend to take up holiday weekends and are Multi-day feats of beauty engineering.





How: the how is kinda the whole thing, but you have to remember that pageants don't just happen. they take alot of planning and phone calls and it's like having a second job really.





Why: are you looking for some fresh modeling talent or trying to find a great person to give a scholarship to?





How Much: the things I have listed are going to run up a hefty budget, so you are going to have to make some choices about where that money is going to come from.





Good Pageant directors get sponsorships and work out discounts so that the contestants pay little or nothing to compete. others have the contestants sell ads as apart of their program book so that the costs can be minimized.





Not so good pageant directors charge the contestants for every dime the production is budgeted to cost and then some.





Your best bet on the how much is to determine the total cost of the pageant, negotiate with hotels and venues for the best price, then give your contestants options on how to pay, payment plans are quite popular.





I hope that helps some, shoot me an email if you need any more help.