About Event Organizations.
More than two months ago, we started with great enthusiasm and all the excitement that can fit into a young team with ideas and very capable, a series of events for the sole purpose of gathering in different places, gastronomy and music with an environment good vibes and familiar
We had gone through the unpleasant but enlightening encounter with bureaucracy, in that case, that of a disorganized incommunicado from their own levels team that lost us time and very nearly illusion. We refer to the direction of the UCM. (Complutense University of Madrid).
From the outside it seemed that we were not able to undertake an event of this nature and never said publicly what were the number of inconsistencies, disguised obstacles and little appetite for a team that, we now know, was with one foot in the street.
We were looking forward to getting our first event in a mall. We had signed a contract in writing it took over a month, they would logically have many more things to do. For our part, we ask only technical support for the power supply, a boost in cleaning staff, logical security service and event management for hoteliers among its customers inviting them to participate and try and avoid having an enemy inside.
The school management gave us all without hesitation.
We had for us a good outlet, a recent acquaintance of ours who wanted to get into the business of food trucks, introduced us to one of the owners, or representative of one of the two owners around the mall.
We had drafted a contract proof to convince center customers, merchants, this was an event that could be done monthly. In addition the center wanted exclusivity within logical influence.
It had been easy or so it seemed.
The organization of the event was a piece of cake, we had signed contract with management, and also the excited owners. Just we had to get, plug and wait for a number of public, which the center was around 30,000 during weekends.
We arrived, assemble, plug in and the first and worst surprises. The school management had not spoken with hoteliers. We prohibit selling drinks and cornered the main bar beer a collaborator.
After several capotazos reluctantly got participants to conform, although they were very touched and of course we threw all the blame.
We had made unwittingly, a very great mistake: invite to the event to "friend" who got us the plug.
We do not want to talk about it because it would never end, but if we want to make clear that envy, wickedness, stupidity, meanness, hatred, baseness, vileness, folly, meanness and shovel, can be gathered in large doses in one person.
He enjoyed much, destroying and poisoning people, the public and the participants among which we find that not all you thought were friends are, or are intelligent and grateful.
To end the surprises the mall had not had even a tenth of visitors said in recent years, and say another scam scam scam to cheat so.
We left with a bag full of trash and disappointment, our image and credibility down all integers and even had surprise !! restaurateurs and downtown merchants ask us to repeat, that although they reported the event much more than a normal weekend.
But of course that part representing half of the shares of the poison center had received vein, a direct chute and in large doses. The address confessed his interest in pursuing the matter but was down by half from their owners. Half a business that did not listen to its directors, or their customers, only a poisonous snake to know that interest between both handled.
A couple of months later, the same team of enthusiasts organized the first festival of Street Food, tracing the previous, Mallorca.
My goodness!!! Many must have thought.
Yes, but they put a lot of eggs seasoned with the same enthusiasm and desire that in the two previous occasions.
We do not want to dwell on the details, but the Majorcan event was a great success of public and participants. The direction of the center (in this case a marina) has invited us to negotiate a continuity, a direction that if spoke with some hoteliers and got directly involved, a direction that fulfilled all its commitments signed a similar contract in the previous , an address that was involved until the last minute campaigning and adequate and well-planned promotion, no more expensive, well-planned insist.
Today, this same team, which for many remains an ugly duckling in the world of events Food Trucks, has participated in several events savoring success and receive praise and expressions of interest for the continuation and extension of the agreements.
A team composed of the same people who received a bath of misunderstanding and has scheduled several for the remainder of the year and with an open pipeline of potential agreements with several centers.
A team that is about to begin an ambitious event in Madrid in Moraleja Green, which we write once finished without leave it so long.
As a final say events are organized between two parts, one contractor and other contracted and both must row in the right direction.