Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide [Paperback]

Anna Stanley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1989

Producing Beauty Pageants, 384 pages, is the only guide ever written about producing pageants. It includes such information as:

Producing your first pageant with only $100

How to get thousands of dollars worth of free advertising

Registering hundreds of contestants into your pageants

Tying major sponsors into your pageants

Feeding your pageant into big-league pageants

Setting up a national pageant system

Airing your pageant on national television

Airing your pageant on free-access cable television plus a whole lot more!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"We recently produced a series of one hour prime time specials for The Learning Channel entitled, The Secret World Of ..., which featured pageantry in one of the programs. Producing Beauty Pageants and The Crowning Touch, both extensively researched by Anna Stanley, have proven resourceful for Film Garden Entertainment in the production of our documentary." -- Amanda Crane, Film Garden Entertainment

From the Publisher

A pageant's success is in direct proportion to its promoter's skills. Although Producing Beauty Pageants is primarily directed to producers of pageants for young women between the ages of 13 and 25, many of these proven methods can be successfully adapted to any age division for any pageant system. This book will assist pageant directors in producing, at minimal cost, a pageant that is successful not only for the director and the sponsors but, more importantly, for the girls participating. These proven methods have worked for a large number of pageant directors over many years, and they can work for you. You will find that Producing Beauty Pageants is filled with ideas that give you an insider's look at the pageant industry and that will lead you on a successful and rewarding path into the world of beauty pageants.

For any pageant to be a success, it has to have the three P's. It's got to have the best producer, the best promotion, and has to know its public relations. Producing Beauty Pageants will teach pageant directors secrets to successfully combining the three P's.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: Box of Ideas Pub; 1st edition (June 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962197203
• ISBN-13: 978-0962197208
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,543,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great help, BRAVO! (Miss Latina U.S.A. Organization), April 17, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide (Paperback)

Ann your book has inspired me to start my own pageant system for Latina women and teens. Your step by step guide has made my job as Executive Director smooth. Everyone I run into in the Pageant system I hear behind my back "watch out for him, he's good!!!" I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough, a little dated, September 15, 2009

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Katrina (nyc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide (Paperback)

The book gave a good overview from start to finish and enough detail to feel like you've learned something. I just wish there were an updated edition only because there are so many pageants now and competition among them. Not to mention legal issues and intimidation by bigger pageants (think loud,rich guy with bad hair), I wish I was kidding.

I'd definitely rec commend this if you are producing or thinking of producing a pageant.