My next project initially for Leo Club was a MEGA LEO CLUB FASHION SHOW to be held at a local discotheque as we need the lighting and sound system. I had arranged everything including PEPSI as our main sponsor and a few top local designer brands providing the clothing. But after Felix had a look at the financials he had a different thought, he said lets take this private if I m really confident at making so much money.
And that's what we did ... the Leo project became private.
I form a new achoc company name - STEP ONE.
My 1st step into the business world and everyone's 1st step as an entrepreneur. The biggest challenge was since we went private we did not have the publicity of the clubs to help us to push the event so we had to call all the people we think are the famous dudes and gals to help us spread the news and help us sell the tickets to the event.
1 week more to the actual event day we sold less than 20 tickets, it was doomed to fail. Everyone panicked as there was cost involved including the rental of the disco, the DJ and staff needed. It was not free man power anymore. Felix and the rest of my buddies wanted to back-out as they said their parents would kill them if they incurred such a big lost. I took over the entire stake of the event 90% while Felix remain a 10% share for I needed him to still continue to push the news forward. We were hoping to meet a much lower target of 100 people and was even thinking of giving out FREE tickets.
On the day of the event which was supposed to start at 3pm I went to have my hair done and then took a taxi to the disco. There was a bad traffic near the mall where the disco was, there were so many people or should I say 'teenagers' and then I say Felix waving at me and scouted hey man ... FULL HOUSE.
We sold an astonishing 1200+ tickets and make 4,000+ that day.
We learned that people knew about our event but didnt want to buy up-front for many reasons. But they did turn-up and it was a huge success.
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