As a Pageant Director you will setup a Registration Table before your Pageant. The table is set up right next to the entrance to the room where the Beauty Pageant event is held. Anybody, meaning contestants and the audience, will have to pass this table. So its the registration table before the pageant and then its the ticket and sales table for the evenent.

I put out the folders for each division and include the entry forms in the folder. When the contestants show up they tell the person working the table what division they registered in. This makes it easier to confirm that they paid their fees and check off their arrival.

I’ll lay out the name tags and the numbers for each division as well.  Don’t forget to have a supply of pens and pencils available for the registrators and paper clips for your staff.

I also lay out some clean basic mailing envelopes.The reason for this is to facilitate the people who want access to the judges sheets. I want them to be able to see the judges sheets. But after the show you have a lot of stuff to pack up at the end of a long day. Dealing  with the sheets at this point is too time consuming.

So what I do is have them put their name and address on the envelope and I charge them $5.  A day or two after the Beauty Contest I’ll make copies, put it in the envelope and mail it to them.

The better organized you are before the show starts the easier and smoother it will run for you.

Yours in pageantry

Shelly

Resources

Miss America

Miss Universe

Pageant History

It took a long time but I finally finished my new product for Pageant Contestants. It’s called Pageant Success Blueprint.

I call it an E-Course because its a course to help girls and ladies who really want to test the waters of pageantry but just don’t know where to start. The E-Course contains an Ebook with links to a ton of videos by myself and Pageant title winners.

This is not a physical product. So you don’t have to wait for it to come in the mail. You get it right away off the internet.

If you know anyone needing help with starting their Pageant Career tell them about Pageant Success Blueprint.

Go to my website Shelly’s Pageant Coach for more info and lots of videos and articles on entering Beauty Pageants.

Yours in pageantry

Shelly

Teen...Miss....Mrs...Ms....Louisiana Florida Parishes Pageant

It is always great to talk to people who share the same passion a s me. That passion of course is Directing Pageants.

Right after my Miss Metarie Pageant I sat down and had a discussion with two ladies who came to observe my pageant.

They also purchased “The Complete Pageant Directors Kit” and told me about their new Pageant called “The Miss Louisiana Florida Parishes Pageant”.

Donna Mitchell and Dawn Alford-Magee work as a partnership in launching this pageant. You can go to their website www.misslouisianafloridaparish.net

I asked them if they learned anything new about pageants as well as if they had any suggestions for me to improve the Kit.

They also discussed how they share the responsibilities to run their pageant. Please check out the video.

Yours in Pageantry

Shelly

August 13th,2010

The first Annual Miss Louisiana Florida Parishes Pageant was hosted on August 8th in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I was thrilled to be the EMCEE for the children Pageant. The contestants were all so lovely and poised having a lot of girls recruited from dancing schools.

The Pageant was a true success and the winners of the Teen, Miss, Mrs. and Ms. Divisions will go on to compete at Miss & Teen Louisiana USA and Mrs. Louisiana America and Miss Louisiana State Pageants.

Dawn and Donna are the directors and their professionalism truly showed in their production. Congratulations Ladies. I am so proud of YOU!

Photography courtesy of Eggplant Photography of Louisiana

I like to put the spot light on Beauty Pageant Directors who I think deserve notice by the Pageant Community.
This month I’d like to introduce you to Ms Bobbie Watts. She is now the new Director of the Miss Louisiana Plus America Pageant.

Bobbie won the pageant and took the title last year. At the time I was directing the pageant in the absence of my dear friend Debra Balsamo who passed away. I told Bobbie I want to pass the title on to some one because I had my hands full with all the other pageants I direct.

Bobbie stepped up to the challenge and this year directed her first pageant. She is obviously passionate about the Plus pageant system and did a great job.

So I salute her and her co-director, and mom, Peggy Mire for a job well done.

http://www.missplusamerica.com/Louisiana.asp

Yours in Pageantry
Shelly

Thank you! I am excited to read through the material and move forward….I am originally from Wisconsin but currently reside in our Nations Capital “DC” my daughter is 4 months old and have personality out of this world I was searching the web for pageants she would be able to participant in but unfortunately there are none in DC for her age and our neighbors VA and MD has many but too far to travel in short notice so we will try them in the Fall. I am a Business Major and always looking for more ideas I am considering of giving this pageant industry a try while I understand she would not be able to participate in the pageants I will Direct. I am pleased and happy to give this opportunity to others who are interested. I was not raised in Pageant industry so I know very little however I did participate once in the Miss Milwaukee Pageant part of the Miss America Pageant industry in 2005 and won Miss Congeniality. Overall I feel Pageants are more than beauty but stepping stones into be a professional women who will work hard for what she wants. Ms. Shelly thank you for dedication because once again you are making dreams come true one day at a time.

Miracle M Lewis