Diamond Royalty August 15 at 2:26pm

I received your Director’s Kit as a Christmas gift from my dear mother. She has known for a long time that it was my dream to start my own pageant and the both of you have given me the tools!!! I am now the owner of Diamond Royalty, LLC beauty pageant! We are still getting the pageant off the ground, but I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge with us! Our first pageant is our Christmas pageant in December, but our first official prelims begin in January. Any words of wisdom would be great!

Thank you so much,

Karna Spruiell-Franklin
Diamond Royalty, LLC

http://www.diamondroyaltyllc.com/

Shelly Winters Black August 18 at 10:27am

Awesome for you. Stay focused on your Dream and continue to see the vision that you want to achieve in your Pageant Business. Always bring GOD into the central part of your dreams and visions and you will achieve beyond your expectations. I am so thrilled for you. It would be wonderful if you could link my Pageant Success Blue Print E Course for the New Pageant Contestants on your site. This way your girls can get a jump start on their pageant performance and this allows your pageant to run smoother because the contestant will be informed on what to expect during interview as well as on stage competitions. It is loaded with Pageant Tips and general knowledge that is necessary in order to win the CROWN! What state are you in?

See You On The Run Way!

Shelly
Shelly the Pageant Coach
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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

A few months ago I was interviewed by Valerie Hayes on Pageant Talk Radio about one of my favorite subjects: Directing Beauty Pageants.

At the time I shot a little video during part of the interview. When the interview took place the Saints were in the middle of the season and undefeated. Since then they went on to win the Super Bowl.

The feeling in New Orleans and the whole Gulf Coast is unbelievable. It is even more intense than winning a pageant. Everyone that is a Saints Fan knows the intense sense of jubilation from the win.

The story of the Saints winning even though the national media ignored them and the Las Vegas odds maker said it was hopeless can be used to inspire any one to keep on striving to reach their goals.

Whether you are entering your first pageant or directing your first pageant believe in yourself and your success. Use the New Orleans Saints as a role model. Drew Brees the quarterback and MVP of the SuperBowl bought copies of the book Finnish Strong for all his fellow players.

You too should strive to finish strong in your endeavors in pageantry.

Check out the full audio interview at Valeries website at this link:

Yours in pageantry

Shelly

I recently received a letter from some one who purchased my ebook “How to Start and Direct Your Own Pageant”. In the letter they mentioned that some of the information in the book can be found for free on the web, in fact a lot of it on my own websites.

The Internet is a wonderful resource for people interested in starting any new business, including the Beauty Pageant Business. When I decided to put together a book and then a kit to help others interested in starting a new pageant I scoured the web to see what was already out there.

What I found was bits and pieces of advice from people all over the world. Some of it good and some of it not so good. What I didn’t find was one source of information that had all the essentials needed to start some one in the right direction.

I spent years working for other directors and even more years directing pageants and learning from my own mistakes. What I have put together is based on my 16+ years of experience running Beauty Pageants that have made me money. In fact with the terrible economic situation the extra income I earned from pageants in the last two years has kept me and my husband afloat as his business dropped off.

There is a lot more free information available on the web today about the pageant industry than when I started writing about it. If you look closely you will see that most of it is on my web site directyourpageant.com. I give a lot of good stuff out and will continue to do so.

But I don’t give everything away. I worked long and hard to learn my trade and I believe I’m entitled to a fair compensation in exchange for sharing this information. This is the foundation of good business.

If you really scour the internet you can find a lot of information from many different people about the pageant industry. If you are very industrious you can grab this info and put all the files together in one doucument. You can even make an index and add some pictures and make it look like a book. You could spend a few weeks working on this project.

Or if you want to let some body else do the work for you and put it it in nice neat package then my Pageant book and kit are for you. If you want to be certain the information is coming from a trustworthy source that has real experience in the pageant industry then my ebook and Kit are for you.

I keep adding articles and giving away information on my site directyourpageant.com because I’m learning everyday from my experiences and from the experiences of many other pageant people, many who started by purchasing my Kit.

If you are really serious about succeeding in the pageant industry I suggest you continue going to all the other web sites out there. Keep buying books and products from other authors. Get a subscription to Pageantry Magazine. Keep accumalating knowledge from free sources and from paid sources.

Never stop searching for good information and never stop learning.

Yours in Pageantry

Shelly

Running a Beauty Pageant is about more than glamor. It is also about being financially successful. The business goal is to walk away from the event with more money than you spent.

There are many different ways to monetize your Beauty Contest. One way is to add extra awards.
For Children Pageants I like to add Overall Most Beautiful and Overall Fashion.
When the parents register their children they can choose to pay for a slot in the Overall Most Beautiful category. Only the kids registered in this award category will be eligible for the award.

This award has no bearing on who becomes King or Queen. Giving these extra awards helps spread awards to other kids.

The kids registered for the award all go on stage at the same time. The children hold paddles with a number printed on it. The judges use the number to score on their sheets. The judges select who they think fit the Overall Most Beautiful ideal. The Overall Fasion award will go the one with best outfit.

It is important to have all the contestants on the stage at the same time for the judges to compare and select.  If your pageant is very large and you have more than thirty kids on stage it can be a problem because of the stage size. Also the judges job can be very hard with that many contestants on stage at once.

When my pageants grow too big to offer this award I drop it from the pageant. You are already making good money because of the large registration. But if you are just starting out and you have a smaller group of children in your pageant then these awards are a great way to earn extra income at your Children Pageant.

Yours in Pageantry
Shelly