Fast Track Course
- ✓ All six core units plus four Fast Track units
- ✓ Marketing, supplier negotiation, systems and your first hires
- ✓ Run sheets, timelines and supplier briefs you build as you go
- ✓ 30-day money-back guarantee
- ✓ Flexible, self-paced online learning with lifetime access
- ✓ Instant access to course materials
- ✓ Priced in USD
Course last updated: August 2026
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Here's what you'll learn in our Fast Track Course
Unit 1
The Event Planning Profession Today
- Separating the planner role from the venue, the caterer and the stylist
- Comparing the corporate, wedding, private celebration and non-profit markets
- Judging which market suits your network, your schedule and your temperament
- Understanding what a client is really buying when they hire a planner
- Setting realistic expectations for your first twelve months
Unit 2
Setting Up Your Event Planning Business
- Choosing a business structure and registering the name you will trade under
- Understanding public liability cover and why venues ask to see it
- Opening a business account and keeping client deposits straight in your books
- Deciding what belongs in your service agreement before the first booking
- Setting your deposit, payment schedule and cancellation terms
Unit 3
Pricing and Quoting Events
- Comparing the four fee models: flat fee, percentage of budget, hourly and per guest
- Costing your own planning hours before you decide what to charge
- Deciding when a percentage fee helps you and when it works against you
- Handling supplier commissions and disclosing them honestly
- Presenting a quote that reads as a plan rather than a price list
Unit 4
Timelines, Logistics and Run Sheets
- Working backwards from event day to a dated planning timeline
- Writing a run sheet a supplier can follow without calling you
- Reading a floor plan and checking capacity, access and power
- Sequencing bump-in and bump-out so suppliers do not collide
- Planning the contingency for weather, a late supplier and a no-show
Unit 5
Clients, Briefs and Expectations
- Running a discovery call that surfaces the budget and the real brief
- Turning a vague idea into a written brief both sides have signed off
- Managing scope creep and pricing a change once the plan is set
- Communicating on the day so the client can enjoy their own event
- Closing out an event with a debrief that earns the next booking
Unit 6
Winning Your First Bookings
- Building a portfolio when you have not yet run an event of your own
- Approaching venues and suppliers so they refer work to you
- Writing an introductory offer that is attractive without being underpriced
- Running the inquiry-to-booking conversation with confidence
- Turning every completed event into photographs, a review and a referral
Unit 7Fast Track Course only
Marketing an Event Planning Business
- Building a simple site whose job is to turn a visit into an inquiry
- Using Instagram and Pinterest for a business that sells a look
- Appearing in local search and on the directories clients actually use
- Photographing your own events so you own the images you market with
- Deciding when paid advertising is worth it and when referrals are cheaper
Unit 8Fast Track Course only
Venues, Suppliers and Negotiation
- Building and vetting a supplier bench you can put in front of a client
- Reading a venue contract for the terms that cost money later
- Negotiating rates, minimums and inclusions without damaging a relationship
- Handling commissions, kickbacks and disclosure ethically
- Managing a supplier who is late, wrong or under-delivering on the day
Unit 9Fast Track Course only
Systems, Software and Your First Hires
- Choosing event management software that fits a business your size
- Templating the documents you rewrite for every single event
- Knowing when to hire your first coordinator or contract assistant
- Briefing and training on-the-day staff to your standard
- Handing over an event you are not personally running
Unit 10Fast Track Course only
Scaling and Long-Term Growth
- Packaging your service so it can be sold more than once
- Winning corporate and annual accounts for predictable revenue
- Managing seasonality and cash flow across a planning year
- Adding revenue that is not your own hours on site
- Building a brand and a business that could run without you
What it costs to be wrong
Hand an event to somebody else and still know it will run
10 units and one exam. The four units past Fundamentals are the ones about other people: marketing that brings inquiries in, supplier terms that hold, systems that survive a bad week, and the first staff you brief.
Enroll now ($498)
Quick and easy online exam
When you finish the training you sit a short, open-book online exam covering the six core units. Pass it and you earn the Certified Event Planning Professional (C.E.P.P.) credential, with a personalized certificate and a verification ID that a client, a venue or a supplier can check for themselves.
Fast Track Course summary
Who this training is for
For planners who want to go beyond a first booking and build a business that runs several events at once. No prior experience is required.
How long it takes
Everything in the Fundamentals Course plus four additional units on marketing, systems, hiring, and scaling. Expect to add one to two weeks to the standard timeline, depending on your pace.
Investment
$498 for lifetime access.
Get started, risk free.
If you do not feel ready to price and run an event after completing the training, we will give you your money back. Email us within 30 days and we will refund the full cost. Guaranteed.
