Remember Murphy’s law? “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”

The following are lessons on preparation, for any event (in life). I think planning is an Art, or perhaps the execution of a plan is the Art (or science if you are in the sciences).

Rewind back to mid July when we decided to have a launching event – which we had this past Saturday, Oct 17.

It was a Sunday afternoon, I recall, we had a meeting with Soló Nnanna of Royalty Lifestyle. Having being impressed with the work his team did with Agama Label weeks earlier, it was a no brainer we bought into some of the terrific ideas he came up with.

So after that meeting, planning went into full gear; securing a location, date, DJ, fliers, and other necessary things. As you will expect, every one had their roles to play.

Now fast forward to 2.3 weeks to event day – no fliers, no back drop banner yet. Apparently someone in the crew hasn’t been minding our “bizness” properly. Under pressure, this team member had to get the fliers ready by Saturday Oct 3, for the Nigeria Day parade in NYC. And as you know things go wrong when you are in haste. Hence we ended up with this $#!+

Now, there’s a million things wrong with this flier. But I’ll mention 3. #1 The Amebor Logo is conspicuously missing. #2 “We Love to Mind your Bizness,” is missing. #3 The thing looks cheap, really!

For me the only thing good about the flier, front and back are the red lips

As if the F**k Up on the flier wasn’t enough – we still had 2 weeks to the event. You would think there was still ample time to get a decent backdrop banner for the much cliched “Red Carpet.”

Again our much respected team member waited till 21 hours before the event to check on the wise guy (a really small business owner) who was supposed to print the banner. Again the Murphy’s Law applied itself, the wise guy (printer) was AWOL, or couldn’t be reached, apparently didn’t pay his phone bills.

Now, the pertinent question was: must we have a banner? Yes!! How? 6 hours at FedEx Kinkos

And what did that get us? See below…After spending the whole of $250, and burning gas up and down, North and South of New Jersey’s Route 1,  our in-house wise guy put together a poorly designed graphics on a tabloid size (11 x 17 inches) cardboard. Now how do we make a banner from this? See the rest of the story below (Click through all the picture below)

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But at the end of it all, we had a successful event and that all that matters. The feedback we’ve received so far about the event have all been positive.

Special Thanks to all that made this event a success; the Boston contingent, for made the trip down; Mr.Solitude, Soso Selective, and all the good people that made the short, but long trip from Maryland and DC; DJ Zimo and DJ Lueve form Philly; Handsome Hustlers, and Fola Photos for the pictures; Jade Image, and other videographers for the video coverage. And not to forget the NJ and NY promoters that helped in this effort – Ariya Ent., Emeka’s Qrious Group, Incognito and every one else who went out of their way to make this a success . God Bless.

See pictures of event here

Tagged as: FedEx Kinkos, Murphy's Law, Royalty Lifestyle, Soló Nnanna