Wednesday, August 12, 2015

A whole new world: cameras were flashing, people were mingling and mental notes were taken for witty hospitality reviews.

Cardinal Spin is an entertainment and life style communications agency situated about 10 minutes out of Sydney’s City. The urban décor, friendly staff and energetic and faced paced work environment made my heart skip a beat. I couldn’t wait to get started!

Being an entertainment and lifestyle consultancy, the clients that Cardinal Spin worked with were incredible. I just missed out on Sydney Film Festival because of my end of semester exams but I was very privileged to attend two VIP launch parties during my internship. The first launch party was for a bar in Sydney’s Darlinghurst and the second was for a Mexican restaurant near the city.

The purpose of these events are to host all media and VIP guests (including celebrities, models, producers etc) to a night of networking, great atmosphere, free food and drinks. In turn, these guests-both media and VIPs- increase the popularity of the venue by publishing good reviews, posting engaging photos on social media and writing articles on their experience of the night. Ultimately, these parties exist to raise awareness and anticipation over the venue when it opens to the public.

Leading up to the event it was crucial to send email invites to anticipated guests and to kindly follow up on them if they haven’t responded. Our job was to make sure the event ran as smoothly as possible and that all of our guests turned up and had a good time.  Most media and VIP guests get a plethora of invitations to these sorts of events on a weekly basis so it’s important for a PR agency to make the event as enticing as possible which Cardinal Spin did so well.

My eyes were opened to a whole new world of flashing cameras, networking and talented industry professionals. This makes me so excited for the future. In saying that, hard work and commitment is the driving force to success in this industry but I am certainly willing to give it a go!
Launch event for the Mexican restaurant
 Roxy.


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