Now that you are officially the director of a beauty pageant, you need to organize prizes and prizes for your contestants.
Prizes and prizes are the physical objects that remind beauty pageant contestants of their night in the spotlight.
Sponsors are major contributors to the prizes you can offer to contestants.
Pick someone on your staff who is outgoing and good with people. Give them the title “Promotions Manager.” Send them to local businesses to look for gift certificate donations or the products they sell.
Good examples are makeup, skin care, flowers, jewelry, and gift baskets. Show the sponsor a fictitious Program Book of the event and tell them that they will receive sponsorship credit in the Program Book and verbal mentions at the event.
Remind the sponsor that contests are positive events that help improve people’s self-esteem and that their participation will reflect their contribution to the community. Also, the people who enter and attend the contests are a good fit for your products.
A large selection of products donated by sponsors enhances your “Prize Package” and will attract more contestants.
Prizes are another opportunity to exercise your creativity. They can be trophies, toys, trinkets and even t-shirts. Find out what you need for each group. For example, in Baby Miss you will need a Queen, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place award. Give the biggest or fanciest toy to the Queen and smaller toys to the others.
Get a label maker and put the name of the division and place it on each award to make it easy and simple for the staff to get it ready for the presentation.
Also prepare additional prizes so that everyone leaves the place with something. Secondary prizes allow the director to distribute the prizes among all those who participated. Everybody is a winner. Of course, only one will win the crown.
Examples of secondary awards for Baby Miss:
prettier eyes
better hair
the best smile
more photogenic
best fashion
Hospitality prizes may be awarded to the contestant who brings the most people to the contest, or to the contestants who sell the most ads in the Show Book.
The Program Book has the schedule of events, photo galleries and names and images of the contestants. These are also the main value for sponsors who donate prizes. You can also sell ads to businesses that don’t bring prizes.
Encourage your contestants to help sell the ads through their network of family, friends, and co-workers by telling them that the Hospitality title receives a great prize package.
Really load it up with gifts provided by sponsors to motivate them to sell.
Some directors order special trophies at a trophy shop for the winners of the different divisions. This can get quite expensive and put a huge strain on your budget. I produce my own awards using fairly inexpensive items that are stylish and appropriate. A well-received prize is a metal serving platter that only costs a few dollars. I personalize it with an engraving tool or a pretty label. Labels are easier. If you go the other way, make sure someone with a steady hand and good calligraphy, or better yet, a calligrapher, does the engraving.
You will have to buy a nice crown for your winner, or winners. There are many wholesale stores on the Internet, just do a search for “Beauty Pageant Crowns.”