Rob: That's a great question because right before you called, we just solidified our date for our casting; it's on the 8th and the 9th. We haven't even announced that so you're the first to break the news for you.
Anzzia: Great information to share. Thank you. That's awesome!
Rob: Our casting is going to be at the Wyndham on International Drive on September 8th and 9th, a two-day casting. The time is still to be determined. Because, like I said, the rest of my team doesn't even know yet. /laughs That would be our next big event towards Orlando International Fashion Week. After that, the fashion week will be on November 4th through the 10th. But, in between that, we also do a monthly networking event. Quarterly, right here in Orlando, we do a monthly networking event. That's going to be on June 29th at the Aloft. We call it F.E.N Social, it's an acronym. Being from the military, I love acronyms. This one stands for Fierce Entertainment Network Social. That's something that we do, like I said, every month. We do it in huge sections and pretty much it's a mini version of the VIP experience that people will experience at one of our VIP shows. On our grand finale show, we usually have what we call a "VIP Experience" where the opportunity for the VIP guests to communicate, see the models, see the designers, meet the designers. Some of them. Have live music and what not going on and get to know different people. Within the industry and also each other. Kind of encourages that as well. Then we start the show after the VIP experience. Once the VIP are set in their seats then we begin the process of the show. So, that experience was a very popular experience. VIP enjoyed it and it's hard and it's always hard to get them to go to their seats to start the show because they're enjoying themselves. Their meeting so many great people and contacts. We decided to recreate that monthly. We do that at the Aloft and this month is going to be June 29th. We're also doing it in Atlanta this month, June 23rd. We'll go from June 23rd this Saturday. We'll come back, the 29th, the following Friday we're at the Aloft.
Anzzia: Is this a paid event? If so, how much and where can we find tickets?
Rob: The tickets, pretty much everything that you can find, it is a paid event.
We have to eat. /laughs It's highly worth it and what we've found like I said is that most of the people that the contacts that they meet. People are taking their business to another level. It's well worth the ticket price because people are engaging and growing their business based off what their getting and we're getting a lot of testimonials about it. The ticket prices vary. Of course the sooner that you get them to the day of the event and at the door, the tickets are going to go up. In Atlanta, it's a different market so it's a slightly higher ticket. Twenty-two dollars in advance right now on our website in Orlando and their twenty-nine dollars in advance for Atlanta. But, you can go to www.fensocial.com and it will take you directly to that link. Or, your reader's can find it as well at Orlando Fashion Week.
Anzzia: How many designers do you usually have on hand every season?
Rob: Jessica I'll let you answer that one.
Jessica: Okay, so I would say for the fashion week, looking at here for several days, this past week in one show we had nineteen designers. Which is a huge show, our largest show ever. Typically, we will have between seven and nine in every show. May 18th we started off with F.E.N Social and we had about five designers and then the following day we did a brunch at Ember. We had about five or six designers and then we closed it out at the science center with nineteen.
Anzzia: Wow, madness! I could only imagine on show days. Absolutely crazy! /laughs
Jessica: A lot of people. A lot of information and a lot of people.
Anzzia: You said the event was November 4th through the 10th at the Wyndham as stated earlier, for two days this year?
Rob: Actually, we're making more announcements /laughs that not everybody is privy to right now. So, you're getting a lot of breaking news right now. But, it's going to be from the 4th to the 11th. Like I said, we usually try to push the limits every time. Or, I should say that I do.. /laughs Then I get chewed out by everyone on my team later. But, I think this year, our last show in may was our biggest show ever. So, the way that November is playing out now, it's going to be double the size that our last show was.