A first look at exciting opportunities in events management and promotion.

Initially struggling to find a placement opportunity that excited me, I came across an opportunity with one of Perth’s most successful and popular promotions and events organisations. Metric Promotions is one of Perth’s leading events promoters, who aside from their highly successful weekly club nights, also run monthly music concerts and events, and have recently begun their own festival in Perth. As well as this, they manage two local Perth bands, Stillwater Giants and Shy Panther.

Luckily, I have been fortunate enough to begin my placement at a highly exciting time for the promotions company. Aside from their music and entertainment events within Metric Promotions, they have developed a highly exciting business opportunity known as Pilerats. Pilerats was partly developed from the opportunities presented through Metric Promotions; constantly being in contact with various Australian and international musicians and artists has provided fantastic business contacts and exciting original content. This collaboration of content, and creative ideas is currently being adapted into a highly interactive iPad and iPhone magazine.

The launch of this iPad magazine provides a great platform for me to contribute ideas for the promotion and launch of the upcoming first, and following issues. To be honest, the idea in itself is highly overwhelming as I have little real-life public relations experience, but at the same time it gives me a great platform to express my ideas, and potentially be successful in my promotional endeavours. 

If you would like to check out the blog for Pilerats head here, there is some great content:

http://pilerats.com/

One of the most interesting things I have found whilst participating in my placement, is that everyone I am working with is self-taught. After initial success in running their events, they were thrown into promotions and events management. Being self-taught, everyone around my is a massive advocate of on-the-job learning, and preaches the benefits of work experience. 

All in all, my first couple of weeks at Metric Promotions and Pilerats has been really exciting.  I have had the benefit of being able to swap between doing completely different tasks for both Metric Promotions and Pilerats. I believe this is giving me the chance to have a vast portfolio of skills and given some more time I will really be able to settle in and find my place. I look forward to keeping you updated on my progress and some of the exciting, (and currently confidential) plans that are in place.