Entrepreneur and Managing Director of Think Mahogany Events, Debra-Jane Nelson has shared how events business started from running errands.
According to her, she was in search of a job when a friend asked her if she was interested in helping an event firm run errands.
She told Rev Erskine on Y 107.9 FM’s Leaderboard Series, “So I helped this guy put together an event in February 2010, and in March we executed the event. So my very first event was on 6th March 2010. I remember that day so well and that was the beginning of Think Mahogany”.
She mentioned that after the event, people congratulated her and complimented her for a job well done but she still did not pay any attention to that and continued job hunting. “I had never set out to go into events. I was just doing it to help because I wasn’t doing anything at home”, she shared.
She furthered that she posted pictures of the event she coordinated on Facebook and got people reaching out to her to coordinate and plan their events. “At the time, there were lots of event decorators and no event planners. Everybody in the event industry will attest to the fact that I actually started the event coordination as a service on its own”.
Debra-Jane revealed that she just saw that there was a market for that space and because people were not tapping into it, she took advantage of it. “If you wanted my services for decor, I’ll do just that and if you want my services for coordination I’ll do that as well. But if you wanted both too I’ll do so and that’s how Mahogany kept growing”.
She advised the youth to take whichever religion they belong to serious. She shared that it is important to belong somewhere and believe in something because, “being a Christian has been the foundation of my work”.
By: Gyamfuah Owusu-Ackom
