THE SCARLET MARKETEER
  • WHO'S SCARLET?
  • MARKETING SPECIALTIES
  • EVENT PLANNING MENU
  • SPEAKING
  • RAVES & TROPHIES
  • EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATIONS
  • CONTACT
  • MY BLOG: THE SCARLET LETTER

Your Menu for WOW Meetings & Events

Seeking an innovative sales meeting, group event, open house, trade show experience or conference? One your attendees will talk about for years? Designed FOR them, about them? With fun and learning intertwined?

The promotional product industry's ONLY veteran meeting planning firm is available to help you wow your guests at every stage of your event, from planning, to execution, even speaking for and facilitating your group.
​
Take the pressure and time crunch off your sales, marketing or executive team, and let a seasoned event planner who knows the industry transform it into a spectacular experience. Here's just a sampling of what we can do for your team:


Picture

Planning & Details

Site selection
Detail Coordination
Project Management
Creative theme development
Meal planning
Coordination of all details (The show book!)
Guiding your internal staff
Communications to your team
Prize Selections
Attendee Gifts
Awards
Apparel, props & costumes 

Activities

Ice Breakers
Group Team Builders
Interactive Challenges
Networking Exercises
Color Wars

Sessions

Seminars (Stock sessions or Custom)
Skill Building Clinics - ​even one on Trade Shows!
Meeting Facilitation
Leading Discussions
Organizing Panels
Creative Cocktail & Networking Receptions
Recommending Speakers

Creative Content

Program Content Planning
Speeches & Editing
Executive Coaching
PowerPoints
Handouts
Agendas & Programs
Promoting your Event
Press Releases for the Media

 
Picture

Experienced in these Types of Events
Sales Meetings                                 Open Houses
Award Banquets                              Trade Show Booths & Experiences
Customer Focus Groups                 VIP Events
Employee Events                             Conferences
Think Tanks                                       Seminar Days
Team Building                                  Celebrity Appearances
Golf Tournaments                           Fashion Shows


​Call to discuss your event & check availability!

Examples of My Events

Picture
Sales Meetings at a Winery
Picture
Photo booth fun at Awards Night
Picture
60's Groove Theme Night
Picture
5 year PPAI Women's Leadership Conference Committee + Opening Speaker
Picture
2-Day VIP Event to Welcome Facilis Group involving all 350 Team Members
Picture
Team & Trust Building Exercises
Employee Motivation Events & Rallies, Customer Service Week Experience
Picture
PR Events & News Media Coverage
Even a session on Networking in the pool, wrangling duck prospects!
Master Chef Team Cooking Challenge - voted the funnest activity of the sales meeting!
Custom-made mermaid crowns created to welcome an all-female sales team to an Under-the-Sea Sales Splash Academy
One of the hundreds of seminars I have presented. Choose from one of my core topics or I can custom design one for your group.​
Picture
Celebrity events like this 1000 person Open House with Arnold Palmer. Smooth as silk!
Picture
A VIP think tank event sharing best practices
Picture
Holiday Spirit Week, where every day was an event, like this Holiday Bake-Off
Picture
Engaging and memorable award nights

Trade Show Experiences  (It's not just the BOOTH!)

What people say about my work

Picture
Maribeth Sandford, CEO of BagMakers, Inc. 
   
   "Thank you Mary Ellen for an eye-opening, fun, energetic, soul searching, informative, educational, and I could keep on going, sales retreat. Just out of this world. I am speechless."

Picture
Julie Heller, Marketing Director at Heritage Sportswear
    "If you want a WOW event that will be remembered and talked about for years thereafter, hire Mary Ellen Sokalski. We worked together for over 16 years and I was (and still am) amazed at her creativity. We would brainstorm and the ideas and details that would come out of her were unbelievable. I remember thinking some of them were just crazy, and Mary Ellen would say, "Just trust me." And I always did and we did many award-winning show-stopping events, from sales meetings, fun and informative employee events, open houses (which we called "Extravaganzas" because they were always way more than just an open house,) trade shows (themes like a family reunion with a horseshoe pit for customers, interactive displays using water pistols to show customers the products were water-resistant) to a Moroccan Bazaar with pet-able snake puppets made of our new silky soft fabrics... to name just a few. When you bring Mary Ellen aboard, you are bringing on a creative genius! Make sure to ask her about my wedding dress! I'm serious... ask her!"

Picture
   Bill Lynch, Marketing Director at Lynch Communications
     "
I had the pleasure of reporting to Mary Ellen for 9 years. In that time, Mary Ellen was responsible for managing more than 100 trade shows, conferences, awards banquets, product launches, cocktail hours, trainings, employee engagement and other corporate gatherings. She was one of the spearheads of the Counselor Awards banquet. She  added creativity and pizzazz to every event while overseeing the smallest details to  ensure each event was fun and memorable. Everyone loved her, from senior management to team members to clients and vendors. Additionally, Mary Ellen wrote speeches, created presentation material, employee motivation programs and developed unique traffic builders that worked beautifully with the theme of each event. She also skillfully managed staff and vendors to ensure success. Mary Ellen is a unique talent, inspiring to work with, and unmatched as a creative resource for any event."

    Let me know what you'd like to plan

Submit
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • WHO'S SCARLET?
  • MARKETING SPECIALTIES
  • EVENT PLANNING MENU
  • SPEAKING
  • RAVES & TROPHIES
  • EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATIONS
  • CONTACT
  • MY BLOG: THE SCARLET LETTER