Running your own small business should be fun. Julia Chmilnitzky thinks it should be more like a party. “People have always complimented me on my parties, so I figured that was the business for me!” she says.
Not surprisingly, Julia’s startup company is called The Party Genius (www.thepartygenius.ca). The business serves busy career professionals who simply don’t have time to organize their social events, either for work or pleasure. Whether it’s a birthday party, anniversary celebration, cocktail party, wedding or business event, the company can take care of everything from soup to nuts.
Julia says she was drawn to entrepreneurship for different reasons. “As my own boss, I have the opportunity to apply my creative talents and the freedom to make my own decisions,” she explains.
“I have always enjoyed tackling new challenges and building a small business certainly provides plenty of them.”
A growing small business will also generate plenty of opportunities. One came along recently for Julia when a party client asked her to construct a “money box” to hold wedding envelopes. She has since diversified her business to include custom design of money boxes for weddings, showers and christenings.
Her business also teaches her a few lessons along the way. “I’ve learned how to work best with couples,” she says. “When planning an event for a couple, I need to be certain that both partners are involved in decisions and that they agree on things before I do any more work,” she explains. “It’s also helped me to work for business clients where several people or committees are involved.”
Like any good party, Julia says she loves the fact that her business lets her meet new people. “It is exciting to connect with so many interesting people whom I would never meet without being in this business.”
Those connections will certainly advance her plans to build her business across the Greater Toronto Area.
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