Fall Fest Reunion Planning Reminders

The fall season is on it's way. Before the leaves start dropping and mom starts cooking that crockpot chili, sweet rolls, and hot apple cinnamon pie, it's time to start putting a dent in your Fall Fest reunion themed event. Get great ideas here...

And the best thing about a fall fest is the food and handmade crafts. Find the Fall Food Fest Reunion Planning Theme complete with itinerary, planning checklists, recommended activities and everything you need to plan this fantastic family festivity in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner eBook, or Print Edition.

1. Are your t-shirts orders in? Remind those who have not ordered using the online t-shirt ordering system.

2. Have you completed your reunion keepsake booklet?

3. Have your keepsake party favors been designed?

4. Have you completed payment for the booked park pavilion or reception facility?

5. Have you scheduled a follow-up meeting with the reunion committee or your delegated helpers? Make use of the department worksheets in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner eBook.

Reminder: November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month. What plans are you making to observe this annual event? What will you do to get the word out?

Need help with planning organizing and managing your event. Make good use of Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app and eBook. Get the printed copy. Makes a great family heirloom and keepsake. Get inspired...

Best Features For Your Family Reunion Website

One of the keys to keeping family close is having a common venue or meeting place online with which to interact, consult, share photos and present news updates. For some that spot might be Facebook, Google, or even Instagram. Still, a family reunion event may require more special features like collecting reunion money securely online, or building a family tree.

While many social networks have their strengths, when it comes to family reunion meets they also have their limitations. So what are the best social networks on which to build your family reunion pages? It's all about having features exclusive to family reunion events. Here are just a few:

Vital Must Have Family Reunion Website Features

1. Family reunion announcement page.
2. Family history pages
3. Family tree page
4. Event ticket purchase (Collect reunion money securely online.)
5. Reunion t-shirt design and sales feature
6. Event photos post
7. Date countdown
8. Family News Post
9. Comments and Discussion feature
10. In Memorium Page
11. Family Reunion Booklet Maker and Download Page
12. Family Reunion Invitation and RSVP Feature
13. Event Fundraiser

Many of these features can be found in a reunion planning web app. Just run a search for key term "reunion web app" and view a small list of apps that boast having everything needed to plan a memorable family reunion. An alternative would be designing your own website using a template that includes all the above features provided by a website hosting service like MyEvents.com

MyEvents features includes all of the above features including a feature for selling tickets, ideal for collecting reunion money securely online holding. Other features include an online fundraiser. Checkout myevents.com's personalized family reunion websites.

Make use of search engine ranking and rating systems as well as word-of-mouth recommendations to determine the true quality of reunion planning resources Thanks to today's search engine rating system, finding the right interactive family reunion meeting place just got a whole lot easier.

Don't have a family reunion planner app yet? GetFimark's Family Reunion Plannerp with everything you need to plan a great family reunion. 

Timing Is Everything

Making family reunion events fun and memorable is what good event planning is all about. That said effective timing when planning organizing and managing the event is everything.

That said, give everyone plenty of notice.  6 to 12 months advance notice will allow attendees to plan some of their vacation time around the event. Make good use of the "Advance Family Reunion Planner Timeline" found in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app and eBook to guide you through the month to month planning process.

Getting the Word Out

If you're under 45 years of age you know what it takes to get the word out online across social networks. Readers 50 and older - take advantage of social network features like Facebook's online messaging features, including, the event announcement, status, chat and more.

With Facebook's event feature, people can organize gatherings, manage invitations and send notifications and reminders to their friends. People can use events to invite their friends to anything from a dinner party to a community fundraiser. There are currently more than 16 million events created on Facebook each month.

Just select Events on the left of your Facebook page, choose create and start typing your event into the form fields.  Add a time and place, and you'll be ready to share your plans instantly. With the Facebook Events application you can share extra details like where and when to meet and directions.

Word-of-mouth is good too. Use Skype or Google Hangout and talk face to face to let all family members know the family is having a reunion. Family reunion event announcement sites found on most family reunion web resources are also helpful. Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app mentioned earlier is designed to quickly connect you to Facebook, Google Plus, Hangout and Skype features to get the event planning process rolling. You'll find sample announcement letters, surveys and event planning worksheets you can easily share online over these networks.

That said, before you use Facebook or Google's event  announcement features there are several other steps you need to take like contact updates, taking surveys, choosing committee members and selecting themes, slogans to name a few. That's where a good Family Reunion planning app comes in.

Reunion Planning Committee

If you’re planning a big reunion event, you do well to put together a reunion committee. Ask for other family members to help with planning activities and choosing the time and place (this should be done first). The web app and eBook provide a detailed committee organizing and managing guide as part of the Checklist feature.

When you plan the event in a timely manner you'll get the help and resources you need, saving time, energy and drastically reducing expenses.  When should you start planning a July family reunion gathering? Anytime between November and January will help you stay ahead of the game. Follow the web app or eBook checklist steps closely and you'll have your family reunion event organized right on time.

Don't have the Fimark Family Reunion Planner Social web app and eBook package? Find the link in the profiles section of this blog. The paperback book can be found on Amazon.com

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Early Family Reunion Planning Strategy

They say the best laid plans do not always work out. Why? Experts say timing can be a contributor to a plans success or failure. Often because these plans require several hands on deck, getting full support is often the key to getting any idea off the ground, up and running.

So you talked to your family over dinner this past November and presented your ideas for the next family reunion. They liked what they heard and you've heard nothing more from them about it sense. Not to worry. That's typical. Likely they're both preoccupied with the everyday task of survival or they're just waiting to hear what your next move will be.

So what is the next move? Now would be the time to have a handy family reunion planning guide to lay out the course.  Why an event guide? These guides often are written based on an experienced reunion planners tried and proven event planning strategy.  A strategy that will get everyone inspired and motivated to pitch in and get the reunion event planning wheels turning full speed ahead. That said, enter Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app. This app presents a step by step method of planning your reunion event and via it's ebook feature it outlines how to get all in the family involved.

Best of all you don't have to download it and install it to your device or PC. Just go to the URL and sign-in. Next follow the steps one by one and you'll have your reunion plans up and running in no time.

How To Celebrate November's Family Reunion Planning Month

Happy November. And what a month it is. Just look at all the family related observations over the next four weeks.

• National Family Week: 24-30
• Native American Heritage Month
• National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo)
• Sweet Potato Awareness Month^[4]
• National Adoption Awareness Month (United States)
• Many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.
• Day after Thanksgiving is a famous day for shopping known as "Black Friday".
• National Adoption Day – November 21
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25.
• Cyber Monday (can sometimes fall in December)
• Family Stories Month
• Military Family Appreciation Month
• National Family Caregivers Month
• National Inspirational Role Models Month
• National Family Literacy Month

Annual Family Reunion Planning Month

November is also Family Reunion Planning Month. What's it all about? To raise awareness of family values and bring the family closer by focusing on family activities everyone can enjoy. 

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Benefits of Observation

During this month and the months to follow families often begin planning the next family reunion event. This is the time of year household members define this basic social structure of society - the family, and the varying roles each one plays contributing to good household management, mutual support and needed social identity. A means to this end is genealogy research and reunion event planning.   

Planning Your Next Family Reunion

Does your family have talent?  Discover family talents such as story telling, comedy, singing, composing and playing music, puppetry, dance or acrobatics, arts and crafts or theatrical skills. Enjoy it just for family fun.

If your family is really talented spend some of Family Reunion Planning Month practicing for a family or community talent show. Present a song in concert with a family reunion theme or a G-rated and parent approved family comedy. Create and perform a skit regarding family life featuring important family values taut in a creative, meaningful and inspiring way.  Example:  the "Home Improvement" sitcoms.

Create a compelling family novel, movie or genealogy presentation. Put your performance or presentation online via Youtube, Pinterest or other social media and inspire the world to maintain family first values during Novembers Annual Family Reunion Planning Month.

How To Promote The Cause

If you own business website, manage a group or are administrator of a personal or business social network promote family reunion planning month by posting a reminder on your site, group board or across your social network pages using the pins found at. or share the links below.

Pinterest
http://www.pinterest.com/fimarkhome/november-is-family-reunion-planning-month/

Official Website
http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net/planning-month-group.html

Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_reunion

Business Promotion

Make Family Reunion Planning Month recognition a part of your business marketing effort. Offer a discount to patrons who are planning their next family reunion.  Print or post reunion event planning info graphics and add your business card or company stamp and use them as handouts to patrons in your business area. Hold a contest and offer a free copy of Fimark's Family Reunion Planning Guide and Keepsake paperback book or ebook to the winners. 

For more information regarding promoting Family Reunion Planning Month across radio and television broadcast networks ... http://familyreunionplanners.blogspot.com/2013/10/8-ideas-to-celebrate-annual-family.html

Need Help Planning Your Reunion?

If you're planning to have your family reunion in June, July or August you need to complete all tasks yesterday. Need help completing tasks for your family reunion? Stay calm. Just drop me a line at fimarkhome@gmail.com and I'll show you how to get your event up and running in no time at all.

A great way to start planning the event is using an event planning web app. But not just any app. Some apps are just fancy checklists with a few bells and whistles.  Event planning involves cost estimation, timely and effective communication, access to vendors and familiarity with event task assignments. That said, you need tools essential to performing budget cost calculations, following an event planning calendar timeline and creating a contact database. 

Tools that help you decide on event theme, slogan and associated activities are essential. Tools that help you rally the masses and send out essential event details cannot be underestimated. Enter Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app. A reunion planning tool that's been continually refined since 2005.

As a family reunion planner you'll be running committee reports, printing and emailing worksheets for committee meetings as well as reviewing a task check off list. Tasks include surveying possible locations for the event, booking hotel accommodations, creating a dinner reception program, and reception floor planning. Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app helps you do all that and so much more.

Many reunion planners don't realize that Fimark's Family Reunion Planner package comes in three different formats to suite your planning preferences. 

1. The Online application for Google Plus and Facebook users.

2. A spreadsheet formatted planner with attendee contact database, t-shirt order and survey report compiler.

3. The 132 page eBook workbook.

The book includes the timeline planner that allows you to find out what task you should complete month to month. That means family reunion help is now online. Get started planning your reunion today.

Today Fimark is featuring a family reunion planning package that includes the popular Family Reunion Planner software program download with the Family Reunion Planner Guide Workbook and Keepsake eBook. And it's all for just $39. You save a whopping $10!

Even better, you don't have to wait for anything to come in the mail to get started. You order and the web app link is sent to you via email. Is that a great deal or what? This special summer fest reunion planning offer will not last long. Get Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app via link on this blog.

Family Reunion T-shirts - How To Design, Order and Distribute

It's t-shirt ordering time. In this reminder we discuss why it's important to give yourself plenty of time to get your orders submitted way in advance and how to avoid having to make those last minute t-shirt size adjustments that can delay the whole distribution process.

Designing T-shirts

If you haven't completed the design, ordering and organizing of your family reunion t-shirts, now is the time to do so. Organizing t-shirts is no small task. First you want to design it. Then order one. Let the reunion planning committee see the finished product first. After they all have a good look at it and give feedback you'll have time to make the needed changes. Next start collecting orders and fees for the shirts. Finally submit the order. As you can see this takes time.

T-shirt Discounts

At this time T-shirt designers offer discounts to increase off-season sales. In addition discounts are added to bulk orders. The savings can be phenomenal. Don't be fooled by low budget t-shirt offers. Frankly some of these shirts smell of low budget ink. Others are then, hard and poorly sewn together. Your best option? Go with the t-shirt designers who are highly rated by reunion planners like us.

Organizing and Distributing T-shirts

An ideal tool to get it all done is the Family Reunion T-shirt Roster. It helps you keep up with fees, payments and distribution. The Roster is part of the web app package our reunion event planners use when organizing their shirts. It's also part of the family reunion planner spreadsheet found on the reunion planning web app interface.

Avoid Last Minute Adjustments

There's nothing worse then being told that the t-shirts sizes you ordered are too small or too big. The hard facts are people grow and shrink and get thinner or wider over time. Encouraging younger folk to order a shirt one size larger or smaller may seem to be the solution. But that depends on the changes taking place in each individuals metabolism. The real solution? Once you've completed your t-shirt design share it with all attendees using the share feature on the t-shirt designer tool bar.

Each household can order them personally and if the shirt does not fit they can order another one as needed without having to contact you. You can even set the price for your shirt and and sell it your self, adding the proceeds to the family reunion treasury.

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app has the t-shirt designer, pre-designed t-shirts and the reunion spreadsheet to get your t-shirts designed, ordered and organized in no time at all.
Get Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app from the profiles link on this blog page.

Web App - Invitees Interest List Solution

Some of our fellow reunion planners have wondered why the Invitees Interest list featured on Fimark's Family Reunion Social web app lists all friends and families but does not separate the families from the friends. Well there is a way to delete those you don't plan on inviting from a list of invitees. Here's the solution...

Step 1. Locate Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social in your browsers favorites or bookmarks.

Step 2. On the interface click on the CSV button just above the Invitees Interest List and download the list to your computer.

Step 3. Open the spreadsheet and delete those who will not be attending the reunion. 

Step 4. Next download the Family Reunion Planner Spreadsheet found under Documents on the Family Reunion Planner Interface. 

Step 5. Import the data into the CSV file into the Family Reunion Planner Spreadsheet. Boom! 

You now have a list of all family members only and you can maintain and update a record of attendees, fees, t-shirt orders, tally event options survey results along with those interesting demographic details all from your event planning spreadsheet. I love it. Hope you do to.

Now save $10 when you purchase Fimark's Family Reunion Social Web App. Was $49. Now $39.

To get  more information about the Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social click on the link on this blog page and or profiles.

The Family Reunion Planner Social Has Launched

The Family Reunion Planner Social web app officially launched today, May 27th 2013. Choose from five reunion themes and associated printables and custom designed t-shirts.

The social enabled family reunion planner includes several apps on one interface for updating your facebook contacts and activity surveys. Surveys are automatically tallied when users like preferred themes and activities.

Connect Plan and Invite

Connect to the planning committee via chat, video conference or skype while sharing and editing the web apps reunion planning and department worksheets in real time.

Send invitations instantly. Keep track of RSVP statuses.

The web app syncs with your facebook account and imports profile data into a spreadsheet-like sortable searchable data table so you can perform the following family reunion planning tasks:

• View most popular interests
• Sort based on demographic categories and interests
• Determine talents
• Determine skill sets of volunteers using provided work history and education data
• Create a music lists using provided music interests data
• Select poetry recital candidates using provided book interest data..

Download the complete family reunion planner spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is a stand alone family reunion planner. Import guestlist data into the spreadsheet and save time on data entry.

Read up on cost saving planning tips and activity ideas using the family reunion planner ebook in PDF or Flipbook format

Find the ideal location and venue for your event.

Plan your itinerary and Luncheon/Dinner program. Plan and organize the layout of your reception hall using the Reception Hall Floor Planner. Choose from over 300 recipes ideal for your potluck reunion picnic or banquet dinner.

The skies the limit with the new Family Reunion Planner Social web app.

Planning a family reunion? Don't have Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app yet? Get it at this summers discount special. List Price $49. Now $39 for a limited time. You save $10 dollars. No coupon code needed. For more information about the family reunion planning app click on the link found on this blog page or go to profiles.