397: How Founder DeNeitra Burnett's Pandemic Pivot Led To A 7-Figure Business

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week in the guest chair we have DeNeitra Burnett, the Founder and CEO of Savvy Events, a Los-Angeles based event production and creative agency. DeNeitra has used her creativity and grit to climb to the top of the events industry, working closely with entertainment titans and Fortune 500 companies like HBO, Netflix, and Hulu, among others.

DeNeitra shares how when the events business was shut down during the Pandemic, she pivoted her business to custom mailers, leading to her scaling Savvy Events to a 7-Figure Business.

In this episode DeNeitra shares:

How she made her first custom mailer during the pandemic and created a whole new division in her business
How she structures her pricing to make sure she is fairly compensated
How she’s expanding her business and team to incorporate both event production and creative mailer production

Highlights Include:

00:00 Intro

04:16 Event planning

09:22 Work-life balance

18:10 Percentage-based pricing

23:57 Pivoting to mailers

31:13 Adapting staffing structure

34:50 Tips for entrepreneurs

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Website: https://savvycreativeagency.com/
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1:30.0	Hey, hey guys, welcome, welcome back to the show. It's Nakela here and today in the guest chair we have Denitra Burnett. She is the founder and CEO of Savvy Events, a seven-figure Los Angeles-based
1:37.3	event production and creative agency with an MBA from Cal State San Bernardino and a BA in communications from Howard University,
1:46.5	Denetra has used her creativity and grit to climb to the top of the events industry.
1:53.3	She is a regular on the Bis Bash 500 list
1:56.5	of the nation's most influential event planners
1:59.9	and works closely with entertainment tit Titans and Fortune 500 companies like
2:05.0	HBO Netflix and HP just to name a few. She also works alongside her husband Lawrence
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