TMCP #442: Melanie Henry on Mastering Car Shows for Charity and Becoming UMI’s Marketing Graphic Designer

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week I spoke to Melanie Henry, Marketing Graphics Designer at UMI Performance and founder of Mel's Car Shows. The car shows came before her career with UMI and may have just been the introduction that led her there. She has perfected the art of specific charity fund raiser car shows, now hosting six different car events each year!

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 442.
0:04.1	This week, our guest is Melanie Henry from Mel's car shows and also UMI performance.
0:09.6	We're going to cover a lot of ground in this one.
0:11.9	First, Melanie loves cars.
0:14.2	She is also a woman in an industry that is, well, mostly male.
0:18.5	Secondly, she has perfected the art of creating local car shows to act as
0:23.7	fundraisers for children's charities, fire departments, you name it. And we're going to talk about
0:28.1	that here with details. And as you may have guessed, those two items led to her employment at a dream
0:33.6	job with Suspension Maker UMI Performance. All awesome. Like I told you, we're covering a lot of
0:38.3	ground in this one. And for those of you specifically interested in the car show as a fundraiser
0:44.0	component, well, here's a little advice to get you started. I mean, with the cost of trophies and your
0:49.3	DJ and your expenses of having flyers printed, whenever they come to me, I tell them like $2,000 is a nice cushion to have in sponsorship money.
1:04.3	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:08.5	Brought to you by National Parks Depot.
1:13.5	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love american muscle cars whether you're buying them selling restoring or even
1:20.4	racing them this is the place for you now here's your host rob kibby yes indeed i, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.
1:31.7	So, fun show today, a little lesson on how to utilize local car shows as a fundraiser.
1:37.7	And maybe as a lead generator for a new job, who knows?
1:41.3	Melanie Henry is our guest.
1:42.9	Thanks to Mark 11 for the introduction here. Again, we're going to cover a lot of ground in this interview. If you are one of our female listeners, maybe you can relate to some specific things in here, a lot of good details for everybody. So here's what's going on in this particular show. This may be a shorter show. I never know. If you are about to attend the Mo Party event in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that's the Holly event.
2:05.1	Listen up shortly.
2:06.4	I'm going to tell you everything you need to know to find us there.
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