Party Expert   •  Author   •   Speaker •  Marketing Expert 

PHONE: 954-974-7907 (FL) CELL: 954-540-7908

E-Mail: PartyPlansPlus@aol.com

Website: www.PartyPlansPlus.com

             Phyllis Cambria is a nationally-recognized, award-winning party planning expert, event marketing expert, author and sought-after speaker. Her lively and useful seminars and her ingenious and easy-to-follow advice in books, magazines, newspapers and on TV, radio and websites have charmed and informed audiences everywhere.

            Phyllis is co-author, with Patty Sachs, of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Throwing a Great Party (Alpha Books/Macmillan), The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Choosing a Caterer (Alpha Books/Penguin), and is the author of the Event and Party Planning Careers: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Get Started and Succeed (SWP Press).  With Patty, Phyllis has also created specialty books on party planning for Cuisinart and Hormel to give to their customers.

            Through her marketing and public relation efforts and networking contacts with other freelance writers, Phyllis has become a frequent expert source for numerous publications including Woman's Day, Fitness Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Women's World, Family Circle, The Chicago Tribune, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Knot, Washington Post, and dozens of other magazines, newspapers and websites.  Recently, she was also a quoted expert resource in OPPORTUNITIES in Event Planning Careers (VGM Career Books) and The Worse Case Scenario Handbook: Work  and The Worse Case Scenario Handbook: Weddings (Chronicle Books).

            Audiences have also had a chance to enjoy her tips and tactics during the dozens of radio interviews and TV appearances she's given on stations nationwide. And, her 25-plus year career as a professional actress makes her a natural when appearing in front of a live audience or on camera.

            During her more than 20 years working as a professional event planner,  Phyllis has coordinated hundreds of events for two to ten thousand guests. From picnics to product launches, from golf tournaments to grand openings, from anniversaries to auctions, from nuptials to networking events, from birthdays to bar/bat mitzvahs, from festivals to fund-raisers, from holidays to hoedowns, Phyllis has used her imaginative ideas and attention to details to create memories and events of a lifetime. As an entrepreneur, Phyllis co-owns PartyPlansPlus.com with Patty Sachs where more than half a million website visitors have come to get party planning advice and links to party products.

            As a speaker, Phyllis has appeared at the National Halloween, Costume and Party Show, the Las Vegas Halloween and Party Show, The Special Event, Chicago Gift and Merchandise Shows, National Council on Marketing and Public Relations, International Special Events Society, Alabama Parks and Recreation Department, Supercuts Southeast Regional Managers Meeting, Paper First Affiliates, BizBash Fun Shops and dozens of other trade and consumer shows.

            She was the national holiday spokesperson for Louis Kemp Seafood and satellite media tour spokesperson for Unique Industries (a party products manufacturer) and Coors Beer. Along with Patty, she created party ideas for numerous companies' publications and websites including the Giant Eagle Supermarket chain.

            Phyllis has been married for more than 30 years and lives with her husband, Doug, and their cat, Digit, in South Florida in a home they call "Camelot."

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