Delve into the high-octane world of event planning with none other than Jeff Krauss. Discover how he orchestrates legendary gatherings for Hollywood A-listers like George Clooney and Alicia Keys. Plus, get a sneak peek into the electrifying universe of FanRoom Live, where fans and stars collide in a virtual extravaganza of meet and greets.
My guest, Jeff Krauss, and I discuss:
- The story behind the creation of FanRoom Live – FanRoom Live is an interactive virtual event series online, where Fans get to meet their favorite actors, comedians, athletes, and musicians in a group town hall-style meet and greet with Q&As.
- Jeff shares some magical moments from the many FanRoom Live events including stories from Jake The Snake Roberts and Sean Kannan’s appearances
- Jeff takes us behind the scenes of party planning for celebrities. Jeff has planned events for George Clooney, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, and more!
- Jeff takes us behind the scenes of working with SNL – Jeff plans the after and after after parties for the cast and crew!
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All right, Kristen, thank you so much for that amazing introduction. You get this show going each and every time and this is no exception. Welcome, everybody to Episode 263 of classic conversations. We're laying down the red carpet for this episode. Our guest today is Jeff Krauss, co creator of fan room live CEO of ice group party planner to the stars George Clooney, Alicia Keys. Perhaps you've heard of them. Jeff is going to take us behind the scenes of why he's the go to when celebrities need a partay. His work with the SNL after parties fan room live experience is so much more coming up in just a few seconds. Earlier this week, I released my Hal sparks interview. Check that out. That is an amazing conversation with how sparks in his return to the podcast. Do not miss that episode, and do not miss my deep dive with Jeff Krauss. Let's get ready to go. I'm excited. celebrity guest room experience easing Jeff Krauss now being the enjoy attainers we're gonna we're gonna dive into it. CEO of the IE group, co creator of fan room live. Welcome to the show. Jeff Krauss.
Jeff Krauss 1:49
Thank you for having me.
Jeff Dwoskin 1:50
It's it's always a pleasure to have another Jeff on the show. It's a dying name. You don't see new you don't see new people with the name Jeff.
Jeff Krauss 1:57
Yeah, Jeff and Jeff. You know, you gotta gotta respect that. You know what I mean? And
Jeff Dwoskin 2:03
I don't know how it was when you were growing up. When I was growing up, everyone was either Jeff or Jennifer. And now it's like none of those names. I mean, it's like unless you're older right?
Jeff Krauss 2:12
I was like the only Jeff or maybe like two others my school Believe it or not.
Jeff Dwoskin 2:17
One day, someone on TV will name their kid Jeff and I'll kind of go get popular again. Backwards. You know his name. I was looking as as rummaging through your cool stuff came across the name Stacy toy. I know Stacy toy. Oh, yeah. She was one of the very first people I interviewed on my podcast. Really? Yeah. Like, I'm a I'm over 250 episodes, but she was episode 23. She's like an OG guest
Jeff Krauss 2:44
on the show. That's so funny. Yeah. I love Stacy. She's amazing. And she's done such a great, great work with us with with phantom live and other stuff. That's That's hilarious. Yeah. Love her.
Jeff Dwoskin 2:55
And she's awesome. She's I will get the fan revive in a second. Through the IE group you. I was stalking your Instagram. And I mean, it's an insane. It's crazy list of celebrities. The Clooneys Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Brooke Shields. The list goes on and on. And I'm sure we'll touch on a few more. How did you even get into celebrity hospitality business? What were you doing beforehand? What kind of led to this company that these top top top entertainers come to you?
Jeff Krauss 3:25
Well, so going years back. I mean, I started in college, just throwing parties, you know, I was throwing parties at different, you know, different nightclubs. As the years went on, I kind of went more into event production, less into party promoting, per se. And I was getting hired at different venues for marketing, you know, whether it be restaurants or lounges just to do in marketing and programming, that kind of stuff. And I with my business partner, MidMichigan, Mitch Faulkner, we were basically arranging things were so he owns 123 talent. He does a lot of like conventions and that kind of stuff. And I do more of the parties. So I would organize like private dinners, let's just say at a restaurant. And then the celebrity would come to the lounge after. And it would look good for him because he would be trying to book them for conventions and speaking engagements and stuff like that. So as the years went on, my client list grew as far as not just the celebrities but also I started working with Saturday Night Live doing their after after parties and doing all these different, like different things. And then nightclubs started to ask us to book music artists and celebrity hosts and all that kind of stuff. So we kind of just came together and we basically just trying to do all these different types of opportunities, whether it be party planning side, he would refer to me if it was You know, something with a celebrity paid appearance type thing, you know, I would maybe let him take the lead. So we kind of just joined forces, and figured that if we do everything together, we could accomplish a lot more. And that's how it basically started.
Jeff Dwoskin 5:17
I want to hear about these Saturday live parties. I had someone on a comedian actress, she happened to have been on the very first Saturday live, she was actually add the very first after party. I'm guessing the ones you're throwing these days aren't as crazy drug filled? Or and even if they are, you probably can't say. But there's they seem to be a legend. What is it? Talk to me about sorry, I live after parties. For the last
Jeff Krauss 5:41
number of years, they would call me and basically just say, hey, you know, we're looking for, you know, a space a lot of times it'd be last minute, we're looking for a space, can you get us the venue, and DJ and all that kind of stuff. And I would just do it. And all of a sudden, it started to be like, Alright, you're getting us great venues, parties are going really well. Now we want you to do more and more of them. So it would just be an ongoing thing. Because I kept trying to ask them, Can you give me a little bit more notice, so to speak, because sometimes they call me the night before. And it just basically, I figured out how they work. I just would line up a couple of venues the beginning of the week, knowing that they're going to call me on Friday and say, hey, you know, where's the party for tomorrow?
Jeff Dwoskin 6:27
Expectations you is that it's a different party, every Isaiah every week, every week that they're doing a show every show is? Yeah,
Jeff Krauss 6:35
every week, they do it at a different different space. But a lot most times they come to me to get the After After Party space, which is, you know, they do the dinner first at a restaurant. And then they'll come to me, you know, where, where can we go after and dance and hang out and whatever. So that's really how it started. And then now they you know, now I work with them even more on the dinner party, and the first party started working with them on some of those. So, ya know, it's been a great, it's been a great relationship. I can't really dive into necessarily what happens in the parties, because that's privacy thing, but the only thing I can tell you is that I do help help them
Jeff Dwoskin 7:15
with it. No, no, that's really cool. I was only joking around just because they old, older days with volution. Legend. Oh, yeah, that
Jeff Krauss 7:23
was wild. I mean, yeah. Yeah, you
Jeff Dwoskin 7:25
think that they would know the show is coming up. I mean, they're planning it, they could give you a call on a Monday. Ya
Jeff Krauss 7:33
know, that that's their, that's their thing. The way they look at it, is when they're in the mood to start planning the party. That's when they want to plan the party. So it means that it's the night before that they say, oh, let's let's start planning the party call Jeff. That's what they do. I've tried to change it, you know, and say, Hey, can you guys you know, call me a week or two earlier, it goes, it went in in one ear and out the other day, but it's fine. Again, it's fine at nothing. Once I figured out the way that they operate. It made it much easier for me to operate, because now I know okay, they're gonna call me on Friday. I have a couple of venues lined up. And I just tell the venue's upfront. Look, it may be your week this week, it may not be, we're not going to know until Friday night. And that's that's how I did it. Instead of trying to change them. I reverse engineered it.
Jeff Dwoskin 8:27
Really, Jeff it sounds it's and then to get and then the the restaurants or the locales, I assume are on board, because they know eventually it'll be them. How often do you have to find new places every single time?
Jeff Krauss 8:40
Well, they usually go back to they like to go back to the same venues, you know, every every two months or something like that. But yeah, I'm always finding the new new spaces. And as long as they enjoy them, they ended up going back maybe once or twice in the same season. So it makes it does make it easier once they have fun at one space, I can then put that space back into the rotation. So it makes it easier. So I have to find them less venues because the the venue that they just had a great time at is already approved. They just don't want to go back too far. Too many times. And in a timeframe. That makes sense.
Jeff Dwoskin 9:15
Sure how far back you go doing this, like what was who was in the cast when you kind of started? Yeah, like the welfare all years. Yeah, or whatever.
Jeff Krauss 9:24
I started helping them and working with them probably I think in 2016 2017 This is when it was Bobby Moynihan and Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, I think Jay Pharoah still there at that point. That's when I first initially just just started working with them. And, you know, of course, the cast has changed, changed since but they're still some of the same. Same people. They're
Jeff Dwoskin 9:48
right. They hang on to the ball a lot longer now than they used to. So I so that's awesome. So do you go to these parties? Is that like party your party responsibilities? The burden of parties? Yeah, well,
Jeff Krauss 10:01
I try to at least go at the beginning just to make sure everything is set up and everything is smooth sailing for the for those parties, you know, they do go a little later than my, my conference so to speak. But I do try to stay at least midway just to oversee, make sure everything is good. I do try to attend the events just just for that reason.
Jeff Dwoskin 10:23
It's fine. And then I say they don't I see you take pictures with a lot of people. So it's like, that's I love that you can see that my wall.
Jeff Krauss 10:34
Well, the irony is those photos that you you see on my Instagram, none of them are ever taken at the SNL party. Okay. Yeah, because they're very, they want everything to be very hush hush. And that's, you know, that's fine. Totally good with that. Yeah, a lot of those the pictures that you see are more from events where of your dinners or whatever that I've done with the talent themselves.
Jeff Dwoskin 10:58
Got it. So are you the you're the go to guy when someone needs a private dinner? They're having a birthday? Take me through George Clooney working with you to set up a party for his wife? Like how does how does even know to call you? That's me, George, you know, you can't get bigger than George Clooney. I mean, everyone else is awesome on this list, too. But George Clooney is like,
Jeff Krauss 11:18
well, that's a great example. I had reached out to his I've known as publicist for a while I reached out to him for something, maybe a week or two weeks, three weeks earlier. And his publicist just referred me to his assistant. And they said, Hey, we're in town. It's a maules birthday in a couple days, or can you put together her birthday dinner? Sure, no problem. And I quickly set it up and arranged it.
Jeff Dwoskin 11:46
So how easy or hard? Is it to work with a celebrity versus anyone? I guess? I mean, in everyone's head, I think it's like, you know, yeah, I know, it's for concerts with the no brown m&ms, you know, that kind of level of crazy requests and stuff like that, you know, no chickpeas in the hummus? Yeah,
Jeff Krauss 12:06
well, here's the thing. So I, you know, I have a lot of patients. And that's maybe one of the keys, why I'm able to do this pretty good, I guess you could say, I'm very patient with stuff like that, if they have specific requests, that they have allergies, or they have any kind of issues that I think I you know, I tried to just get as much of that stuff pass through that that's actually possible, I haven't really come into contact with people that were really that difficult, per se, at least in the events that I've been that I've been doing. I've been, I guess fortunate enough that most of the talent that I've done parties and dinners for been very, very nice and gracious, and no issues, so to speak,
Jeff Dwoskin 12:54
is it a whole kind of a regular role when you run one of these parties, and the press gets wind of it, or the public or the TOG refers and all that is that and your purview? I gotta keep it private. Well,
Jeff Krauss 13:07
each event is different. Some events, the celebrities, publicist, or manager will approve, you know, us letting the press know about it. Some of them don't. Some of them, it's more of like, hey, if they get wind of it after, then, you know, so be it kind of thing. But our whole thing is more about privacy of what happens inside. So if they get wind of the fact that they were there, that's one thing. We just don't give information of what happens on the inside of the party to any kind of press or anything like that, unless it's something that is approved by their publicist saying, hey, they raised a certain amount of money for charity. Is that something that you want to put out there? Okay, that's great. That's a good deed. If it's something that has to do personally with the celebrity, we try to keep that kind of stuff private.
Jeff Dwoskin 13:59
So whatever happens at a Jeff Kraus event stays at that Jeff Krauss
Jeff Krauss 14:06
unless they find out on their own somehow, some way of any, any other any other information. But as far as what's coming from me and my team, yeah, no, we, we respect the celebrity's wishes of keeping things private.
Jeff Dwoskin 14:21
Sorry to interrupt, but the press got wind of this interview. So I gotta go handle that. I do want to thank everyone for their support of the sponsors. When you support the sponsors. You're supporting us here at Classic conversations. And that's how we keep the lights on. And now back to my conversation with Jeff Krauss. We're going to talk about some party planning fan room live. all that goodness, enjoy. So you've also worked with it feel free to share any stories? Yeah, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys Brooke Shields. Any cool antidotes from from that group?
Jeff Krauss 14:54
All three of the people that you just mentioned are actually really great people. I planned on Christina's after party for pride. And NYC, I'm sorry, Christina's party for pride in NYC, Alicia Keys. I helped plan her after party for her concert. And Brooke Shields who was for dinner. It was a birthday dinner. All three are, were great to work with. And yeah, really just very sweet people had a lot of fun actually working with all three of them.
Jeff Dwoskin 15:24
So you had reached out to George Clooney. And then that was how that happened. So but are you just constantly reaching out? Or how do people know to just call the IE group and Jeff Prowse to kind of make these high end events take place? Well,
Jeff Krauss 15:41
a lot of them are referrals. So for example, I have worked with Christina Aguilera as publicity teams, colleagues before many, many times over. So when she was looking for a space for her after party, her publicist reached out because I was recommended by internally within the company. So that's how that got initiated. And it just so happened that her manager, I've also worked with some of her colleagues. So it was very, you know, serendipitous, so to speak, connection. Similar thing with Alicia, I had reached out and then been referred by managers colleague, and they were deciding whether they wanted to do a party or not. And we were talking, I was talking about maybe planning a dinner for her. And it just kind of ended up being okay, well, Alicia wants to do an after party, and you put it together? Can you find a great space that fits this criteria? And ended up working out?
Jeff Dwoskin 16:43
That's awesome. Let's talk about how did you come to great fan room live with Cedric the Entertainer? Like what was the whole germ of the idea? And how did you kind of bring that to life? Or back to were working with Stacey toy?
Jeff Krauss 16:58
Yeah, well, basically, during the pandemic, around April of 2020, when we're all sitting in our homes were born out of our minds. Michigan, Faulkner, my partner called me up and said, Jeff, I, you know, I want to start getting some of our athlete and wrestler clients online, to do something with their fans kind of just, you know, we just want to do something, even if it's for charity, or anything, we're just all so bored. Can you you know, do you have any ideas? Well, what if we did that? And what if we, they got to meet their fans, and we, you know, raise money for charity, they got to speak to their fans. And what if we also did that with celebrities? What a great idea. Let's make some calls. We called Cedric, we pitched him the idea. And just, you know, again, just the skeleton of the idea. And his initial response was, Wow, this sounds like a great idea. In fact, I think that this virtual stuff is going to be around for a whole lot longer than just the pandemic. But I think the idea of doing charity events is a great idea. But we can make a sense for brands, and I'd love to produce it with you guys. Okay, that sounds great. So we just started playing around with ideas, trying to come up with the right format. And we launched and it was, and it's, it's been great. That's how we became partners with Cedric on and phandroid. As far as Stacey goes, I had connected with Stacy on LinkedIn, a number of years ago. And she came on to one show and checked it out. As far as fan room, we were talking about different ideas of how she could be involved. And I said, You know what, I think it'd be great if you could, you know, not only help us maybe produce it, but also if you'd want to come on and be a host. And so we gave it a shot, and she was great. She knocked it out of the park, she made the celebrities and fans feel so welcomed, you know, along with Jay Benjamin, who's you know, also the host and CO EP. So, ya know, it was it was just a great dynamic, that great energy on the show. And it's, you know, you always want to have a great energy to something, whatever you're doing, and they both brought and still bring that energy to fan room switch, which we love.
Jeff Dwoskin 19:16
Do you have any favorite fan room events? And when I say that, I don't mean pick your favorite person that was there but like was something happened, you know, like a good thing, like a magical thing that you're like, oh my god, I can't believe that happened.
Jeff Krauss 19:27
Yeah, I have a few. One will I'll go into a couple one of them. So Jake, the Snake Roberts, we had him on fat room. And he had been visiting this girl that's a paraplegic or has some sort of disability since the 80s. She gets a ticket to come on. He doesn't know she's going to be on because of course we're in the middle of a pandemic. He goes on. She's on there. And he says, Oh, is that my girl? I think her name is Chan. And, you know, it was like this beautiful moment because he couldn't go and visit her. Because he couldn't he couldn't fly because of the pandemic. Ah, so now they have this moment to be able to talk to each other on fan room. And it was it was beautiful. That would be one.
Jeff Dwoskin 20:17
I love that. That's great. That's really cool. Yeah, but you can't plan those things. That's why That's why it's its guide. Alright, go ahead. Tell me another one. Yeah, no,
Jeff Krauss 20:25
that that's the beauty of it. This was not planned. This just happens. spur the moment. We had no idea of any of this until we were all on. And yeah, it was, it was great. Another moment, we actually had another wrestler, we had the big show, all white. And we had brought on this organization called the wrestling warriors project, where they ring sick children to wrestling shows. And they had been doing that for a number of years. But unfortunately, because of the pandemic, they couldn't do that anymore. So they brought on a couple of the kids that were sick with terminal illnesses, cancer, whatnot. And one of them you know, from the UK, talking with a big show and said, Hey, can you you know, can you donate your shirt to to the charity, and Paul Big Show, took his shirt off, signed it and said, Hey, this is for this for the for the charity. Here you go. Now we took that video clip, and we put it on YouTube and share it on Facebook. Friend of mine, Rob Wiles, has a wrestling podcast or saw the video reached out to me and said, Jeff, listen, I have two world title belts that are signed authenticated, one from the Undertaker, one from the rock. I'm going to donate the one from the undertaker to the charity. And I want to send the one from the rock to hit in the UK. So we reached out kids parents actually told us that His birthday was a few weeks later. So they were able to we sent it to an address or whatever, that kid wouldn't be able to see it. They were able to give it to him on his birthday. World title belt actually signed by the rock doesn't get any better than that. And they auctioned off the Undertaker's world title about for for charity.
Jeff Dwoskin 22:26
It's amazing. I got tingles that's so cool. That's a that's a really great story.
Jeff Krauss 22:32
Yeah, amazing right.
Jeff Dwoskin 22:34
It's really amazing. Must make you feel really good. Does any you've had a lot other celebrity any nines wrestlers ever bring some good?
Jeff Krauss 22:47
Yeah, those are just two that it actually happened that did something that happens to be just be very unique. But no, we've had some we've had ice tea and cocoa on. We've had, you know Tommy Chong. We've had Lamar Odom. We've had a lot of a lot of people.
Jeff Dwoskin 23:03
Yeah, Morgan Fairchild, George Lopez, Sean Kenna, Canaan. Canaan. Sean.
Jeff Krauss 23:09
Oh, that's another one. So Sean Kane, and that's kind of a funny, funny little, little story. So Sean Canaan comes on into fan room. And I had told the hosts this was before he got back on to Cobra Kai, this before that. I said, Don't ask him if he's going to be on Cobra Kai, because we want to let the fans ask that question so that they could get the moment. So we finished the first part of the show. And nobody had asked that question. So, so I said to Jay, listen, nobody asked this question. It's the most obvious question. Are you going to be on Cobra Kai? Is Mike bards? Come on, no one's asked it. Can you just ask that question? I love to see what he's gonna say. So he asks the question, very slick. So you know, have you or your agents been in touch with like, Will Smith or Ralph Masaccio? Are you DMing? Ralph? Are you in talks in any way, shape, or form anything that you could sell us about coming out? You know, if you're going to be coming back to back onto Cobra, Kai Shan, and spitzkoppe. Right, read? And he said, Well, I can't say anything. But I will just say you probably haven't seen the last of my parts. That one snippet went so viral all over the media, just from him, alluding that he was going to be back on over chi. And all just from the words of I don't think you've seen the last of Mike Barnes. We shall see. And it was so like, we were all just like, did he really just just say that? It also it was? Yeah, that was pretty funny. Funny, man. No. And he got back on the show.
Jeff Dwoskin 25:03
I know it was a great season. Did you watch Cobra guy?
Jeff Krauss 25:06
No, no, I do. What I'm saying is a year later, I guess they must have saw all this viral press from what he said. And I'm not saying that's the reason why he got back on of course, but it definitely probably gave them a little nudge. Like, look, there's some real interest in Shawn Kanan is Mike Barnes, you know, come on, we want to see Barnes back. You know what I'm saying? So,
Jeff Dwoskin 25:29
I had a bad boy, karate gotta bring him back. I'll give them
Jeff Krauss 25:34
exactly. You gotta you gotta bring him back.
Jeff Dwoskin 25:37
That's awesome. So yeah, that's really cool. Do you have any fan rooms coming up their whole schedule or fan room? live.com? I know.
Jeff Krauss 25:46
Yeah. And a couple of weeks. We have the Yin Yang twins coming up. And then we have some that we're working on that are going to be more for September, October. So those will be will be announced in the next couple of weeks, so to speak.
Jeff Dwoskin 25:59
Got it when when you announced one. Do people buy tickets? How do you become part of the audience?
Jeff Krauss 26:05
Yeah, people will buy tickets to get onto fender live. They go to our website, and they purchase tickets.
Jeff Dwoskin 26:11
And then so come with questions ready, then? Yes. Okay.
Jeff Krauss 26:16
Yeah. And that's the beautiful thing about fan room is like, you know, we we say, hey, look, you got a question or two. But a lot of times what happens is the celebrity or the, you know, the talent, they get so into it. And these discussions happen. And it turns from like one or two questions that might suppose the last minute or two, and towns have started having so much fun that it ends up being five minute conversations. It's great in a lot of times that happens. And they have these like in depth up close and personal, intimate conversations.
Jeff Dwoskin 26:51
Are the old ones. Can we watch them on YouTube or you preserve them once they occur?
Jeff Krauss 26:56
A lot of them are on YouTube. We also have a bunch that are on or at least some video clips on it. 24/7 But a lot of them are on are on YouTube. Yeah. There's some that we haven't posted yet but we tried to take certain you know, video clips from different different shows and post them and but there are some that we've posted the full the full on shows.
Jeff Dwoskin 27:17
Do you have any dream guests that you want to get on and revive like the ones that are on your bucket list of future guests? I don't mean the book down but just like, oh my god, I forget.
Jeff Krauss 27:28
Oh, of course, there's always I know. But who? Well, if we could quickly get them? I mean, I again, I don't I know
Jeff Dwoskin 27:35
people ask me all the time, like, as opposed to tied to Jerry Seinfeld or Henry Winkler you just people that like I would love to personally. You know, I mean, like, fandom Wise, who would you get on
Jeff Krauss 27:47
as a as a fan? As a fan? I would love to get somebody like Stone Cold Steve Austin on? That's just me, because, you know, I'm a wrestling fan, but, or the rock. But yeah, I mean, there are certain people that I would love to love to have on that, or, you know, just as a fan on, there's people that I'd love to have on just because I think they'd be you know, great with their, you know, with their audience. Like, I think Conor McGregor would be a real fun one.
Jeff Dwoskin 28:12
It's really cool. I love it. Sorry. It's because I love. I'm a big ComiCon guy, I love going to that. And I've done panels and like, you know, so you know, I know, like live I've been to like, you know, where they the fans come and they ask questions. And it's just, it's such a great experience for fans to be connected to people that they have a pop culture or affinity for, or some kind of affinity for fan room is actually born out of the pandemic, it seems like an amazing idea to keep those connections alive, especially during a time when all those connections were severed. Well, the
Jeff Krauss 28:48
other beauty of it is that, like, for example, you mentioned at a comic con, right? So you can go up and get an autograph, you can go up and get a selfie. But there's that person online that's trying to rush you through because they're trying to get hundreds of other people to in a very short period of time. So you only get a real few, you really get a few seconds to talk to them. And even at the panel, when people do come up and ask a question. You're on a stage, they're in the crowd? Well, we do. Because it's virtual, we actually get them face to face so they can talk to each other and have it's more like you're in their greenroom versus being at a comic con or on or on a panel. Does that make sense?
Jeff Dwoskin 29:31
Yeah, there's a certain different level of intimacy if you're like zoom during talking versus kind of 50 feet away to an audience or at the microphone and got how long episode 42 And then they kind of just answer you but your eye they're not really they're talking back to the audience are not really necessarily talking to you. They're just answering your questions. It's not like you're going to big parties coming up and no What do you do normal person parties like if I just
Jeff Krauss 29:59
know Look, I know listen, I That's funny. No, I look, I plan events for executives and you know, for people that just want to throw a party. Yeah, I mean, agents, look, celebrities, agents and managers, they also come to me for their own personal parties too. So it's not like, I just plan parties for celebrities only. It's just that a big core of my business, just so happens to be celebrities, and they're, you know, as clients or in a celebrity driven industry, so to speak. So, yes, an answer to your question. If you ever want to throw a party, happy to help.
Jeff Dwoskin 30:40
But if someone wants to throw a big party, how do they get ahold of you, Jeff?
Jeff Krauss 30:44
Oh, well, I mean, they can go either a they can go onto my, my website, which is Ieg ny.com. They can, you know, shoot a an email out to, you know, to me, or even just DM me on Instagram, which is at IU group NYC. That's the easiest way to get a hold of me as either by email or just DM me on Instagram, that they have an event that they want to plan.
Jeff Dwoskin 31:08
Awesome. And how can I get invited to one of these say live after parties?
Jeff Krauss 31:12
Ah, talk about that after the show.
Jeff Dwoskin 31:16
Jeff, thanks for hanging out with me. I appreciate it. This was fun. It was really you do what you do is so cool. I it's really fascinating. Thanks for giving us a little insight into it for me.
Jeff Krauss 31:27
Oh, no, I appreciate you having me on. This is a lot of fun. And yeah, I really do. Thank you.
Jeff Dwoskin 31:33
All right, everyone, Jeff Krauss, party planner to the stars co creator of fan room live. Those are some great stories from fan room live. I hope you all check out the next one or check out their schedule a hop in get a ticket hang with some celebrities. Nice intimate experience. You need Jeff to give you a high profile party, you know where to reach him. Now. You can party like the stars. All right. I do want to thank one more time, my special guest Jeff Krauss, as we have come to the end of the episode. And I also want to thank all of you for coming back week after week. It means the world to me, and I'll see you next time.
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