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How we differ from agencies...

& how we are complementary to them

    We collaborate with chosen agencies. Our entries let them obtain contracts they might not have otherwise and their experience lets us work with groups of large size.  

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    Catherine leads this group because an agency asked us to fill a specific request.

       

      Yet our origins, our wish to promote our view of France and the fact that for many of our activities we are obliged to know our guests, lead to a different kind of functioning. In particular:

       

          • Use of the "Four Ps" (ways of defining a business)

       

      • Product : Our proposals are personal and impossible to standardize. They have been created over a generation. Agencies may have a few comparable entries, but not several hundred.

       

      • Publicity : There isn't any.

       

      • Public : We describe our proposals with much more detail than agencies do, partly so that any curious person can visit France via the screen, without using our services. 


      • Price : Our low overhead cuts most agency fees by at least half.
        • Required practices

         

        • The Board is disinterested. Catherine Aubin guides in history, to communicate an approach that one cannot find otherwise and donates the fee to PEF. Other members have no professional link with it.

         

        • Income is re-injected into the organisation, not distributed to members or shareholders.

         

        • To benefit from PEF, you must join it. Dues are inexpensive and if you come to Paris, membership lets you attend the convivial occasions by which we follow our artists' evolution or test new events.

         

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