ABOUT VERIFIED VENDOR EVENTS™ 

For more than 26 years, my team and I have worked in the event space as both promoters and vendors. We have built events, participated in events, and personally experienced the financial risk vendors assume every time they commit booth fees, inventory, marketing expenses, travel, and time.  We understand what it takes to produce a legitimate event. We also understand how damaging it can be when events are misrepresented, copied, or falsely promoted.

Verified Vendor Events™ was created from lived experience, not theory.

I personally encountered situations where individuals copied events I hosted, created fraudulent flyers, collected vendor payments under false identities, and then disappeared. Vendors later believed I had canceled events or taken their money, when in reality someone else had impersonated the event entirely.

Those experiences revealed a serious gap in accountability within the vendor event industry. My team and I built Verified Vendor Events™ to close that gap. This platform was designed to restore structure, verification, and professionalism to a space that too often operates without safeguards.

We are committed to maintaining a system built on accountability, transparency, and protection for both vendors and promoters.

Verified. Structured. Accountable.

Dr. Phyllis Porter
Founder and Administrator
Verified Vendor Events™