Welcome to our “Parlour”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto is once again embraced by an attractive entertainment establishment and hosting environment, perfect for launches, fashion, media and private events. Parlour 270, on Adelaide St. at John St., is the perfect habitat for socialites to embrace style, music, art and fashion in an upper-eastside feel like building.

The buzz around the establishment’s inauguration last month was so elevated that Parlour had hit capacity by midnight. This establishment has an extravagant vintage design and an intimate setting to cater crowds up to 100+;

”Parlour is a mecca for socialites seeking habitual enlightenment. Embracing style, music, art and fashion in an impressive heritage building, Parlour is a destination for those seeking refuge from the main. Boasting an extravagant vintage design, Parlour teases the senses with a lavish and mature wine and cocktail menu,” according to Rebecca Andersen.

It is the perfect escape from mainstream and a great addition to Toronto’s vibrant lounge scene, definitely worth checking out for both a evening cocktail or to host your next event. Located steps from the downtown core, TIFF Lightbox and the theatre district, Parlour offers a versatile space with a small courtyard patio, area for musical performances, and private areas.

http://parlour270.com. You can also follow Parlour on twitter@Parlour270

For more information on this space for your upcoming event contact: info@torontocityevents.ca

Sceneopolis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for joining Sceneopolis Launch Party! 

Sceneopolis.com was founded with a simple mission to help you plan a complete night out and [re]discover what makes our city tick. And it also saves you money! sceneopolis.com creates a scene that revolves around Toronto’s world-class arts and culture programming and has partnered with the city’s best arts and culture organizations, restaurants, and bars to save you money.

Special CityEvents sceneopolis discount
Use code: city5 and get $5 off your subscription (regular price $45). Visit www.sceneopolis.com and use the discount code at check-out.

For more info: www.sceneopolis.com

Dusseldorf Altbierfest

The Candian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce organized an amazing event on October 11th. The worldwide famous Altbierfest.

The setting couldn’t have been better. The Altbierfest was held at Toronto’s Bier Markt on the Esplanade and showcased an authentic German Bierfest. It was a casual, comfortable and perfect moment for networking.

Event Fundraising Strategy & Planning

When it comes to your fundraising events, if you were starting over, how different would they look?

1. Become more data driven.
It is impossible to run a successful event fundraising program without understanding the characteristics of your participants and the linkages between those characteristics and giving.

2. Understand the difference between metrics and analytics.
Event fundraisers are talking about not just measuring more and better, but also predicting donor and participant behaviours. You can use your analysis as a blueprint to think strategically about how to improve your event’s future fundraising results.

3. Think in segments.
It’s essential to target your segments differently. Within each event there are definitely groups of participants that we should focus on more than most. It is essential that you identify up front how many segments you can actually administer.

4. Predict future activities.
This is basic segmentation developed from descriptive analysis. But while this helps to focus efforts, it is essentially reactive 3and does little to develop new gifts.

5. Think relationships.
All aspects of the event marketing relationship are changing. Social media is perhaps the most obvious change, but there are other choices you can use. Rather than treating social media as a standalone channel or replacement for traditional tactics, event marketers should be looking for ways to use social media to support and enhance the successful programs they already have in place.

6. Drive fundraising productivity.
In some organizations fundraisers spend too much of their time doing tasks that the marketing should be doing for you. We’re seeing some organizations use their CRM and personal fundraising systems to take advantage of automation, email and social media to make personal fundraisers more credible with their donors and shorten the cultivation cycle.

7. Use social media to connect and facilitate dialogue.
You’re are accountable for your events’ participation in social media—even if your aren’t engaging in those conversations yourself. You must train, educate and support your event participants who fundraises on behalf of the organization.

8. Remember the 80/20 rule.
Do you treat all event participants equally? You shouldn’t! The most effective events focus the majority of their efforts on the participants with the highest potential return, which typically constitutes only about 15% of the participant base.

9. Give your donor database the respect it deserves.
We recommend that you not overlook an analysis of the structure of your data gathering itself. This is an area all-too-often ignored. This includes administration of hundreds of thousands of participants and donor records and millions of transactions.

10. Be different.
The audit and evaluation of your events should include comprehensive participant, donor, market and competitive analysis. Understanding how you will compete and differentiate your events is critical to success.

CityEvents: Like the Facebook Page Contest

It’s an exciting month! The ‘Like the Facebook Page Contest’ has kicked off. CityEvent is becoming more and more well known around the city.

To reward our fans we have a few surprising gifts for you guys! You can get the chance to win one of two gift baskets worth 200 dollars! Or a 100 dollars gift certificate!

All you have to do is login to Facebook, search for CityEvents and like our page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/CityEvents

The contest runs until September 30th.

What are you waiting for? Did you already like our Facebook Page?

 

 

 

 

 

« Previous Page — Next Page »