Ideas for a nightclub ? What features did you like best ?

also cages and stripper poles for the girls to dance in or to hire dancers is huge. Focus cages around the bar - have two focal points in a room - stage and bar. there needs to be a reason to hang out around the bar and dancing cages work great for that

anyway i hope that helps - good luck with it. montreal is a good place to do a club if you have your ducks in a row

Let in only about 20 people, otherwise its too crowded.

i can't tell but i hope that is a bubble machine and not confetti. I had a promoter bring in a confetti gun once - it was a NIGHTMEAR to clean. the shit gets EVERYWHERE and places you really don't want paper (heated areas with wires)... plus it gets all over your patrons and they are mad later picking it off themselves. Confetti BAD

I became all about easy to clean and maintain

I was confused by that shot as well. I thought maybe it was a foam machine or something like that.

maybe

Timewarp local edition u can make,depends what ure clients listen (timewarp.de bigest techno production in the world).only in germany and holland there are till now..why not and there?!

That is bubbles, but we have confettis. Total we have 4 snow (bubble snow) makers and 1 HUGE confetti gun... and I mean HUGE.

We have 2 Co2 canons too like Coco Bunga.

1 fulltime cleaner, 4 part time, and one maintenance guy that's there 4 days a week.

You have to create a culture arround something like that wich is very hard and takes a lot of ressources, but if you can do it, it's great marketing. Personally what we do is have different talent (tam tams, electronic violon, harmonica, drums, signers etc) come in every night and perform with the DJ. People never know what they are going to get before they get there.

BTW Sleazy I say fuck promoters. I had 8 motivated ones, and when I started doing the same thing I ended up grabbing 90 % of their guests on my own... You just need to have high penetration on the web nowdays, nightlife clients are definitly connected.

- Build a good website (mine averages over 500 pageviews a day, the nights we are open more then 1000)

- Use a good CRM to collect data (sms, email addys, bdays promotions etc) that automaticly contact them when I need too (eg offer them a limo ride and guestlist for bdays). I have about 12 000 entries in it. Got most of them through contests etc. We bought a limo for that



I also have a huge network on facebook (over 10 000 people too)

And our social network (reaching over 12k 18 to 35 weekly).

Except students groups I don't need promoters anymore, way less hassle.

BTW if you guys wanna see more pics :
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...d=162613851432

sell this inside:

Waiting at the bar for somebody to take your order and serve you the drink is the worst thing after the toilets.. make sure that there are plenty of waitresses.. also this will make you more money

Nice club, keep up the good work!

That one picture with the low ceilings looks like a lot of guys, what is your Guy to Girl ratio at the club?

Also, can't really tell by these pictures but make sure the female bartenders are hot. Great for business.

Overall looks like a great club. What is the square footage?

ohhhhhhhhhh.. maybe should get some shhots set up in there! Or maybe get my ass to your area and check it out when I am back in Mtl visiting friends/family for a couple weeks. Could be fun

If you are opening a new place, why not diversify? Make it a rock-alt venue for example.

If you stick to what you are already doing successfully, your new place will just be taking away business from your current place and likely not attracting many new people.

Example, say currently you have 10,000 people in town interested in the kind of music and club you have now, that attend your place. A new club opening of the same style, maybe will draw a few new faces who tried the old one and didn't like something specific (maybe the night they went there the service was bad, or there was an issue, etc... but they still like that style place). So say you open the new one and now the old one has 5000 people and the new one has 7000 for 12000.

If you have a completely different type of place, you appeal to a completely different demographic. In this case maybe you're old place still gets its 10,000 people and the new place gets another 8,000.

The Rock culture is changing from broke kids wanting to hear good music while spending the last 8$ they have on tow beers, to people with a lot of disposable income who would love spending it at a high-class rock lounge for example. Not many of those around that I know of in Montreal/Sherbrooke.

As for actual tips, I think service if the most important factor. A lot of places hire attractive bartenders who don't know wtf they are doing. These places lose money by the handfuls. Attractive is very good, but attractive and skilled is better. People don't like to wait for drinks long before losing interest.