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Dining in the Entertainment District
Well,
I continue to be confused by the Canadian approach to doing
business. Many
of my international clients had requested that we include
restaurant referrals showing their locations on our very
successful interactive mapping.
I met a young salesman who was ready to take this concept to the
street emphasizing that my clients take up 100% of my time and
that, although I felt integrating a visitor industry component
into our web site proved a sound business model (Toronto’s
tourism industry is not overly well served), I simply would not be
available to assist him in meeting with and working with this
community.
Well, we produced a bunch of marketing material and had lots of
meetings and strategy sessions and finally got my young aspiring
superstar out into the field.
I had my graphic artist create additional interactive
mapping designed to allow visitors to see where to dine and
entertain themselves before they move here and/or even visit to
view properties.
With in excess of 15,000 “Hits” Per Day we bring a very high
quality Internet visitor who is already contemplating spending in
excess of a quarter million dollars (many purchases in the
millions of dollars) to move into the downtown Toronto area.
Today I heard from Adam that he had received a narrative delivered
via voice mail (while he was away working on his real estate
license course) from the General Manager of the Holiday Inn who
allegedly (he represented) is the Head of the Entertainment
District Marketing Association.
The “Reader’s Digest” version of this man’s rambling
narrative set out his apparent opposition to having our successful
website promote not only the Entertainment District but also the
businesses that form this District FREE OF CHARGE following which
he proposed a meeting to discuss his position.
I don’t know about you but I simply don’t have the time
or patience to pamper people with this much time on their hands.
Apparently, because of a small, one time production fee (if I
gave you a FREE billboard on the highway would you condemn me for
requiring that you pay for the production of your ad????) the
head of the Entertainment Districts Marketing Association felt
comfortable accusing my salesman of some kind of “Bait and
Switch”. The
entire module being produced has already been underwritten by me!
I have already photographed most of the commercial venues
and uploaded a comprehensive list of businesses from the public
domain.
Would a rational person take such an arbitrary stance and then
invite a meeting to discuss the illogic of their intellectual
position? We really do not have the time to face the type of
uphill grind required to deliver meaningful objective information
to our clients and web visitors.
Obviously, like developers, restaurants, hotels, shops and
their associations would much rather regulate the information
exchange.
Stay tuned as I will personally start delivering restaurant and
hotel critiques to assist my clients coming to the city.
They have requested this information and we will definitely
accumulate it for them but not out of the commercially slanted
advertising and/or advertorials underwritten by these marketing
associations.
Talk soon.
C.L. Hanes
Accolade - Crowne Plaza Toronto Centre
(416) 597-1400
Al Frisco's
(416) 595-8201
Alice Fazooli's
(416) 979-1910
Armadillo's
(416) 977-8840
Big Daddy's Crab Shack
(416) 599-5200
Canadian Bar & Grill - Holiday Inn on King
(416) 599-4000
Canyon Creek
(416)-596-2240
Cha Cha Cha
(416) 598-3538
Corned Beef House
(416) 977-2333
Crocodile Rock
(416) 599-9751
Duke of Richmond
(416) 591-9994
Duke of Argyle
(416)-340-9700
Duke of Westminster
(416) 368-2761
Duncan Street Grill at Vinnie's Social Hall
(416) 979-5565
East Side Mario's
(416) 360-1917
Easy & The Fifth
(416) 979-3000
Elephant & Castle
(416) 598-4455
Epic Lounge - The Fairmont Royal York Hotel
(416) 368-2511
Far Niente
(416) 214-9922
Filet of Sole Restaurant
(416) 598-3256
Filet of Sole Restaurant Company
(416) 926-1337
Fred's Not Here
(416) 971-9155
Friar & Firkin
(416) 340-9459
Hotel Boutique Bar Inc.
(416) 345-8585
Il Fornello Restaurant
(416) 977-2855
Joe Badali's Italian Restaurant & Bar
(416) 977-3064
KitKat Bar and Grill
(416) 977-4461
La Fenice Restaurant
(416) 585-2377
Le Saint Tropez
(416) 591-3600
Leoni's
(416) 343-0044
Lone Star Cafe
(416) 408-4064
Loose Moose
(416) 977-8840
Marcel's Bistro
(416) 591-8600
Milestone's Grill & Bar
(416) 595-1990
Montana The Last Best Place
(416) 595-5949
N'awlins Jazz Bar and Grill
(416) 595-1958
Movenpick (Palavrion)
(416) 979-0060
Penelope Restaurant
(416) 237-1350
Piper's Pub - The Fairmont Royal York Hotel
(416) 368-2511
RD's BBQ & Blues
(416) 598-5209
Red Tomato
(416) 971-6626
Red's Bistro & Bar
(416) 862-7337
Shopsy's
(416) 599-5464
Solo Grill & Wine Restaurant
(416) 599-7000
Soul of the Vine
(416) 368-1444
The Fish House
(416) 595-5051
This is London
(416) 351-1100
Tundra - Restaurant
(416) 945-6650
Wayne Gretzky's
(416) 979-7825
Whistling Oyster
(416) 598-7707 |
Charles Laurie Hanes 416-783-5000
Sutton Group Tower Realty Inc.,
Broker
3220 Dufferin, Toronto, On, Unit 7A
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