Strategy Notes:

Ideas on how to reach a wider audience

RESEARCH:

  • How do other concerts describe themselves, what do they include int he description (aka describing the style of music, what is involved in terms of instruments, musicians and singers, musical inclusions such as ‘cantatas’.

DESCRIPTIONS (messaging)

  • Is the description ‘Sacred Music Concerts’ an accurate tagline? Would classical music concert or Choral Concert Performance or something more appealing and clear to a wider audience what the concerts are.

MEDIA COVERAGE:

  • Create a list of topics to lean into for the series, which appeal to Catholics and the wider arts community

  • Write articles in an arts journalism style for media outlets to pick up (based on above article subjects)

  • Post articles to a wide range of places, such as parish/tgbp blogs (need to set up) Benson blog,

  • Contact Radio stations with information / media pack so they can advertise. (ABC Classic, Light FM, Others?)

  • Articles in print newspapers?

TRACK BOOKINGS FOR FUTURE MARKETING FOCUS

  • Create individual booking links for digital platforms such as Instagram (stories & Bio’s), Mailchimip, Newsletter Booking Link

GETTING OTHERS TO SHARE:

-UTILISING OTHERS EXISTING EMAIL NETWORKS

  • Music Groups like the ‘Orchestra’ newsletter Conrad did. What other music newsletters exist? What music groups would like to come, do they have a newsletter and would they feature us?? What’s the best way to approach them? Brainstorm names here: > > >

Audience Targets & Marketing Ideas to reach them:

Catholics

Parisioners from OLOL & St Peter’s

  • Newsletter (designed feature, in the

  • Posters & flyers in church foyers

  • Anncoucements

  • Dedicated email a few weeks before the event (not just in with the newseltter

Benson Residents

Previous concert attendees

Wider archdiocese reach

Parishioners from surrounding parishes

Community

Arts & culture circles

Local community

Existing groups & networks

we know who’s could promo our event to their audiences as they already have established marketing channels like email lists etc.

TGBP network

God & Beer

Catholic Women’s League

Tom Le

GENERAL TO DO:

Promo Video

Optimise Website

Optimise Websites

  • Update both websites with new photos & video

MARKETING / ADVERTISING

  • Email to previous concert atendees with information on upcoming event

  • Email/call to other parishes asking them to include in their newsletters

  • Poster design for upcoming event (large details leading to website for more info / booking)

  • Flyer design with more info for people to read, +direct link to booking.

PARISH NEWSLETTER:

  • Full page or full column feature with more details on concert inclusions and better booking CTA (phone mockup with Trybooking click example)

REQUEST FEATURE:

  • Melbourne Catholic events blog

  • Conrad’s orchestra email

  • Chorus Ecclesiae Magazine?

PRINT MATERIALS

  • Put printed posters up in other parishes & churches across Melbourne.

Comms on the day

CONCERT EXPERIENCE:

  • Email a few days before the event with parking details and ‘doors open at 6:40pm’ details’

PRINT ITEMS FOR THE NIGHT:

  • Entry poster (A2 or A1?) Or get an A3 frame

  • Intemission poster with QR code scan for next event

  • ‘Donations Welcome’ A3 inserted into plastic stand on table

  • ‘Please Take a Programme’ A3 laminated poster stuck onto wall behind booklets

  • Flyers for following event with QR code

  • Flyer with 2026 Concert Programme details

  • A4 Booklet design (Covers in Canva) Inside pages in shared Word document

WEBPAGE SECIONS:

TITLE & SUBTEXT: The Wonder of Pentecost, Sacred Music Concert

-EVENT DETAILS > / 22 May 2026 / 7pm / Location

-EVENT DESCRIPTION > (written description of this particular concert. Look at how other concerts describe themselves - see list of similar/compeditors in strategy section)

-PHOTOS > Image Slider?

-VIDEO > Live on page verticle video format

-SOCIAL MEDIA > Links to our social media pages

-ENCOUNTERING BEAUTY > Information about the Encountering Beauty sacred music series.

-Find ways to include sacred music concerts onto other pages