I’ve been researching the following - hiring a string quartet would cost around £800 for a 2hr set, hiring a local ~300 seat venue would cost around £750. If tickets were sold for a flat rate of £20, this would make the total amount in sales ~£6000, and after the above costs were deducted this would leave ~£4450 for a single event. I currently possess a local instagram page with ~10,000 followers that live within my city so this would help with advertising, though I would still allocate money into other methods of marketing to ensure maximum reach to sell tickets.
On paper, arranging such an event doesn’t seem too difficult to do - is there something glaring I’m missing or is this potentially ‘easy’ money?
If it’s that easy why doesn’t the quarter or venue simply do it themselves?
It’s likely there’s a bunch of stuff you’re not accounting for since you have never done it.
Why not start calling people and keeping a document with everything you learn during the process, do the legwork.