As the first city in our Go Local feature, Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, is the ideal place to start. With all of its historic flair and undeniable culture, Philadelphia is a great place to hold your next event. Go Local Philadelphia highlights trends, ideas and tips for planning events in the area as well as access to local experts including Mark Kingsdorf of Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants, Karen Pecora of Karen Pecora Events, Randi Martin of Always Fabulous Events and Larry Ott of Open Aire Affairs. We will continue to build out Go Local Philadelphia to include features such as upcoming local events, Top 10 lists and discussion boards.

Over the next couple of months, Planaganza will launch Go Local for other major areas including New York, Delaware, Washington, DC , Baltimore and more. Visit Go Local Philadelphia at www.planaganza.com/GoLocal/ and start planning your next event in Philadelphia!

It seems Chinese New Year is popular in San Francisco!  After writing yesterday’s blog entry about Chinese New Year I, posted the entry on a website called Blogher.com which is a community for women who blog.  Within an hour I receive the following comment from the Co-founder of Blogher.com:

I thought that was pretty cool!  And for the rest of the day, my blog entry was linked to from the very top of their page.

Plan this and other events at Planaganza.com - Online Invitations, Event Professional Directory and Tips for Planning all of Life’s Events.

Planaganza – The Place for Life’s Events!

Planaganza has a new look!  It is still the same great site for all of your event and party planning needs but with a new home page.  We kept some things and added others.  Some new features include:

Site Overview Guide 

Some of our site visitors did not realize that we offer electronic invitations and RSVP tracking tools on Planaganza, so we added a high level overview of what we offer on the site. 

Upcoming Reasons to Plan a Party 

We also added a section called “Upcoming Reasons to Plan a Party”.  In this section we will highlight various holidays, events and happenings for the weeks ahead and give you tips for planning. 

Event Inspiration Page 

Another fun part of our site that was getting lost among our offering was the inspiration page.  This feature allows users who plan to contract with an event planner (or who just want to share their party ideas with others) to create a page of inspiring photos and descriptions of what they would like to have at their event.  You can also send the page to friends and family and they can leave comments.

Planaganza Tour

We also added a short tour of Planaganza’s major features so users can see what they can do as a member of the site.

 In addition to our new look we have also enhanced some of our features for an even easier planning experience!  I will be letting you know about these offerings in postings on this blog in the coming weeks.

Old Screenshot

New Screenshot

Plan this event and more at Planaganza.com - the place for life’s events!

The big day is finally here -we are live!  Sign up for a free member account and start planning all of life’s events with Planaganza! We will continue to innovate the site to offer a more comprehensive planning experience but in the meantime we want your feedback.  So let us know what you think!

You can view our official press release at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Party/Holiday/prweb574022.htm.

See you at Planaganza!

RB’s

My team and I go back and forth when I comes to assigning names to our brands.  Some of us are more adept at naming than others.  However, the name “Planaganza” was born out of a collective team effort.  In this day and age we needed a name that had a ring to it but more importantly that had an available URL!  We tried Eventuality, but that was taken by a computer-based appointment management system.  After several similar suggestions and several email messages ruling out the ultra-corny names, we settled on Planaganza. The name is meant to be a derivative of the word “extravaganza” and our original tagline was “We all can’t plan an extravaganza, but we can all Planaganza!”  Get it, plan – a – ganza!  Anyway, the name stuck but the borderline cheesy tagline was eventually changed to “the place for life’s events”.  Hopefully the name is unique but catchy enough to draw both seasoned event hosts and newcomers alike.