“How to Market and Create Buzz for Events in Toronto”
December 2, 2009 by CityEvents
Filed under Past Events
Featuring…
Deb Lewis, Chief Experience Officer, CityEvents, www.torontocityevents.ca
Rob Campbell, Prime Innovator at Smojoe, www.smojoe.com/blog
Here’s a chance to learn valuable tips, simple tricks and advanced tactics for marketing your events in Toronto. Hear from Deb Lewis about best practices used by professionals and learn from Rob Campbell about how to use a myriad of free social media resources to create buzz and build social capital at the same time.
The seminar will cover a step-by-step process and guide participants on how they should market their events or fundraisers. The experience comes complete with a handy booklet on which to notate revelations. Participants will learn how to ‘put it out there’ and develop a communications strategy and agenda to target and achieve event objectives. With some basic knowledge, innovation, creative thinking, and the right partnerships, everybody can master event marketing.
You will learn:
- Developing your target market
- How to develop your marketing plan
- How to create your write up and promotions to match your target demographic
- Insights into a variety of different marketing tools (advertisements, public relations, viral campaigns, direct marketing, online, networking, and ‘new social’ media mechanisms beyond Facebook and Twitter)
- How to create buzz around your event (Will discuss local success stories and why they worked. Rob will discuss Miss Teen Canada World campaign)
- How to build social relevance on the web and increase your social media presence – a prerequisite discussion that precedes some of these other points
- Participants will be supplied with a hands on booklet “How to Create Buzz for Your Event” (sold online for $20) which includes a list of over 50 local resources (websites) where you can promote your event
February 2, 2010
6:00pm – 8:30pm
The Spoke Club, 600 King St W
$35 in advance, 2 for $60, $40 at the door
For tickets visit, http://secure.gettickets.ca/?event=15653
A Hollywood Halloween
October 7, 2009 by CityEvents
Filed under Past Events, Uncategorized
Halloween has finally come and gone! Hope you picked out a fantastic costume, or visited your local Value Village costume shop to pick out your favourite Hollywood celebrity/character costume. Creativity is always key!
For this year’s Halloween pictures, click here to visit photos.
This Halloween is all about the glamour of Hollywood, past and present. Whether you are recreating the style of Audrey Hepburn, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Cruise or even Penelope Cruz, it’s all about having fun and meeeting new people.
Prizes were given out to the best Female, Male and Group Costumes.
This year the party was being held at the gorgeous Jamie Kennedy location at the Gardiner Museum from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Tickets were only $20 and included a DJ and candy bar.
Be a celebrity for a night!
TO VIEW PICTURES FROM THIS EVENT CLICK HERE
Happy Hour Splash: a Pre-Pink Bedroom Party
August 4, 2009 by CityEvents
Filed under Past Events, Uncategorized
Winding down after work? Hope you enjoyed our “Happy Hour Splash” to raise funds to end breast cancer!
If you came to mix & mingle by the patio, take a dip in the pool, munch on yummy appetizers, sip summer cocktails or enjoy the great music, we featured an exciting dance performance by CATALYST, choreographed by Janet L. Castillo, www.jlcdanceforms.com.
It all happened here at “Happy Hour Splash” — a Pre-Pink Bedroom Party exclusive. Funds from all tickets go to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
Let’s Party to End Cancer!
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21+ event
Ticket Price: $25 in advance (until Aug 15)
$35 at the door or after Aug 15
(Ticket includes appetizers and one complimentary drink.)
To purchase advance tickets, go to: secure.gettickets.ca/Default.aspx?event=15296
Get involved, host your own Pre-Pink Bedroom Party, and help raise money for breast cancer.
For more event details on the Happy Hour Splash, go to www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134082894497
For more info about CityEvents go to: www.torontocityevents.ca
TO VIEW PHOTOS FROM THIS EVENT CLICK HERE
Cash Flow Seminar: How to Keep Cash in Your Business
August 4, 2009 by CityEvents
Filed under Past Events
The key to surviving the start up and growth stage of any business is cash, and few business owners know there is cash hidden in their business.
- The hidden sources of cash in your business and how to unlock them
- Using the Canada Revenue Agency to your advantage
- How to manage your cash flow
- How to make your company attractive to new investors
- Locating your untapped sources of financing
Featuring:
NATALIE FONG-YEE, CA, CPA, MAcc,
Tax Specialist & Business Conslutant
Natalie Fong-Yee is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of experience in accounting, audit and tax. Her firm specializes in tax services for individuals, owner managed businesses and small corporations. As an entrepreneur herself, she understands the challenges that young businesses face.Natalie uniquely combines this with her tax expertise to help her clients uncover hidden sources of cash. Natalie has worked as a controller for a law firm, an auditor for a big four accounting firm, the president of an import/export company and a financial advisor for high net worth individuals. She has completed the CICA In-Depth Tax course. She is a Certified Public Accountant through the University of Illinois and earned a Masters degree in Accounting from the University of Waterloo.
Contact Info: Tel: 647-388-5770, Email: Natalie@nfongyee.ca, Website: www.nfongyee.ca
and
ROSE AMI
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue just north of Queen Street
Price: $35 or $45 at the door.
Tickets can be ordered at www.gettickets.ca
Audience: For established business owners that are in years 1-3
*Also, network with other business owners. Coffee provided.
Hosted By: CityEvents, www.torontocityevents.ca
FastLane’s Patio Event in July
July 30, 2009 by CityEvents
Filed under Past Events
Another FastLane Networking event took place this month and this time, guests were able to mix and mingle outside Marben Restaurant’s patio.With beautiful weather, sophisticated ambiance, deliciously served hors d’oveurs and drinks, FastLane attendees were once again provided with many abundant networking opportunities.
Throughout the evening, Mambacho Cigars promoted their high-quality Nicaraguan cigars and great prizes were raffled off from a variety of participating sponsors.The patio was the perfect fit for easy networking and conversing with people from a number of professions.As the sun set, trendy young professionals, ambitious business owners, and even university alumni students gathered closely to exchange ideas, tips, and knowledge allowing them to accelerate their careers and expand their social network. All those who drove in the FastLane with us this month received a jam-packed gift bag at the end of the night and were marking their calendars for next month’s summer FastLane.
Photos were snapped of the event and can be available for viewing at www.fastlaneevents.ca.
Here are some photos of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityeventstoronto/sets/72157621436751089/
