Explore Your Inner Carmen @ Habanera with Operanation
February 8, 2010 by cityevents2
Filed under Past Events, Uncategorized
Operanation 6, Habanera is getting all fired up! The hottest party of the winter season will sizzle on February 26, 2010 at the Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts. This years Operanation includes entertainment with a distinct Latin flavor from performances to food and beverages.
Tickets to the VIP dinner are already sold out – Don’t miss out on the main event , get your tickets soon!
All Operanation buyers are eligible to buy two tickets to a Canadian Opera Company performance at 50% off.
Discover Your Passions at Canada Blooms Passions Preview Party
February 8, 2010 by cityevents2
Filed under Non-Profit Events, Past Events, Uncategorized
On Tuesday March 16, 2010 hundreds of green thumbs from across Ontario will gather to celebrate the opening night of Canada Blooms 2010 show. The party will take place in the Direct Energy Centre, the stage for Canada’s most eye catching and magnificent gardens. Showcasing gardens designed by Canada’s leading architects/landscapers providing the perfect environment for a memorable opening night bash!
The night will allow guests to enjoy the spectacular gardens at their best before it opens to the general public. Also included in the ticket is a complimentary signature Temptation cocktail and various tasting sessions.
The night will also feature an all night green thumb shopping pass to Blooms’ Marketplace and a special silent auction and cameo fashion show.
Dedicated to providing horticulture expertise, education and resources on an ongoing basis, Canada Blooms is a not-for-profit organization that gives back to the community throughout the year by funding community garden projects around Ontario. All proceeds of the Passions Preview Party go to support gardening and horticulture in Ontario.
Event Details
Location: Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010. 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Tickets are $75 per person
Cash Bar
Create Buzz for Events in Toronto
February 3, 2010 by cityevents2
Filed under Uncategorized
Planning events in Toronto isn’t easy, type the words: Event Toronto into google and you are instantly bombarded with thousands of promotions and invitations. With the advent of Facebook just about anyone can arrange an invitation to an event. But how does one make their event stand out? How do you influence a crowd to attend and keep them coming back for more? You create buzz!
Last night young professionals from across the GTA gathered to learn valuable tips, simple tricks and advanced tactics for marketing their events in Toronto. Attendees heard from Deb Lewis, CEO of CityEvents and Rob Campbell, Prime Innovator of Smojoe about best practices used by professionals and a myriad of free social media resources to create buzz and build social capital at the same time.
The seminar covered a step-by-step process that guided participants on how they should market their events or fundraisers. Atendees learned how to ‘put it out there’ and develop a communications strategy and agenda to target and achieve event objectives. The experience came complete with a handy booklet titled “ How to Market an Event in Toronto” on which to notate revelations.
There are numerous ways to promote, market and get the word out for events. Here is a glimpse of what they learned:
To begin create a promotional tool kit with event descriptions, photos, event images, links, and other relevant information or visuals. You need to create excitement around your event, the more often people see and hear about it the more interested they become. This also increases the credibility of your event. Get your target market excited about your event so they rush to sign up or buy tickets.The basis of promoting and marketing events is mainly determined by the details you decide to share and disclose with the target market.
Things to think about:
Who is your potential audience?
What is the value of your event for the attendee?
How can you communicate this to your potential audience?
Details of your Event ?Event Information:
Who? What? When? Where?
Tips to Developing Content:
When creating compelling content, images, photos and event descriptions, think about the value of your event or the “hooks” that will compel people to attend. Attendees want to know their value for attending your event. This is more relevant when people are investing in a ticket. It is important to promote what will be included in the ticket price. Create a compelling Unique Selling Proposition. Ensure you inject excitement into your event descriptions, make it sound intriguing and exciting to your target market. Focus on your targets needs, wants and desires. ??When you are developing your event description or “event story” consider these hooks to entice your target market. Create a series of hooks you can utilize in multiple promotional channels. ??Why do people care about your event? ?What are their motivations? ?What’s a unique offer? ?Are their key celebrities attending?
These are some the basic strategies needed to be successful in the event marketing field.
Want to Know More ?
If you are looking for more information in this area you can purchase a more detailed booklet “How to Create Buzz around your event”
With some basic knowledge, innovation, creative thinking, and the right partnership, anybody and everybody can and will master the ins and outs to event marketing. The How to Market and Create Buzz for Events manual available online is a perfect guide and a definite help to anybody who is starting out in the event marketing field. Also to those who need a little guidance while promoting and implementing various marketing strategies for events. Determining an area for promoting your events and websites IS creating your own community feeling! For assistance in this area contact us at info@torontocityevents.ca
Phone System Installer and Toronto Dentist Make Lenzr Photo Contests
January 30, 2010 by deblewis
Filed under Uncategorized
Friends of Deb Lewis and City Events, and casual surfers who may happen across this blog update will know its time for an update at the end of January, 2010 from Lenzr. Let’s pause to remember that Lenzr is a serial photo contest website wherein the members rank user submitted content and choose the best photo. The member that uploads the highest ranked photo wins the prize.
Isabelle Seguin, who is otherwise known as Lenzr member Seguini was the photographer that submited the winning image in Medicinal Plants in Nature photo contest sponsored by an Ontario natural medicine clinic she is seen here holding a basket with eight different Neal’s Yard Remedies including Rosewater Toner, Yarrow & Comfrey Moisturizer, Orange Flower Facial Oil and Orange Flower Facial Wash, White Tea Eye Gel, Geranium & Orange Body Butter. The prize has a retail value of $330.00 all of these products are available for purchase in the sponsor’s online natural medicine store. You can read more about the winners and the results of all three contests and the January 1st 2010 Lenzr photo contest winners on the Lenzr blog.
Office Phone System Engineer Creates a Lenzr Quest for Everyday Tangled Webs – Ends March 1st
The excitement is building as the Top Ten photos are constantly moving up and down in this category. The eighth photo contest Everyday Tangled Web is designed to collect and display images of the tangles that we create and use everyday. This challenge has become a heated competition with several excellent photos competing for top position in the index. There are wires and telephone lines and speaker cables and computer cords all mixed up under desks, and AC electrical cords spider web octopuses at outlets. This contest theme and the mayhem that has resulted from the idea was the brainchild of an office phone system guru living and working in Toronto. That company conceived of the idea and has donated the wonderful prize, a wireless headset.
Toronto dentist sponsors Kids in Action
Also available on Lenzr this month is a rather interesting new photo contest called Kids in Action that gives shutterbugs lots of creative latitude on a wide open playing field.
The prize in this challenge is a high quality NiteWhite teeth whitening kit that’s an advanced enamel bleaching product and usually only available at a dental office as it requires a trained dental practitioner to make the molds.
Sponsored by Toronto dentist the unique challenge is designed to highlight the obvious connection between healthy teeth and healthy kids… and trust me there is a connection there somewehere!. When I look at that contest plate picture I wonder if that young fellow see riding the skateboard is about to fall and fracture his jaw, or tear his front teeth or mash his molars into the concrete. But please dont misuinderstand we dont want to see photos of tooth decay, dirty braces, gum disease or missing baby teeth or anything like that … just kids in action.
If the winner is local, that person who is super skilled with a comera will be invited to stop by the office at Bloor and Sherbourne for a chat and custom fitting for the NiteWhite whitening trays. If the winner is from out of province then admin will ship the prize PLUS extra tooth floss and toothbrushes, toothpaste, and mouthwash. WIN dental supplies for an entire year.Both Lenzr contests END March 1st 2010. Contest open to all Canadians excluding Quebec and those 12yrs old and younger. Thanks for participating. Good luck!
Campaign for Haiti A Success
January 25, 2010 by cityevents2
Filed under Non-Profit Events, Uncategorized
A big THANK YOU goes out to all of those who came out on January 21, 2010 to support Campaign For Haiti.
With your help Trustee Rob Davis and Deb Lewis were able to raise over $2,200.00 for the Red Cross Disaster Relief for Haiti fund. This amount will be matched by the Canadian Federal Government, bringing the total raised to $4, 400.00.
A special thanks to all the candidates who joined us to make this night possible: George Smitherman, Sarah Thomson, Rocco Rossi, Rocco Achampong, Joseph Pampena, Mark State and Giorgio Mammolit, among others. Also thanks to City Councillor Adam Giambrone.
For more information on the event please visit:
http://deblewis.ca/debblog/?p=525
View the Campaign for Haiti pictures or Donate Now.
Ultra will continue their Retro Thursday’s this week January 28, 2010. Where music, drinks and food goes into retro pricing. This week come out and enjoy a live band in the lounge.
