It is funny as the year starts to wind down things are picking up at a rapid pace. I do not know where to begin or where to end for what is happening in September.
First up is the Green Building Festival at the Toronto Congress Centre September 9-10 hosted by Sustainable Building Canada. This year besides just attending the conference we are proud media sponsors and will be exhibiting at the industry trade show. This year's conference and trade show is expected to be the biggest yet. Last year over 1000 people came through the show and this year promises to be even better. The festival allows you to build you business, and reinforce your reputation as a green building leader.
Next stop for me is the Barrie Construction Association (BCA) Members Day and BBQ on September 19th. We re-launched our coverage of the area back in April this year and will be doing our first extensive feature coverage with Gregor Homes in October. As part of getting back into the community I have extended an offer of free advertising to Gilda’s Club Barrie which provides a free, non-residential, not-for-profit support for anyone touched by cancer. Gilda’s has a strong relationship with the community and works very closely with the Greater Barrie Home Builders Association and the BCA who volunteered to build a home from the ground up over a weekend, sell it, and donate the proceeds.
Last but not lest is the Ontario Home Builders Conference in Collingwood September 21-23. This is the first year we are sending someone to the conference and it made lost of sense now with our now two association publication for the Greater Ottawa Home Builders (GOHBA) and Niagara Home Builders Associations (NHBA). We are looking at expanding our coverage to include Northern Ontario as a possibility for early 2009. What I am looking forward to the most with the conference is checking out the Builder’s Choice Exhibition and Trade Show as well as the OHBA 2008 Awards of Distinction Dinner and Ceremony. I am hoping to gain some new relationships, meet potential associations to partner with as well as advertisers. Even though I will not be an official exhibitor at the show I was lucky enough to have one of the advertisers from Niagara offer to display our Structures NHBA paper which will allow me a base of operations during the show.
Chase is the Director of Client Services for the Construction News and Report Group as well as the Associate Publisher for the GTA Construction Report and Structures, the Niagara Home Builders Association Newspaper. If you have any recommendations or suggestions on changes you would like to suggest for the papers please contact him toll free at 1-888-432-3555 ext 211 or email him chasemarketing@sympatico.ca
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