Wednesday, July 30, 2008

BECC Hosting First Charity Soccer Tournament

The Construction News and Report Group is proud to be a sponsor of the first annual soccer tournament at BMO Feild this September being hosted by BECC. You can regiater to play in the tournament or become a sponsor like us. Below is the information you will need to sign up to play or become a sponsor:


Our company is hosting our first charity soccer tournament to help increase awareness and to raise money for the Renal Services / Dialysis unit as part of the Diabetes Care Center at the Credit Valley Hospital.

As you may know, this cause is near and dear to my heart as my father used these facilities for a number of years before complications from diabetes and renal failure took him from us.

The goal of this tournament is to raise $30,000.00 on behalf of the Shafiq Malik Foundation which will use the proceeds to purchase various components and equipment used daily by dialysis patients.

The tournament will be held at the BMO Soccer Field - Home of Toronto FC at the CNE on Wednesday, September 10, 2008.

We cordially invite you to enter a team in the tournament and /or contribute to cause with a donation from the following choices:

 Enter a team into the tournament. The cost is $1,500.00, includes BBQ lunch (a min. 7, max. 10 players, also have one player available to officiate a game).
and or
 Advertise your support with two 3’x7’ banner boards for a donation of $800.00, or one board for $500.00. You will need to send us your logo.
and or
 Donate prizes for the charity raffle. Please provide a brief description and dollar value.
and or
 Make a donation for the cause in the amount of $ __________. Send us a copy of your logo and we will place it in our program.

Space is limited to enter your team so don’t delay and get your team practicing for a fun day of soccer with friends and family.

Please fax your interest before July 28th to the attention of:
Ms. Anita Forrester at (905) 608-9929.

I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you, your staff and family at the BECC Charity Soccer Tournament.

Sincerely,
Zulq Malik
Presidnt
Company Name__________________________________
Contact Name____________________________________
Telephone #______________________________________

New Theme Schedule for Niagara Home Builders Association Publication Structures


The September issue of Structures will showcase New and Innovative products.


To participate in the Niagara Home Builders Association or The Greater Ottawa Home Builders Association Newspapers send me an email at chasemarketing@sympatico.ca

You Tube on my blog

Check out the bottom of my blog, I came across a new function with the blog that will allow readers to view related You Tube videos to my posts.


I will be refining this over the next week and test the location and size of where it goes. Let me know if this is something you like or not.

Monday, July 28, 2008

New Constuction Job site


I have launched a new Construction Jobs and Careers blog which will share industry news, trends and new job openings from leading companies.

As part of the launch we are offering free job posting until September 1st. To post your job simply send me an email at chasemarketing@sympatico.ca

Check out the Ontario Construction Report Readers Choice Ad running this month

Here is the ad running this month promoting the Ontario Construction Readers Choice Awards in our August issue.

You can nominate your company or a business you deal with by clicking Readers Choice Awards

I have a myspace page to show off work...


I found a posting on Contractor Talk this week which reads:


Work Letter
I am working on a letter to send to commercial GC. What dept or who should I send it to get read?And i have a myspace page to show off work. Do you think it would be to cheese to put it in the letter?http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=148439011thanks


I checked out the profile and found some useful information but no other web site for the author of the post. My thoughts on Facebook and Myspace is that they are great tools to help enhance your web prescence if you can not afford a professionally designed web page however I think the use of a blog would appear more professional, especially when you provide an web address link in any correspondence you use.


What do you think of the use of Myspace and Facebook to promote your business?

Readers Choice Site is up and running


We have just posted our Readers Choice Awards Blog which will allow us to provide updates on this years awards and showcase last years winners.
The blog is a great tool to be able to offer additional branding for last years winners by listing the category they one with a link back to their company sites. I was also able to post a copy of the 2007-08 winners article published earlier this year.
Over the next few weeks I will be posting some profiles on the award sponsors and information regarding the early nominations we get. Our nominations are open until the end of October with the list of finalists ready for voting in November.
There is no cost to nominate your company or one you deal with on a regular basis you think deserves to be recognized.
You can cast your nominations by going to Readers Choice Awards.