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Introducing the Fabulous Flora Leung!

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Flora LeungOctober 17 Media welcomes our newest team member, Flora Leung! Flora is a marketing and communication co-op student from Simon Fraser University, and she’ll be working with us for the next four months as our Marketing and Administrative Assistant. Check out our interview with her below to learn a bit more about this go-getter. Welcome to the team, Flora!

What’s your degree in?
I’m working toward a joint major in Business and Communication at SFU with a concentration in marketing and media and culture. It gives an interesting mix of perspectives on advertising, public relations, and popular culture, and I love it!

Favourite marketing campaign?
It’s hard to choose a favourite with the amount of inspiring, creative work out there! But I’m a huge fan of guerilla and viral marketing, and I thought the recent campaign on Chatroulette for the horror movie “The Last Exorcism” was very clever. I was too chicken to watch it at first, but I’m glad I forced myself to sit through it. It’s actually not that bad, but I’d better warn you that it’s not for the faint-hearted! (more…)

How to setup SMS (Texting) to “like” a Facebook fan page!

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

What? You can do that???
That’s the usual response we get when we tell clients and friends that they can advertise their Facebook pages by inviting people to text to join a Facebook fan page.

And, the best news? It’s free. Normal text messaging rates from the user’s phone company still apply but for you, it’s no cost. Also, the person signing up needs to have Facebook Mobile activated on their Facebook account or be willing to activate it to do this.

So, how do you setup the SMS to “Like” your fan page?
First, you need to have a few things to get started:

  1. In order to have this functionality, your Facebook page must have at least 25 fans. This was recently changed from the 100 fan requirement.
  2. You also need your own custom URL on Facebook. Again, you will need to have 25 or more fans to obtain this, but it’s easy to set up once you reach this level. Simply go to: http://www.facebook.com/username/ and follow the directions to create your fan page custom URL.

Once finished you can promote your fan page by printing or announcing the following:

“Like” our company by SMS’ing!
Send a text to: fan YourPageName to 32665 (FBOOK) to join our Facebook page today.
(Be sure to replace “YourPageName” with your own Facebook page name.)

Want to see what we mean? Try it out! Send the following text message to 32665 to join the October 17 Media page through SMS:
fan October17Media

So, the answer is YES. YES! You can SMS (text message) to “like” a Facebook fan page!

Written by:
Tamara Brooks {Profile}: Online Marketing Wizard @ October 17 Media
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Who us? Online marketing wizards?

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

A cute video we made about October 17 Media… Vancouver’s online marketing wizards! We <3 LOVE it and wanted to share. Thank you YouTube & Google for making it happen for us. Check it:

Introducing the Phenomenal Priscilla Ho!

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

pris_hobwOctober 17 Media welcomes our latest addition to the team! Her name is Priscilla Ho and she is a talented Co-op student from the Sauder School of Business. We’ve interviewed her so you can learn a little more about our newest marketing and administrative assistant! WELCOME PRISCILLA.. we’re super excited to have you on board!

What’s your degree in?
Actually, I’m still working my way to getting my BCom degree at UBC with a major in Marketing. Best major ever! :) I’m currently doing my Co-op internship with you, October 17 Media, to get experience. I have just a little more than one year left and then I’ll be done! Oh, and I’m also getting a minor in Psychology, which I love! (more…)

Calling all Oenophiles! Big Sister’s of the BC Lower Mainland need you.

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Grape Juice Wine Event LogoYour devotion to wine can be matched only by your love of contributing to the local community.
Join us along with an esteemed group of Oenophiles at this exclusive event.

We are a proud sponsor of this event so please join us for the 3rd annual Grape Juice Wine Auction. Come bid on unique and exclusive wines from around the world while enjoying hors d’oeuvres for a worthy cause.

Details:
DATE: Thursday, May 6th, 2010
TIME: 5-8pm
LOCATION: V @ Earls Yaletown {google map}
www.GrapeJuiceVancouver.com

Big Sisters of BC lower Mainland matches volunteer mentors with young girls who face a multitude of challenges. Many of the young children suffer from low-self esteem and social isolation due to poverty, abuse or neglect. For every Little Sister that is successfully matched with a volunteer mentor, a quiet revolution of hope takes place. It costs $2,000 to make and maintain one Big & Little Sister match for one year.

As a primarily privately funded not-for-profit organization, it really does take a village, rather a community, to mentor a child. The paths these young girls start on are critical to the future successes in their adult lives and to the lives of their future children.

To Purchase Tickets:
Contact Andrée Lalonde
Phone: 604-873-4525 EXT 302
Fax: 604-873-2122
Email: Alalonde@BigSisters.bc.ca
or Register online here.

For more information on how to donate or make a difference:
Jessica Rozitis
Jessica@GrapeJuiceVancouver.com

Follow Grape Juice on Twitter!

October 17 Media specializes in website development, paid search advertising, social media and viral marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and email marketing.