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Promote Your Business & Events In Southern California

Southern California Media Partners In Zvents Network

Yesterday we posted about how Zvents syndicates its listings to over 200 media partners. Following up on our promise to share more regional information (while we update our Media Publishers page!), below is a list of our current media partners in southern California and the greater Los Angeles metro area:

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If you have a SoCal business or want to promote events happening in southern California, listing on Zvents (or a Zvents’ media partner site) will automatically share your listing with all the media partners in the Zvents network, including the local media outlets listed above.

Ready to list your business or events? Sign up for a free account today!


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Free Business & Event Promotion To Over 200 Media Outlets (And Growing!)

Earlier this week, I spoke with an account manager from a local public relations and marketing agency about Zvents, and realized the need to better explain a key benefit of our service. She thought the listings she entered for her client’s business and events showed up only on Zvents. That’s when I realized that we needed a post on the benefits of Zvents’ syndication, pronto.

Did you know that any event or business listing added to Zvents automatically gets syndicated to our 200+ online media partners?

Here’s how it works: if you list your business or event on Zvents or any of our media partner sites, your listing shows up on ALL of them. Enter one listing and it shows up in over 200 places. That’s it.

Three Benefits of Listing on Zvents:

  1. Your Listing is Promoted Everywhere. At Once. As a business owner or event promoter, you only need to enter information one time, and it is automatically pushed to over 200 media outlets.
  2. Saves You Time. Instead of entering or sending the same event information to multiple media outlets and websites, you can enter it on the Zvents network in one fell swoop. Also, when you edit your listing information, it updates all the listings at the same time.
  3. Increases Your Chances Of Getting Promoted In Print. Many of our media partners are newspapers, whose editors use the Zvents database as the starting point for selecting featured events for their print editions.

As an example, let’s look at one of my favorite local ice cream shops: Ici in Berkeley, CA. This tiny shop elevates ice cream to another (heavenly) level, with unusual flavors such as Rose Pistachio, Burnt Caramel, and Malted Vanilla. If you are in Berkeley, make sure to stop by – it’s amazing. And full disclosure: I don’t know the owners or anyone who works there – it’s just GOOD.

Ici is listed on Zvents - but because it’s on Zvents - it is also automatically listed on several other Bay Area media websites:

Ici listing on Zvents:
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Ici listing on InsideBayArea.com:

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(Notice the description and the photos are the same on both sites.)

Hopefully, at this point you’re saying to yourself: “Okay, I get it. But my business is already listed on Zvents. How did it get there, and how can I take ownership of it?”
Zvents is a local search engine, and part of what we do is actively search the Web for information that is useful to our users. If your business is already listed, you can get control of it by signing up for an account (it’s free) and sending us a message.

We’ve launched a lot of new partners in the past couple months, and are in the process of updating the list on our ever-growing Media Partners page. In the meantime, we plan to post about the partner networks in various areas of the country. Want to know which media is participating in your area? Leave us a comment, and we’ll let you know!


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Unusual Event Entertainment: ATOM - The World’s Fastest Painter

If you’re an event planner, you’re constantly looking for new ideas to make your events entertaining, different, unique - in a word - memorable.

Enter Adam Miller Geld, aka Atom, who bills himself as the “World’s Fastest Painter”. Atom paints futuristic space landscapes in front of live audiences, using only spray paint and a knife. Each painting takes about three minutes to complete. We came across Atom at the Special Event conference in Atlanta, where he put on a highly entertaining show for conference attendees:


Atom travels around the country with his unique show, performing at all types of events, including VIP parties, corporate events, concerts, conferences, and other special/promotional events. In a four-hour show, Atom creates about 40 paintings, which are given away to guests who correctly answer trivia questions.

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This one time, at PodCamp….

What is PodCamp? A place where people set up tents in the woods, roast marshmallows, and listen to iPods? That’s the first image that came to mind. The name is pretty quirky and fun, but what kind of people would go to PodCamp? As I’m sure you’ve observed, there really is something out there for ANYBODY and EVERYBODY…

PodCamps cater towards the interests of podcasters, videocasters (perfect for YouTubers!), event marketers (to reach the masses!), bloggers, social-media (you too - Facebookers!), and new media enthusiasts — beginner or advanced practitioners — who all get together to learn and share their ideas and skills for a couple of days. It’s referred to as an “unconference” — which means that it doesn’t adhere to the conventional formalized, uptight structure, but rather facilitates carefree discussion among all participants. A major plus is that it’s free to attend!

PodCamps have been hosted around the globe and the next one, PodCampMidwest, starts tonight (February 15-16)!

Upcoming PodCamps include:

Other PodCamp Locations are in the works - check for updates!

Who knows! You could even end up meeting a cute little redhead who likes to tell good stories ;)


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SEARCH Foundation: Assisting Event Professionals in Crisis

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During our recent trip to the Special Event Conference in Atlanta, we met with Michael F. Tannen, the Executive Administrator for SEARCH Foundation, and learned more about this non-profit organization dedicated to helping event professionals.

SEARCH Foundation (Special Events Assistance & Resources with a Caring Heart) supports persons in the special event industry who are confronted with a catastrophic occurrence. Created in 1997, SEARCH supports event professionals through fundraising, volunteer services, or donations made through industry-wide alliances in collaboration with charitable organizations. SEARCH Foundation is designated as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

In 2006, SEARCH made a grant of $25,000 to NO FEAR, a New Orleans based charitable organization dedicated to helping event professionals devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

If you are an event professional in need of support, you can request funds by filling out an application. Donations are offered to individuals in the special event industry.

Want to help support SEARCH? Join their pledge program, or make a one-time donation. If you are a public speaker, consider donating a portion of your speaking fee. Or host your own SEARCH fund raising event!


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Graphical Waterfalls from Pevnick Design

Graphical Waterfalls® provide the ultimate WOW factor with computer controlled falling water droplets and Milwaukee based Pevnick Design, Inc. is a leading provider. Add some pizzazz to your parties or hire Pevnick Design to make a splash with your logo at a corporate event.


Catch Pevnick Design to see the remarkable technology live at The International Builders’ Show (Orlando, Florida, February 13th - 16th), Euroshop (Messe Düsseldorf, February 23rd - 27th), Digital Signage Expo (Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada February 26th - 28th), or the Geneva Auto Show (Palexpo, Geneva, March 4th - 16th).


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