Name: Insider Secrets: How To Impress, Connect, and Grow A Partnership With the Brands You Love
Start: 2016-09-17T11:00:00-0400
End: 2016-09-17T12:30:00-0400

BlogPodium is Canada’s Conference for Lifestyle and Design Influencers. On this interactive schedule, you will find a listing of the speakers, sponsors, and attendees of the conference. Use this site to create your own personalized schedule.

NOTE: Sessions marked Limited Capacity require pre-registration. To register for these sessions, add the class to your personal schedule. If capacity has been reached, you will be put on the Wait List. All other sessions are open seating and do not require pre-registration.

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Insider Secrets: How To Impress, Connect, and Grow A Partnership With the Brands You Love

How can you stand out as an influencer? What's the best way to connect and pitch to brands and agencies? How can you turn a one-time engagement into a long-term partnership with a brand?

Join us for a lively panel discussion featuring bloggers, brand, and PR agency representatives as they bring their insider knowledge to the table. With case studies and practical tips, they'll tackle topics from brand expectations, creative collaborations, to negotiating and compensation. Walk away with practical ideas on how to form more and stronger partnerships with the brands you love.

Moderators

Brittany Stager

Blogger & Social Media Director, My Daily Randomness | REES + STAGER

Brittany Stager is the designer behind My Daily Randomness, a personal lifestyle blog. It is there where she writes about everything from home renovation and decor, to travel and food. When she is not blogging, she is filling her days with social media at her business, @ReesStage... Read More →

Speakers

Melissa Allen

Marketing - Brand and Ambassador Partnerships, Cricut

Melissa Allen is the force behind today’s industry leading ambassador and influencer programs at Cricut. In her spare time, she takes DIY to the extreme with random projects that range from welding steel and etching glass to handlettering, graphic design, silkscreening, papercrafting... Read More →

Alyssa Garrison

Random Acts Of Pastel

Random Acts of Pastel (or RAOP for short) started out as a street art concept to make the world a happier place. Fresh out of Journalism school, Alyssa began feeling jaded by the click-driven, advertising-fuelled industry. She felt blocked, stuck, and totally unable to move forward... Read More →

Lyndon Madden

Marketing Director at GE Appliances, GE Appliances

Lyndon is a seasoned marketer with a unique expertise on strategic brand building in the home appliance category. As the Marketing Director at GE Appliances, Lyndon leads all marketing efforts for Canada, including brand partnerships, public relations and digital, social and paid... Read More →

Melissa Retty

Account Director, Craft Public Relations

Melissa Retty is a seasoned PR practitioner with a passion for earned media.Melissa has helped some of the world's leading brands build and execute award-winning communications plans. As a strong advocate for the power of influencer marketing, Melissa has spent her career helping... Read More →

Sponsors

GE Appliances

Seminar Sponsor | Speed Networking Sponsor

At GE Appliances, we satisfy real-life needs, define trends and simplify routines. As a leading manufacturer of appliances in Canada, we're passionate about helping people choose, use and care for the appliances in their home. We're equally passionate about partnering with like-minded... Read More →

Saturday September 17, 2016 11:00 - 12:30 EDT
Snell Hall 65 Church St., Toronto, ON

Seminar

BlogPodium 2016