The California Gift Show Hosts Twitter Workshop and Raffle
Los Angeles, CA – The California Gift Show®, inspired by the broad reach of social networking and the convenience of real-time conversation, encourages its showrooms, buyers and retailers to micro-blog through Twitter.com before, during and after its upcoming Market, January 12-18, 2010 for the chance to win excellent prizes.
The California Gift Show will partner with Lynn Switinowski with Creative Business Consulting to provide attendees and exhibitors with mini, personal Twitter workshops on the show floor in the Los Angeles Convention Center. This workshop will offer hands-on and personal training on how to best use Twitter as a strategy for small business owners. Attendees will learn how to tweet on the road at tradeshows, upload relevant pictures and videos from cell phones and how to connect with customers.
This opportunity will allow attendees to stream show content live, in real-time, every day directly from the show floors. Attending buyers, retailers and showrooms can capture and share activities and event happenings at the California Gift Show via Twitter under the hashtag #CAGiftShow. Buyers, retailers and showrooms are encouraged to Tweet upcoming specials, show events and other pertinent show information. They can also follow @CA_GiftShow before and after the Market for industry news, tips, Show updates, and promotions.
“We see this as a wonderful opportunity for buyers and exhibitors to exchange information though social networking sites and we are continually striving to create an environment where information can be shared and distributed easily to our customers,” said Peggy Coleman, vice president of marketing, L.A. Mart and California Gift Show. “The concept of this Twitter campaign furthers our goal of encouraging collaboration and community within our industry.”
California Gift Show attendees and exhibitors can enter to win complimentary hotel stay at the July Show by posting a tweet that includes the hashtag #cagiftshow anytime between January 12 and January 18, 2010. Winners will be chosen each day from Friday, January 15–Monday, January 18.
INTERACTIVE TWITTER WORKSHOP
Presented by Lynn Switanowski-Barrett, Creative Business Consulting Group
Dates: Friday, January 15 – Sunday, January 17
Time: All Day Event
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center
To join the conversation, follow the California gift show at www.twitter.com/CA_GiftShow
For more information on California Gift Show please visit www.californiagiftshow.com or call 800.lamart.4.
L.A. MART
9 a.m.–6 p.m. Tuesday, January 12–Thursday, January 14
9 a.m.–8 p.m. Friday, January 15 LATE NITE!
9 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, January 16–Monday, January 18
LOCATION:
LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER
1201 South Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90015
South and Kentia Halls
L.A. MART
1933 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
L.A. Mart® is a registered trademark of MMPI. The California Gift Show® is a registered trademark of MMPI. Beckman’s Handcrafted Gift Show is a registered trademark of MMPI. L.A. Mart is home to nearly 200 permanent year-round, residential, decorative accessory and gift showrooms serving the retail and interior design industries. The California Gift Show and L.A. Mart Temporaries features over 800 temporary exhibitors of lifestyle merchandise, home décor and furnishings, in the newly enhanced and expanded Temporaries @ L.A. Mart, and Los Angeles Convention Center making the New California Gift Show the preeminent market for gift and home furnishings products on the West Coast. L.A. Mart is located at 1933 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007. For more information call 213-763-5800 or visit www.lamart.com
MMPI is a trade show and property management firm, specializing in managing buildings devoted to wholesale showrooms and commercial office space. MMPI produces more than 300 trade shows, market events and conferences each year. MMPI manages The Merchandise Mart and 350 W. Mart Center in Chicago; Market Square, the Suites at Market Square, Hamilton Market, Plaza Suites, Furniture Plaza and the National Furniture Mart in High Point, N.C.; the Architects & Designers Building and 7 W New York in New York; the Boston Design Center in Boston; the L.A. Mart in Los Angeles; and the Washington Design Center in Washington D.C.
Vornado Realty Trust, owner of MMPI, based in New York City, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust. Vornado’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are traded under the symbol VNO.
