Entrepreneurialism Sparked in Youth by Junior Achievement

Posted By: on May 10th, 2013
Filed Under: Edmonton, Events, News

JA-Alberta-Business-Hall-of-Fame-StageJunior Achievement is the only organization that teaches entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work readiness to students at all levels of the school system. This organization maximizes student potential by exposing them to real life business leaders that teach tangible, relevant, and relatable lessons in order to prepare them for success in the global economy.

Recently Top Draw web designer, Wendy Yeung, created an infographic to be used as a quick fact sheet regarding the impact that the local JA Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories office has made on young individuals. As illustrated by the infographic, JA Northern Alberta & NWT delivered programs to over 20,000 students in 2013 and is striving to achieve their goal of reaching 40,000 students by 2016, with added help from quality volunteers and financial support from our Alberta business community.

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NAIT Promotional Campaign Planning Awards Banquet

Posted By: on May 8th, 2013
Filed Under: Edmonton, Events

For the past 32 years, NAIT has held an awards banquet for students enrolled in the Promotional Campaign Planning course. As part of the curriculum, students create campaigns for various clients and present their proposals to their peers and the course instructor. After the class presentations, the top teams are judged by a panel of industry professionals. Upon completion of the final presentation, the panel provides constructive feedback and determines the winners of numerous awards.

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Top Draw Hits the Greens

Posted By: on September 11th, 2012
Filed Under: Edmonton, Events

Nestled in Edmonton’s river valley, just down the hill from Top Draw, is the beautiful Victoria Golf Course. In an attempt to soak up the last few glorious days of warm weather, we recently took the team golfing!

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Edmonton’s Online Marketing Meetup

Posted By: on August 29th, 2012
Filed Under: Edmonton, Events, SEO & Online Marketing

Are you interested in learning more about online marketing? Are you in an organization where you are the online marketing person and you feel like you have no one to bounce ideas off, or to ask about strategies or tools? The Online Marketing Meetup Edmonton (OMMYEG for short) is a once a month meeting that Top Draw and SEMPO Canada host to encourage more local collaboration in online marketing. We’ve taken a break for the summer but our next session is coming up in mid-September.

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Digital Alberta Awards Results

Posted By: on June 5th, 2012
Filed Under: Events, News

Last night, the 2nd annual Digital Alberta Awards was held in Calgary, Alberta.  We were honoured to be nominated as a finalist in the category for Best Digital Design for our work with ATB Investor Services. While we didn’t win, it was a great – if not, unexpected – surprise just to be recognized. We’re privileged to be among such an amazing roster of companies that are producing world-class work, all within Alberta!

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NAIT Annual Advertising Awards Banquet

Posted By: on May 23rd, 2012
Filed Under: Events

Ken & MarkAs a part of the Marketing program offered at NAIT, student teams work with clients to create advertising campaigns. At the end of the semester, the top teams are selected to present their proposals to a panel of Edmonton industry experts who then critique and select winners in the following areas:

  • Best Overall Campaign
  • Best Presentation
  • Big Idea
  • Media Solutions
  • Brand Management
  • Visual Excellence
  • Direct Marketing

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iMedia Conference

Posted By: on May 9th, 2012
Filed Under: Events, Presentations

This past weekend Top Draw presented at the first annual iMedia Conference at Fantasyland Hotel & Conference Centre. Had there been a competition for most engaging speaker of the day, Adriel would have won. Sure, we’re a little biased – but how many people do you know can turn an intensely technical subject like search engine optimization into something simple with big results?

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iMedia Conference May 4-5th, 2012

Posted By: on April 19th, 2012
Filed Under: Events

We’re pleased to announce that we will be presenting at the first annual iMedia conference taking place Friday and Saturday, May 4-5th at Fantasyland Hotel!

Are you a social media enthusiast? If so, this conference is for you. The event begins with a kick-off party at L1 Lounge on Friday night.  Saturday is a full day of iLearning with 2 keynote speakers, your choice of four breakout sessions throughout the day and a local iMedia-lite panel discussion over lunch.

Breakout Session Topics

Connecting to a Brand – Focus Communications
The World of SEO – Top Draw
Attention Grabbing Pitches – Dynamite PR
Inspirational Blogging – Bikini or Bust
Sports Blogging – Edmonton Oilers
Not for Profit Blogging & Social Media Impact – Edmonton Food Bank & Junior Achievement
Creating Personality on a business Blog  - Fused Logic

The organizers of iMedia have graciously given us two promotional codes for you to use and share:

  • Save $46 off the cost of registration by using ‘Topdrawconference’ at checkout.
  • Save $10 off the cost of kick-off party tickets by using ‘Topdrawparty’ at checkout.

For more information and to register for this event please visit the iMedia Conference website.

Hope to see you there!