Newsletter April 2014 Newmarket Chamber of Commerce

The Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Newsletter

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Celebrating

Award Nominations Now Open

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Your Events

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What’s Up With Innovation at the Chamber?

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Years of Business Excellence

Free Social Media Workshop for Business

Newmarket Business Excellence Awards

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Staying on Top of Trends with YRBiz Series

Nomination Deadline: April 14, 2014 Awards Celebration: October 16, 2014

Board of Directors Chair Rob Chaggares Chaggares & Bonhomme, Chartered Accountants

Director Lorne Cooper Century 21 Heritage Group Ltd., Brokerage

1st Vice Chair Veronica Williams snapd Newmarket

Director Kirsten Eastwood Women’s Centre of York Region

2nd Vice Chair Kevin Murdoch The Murdoch Group Private Wealth Management

Director Simon Fenn Fenn & Fenn Insurance Practice Inc.

Past Chair Steve Hinder Magna International Inc. Secretary/Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick Bateman Graham & Fitzpatrick Chartered Accountants

Director Neil Moore York Region Media Group Director Sabine Schleese SCHLEESE - The Female Saddle Specialist

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Director Jim Alexander Tim Hortons

Director Claudine Johns RBC Royal Bank

Director James Burgess Focus31

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Breakfast Networking 1 $ Tuesday, April 8 7:00 am - 9:00 am Location: Silver Lakes Golf & Country Club Sponsor: Neighbourhood Network

Peer Group - SOHO & Small Business ø Tuesday, April 22 8:00 am - 9:00 am Location: NCOC Social Media Storytelling Workshop ø Wednesday, April 23 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Location: NCOC Presenter: One Million Acts of Innovation Member Orientation 1 Thursday, April 24 8:00 am - 9:00 am Location: NCOC

Social Media for Business ø Peer Group - Small & Thursday, April 10 Medium Enterprise ø 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Tuesday, April 29 Location: Treefrog 8:00 am - 9:00 am Interactive Inc., Location: NCOC 567 Davis Drive Annual Mayor’s Luncheon 1 $ Friday, April 11 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Location: Cardinal Golf Club Sponsor: Bell Symbol

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NCOC Newmarket Chamber of Commerce 470 Davis Dr. (The Old Railway Station) Newmarket, ON L3Y 2P3 Phone: 905-898-5900 Fax: 905-853-7271 newmarketchamber.ca | info@newmarketchamber.ca Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Staff President & CEO: Debra Scott Vice President: Karen Dubeau Business Development Manager: Tracy Walter Office Manager: Lori Clayton Event Manager: Rosanne Antunes Marketing Manager: Danielle Koren Administrative Assistant: Astero Prattas Event Coordinator: Suzie Di Genarro Member Services Coordinator: Lauren Davie Smart Commute Central York Staff Program Manager: Pat Lusink Program Services Coordinator: Dar Sadettan Member Services Coordinator: Jennifer Brien Auditor: BDO Canada LLP

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Business Excellence Awards Celebrating 25 Years of Business Excellence in Newmarket

Your Help is Needed with Nominations

The call for nominations will remain open until April 14th. If you would like to nominate a business for one Twenty-five years ago, the Newmarket Chamber of the Business Excellence Awards, check our website launched the first ever Business Excellence Awards for for the online form, or call the office and speak to one Newmarket, recognizing those businesses who had of the staff. Any business with operations in Newmarket achieved outstanding success within the community. It was the start of an annual tradition that has evolved into is eligible to be nominated. There are wonderful benefits to the organization receiving the nomination, the premiere business event for our community. Each including increased community profile and PR, positive October, with great excitement, finalists and winning media exposure, heightened morale and networking businesses are recognized and celebrated at an event that evokes the glamour and anticipation of the Oscars. opportunities.

Over the years, the Awards have expanded, bringing to light innovation, entrepreneurship, community contributions of businesses, not-for-profits and more.

This October 16 will mark the 25th Anniversary of the Business Excellence Awards event and plans are underway for an over-the-top celebration. Tickets will go on sale shortly – keep an eye out for the Early Bird rate; this event will sell out once again, so make sure to get your tickets early.

This year there are two new awards added to the event, bringing the total awards to nine: • New Business of the Year • Small Business of the Year • Large Business of the Year • Innovation of the Year • Entrepreneur of the Year • Not For Profit of the Year • Professional Services of the Year • • NEW Franchise of the Year • • NEW Manufacturer of the Year

Recognition by Business Peers and the Community All nominees participate in a juried process, resulting in a summer announcement of up to three finalists per category. Three judges per Award are involved in the process, and include at least one former Award winner, and all are recognized community leaders in Newmarket. Finalists are interviewed by the volunteer judges to gather additional information, and the winning organization is announced the night of the Business Excellence Awards.

Help Celebrate a Vibrant Community Please help celebrate our wonderful community of Newmarket, by submitting nominations and attending the Business Excellence Awards event. Recognizing our successful leaders and inspiring others is how we will continue to grow a prosperous and vibrant community.

Nominate a Newmarket based business at newmarketchamber.ca/business-awards by April 14 April 2014

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Your Events Annual Economic Luncheon This year’s annual Economic Luncheon at Cardinal Golf Club, sponsored by TD Canada Trust, was a sold out event. Keynote speaker Sonya Gulati (Senior Economist at TD Economics) provided an in-depth outlook on the Canadian economy. Thank you to the Aurora and East Gwillimbury Chambers for collaborating with us.

The team at TD Canada Trust

Sabrina and Vladimir (Business Development Bank of Canada)

Rob (Chaggares & Bonhomme Chartered Accountants) and Tim (TD Canada Trust)

Women in Business Luncheon Thank you to our founding sponsor RBC Royal Bank, along with our luncheon sponsors Best Western, Chartwell Retirement Residences, Minken Employment Lawyers, Upper Canada Mall and Watershed Marketing for a great luncheon at Cynthia’s Chinese Restaurant.

Debra (Newmarket Chamber of Commerce), Jane (RBC Royal Bank), Diane (Etiquette Essentials) and Rashmi (Upper Canada Mall)

Attendees enjoying networking opportunities

Valerie (winner of the Upper Canada Mall $200 gift certificate) and Rashmi (Upper Canada Mall)

Newmarket Young Professionals Group (NYPG) Maria Racco of the Artists Salon & Spa hosted NYPG After Hours “March Makeover” on March 19. Liz Cripps, President, WACADS Group shared her expertise with the group in three key areas: business strategy, business structure and social media performance. Thank you to Vince’s Market for sponsoring the evening’s refreshments.

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Juliana (LeTip) and Dr. Craig (Balchen Chiropractic Clinic)

Michael (Incub8 Creative) and Elvira (Benson Kearly IFG)

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For Your Information YRBiz Series: Celebrating Women in Business - Exploring the Art of Storytelling Successful marketing strategies today have a strong emphasis on imagery and a unique, compelling message that resonates at a personal level. As part of International Women’s Day week, the sold-out YRBiz event “surfaced the ways of women”, with workshops exploring imagery, music and the art of storytelling.

Keynote speaker Judy Maddren, former CBC broadcaster and host of World Report, shares her inspiring story.

Sarid from Treefrog shares images Attendees used a guided workbook that convey her personal strengths in to uncover their unique images, an exciting workshop. sounds and stories.

What’s Up With Innovation at the Chamber?

Two months ago, we shared that the Chamber staff and members were starting work on an Innovation Strategy for the Chamber of Commerce. This exercise has generated many exciting ideas, some of which can be implemented immediately; others will take a bit more time. It has highlighted the importance of having an innovation strategy for any organization. Like having a balanced investment portfolio, having an innovation plan that includes a mix of incremental, moderate and radical/game-changing innovations, is the best way to ensure continued growth and development for a business.

To foster a discussion about innovation at a community level, the Town of Newmarket and the Chamber of Commerce hosted a successful Innovation Showcase at the recent Home & Lifestyle Show. Partner organizations including ventureLAB and Southlake Regional Health Centre, along with local businesses Myostat Motion Control, Sci-Tek and Brainspace Magazine gave us a taste of innovations, showing off robotic lego, 3D printers, Telepresence Robots and Augmented Reality. These exciting technologies have the power and potential to change the way that we do business, learn and work.

The showcase generated a number of inspiring conversations with Chamber members about how they can use the technologies to help grow their own businesses.

Internally at the Chamber, we are actively pursuing options for mobile commerce, using innovative presentation platforms like Prezi, incorporating teambased collaboration tools and next-generation workforce tools. We look forward to sharing and discussing these with our members. With community stakeholders, we are investigating strategic initiatives to help accelerate innovation for Newmarket.

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a Zero-Footprint community; a community with the fastest connectivity; a place with single sign-on to streamline access to services and resources; programs to support start-up companies; a place to play with new technologies and innovations.

It is an exciting time, with an “Abundance” of opportunities for us (as referenced by Peter Diamandis, Founder of the X-Prize for Commercial Space Flight).

The most important challenge is to continue to build the strategic partnerships and collaborations that will allow us to collectively act on these opportunities, to have your participation in these discussions, and to support our leaders in pursuing these to a brighter future.

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Your Members Welcome New Members Please support and network with the following new members: Anta Plumbing

LOL Photo Booth

St. Louis Bar and Grill

Cabinet Magic Inc.

Matrix of Motion

Tom’s Modern Alignment

John Kennedy - Century 21 Heritage Brokerage

Quest Geothermal

Tractorland Inc.

Klein Network Services

Ray Sheridan Heating

Tanya 364 Munster Ave. Etobicoke, M8Z 3C7 (416) 231-3331; (877) 788-3331 info@antaforyou.com antaforyou.com Kim Morgan 6 - 559 Steven Crt. Newmarket, L3Y 6Z3 (905) 954-0967 kim@cabinetmagic.ca cabinetmagic.ca

Toan Phung 1005 Ralston Cres.

Newmarket, L3X 3H8 (416) 999-5638 lolbooth28@gmail.com lolphotoboothgta.com Greg Moulton 5 Forrestwood Cres.

East Gwillimbury, L9N 1C7 (289) 221-0017 greg@matrixofmotion.com matrixofmotion.com Glenn McPhail 7 - 1235 Journey’s End Circle Newmarket, L3Y 8T7 (905) 868-9997, (877) 658-9997 glenn@questgeothermal.com questgeothermal.com

John Kennedy 100 - 17035 Yonge St. Newmarket, L3Y 5Y1 (905) 895-1822 jfkjohnkennedy@gmail.com newmarketlife.ca

Randy Klein 392 Waratah Ave. Newmarket, L3Y 7T6 (289) 648-1630 randy@kleinnetworkservices.com kleinnetworkservices.com

Tom Halkidis 5 - 17074 Leslie St. Newmarket, L3Y 8V8 (905) 953-4204 tom.halkidis@stlouiswings.com stlouiswings.com Tom Schmidt 72 George St. Newmarket, L3Y 4V3 (905) 853-9546 tomsmodernalignment@hotmail.com

14390 Woodbine Ave. Box #594 Gormley, L0H 1G0 (905) 726-2283, (877) 501-6002 bnixon_tractorlandinc@rogers.com www.tractorlandinc.com

Ray Sheridan 293 Queen St. (905) 895-6950 Newmarket, L3Y 2G3 collector.rays@gmail.com

Thank you:

• Dr. Karen Ho, Optometrist for being a member for 10 years.

• CENTUM One Financial Group Inc. Lic #10758 and King Capon Ltd. for being members for 12 years.

• Slattery Enterprises Inc. for being a member for 14 years.

• Country Farm Food Service Ltd. and Merry Maids of Newmarket/Aurora Bradford & Georgina for being members for 15 years.

Congratulations:

• Congratulations to Upper Canada Mall on Celebrating their 40th Anniversary.

• Congratulations to snapd Newmarket and snapd Newspaper Group on celebrating their 10th Anniversary.

Join the co nve rs ati o n a b out the future of Newmarket

Mayor ’s Luncheon Friday, April 11 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Cardinal Golf Club

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YRBiz Series Staying on Top of Trends – YRBiz Series is Your Source Participants in Innovation

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2,125 total attendees 868 in 2013

For small businesses it can be a challenge to stay on top of technology trends and market shifts. The YRBiz Series of conferences focuses Business Profile on business innovation in 10 years+: 47% changing times, and offers a wealth of resources on topics 6 - 10 years: 10% as diverse as e-commerce and 2 - 5 years: 17% mobile strategies, 3D printing, Start up: 18% workforce skill development, Pre-start up: 8% leadership, disruptive innovation, the Internet of Things, Big Data and more.

Presentations from the Series include: •Why Big Businesses Fear Small Businesses •The Rise of Social Enterprises •More devices connected to the Internet than people •Mobile revolution For the first time since its inception in 2011, the Series has produced an Annual Report that provides highlights of the topics, presenters, links to slides and an overview of the attendees that participated. The 2013 Annual Report is available online at yrbizseries.ca and is worth spending a few minutes to browse the material, view presentations, watch videos and more.

For 2014, the YRBiz Series will be holding events: • On May 22, helping small and medium sized businesses de-mystify Big Data – what is it, why it is important, and how you can use it to grow your company.

• In June, there will be a summit on the Future of Advertising and Online Commerce, examining strategies and resources for businesses to create an integrated marketing campaign that includes online, mobile, print and other traditional media sources.

• This fall, events will feature opportunities for business with the Canada-EU Trade Agreement in September and the Education Revolution Workforce of the Future in November.

Free workshop being hosted by Newmarket Chamber member Treefrog Interactive Inc., in their new offices.

April 10, 1:00-3:00 pm 567 Davis Drive (the old Shanahan building) Sign up at newmarketchamber.ca or yrbizseries.ca Social Media 101 In today’s business market, social media has levelled the playing field for small to medium sized businesses by giving them access to the same tools as the large brands. If your business is not engaged in some form of social media, you’re being left in the dust. Knowing how to use social media is an essential skill that you will acquire with this hands-on workshop. Topics you will learn about: • The top six: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube • Which channels make sense for your business • How can you leverage the opportunity should negative social media feedback arise Google - More than just a Search Engine Communication has never been easier than in today’s business market. The tools at your disposal are powerful, and they are constantly changing. So how do you select the right ones? Whether you need to attract new prospects through social channels, or collaborate with existing and prospective clients, Google has an array of effective solutions that can help drive your business forward. Sarid Layton of Treefrog Inc. will share valuable insights about some of these tools, including Google hangouts, Google Drive and Google Plus, and explain how they can be used to advance your business.

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