Visual Connections Chicago 2016

Promote your presence to customers and prospects

Web site link

Encourage buyers visiting your web site to come and meet you at Visual Connections Chicago 2016. (Remember, most visitors to your site are not yet your customers!) Use the link http://www.visualconnections.com/MEET or copy and paste the following code into your HTML editor to include the ‘See us’ graphic on the right:

<a href='http://www.visualconnections.com/MEET' target='_blank'><img src='https://www.visualconnections.com/images/CH2016/see-us.png' width='125' height='125' border='0' alt='See us at Visual Connections Chicago 2016 on Thursday, May 5, 2016' /></a>

Social media

Use your LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts to reach out to your followers, many (possibly most) of whom are not yet clients. On Twitter and Instagram, use the hashtag #VCChicago.

Click on any of these graphics to download for use on social media:

E-mail insert

Invite your customers and prospects to come and meet you. This is a short description of the event you can tailor:

Visual Connections Chicago is a free-to-attend educational and networking event exclusively for image/footage/art buyers. The free education sessions with Q&A are a great opportunity to pick up useful tips and insights on copyright, licensing, researching, commissioning, or using stills or footage. Lunch, snacks and beverages are complimentary, and there’s always a great buzz.

For the event details, use either this text table or the invitation graphic and link above:

HTML code for above table:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr> <th valign="top">Date: </th> <td>Thursday, May 5, 2016</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="top">Times: </th> <td><em>Keynote Q&A session</em>: 10am–noon<br/> <em>Exhibit floor:</em> noon–5pm<br/> <em>Lunch:</em> 12:30–2:30pm<br/> <em>Prize drawings:</em> 1:30, 2:45, 4:45pm<br/> <em>Production session:</em> 1:45–2:30pm<br/> <em>Search & licensing session:</em> 3–3:45pm<br/> <em>Dessert bar:</em> 3:45–4:30pm<br/> <em>Cinco de Mayo Happy Hour</em> 5-7pm</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="top">Where: </th> <td>The Ivy Room, 12 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60611 (<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/1aYfi" target="_blank">map</a>)</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="top">Table: </th> <td>Find us at table #<b>your-table</b></td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="top">Further info: </th> <td><a href="http://www.visualconnections.com/MEET" target="_blank">www.visualconnections.com/MEET</a></td> </tr> </table>

HTML code for above graphic:

<div style="width:700px; border: 1px solid gray; margin: auto"><a href="https://www.visualconnections.com/MEET" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.visualconnections.com/images/CH2016/postcard.jpg" width="700" height="467" alt="Meet us at Visual Connections Chicago 2016" /></a></div>

Free publicity for your product/service launch announcement

If you are planning on launching a new product line or service in time for the event, we will post your press release to our website and, where relevant, mention it to picture buyers in our pre-event communications to image buyers.

Please forward press releases as a PDF or Word document to Edward Leigh at edward@visualconnections.com and indicate if you would like to use our press release distribution service. Please also ensure that your document:

• Contains news of interest to picture buyers
• Is a genuine press release, not an advert
• Contains contact details for press enquiries
• Is dated