Welcome to the BIG Connect where meaningful business chats connect you to your customer and community. Through a series of workshops at the Innovation Centre launching this fall, Jenna Robins from Trilogy Solutions and Kate Watson from SAEDS, will co-host a series of workshops designed to help your business better understand the digital landscape. Jenna and Kate using over 20 years of marketing and business experience want to help share how you can use social media to your advantage.

We have two ticket styles available for this workshop. One is in person at the Innovation Centre and the other is online via Zoom. There are 20 spots available in Person and 20 spots online.

The BIG Connect program will help you better use the platforms you are already on, deliver pro hacks on how to get more engagement, followers and likes on your posts, and how to use useful online tools like Canva from top professionals in the business. The BIG connect is sponsored by SAEDS and is a combination of free and paid workshops, at a reduced rate to the students, helping all businesses gain the knowledge and momentum to thrive in the online world. “Whether you are a brick-and-mortar small scale business or aspiring to take over the world with your product or service, you need to be online to connect to your customers” says Kate Watson, Marketing Coordinator at SAEDS. “I wanted to design a way where businesses could learn about their digital presence and have time to connect with other businesses in the community while they were at it, and that is how the BIG connect was born!”. Together with Jenna Robins, CEO and Owner of Trilogy Solutions, a Canadian website design, development, management and hosting company working primarily with small- to medium-sized businesses across a variety of industries. “I’m thrilled to be partnering with SAEDS to provide hands-on learning opportunities to local businesses!” Says Jenna.

This session scheduled for Oct 3rd from 6-8:30pm will be held at the Innovation Centre, 220 Shuswap Street NE, and virtually through Zoom. Trilogy Solutions LTD will teach the ins and outs of Canva. Canva is an Australian graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. The app includes templates for users. This fast growing platform is very useful for helping to create visually appealing content, and is well worth your time to learn more about the platform!