Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Acorn30, City of Peterborough, Pride Ride and Kawartha Manufacturers Association

PTBOCanada is delighted to be running the Business Beat columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…

Local marketing agency Acorn30 recently launched their marketing lab to help people overwhelmed when it comes to figuring out their marketing.

It’s a free hour-long interactive session held each month. It’s your space to step back, sharpen your strategy, and move forward with confidence. Each session is part insight, part working session. It’s designed to help you cut through the noise and get answers that actually move the needle. Check out their first session on Sept. 24 at 12:15 p.m. titled The Comeback Formula: Reconnecting with Leads in a Noisy Market. Find out more at acorn30.com.

Want to learn more about leveraging sponsorships to support community festivals, events, and support your marketing objectives?

The City of Peterborough is hosting a workshop with experts on Sept. 25 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the McDonnel Street Activity Centre. The event will feature Brent Barootes of the Partnership Group – Sponsorship Specialists. This is a great opportunity to build your non-profit, charity, or business and learn from the best. To register, contact Scott Elliot at selliott@peterborough.ca.

B!KE, the Community Cycling Hub, is hosting a Pride Glow Ride on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m.

This is a family-friendly glow pride parade ride with colourful decorated bikes. Participants are encouraged to arrive with their bikes already decked out in colourful lights and/or rainbow decorations. Riders will meet at Quaker Foods City Square at 7pm and ride a nearly 10 km route that is nearly 10 km long with stops at rainbow locations. Riders are encouraged to join the afterparty at Dreams of Beans.

Are you intimidated by AI and not sure where to start?

The Kawartha Manufacturers Association are hosting a series of workshops to help you get a better handle on AI and your business. It will cover topics like having an AI policy so your team understand the proper use of AI that doesn’t put your company’s information at risk or create other issues, engineering prompts that will help you make quick work of daily tasks, customer communication, marketing, and much more. The first workshop titled AI Security and Policy: What every Small Business Needs to Know kicks off Sept. 17. Find out more at thekma.com.

If you want to have your business featured on the Business Beat or know of a business doing something new and interested, shoot an email to joel@pkchamber.ca.

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