ConnectUp: Spooktacular Halloween Networking Event
Event Information
About this event
Get into the spirit and join your spectacular creative and print industry professionals and ConnectUp at our free in-person VMA Spooktacular Halloween networking event and open house at JP Graphics in Santa Clara.
- Learn tricks of the trade with a behind-the-scenes preview of intriguing printing and finishing techniques and equipment.
- Get some treats too! Prizes, food, refreshments, music, and more intriguing special treats await you.
- Mix and mingle with other folks to brew a special connection to collaborate on creative projects together.
About Visual Media Alliance (Host)
This event is hosted by Visual Media Alliance (VMA). VMA has been helping printing and creative agency small businesses thrive since 1935. Our mission is to support small business owners & managers in the Northern California graphic arts industry in saving time and money for their business. To learn more about membership or to become a member today, please visit us at vma.bz.
About JP Graphics (Open House Venue)
JP Graphics, a full-service printing company, is certified woman-owned and a small business by the state of California and is a Bay Area Green Company. For over 21 years, JP Graphics has proudly served the SF Bay Area with everything a business needs such as brochures, flyers, business cards, vinyl banners, window clings, posters, trade show signage, presentation folders, branded promotional items and more. Visit jp-graphics.com.
Organizer Visual Media Alliance
Organizer of ConnectUp: Spooktacular Halloween Networking Event
Visual Media Alliance (VMA) and VMA Education are nonprofit trade associations dedicated to providing a variety of benefits and money saving programs to creative, web, marketing and print businesses in Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada. We were formerly known as the Printing Industries of Northern California - PINC. Our purpose is to deliver what it takes to help our members become more successful and profitable in their businesses. To accomplish that goal, we provide personal and professional development programs for both owners and employees. Dues are based on each company's employee count.
The Alliance brings Business Services to small and medium media companies and even individual creatives who are typically underserved in insurance and discounted business services.
- Group health, business, and life insurance at money-saving rates
- Opportunities to network with peers and collaborate with other types of media companies
- Business services like a credit union, payroll service, and collection letters
- Discounts on business essentials like software and office supplies and educational programming.
Education is the cornerstone of the programs we offer. Since it is business-centric education, it encompasses many formats including dinner meetings, management seminars and classes, webinars, conferences, and hands-on technical training. Our most popular programs, however, are our insurance services, offering the lowest group rates and tailored to the needs of our industry.
When your company joins VMA, your company also becomes a member of Printing Industries of America (PIA), the world’s largest graphic arts trade association, representing an industry with more than 1.2 million employees and serving the interests of more than 12,000 member companies. As a VMA member, you also belong to the Printing Industries of California (PIC), the state organization that represents you before state legislative and regulatory bodies and provides information and resources to help you comply in these arenas.
VMA, along with PIC and PIA, provides you with the management, marketing, financial and technical information that you need to operate your firm more profitably
Our employees in San Francisco are here to serve you. Don't hesitate to call 415-489-7601 or email us atinfo@vma.bz.
