Convention Promo Materials

Descriptions
E-mail Signature
Fliers/Poster/PowerPoint
Ideas to Help Get the Word Out
Magazines
Press Release/PSAs
Video

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Ideas to Help Get the Word Out

Here are some ideas of how to let others know about the convention.

Send convention information to your local community calendar, newspaper, and web communities (online news, Christian ministries, Yahoo groups, etc.).
Chat up the convention with your online community.
Add a "signature" to your e-mail messages with a link to the convention page. (See example)
Put announcements in your local support group newsletters and on your blog.
Talk up the convention with other homeschoolers you know.
Hand out magazines.
Put magazines in your libraries, local bookstores, church, grocery store, doctor's office, etc.
Call your local radio stations--especially the ones you listen to--to see about PSAs, interviews--ANYTHING they can do to help get the word out. Interviews with speakers prior to convention may be arranged--please contact publicity@heav.org for details.
Ask your pastor to make an announcement about the convention.
Have an idea we haven't mentioned--please let us know! We are always looking for great ideas.

Convention Descriptions

Here are descriptions for posting on websites, Yahoo groups, e-mails, or other outlets. Please choose whichever description best fits your outlet.

2012 HEAV Virginia Homeschool Convention - June 7-9, 2012 - Home Education: Touching the Heart. Inspiration. Information. Bargains. HUGE Exhibit Hall, money-saving Used Curriculum Sale (60,000+ items last year), more than 120 information-packed workshops, graduation, FREE how-to-begin sessions, and MUCH MORE. Practical, hands-on, and encouraging!

Learn more and register at www.heav.org/convention or call 804-278-9200.

HEAV's Virginia Homeschool Convention (June 7-9, 2012) has 120+ workshops on parenting, homeschooling, organization, finances, special needs, family life, and many other topics; an extensive Exhibit Hall (310+ booths); and much more. Free admission for qualifying parents of preschoolers and non-homeschooling grandparents to the entire three-day convention, and free how-to-begin workshops for all on Thursday, June 7. Visit www.heav.org for details, or call 804-278-9200.

2012 HEAV Virginia Homeschool Convention
Home Education: Touching the Heart
June 7, 8, and 9, 2012
Richmond, Virginia
www.heav.org/convention; office@heav.org; 804-278-9200

Amazing speakers. Information-packed workshops. Huge Exhibit Hall. Money-saving Used Curriculum Sale (60,000+ items last year). Children's Program, graduation, FREE how-to-begin sessions, and MUCH MORE. Affordable, practical, hands-on, and encouraging. Speakers include Dr. Tedd Tripp (Shepherding a Child’s Heart Ministries), Dr. Jason Lisle (Answers in Genesis and Masters Books), Hal and Melanie Young, Debra Bell, Inge Cannon, Woody Robertson, Mike Snavely, Crystal Paine, Catherine Millard, Andrew Pudewa, Amanda Bennett, and many others! FREE attendance for qualifying parents of preschoolers and non-homeschooling grandparents.

HEAV Virginia Homeschool Convention
June 7-9, 2012
Richmond, Virginia
Curious about home education? Searching for great educational materials? Homeschooling...or considering it? Don't miss the HEAV Virginia Homeschool Convention! Join thousands of others for three days of encouragement, support, and resources.

Attend FREE how-to-begin workshops on Thursday, June 7. Afterward, tour the Exhibit Hall as our special guest!

First-time parents of preschoolers and non-homeschooling parents can attend the entire convention for FREE.

The convention offers more than 120 workshops, an extensive Exhibit Hall (310+ booths), a Used Curriculum Sale (60,000+ items last year), a Children's Program all day Friday and Saturday, and more.

View more details at www.heav.org.

Free How-to-Begin-Homeschooling Workshops
Are you curious about home education? Have you wondered how homeschooling moms juggle parenting and teaching their children? What did they do to get started anyway? What subjects are required and study habits necessary to excel in education? How does one meet the legal requirements to homeschool?

If you have asked these or similar questions, then take the opportunity to learn more at three FREE workshops sponsored by the Home Educators Association of Virginia on Thursday, June 7, 2012, starting at 1:30 p.m. After the workshops, browse the mega Exhibit Hall, which offers more than 310 booths filled with educational materials and resources from across the country.

View more details at www.heav.org.

Curious about home education? Searching for great educational materials? Homeschooling...or considering it?

The HEAV Virginia Homeschool Convention, held June 7-9, 2012, at the Richmond Convention Center and offered by Home Educators Association of Virginia, includes FREE how-to-begin sessions on Thursday, FREE full-convention admittance for first-time parents of preschoolers and non-homeschooling grandparents, 120+ workshops on a wide variety of topics, an extensive Exhibit Hall (310+ booths), a Used Curriculum Sale (60,000+ items last year), a Children's Program, and more.

Special features include a Transcript Boot Camp and Crystal Creek Media’s Film Camp,* a two-day workshop on how to make movies. *An additional fee applies.

Visit www.heav.org/convention or call 804-278-9200 for details.

Sample E-mail Signature

DON'T MISS THE VIRGINIA HOMESCHOOL CONVENTION - June 7-9, 2012
Incredible speakers! Huge Exhibit Hall! Money-saving Used Curriculum Sale!
www.heav.org/convention

Convention Fliers/Poster/PowerPoint

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Video

Put this video on your site by right clicking on the image above and choosing "save image as" to download the picture. Then simply put the picture on your website or blog, or in your e-mail, and link it to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIlKTCB37Q. Or follow the instructions at the link to embed the video on your site.

Magazines

The Virginia Home Educator

Home Educator Magazine (This issue offers lots of great articles and includes more information about the convention. Hand them out in church, at doctors' offices, at your support group, etc.)

Press Release/PSAs

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