News from Leisure Rules
Mobile Treasure Hunts
Mobile Treasure Hunts are an exciting new product offered by Leisure Rules. These Treasure hunts make it effortless to organize a fun, interactive, paperless and inexpensive event. Mobile Treasure hunts are great for:
- Team building/bonding
- Employee appreciation events
- Conferences
- Event Planners
- Parties/Family Reunions
Mobile treasure hunts are easy to run since the progress of each team is tracked during the event allowing hunt organizers to watch as the teams navigate through the hunt. In addition all scoring and ranking is done automatically. Click here for more information.
Activity Bubble
See what Activity Bubble has to say about our 'Why did the chicken cross the road?' treasure hunt event. Click
here for more information. Activity Bubble was inspired
by the active culture in Toronto. They strive to be Toronto's community directory of venues, leagues, academies, gyms,
studios clubs and more!
Metro News
Leisure Rules was featured in an article written by John Keillor in the Movie and Entertainment section of the
February 12th 2010 edition of Metro News.
Check out the article
here!
Leisure Rules visits George Brown College
Leisure Rules was recently invited to come to George Brown College to be a guest speaker as part of their
Special Events Planning Program. This is a
pretty cool program. I arrived early and sat in the back of the class for about 30 minutes. The previous class had
finished early so it was mostly students sitting and chatting about assignments and an upcoming event that teams were
finishing up. These events had been designed and pitched a prior term and the best ideas were now going to happen.
I was interested as I listened about the level of depth these students got to for the event. I was left with the
impression that the course was comprehensive and would prepare the students for the real world.
I had never been to the George Brown campus before and didn't know much about it. I have a friend who was in their culinary program (and is also a great chef) so I already had a high opinion of GBC.
First off, the speaking engagement was located at 215 King Street East. When I arrived, I was quite impressed with the building and amenities. The room I spoke in had a huge amount of natural light, was spacious and very impressive.
For my talk, I started with explaining what Leisure Rules does (treasure hunts - free to the public) and how we came up with the idea. I explained how we designed our events and the level of complexity these events required to pull off a treasure hunt essentially open to anyone.
I then went on to talk about the importance of building relationships with sponsors, the media and advertisers. I must admit it has been a difficult process. Over the last six months we have worked very hard running events, finding sponsors and working with the media and advertisers. I guess it all makes sense. We are a small unknown company with unproven results (although that is changing). We've had a few early adopters that understand what we're doing and these people have presented opportunities for us to grow our business. We are truly thankful to these people and we obviously work hard on their events so they're successful.
So during the talk I stressed that the relationships you build represent the foundation on which everything else rests. I explained that the best way to have a successful event is to understand how your sponsors define success. If you focus on them being successful and deliver a great event, then they win and you do too.
I went on to explain that once you came to an agreement that it was important to write it down in a formal document with deliverables (with dates) for both sides. A contract is ideal as it spells out what each party must do but I have worked without them and events have still been successful. You need to play it by ear and determine for yourself whether a contract is required.
Thanks to Professor Rey for the guest speaker invitation and good luck to all the students with your condensed course!
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Torontoist
Leisure Rules Queen's park Treasure Hunt Event appears in the Urban Planner, the Torontoist daily event planning guide.
See below for the write up and check out more about Toronto and everything that happens in it at
www.torontoist.com
TREASURE HUNT: Why not ditch the mid-afternoon coffee, smoke, and gossip huddled against the November elements
to spend your break time hunting for treasure? Leisure Rules' latest public treasure hunt begins today (and runs until
December 6). Register for free online, then get started by reading the clues and trying to figure out where they lead.
Each clue found must be documented by digital camera and submitted along with a description of where you discovered it.
Not only does it pay to be observant in a game like this, but it also pays (one hundred dollars) to win. Regardless,
anyone who's taken part in previous hunts will attest that it's a fun way to explore Toronto's downtown core.
Leisure Rules website, various locations in downtown Toronto (first location: Queen's Park), anytime, FREE.
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