Advertising Sales Representative Required!

momstown.ca is the leading mom-focused social media and event business in Canada. We are an on-line and in person network for neighbourhood moms wanting to connect for support, conversation and just plain fun! With a fantastic event calendar and lively message board, momstown.ca is a great way to get involved with your community while having a blast with your kids! They say it takes a village to raise a child, we say it takes a town!
Job Description – Advertising Sales Representative

momstown Barrie is currently seeking self-motivated, energetic and enthusiastic individuals for a rolling 6 month contract position as an Advertising Sales Representative. In this exciting role you will be responsible for selling local online advertising and sponsorship opportunities. Your work will entail finding and building relationships with potential and existing advertisers and effectively pitching for advertising budgets. You will ensure that booked campaigns are run smoothly and are reported on in a timely manner.

This is a commissioned based part-time role working out of your own home with flexible hours.
Responsibilities:

Sales
o Responsible for selling online advertising and sponsorship opportunities
o Generate sales leads, cold calls, develop client relationships
o Prepare and present proposals to new and existing clients
Administrative
o Maintain client log
o Collect ad artwork from clients by deadline
o Complete monthly ad tracking/booking sheet
o Track monthly sales and invoice momstown Barrie for monthly commission
o Load all ads onto momstown Barrie ad server by deadline
Qualifications:
o Outgoing, dynamic leader who is creative, organized, highly self-motivated
o Strong communication & interpersonal skills
o Strong computer skills and internet savvy
o Must have a reliable computer with internet access
o 2 years+ experience in sales and /or marketing

Pay Structure:

o Independent Contract work – 6 month rolling contract
o Highly competitive commission based pay

If you have sales experience in your background, we’d love to hear from you. Send your cover letter and resume to info.barrie@momstown.ca

Colour mixing with our momstown Barrie Little Scientists!

Kids love to learn and science can be so much fun!

We did some magical colouring mixing with our Little Scientists and had a blast learning our primary colours and the colours they can make when they get mixed together!

We made this fun by using some magic paper towels that helped to suck up the coloured water and mix the colours together!

We took some clear cups and added some water.  The kids then helped to colour the water with food colouring.

Once we had all our colourful cups of water ready we took an empty cup and placed it between the colours.

The next step was to add one end of a paper towel in one colour and the other end in the empty cup and then to do the same on the colour we were mixing.

The water crept up the paper towel and then into the empty cup where the colours mixed.

The kids had a blast seeing the new colours that were created!

Making it rain rainbow colours in Barrie!

Little Scientist was so much fun this week, a little messy, but fun!

Science is a fun and easy way to learn.  Asking the kids questions, making them guess and just showing them cool things will grab their attention and get their little minds working.

This week we made rain... rainbow coloured rain!

We took clear containers full of water and added clouds.   Mounds of shaving cream made the perfect clouds!  We discovered that less was better for allowing the "rain" to come  through.

Once we had our clouds, we were ready to make it rain!  By dropping food colouring on top of the clouds, we waited patiently for the rain to come through.

We were able to see the colours stream through the shaving cream and into the water, looking just like rain!!

The kids were having fun trying to figure out what colour would come through first.

Once we were done learning, the play started!  The fluffy mounds of now colourful shaving cream was too much for the kids to resist!  The dug in and played in the foam until we had to take it away!

momstown kiddies have a blast bowling!

We are always looking for fun things for our momstown kiddies to do.  We love our craft days, song time and other fun events, but sometimes it's fun to get the kids out exploring and trying things they might not otherwise try!

Sometimes kids are nervous to try new things and sometimes mom is!

Going bowling was something that lots of our moms didn't think their little ones were ready for, but by all the fun that they had yesterday we proved that even at 18 months you can have a blast bowling!!

We invaded Bowlerama in Barrie and got the kids ready in their bowling shoes.  Bowlerama was so great to us and were so prepared for the rush of little ones!

There was so much chaos by our large momstown group, but the kids didn't seem to mind!  Waiting their turn was the hardest part about the day... and learning to stay on their own lane!

The kids were excited and some didn't understand at first about rolling the ball, and there were lots of crashes as the 5 pin balls were thrown!










As the morning went on the kids learned to be patient and wait their turn, to be patient and wait for the balls to come back and to roll their ball as hard as they could to get a "goal" as my little one called it.

Watching how much fun the kids were having was the best part of my morning.  This is an event we will be repeating again for sure!  Hearing all the giggles and squeals of joy was so awesome.

Even the moms got in on the fun when the kids were winding down with a snack.  Some of them have some great skill and we will be putting that to the test next month when the moms head out bowling!!!

A crafty Pinterest Day with the Barrie momstown mamas!

Mamas like to get crafty too!  It's a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, crafting, eating, coffee (or wine!) lots of chit chat and laughter!

We have all come to love Pinterest and have been having some evenings where we choose something to craft.  This time we decided to make a day out of it and do more than one thing.

One of our moms had a great idea to make a salt scrub.  This was so fun and with the winter weather drying out our skin, so sensible!

We took some sea salt, olive oil, coconut oil and some all natural oils from citrus zest.   It was lots of fun to mix up our own scrub and get creative. 

Testing our creations out was fun too, our hands were soooo soft!!!

Our second craft was a menu board.  With busy family lives and the task of saving money and staying on a budget, a set menu for the week is a great way to reduce impulse shopping when getting groceries!

We took some photo frames, scrapbookinng paper and our own creativity and came up with some creative and amazing looking pieces!!

This was a really fun afternoon and we will be doing this again for sure!

Being a momstown Barrie Member has never been better!!!

There’s never been a better time to join momstown Barrie! When you purchase or renew a full year momstown membership in 2013, you received a BONUS subscription to Today’s Parent!

When my middle daughter was just 1, momstown came to me about being a community manager.  The opportunity was amazing!  A brand new concept developed by 2 moms from Burlington, bringing the "moms group" to the next level!!

momstown Barrie flourished quickly and the fun I had with my daughter meeting new people and new moms was fantastic!  A year and half later, 9 months pregnant with my 3rd child, the opportunity came up for me to purchase momstown Barrie and own the chapter that I had helped to grow and now loved deeply.

Now 4 and a  half years since momstown came to Barrie and since I joined this amazing family, I am proud to say that being a part of the largest organization to connect moms across Canada has become a huge part of my life, and my families... make us a part of yours too!

We now have a great bonus for our members and members to be!!!!

Included in your membership to momstown is a one year (12 issues) subscription to Today’s Parent! This includes all new memberships as well as existing membership renewals, and applies only to full year momstown memberships ($45). This special offer is available from January 1^st to December 31^st, 2013, inclusive.

Already receive Today’s Parent? Then your subscription will be extended for one additional year!

Click here for full details and mark your calendars to renew or sign up soon!

Easter Chicks!

Any holiday always brings out cute crafts. For one of our Easter crafts this year our momstown mamas and kiddies made some super easy, but super cute chicks!

The momstown kids and moms thought they were adorable and they had so much fun making them.

All we needed was so bright yellow cups found at the party store, feathers, construction paper, googly eyes and some imaginative kids!

The kids had a great time making their chick faces, all kids see, to love glue and even better, googly eyes!


Once the faces were ready we glued them onto our chick bodies (paper cups) and then covered the body in feathers!

We added some feet and some feathers to the head and voila! An adorable Easter chick!

This craft was lots of fun and so cute! The kids had a great time, and the moms did too!

Stand and Play Ramp a hit with the kiddies

Once again Fisher Price has come up with a product that is great for the kids, young and old, sold, fun, colourful, sturdy and easy to assemble! (all things I look for in a toy!)

The Fisher Price Stand and Play Ramp was the lastest toy that my kiddies had the great privilege of testing out and playing with.


The giant box was a pleasure to my son alone, just seeing that there was someting to do with cars was excitement for him!

We dumped out all the pieces and at first I felt a bit overwhelmed, but in no time, literally a couple of minutes, the entire thing was built, mainly by my 13 year old! Easy Peasy! I just love when a toy is so simple to assemble!

The kids were trying to put the cars on the ramps before it was completely assembled! They were so exicited to play with it!

As soon as they were told they could go at it, the ramps quickly became full of cars. My son just loved putting the cars on, watching them wind down and then putting them on again.

This could very easily become his new favourite toy! The hight is just perfect for his age and will last him for years to come. Even the older kids loved playing with it!

Cookie Eating Dinosaurs!

This week we finally got to take our momstown Tales for Tots out to the park! Can you believe the gorgeous weather we have been having and it's only March!

It was fantastic to finally enjoy our Tales for Tots outdoors! Our book this month from our sponsor Scholastic Canada was How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?

This book was a huge hit with the kids!!! The fun scratch and sniff areas on each page were a favorite. As I read the story to the kids from one book, a second copy was passed around for the kids to sniff.

The fun and interactive rhyming story really grabbed the kids attention and they all say and listened to see what the dinosaur would do next!

It was so great to be able to give a copy away to our winner Jennifer J. and her kiddies, they were sure excited to be taking the book home where they could scratch and sniff some more!!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

We celebrated a day early this year, but it was all green and shamrocks all the same!

St. Patty's Day is always a favorite for celebrations, a time to wear green, make our food and drink green and of course celebrate all that is Irish.


Our mamas and kiddies came out to done little leprechan hats, make pots of gold full of shamrocks and treasures and of course eat shamrock treats with green drinks.

The kids look so cute in their little hats, even our smallest tots today doned their hats with pride!



The pot of gold craft was a hit. the kids decorated gold pots (ok, they were yellow cups) with stickers and "planted" a clover.


They were then lucky enough to fill their golden pots with treasure (candy!!!).


To top off the day and the fun, shamrock cookies with green sprinkles and green kool-aid made for the perfect treat!



momstown mamas sure know how to celebrate!

Messy Fun with Cloud Dough!!

This week our Little Scientist program started up again and with our monthly theme being all about our senses, I thought the sense of touch would make for some great science fun!


The kids all gathered on the kitchen floor, much easier to contain mess and clean, and prepared to make cloud dough... none of them knew what was coming!

We scooped 4 cups of plain all purpose flour into trays. Flour on its own is soft and fluffy, but when we added 1/2 cup of baby oil and mixed super well, the dough was silky and no longer stuck like flour!

We could mould it and play with it and the couldy softness just got more fun!


TO make the dough pretty we added sparkles... perhaps a little more than we planned! The added sparkles intrigued some of the little ones that weren't too sure about getting messy and they were soon all mixing and playing with the cloud dough.


What we discovered with this experiment was that a) flour mixed with baby oil creates soft silky playful dough, b) flour mixed with baby oil is just as messy and not so great for anyone wearing black, c) that even after vaccuming up the could dough the floor was left super slippery, but very shiny!, and d) cloud dough should be played with outdoors.


It was a fun morning and the kids had a blast. And thank goodness for me, none of the moms minded the messy floury pants!

Sharing Breakfast and Making a Difference!

Yesterday we celebrated National Breakfast Day by getting together for a morning of fun with the moms and tots at Wendy's

Kellogg's campaign to Share Your Breakfast was a huge hit and was a great conversation piece for the moms!


Learning about the staggering number of children that can go without breakfast daily is heartbreaking. Our moms agreed that any way we can help a child have a breakfast is worth the effort!!!


Kellogg's is making a huge effort to help those in need and with every marked box of Kellogg's breakfast foods you can help feed a child breakfast! Kellogg's is donating to Breakfast Clubs to feed hungry children so they can start their day of right!

Our kids sure thought that the cereal was an awesome way to start the morning!

National Breakfast Day!

momstown wants to help Kellogg’s give back to the Barrie community.

We will be distributing breakfast kits at momstown programs over the next week, and we’d love your support!


In Canada, 1 in 10 children live in poverty, and are at risk of starting their day on an empty stomach.

On March 8th, National Breakfast Day, Kellogg’s will be distributing mini-packs of Rice Krispies cereal nationwide, to raise awareness and reach out to children in the community.

We will be distributing boxes of Rice Krispies at our Wendy's Fun Day! Join us and celebrate breakfast and support the cause!

Kellogg’s will also be donating to Breakfast Clubs of Canada and Breakfast for Learning. You can help by purchasing Kellogg’s cereals – every box equals a donation!
Go to www.kelloggs.ca/SYB for more information.

We Share Everything!

What a fun book to read with a group of young kids. Robert Munsch books are always hilarious and always get the kids engaging.

This months book, We Share Everything, was perfect to go along with our theme of Mix and Match.

The adapted board book for younger children was great for the group that showed up, many were in daycare and could relate to the story and not wanting to share.

TO hear the giggles and the things they pointed out in the pictures was so funny!

As usual with our Tales for Tots, we gave away a copy of the book. Our lucky winner was our youngest babe today. Olivia, at only 8 weeks old, attentively listened to the story and held her winning book.

Stay tuned for next months Tales for Tots book, How do dinosaurs eat cookies.

Winter Birthdays – Get The Kids Outside!

In thinking about how big this year is with momstown turning 5, I have been thinking about the big birthday bash we will be throwing this summer and about all the fun birthday themes out there!

I find there are so many things to do in the Spring, Summer and Fall, but what can we do to celebrate a birth in the Winter?


So I asked Kate Howes, owner of Take The Party Outside, what do we do in the Winter?

Here are her thoughts in her own words:

Let’s think back to when we were kids. The first snowfall was always the day you jumped out of bed the fastest, and a snow day meant actually playing in the snow.
Ahh, I remember it with great fondness and I can still feel the warmth that the hot chocolate brought to my tummy — the good old days.

Today our kids don’t play outside like we did. I don’t know if it’s because we have them so close to our sides in their protective bubbles or if the video games and TV shows are so much better now, but kids just aren’t outdoors as much. Either way, when people ask me, “What should I do for my son’s birthday, it’s in February?” I always say, “Do something outside, kids love it!”

So, what is there to do in the Barrie area in the winter?


Here are a few ideas if you want to Take the Party Outside:

• Take the kids snow tubing – Horseshoe Resort, Blue Mountain or Snow Valley
• Take the kids snowshoeing – Hardwood Hills, Scenic Caves or Wye Marsh Wildlife Center
• Take them skating – you can rent the ice at any area arena and many come with the use of a party room.
• For the really adventurous, try dog sledding – Windrift Kennel

For those of you who are die hard home-party people, here are some outdoor ideas:

• Play Headless Snowman (from Disney Family Fun website)


WHAT IT IS: A goofy photo opportunity that allows kids to substitute their heads for a snowman's.


WHAT YOU NEED: Camera, props (such as a corncob pipe) and a small stool. The kids we know love any chance to be hams -- especially for the camera. Enter this decorated but headless snowman. As the cameras clicked, the kids took turns mugging as Frosty--
corncob pipe and all. We placed a small, sturdy stool behind the snow body so that the shorter kids could also get into the act.


Thank you so much to Kate from Take The Party Outside for sharing these ideas with us! Enjoy those winter Birthdays mamas!