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📍 Your Go To Toronto Tech Events Company
⭐ Hosting 24 Private Dinners in 2024
👉 850+ tickets sold across 8 Tech Mixers in 2023

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Meet Ryan Ing: Founder of SwiftOutbound + @ryaning.events ✨

By day, he’s helping B2B SaaS companies fix messy sales pipelines and scale fast as a Fractional Head of Growth. By night? He’s hosting epic community events, dancing, and crushing game nights. 🕺🎲

Ryan’s been through the trenches — from tech giants like IBM and Shopify to building his own ventures from scratch.

But he’s not here to share just the shiny LinkedIn version. He’s diving into the real sh*t: the missed quotas and identity crises that come with the hustle. 😵‍💫

If you’ve ever felt like your career was one big experiment, you’re not alone.

Come hear Ryan’s story on April 17 — and get ready to feel very seen.

📅 Date: Thursday, April 17
📍 Location: @StacktMarket
🔗 Grab your ticket now! Link in bio.
#FuckupNightsTO taken in stackt by @ryaning.events

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4th Mastermind Dinner was a success! Melissa Ng, CPA flew in from Vancouver and got her landing page ROASTED ️‍🔥

"I got more valuable feedback in 5 mins than I would in some 2 hour meetings"

When you put yourself out there, good things happen

It's all about peer-to-peer learning!

Some new faces

Matt Espinoza ✦, Ryan Kaufman ✦, Jacob Klug, Michael Sousa, Jordan Di Scola

New partners: Faye Pang Nolan Mikowski

See you next month!

p.s. couple spots open for business owners $500K or solopreneurs $200K+ by @ryaning.events

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Clocktower Dramatic Plays of the Night pt. 2
- As Ravenskeeper I discovered the demon! A sneaky play orchestrated by @sousaplex @backpackkat where Kat pretended to accuse Ryan to attract evil attention to activate his Raven 🐦‍⬛
- In game 1 & 2, the good team won!
- @mc_lyadova's shock reaction that her two trusted neighbors were evil!!

Shout outs to @_zachgroves for storytelling both games with 16 and 14 players respectively 🙏

And all 16 players showing up on time, 0 no shows, made my day as an event planner❤️

Sunday afternoons in King West! DM me to get on the next luma taken in King Street West by @ryaning.events

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I got accused of being evil 👿
Plot twist... I was good!! 😉

Since @irisimpact introduced me to this game a month ago. I've been hooked! So much I decided to buy a copy, find an experienced "Storyteller" (game facilitator) and hosted my own game.

To me it's the most "social" game I've ever played, which I really love since it combines my love for both events and games.

Safe to say, I'm turning this into an event series!

DM me if you wanna join the next one!

TY to storytellers Mai & Zach for making it memorable!

#bloodontheclocktower #botc #boardgame taken in King Street West by @ryaning.events

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Founder/Tech events happening THIS WEEK! lu.ma links on toIRL newsletter. by @ryaning.events

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This is the 10th dinner I've done this year and working with Alli Rizacos on this one (and making her the ⭐ star of the show ⭐) we experimented with some new ways to drive even more value for a 16 person intimate event.

- 📊 Survey your attendees about the top problems they'd like to discuss at the dinner, then showcase a pie chart of the data results.

Everyone loves some charts!

- 📺 Do a 5min PowerPoint presentation on the root causes of those problems (free advice, no pitch)

- Offer a free consultation for those who want some help solving that problem - QR Code, people can book right then and there.

- 🎥 Shoot live content / testimonials at the event

100% of people showed up, and on time (every event planners dream lol)

Coaches have such an incredible energy to them - radiating with positivity and always seeing the potential in others. It was an amazing group to gather ✨

Shoutouts to @mav.ss__ for helping us shoot great content!

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💡 Hey I'm Ryan and I help GTM Leaders host private dinners to gather their customer communities. Follow me for tips on event planning!

#events #dinners #bd by @ryaning.events

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A lot of founders are curious about VCs, how to raise & what investors are looking for... 🤔

Founders often have to ask around for referrals, look online, or send out cold emails to get a pitch meeting.

That's why we collaborated with Yoran Beisher and Jules Pichette from @inoviacapital to bring directly together 8 B2B SaaS Founders, and 8 Canadian VCs during

💼 Founders:
Kevin Callahan from Uniblock, Rohan Shah from Classavo, Aaron Wenner from Jurisage Group, Carlos Secada from Zagitas & more from sanoLiving, Aboard, Pallo, & Granularity!

📈 VCs:
Panache Ventures, Brightspark Ventures, Golden Ventures, BDC, Antler, Holdr & more!

💡 I learned that VCs raise in cycles, and they generally have to deploy all their capital within 5 years. Some prefer to lead deals, whereas some prefer to follow-on. At the end of the day, it comes down to finding the VC that has an investment thesis that matches your business. And your business of course has to be of venture scale!

Enjoy the super smooth & jazzy recap shot by 🎥 @mitchell.jaramillo and @holdthesaucefilms

#events #vc #b2b #saas #founders by @ryaning.events

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We brought out dozens of Revenue Operations professionals for Toronto Clay Community Happy Hour during Collision last month to chat everything prospecting automation!

🎥 Shot by @holdthesaucefilms by @mitchell.jaramillo

👉 Pssst if you missed the first one come out for the awesome Show & Tell education event hosted by John Vrancsik and Roshan Kathir ⭐ TOMORROW ⭐!

#tech #events #clay #salestools by @ryaning.events

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Toronto Clay Users! Super excited to be working with Clay to host their Official Community Happy Hour!

Our goal is to bring out 25 of Toronto's most active Clay users and treat them to some food/drink... and maybe some surprise swag!! 🎁👀

✔️ This event is focused on gathering ACTIVE Clay users and experts.

👉 We'll have a future event this Summer focused on NEW USERS who want education on use cases, and the power behind this magical data enrichment tool, powering 100+ GTM teams to customize thousands of emails with AI.

We'll be joined by Roshan Kathir as our resident Clay Expert this event, who can provide advice on taking Clay tables to the next level!

More tech companies ought to be building a presence in Toronto to engage their specific users... we're the 4th largest city in North America after all!

Hosted during Collision Conf week this year, we're going to make a big splash! 🌊

Visit Lu.ma for RSVP Link taken in Toronto, Ontario by @ryaning.events

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Have you ever noticed a wedding planner plans your entire event, EXCEPT for sending out the invites? They plan your event, but don't promote it.

A lot of marketing teams function in the same way. They do the planning and logistics, and rely on the sales team to get RSVPs.

This is a common problem I see time and time again. But it's not their fault.

Events people are good at event planning, but bad at sales outreach.

Salespeople are good at sales outreach, but bad at event planning.

The solution is to get your sales team to create the invitations for the marketing teams, since they tend to be closer to the customer and understand cold email conversions. Now the marketing team is empowered, and can work hand in hand to drive as many RSVPs as possible.

Or even better - have your sales team promote the event BEFORE its even planned. So if no one signs up, your marketing team doesn't even have to plan anything.

A key insight I learned today, chatting with Rob Provenzano who's planned events for speakers like Tony Robbins, and conferences with thousands of people.

Thoughts?

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I'm Ryan, a B2B SaaS Head of Growth specializing in event marketing. Follow me for tips on networking and event planning. by @ryaning.events

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There aren't enough events for people in growth and demand generation...

Growth folks often have to find their way between sales & performance marketing events...

That's why tonight we brought out 10 Growth Leaders across SaaS startups in Toronto. And the discussion was around - what's your best growth channel?

We heard all types of ideas like the awesome billboard from Sarah Klaassen team, use case landing pages from Sheida Mirjahani, generative engine optimization from Mark Simone, Linkedin Influencers from ⚡️Arthur Castillo, product usage triggers from Nick Nguyen and industry conferences Trisha Paguyo & Bhanu Laul!

And of course Victoria Kirk is here getting companies in the headlines, as earned media is golden. Tara Robertson even mentioned youtube ads (how creative)!

And who knew that podcast selling could be such a high conversion sales channel as well?

One thing is for sure, the vibes we're great, and every growth leader NEEDS new ideas and experiments to keep the juices flowing. We'll be back again Thursday June 13th (link in comments)

A big challenge I heard at the dinner table was how to use effectively LinkedIn Ads as a growth channel, so if anyone is an expert in that please DM me! taken in King Street West by @ryaning.events

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⭐ Our Toronto Sales Mixer last night was a hit with over 180 RSVPs! ⭐ A little recap video of the vibes...

💼 Featured Companies In Attendance...
Mentimeter, Resolver, a Kroll Business, Relay, Vidyard, Thinkific, TELUS, Softchoice, Shopify, KUBRA, Docebo, Deel, Alida, 1Password, & more.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Attendee Analytics
2 VPs, 8 Sales Directors, 21 Sales Managers, 100+ IC & Senior ICs

👀 in the video...
Hashim Khan
Zac Blakely, Max Woo 👋
Nick Nguyen Tara Robertson
Rosemarie Burdeos
Cassandra Gentile
Conor Kenny, Saad Khan
Javon Martin
& more!

🙏 Omilia Visuals for the awesome reel!

Thanks to Saad Khan, Women In Sales, and Rev Gen Inc. for helping the put this awesome event together and bringing out your communities!

We'll be back with another event this Summer!

👉 Subscribe to the newsletter to keep in touch for the next one!

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💡 Hey I'm Ryan, a startup sales exec, and event planner. Follow me for tips on building a Customer Event Program that drives enterprise pipeline. by @ryaning.events

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