Marketing, Communications & Events Specialists

What We Do

Emily Martin Communications & Events is a marketing, communications and Bay Area Event Planning firm specializing in digital marketing, branding, social media services, luxury event planning, and influencer marketing. Based in Sonoma County & San Francisco, our clientele is diversified from the East to West Coast with the unified goal of creating your very best brand.

Our Services to Build & Expand Your Brand

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About Emily Martin

INFLUENCER MARKETING & STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Event Planning: Virtual EVENTS & IN PERSON

With 14 years experience curating and publishing The JetSetting Fashionista, a luxury lifestyle blog, and collaborating with brands such as The Four Seasons, St. Regis Hotels, Virgin Atlantic, The Ritz Carlton, Lexus, Audi, Ruinart Champagne, Veuve Clicquot, Krug Champagne, Dom Perignon, Roederer Estate, Jackson Family Wines, J onathan Adler, & Rebecca Minkoff Emily has the refined perspective that is essential to understanding influencer, blogger and media relations on both the brand and the influencer side.

Emily and her team will collaborate with your brand to create a unique digital marketing strategy that connects local lifestyle, travel, food, wine and fashion influencers, bloggers, and media with your brand at a hosted and specially curated event. Whether it’s a media event, influencer event, or blogger event, every EME event has a tailored strategy that’s designed specifically for your brand with a social media reach of 350K+ impressions. This results in increased brand awareness, new customers, an increase in your social media following, and measurable digital media coverage for your event.

Our luxury events in San Francisco and California's wine country include, but are not limited to, new restaurant openings, weekend getaways in Wine Country, wine tastings, brewery tastings, and winemaker dinners. Past events have taken place at highly acclaimed venues such as: The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, The Battery, Wing & Barrel Ranch, The Riddler, The Matheson & Valette Restaurant Healdsburg, State Bird Provisions and flour + water.

Emily Martin Events (EME) has partnered with brands such as Charlie Palmer's Restaurant Group, The Culinary Institute of America, Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience, The Russian River Winegrowers, Napa Valley Vintners, & more.

Winery clients have included CIRQ Estate, Ruinart, Roederer Estate, Three Sticks Wines, Gary Farrell Wines, Williams Selyem, Lynmar Estate, La Crema Wines, Siduri Wines, Banshee Wines, Reeve Wines & more!

We look forward to partnering with you on planning and executing a luxurious event together.

FOUNDER EMILY MARTIN

With a true love of food and wine and a commitment to pursuing mastery, Emily has a distinctive voice and palate that sets her apart. Since 2009, she has curated the Lifestyle blog, The JetSetting Fashionista, where she writes about restaurants and wineries in the Bay Area and around the world, and interviews some of the industry’s most talented chefs and winemakers. Fueled by curiosity and a passion for learning, Emily’s hunger to explore the ever-expanding food, wine, and hospitality industry never wanes and she loves partnering with clients on Bay Area Luxury Events and Digital Marketing & Social Media Services.

Emily’s career began in retail with her first job at The Gap. As a longtime lover of fashion and travel, she spent a semester studying abroad in London followed by a summer working in the Barney’s New York buying office. After falling in love with fashion and the big city, Emily moved to New York City to begin what would become a 13-year career in Luxury Retail. She held positions at Bloomingdale’s, Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton, and concluded her retail tenure at Gap Inc. in San Francisco. During this time she obtained an MBA in Finance and with an Entrepreneurial Minor from Fordham University.

In 2014 Emily decided to pursue her passion for food, wine, events and hospitality—pivoting from the corporate world to start Emily Martin Communications & Events. She also relaunched The JetSetting Fashionista—providing a true tastemaker’s perspective on where to eat, drink and travel—and began writing for San Francisco digital publications including 7x7 and Racked SF. Discover Emily’s voice and complete writing portfolio here.

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OUR TEAM:

BIANCA ZERMENO: Digital Marketing & Communications Associate

Bianca is from Los Angeles, California, and has been a member of Emily Martin Communications & Events since the Summer of 2020. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Global Media Marketing from Whittier College and will be receiving her Master’s in Business Administration this Spring from California State University Long Beach.

Bianca’s responsibilities include: managing social media content for various brands, spearheading the majority of blog posts for The JetSetting Fashionista, and working on any other digital marketing-related projects for both brands.

BROOKE MCADAM: Digital Marketing & Communications Associate

Brooke, a Bay Area native, is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Strategic Communications, complemented by a minor in Communications and an additional minor in Data Science. During her time at CU Boulder, Brooke served as a student ambassador and dean’s scholar. With a background in hospitality, Brooke has developed a passion for food, wine, and creating meaningful connections. Brooke manages multiple brand’s social media channels, creating strategic content for all social media channels. In addition to social media Brooke is a contributor to The JetSetting Fashionista blog and social media content as well. With extensive skills writing for various brand styles whether wineries, real estate or landscaping Brooke is an extremely skilled writer with an eye for detail and extremely flexible as a team member leaning in wherever she is needed.