Professional associations of all sorts used to be small monopolies providing networking and the single best resource for everyone in their field. No more. Increasingly they are challenging to sustain and membership levels are declining because similar services can be found on LinkedIn groups or Facebook
Our client, Ice River Springs, has been recognized in the DuPont Awards for packaging innovation in the Responsible Packaging category. Most food and beverage manufacturing companies generate packaging and at the same time make broad claims about being environmentally responsible; claims that are motivated more by the need to reduce energy expenditures
Nick Rockel, a freelance writer for the Globe & Mail asked me to comment on the challenge facing Mikuni Wild Harvest. Here is the article: Formerly for chefs only, soon on store shelves . The article reveals a notable divergence in approach between two of the contributors. Lynn
Business owners and CEOs gathered for some breakfast at the Beakbane office. On the menu, coffee, understanding how marketing is changing, how to benefit from marketing & sales integration and a clear way to understand how to organize marketing to build business and maximize ROI. http://youtu.be/CCOjGOnnG_o http://youtu.be/glbhvjhHnXs
Where are Canadian information and communication technology (ICT) companies headed? The same place as Nortel, Mitel, JDS, Alias, Corel, Softimage, Platform and ATI? All these companies were at one time world leaders in their segments – and Canadian. They have all disappeared or been swallowed
If you own a boat and want to know where you are going Fugawi Marine 5 is the software you need – it makes navigation simple. Fugawi is a Toronto based digital mapping company whom we started working with prior to the 2001 dot-com crash. They
A few years ago companies could get by with a static website, that is, one that housed the same information from day to day. That approach no longer works. Site visitors expect up-to-date news and as we explained in an earlier post, Google preferentially indexes
Ideeli is the fastest growing company on the list of Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing U.S. companies. How are Ideeli and the rest of these rapidly growing companies succeeding? Certainly not by investing heavily in traditional approaches. The changing techniques can be seen in
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS). It has grown from a simple CMS known as b2/cafelog in 2003 to the most widely used CMS on the Internet. As of January 7, 2012, 62.38% of the web's top million websites