Yelp has called us three time within a week urging us to complete our Yelp for Business page. Their strategy must be to expand out from food and hospitality reviews to business services, which is perhaps why their stock price is currently $65 and climbing back from its
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
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
Last year we joined the York Technology Alliance. It is an active and well run organisation - thanks to the executive director, Pat Shaw and membership director, Ryan Ellis. The aspect that is most valuable to us are the peer to peer networking events where we
There is no denying that mobile devices have transformed the way we get information and interact. In Canada half of all mobile users now own a smartphone. According to a study commissioned by the CWTA tablet ownership among cell phone users has quadrupled, increasing from
There are few markets as brutally competitive as automobile retailing. There is excess manufacturing capacity with too many retailers selling identical products and fighting over easily aggravated consumers. This is an ideal testing ground for fresh and more disciplined approaches to marketing communications. The president of
Stereotypes are attractively dangerous, so let's start with two. B2C organisations understand the value of branding, positioning, promotions, etc B2B organisations call this "the fluffy stuff". Actually these stereotypes are not always, even often, true. Tehcna Thermoplastic Innovations (formerly Tehcna Manufacturing Inc.) is a B2B injection molding
According to research conducted by mytype, buyers of the Apple iPad are selfish elites and iPad critics are independent geeks. The detailed descriptions can be found here. For some time the Apple iPhone was the only option in the mobile marketing arena. From a marketing perspective
Whether B2C or B2B, companies with strong beliefs in their own rationality will tend to create marketing programs that don’t take the full purchase decision-making process into consideration. Emotional investment is presumed absent.
Last week I gave a presentation to the Canadian Duty Free Association on modern approaches to creating value. The point that I aimed to communicate was that traditional marketing tactics often do not create much long-term value unless they emanate from a brand focus, which