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See where your brand is going.

Your customers are changing. Increasingly they work online, play online, socialize online, research their purchases online and pick vendors online. They are more impulsive and decisions are made in fractions of a second. How can you best take advantage of the new tactics for building your

Streamline your selling with iPads

Do you still print brochures? Does your salesforce fumble with binders full of information sheets? We can help you make the switch to using iPads and other mobile devices for lead management, sales presentations and product information. The benefits are numerous and include higher salesforce productivity and

Sheridan billboards – building a brand from the inside out

Sheridan College’s new outdoor campaign has been launched in Oakville, Mississauga and Brampton. The billboards in a visual manner communicate Sheridan’s brand focus, which is that students will learn how to work creatively and collaboratively combining artistic skills with technological skills to get a job,

For Google fresher is tastier

On November 3rd, 2011 Google updated their search algorithm, referring to it as the "Freshness Update". In their own words, "Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh. Even if you don’t

Season’s greetings

Here we are getting into a festive spirit, doing our part for the environment and helping make up for our country's abandonment of the Kyoto protocol by not murdering a tree. Here are a few of our Christmas greeting messages from years gone by.

A magical open house

We welcomed friends and clients to our open house to celebrate the season. Dave Grosfield, a big-hearted member of the Beakbane team in the 1990s, returned to entertain us as the professional magician – "Baldini". His personality is as big as ever – but with

He changed business culture

Six years I wrote a booklet called How to Build Sustainable Value. It attempted to bridge the divide between the mindset of strategists and the mindset of creatives. At the time you either felt like you were a supporter of business school logic and "metrics" or

Get ready to connect in multi-dimensions

The internet is about to transform the way we see and interact with the world in ways we could only have dreamed about a few years ago. The existence of social networking sites and the amount of data collected from them allows programmers to make rich

Marketography: Why marketers need to innovate

Here is a goofy animation that we created six years ago that uses the metaphor of "sink holes", which are geological features, to illustrate how marketing techniques become progressively shaky over time – hence the necessity to constantly innovate. If we were going to make

Beakbane Field Trip: David Hockney’s iPad exhibit at the ROM

Hockney's Ipad art is currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.  The gallery contains art created between 2009 and 2011 in Denmark and Paris using, for the most part, the Brushes Ipad app. The Beakbane team took a little field trip to see how David Hockney