Picking Up Speed
The State of Digital Maturity The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship’s newly released report, Picking up Speed: Digital Maturity in Canadian SMEs and Why Increasing it Matters, was created in partnership with the Toronto Region Board of Trade, Scale-Up Institute – Toronto, and with support from Xero, a cloud-based …
When Membership Has No Privileges
By Peter Cantelon If you are part of a member-based, board-run organization (like a not-for-profit) and you struggle to get enough members to even fill your board then you need to ask whether your organization should continue to exist. The traditional structure of a not-for-profit is as follows: members are …
Ten Reasons Why Geodemography is More Relevant Than Ever
By Evan Wood In May 2011, DM Magazine featured a Q&A with Jan Kestle, the founder and president of Environics Analytics. The topic was geodemography and how this marketing science which had been around for 40 years continued to be relevant in an era of big data, rapid digital transformation …
The State of Martech: An Interview with Scott Brinker, VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot and Editor of Chiefmartec.com
By Stephen Shaw When the era of Big Data began in earnest a decade or so ago, marketing automation was suddenly seen by most businesses as indispensable. Gartner even predicted at the time that CMOs would eventually outspend CIOs on technology. And sure enough, technology now accounts for the biggest …
Taking Content to New Heights with Drones
Staff With the increasing demand for engaging content, there’s a company in Toronto called Door 24 which is helping Canadian businesses tell their stories from new heights. Through collaboration with City Hova Inc, a group of seasoned aviation professions with more than 80 combined years of experience in aviation, Door …
What Video Marketers Need to Know About Media’s New Currency
By Hank Frecon It’s estimated that digital advertising grew 12 percent over the last year, as many people were at home more during the pandemic. With billions being spent on trying to reach people as they watch videos, it only makes sense that marketers turn to new technology to advance …
10 Actions for Successful Transition to a (new) Leadership Role
By Angela Civitella Seeking the role of leader, no matter how large your team or whether you are starting a new job in a new firm or being promoted from within, is a challenging situation in the best of times. After all, no matter how you look at it from …
Ten Tips for Tackling Negative Customer Reviews
By Jay Hinman Ask any marketer today how he or she feels about customer complaints and there’s a good chance you’ll hear, “They’re never fun,” “They’re part of the job,” “There’s just so many of them,” or even, “We can’t make everyone happy.” Feedback that customer support and operations teams …
Always a Point
Whenever humans communicate there is always a reason, or point. Often the point is unconscious. (Part 3) By Tom Beakbane Educators, in order to make different subjects easier to teach, demarcate ideas in various ways. There are demarcations between disciplines, and ideas placed in the textbooks of different disciplines are …
The Moment of Payment is a Marketing Imperative
By Jason Cottrell After over a year of not touching anything — door knobs, items on a store shelf, other people — it’s perhaps no surprise that Amazon is trialing a new, contactless payment method that requires nothing more than the swipe of a hand in front of a sensor. …