Category Archives: Small Business

Think you can ignore social media?

If you think that your organization can ignore social media, think again. What you need to do is to figure out out how to do social media in a way that helps you achieve your goals and objectives or benefits your organization. That was the message that participants at the @Marketplace Conference in Kitchener heardContinue Reading

My upcoming speaking engagements

Hey there! It’s been a very busy summer and it looks like it’ll continue right into September. This blog has been pretty quiet as a result but I’ll soon be posting here more regularly. But today, I wanted to take a moment to quickly let you know about a couple of my upcoming speaking engagementsContinue Reading

The difference between old school marketing and social media

Putting up a video excerpt from my introduction to social media workshop yesterday, made me think of a video from Best Buy that I used when speaking to some small business owners. What I like most about this video is how it distinguishes traditional marketing techniques that push information out to customers and how socialContinue Reading