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7 of the Biggest Marketing Mistakes Made by Early-Stage Startups
7 of the Biggest Marketing Mistakes Made by Early-Stage Startups
(This article was originally written for Vancouver Startup Week.)
Julianne Keu
Oct 4, 2017
What Nobody Tells You About Entrepreneurship
What Nobody Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Roger Patterson, Founder/CEO of Later and Co-founder of Launch Academy, has worked to positively shape startup culture in Vancouver in his…
Samantha Grandinetti
Dec 21, 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Marketer Reveals the Hidden Side of Marketing Agencies
Freakonomics: A Rogue Marketer Reveals the Hidden Side of Marketing...
The other day, the team and I were shopping around for new office spaces when we met a property manager who seemed particularly curious…
Julianne Keu
Aug 30, 2017
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Now You Can Measure Experiential Marketing.
Now You Can Measure Experiential Marketing.
I met a man last year who had left a comfortable job in lieu of pursuing entrepreneurship. He told me he wanted success more than any of…
Samantha Grandinetti
Oct 17, 2017
How CHIMP Helped Canadian Charities Raise $200 Million in 3 Years
How CHIMP Helped Canadian Charities Raise $200 Million in 3 Years
Canadians are known to be compassionate. In 2010, 84 percent of Canadians aged 15 and over donated to charitable organizations, with the…
Samantha Grandinetti
Oct 4, 2017
How Cubic.ai Makes it Easier than Ever to Build Your Smart Home
How Cubic.ai Makes it Easier than Ever to Build Your Smart Home
Tech companies continually invent new and innovative ways to make consumers lives easier, more convenient and better — but for most of us…
Samantha Grandinetti
Sep 12, 2017
Meet the App that Wants to Plan Your Perfect Trip
Meet the App that Wants to Plan Your Perfect Trip
This week we interviewed Steve Weiner, CEO of Spot, a location-based app and travel blog dedicated to helping users find the best travel…
Samantha Grandinetti
Sep 6, 2017
Needls: What It Is and Why Ad Agencies Should Be Afraid
Needls: What It Is and Why Ad Agencies Should Be Afraid
For the second instalment of our Startup Spotlight Series, I reached out to Justin Hartzman of needls –the world’s first “RoboAgency.”…
Julianne Keu
Aug 30, 2017
3 Lessons on Customer Empathy: A Recap of Unbounce’s Call to Action Conference
3 Lessons on Customer Empathy: A Recap of Unbounce’s Call to Action...
When you base much of your marketing decisions on cold, hard, data, it can be easy to lump your potential customers into a metric, and…
Samantha Grandinetti
Aug 30, 2017
How to Get the Best Possible Return on Facebook Ads
How to Get the Best Possible Return on Facebook Ads
Remember the ALS Ice Bucket challenge of 2014? Remember how everyone’s friends, boss, even grandmothers seemed to be part of the craze to…
Samantha Grandinetti
Aug 30, 2017
3 Key Takeaways from Traction Conference 2017
3 Key Takeaways from Traction Conference 2017
Two days, twelve cups of coffee, sixty-eight tweets, six phone charges, and seven pages of notes later, we’ve wrapped up our time at the…
Samantha Grandinetti
Aug 30, 2017
This Is What Real Disruption Looks Like (a Must-Read for Startups)
This Is What Real Disruption Looks Like (a Must-Read for Startups)
These days, we’ve come to think of the term “disruption” as somewhat cliché. But it was not long ago that “disruption” referred to…
Julianne Keu
Aug 30, 2017
How a Startup Called Oppimi Is Changing the Way We Diagnose Learning Disabilities
How a Startup Called Oppimi Is Changing the Way We Diagnose Learnin...
This is the inaugural post of our Startup Spotlight Series. Each week, we will be featuring a different company working to solve real-world…
Julianne Keu
Aug 30, 2017
5 Indispensable Principles of Landing Page Design
5 Indispensable Principles of Landing Page Design
As a marketer, landing page makeovers were one of my favorite things to do. There was nothing more satisfying than overhauling the product…
The Incubator
Nov 18, 2016
Why You Shouldn’t Get a $5 Logo
Why You Shouldn’t Get a $5 Logo
Why would you pay hundreds of dollars for a professionally designed logo when you can get one on Fiverr for less than $20? What could a…
The Incubator
Nov 18, 2016
5 Tips to Instantly Make Your Videos Better
5 Tips to Instantly Make Your Videos Better
Whether you are an actor, a vlogger, or just getting ready to star in your first marketing video, there are several things you can do…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
How to Make Negative Online Comments/Reviews Work for You
How to Make Negative Online Comments/Reviews Work for You
“I had a terrible experience here and would urge anyone reading this not to waste their time!”
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
4 Reasons Design in Marketing Matters More Than You Think
4 Reasons Design in Marketing Matters More Than You Think
When it comes to marketing your business, do you pay enough attention to design and user experience? Our UX specialist, Alborz Heydaryan…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
Instagram Stories is a Game Changer for Brands: Here’s Why
Instagram Stories is a Game Changer for Brands: Here’s Why
When Snapchat came on the scene three some odd years ago, it had marketers stumped. What started as an ephemeral photo-sharing app quickly…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
What to Look for in a Marketing Agency
What to Look for in a Marketing Agency
Once upon a time, Nike wasn’t the leader in the U.S. market for athletic footwear. In the 1980’s, Nike was trailing behind Reebok, with the…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
Why I Rebranded my Company 4 months After Launching It
Why I Rebranded my Company 4 months After Launching It
Four months ago, I opened the doors to Creative Quo, a boutique marketing agency with a vision of making professional marketing services…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
Hiring for Startups: 3 Principles You Can’t Afford to Compromise
Hiring for Startups: 3 Principles You Can’t Afford to Compromise
Getting a business started is stressful enough. Throw in some humans with ideas, needs, and emotions, and soon you might just be a…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
What You Should and Shouldn’t Automate on Social Media
What You Should and Shouldn’t Automate on Social Media
How can well-established brands like Oreo and even the New England Patriots make mistakes like accidentally tweeting racial slurs for their…
The Incubator
Sep 13, 2016
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