After years of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, it’s time to step up and figure out what we can and can’t do with email, social and mobile interactions, now that Bill C-28 is on our doorsteps. Also known as Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation or CASL, this bundle of joy comes into effect on July 1st. […]
Ten Things to Make You Less Sad About Q4
Has it started where you are? Are your pretty marketing planters all dug up by frantic Sales Squirrels trying to remember where they left their nuts? Are the Keebler Elves laying a trapline in the forest? Has the Productivity Prevention Department declared its code freeze yet (that’s the memo you didn’t really understand because they […]
Why I Won’t Endorse You on LinkedIn
Oh, goody. My LinkedIn connection, Diana, just endorsed my skills in marketing strategy. Yesterday Sylvie gave me a thumbs-up on my team-building expertise, and last week Martin endorsed me as the corporate communications guru I imagine myself to be. Self-esteem is running high, which means self-doubt can’t be far away. And here it comes: Diana […]
Ten Festive Links for Tired B2B Marketers
When There’s No Seat at the Grown-up Table Many marketers spend years in the asteroid belt around their Corporate mother-ships, never getting to play with the master brand. Yet they’re routinely charged with figuring out value propositions for cans of compressed air, software that helps other software manage software or industrial thickeners. If this is […]
Nine Visuals Your B2B Website Really Doesn't Need
All together now: “Content is goooooood.Visual content is gooooooder.” Great got it. Lots of content is essential for B2B marketing efforts (we kind of all knew that even before it was cool to know that, didn’t we?). And I’m willing to concede that in a post-literate world full of distracted Gen Y’s, we need to […]
