Kekkou Desu Mr. Roboto - The Perils Of Content Automation
One of the goals of any social media/communications strategy is to actively and rapidly engage with your customer base when they reach out to you. But…
Off Target: Lessons in Knowing Your Market
Lessons one through 131: know your market. I'm sure you've been inundated with Target-related news and analysis. Everyone and their uncle is champing…
Is a Bird in the Hand Worth Burning the Bush? The Real Cost of Aggressive Communication
So... remember this experiment? Where I tilted at the virtual windmill that is The Quick-Fix, Snake-Oil-Salesman Approach to Creating Content? Well…
The Art of the Interview - Drawing Out the Right Answers
Whether it's for a news article or a corporate discovery, success comes from getting the right answers. Not necessarily the easy answers, the expected…
Promoting Understanding, Not Fear, Is key to Accessibility Awareness
In the world of disability awareness campaigns, the end don't always justify the means. The latest disability faux pas arrived in the form of a…
The 3 Stages of Customer Personalization & Their Tactics
According to Deloitte’s 2022 study, brands that prioritized personalization were nearly two times as likely to have exceeded their revenue goals in…
Performance Branding: What It Is and How to Get it Right.
Gone are the days of laborious decision-making to determine where to focus ad spend. Finding the balance between direct response (DR) sales activation…
How Can I Get My Web Project Back On Track?
The old adage states prepare for the worst, but hope for the best. Far too often we don’t actually truly take the potential for “the worst” actually…
Street Hockey Champions!
From heat exhaustion in 2009 to Play On! champions in 2010 – The Echidna Team wins first place in the Corporate Division at CBC’s Hockey Night in…