

Marketing News Canada
Marketing News Canada
Marketing News Canada spotlights the people, ideas, and innovations redefining Canadian marketing. Produced by SocialNext, Canada’s largest independent marketing conference series, we bring you candid conversations with marketers, founders, creators, and industry leaders shaping the future of the industry.
Recorded live at SocialNext events and through in-depth interviews from coast to coast, each episode dives into the ideas, bold campaigns, and community-driven strategies defining the Canadian marketing landscape. If you care about Canadian creativity, innovation, and the people behind the work, you’re in the right place.
Presented by Marketing News Canada www.marketingnewscanada.com
Recorded live at SocialNext events and through in-depth interviews from coast to coast, each episode dives into the ideas, bold campaigns, and community-driven strategies defining the Canadian marketing landscape. If you care about Canadian creativity, innovation, and the people behind the work, you’re in the right place.
Presented by Marketing News Canada www.marketingnewscanada.com
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May 29, 2017 • 26min
How Being Consistent Leads to Social Media Marketing Success
Meet Jody King - Jody is the latest addition to Jelly’s social media team! She loves bringing brands and clients together. As a Social Media Coordinator, she gets to help build these dynamic relationships online. She’ll also be supporting Jelly's Digital Ads and PR teams.
Interview Highlights:
From Kindergarten teacher to marketing - Jody's somewhat unusual path to marketing.
The skills gap and missing pieces that Jody had to learn to make the switch to marketing.
Hubspot Marketing Inbound Marketing Certification
Jody's role at Jelly Digital Marketing
How consistency makes a huge difference to your marketing.
Consistently post. Have consistent look and feel...
Stay curious - consider your campaigns to be like developing a scientific hypotheses
Make sure you look at your social analytics - post when your users are online. Look at demographics and the geography. Use geography to build your audience.
See more at jellymarketing.com/blog
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Apr 25, 2017 • 35min
The Campaign to Change The Way We Buy Groceries
In this episode we speak with Vancouver entrepreneur Michael Menashy who has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Community Grocer.
Thank you to our sponsor Canada Post: https://www.canadapost.ca
For more see http://jellymarketing.com/blog
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Apr 19, 2017 • 15min
Change in the Making Conference Podcast - Part 2
Hundreds of business owners and marketing professionals attended the Change in the Making Conference 2017. Some of the biggest brand names in marketing presented and shared the latest tips in marketing.
This recording is a mash up with all of the great presenters at the event. We asked each one for a marketing tip or event take away that they would want people to remember after the event.
Here's a list of all of the incredible speakers that joined us for part 2 of this podcast:
Scott Benzie - Banff World Media Festival
Fawn Mulcahy - RBC
Pamela Saunders - Microsoft
Jaclyn Cummings - Vega
Paula Skaper - Kinetix Digital
Nick Routley - Popcorn
Miles Sellyn - Drive Digital
Michelle Slater - Twitter
Mike Reeves - AOL
Karm Sumal - Daily Hive
Lindsay Stewart - Buzzfeed
Thanks to our sponsor Canada Post. See canadapost.ca
Megan Tanner - Google
Jon Malach - Native Ads
Britney Muller - Moz
Bilal Jaffery - Deloitte Digital
John Ounpuu - Modern Craft
Lindsay Slaby - Sunday Dinner
Ealeen Wong - Proctor and Gamble
Matthew Luhn - Pixar
For Part 1 of the Change in the Making Conference -http://bit.ly/2oszzmM
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Apr 13, 2017 • 20min
Change In The Making Conference Podcast
Hundreds of business owners and marketing professionals attended the Change in the Making Conference 2017. Some of the biggest brand names in marketing presented and shared the latest tips in marketing.
This recording is a mash up with all of the great presenters at the event. We asked each one for a marketing tip or event take away that they would want people to remember after the event.
Here's a list of all of the incredible speakers that joined us for part 1 of this podcast:
Ted Graham - GM
Jennifer Campbell - Canada Post
Nick Lopez - VISA
Liz Couto - Shopify
Michelle Tampoya - Interac
Debra Henry - IBM
Katelyn Crawford - The Rec Room – Cineplex Entertainment Ltd.
Thanks to our sponsor Canada Post. See http://canadapost.ca
Caroline Carter - CSuite Content
Joe Martin - Adobe
Don Burks - Lighthouse Labs
Cameron Uganec - Hootsuite
Avery Swartz - Camp Tech
Lisa McCann - RED Academy
Stefanie Grieser - Unbounce
Luke Aulin - RTOWN
Stéphane Bérubé - L'Oreal Canada
Tune in next week for part two of this CIMC 2017 mash up podcast.
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Nov 28, 2016 • 25min
Online Marketing Strategist and YouTube Star - Sunny Lenarduzzi
Sunny Lenarduzzi
Sunny is an Award Winning Social Media Strategist specializing in Video Marketing. Broadcaster turned YouTuber and speaker. She has had incredible success in the online marketing world including being involved in one of the biggest streaming advertising campaigns in history.
In this episode...
- How Sunny went from journalism to online marketing
- How Sunny grew her YouTube channel to 60,000 subscribers and 4 million views
- What Sunny's decision to become an entrepreneur was like
- How Sunny got over 1 billion impressions for her Applebee's campaign - The biggest live streaming campaign in the history
- How to grow a YouTube channel - If you want to grow an audience fast start with educational content - post how to content, tutorials, and reviews
- The power of building a team and outsourcing things
- How to create a Snapchat marketing campaign - tell a story with a beginning, middle and end
For more see http://jellymarketing.com/blog
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Nov 15, 2016 • 32min
Four Reasons to Blog with Dan R Morris from Blogging Concentrated
Guest: Dan R. Morris
As an expert in the digital media industry, Dan actively study the trends, advances and everything new in tech, social media and content marketing. He delivers that information weekly through the Amplify Podcast, recently ranked the 27th best podcast out there.
Through live events, consulting, a forum and a membership platform, Dan helps bloggers and businesses understand the science of online success. Whether it is ad revenue, products, joint ventures, sponsored posts or something more interesting, Dan teaches bloggers how to create the environment for sales.
In this episode we discuss...
Dan's early days of corporate blogging.
The path from corporate blogger to starting Blogging Concentrated
Four reasons to start a company blog for your company:
1_ Blog articles act as a filter and help get the right kind of traffic to your website.
2_ Blogs position your company as the expert both by what you say and what others have to say about your company
3_ Blog articles have a lasting impact
4_ Blog articles can really help with search and creating traffic for your website
Comments on blogs - what's the latest?
Mobile is taking over. Think about how your website looks compared to mobile apps.
For more see jellymarketing.com/blog/podcast
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Nov 7, 2016 • 31min
How to Increase YouTube Views with Video Marketing Expert Marlon Doll
Guest: Marlon Doll
Marlon Doll is a Vancouver-based entertainment producer and digital marketer with 7 years experience on YouTube. He’s a YouTube Certified Consultant in Audience Development and Digital Rights. He currently works at the World’s largest multi-platform network BroadbandTV as the music content manager, consulting and managing some of the World’s largest music channels and their content.
Marlon also works independently with brands to help them reach their customers through his video marketing company Vireo Video, with a focus on sustainable food and health brands.
Marlon produces and hosts a cooking show called ‘Bachelor on a Budget’ that teaches people how to create cheap, healthy, and tasty meals. Just over a year in, he’s built the channel to over 70 videos, 8000 Subscribers, and 500,000 views through organic growth, been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network, on the Dr. Oz Show, and produced the series on a minimal budget.
In this episode we discuss...
Marlon's career path
Marlins are all at broadband TV and a description of what they do
BroadbandTV's two main services - 1_ Monetizing user generated content for brands, 2_ Helping individual creators grow their audience
How the idea for the Bachelor on a Budget YouTube channel developed
How Marlon ended up in the food genre
The growth of Bachelor on a Budget
Tips for improving your video's reach - Make sure you optimize your video with relevant keywords and tags, It's all about audience retention and watch time, Optimize your title and description, Share the video on credible sources like Facebook and other social platforms and Reddit, Also use paid ads, Provide value and then get people into a funnel
Marlon's answers to our lightning round questions including what he likes to spread on his toast
For links and other information about this podcast see jellymarketing.com/blog/podcast
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Oct 31, 2016 • 26min
Speaking of web design... How to do it Better with Shawn Johnston from Forge and Smith
Shawn Johnston
Shawn is the Founder and Principal at Forge and Smith. He is an 18 year survivor of the design industry a father of two, a wannabe ninja and a burgeoning guitar god. He has always focused on creating simple and easy-to-use interfaces grounded in sound structure and focused strategy. He loves working with people who feel the same way about the importance of details and share my conviction for follow through and integrity.
In this interview we discuss...
- The development of the Forge and Smith brand and how Shawn might be the original hipster
- Shawn's career path to business ownership
- How Shawn married his love of design and building into website development
- What it means to be a 20 year survivor of the web development industry
- Enjoying the sales process and staying involved in the design process at the same time
- The improving web development world
- The importance of paying attention to your users and how they interact with your content
- 2 things that Shawn considers to be good web design
- The petri dish - the Forge in Smith website
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Oct 24, 2016 • 30min
How to Create Content that Converts with Dan Levy from Unbounce
Our guest Dan Levy is from Unbounce where is the Content Director and responsible for defining and implementing Unbounce’s company-wide content strategy and mentoring their industry-leading content team.
In this episode...
- Unbounce and what they do
- Expansion and beyond landing pages coming soon to Unbounce
- Behind the scenes and creating content for Unbounce
- Educating your audience and making a market for the tool that you are building
- The evolution and importance of landing pages
- Quoting Dan's former boss "Content without strategy is just stuff"
- Creating content at every level of your marketing that converts
- Tip: give people an opportunity within your content to click and learn more.
- Newsjacking
- The importance and power of slowing things down
For more see jellymarketing.com/blog/podcast
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Oct 20, 2016 • 27min
Telling Better Stories with Nicolle Hodges
Nicolle Hodges
Nicolle is a multi-talented writer and television host who brings her media-savvy eye to the team at Jelly. She is unwavering in her mission to connect people and brands through effective storytelling and social media. In her spare time, Nicolle is attempting to become a Scrabble champion and read the equivalent of her height in books (again). She releases any leftover energy through kickboxing.
During this episode we discuss...
Nicole's career path to Jelly Marketing including a stint at Entertainment Tonight Canada
Being mentored by George Stroumboulopoulos
Taking journalism at BC IT
The experience working at jelly marketing
The keys to creating a well thought out story
Inspiration and humour
Link to Time Machine discovered in Surrey trampoline park
A few things to think about it when you put a press release together
Starting an art camp for Syrian refugee children in Greece
For more see jellymarketing.com/blog/podcast
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