The Canadian government's current program to help cover marketing expenses targeting export activities is a major opportunity for organizations looking to expand their market across the border. It covers a wide array of areas including specific marketing, legal, business, and tax matters. Most importantly you could have the government fund up to 75% of eligible expenses, but only if you have it [...]

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April 2020 and we are living in crazy times. Locked away in our homes, many of us not able to work. So what will the future of Small Business look like when we emerge from our COVID-19 internment. Brent Kobayashi of Kobayashi + Zeitguys interviews Neville Pokroy, President of Mastermind Solutions, and together they muse about what the world of business and marketing during and after the [...]

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Welcome to the best business growth book Video endorsement of the book by a New York Times Top 10 Best Selling Author. Welcome to the start of an explosive future for you and your business. Welcome to Big Bang for Business. With this book, you will find out how a simple adjustment in your approach to Marketing and Business Growth can lead to a Big Bang for your Business. Best [...]

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Our goal at Mastermind is not to sell a specific product or service. It is, in fact, to create happy and content clients who, with our help, achieve their goals. What this means is that we don't blindly do what clients ask us to do. We question and challenge what may have been seen by the client as the only way to move forward, and by doing that we help clients become true leaders in their [...]

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There was a time that businesses could operate successfully on a whim.  Without data or knowledge.  Just put out a product or service and people will buy.  No strategy. No plan. No understanding of what was happening around them.  Ohhh, those were the days.... Or were they? Those days feel so long ago that most of us old enough have already forgotten about them.  And the younger generation[...]

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Conversely, what good is the balloon without hot air? It’s a lot like your people if they can’t or won’t implement an organization’s strategy? A business will not maximize its value if it doesn’t have a meaningful strategy and the right people organized to execute it. Planning to sell your business? Most owners want to believe that they are getting the most out of their business; [...]

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Digital Complexity continues to grow at an exhausting pace Marketing Technology Landscape 2017 (click on the image to view the high resolution version) As you can see from the above, the digital marketing landscape is very complex and continues to evolve rapidly. Not only do products evolve in existing categories, but new categories are coming on track faster than we as humans are able to [...]

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I was doing some research recently on why companies fail, as well as why companies don't grow.  It struck me after reading a number of opinions and viewpoints that there were indeed some common themes between these two situations.  While that did not surprise me, the common themes were quite striking, as was the one factor that applied to non-growing companies only. Success and failure have [...]

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Canada EU CETA It was 4 years in the making, and the timing of the signing of the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in the light of the protectionist approach being promoted by the new Donald Trump administration should not be overlooked.  The timing for business expansion into new markets may be just right for you. Yes, the USA is Canada’s [...]

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Tom Dalton (not his real name) ran a very successful distribution business.  He had been in business for 42 years and the business had been successful for a long time.  He has seen the ebbs and flows of the economic roller coaster, so it is not new to him.  For the last two years, business had been expanding quite aggressively, albeit with only two customers.  Both these customers were [...]

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