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  • Artificial Intelligence, Content Marketing, Marketing

34 best AI marketing tools I’m using to drive growth & results in 2026

Everyone is using AI tools. Okay, almost everyone. According to a study conducted by my team at Foundation, more than 84% of marketers say they use AI in their workplace on a day-to-day basis. But despite the proliferation of hundreds...

  • Life

My 2025 Annual Review: When the Work Started to Lift

I’ve always believed momentum is earned. You don’t get it from one lucky break or one viral moment. You get it from showing up. Quietly… When nobody’s clapping. You get it from doing the reps when there’s no guarantee they’ll...

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  • Social Media

Facebook SEO: The Only (and shortest) Guide You Need

Facebook Search Optimization: Two Levels Google is still the king of Search; this hasn’t changed and won’t be changing anytime soon. YouTube is number two but when it comes to Facebook users are becoming more and more accustomed to using...

  • Entrepreneurship, Just Business

How to Deliver a Successful Workshop with 5 Proven Tactics

People want less lecturers putting them to sleep and more quality presenters keeping them entertained and educated. A captvating storyteller can truly be the key difference between an audience that goes to sleep during a workshop and one that wants...

  • Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Startups

11 Things I’ve Learned in the first 9000 Days of My Life

It’s official. I’ve been alive for 9,000 days. That’s 24 birthdays, more than a hundred handshakes, a thousand hugs, a handful of kisses, a few deaths, a couple births, four graduations, friends made and friends lost – decisions made and...

  • Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Just Business

Cheaters always Win and Winners always Cheat

I’m a competitive person. I play to win no matter what the game is. No matter if were playing a game of scrabble or a game of dodgeball; I play to win. And while its often a fault of mine...

  • Inspiration

The Search for Happiness Optimization

What would you buy if I gave you $200,000 to spend before the end of the week? Would you buy a brand new BMW? Maybe upgrade your living quarters from an apartment to a condo? Would you buy a brand...

  • Entrepreneurship, Just Business, Marketing, Social Media

Six Reasons Why You Can’t Make Your Facebook Marketing Work

Do you know what separates the great digital marketers from the rest? Many believe it’s the ability to recognize new trends and identify the next big thing. I think it’s the ability to capitalize on what’s in front of us...

  • Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Startups

Why Pinterest Will Rule The Web in 2012

Last year the digital pin-board site launched attracting millions of users to end 2011 as one of the Top 10 most visited sites online. While many marketers and digital natives looked at Google+ as the next-big thing for 2012, I’m...

  • Just Business, Leadership, Marketing, Young Professionals

5 Great Insights to Keep in Mind When Targetting Generation Y

Baby Boomers have been the most attractive market as consumers for the last 20 years. Their over consumption and excessive disposable income has made them a marketer and business owners dream. Sadly though, the times of Baby Boomers being the...

  • Inspiration, Young Professionals

Embrace Optimism – A Lesson We Can Learn from Jack Layton…

In this post I write not about advertising, marketing, business or social media. Instead I would like to dedicate this post to the former leader of the NDP party – Jack Layton. A noble and sincere Canadian whose life was...