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  • Entrepreneurship

Why Canadians Need To Love Fall In Love With Capitalism

Canada is losing its entrepreneurial soul. The country has 100,000 fewer entrepreneurs than two decades ago despite adding 10 million people, its provinces rank below all 50 U.S. states on economic freedom, and the middle class is drowning in record...

  • Reddit Marketing

How Reddit Became the Dark Funnel for Enterprise Software

The enterprise software deal your team just lost? There’s a good chance the winning vendor was chosen in a Reddit thread six months ago. Nothing in your Salesforce instance recorded it. Your attribution model didn’t flag it. Your SDRs never...

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  • Social Media

Self Promotion: How to effectively promote yourself without looking like a shmuck

Ten years ago the web was a completely different world. The landscape included only one or two vlogs and an extremely small group of individuals discussing marketing and strategy. Today, we have at our disposal thousands of podcasts, millions of...

  • Inspiration, Just Business

The New ABC – Always Be Connecting

One of the worst things you can teach someone using social media is the original concept of ABC. Always Be Closing. While its a great concept when you’re working at a call center or as a hotshot in the boiler-room....

  • Uncategorized

Blog goes down and I got a new job

So a few weeks ago my blog was attacked by a nasty little critter called a virus. I’m not quite sure how I got it – But since then, the virus has been removed and the Cool Perspective is back...

  • Just Business, Leadership

What Mothers Can Teach You About Business

With Mothers day coming around the corner I thought it would only be appropriate to dedicate this post to my Mom (Hi Mom) and all the other moms, mommas, mommies and mas out there. Over the past couple decades my...

  • Inspiration, Marketing, Social Media

Stella Artois uses Facebook Connect to Blow Your Freakin’ Mind

Have you ever heard of the playboy, actor, film producer and charmer Jacques D’azur? If so, don’t be caught off guard when I tell you he isn’t actually real. He’s the main character in Stella Artois and The Cannes Film...

  • Inspiration, Just Business, Social Media

The secret to having influential bloggers to write about your business?

Companies are spending thousands of dollars to get bloggers to review their products and services on their websites. The idea of blogger outreach has become a heavily discussed tactic in digital and social media marketing. Some companies have based their...

  • Inspiration, Marketing

Everyone’s doing it…

If you haven’t heard of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare you are way too cool for this blog. It has been one of the most talked about video games since Mario Kart 64. And if you’ve never heard of that...

  • Marketing, Social Media, Uncategorized

Five Years from Now…

I was creeping through Seth Godins archives this past week and stumbled upon a post that made me think. It made me think about the future and how fast things are changing every single day. This time last year I...

  • Marketing

Provocative LEGO Ads – Did they go to far?

The advertisements below were brought to my attention when Richard Darrell shared them on the Bit Rebels website. Richard wasn’t a fan of these LEGO advertisements stating, “Everything about them is wrong, and I just don’t see the purpose of...