Canadian Marketing Blog

Welcome to the CMA - Canadian Marketing Association - Blog. This Blog is an initiative of the CMA Digital Marketing Council. All marketing-related topics are fair game: branding, strategy, online, offline, marketing trends, technology, direct marketing, market research...and more.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Isn't it Time

    If I attend one more event or read one more article that states, “We need to be competitive in a global marketplace”, I may just shoot myself – metaphorically speaking of course. … more

  • Chat in Real Life - Nature’s Sunshine Products

    Previously, I shared how chat is used at PGC. Here, a look at another company's chat implementation - Nature’s Sunshine Products (based in Utah). I spoke with Leann Beardall, … more

  • Be Succinct

    An important but often overlooked principal in marketing is the importance of being succinct.

    While marketers stress about the exact wording and the presentation of numerous brand benefits, the … more

  • You Need Klout

    Klout is a scoring system that weighs the influence of an individual in social media.

    There is a great book "Return on Influence - The revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence … more

  • Planning Tools - Little Change

    Building on my last post regarding the need to bridge branding and strategic planning to ensure meaningful differentiation, I participated in a discussion with a few senior level CMA council … more

  • Digital Philanthropists

    A re-post from May 2.  Due to a system error, it is now being re-published to platform.

    Launched yesterday, Facebook’s organ donation initiative, which encourages users to list … more

  • The Way To Women's Wallets

    By now, every marketer knows that women are the CIOs of purchasing decisions, i.e., not only are women key decision-makers on most household purchases, but they are also major influencers … more