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This was a tagline WCW ran with for a while in their peak of signing WWF stars etc. and I remember vividly in Dusty Rhodes' color commentary, he would frequently mention the slogan as part of everything- like "Scott Steiner off the turnbuckle! Ooh great move. WCW where the big boys play" etc

Was this a requirement as part of the ad campaign that commentators needed to explicitly communicate the slogan x times a show or x times per match?

In running your tours, what have you guys seen work as a way to get promoters to leave google reviews? (i.e. ask for and get reviews from customers most likely to leave a positive review)

Want to pick your brain about an idea- My tour that I run has done very well for me financially and I know from meeting other tour guides that many are pretty small businesses and the guide's skill lies in what they are giving a tour about and not necessarily building their business.

So I was wondering, if I offered help for a fee of some sort on how to expand reach, attract more customers, etc. is that something guides would be willing to pay for?

I know guide businesses are quite small so the expectation wouldn't be some extravagant $$ amount but want to get your input:

-If this would be useful

-What amt one could be willing to pay

Want to pick your brain about an idea- My tour that I run has done very well for me financially and I know from meeting other tour guides that many are pretty small businesses and the guide's skill lies in what they are giving a tour about and not necessarily building their business.

So I was wondering, if I offered help for a fee of some sort on how to expand reach, attract more customers, etc. is that something guides would be willing to pay for?

I know guide businesses are quite small so the expectation wouldn't be some extravagant $$ amount but want to get your input:

-If this would be useful

-What amt one could be willing to pay

Hello fellow tour guides!

Want to pick your brain about an idea- My tour that I run has done very well for me financially and I know from meeting other tour guides that many are pretty small businesses and the guide's skill lies in what they are giving a tour about and not necessarily building their business.

So I was wondering, if I offered help for a fee of some sort on how to expand reach, attract more customers, etc. is that something guides would be willing to pay for?

I know guide businesses are quite small so the expectation wouldn't be some extravagant $$ amount but want to get your input:

-If this would be useful

-What amt one could be willing to pay

This is a question for marketing consultants and before getting into my q, I am NOT referring to:

-People who run/optimize digital ads for random brands on their behalf

-People who build ecommerce (shopify or other) for random people on their behalf

I am referring to people who help brands do things like build marketing strategy overall or for any of the 4Ps and may also do any of the above but the consulting gig is is framed as broader marketing work as described.

What did you do before starting your own marketing consultancy?

What was your experience with landing your first client? - who was it, how did you land it and what did you do for them?

How did you find subsequent clients? What was the profile of them? (i.e. multinationals? random businesses on fiverr? something else?)

Any of you guys work for/have worked for any of the CPG companies, big 5 banks or various other giant companies in marketing in Toronto? (Canadian Tire, Tim Horton's etc) I'm talking about the client side, NOT agencies or teams like at Google where you're doing ad sales.

I've noticed an odd thing with the culture at all of them relative to the culture of smaller tech startups or US counterparts at the same companies, that it seems like on Canadian teams, the more vanilla you are, the better. And that any passion at all is penalized for coming off as "a bit much".

Like the culture across the board is something like- be a quiet person without anything unique about oneself, get your work done and never push for anything new to be done.

So this had me wondering- if others have noticed this too, what's up with this??

-Grocery prices are skyrocketing every week

-Noone can afford to buy a house

-Few people can afford rent at current prices (i.e. the asking price for moving in today)

-Discount priced retail is booming

-For those who drive, gas prices are sky high

-Youth unemployment is sky high

But Canada isn't a hyperinflation country nor is Toronto a hyperinflation city.

So can someone explain to me how it works that all of the above is true and yet the city is not in a recession, no economic crisis, etc.

For my Canadians out there, let's say Dunkin' only hires canadians (i.e. zero TFW etc) and goes hard with a marketing push about how they are supporting local communities etc. What impact do you think that would have on Tim Horton's sales if any?

What's it like working at the new Leafs GM's fast food joints?

My brand works with content creators via TikTok One- we create projects in there and invite creators to them (via the "Creator marketing" option as opposed to "Creator content at scale". In the past, I would invite a ton of content creators to collab (~100), knowing a small % would actually accept (~15%) and as a result would still meet my need for the total # of creators I wanted to collab with.

I noticed now, that TikTok restricts the invites you can send to 50 a week. For a time-sensitive campaign and given the low response rate, being restricted to 50 a week severely limits the number of content creators I can invite to a project given the time-sensitive nature of them.

So I was wondering, how are you guys who also invite creators in TikTok One for collabs working around this?

Given the countless accelerators in the major cities in the country and at least in Toronto specifically as well, MaRS, the MaRS health innovation conference that just happened, Toronto Tech Week, TechTO and various other innovation /startup conferences, how is it that the country has had so few startups that successfully scaled up to become "big" in the last 15-20 years?