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When businesses land funding and have a chance to grow, it's always exciting. It's even more exciting when it's a business that helps other businesses solve communication and operational issues. 

On top of that, the business is a friend of the show - that's very exciting! CEO of Intelocate, Yulia Vasilyeva comes on to talk about her $1 million in funding from TCap Private Equity.

To find Yulia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuliavas/

Intelocate:  www.intelocate.com

TCap Private Equity : https://www.tcapequity.com/

Yulia's first episode with us is here: 
https://this-commerce-life-fb5a846c.simplecast.com/episodes/3f43fcd5

Parachute Software rolls out a new menu ordering platform that's simple to use and cost effective. Calling all restaurants - a profitable way to do take out!

To check out Parachute Software: https://www.parachutesoftware.com/

Check out their ordering page here: https://order.parachutesoftware.com/order/

You can find David here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlinton/

We talk to Shane Pounder, Vice President Operations and Interim Vice President Marketing at Flipp and we talk about consumer behaviour vis a vis digital shopping, the struggle of getting good content and some new channels Flipp is exploring. 

To find Shane, click here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanepounder/

To get Flipp, click here: https://flipp.com/

AnneMarie runs a great after school tutoring centre that was doing a steady business before Covid. Covid shut her down and she had to do things differently and bring her tutoring online. 

Word of mouth used to drive the business but she had to change how she did things, used Facebook ads, Google ads to drive traffic into her centre.

To find AnneMarie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annemariebrosnan/

To check out her Tuition Centre: https://premiertuition.ie

Philly and  Winnie reminisce about the good old days, and  comes on the show to talk multicultural marketing. Winnie has serious experience marketing to the Canadian population, and we talk about the intricacies of cultural marketing.

To find Winnie:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/winniebmittal/

The distributor discussion continues -  some real life examples on how companies approach this.  The knuckleheads talk innovation and what comes next in this pandemic era. We've had a lot of cool guests on talking about innovation and how to look at things differently. We had a chance to just sit and chat and talk about cool stuff that we think might be coming.

At the end, we talk about WIFI Mesh networks and how this changes your WIFI game. 

This is a great article:

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-mesh-router,review-5191.html

Phil has this router: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01NCZ2UBL/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_UpFQFbGYRYW8E

Other good ones: 

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07WGJ9TY3/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_HrFQFbXJMNKKB

https://store.google.com/ca/config/nest_wifi?hl=en-CA

Canada’s leading distributor of natural health products. From dietary supplements, vitamins and natural body care to eco friendly household products and natural health food products, Purity Life supplies products to over 7,000 stores across Canada.

To check out Purity Life click here: https://www.puritylife.com/

You can find Mike at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mroberts6/

We were inspired enough to put this episode in the same week as another game changer. (see prior episode about Kelly Pigeon and Dresst)

Green Planet Wholesale is the supplier of equipment, a new kind of garden store. We were inspired to here where they're going, and how they've approached this growing and emerging segment of the market.

To find Green Planet Wholesale click here: https://www.mygreenplanet.com/

To find Mark, his Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-walman-082a6830/

The Youtube channel we were talking about is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7no6ZJE1_PK756fpWy70lw

We head to Africa to learn from "Fats" Diamini, Founder of Maneli Foods. We get a crash course on building a brand in South Africa and the joys and challenges of running a global brand. 

To find Nhlanhla "Fats"

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nhlanhla-dlamini-0671531/

Maneli Foods is here:  http://manelipets.com/

Wondering what a tradeshow online looks like? How do you get good conversations while you're virtually minding your virtual tradeshow booth? Joe Tarnowski. VP, Content at ECRM & Host of The ECRM Podcast comes on to talk about making conversations happen between vendors and retailers. BONUS content - Joe loves content (like Phil).

To find Joe - you can find him here. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarnowskijoseph/

You can find ECRM here. https://ecrm.marketgate.com/

Bram Warshafsky, marketer, entrepreneur and Founder of 5Crowd comes on talk about his latest venture, Shelfgram. [Think Nielsen meets Pinterest]

Store checks now come to you digitally. Imagine being able to do store checks virtually

Check out Shelfgram here: https://www.shelfgram.com/

To find Bram, hit this link. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bramw/

Fardad Moayeri, Executive VP, Janitor & Chief Esthetics Officer at Parissa talks about making the world a smoother place and the effect of TikTok. 

An incredible story about Parissa's origins that includes the Iranian revolution, straight door to door selling and pandemic times. 

Find out more about Parissa Wax here: https://parissa.com

You can reach Fardad at his Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fardadm/

WWLD! Philly talks about being out and on his own again - how it feels to leave Nymi, and work with clients that he loves. He's focused on shit that he loves, shit that he likes and none of the shit that's just shit, and trying not to do too much shit.

Kenny wants to be like Phil.

WWLD Kenny tunes in from Mexico, Laurie's thought work turns into an unanticipated opportunity. Laurie looks at Philly's choices (or not choices).
Philly ties Laurie's work to examples of how SEO, funnel conversion, digital marketing and content marketing works.

No pop filter on Kenny this week. Overstretched Kenny needs to unload. Finding the balance between entrepreneurship and happiness. Philly finds an awesome boutique brand - #navkcollection https://www.navkcollection.com/

Did you buy anything for Black Friday? The importance of a pitch deck for creating business, how to build a business to scale

This is the Thankful episode. Big thanks to Geoff Wong, being thankful for a wonderful year - the importance of celebrating wins. We want to hear from you - how do you celebrate? what do you celebrate? tell us how your business year went!

EPISODE 100! We celebrate our milestone with our first "WWLD" (What would Laurie Do?) The Guys also talk end of year prep, making sure that you end the year with great holiday sales. Fitting new products into planogram timing with major accounts, what to think about, when to prep.

Kenny lookin' and feelin' better. Getting out of the weeds and back into the clouds....er the strategy. How to make the rest of the team better.

Kenny sounds different, Philly talks about new startups that he's working with. They talk Global Pet, WWLD, coming up to episode 100