Canadian Entrepreneur, Marketer and
Inspirational Speaker
Keynote Speaker: SocialEast 2024
Stimulating Creativity in Teams: Lessons Learned from Scaling a Business
Average attendee rating: 98.6%
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This is a tough time for Canadian organisations. Leaders need to de-risk and stabilize cash, but employees in creative roles feel micromanaged and undervalued. In this ending keynote presentation from SocialEast 2024, Atlantic Canada's largest marketing conference, I discussed actionable insights that may help inspire a balance of stability and risk to stimulate creativity and value in organisational teams.
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Actionable insights to stimulate creativity in your teams with minimal spends
Real-world lessons (and road rash) from an entrepreneur whose business doubled in the last two years
Psychological insights on what enables and blocks creativity
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Executives, Managers, Team Leaders, Social Media Managers, Community Managers, Entrepreneurs
PR Nightmares: How a Public Relations Disaster Can Become Your Best Brand Awareness Tool
Average attendee rating: 100%
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In 2016, a brewpub and a mosque earned unwanted national media attention. This story, originally delivered at SocialEast (Atlantic Canada's largest marketing conference), is about why content goes viral and how to use social media to navigate a crisis.
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What makes social media posts go viral?
How to manage a PR crisis
Why do ideas spread?
The importance of public relations
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Executives, Managers, Team Leaders, Social Media Managers, Community Managers
Shut Up and Listen: Harvesting Growth with Scrappy Insights
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Many business problems can be solved by talking to customers. Yet even in the social media age, we talk at our customers rather than with them. This session, originally given at Digital Harvest, shares stories of unconventional insights and online conversations that fueled success at Good Robot Brewing Company.
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How to conduct market research for small businesses
How to use Google Trends for product development
How to use ChatGPT for review mining
CPG Marketing Strategies
The psychology of advertising
How to do keyword research for SEO
Using AI for marketing
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Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, Founders, Farmers, Agriculture Businesses, Social Media Managers, Restaurant Managers
The Power of Moments: Curating Memorable Experiences for Employees and Customers
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Customer experience is what your customers think and feel throughout their experience with your brand.
In this presentation, Josh covers real-life examples of culture-first experiences that drove memorable and award-winning moments for hospitality customers.
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Understanding customer experience
Why is customer experience important?
Examples of great customer experience from successful companies
How to market your small business on a shoestring budget
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Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, Founders, Farmers, Agriculture Businesses, Social Media Managers, Restaurant Managers
Real audience quotes
"Such an awesome storyteller"
"Real. Raw. Funny."
"Such a transparent presentation"
"Brilliant presence on stage"
"This guy is awesome, so engaging"
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"So engaging and entertaining"
"Amazing presentation"
"Great speaker and storyteller"
"Really enjoyed Josh’s humour and down to earth presentation"
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"Wish the presentation was longer!"
"My favourite talk of the conference"
"Informative, concise & still entertaining"
"Great motivational speech!"
"Genius"
"Wish the presentation was longer!" "My favourite talk of the conference" "Informative, concise & still entertaining" "Great motivational speech!" "Genius"
"Awesome advice peppered with lots of humour."
"The best one of the two days"
"Helpful and inspiring"
"So fun, so engaging, so creative."
"Awesome advice peppered with lots of humour." "The best one of the two days" "Helpful and inspiring" "So fun, so engaging, so creative."
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