This Commerce Life
Phil Chang / Kenny Vannucci
A Canadian Podcast, focused on Canadian brands, determined to talk about Canadian success stories.
We are retail educators and experts, teaching Canadian businesses how to build, grow, and scale in retail. As industry connectors, Kenny & Phil bring decades of experience as buyers, sales strategists, and marketers into delivering practical, actionable education grounded in real-world application.
We are retail educators and experts, teaching Canadian businesses how to build, grow, and scale in retail. As industry connectors, Kenny & Phil bring decades of experience as buyers, sales strategists, and marketers into delivering practical, actionable education grounded in real-world application.
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May 18, 2021 • 59min
She wanted to work for no one, but wanted to get paid fair, good money. Serial Founder Colleen Imrie comes on to talk Nooks Canada
To find out more about the Nooks: https://thenooks.ca/ The Linkedin Page that she doesn't want you to check out: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleenimrie/
May 11, 2021 • 1h 25min
Peter Rodriguez, Built Brand Igniter and now he's back to talk about the next step to building your own brand
To find out more about Peter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-rodriguez-marketing/ To find Brand Igniter: https://www.brandigniter.ca/webinar
May 7, 2021 • 1h
Special Episode: Kyle Ewing, Founder of Terraslate comes on to talk about the persistence required for success
To find Kyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleewing/Kyle's company and waterproof paper:https://terraslatepaper.com/To find out more about ClearAngel:https://angel.clearbanc.com/
May 3, 2021 • 1h 9min
VP of Partnerships & Insights of Social Nature, Jessica Malach talks about the half-million natural shoppers and their discovery platform
We also talk agencies, when to use an agency, when to leave and strike out on your own, what brands should expect from agencies.To find out more about Social Nature: https://www.socialnature.com/To find Jessica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-malach-she-her-06644316/
Apr 27, 2021 • 1h 23min
The founders of Good Juju, Alexa and Lisa come on to talk zero all-natural, plastic-free home & body products
What a great brand! We were fascinated by what Lisa and Alexa have built. We were equally appalled at how these two wonderful founders have been viewed - anything other than wonderful people and brillant business people. Check out Good Juju here: https://hellogoodjuju.com/Find Lisa on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karandat-50b69821/
Apr 20, 2021 • 1h 15min
President and Founder of Hippie Snacks, Owner of Left Coast Naturals Ian Walker
A great conversation with a Natural Foods Industry Icon. Happy belated Birthday to Ian Walkerand Happy Birthday to Kenny! (he's still not 60 yet) To find Ian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-walker-a8725318/Hippie Snacks: https://www.hippiesnacks.com/Left Coast Naturals: https://www.leftcoastnaturals.com/
Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 9min
The Shoplands make and appearance and they have news! (Laurie and Jimmy!)
You can find the Shoplands here:https://laurieshopland.com/https://shoplandhealth.ca/
Apr 9, 2021 • 1h 20min
Just the knuckleheads - Kenny and Phil talk what it costs to be in a Canadian retailer
This episode was inspired by the article below. https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/the-reasons-behind-a-bitter-battle-between-food-makers-and-canadas-big-grocers
Apr 6, 2021 • 50min
Co-Founder & CEO at Clearbanc Andrew D'Souza comes on to talk about Clearbanc and the launch of ClearAngel
We owe this podcast to Kent Fenwick in more ways than one.Kenny talks about his Covid experience. Philly complains about his boss. (himself)Find out about Clearbanc here: https://clearbanc.com/en-eu/Think you could use investment? ClearAngel is here: https://angel.clearbanc.com/Andrew's Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdsouza/
Mar 30, 2021 • 1h 1min
A recast of an older episode, Peter Rodriguez MBA, Chartered Marketer joins the boys. They talk about personal brand marketing, and why it's so important.
We don't have a new episode this week - Kenny hasn't been feeling well, but in light of how popular Trevor Baker's episode was, we thought personal branding is something critical to anyone facing career changes.This episode first aired Feb 10, 2020. ---Peter Rodriguez MBA, Chartered Marketer, comes on the show to talk about his Award-Winning Brand Igniter™Peter is a former CMO, Ex Kellogg’s, Pfizer, Nestle, J&J, Smucker. His new marketing program helps individuals build their personal brand image.Philly still sounds like he's in witness protection - he's going to drown this mic and get a new one.As a courtesy for the boys, Peter has provided a link for This Commerce Life users to see some of Peter's BRANDMI™ Personal Branding Framework https://www.brandigniter.ca/brandmisample
