This Commerce Life

The boys talk about getting their businesses right, how they're thinking about the year. Philly struggles to help an owner become a CEO. Philly talks about how to think about client hours and how and when to work a little harder, when to balance versus family life. Philly's pro-tip for the month - last month was WIFI Mesh, and now Philly wants you to think about buying a budget gaming laptop. (sub-$1000, light weight gaming)   

We had lots of guest come and hang out for our last podcast of the year. This one is pretty fun - if you want to watch it, it'll put faces to voices. Head to https://youtu.be/QI4iS-GsrsoSome of our guests that came by:Tim Dumas, Jaks AlcoholStephen Sotto, Bed Bath & Beyond MexicoMark Stirling, Orion SalesCherry Yang, Air Ops Consulting https://www.airopsconsulting.org/Tazz Latifi, https://petropolisnyc.com/the-petropolist-podcast/Chloe Holyman, Brand Manager for https://www.tryenerc.com/April May Bellia, formerly of Granola Girl now The Optimystic Soul life coachBram Warshafsky, Shelfgram, https://www.shelfgram.com/Laurie Shopland, https://laurieshopland.com/Jim Shopland, https://shoplandhealth.ca/Richard Pollock, https://www.takeharmony.ca/, https://www.kihealthdefence.ca/  

Long time "rock" of the retail industry...Alan Bates comes up, we talk career progression and Philly drools (as usual) over Daiya's new lineup of products. You can find Chris here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bailey-4130958/You can find Daiya here: https://daiyafoods.com/ Drool over Daiya's food lineup here: https://www.youtube.com/user/daiyafoods/videos

The Boss, Linda, talks about the pandemic from a manufacturer's perspective...A manufacturer that makes hand sanitizer. The boys and the Boss talk about concerns about the upcoming year, how to look at growth differently, and they talk growing up and ethnic backgrounds. Check out Linda's profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindambwebb/ find Prolab here: http://www.prolabhealth.com/

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.comTCap 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.htmlPhil has this router: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01NCZ2UBL/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_UpFQFbGYRYW8EOther 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