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AQ's Blog & Grill
by Alan Quarry
Whether you want to define your brand, turn your hobby into a successful business, or hone your content-creation skills, you're sure to leave with a full stomach (or mind). We know you're craving information, and one of the best ways to learn is by hearing from others. Knowing that, we snag some of the world's most brilliant minds to share their stories, from veteran influencers like Guy Kawasaki, to Waterloo Region heroes like Vidyard's Michael Litt.
Episodes
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Taking the 'Why Not' Approach and Running with Opportunities as they come | Donna Litt
Uvaro: Helping professionals have more fulfilling careers In this episode, Donna talks about the 'Why Not' approach that has led her through much of her entrepreneurial career. Taking advantage of opportunities as they come and following your interests to see where they might lead. With Uvaro,...
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Knowing When to Pivot in Your Startup | Mallorie Brodie
In this episode, Mallorie talks about the $24M CAD Series B funding that the company has just secured as well as the importance of maintaining the mindset of a start-up. To always be innovating and looking for opportunities within the industry is a crucial component to growing and scaling any...
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Building a Successful Innovation Ecosystem With Collaborative Capitalism | Communitech CEO Iain Klugman
"We can honestly say that every assumption we made about how we thought it was going to work was wrong." Iain Klugman has spent the last 16 years bringing together government organizations, businesses, and talent to make Communitech an integral part of the Waterloo Region ecosystem. In this...
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Driverseat Director of Marketing talks Franchise Expansion and Opportunities for Entrepreneurs | Dani Bazely
In this week's episode, Alan sits down with Dani Bazely, Director of Marketing for Driverseat, as they discuss the innovative, award-winning business. Driverseat's franchise-based business model focuses on chauffeur and shuttle assistance, with opportunities for specialized services from…
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How Bridgit Founders Used Customer Insights to Build a Multi Million Dollar Business | Lauren Lake
What does successfully breaking into an untapped market actually look like? How do you do it? How do you bring a product to market that the market is ready to adopt right away? You ask the market. What sets Bridgit apart from so many other companies, and what has made them so successful, is that...
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Hamilton's Innovation Factory and the Value of a Startup Supercluster | David Carter
"Innovation Factory Accelerates Success" - who doesn't want that!? Incubators and accelerators, like Hamilton's Innovation Factory, are the not so hidden gem that entrepreneurs need to know. In this week's episode, David Carter and Alan Quarry discuss the difference between an accelerator and an...
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Finding Your Way Through Uncertainty and Coming Out Stronger | Jennifer Moss
The world is currently going through the strangest thing that any of us will likely face in our lives. And there's a ton of fear and anxiety and doom and gloom that comes along with a worldwide pandemic, of course. But in this episode, happiness expert and author Jennifer Moss gives us…
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How to Build a Word of Mouth Strategy | Talk Triggers Author Jay Baer
90% of B2B purchases are influenced by word of mouth. Fewer than 1% of companies have an actual "word of mouth" strategy. Jay Baer knows that one of the best ways to grow a business is for your customers to do it for you. In this episode of AQ's Blog & Grill, Jay shares where to start when…
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Balancing it all – From Career to #MomLife and Everything in between | Melissa Melnychuk
From her demanding and successful career in sports marketing as the VP of Business Development for the KW Titans to balancing being a single mom to three busy children, Melissa Melnychuk has mastered the art of balancing it all. And it's not all spreadsheets and Pinterest and spreading yourself…
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How This Startup is Making a Huge Global Impact | Peter Whitby - CEO of O2 Canada
"I wanted to do something global and make an impact" - Peter Whitby What started as a leisurely trip in China has become a global product and a growing team. With intensive research, O2 Canada has truly innovated the face mask - creating a product with top notch functionality and unprecedented...
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F#CK Content Marketing – The Critical Difference Between Content Marketing and Content Experience | Randy Frisch
You may just have the best content in the world, but if your user experience isn't top notch, the content may as well have been written by a seahorse. In this episode of AQ's Blog & Grill, Randy Frisch describes the key difference between content marketing and content experience. He explains how…
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BURNOUT – How Well-being Plays Directly into our Ability to Innovate and be Competitive | Jennifer Moss
Jennifer Moss has many accolades – she's an author, an international speaker, a columnist for the CBC, a contributor to Harvard Business Review and a member of the UN Global Happiness Council committee, just to name a few. When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 'Burnout' was a...
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#TBT Episode: Stepping Out and Growing an Art Business with a Professional Artist and Entrepreneur | Jennifer Gough
Entrepreneur and professional artist, Jennifer Gough, speaks with Alan about finding her purpose in her art and how she completely changed her career to follow her passion. Jennifer's mission is to inspire people to follow their dreams and make their passions happen. She talks about growing her…
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From Engineering Student to President and CEO of Multiple Companies – How to Fail: Often, Fast, and Cheap | Jim Estill
He didn't get lucky. He isn't an investment psychic. And he doesn't possess any fancy or magical ability to predict which businesses are going to take off, and which won't. He tries things. He jumps at opportunities and he FAILS. Over and over, he's failed. He fails, and he's learned how to fall…
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How Lifelong Learning and Cutting out the Noise can Move You Forward into Your Vision of Success | Lindsay Coulter
"What kind of human do you feel like being in the future?" So often, in life, we think of success a certain way. What career we end up in, what home we own, what cars we drive all seem rather important when someone asks you to think about your future. But Lindsay took us down a very different…
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Miovision Innovation makes Cities more Efficient | Kurtis McBride
Changing the world through traffic innovations. Kurtis McBride sits down with Alan and discusses how the innovation of Miovision in traffic stops, can globally impact fuel emissions and climate change as a whole. From a university engineering degree to a well respected and internationally…
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Obviously Awesome | April Dunford
Positioning. And cake pops! 😉 What is positioning? Is it actually still important in this day and age? The simple answer - Absolutely. But why? Find out as April Dunford highlights many of the key points found in her new book #ObviouslyAwesome and imparts her many years of positioning wisdom on…
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Mean People Suck | Michael Brenner
Listen in as Michael Brenner and Alan Quarry chat about everything from Champion Leadership to the LEGO brand, the kindness rule to the Pelaton scandal before the holidays. And the underlying theme that ties all of these things together - empathy. If you can think and feel like the customer, you...
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Creating Disruptive Leaders | Charlene Li
Charlene will always tell you to "begin with the end in mind" but what does that mean? In her new book, The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail, explains just that. In this week's episode, Charlene and Alan discuss company culture and the movement of creating...
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Influence Marketing in the B2B Sector | Lee Odden
In today's episode, Alan chat's with Lee Odden on the emerging concept of Influence Marketing in the B2B sector. Lee is a B2B marketing strategist, author, internationally known keynote speaker, and CEO of a digital marketing organization called TopRank Marketing.
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X: The Experience when Business meets Design | Brian Solis
Experience Architecture. And how to become an experience architect!? You won't want to miss this throwback episode with top digital analyst, futurist and award-winning author, @BrianSolis as he discusses his book 'X: The Experience When Business Meets Design" Brian discusses the importance of...
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Creating a Legacy of Serial Entrepreneurship & Startup Mentoring | Axonify's Carol Leaman
CEO of Axonify and Alan's entrepreneurial heroine, Carol Leaman, stops by to discuss her growing business and her path of serial entrepreneurship. What began as an eLearning platform has transformed into a fully equipped knowledge platform, using gamification and brain science to deliver, share,...
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Everybody Writes | Ann Handley
Ann Handley is a veteran of creating and managing digital content to build relationships for organizations and individuals. Ann is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 'Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content. She is the chief content officer of...
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Beyond Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Empathy | Glen Drummond
In this episode of AQ's Blog & Grill, Alan chats with long-time colleague and friend Glen Drummond about a potential, slippery slope of AI and other emerging, predictive technology. "Empathy is an essential and defining human quality," says Glen. And, more than that, we're hard-wired to respond…
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Marketing Advice for Start-ups to Become Stay-ups | April Dunford
She's the CEO of Sprint.ly, a marketing mentor and angel investor who started her hurricane of entrepreneurial activities by studying engineering. In this episode of AQ's Blog & Grill, April Dunford shares her experiences going from an engineer to a marketing genius. Alan and April discuss...
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Reinventing the Marketing Consulting Model | Scott Gillum
A nimble marketing services consultancy? You betcha. Scott Gillum, the founder of Carbon Design, has built consulting success around working differently. Carbon Design delivers value-based services thanks to its team of carbonistas. Lean. Efficient. Non-dependent. These are, says Scott, the keys…
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Content Marketing Isn't Enough | Gary Vaynerchuk aka Gary Vee
Gary Vaynerchuk, the hardest working man in social media, talks about how he takes time to engage with his audience on social media and how content marketing is overflowing on the internet. He touches on his worries that young entrepreneurs think business is easy, the fairness of capitalism, how…
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Life Lessons from a Wise Guy | Guy Kawasaki
A big AQ's Blog & Grill "Welcome Back" to Guy Kawasaki. While he may have hung up his hockey skates and taken up surfing, he's still giving it his A-game in his new book Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life. In this episode, Guy shares how he's in the "sweet spot." That time when he's acquired knowledge…
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How Technology is Enabling Customized Work Experiences | Kiite's Joseph Fung
Joseph Fung understands that hard work, sweat and tears plays a role in startups, but putting yourself out there is a huge factor in success. After consulting with an advisor at Waterloo's Communitech, Joseph found success with his first startup, TribeHR. He went on to sell TribeHR to Netsuite…
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Building a Successful Social Media Centred Business | Jane Barkley of IM@Events
From personal brand to event media, Jane Barkley – founder and CEO of IM@Events – is a powerhouse of marketing talents. Jane joins Alan in this episode of AQ's Blog & Grill to share her path to success and how others can do the same. Jane founded IM@Events after uncovering a need in the event...
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Norm Clare | How Technology is Transforming The Brand Experience
Norm Clare of Quarry Integrated Communications joins Alan to share his insight into key technologies that are shaking up brands in this era of digital transformation. Norm is the VP of Marketing Technology Strategy and as Alan puts it, is a great synthesizer of what technology could do and what…
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Amber Mac | Outsmarting Your Kids Online
Speaker, author and social media thought-leader Amber Mac joins us in studio to discuss her book 'Outsmarting Your Kids Online'. She shares a bit about the process of self-publishing the work with co-author Michael Bazzell after being inspired by Guy Kawasaki. A book, a business, TV and radio…
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Michael Popovich | Advancing Public Health Outcomes Through Information Technology
Michael Popovich, CEO of STC (Scientific Technologies Corporation), caught up with Alan Quarry to discuss the changes in information technology and how they can be used to save lives. STC began as an IT company in the consulting realm, but after a design consult for an immunization registry had...
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Kurtis McBride | Building Smart Cities with Agile, Data-Based Solutions
Entrepreneurship is usually focused on solving problems and the story of Miovision does not stray from that mentality. As a co-op student from the University of Waterloo, Kurtis McBride spent weekends manually counting cars at intersections. The common entrepreneurial phrase eventually crept...
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Michael Litt | Vidyard Changes the Content Game | AQ's Blog & Grill
It's been three years since we caught up with Vidyard's Chief Executive Officer, Michael Litt, so we've pulled him into the AQ studio to discuss the dramatic growth and success of the five-year-old start-up. We start with the facts on what Vidyard does, how they do it and how their clients are...
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Alex Mustakas | How This Entrepreneur Became one of Canada's Greatest Arts Success Stories
Alex Mustakas, Chief Entertainment Officer of Drayton Entertainment, joins us to discuss arts, business and the glorious combination of the two. Alex shares the inspiring story behind Drayton Entertainment and how he used both his creative side and business mind to become an entrepreneurial…
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Loren Padelford | Selling With Ease Using Shopify And Shopify Plus
Loren Padelford, Vice President and General Manager at Shopify Plus, joins Alan to share how Shopify is changing the landscape of e-commerce. Loren tells how this Canadian company sparked out of the founder's desire to sell snowboards online. Shopify has since found great success, helping...
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Amy Schmittauer | Creating an Authentic Brand with Video and Social Media
Let's just start by saying that Amy Schmittauer is a force to be reckoned with. Her Savvy Sexy Social brand is informative, fun and magnetic. In this grilling, Amy joins us for an insightful look at YouTube, Snapchat and authentic brand building. If you think YouTube is a dying medium, oh boy…
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Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott | Leading a Revolution in Blockchain
When Don and Alex Tapscott began writing "Blockchain Revolution", not a single bank was investing in the revolutionary technology. Now virtually every company in the financial services industry is investing heavily as they realize this new technology is the second generation of the internet - the...
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Host Alan Quarry | Creating an Exciting Company Culture Through Leadership
In this special episode of AQ's Blog & Grill, broadcasting personality Angela Onoura turns the tables and interviews host Alan Quarry. Angela picks Alan's brain on the topic of leadership: hiring people smarter than you, giving them the freedom to do what they're best at, and how bureaucracy can...
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Angela Onuora | A Broadcasting Journey From Nigeria to Canada
In this episode, broadcasting personality Angela Onuora joins Alan to discuss the shifts she has experienced in moving to Canada from Nigeria. In Nigeria, Angela became a popular TV host, actor and radio personality. She discusses her popular radio show, "We Women", and how it was the first ever...
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Larry Smith | What you NEED to do to Have a Great Career
Known as the "career-whisperer", Dr. Larry Smith joins AQ's Blog & Grill to share insights from his new book, "No Fears, No Excuses". After a 2011 TED Talk that garnered millions of views on YouTube, Larry found himself answering thousands of questions stemming from the talk. "I always knew…
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April Dunford | Marketing Advice for Start-ups to Become Stay-ups
She's the CEO of Sprint.ly, a marketing mentor and angel investor who started her hurricane of entrepreneurial activities by studying engineering. In this episode of AQ's Blog & Grill, April Dunford shares her experience from engineer to marketing greatness. April finds that most start-ups…
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Brian Fanzo | 5 Keys to Successful Live Video Streaming
Just in case you missed the memo, traditional brand marketing has officially taken a back seat. Audiences want authenticity, transparency and "right-time" marketing. So who are you going to call to perfect your strategy as the digital platforms constantly change? Our suggestion: Brian Fanzo. As...
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Larry Kim | From Winnipeg to WordStream – How Larry Kim Built a Booming Business in Search Marketing
How does a young guy from Winnipeg become the founder of the leading search marketing software company? Answer: A lot of hard work, an undying drive for success and a lot of time spent working with the free wifi at Panera Bread. Larry Kim joins us to share his story of going from a University of...
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Brian Solis | X: The Experience When Business Meets Design
Top digital analyst, futurist and award-winning author, Brian Solis joins Alan to share the inspirations and aspirations behind his new book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. Brian's major influence for the book comes from Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's article-turned-book, The...
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Joe Pulizzi | Finding Business Success Through Content Marketing
Back in 2007, unaware of the incoming economic recession, Joe Pulizzi left his successful career with Penton Media to embark on a journey of entrepreneurship. Joe had no product to sell, but with the help of inspiring messages from authors like Stephen Covey and Napoleon Hill, he wrote out his...
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Melissa Durrell | Why Public Relations is Alive and Well
There are many skeptics out there who believe that public relations is a dead industry. Experts, like our guest Melissa Durrell, know better. Yes, the digital age is transforming the landscape of public relations, but that doesn't mean any Joe Blow off the street can get your word out like a PR...
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Michael Brenner | Measuring the ROI of your Content Marketing
Michael Brenner is at the top of content marketing influencer lists web-wide. He inspires marketing minds to stay agile in this new and evolving age of the customer. With great skill comes great questions, and the number one question Michael receives is "How do I measure the ROI on my content...
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Rob Barnett | Working with Major Talent to Create Original Content on all Platforms
Rob Barnett is a pioneer in the media world, bringing audiences entertainment on the platforms they crave. The founder of Omnivision Entertainment and My Damn Channel joins Alan to discuss the past, present and future of branded content. With a history working at MTV, VH1 and then taking an...
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Whether you want to define your brand, turn your hobby into a successful business, or hone your content-creation skills, you're sure to leave with a full stomach (or mind). We know you're craving information, and one of the best ways to learn is by hearing from others. Knowing that, we snag some of the world's most brilliant minds to share their stories, from veteran influencers like Guy Kawasaki, to Waterloo Region heroes like Vidyard's Michael Litt.
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