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Made For Canada — 64 episodes

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1

Why Buy Canadian Marketing Isn’t Working for Your Small Business

2

Why Buy Canadian Shoppers Can't Find Your Small Business

3

Does Your Small Business Really Need to Be on Social Media?

4

Canadians Are Changing Their Buying Habits: What That Means for Your Small Business

5

Stop Blaming the Economy: What the Buy Canadian Surge Means for Small Business Owners this Fall

6

The Small Business Marketing Myth of Location, Location, Location

7

Back to Business: The Marketing Structure Small Business Owners Are Missing

8

The Real Reason Small Businesses Are Getting Called Out for AI Slop

9

You're Not Bad at Marketing, You've Just Been Doing the Wrong Kind

10

The Random Acts of Marketing Trap for Canadian Small Businesses: Episode 5

11

The Random Acts of Marketing Trap for Canadian Small Businesses: Episode 4

12

The Random Acts of Marketing Trap for Canadian Small Businesses: Episode 3

13

The Random Acts of Marketing Trap for Canadian Small Businesses: Episode 2

14

The Random Acts of Marketing Trap for Canadian Small Businesses: Episode 1

15

Strategy First Episode 4: Your Entry Decision

16

Strategy First Episode 3: Your Sequence Decision

17

Strategy First Episode 2: Your Competitive Decision

18

Strategy First Episode 1: Your Direction Decision

19

Why Your Small Business Marketing Feels Like Guesswork — Even When You're Tracking

20

What Zero-Click Search Is Exposing About Your Small Business Marketing

21

The Decision Every Small Business Should Make Before Running Ads

22

Why Your Small Business Marketing Feels Busy But Isn’t Driving Growth

23

The Missing Marketing Strategy You Need to Grow Your Small Business

24

Why Your Small Business Marketing Isn’t Turning Into Sales

25

Why AI Images Are Hurting Your Small Business Marketing (And What to Do Instead)

26

Small Business Marketing Strategy: Stop Chasing Visibility

27

The Local Moat: Your Real Competitive Advantage in Marketing

28

Small Business Marketing Systems: Moving Beyond Referrals and Word of Mouth

29

Why Most Small Business Owners Struggle With Marketing Consistency

30

Why Funnels and Email Systems Often Fail Small Businesses

31

The Micro-Business Reality: Why Generic Marketing Advice Fails Independent Businesses

32

What Is Demand? Why Canadian Small Businesses Struggle with Sales in 2026

33

How to Increase Small Business Demand Without More Promotion

34

The Inconvenience of Community: Your Advantage as a Small Business

35

Why Execution Without Strategy Turns Marketing Into an Expensive Mistake

36

Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses: In-Market vs Out-of-Market

37

Defining Your Target Market as a Small Business: What Demographics Miss

38

Small Business Marketing in 2026: When to Plan and When to Execute

39

Market Research for Small Businesses: Why Relationships Beat Big Data

40

Stop Buying Marketing: How Canadian Small Businesses Build What Actually Works

41

Top 3 Marketing Mistakes by Canadian Small Businesses in 2025

42

How to Choose the Right Marketing Goals for 2026 for Your Small Business

43

Marketing Skills Every Canadian Small Business Owner Needs

44

Marketing Planning for Canadian Small Businesses in 2026

45

Why Familiarity Sells: The Nostalgia Effect in Holiday Marketing

46

Simple Holiday Marketing for Canadian Small Businesses

47

Rethinking Marketing in 2026: Strategy, Plan, Execute, Systemize

48

2026 Flywheel 3/3: Retain Demand with Retention Marketing

49

2026 Flywheel 2/3: Diversify to Capture Demand

50

2026 Flywheel (1/3): Attract Demand with Differentation

51

Holiday Marketing in Canada: How Small Businesses Can Capture Peak Season Spending

52

Finding Customers Who Still Buy: Market Fit in a Slower Economy

53

The Problem With Plug-and-Play Marketing

54

Canadian Independent Businesses: Your Marketing Advantage

55

​​October: The Last Window for High-Involvement Decisions

56

Your Holiday Sales Start Now

57

The 3 Marketing Habits You Need to Reach Your Goals this Fall

58

Playing in the Marketing Sandbox

59

Align Your Content with Buyer Psychology This September

60

Building a Viable Business in a Flattened Economy

61

Selling in Slow Times: How Canadian Small Businesses Can Adapt Their Marketing Today

62

The Sales Fix Episode 3: Failure or Framing

63

Sales Fix Episode 2: Show the Value to Make the Sale

64

Sales Fix Episode 1: The 3Ps of Sales for Small Businesses