Five keys to your presentation success in 2014
The good news – 2013 was a good year for most businesses. The bad news – most business presentations delivered in 2013 still sucked. Whether it’s an investor pitch, an elevator pitch, a customer...
View ArticleDamn it, Beyoncé: Now all the pundits will say marketing is unnecessary
It didn't take long after music megastar Beyoncé dropped her latest release onto Apple iTunes with no advance warning or usual hype-fest for the armchair pundits and marketing deniers to trumpet that...
View ArticleGreat articles roundup: Social media, content marketing, marketing strategy...
It's Friday, yet again, which means it's time for our weekly roundup. This one happens to be the last of 2013. Over the week, we've read great content from Social Media Explorer, Marketing Sherpa and...
View ArticlePlanning for the New Year
I was recently sitting at a hotel bar and overheard a circle of businessmen talking at a nearby table. I couldn't help listening in. What I heard spaced over about an hour was strangely familiar [...]...
View ArticleHappy holidays
From all of us here at Francis Moran and Associates, happy holidays and the very best for 2014. We will resume our regular blog postings on January 2. The post Happy holidays appeared first on Francis...
View ArticlePR, marketing and the clean slate of a new year
Happy New Year. The holidays are behind us and it’s time to get back to the grindstone. But while routines are a good thing, slipping back into poor habits, biases, and preconceptions that limit our...
View ArticleDecember roundup: What does it take to bring technology to market?
Even though we took our usual holiday break in December, we still covered a lot of ground on the blog throughout the month [...] The post December roundup: What does it take to bring technology to...
View ArticleBayview Yards designs released
By Francis Moran It was freezing cold, often quite dark, and always utterly decrepit at the Bayview Yards a couple of weeks ago, but it didn’t take an imagination any more potent than the woeful...
View Article8 Ontario companies to pitch follow-on investment forum
By Francis Moran The Network of Angel Organizations – Ontario is having its annual follow-on investment forum in two weeks and eight Ontario companies that previously received angel investment will be...
View ArticleEquity crowdfunding conference in Ottawa June 3
By Paul Slaby The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada is bringing its travelling roadshow to Ottawa in June with a local edition of a cross-Canada series of one-day conferences that will provide...
View ArticleBecoming a more successful you in 2014
It’s that time of year again, when pundits and armchair quarterbacks of every stripe offer up their insights on the year past and their predictions for the year to come. This isn’t one of those posts...
View ArticleMy top three picks from Cape Town’s (disappointing) Design Indaba expo
By Francis Moran Cape Town’s annual Design Indaba conference and expo, which ran here last week, bills itself as “the leading voice on African design, creativity and innovation.” The conference part,...
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Food at FYN was more than fine
In a city and a country with an abundance of superb restaurants, creative chefs and the imaginative incorporation of fresh local ingredients, Linda and I enjoyed one of our best South African meals...
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Leucospermum cordifolium: A macro study
Our garden is blessed with a large and beautiful leucospermum cordifolium bush, more colloquially known as a pincushion protea. Of the handful of different protea species we planted in our indigenous...
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A secular pilgrimage to Lalibela, Ethiopia
In 2017, armed with just enough soon-to-expire frequent flyer miles to snag a return ticket in business class between Cape Town and Ottawa via Addis Ababa, I fulfilled a long-standing desire to visit...
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Living a life of luxury at Lion Sands
We knew the leopard was close before we actually saw her. We were on our first game drive at Lion Sands, one of a collection of private game reserves of varying degrees of opulence strung all along...
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Todos Santos, a little Baja California town right out of an Eagles tune
Todos Santos, a little town and artist colony on the Pacific side of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, seems exactly the sort of place the Eagles had in mind when they crafted their best-known...
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