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Pinging Roy Pereira, who's Shiny Ads got first bought by Rubicon Project, which has now turned into Magnite? Anyway, if you can think of former competitors... :)

Postmedia?

Lots of options to keep your ad dollars in Canada, but not necessarily self-serve platforms. A few 'alt' ideas, assuming there is product-channel fit: - affiliate advertising (check out adbloom.io or Fintel Connect) - partnerships with Canadians lead gens like Drop or Borrowell - sponsored content with Canadian creators - traditional media buys with Canadian co's - podcast advertising (e.g. Canadaland) - direct mail with your friends at Canada Post The list goes on! I’ve barely scratched the surface. On Product-channel fit: brianbalfour.com/essays/product-channel-fit-for-growth

Google display network has some of the most undervalued, high quality traffic available for B2C advertising. I spend about $10M per year on digital ads and have run everything from FB, IG, Google Search, Google Display, Twitter, Taboola, etc at a fairly large scale. I've been actively shifting budget from FB to Google display for the past 6 months and have managed to maintain similar (or lower) CPA levels in the process. A downside of Google display is that it can take 4-6 weeks for your campaigns to start showing good results which causes most people abandon it during this time. It's about weeding out poor performing publishers and focusing on the ones that convert for your product/service.

It depends who you are targeting/what you’re offering. Are you B2B or B2C?

Millions of DSPs, but Trade Desk and StackAdapt are both competent. EQ Works and AcuityAds are also both Canadian and public. Lots of options, including native content similar to Facebook. Unfortunately nothing performs as well... which is why all the boycotting CPGs will be back.

OpenText?

Maybe check docusign, that's what we use for client contracts and it handles the online signing as well.

I _think_ you can use founded.co for this. I believe they have an offering that's specifically for managing your legal documents.

Have you used hubdoc? That is more specifically for accounting though but can capture all these.

DocuSign!

Docusign. If you’re interested I can intro you.

We're using QuickBooks for bookkeeping and payroll. You can take a photo of invoice and it matches with the transaction downloaded from your back account.

Printing😱 Xero+Receipt bank or Hubdoc for paperless bookkeeping.

Hubdoc works great for us!

Sarah Benteau

Bob Vaez we can help at MinuteBox. Feel free to reach out.

Josh Zweig

Agreed with those who suggest Hubdoc. You can link your cloud storage account (i e. Google Drive) to it so all documents you scan / send to Hubdoc also go to your cloud storage. Receipt Bank is similar and also a great option. If you use Xero for your accounting, I'm pretty certain you get Hubdoc free.

When my (very small) company went digital, I left most of the old paperwork as paper and just started going forward digital. Depending on your size that may not be feasible, but may be more manageable than trying to go back through old files. As for accountants loving printing... the only answer for that is to take their printer away. It’s the only way to get them to break the habit! (Signed, someone who spent way too many formative years with accounting departments 🤣)

Hey Bob, just sent you a dm. If your engineering team is using Jira/Confluence stack, you can extend the function of Confluence to accommodate this.

Doesnt dotloop have this on their platform

danbenjamin.com/podcastmethod/

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Actually will DM, have a commercial mic available! But you should talk to Fatima Zaidi

Hi Mike! Feel free to email me at [email protected] and I can send you a few options!

Obviously Awesome!

Purple Cow - Seth Godin

The mom test by Rob Fitzpatrick

Start with Why.

Storybrand and Marketing made simple - both by Donald Miller

Native tools are powerful dependent on your goals. Happy to chat via DM if you wish. Also, Sprout Social might be an option on a limited budget.

There are a lot of websites that can help you create GDPR compliant policies. I would recommend checking those out first.

Ordower Law has some pretty reasonable costs for startups. But I agree with Nasib Ahmed

Hi Subajini - I do consulting for all things GDPR from Privacy by Design, and DSAR processes up to policies. The policies are only good if you actually do the work to be compliant 😉 Send me a DM if you need help.

By "the language", I assume you mean the privacy notice/policy, but GDPR goes a lot deeper in its requirements. I recommend finding a fractional privacy officer (as well as security officer) if you can't afford a full-time one, who's constantly keeping you updated. [email protected] if you have any questions about this, or feel free to ask here. I am not a lawyer, but I've been doing privacy law compliance for SMEs for ~15 years (Canadian privacy laws have been around longer than this and are similar) and was given the title security expert for Canada's largest company before moving into privacy and consulting. I also used to be one of the first international trainers for the IAPP, the international association of privacy professionals.

Sounds basically like what we have been building with wild apricot for 12 years. Flexibility is awesome but ux trumps everything.nfps are mostly run by very non techy part time volunteers

Even when you have dedicated digitally-savvy staff the key is to have usable modules that fit a few boxes. The idea of “this can take any form” can dissuade folks from a product decision. Paralyzing choice, and all that.

Having worked in that space before moving over to SaaS these days, many NFP do not have dedicated staff dealing with data administration, or software/tech functions, instead, these platforms will touch various roles within the organization as a side function, particularly the overworked administrative folks. When we or our member associations were looking at solutions, it usually came down to: a) Best functionality was cobbling together dynamic and ever-evolving Salesforce/Hubspot/Dynamics 365 with a Wordpress CRM + Front End, and then having integration widgets to make it work together. b) A dedicated association SaaS vendor that did offer an all-in-one, but had rigid software that the smaller vendor might not improve and maintain at the rate as using a Salesforce / Microsoft solution. So If I understand the mutable aspect, I'd set up sub-brands for the various association/nfp segments (e.g.: charities, advocacy Associations, social services etc) you are targeting and after customer research, setup schema and spaces that already look familiar to them, while still retaining some flexibility for their "unique" needs as many NFP think or actually tend to have. Once you have that setup, pre-covid, you'd get the best eyeballs at booths at annual conventions for most segments.

Hi Najeeb Khan we can certainly use some design help and happy to barter our knowledge of react/node

Mobina Basiri!

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Hi Jill! My Toronto-based firm, Cobalt Lawyers, does technology-assisted document review for an affordable rate - We specialize in startups and small businesses. Feel free to PM me if you're still looking for counsel.

Amy Kitchen runs a company Better than Fine.

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Thanks everyone! They look like amazing companies. Have reached out to both. Let’s see!

Shari Wert

Ninth Decimal

We can help you. 7thsensemarketing.ca

Hey Subajini Jayasekaran I run a design and marketing studio along side a writer and photographer. We have handled a variety of digital and print promotions and would love to learn more about your project. You can check out our work at our website: www.fookcommunications.com

Looks like you have some options. Hit me up for some other recommendations if these do not pan out. Or if you'd like help assessing them. I'm not an agency. Just know a ton in this space as well as many of probably thousands of good players out there.

Hi I'm interested

Definitely interested as a mentor.

Definitely interested! Please send me details at [email protected]

Nick Nguyen

Interested in helping out

Interested in helping.

Hey! I'm Viet-fluent and more than happy to offer translation and help connect Viet startups

Why not?

Happy to help if I can

Happy to help

Happy to help as well.

I’m based in Montreal and Cambodia, will be happy to help

Happy to provide marketing, start-up or medtech support. Love Vietnam, but I don’t speak the language unfortunately.

I'd be interested if they need support with anything relating to HR and Recruiting.

Hit me up too pls, bro

cool riddle bud, tryna get laid or what? John Carbrey

1) Setup the US company an an LP with the Canadian Company a partner. Then license the CDN tech to the American company. 2) Setup a US company that owns shares in the CDN company, let them invest in the US company. Obviously u need to keep the us ownership low enough to maintain it as a CCCP. 3) we setup an us entity with a license and allow the Americans to invest in it. The story is about the income in the US company. We also did a 3 layer structure. Nobody has asked about investing in the CDN corp. One person asked about in investing in the US mother ship. We tied it around some real estate and Opportunity Zone financing with NMTC. And we are now tossing in some C-PACE debt. Its a good deal for American investors, we have some of the big guns interested and they are all focused on the US structure and ignore the Canadian company.

Message me if you want some help.

www.coryingwersen.com/ did our site in Webflow and did an incredible job.

Meet my friend Hollie Hoadley at Creative Solutions!

🤦‍♂️ webflow?

www.tomyum.co/ talk to Jason Li

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Newton Zheng

R3VE.com we're in Toronto.

Perhaps we can help www.scienceofconnectivity.com/pages/development-page

renga.co we are from Toronto

I recommend Blackcreek – they're a design-led tech agency in Toronto and are experts in Webflow! blackcreek.io/

www.instagram.com/heyHarleyOliver !!! Webflow experts and even growing the WebFlow team.

Harley Oliver!!

Simon Shen !

Crowdlinker and Aram Melkoumov did an amazing job on a webflow/webapp hybrid for us.

Just messaged you

PMed you!

I can help.

You should explore some of the marketplace builders like www.sharetribe.com/...

Not sure if Market Box is doing B2B marketplace support, but Diana Goodwin has grown through your challenge a few times over the past 7 years! www.gomarketbox.com/about

Thanks Blake Connoy! Hi Fahmad, if you are looking to build a service marketplace or marketplace with mobile workers, this is MarketBox's wheelhouse. Happy to chat!

Hi everyone thanks for the overwhelming support, will get back to you all