Season 2

We are now officially in the holiday season, and depending on your business, it can be one of the busiest times of the year. It is also one of the most charitable times of the year and we'd like to focus on that this month.

Having a website without proper Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is like opening a shop in a dark alley in the world's largest city without proper signage leading customers to your door.

We've given our podcast a bit of an SEO and branding makeover. It's just good business. That's the podcast. It's Just Good Business.

September is Elevate Festival 2023. Al dives into the 3-day technology and innovation festival and all the reasons entrepreneurs should attend this festival from world-class speakers, cutting-edge content tracks, to next-level networking.

Al explores the potential of harnessing big data for small businesses and the importance of data-driven decision-making. He is joined by Brian Ford and Victoria Clark from ATB to talk about how they're supporting business in Alberta.

The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of many businesses in Canada. Al welcomes Sean Barkulis from Wix to talk about how their platform is helping businesses with that transformation.

It's the first full year back to normal for many businesses, so we thought we'd take a look at how things are going so far and what are some of the challenges being faced by small Canadian businesses.

Al is also joined by Michelle Slater, Senior Director North American Marketing at Indeed. Michelle shares some data and provides her tips on how to improve the candidate experience.

This month Al speaks with Mark Langmead, Director, Revenue and Compass Operations at Translink to talk about how transit companies have adopted unattended payment solutions to great success.

In this month's episode, Al speaks with Aviva Klein, VP Digital Payments and Cyber and Intelligence at Mastercard. Aviva talks about what Mastercard is doing to keep their cardholders and businesses secure.

Al also speaks with René-Pier Plourde, Content Marketing Manager at UEAT, who talks about the upcoming big game in the US, how that may affect the restaurant business, and how restaurants can prepare for the increased business.

We look back at some of the final spend data of 2022 with our resident Consumer Spending Data expert Sean McCormick. Then we will look forward to 2023 with Jordan Williamson, VP Product Strategy and Data Solutions at Moneris.