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Concerto Presents at the HRMA Conference

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

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Last month Concerto Marketing was proud to be a part of the drive for people, passion and profit in Canada. Nick Black, Vice-President at Concerto, was invited by the BC Human Resources Management Association to speak at their Annual Conference. The 75 minute session provided an overview of our 2009 Trust Study, and explained to over 100 HR professionals “why trust is the key to building a strong organization, and how organizations and brands can harness trust.”

We would like to thank the conference team at the BCHRMA for inviting us to speak, and the BC Association of Clinical Counselors for sponsoring our session. In keeping with our brand essence of certainty, we thought we’d share the evaluation scores provided by some of our session attendees:

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More information on the event can be found below:

- BCHRMA Annual Conference: People, Passion Profit (May 6th)

- Photo Credit: Jon Benjamin Photography

Concerto Sponsors the BCAMA Vision Conference

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

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Last week, Concerto Marketing Group was a sponsor of the BCAMA Vision Conference. The annual conference brought together over three-hundred of the Pacific North-West’s best and brightest marketers, to explore “shifts in consumer behavior, attitudes and business practices.”

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Some of the conference speakers who “discussed how companies must adapt in order to capitalize on these shifts,” included Jeremy Gutsche (Founder of Trendhunter.com), Jeffrey Hayzlett (Former CMO of Kodak Eastman) and Terry O’Reilly (Author of The Age of Persuasion).

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As part of our conference sponsorship, and in keeping with our brand essence, we were proud to deliver a small taste of “Certain Tea” to our fellow marketers on the day. A big shout-out to friends at David’s Tea, who helped us ensure there was plenty of “Certain Tea” to go around.

If you’d like more information on the conference, you can find a link below:

- BCAMA 2010 Vision Conference (May 13th)

Concerto Helps Revitalize the CIAA

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

claimscanadaThe insurance industry is a complex and ever-changing sector of the Canadian economy with many stakeholders. Recently, Concerto helped bring certainty and clarity on the industry to the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association (CIAA) through an innovative project. By conducting a comprehensive study of stakeholder perceptions, Concerto provided the CIAA with key insights that helped the association establish its strategic priorities. The project was managed by Concerto Research Director Clay Olsen and the results delivered by Partner Rob Dawson in a day long strategy forum that brought representatives from every facet of the industry together. The work was featured as the cover story in the CIAA’s national magazine.

Read the full article here

Strategy Magazine: Those Who Don’t Think, Aggregate

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

strategy-magazine1Our Creative Director, Craig Redmond, was featured in the January issue of Strategy Magazine with an article titled, ‘Those who don’t think, aggregate’. In the article, he highlights work done by Concerto researchers for Dell and Intel as an example of brand leaders seeking out original ideas that will stand out from the ‘tsunami of sameness’.