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Customized Marketing and Sales Training

An accomplished author and trainer, Eric Canada creates and presents customized marketing training courses designed specifically for clients. He has developed and presented many marketing courses based on the principles in our books, Economic Development: Marketing for Results! and Marketer's Planning Guide. Courses are a blend of basic marketing principles and hands-on techniques. Content is built around the client's specific needs to insure the workshop achieves your goals.

Blane, Canada Ltd.'s exclusive modular training allows clients to select components to customize training, address important local issues, and reinforce critical development objectives.

Participants have had strong, positive reactions. There are three reasons for this strong reaction: content, presentation, and fun. Eric practices what he calls "edutainment." In addition to strong content from his books, the only comprehensive books on economic development marketing he continues ongoing research, and provides participants with tools to be successful, i.e. SharkProof Marketing Formula™, Oreo Marketing, Life Cycle Test™. He provides ways to remember important points with metaphors like an airfoil, balloons, beach balls, and tinker toys. The reward is the positive reaction because learning is made to be fun and motivating.

Participants' Comments:

"The participants gave an average rating of 94 out of 100 for your session on economic development marketing." - Illinois

"If I had this course 20 years ago, I would be more successful today." - New York

"Superb strategies and tips...It's apparent that Eric loves what he does." - Oklahoma

"Very useful - real world - tremendous need for this in the profession." - California

"Eric Canada speaks from real-life experience to provide practical tools for marketing..." - New York

"Your marketing course set me on a real course of true marketing for this Chamber that I believe will take us to the next level." - South Carolina

"You amaze me! I've been in the development business a long time. I thought I'd heard it all. Now, I've heard you three times - each time was new. Not just the examples, new concepts! Wow!" - Michigan


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