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Week 10- Keith Durrant

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Keith Durrant CEO of Ecentricarts https://www.ecentricarts.com Ecentricarts Keith Durrant is the co-founder and CEO of Ecentricarts which is a digital marketing agency in Toronto. Their core values consists on creating work with purpose with a focus on content, design, development and strategic planning. The culture at their company comprises of different production teams with similar skillsets thus, creating a team-centred environment. Durrant played a short video showing the different production teams in his company and there are none that are left alone. It was quite interesting to see the different teams that help drive the company's works and knowing that when you are in a company, you are not working alone. Others will see and give feedback on process before allowing the client to see the product. As someone, who is not confident in their work yet to start a project by herself, I can see how starting out in a company would give someone that experience of work...

Week 9- Sabaa Quao

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Photo by  Tarik Haiga  on  Unsplash Sabaa Quao Career Entrepreneur, Creative Director & Business Strategist https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sabaa Sabaa Quao's LinkedIn profile Entrepreneur Sabaa Quao is a career entrepreneur and has his own personal business he created called the Newsrooms. His marketing and consulting portfolio consists of designs for the NBA teams, different drinks, such as Coca Cola, Corona and different banks, like the RBC Royal Bank. It is interesting how expanded his works are and eventually building up his own marketing business. He has mentioned that despite the different career paths we choose, it will never stay linear. He first started out his business career named XCORPORATION and continued working as the president and creative director for 10 years, until a setback came along in which he had to lay off a couple of his workers. Not all business can stay afloat for long without knowing the threats along the way. As advice ...