Client Reviews Archives
Web Marketing, SEO + New Media
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Classic Marketing + Advertising
"Steve Klein and the Marketing Breakthroughs team act as our V.P
Marketing and have provided very meaningful input and improvement
to our marketing brochures, signs, flyers, and web page. Their
assistance has without a doubt improved our marketing and
profitability.
We strongly recommend their services to any local business."
See the Web Copy Produced by Marketing Breakthroughs for District
Realty
Jason Shinder
Executive Vice President
District Realty
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"During the past five years, working closely with us, Steve has
prepared our annual marketing plan and carefully managed its
execution. He and his team have designed more than 20 direct mail
campaigns, dozens of radio ads, new corporate branding and
positioning for our business, presentation materials for our
advisors, MS PowerPoint presentations for our events, and program
and print ads for our charitable partners.
We've always been impressed with their ability to deliver focused
and compelling messages on our behalf ... As a result of Marketing
Breakthroughs' work, we have more than doubled our audience at our
seminars and presentations."
Franco Frangione
President
Canada Retirement Information Centre
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"Should you choose to work with Marketing Breakthroughs, you'll
be working with a team that carefully listens to your needs and
goals to produce original marketing and advertising solutions that
will help your organization move forward.
Most importantly, the staff is extremely proud of their work and
will work extra hard to make sure clients are satisfied with the
final product, each and every time."
Stuart Ages
Vice President
Paramount Properties
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"In 1995...(we) engaged Steve Klein and Marketing Breakthroughs
to take a fresh look at our marketing collateral, our brand image,
and our overall approach to attracting and retaining new
clients.
Perseverance, attention to detail, an excellent understanding of
what it takes , and originality, would all be terms that would
describe Steve and his staff at Marketing Breakthroughs ... Steve
has put us at the head of the class. "
Bob Robertson, CA
Partner
Wilkinson & Company LLP
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"Steve's approach was, right from the start, warm and
collaborative. He took great care to find out what OSSD does and
how he could best help us without fundamentally changing who we are
... His fundraising, development, promotional and marketing plans
were carefully tailored to fit our organization -- they are
personal and professional."
Amanda Lewis
Artistic Director
The Ottawa School of Speech & Drama
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"I want to thank you for your excellent assistance to our
company when we were developing our marketing strategy ... You and
your staff were professional, courteous, and prompt in responding
to our needs. Your team was understanding and very responsive to
our feedback and would go the extra mile to incorporate our
suggestions into the final product.
Your coaching skills were very helpful and informative and allowed
us to man the booth at the tradeshow with confidence and
professionalism. Your business savvy helped us raise our company's
profile in the biometrics industry."
John Campbell
President
Bion Biometric
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"Steve's team listened to our needs, did a lot of research, and
presented an outstanding package. The quality of their copywriting
and studio work has been truly excellent. The bottom line …
we got tremendous results."
Randy Knight
President
Knight Chev Olds Cadillac Ltd.
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"Marketing Breakthroughs has assisted in developing and creating
a new corporate brand identity for both Templeman Menninga and TCGI
(Templeman Consulting Group Inc.) through numerous marketing
pieces... Highlights include: excellent lines of communication,
highest quality graphic design services, up-front options for
consideration, first rate copywriting and imaginative ideas with a
high degree of originality...
My overall opinion is one of highest regard for the end product
delivered by Steve Klein and his team of professionals."
Allan Laanemets
Director Administration
Templeman Menninga LLP
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"Steve Klein is a proven leader with exceptional communication
skills, a talent for constructive leadership, and the ability to
deliver outstanding results. When I work with Steve, I succeed. I
look forward to continuing that tradition."
Janet Stavinga
Former Councillor, Goulbourn Ward
City of Ottawa
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"The services delivered by Marketing Breakthroughs were
instrumental in the progress we have made in selling our product to
a wide range of constituents. Steve Klein and his staff were very
thorough in performing an in-depth needs analysis so they in turn
could provide us with quality graphic design services and other
marketing planning recommendations.
In my opinion, they have the ability to develop state-of-the-art
and/or best in class marketing materials."
Ted Reid
Dean
Loyalist College Training and Development Centre
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"Henderson Security has expanded rapidly during the past several
years, assisted in a major way by the very high-impact products
developed by Marketing Breakthroughs."
Ron Farrell
General Manager
Henderson Security Solutions Inc
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It is with great confidence that I recommend your services. The
Marketing Breakthroughs team simultaneously worked on two of our
projects and, to our delight, the finished products were
exceptional … surpassing all our expectations!"
Kevin Hill, R.R.F.A., C.I.T
Director of Parks, Recreation and Culture
Town of Greater Napanee
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"The Municipality and community partners would highly recommend
Marketing Breakthroughs as a dynamic firm that provides the tools
needed to initiate and complete important marketing and
communications projects for its clients in a timely and very
professional manner."
Lorraine Brace
CAO
Municipality of Trent Hills
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"As a result of your crafting of the proposal and assistance
with marketing, we are now operating a very large ABI program in
Ottawa. In coordinating our Capital Campaign, you were able to
bring together a group of community members who, with your
direction, were able to raise a very substantial amount of
money..."
Marilyn Lamb
Executive Director
Pathways To Independence
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E-Recruiting + Employer Branding
"Now when a prospective employee or client visits our website,
they are treated to a multimedia environment ... The streaming
video project was hugely successful and has greatly increased the
exposure of our firm to potential candidates ... Steve Klein and
Marketing Breakthroughs have once again addressed a need within our
firm, and in record time, designed and implemented a
solution."
Lynda Carter, CA
Partner
Scott, Rankin & Gardiner LLP
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Seminars + Conferences + Executive Training
"Financial planners can be complacent when it comes to
advertising and promotion, most just depending on referrals. But
you showed them how they can increase business from all areas with
just a few simple steps and techniques. And you made the whole
thing fun!"
Judith Cane
President
Antara Financial Group
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"We did not wish for a 'canned' presentation and we certainly
did not receive one. The hard copy take-aways make for excellent,
personalized reference material."
Douglas A.S. Rankin, CA, CFP
Partner
Scott, Rankin & Gardiner LLP
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"I recall looking at my partner and saying '… it's only
9.30 am and already this seminar has paid for itself!' All eyes
were keenly riveted upon your delivery, which was extremely
poignant, yet peppered with real-life examples and plenty of
humorous anecdotes.
In the weeks that have followed our workshop, we have seen a
marked positive difference in the attitude and morale of our team,
which has translated into a more effective, efficient,
understanding, and most of all, fun environment!"
Brendon Hunt
President
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"The topics covered by Steve were both new and useful and I
found myself making copious notes. His was one of the best
conference workshops I have ever attended."
Rebel Hardy
Performance Improvement Manager
Humber College
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"Steve Klein's Power Marketing & Networking seminar
was a smart investment for our company. The insight gained and
utilized by our directors has helped strengthen and elevate our
brand identity in the community. The professionalism of Mr. Klein's
presentation is first class.
I highly recommend any company interested in raising the standard
of customer service and marketing share, to allow Steve Klein and
his professional staff at Marketing Breakthroughs to assist
them."
Kevin Weaver
O.D.C. & Funeral Planning Consultant
Weaver Family Funeral Homes
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"We have been dealing with Marketing Breakthroughs since the
inception of TCGI in 1997. We have been very impressed with their
overall ability to organize and manage large integrated projects
with multiple stakeholders.
We have always been extremely pleased with the quality of services
MB has provided to our firm. The website created for TCGI
(Templeman Consulting Group Inc.) by Steve and his team is
innovative and exciting. Our firm's marketing tools such as:
letterhead, business cards, principal biographies and information
brochures and pamphlets are esthetically pleasing and
informative."
Terrence A.F. Whyte, BA, LLB, CHRP
Managing Partner
Templeman Consulting Group Inc.
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"Thank you so much for your terrific presentation to our
members. Yours was the first to give realistic and beneficial
advice. You kept the audience involved and kept the energy level up
… you delivered the steak and the sizzle!"
Len Bates
President
Toronto Chapter, Ontario Society for Training and
Development
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"Thank you so much for coming to speak to our group. Your
presentation was not only motivational, but electrifying. I really
enjoyed your audience participation and personal anecdotes.
Hopefully we can have you back ..."
Rob Desaulniers, CMA
Chair, Quinte Chapter
Society of Management Accountants
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"Your seminars offer immediate results … your high
quality ideas have increased our clients' business in numerous
ways."
Visit the R.G. Packman website.
Carol-lee Whipple
Professional Development Coordinator
R.G. Packman & Associates Ltd.
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"A dozen different words could be used to describe your sales
training program: innovative, creative, provocative . . . . but the
best would be thorough. You covered it all, and then some. I truly
believe your guidance was a major factor in my current
success."
Dan Cahalane
Sales Manager
Packaging Corporation of America
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"Your presence contributed measurably to our success and the
success of the program."
T. E. Taylor, CAE
COO & CEO-Standards
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