Eric Canada

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About Eric Canada

Eric Canada is a Partner at Blane, Canada and Managing Director of Cluster Initiatives at Synchronist Lab. He provides strategic direction, operations manager, quality control, and resource recruitment/management. At Blane, Canada: We’ve returned to our roots with a renewed focus on what we do best: marketing. But this time, we’re taking it to the next level—bringing cutting-edge digital marketing and automation solutions to mid-sized businesses and organizations.What sets us apart? It’s simple: experience and perspective. We’ve owned and managed multiple small businesses ourselves, giving us firsthand insight into the challenges business owners face. Coupled with a broad understanding of the competitive and ever-changing business environment, we know how to help businesses thrive, no matter the industry. We are blending our 40 years of business experience with the latest innovations in digital marketing and AI-enabled automation. Our goal is to help you reclaim your time, streamline your processes, and achieve measurable results.Synchronist Lab: Launches and supports cooperative business development strategies for small and mid-sized manufacturers. The Lab helps grow firms by bringing together SME firms. the Lab organizes and supports manufacturing networks of SME companies connected to a shared cluster. These PROACTIVE networks help SME manufacturers break down barriers to diversify their client base and grow their business. This proven strategy helped 38 companies generate over $2M in new sales; and, building a network of 57 companies in 18 months while taking participants on trade missions and to their first tradeshow securing 60 quality business prospects for cluster participants. Canada is also an experienced software developer working with a group to research, develop, launch, and manage a new patented process for customer service that calculated unique 8-digit numbers representing each company’s Value, Growth potential, Risk of leaving, and level of Satisfaction. Over 1,500 economic development organizations utilized Synchronist software for data analysis and reporting of over executive interviews.A collaborator, Canada has consistently formed groups of aligned interest to solve problems and create opportunities, e.g. 8-member business retention research coalition; 3-cluster manufacturing initiatives; and the National 2020 COVID Response Network resulting in a national data dashboard of the impact on businesses across the US and the Illinois Energy Group of manufacturers to collaborate on energy efficiency and cost.