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We're shutting down Soshal.

"You could say closing Soshal is a casualty of the pandemic, another mark against 2020. But, we feel much differently; it is a sign of maturity and of growth."

Read more: https://craftandcrew.ca/pulse/news/were-shutting-down-soshal/

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We're Shutting Down Soshal It's been a great 10 years, but we're shutting down Soshal. Learn more about what this means to you.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Kelly Rusk has joined Soshal as our new Managing Director! What a great addition to our team! :)

Soshal - Soshal welcomes new Managing Director, Kelly Rusk Soshal is a full service digital agency based in Ottawa, Canada. We provide consulting, experience design, & marketing innovation services to underdog brands.

Due to the rapidly-changing nature of COVID-19, our Digital Marketing Certificate, which we produce in partnership with the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, will be delivered online starting May 4th.

If you are a marketer or entrepreneur who currently finds themselves wondering how your business can respond to COVID-19, chances are digital marketing will now, more than ever, become the focal point in your strategy. Let us arm you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to evolve quickly.

Click below to learn more about how we're adapting the program:

Telfer Digital Marketing Certificate and COVID-19 Learn advanced digital marketing skills from industry professionals in this hands-on program focusing on today's essential tools and areas of expertise.

We’ve promoted Sarah Bootsma to Senior Visual & UI Designer and Mo Fawzy to PPC Manager! Thank you both for bringing intense amounts of passion to your respective crafts! 🙏🏼

Soshal has promoted Lisa Kupfer to Director of Brand & Product Strategy, and Sébastien Chiappa-Ménard to Director of Experience Design, as the agency focuses its niche!

Congrats, Lisa and Seb! 🚀

Soshal - Soshal names two new directors. Soshal is a full service digital agency based in Ottawa, Canada. We provide consulting, experience design, & marketing innovation services to underdog brands.

We're hiring a new Business Development Coordinator! If you or someone you know is a great fit, based on the description, please consider applying. 😁

https://soshal.ca/careers/business-development-coordinator

Soshal - Business Development Coordinator Soshal is a full service digital agency based in Ottawa, Canada. We provide consulting, experience design, & marketing innovation services to underdog brands.

We're hiring an entrepreneurial person to play a valuable role on Soshal's leadership team as Account Director!

If you or someone you know is looking for new opportunities to work with innovative local, national, and international companies like Kobo, REALTOR.ca, SurveyMonkey, TD, and Xplornet click below for more details.

Soshal - Account Director Soshal is a full service digital agency based in Ottawa, Canada. We provide consulting, experience design, & marketing innovation services to underdog brands.

Here's our position on WordPress' Gutenberg, "We have fundamental questions about the platform's underlying philosophy - much of which runs counter to some of the core concepts of Soshal's development practice and the enterprise needs of our clients."

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Soshal - Our position on Wordpress' Gutenberg Soshal is a full service digital agency based in Ottawa, Canada. We provide consulting, experience design, & marketing innovation services to underdog brands.

Groupe Média TFO, the go-to resource for audiences seeking innovative educational and cultural content in French, has named Soshal their partner in developing digital product strategies. We are proud to support the mission of such an important organization!”

Groupe Média TFO nous a nommés comme partenaire pour le développement de stratégies de produits numériques. TFO est reconnu comme une ressource incontournable pour les auditoires recherchant du contenu innovateur dans les domaines de l’éducation et de la culture en français. Nous sommes fiers de supporter la mission d’une organisation d’une telle importance!

To kick off Soshal's new agency partnership with Rakuten Kobo, their communications team tasked us with redesigning the Newsroom and Blog. The brief was simple enough...improve the reading experience for the company with award-winning eReaders, apps, and content?!

We're about to embark on a significant UX & design project for one of Canada's largest brands and need your unique set of skills!

https://soshal.ca/careers/

Soshal - Careers We're a Canadian Design & Marketing Agency. We're experts in designing identities, websites, and apps for startups, entrepreneurs, and global brands.

Nice to see Strategy pick up our new Running Room work! 🙏

Running Room makes room for all runners The family-owned fitness retailer's new spot may serve as a springboard for a future platform.

This is our team (minus Maddie). We’re not the biggest, or the loudest, or the most awarded. But the value these people create for some of the world’s largest brands and most demanding marketers is unreal. We’re proud of the fact that 53% of our staff are women and that today the #1 reason people said they loved working with us was because of our people. We have some big things lined up for 2019; see you on the other side. ✌🏽

Learn how we scored with first-time homebuyers, exceeding REALTOR.ca's targets by 219%: https://soshal.ca/case-studies/realtor

Soshal updated their address.

Soshal updated their website address.

We're excited to announce that Soshal is now handling acquisitions strategy, creative, and media duties for Xplornet Communications!

Apply now to Ottawa's most valuable education for marketing executives, professionals, and post-secondary graduates. www.ottawadmc.ca

Early bird registration for the next semester of the Telfer Digital Marketing Certificate, produced by Soshal, ends January 30th!

Awesome to wake up and see our longtime client, REALTOR.ca, in Strategy Mag!

Inside CREA's hackathon A look at how "open innovation" is helping the real estate organization fend off disruption.

Our Marketing team continues to grow with the addition of Daniel Lachance, Marketing & PPC Specialist!

Developers, UX designers, startups, and entrepreneurs: registration is now open for the first ever REALTOR.ca Hackathon!

For the first time ever, the Canadian Real Estate Association (client) is opening up a suite of its data sets from Canada's No. 1 real estate website. Over a non-stop, 48-hour period, you get to challenge yourself and other competing teams to design, build and demo a real-world solution that provides simpler, smarter, faster ways for buyers to find the right home and drives more meaningful connections between REALTORS® and consumers.

https://hackathon.realtor.ca/

REALTOR.ca Hackathon 2018 - Registration now open Developers, UX designers, startups, and entrepreneurs: come together for the first ever REALTOR.ca Hackathon!

It was time for us to help Canada’s largest online-only university (Athabasca) take on a new identity and achieve its first enrollment growth in over three years!

https://soshal.ca/case-studies/athabasca-university

Learn how we built a customer acquisition system that exceeded Clover Leaf's targets by over 300%! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

https://soshal.ca/case-studies/clover-leaf-seafoods.

Change the way real estate works! We're excited for the first-ever REALTOR.ca Hackathon coming to Ottawa this fall. Challenge accepted? Get the details: http://hackathon.REALTOR.ca/

"The Soshal team really pushed our thinking. You guys are the s**t!" - James Nixon, Art Director, York University Magazine.

https://soshal.ca/case-studies/york-magazine

We're looking for a Bilingual Marketing & PPC Specialist.

If you love stocked beer fridges, five weeks vacation, and an awesome team, this is the job for you!

Soshal - Marketing & PPC Specialist We're a Canadian Design & Marketing Agency. We're experts in designing identities, websites, and apps for startups, entrepreneurs, and global brands.

"We will definitely work with them again and highly recommend to any company looking to improve its digital strategy!"

— Natacha Moussi - Desjardins Group

Soshal - Digital Strategy and SEO | Case Study | Desjardins North America’s largest association of credit unions, Desjardins, partnered with Soshal to improve its digital strategy and search engine optimization.

What is company culture? And why does it matter?

Learn from Lisa Kupfer about why company culture is more than bean bags and beer Fridays on the Soshal blog.

Soshal - Culture is more than bean bags and beer Fridays. Good company culture is a catalyst for productivity, a boost for reputation, and a contributor to a stable long-term retention rate. How well do you know yours?

More of our Monkey business showed up yesterday in Strategy Magazine.🐵

SurveyMonkey rolls out global rebrand Aspects of work first created by Ottawa agency Soshal for one product have now been adopted for other initiatives.

The Ottawa Business Journal interviewed us to discuss how we're managing big clients like SurveyMonkey and why product design should be on Ottawa startups’ minds from day one:

Ottawa’s Soshal lands SurveyMonkey contract | Ottawa Business Journal Creative agency CEO shares insights into design trends for growing tech firms

Tomorrow is the GDPR implementation date. Are you ready?

Check out our blog post on GDPR, what it means, and how it might affect you.

Soshal - What is the GDPR and How Does it Affect You? The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming May 25, 2018, and affects organizations worldwide. What is it, and how will it affect your website?

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming May 25th and affects organizations worldwide. So what is it, and how does it affect your organization?

Soshal - What is the GDPR and How Does it Affect You? The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming May 25, 2018, and affects organizations worldwide. What is it, and how will it affect your website?

The world's favourite survey animal partnered with us for the global roll out of its new brand. We ❤️ Monkey business.

Soshal - Survey Monkey | Case Study

We re-designed IntouchInsight.com as the company prepared to launch its new platform, LiaCX. 🙌

Intouch Insight's products help more than 300 brands including General Motors, The Beer Store, and FedEx track customer engagement and satisfaction and they were great clients to work with over the last few months!

Ottawa-based Intouch Insight’s new product culminates a 26-year journey | Ottawa Business Journal After hiring 40 new employees and raising $3.5 million to develop a new product, Intouch Insight's CEO says the company is ready to cash in on its investment.

Our Delivery team keeps growing with the addition of Meghan Graham! 🙌

Madelyn Becotte has joined Soshal as a Project Manager! She brings great client-side experience as the Manager, Strategic Partnerships at United Way Ottawa and is an awesome addition to our Delivery team!