October 1st, 2021
At The Tech Effect, our overarching goal as a career incubator and accelerator has always been to support digital marketing, advertising and tech professionals with the resources and networking opportunities they need to succeed at various stages of their careers.
Since our inception in 2019, we’ve been assisting diverse talent to navigate the digital economy, build connections, secure meaningful employment, and boost their personal brand and/or business by providing them collaborative, hands-on experience, industry-specific development, job skills-focused programming, mentorship, and more.
To expand The Tech Effect’s impact, empower small business recovery and create career opportunities for young professionals through digital marketing, we’re excited to announce a partnership with Grow with Search – a results-focused digital marketing agency serving growth-focused business owners across Canada and the United States.
Through this strategic partnership, The Tech Effect and Grow with Search look forward to helping more Canadian business owners and career-oriented professionals move past the pandemic and prosper through the promising power of digital marketing today for the long-term.
Our Founder and Executive Director, Kareem Perez calls this “an exciting opportunity”. Combining forces with Grow with Search allows us to provide our community members with direct access to opportunities and educational resources that are leveraged by a leading digital agency such as theirs. “As a growing community of over 500 members from across the world, our mission is to help digital marketing, advertising, and tech professionals accelerate their career. This partnership allows us to do that by providing first-hand insight into what it’s like working with an agency and using digital marketing strategies to generate leads and results for clients,” says Kareem.
Grow with Search, founded in 2006, is Canada’s leading results-focused digital marketing agency for SMBs, having served 300+ clients since 2013. The company – led by CEO Matt Colangelo – boasts an in-house team of twelve, from Toronto to Vancouver, committed to helping growth-focused business owners establish a complete online presence that generates inbound leads and customers from across the digital marketing landscape.
“Over the years, I’ve admired watching Matt and his team help small and medium businesses grow through results-oriented, holistic digital marketing strategies,” says Kareem. “As the digital landscape evolves, businesses need to establish a complete online presence, and digital it’s essential for marketers to understand this so they can help businesses thrive in the digital economy,” he adds.
Matt Colangelo echoes the sentiment and calls this collaboration with The Tech Effect “a perfect fit” to what he and Kareem stand for. “Our strategic partnership with Kareem Perez and The Tech Effect allows us to follow through on our commitment to creating meaningful career opportunities for young professionals while ensuring our valued clients get the results they need through the power of digital marketing. Kareem brings over a decade of digital marketing leadership to our team, while the ecosystem through The Tech Effect opens up the opportunity to recruit and mentor fresh talent,” says Matt.
About The Tech Effect
The Tech Effect is a marketing and tech career accelerator that provides professionals with the necessary knowledge and resources to succeed throughout various stages of their careers. Through community events, experiential learning programs, and strategic mentorship, The Tech Effect helps professionals navigate the digital economy, secure meaningful employment, and grow into world-class industry leaders. The Tech Effect aspires to build the largest global community of marketing, advertising, and tech professionals who work together to solve challenges and succeed collectively. To make that vision a reality, it focuses on three key areas: improving access to marketing and tech job opportunities, sharing career advice with its community to accelerate their professional development, and providing networking opportunities to connect them with industry experts.
About Grow with Search
Grow with Search is a results-focused digital marketing agency serving growth-focused business owners across Canada and the United States. Through a suite of digital marketing solutions, Grow with Search helps its clients build out a complete online presence that creates a competitive advantage in the marketplace and produces inbound leads and customers from all the digital marketing channels that work today. With offices located in both Vancouver and Toronto, Grow with Search has been serving its clients since 2013 with long-term results and boasts a team of 12 digital marketing professionals.
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