BIG IDEAS
for small business
Business Development

BIG IDEAS 
for growing your business

  • 8 years of direct experience setting up and growing new businesses in US, Canada and Europe
  • Launched Staples Canada "Corporate Advantage" channel targeting businesses with 8 to 50 employees - unique business model applying US best practices to local customer research
  • Catalog only pilot to reduce time to market /investment - beat all its metrics and rolled out nation-wide after three months
  • 'Jury rigged' customer-centric pricing - methodology used by Staples US delivery to create $1+ billion preferred customer program
  • Launched Staples European e-commerce business creating a scalable, internationalized web-platform allowing rapid roll out to new countries - now in 14 countries, 11 languages, 9 brands
  • Joined Staples UK in its first year and helped grow it from 3 stores to over 40 in 4 years
  • Card game publishing business start up focusing on using short print runs to try out games from brand new designers - successful pilot with 2 of first 4 games included in 2007 GAMES 100 list



Ed Carter
Independent Consultant
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