Vendasta among Canada’s Top Growing Companies

Vendasta is proud to announce it secured a spot on The Globe and Mail’s 2021 Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies. With verified three-year revenue growth of 101%, the end-to-end ecommerce platform ranked #316 among the nation’s fastest-growing businesses. In total, 448 companies earned a spot on this year’s list.

‘The world is looking at our talent’: How will Canada fare in the global competition for tech workers?

Vendasta has long looked for new hires beyond its home turf in Saskatoon. “We have a ton of raw talent at the junior level —the [University of Saskatchewan’s] got a fantastic comp-science department,” said CEO Brendan King. But the Prairie city is less stocked with candidates with product management and marketing expertise, or executives with experience scaling companies. So pre-pandemic, Vendasta brought in foreign workers via Canada’s fast-track program for tech talent, and hired senior staff in Seattle, Chicago and other U.S. cities who flew in regularly.

5 tactics to scale your agency

For every dollar a local business owner spends on technology and digital solutions, $2.50 is spent on implementation and ongoing services from marketing agencies and other local experts. Digital technology is a $220 billion market that is rapidly expanding and comes with its own set of challenges. A 2020 survey of more than 600 respondents reveals local agencies and business experts saying their inability to scale operations is the number one challenge they face in providing digital solutions to local businesses.