Optiv8, a brand operating under Rick Shea Enterprises Inc. is led by founder Rick Shea, a promotion marketing industry expert with a unique perspective and depth of knowledge gleaned from 18 years working with Nielsen Promotion Services (division of AC Nielsen), NCH Promotional Services, Herbert A. Watts and Resolve Corporation. Rick’s roles evolved from a variety of consultative account management assignments through to VP Marketing & Client Services with Canada’s dominant market leader in consumer promotion management and fulfillment.
These roles gave Rick the privilege of both learning from and advising some of the best and brightest marketing minds in Canada. In working with and providing strategic and tactical advice to marketers from consumer packaged goods companies and a variety of other industries, Rick developed a rare and unique understanding of promotional marketing effectiveness dynamics, and gained insights into marketers’ broader challenges and needs.
Among the hundreds of marketers Rick interacted with over the years, some notable clients included Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, General Mills, Reckitt-Benckiser, Bell Mobility, Apple, Shell, Colgate-Palmolive, Clorox, HJ Heinz, Effem Foods (Mars), McCain Foods, and many others, along with their marketing agencies and other service providers.
After working with so many marketers for so many years, Rick recognized that they all share a common objective. All marketers want to be as effective as possible with their budgets in meeting and exceeding their business objectives. They need to optimize their marketing strategies and programs, and deliver better business outcomes. As a marketing effectiveness consultant, Rick’s focus and passion is to help clients improve marketing strategies, programs and the overall effectiveness of their spending.
