In early September, The Globe and Mail's Report on Small Business asked readers to nominate their favourite small businesses for our inaugural #remarkablebiz contest. We received over 120 nominations, not to mention hundreds of retweets. Following the initial nomination stage, we posted 65 semi-finalists to our Pinterest board and the community was given the opportunity to vote through Pins, likes and comments. We took your votes into consider when preparing the top-ten list.
Skyline studio
Elevator pitch: We’re a Halifax-based digital media company that specializes in Aerial services using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), video production, photography and web design. We capture stunning content for businesses and create the space for it to live online. Skyline Studio was founded in the fall of 2013 and has quickly grown from 2 to 4 employees.
Secret sauce: A huge part of our success has been working with a team that possesses an incredibly diverse set of skills. We’ve been early adopters of innovative technologies, we’re extremely creative and have an obsession with quality. We offer a finished product for our clients that would usually take three or four companies to produce.
Culture: We deal with cutting-edge technology on a daily basis and it’s our business to stay ahead of the curve. We’re constantly scouring the web to learn about new innovations and how they could help us. Innovation, creativity and improvement is what drives us.
Challenge: Strangely enough the Weather is one of our biggest challenges! Flying UAV’s is a large part of our business, and weather conditions can keep us from getting airborne. Another challenge we deal with is time-management. We’re a small company that’s growing fast so prioritizing and organization has kept us on track and moving forward.
Advice: Advice that we would give to someone looking to start their own business is to Jump in and go hard. Running your own business requires dedication and a complete disregard for the Monday to Friday 9-5 work week mentality. Also, offer something new and create demand rather than just responding to it.
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