Stuart R. Crawford
VAR/MSP Business Consultant
416.827.5339 x101

When he was 18, Stuart Crawford had dreams of being a career soldier, so he joined the Canadian military. Over a nine-year period, he put his boyhood love of electronics and communication to good use first as a radio operator with the Canadian Artillery in Shilo, Manitoba; then as a strategic communications specialist in Penhold, Alberta; and finally, as brigade network administrator with 1 Brigade in Calgary, Alberta. Always civic minded, Stuart served as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in 1992.

In 2001, Stuart founded IT Matters, a Calgary-based Microsoft award-winning computer and technology partner, and served as the Vice President of Business Development for eight years. In 2009, he played a vital role in the merger of Bulletproof InfoTech and CompuConsult.com and helped the resulting new startup IT firm gain a competitive edge in the Alberta small-business community.

Today, Stuart serves as President and Chief Marketing Officer with St. Catharines, ON-based Ulistic, a specialty firm focused on information technology marketing and business development. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience pertaining to how technology business owners and IT firms can use marketing as a vehicle to obtain success.

Although his passion still revolves around using technology and electronics, this global IT community leader has shifted his focus serving the IT business community, entrepreneurs, small-business owners and marketing executives. He teaches them how to maximize their online marketing, social media, search engine optimization, how to communicate their expertise to the marketplace and serve their clients more efficiently. His unique ability to see past the Internet enables Ulistic’s clients to balance the online and offline worlds.

One of Stuart’s specialties is Web marketing and how to blend new marketing services into our everyday world. A true Go-Giver, Stuart is always on the lookout for ways to help his clients and colleagues do more. He is also known for his propensity for encouraging and empowering people to step out of their comfort zones to achieve true greatness both personally and professionally.

Calgary’s Avenue Inc. honored Stuart with the Top 40 Under 40 Award in 2007 for being an outstanding business leader, and he was recognized as one of the Top 20 Business Leaders of Tomorrow by Business in Calgary magazine in 2008. Stuart has also won many Microsoft Partner awards for his work in the IT community.

If you would like to speak with Stuart in regard to your IT business marketing, how to use social media the right way or how to blog effectively, give him a call at 416.827.5339 ext 101 or email scrawford@ulistic.com.