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CIMA is a privately operated Canadian marketing resource and referral website. It exists to help Canadian business owners get straight answers about SEO, websites, Google Ads, content, and analytics — without having to wade through agency sales pitches first.
We are not a professional body, regulator, or certification organisation. We do not run a membership program or issue accreditation. We do not represent the operator of internetmarketingassociation.ca, and have no affiliation with that organisation.
What we do publish is straightforward: explainers, free tools (like the website review on this site), and a small list of Canadian agencies whose work we've followed. When a business owner contacts us asking for a referral, we sometimes point them to one of those agencies. Beyond that, this is a website, not an institution.