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Michael is often found travelling between Canada, Australia and France, and is alway looking to the next project.
Michael P Chenier’s personal experience has spanned many industry sectors. Growing up in an entrepreneurial household engrained the disciplines for hard work, organizational efficiency, customer service and the importance of sales results into every position held since the age of fifteen.
Although the business sectors, roles and job descriptions varied wildly, Michael’s entrepreneurial curiosity and ambition continuously pushed him to view the businesses he worked for from the owners’ perspective, innately seeking more efficient processes to do things or ways to increase profits.
Early in Michael’s working career, he was extremely fortunate to stumble upon the opportunities to work with some of the most experienced employers in their industry. They always took the time and patiently listened to a continuous stream of crazy ideas meant to improve or increase something or another. In many cases, these early mentors – long before mentors were a thing, empowered Michael to experiment with some of his thoughts and see past the failures.
“How did that work for you?” has been a common question Michael has heard frequently throughout his varied career.
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Michael has a long and varied professional career spanning over three decades. Each position held has taught valuable experiential business lessons that span far beyond the many academic courses and lectures. Real-life experience in business sectors ranging from publishing to pile driving has offered context to complex business strategy and marketing challenges.
The COVID 19 global pandemic nudged Michael to adapt the physical operations of Arore Communications to facilitate its online services.
As millions of companies worldwide, We accept the world is no longer in the same place it was two short years ago and commits to adapting to and leveraging the new working environment to its clients' advantage.
Arore continues to build momentum.
Melbourne, Australia
Position: Owner / Publisher
The Australian Magazine Group consists of six identically branded online magazines covering the five major metropolitan centres including Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Tasmania and an aggregate magazine called Australian Lifestyles Magazine.
Melbourne, Australia
In the debut of 2018, Michael Chenier received the appropriate government authorization to do business in Australia. Arore Communications Australia is born and added Business and Marketing Strategy and Asana Project Management Training to our service offerings.
Canada, Australia, France
Position: Still the owner
After six years of operations and hundreds of websites developed, Arore Communications noticed a change in the online development industry.
Michael became acutely aware that although a website is essential for any business, it is only a communication medium, and proper marketing and communications must go beyond the pretty pictures.
As a company, Arore Communications pivoted from being a website development firm to offering objective-driven marketing and business strategy services, then following up with website development.
This evolution in our service offerings created an opportunity for Arore to contribute to our clients' substantial growth as we focus on higher-level, longer-term goals and business objectives.
Arore builds momentum.
Victoria, British Columbia
Position: Owner
Arore Communications is launched to provide marketing and communication services focusing on website development, social media, and online marketing.
The service offerings eventually branched into providing online website programming contracting services to graphic designers and project management.
Education: Michael took a year for full time education in Online Marketing and Adobe Certification.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Position: Publisher
Yaletown Magazine was a 40 page, full-colour, glossy publication delivered by Canada post to 17,000 Yaletown residents every month.
As publisher of the magazine, Michael's responsibilities included all aspects of publishing a monthly publication, from conception to distribution.
Biggest Takeaway: Don't give up quickly, and ironically, don't buy into media hype. You make your story, despite what's going on in the world.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Position: Sales Director
Michael managed the advertising sales team of full-colour glossy publication and integral part of the local expansion from a 16-page community magazine to an 80 page perfect bound monthly magazine within 18 months.
Responsibilities:
Biggest Takeaway: Loyalty above all builds strong business relationships, and loyalty runs both ways. Be loyal to your clients, and they will follow you wherever you go.
Perpignan, France
Position: Owner
Fantasy Balloons was an event decorating company specializing in large-scale commercial and community decorating services for seasonal and special events. Our clients ranged from commercial shopping malls and municipal governments to large-scale professional sporting organizations.
Fun Fact: Fantasy Balloons was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records in the spring of 1997 for the largest balloon wall ever built. It contained 18,860 balloons and was 30m high by 20m wide. It was constructed in St. Jeans Cathedral for the awards banquet for the USAP, Perpignans Professional Rugby Team.
Responsibilities:
Perpignan, France
Position: Waiter
L'Arago Brasserie is easily one of the most popular restaurants in the Perpignan region. Michael was hired as a waiter and was responsible for setting up the terrace every morning and taking it down at the end of the day and serving a tone of meals and drinks in between.
Eden Leisure Group
Sliema, Malta
Position: Food and Beverage Manager
Responsibilities:
Managing Restaurant and Bar staff
Biggest Takeaway: Michael learned to keep ambitions in check, think all grand ideas through and above all, respect local culture and never bite the hand that feeds you.
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Position: Piledriver / Swamper / Dock Builder
Michael had the immense fortune to be hired as one of the first full-time employees with Shoreline Piledriving. Before, the term "experiential learning" was a thing Michael learned every aspect of the piledriving business in real-time.
His tenure at Shoreline Piledriving afforded him many once-in-a-lifetime experiences any 18-year-old could wish for, ranging from underwater demolition, scuba diving, crane operation, towing 42-ton barges, dock building and everything in between.
Biggest Takeaways:
Most Memorable moment:
Kelowna, British Columbia
Position: Stocking Shelves / Customer Service
Lakeview Market is one of the oldest independent grocery stores in Kelowna, British Columbia. They are known for their legendary customer service.
Biggest Takeaway: It's here that Michael learned the significant factor that personal customer service plays in the survival of independent businesses and how valuable it is to help people to the car with their groceries.
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Whether your business is in its infancy, throes of expansion, stagnation or you are looking for solutions to streamline repetitive processes, Arore Communications has the experience to help you past the present obstacles, pushing you towards your objectives.
Arore builds momentum.
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Michael P. Chenier
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