by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 8, 2015 | Marketing, Marketing-led Startups, News, Startups
Once you know what to look for, you see them everywhere. Groups huddled together cooing and fawning around the helpless little thing in the centre of the crowd. There are grown women and men speaking in strange tongues, encouraging, calling for attention. Taking...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 28, 2015 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Disruption, Innovation, Marketing, Marketing-led Startups, Public Speaking, Startups
Some say that “corporate startups” are an oxymoron – that you can’t have startups within corporates. But I have been establishing, building and growing these strange, hybrid businesses for well over a decade. I have had the good fortune to launch businesses for...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 3, 2015 | Digital Transformation, Innovation, Marketing, Social Business
When social began creeping into the business, it started with marketing. It made sense in many ways as marketing is most closely aligned with the customer base – and more importantly – held budget that could be used for media. But as more and more discipline was...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 1, 2015 | Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Innovation, Marketing, Public Speaking, Social Business
Autobots, Decepticons, technology and marketing in the new world order Technology isn’t just changing the lives of our customers, it’s changing marketing and it’s changing IT. This is a new world order – where marketers need IT skills and IT...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jul 2, 2015 | Innovation, Marketing
When we look at the massive Chinese economy, we see big numbers. We hear the “B-word” – billions. We think this automatically equates to huge market opportunities. But these perceptions mask the much harder realities of marketing in China. China is a market where the...