by lisafernow | Jan 7, 2018 | Collaboration, Innovation, Startups
5 Marketing topics to discuss before you close the deal on your acquisition Hal Conick wrote an enlightening and useful article, How Marketing Can Make Mergers and Acquisitions Easy, in which he referenced the AOL / Time Warner merger. According to Conick, Time...
by lisafernow | Sep 29, 2017 | Entrepreneurial Marketing, General Posts, Innovation, Marketing Strategy, Product Development, Targeting
University of Washington Entrepreneur in Residence, Derek Streat, had a daughter who suffered from a rare medical condition. After spending thousands of hours researching her condition and finding it frustrating to have to sift through all the databases for the exact...
by lisafernow | Aug 7, 2017 | General Posts, Innovation, Macro Trends
In an earlier post, Tornado Sightings, I wrote about the importance of keeping an eye on macro trends. Macro trends are big social and economic shifts – technology, consumer demographics, culture, or historical turnings – that can reshape markets and create big new...
by lisafernow | Jun 19, 2017 | Customer Experience, General Posts, Innovation, Marketing Strategy
Food for thought in the grocery business Amazon has been in the news a lot lately, and rightly so. It’s fascinating to be sitting in their back yard where I get to see some of these innovations for myself. In early 2017 they announced an experiment with Amazon Go, a...
