Tag: janne saarikko

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How to Do Good Startup Marketing and Get Yourself a Perfect Cappuccino

According to my experience with several hundred startup companies, marketing is not a top quality function in most of them. Marketing is either totally neglected over engineering, R&D, funding, sales and pitching competitions, or marketing is executed by somebody who thinks Marketing101 fully qualifies for full scale market control and world domination. Sometimes this works, most of the time, not. Startup marketing is very, very different from traditional corporate marketing. Startup marketing is very, very different from traditional corporate marketing. Less money, less resources, less rules, less restrictions, less control, less room for failure. Less everything. You can win only by being both analytical and creative at the same time. …


January 14, 2015 0

Content marketing is a hype!

OMG. Preparing for a workshop today I realized that content marketing is a total hype! It just doesn’t exist. I was preparing for an upcoming workshop session about many things, one of them being “the most important thing companies should do in their marketing” – content marketing. For my backgrounder part I wanted to get…
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March 18, 2013 11

Re-inventing media monetization!

Re-Inventing the media monetization! Prove me wrong or use this for your benefit!


March 14, 2013 12

Consequences of social customer service – three true stories

Disclaimer: This post includes stories on real customer service situations. I have tried to describe them the way I experienced them, but still as objectively as possible. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how an organization can make a big difference on customer perception. No harm is intended to any persons or organizations…
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November 25, 2012 0

Have I stopped presenting?

Some people have asked me if I have stopped giving presentations or stopped sharing them. The answer is no, vice versa. I have been doing that a lot since I moved my espresso machine to Zeeland offices.

Not all my presentations are publicly available, since they touch some customer-specific issues. Most of the sharable presentations are published under Zeeland’s Slideshare profile, where there are other very interesting materials by my colleagues as well.

Here are some selected presentations by myself, partly together with my dear colleagues. Enjoy:


June 4, 2012 0

The change is here – some details on my future

Now we know. Couple of weeks ago I wrote about the coming change. At that time I had started a multidimensional transformation process, but couldn’t disclose the details. Today, many parts have been published, and it’s time to open up a little bit. There has also been number of questions already, I am trying to…
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March 14, 2011 2