Account Cultivation and Growth / Strategy / 09 May, 2017

Adapt or die: Why it’s time to rethink your digital transformation strategy

We should all have been surprised to read that a third of all organisations based in the UK have no digital transformation strategy whatsoever. We weren’t, of course, and not only because a further 21% of respondents said they were ‘just getting started’ with their own strategy and another 24% said their strategy was, if…

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Business / Diversity & Inclusion / Strategy / 08 May, 2017

4 reasons why diversity should be on your strategic agenda

Have a skim over any corporate Twitter feed and you’re likely to encounter a healthy dose of diversity messaging. While few are doing anything as disastrous as Pepsi’s recent faux pas, much of what appears is little more than a box-ticking exercise with no real substance behind it. For me, this represents a huge missed…

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Events / 03 May, 2017

Discovering a 500-year-old history of robots at the Science Museum

Until just a short while ago the concept of ‘AI’ was just that - a concept. A stimulating conversation piece, but little more. Well, in 2017 this is no longer the case. AI and its applications have been a key industry talking point this year, and for good reason. Huge strides have been made to...

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Being JPC / 27 Apr, 2017

A day in the life of an account executive

Life at a fast-paced brand and communications consultancy is anything but typical and neither is the day-to-day of the people who work here. Senior account executive Abby Fox took some time out of her busy schedule to chat about what she does at JPC. What’s working for a marketing agency like? It’s intense, but lots…

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Brand and Customer Experience / Design / Events /

5 imaginative and engaging experiential events

Everyone enjoys a ‘good experience’. It may sound vague, but the underlying principle is true. Although clients are divided by ‘B2B’ and ‘B2C’, every customer is united by a shared appreciation for something new and exciting. In the same way, there is a correlation between a business giving customers the chance to try a new…

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Account Cultivation and Growth / Content / Strategy / 25 Apr, 2017

What B2B marketers can learn from Wendy’s’ social media strategy

At the risk of disrespecting Carter Wilkerson, you probably haven’t heard of him—-assuming you have heard of him––because you’re a member of his thriving and expansive social circle. Carter Wilkerson is the proud poster of one of the most liked, retweeted and replied-to tweets since the birth of Twitter in 2006. The wording of the…

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Content / 20 Apr, 2017

How you can use Orwell’s rules for
writing to make your copy more readable

It would be hard to claim that marketing content is always readable. Marketing language is so riddled with jargon and unnecessary complexity that it’s been vilified in newspaper articles and online listicles (and it isn’t as if journalists aren’t liable to throwing out a little of their own ‘journalese’ now and again). We articulated the…

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Business / Thought Leadership / 18 Apr, 2017

Why the Millennial workforce is disenchanted –
and what we’re doing about it

Why are so many millennials quitting the well-paid and well-regarded jobs they worked so hard through uni for? That’s the question Lucy Kellaway tried to answer in her piece in the FT last week, Don’t blame millennials if you can’t hang on to them. Kellaway blames the ‘widest gap between expectations and reality that the…

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Brand and Customer Experience / Business / Strategy / 11 Apr, 2017

Unfriendly Skies: How United Airlines failed at customer experience and lost $1 billion in market value

It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that a man was dragged from his seat on a United Airlines plane on Sunday evening because his flight, which was bound for Kentucky, was overbooked. An eyewitness said the man was a ‘Chinese American doctor’ who refused to leave his seat when asked because he had to be…

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Content / 10 Apr, 2017

Why Orwell’s rules for clear writing are the gold standard for B2B marketing content

In 1946, George Orwell––novelist, essayist, journalist and critic––extolled the virtues of simple writing in the essay ‘Politics and the English Language’ and condensed his guidance to writers into six rules: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word…

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