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🚨Marketing Hackathon!

John Watton March 21, 2025

Great time today working with the students at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. A business clinic hackathon gave the chance for students, tutors and business to come together.

Three interesting businesses - a literacy hub for teachers, a woman's health portal and a tutor service - laid out marketing challenges and the students had to come up with an implementable marketing plan in 2 hours. 🏁

🤩 Scary to see how amazing the students were at laying out a plan - all anchored around content, community and digital to drive growth.

Lots of familiar ground being covered (it was just like a QBR, but without the egos 😬) and a reminder that smart, young talent still has a place counter to the graduate-replacement ethos of AI. Humans unite! 🦸‍♀️

Thanks Luisa Weinzierl, PhD, FHEA, Chartered FCIPD for the invite and to my teammates Bill Clark Hrishikesh Shilu Varun Raviprasad Emmanuel AKINRODEMI. Great fun!

#marketing #future #learning

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John Watton

B2B Marketing. Digital. Social.

8 Gordon Road, London W4 3LU, UK

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