JCOM is strategic marketing, branding and new product introduction firm for products and services ranging from packaged goods and major consumer brands like Sheraton, Revlon, PacBell, Citibank...to emerging technology and entertainment ranging from emusic.com to mass market ATM (automatic teller machines) to one of the first PCTV's, to new wireless and telecom breakthroughs for such majors as AT&T and divisions of Qualcomm.

Headed by Joyce A. Schwarz, author, analyst and futurist, JCOM is a consortium of consultants and techno-wizards who are dedicated to working with innovations that open the gateway to the future. JCOM has offices in Marina Del Rey, California and in New York City.

JCOM services are available on a project or monthly retainer basis. Our retainers range from $5,000 to $20,000 per month.Our services include but are not limited to: *Strategic Planning, *Marketing Research *Corporate Positioning *Business Development *Alliances *Partnerships *Public Relations *Marketing Programs *Trade Show Promos *Sponsorships *Venture Liaison.

JOYCE SCHWARZ BIO
Schwarz is one of the leaders in emerging communications, entertainment and technologies on the West Coast. She combines more than a decade of high level advertising and marketing posts with such advertising agencies as Foote Cone & Belding and a division of Ogilvy & Mather with a dozen years experience launching start-ups, Corporate spin-offs and digital media innovations. Her record includes more than $300 million in product launches for such firms as AT&T, Philips and Sheraton. Our background ranges from such major campaigns as the 'Missing Kids on the Milk Carton' community outreach program to Johnson & Johnson's disposable contact lens to Democrats.com at the DNC, 2001 to the acclaimed 'Day In the Life of Paris' streaming online back in 1995.

JCOM's strength includes a database of 20,000 corporate and new media leaders we have met personally through our client work, Venture Capital liaison and in speaking at conferences like NAB, Digital Hollywood and CES. Matchmaking for business is our forte. But, it's not just the access, it's bottom-line results that we bring to you and your firm. Our record includes more than 200 alliances and partnerships with major corporations, institutes and multinational leaders.

Joyce holds a masters degree in professional writing (Cinema) from USC and an undergraduate degree in journalism from Ohio University and MBA studies at the University of San Francisco. She is past-president of the USC Cinema-Alumni Assn., listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Entertainment and Who's Who in Women.

Her published books include: "Multimedia 2000" for the NAB in 1992, "Gateway to the Next Millennium", "Successful Recareering", Career Press, 1993, Harcourt Brace, 1994, "How to Break Into the New Hollywood", Hay House, 1995 and "Cutting the Cord: Tech TV's Consumer Guide to Going Wireless," Que Publishing, Spring, 2002.

Chances are that you've also read many of the more than 300 articles and columns Joyce has written for such publications online and off including: Digitrends.net, Business 2.0, Wireless Women, LA Times,

The Christian Science Monitor, Career Mag.com, and others. Or perhaps you saw Joyce quoted or interviewed in such major media as TIME MAGAZINE, FAMILY PC, SALES & MARKETING, on PBS TV or National Public Radio or NBC News.
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Contact Info: JCOM, 14004 Palawan Way, Penthouse 6, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, 310-822-3119. Contact Joyce directly: joycecom@aol.com