Jo Macdermott
Founder & Senior Marketing Consultant

Jo combines 12 years of experience as a marketing professional with a down to earth, organised and honest approach. A broad background in the corporate world, along with her experience in small business marketing gives Jo the unique ability to work effectively with a range of different businesses and industries.
Jo has a reputation as a successful small business marketing expert through the Flying Solo, Anthill and Dynamic Business websites. Jo also regularly writes for the Marketing Magazine and is a seasonal contributor to the VECCI Business Excellence Magazine.
More about Jo.
Maria Surace
Marketing Assistant
For the last 15 years, Maria has been helping businesses unleash the power of marketing. It’s all been made possible through Maria’s professionalism and her friendly, trusting demeanour that really connects with clients.
With a strong interest in marketing, desktop publishing and event management, Maria delivers marketing plans, social media strategies, desk-top publishing, proof reading and copywriting services to clients of Next Marketing.
Maria also takes the time to understand each client and then goes about delivering the results.
Lyn Heenan
Senior Graphic Designer
Lyn is an in-house graphic design expert with many years of design experience. Her diverse professional background ranges from working on a graphic design basis with clients from a variety of industries to book illustration and publishing.
Design has been a lifelong passion for Lyn and in her work she combines creativity with practicality.
Annette Saurene
Office Manager
Annette is Next Marketing’s receptionist and office all-rounder with experience in a number of office management roles in the building and telecommunications industry. Annette is also a successful telemarketer for our clients and has a proven ability to develop rapport with callers regardless of their location or line of work.
Consultants
Although the Next Marketing team has a combined knowledge and experience of close to forty years in the industry, we are aware that we don’t know everything! We take our own advice and outsource where necessary to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
From time to time we work with various members of our established network of independent, highly technical and experienced consultants.







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