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How Much is Fame Worth to the Bottom Line?

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It is an incontrovertible fact that people want and need famous people and brands. We have looked for role models

How to Protect Against Marketing Fraud

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Marketing Expenditure is growing faster than ever before, fuelled by corporate growth objectives that seek to launch new products, reach

Magic and Logic: Bridging the Marketing Gap

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In large brand-led organisations there is typically significant tension between the finance and marketing departments. The finance team frequently ask

Priceless Marketing

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JUDIE LANNON:

There have been a number of wide-ranging changes in the payment business over the last few years

Measuring Marketing: Six Ways To Do It Better

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Pressed for measures, it is sales and cost trends, numbers of qualified staff and so on that are usually the

Why Everything Gets Worse Before It Gets Better

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In marketing, the world is always 'new and improved'. Every day, thousands of ads run in every conceivable medium giving

Get Real: The Return of the Product

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The broad history of consumer culture has been largely concerned with the evolution of goods from commodity status to the

Service with a Snarl

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'No one packs my bags at the supermarket any more.'

'Is anyone going to let me check out of this

The Charmed Generation becomes Generation Broke

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Pensions are a bit like root canal fillings: not something you want to think about unless absolutely necessary. That time

Whitbread Turns Occasional Experiences into Lasting Impressions

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Service-sector branding is a delicate art, akin to theatrical scriptwriting. Overscript, and you risk dehumanisation and audience alienation. Underscript and

Marketers Need to Get Out and Get Under Their Business Models

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After a false start when dotcom success was measured by the cash burn rate, reality has resumed and genuine web

After 50 Years of the Bubonic Plague, Things Can Only Get Better

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As every advertising person under the age of 65 knows, television is advertising and advertising is television. And since there's

Marketing in a downturn: lessons from the past

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As we approach what is increasingly looking like a recession in the UK, it is timely to review the state

Big Al by any other name

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I once launched an advertising agency with the snappy name Delaney Fletcher Delaney Slaymaker Bozell. Naturally this appellation was the

Marketing for next to nothing

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The words 'free' and 'open' are fundamental values that were built in to the DNA of the World Wide Web

Marketing: the unappreciated workhorse

Market Leader Summer 2009

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University The venerable Peter Drucker was an early fan of the new field of marketing

Herding cats: managing creativity

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As is well known, managing creative employees is rather like shepherding herds of cats. By 'creative', I mean those men

How Shell recruited more for less

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There are some hard truths in the energy market: first, there is a steep change in the demand for energy

Mobile mania: the telephone becomes a computer

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The first computers were the size of a room, and ever since they have been becoming ever smaller and more

China, India and Korea: the new geography of innovation

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In this article – based on the Demos Atlas of Ideas project – Leadbeater and Wilsdon argue that the West

How marketers needed to change in 2010

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Next month, April 2060, will be the 10th anniversary of my appointment as interplanetary co-ordinator at Google. I recently made