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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

The wisdom of aphorisms

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I like aphorisms. Not for nothing are these compact little sayings the finest means of wisdom delivery known to mankind

After the recession: resurrecting the reputations of the banks

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If your car let you down catastrophically and then cost a fortune to fix, you probably wouldn't hesitate to switch

The magic of words

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Today, hundreds of students from all over Britain will converge on Golden Square in London to learn about 'creativity' in

How marketing has lost the plot

Market Leader Summer 2009

I started in marketing 50 years ago, joining Procter & Gamble in 1959, the year The Marketing Society was founded

Will the internet mean the end of civilisation as we know it?

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Bill gates famously said in 1981 that 'a memory of 640 kilobytes ought to be enough for anyone'. People now

How clients and agencies can improve their relationships

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In this edited version of his address at the IPA annual lunch, Mark Hunter spells out his vision for transformational

Going social

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A social media strategy has become an essential part of a wider communications strategy. Julian Saunders describes why

If your

Getting to grips with the Now Web

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Like any emerging technology, the web has continually reinvented itself, first as sites that simply reproduced printed matter, later as