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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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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

Personal marketing: the key to personal service

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It is no use using the language of the past to talk about the business of marketing for the future

The dangers of common sense

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Recently, a planner I know asked me a question: How does advertising actually work? That's a very good question, and

What the West can learn from China

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As the world's economic attention turns to China and India, marketers are eyeing up new markets and new competitors. But

Account planning: back to the future?

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Account planning began in two London agencies over 40 years ago.

The charmed generation: the last of the lucky ones

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The Charmed generation are a cohort of older people who have benefited from the combination of factors that has enabled

Marketing in the digital age

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The iPod generation looks for honesty, not marketing spin

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Is the growing dominance of an online business culture an opportunity or a threat for the marketing and PR industries

Being first: gaining and maintaining leadership

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The recession has been a long overdue wake-up call for marketing and business in general, forcing companies to take a