Empower

Strength in numbers

ants

Companies find it hard to co-operate. They should try harder. A strategy of working together can help national competitors to

The pursuit of effectiveness

effective

Some opinion on measuring marketing effectiveness, of course, is extremely valuable and has done much to move marketing forward, but

From CMO to CEO: the route to the top

top

With average tenure somewhere between two and three years (depending on the region) the odds are stacked against CMOs progressing

Starbucks - The decline of the empire

Starbucks

Coffee is the pure brew of capitalism, says Matthew Lynn. As the credit crunch bites, no wonder the world’s most

The marketing services supply chain: delivering the best for less

chain

CHARLES KIRCHNER recalls the previous recession and gives tips on how to save money in the marketing services supply chain

Marketers need a clear message on the environment

message

CHRIS POWELL has some advice for clarifying the conflicting messages on climate change

ASURE WAY to get no action is

Marketing the work of engineers: technology as a service

atm

In this insightful article, Laurie Young examines a paradox: why, in a world where added value services increasingly dominate, and

The iPod generation looks for honesty, not marketing spin

iPod

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

leader

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

What hope-fuelled markets can teach fear-fuelled markets

Market Leader Winter 2010

Most markets can be identified as either hope- or fear-fuelled. Ann Mack and Mark Truss describe the outlook of the

This much I’ve learned

learn

The best advice I got ... When I was a graduate trainee, a sales manager who spent every lunchtime in

Drinking from the big ‘data hosepipe’

Market Leader January 2012

Today’s marketers have access to more consumer data than ever. But they need to learn to use the ‘data hydrant’.

Pink Lego? Whatever floats your boat

boat

As we learn more from neuroscience, sociology and behavioural economics, two themes keep appearing that have a major impact on

Marketing skills help to build profitable growth

money

The first question a head hunter should have for any aspiring marketing director is: ‘What have you done to generate

The superior way to grow

growth

David Cowan presents a compelling argument for growth that comes when marketing activities are based on rigorous, wide-ranging and purposeful

How to make blogs pay

money

HUBPAGES, FOUNDED in 2006, just gained its millionth page. It’s a site where users create individual pages in the style

Proud to be a marketer

market

TED LEVITT defined corporate purpose as creating and keeping customers. Marketing Excellence 2 demonstrates how to do this with impact

Products die but brands can live forever

die

The obsession with newness seems to have blinded many in the marketing community to the infinitely more valuable payoff of

Mad Men versus the real Mad Avenue circa 1950

Market Leader 2011

We can answer this question with some confidence because there is a terrific book, published in 1958, which tells it

One size doesn’t fit all

Market Leader 2011

Kate Cox, Denise Turner, John Crowther and Tracy Hubbard examine how advertisers have coped with the notion of

Personal marketing: the key to personal service

house

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