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Three cheers for sales promotion

Sale

WHAT’S THE oldest profession in the world? Beyond Redemption unequivocally claims that it is sales promotion – Adam would never

New World Order of Global brands

Market Leader 2011

 most global brands have been invented by Western companies for Western consumers. emerging-market consumers are very different. simon silvester explains

What not to do

wrong

When people submit articles for Market Leader, I try to ensure that, given our readership of practical marketing folk, the

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

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

The dangers of common sense

danger

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

china

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?

car

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

The charmed generation: the last of the lucky ones

lucky

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

market

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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