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Brands must connect on- and offline advertising

Market Leader 2011

 A Key feature of communication planning is how consumers can control their on- and offline media experiences. They expect

Big brand ideas inspire huge emerging market

Market Leader 2011

Opportunities for growth in Brazil come from targeting a mass middle-class with big brand ideas, according to Silvina Moronta

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How marketers need to raise their game

raise

Marketers need more boardroom credibility. Ruth Saunders advises on how to improve performance

The average lifespan of a company, according

Would you ask someone to give up their seat?

seat

Rory Sutherland describes how potential embarrassment is an underestimated force in marketing

If I were to mention the Milgram experiment

Bigger is different: growing a marketing services agency

growing

Every agency wants to be bigger, to offer new services, to attract better staff and to serve more demanding, high-profile

From bags to riches: the success of Radley handbags

bags

At the end of 2007, Radley + Co, makers of distinctive handbags branded with a small Scottie dog, exchanged hands

The future of big box electrical brands

tv

The downturn is the catalyst for a number of different trends in electrical goods retailing; Richard Jenkings summarises the key

How marketers should use brand valuation

sale

The techniques and methodologies of brand valuation have had a dramatic impact on business. Generally this has been positive, with

Unravelling the Gordian knot of brand contact

contact

Of the many challenges facing marketers, one of the most intractable is simply deciding where the marketing budget should be

A new vision for corporate social responsibility

Whitehouse

Corporate social responsibility has been a complete failure at seriously addressing the real issues of sustainable business practices, says Dr

A quick bluffer’s guide to digital

digital

ANDREW MELSOM offers a selection of opening lines to get you started in any digital conversation. After that, good luck

Editorial: Doing the right thing right

right

So desirable is brand leadership that a whole literature of 'challengership' has grown up. Indeed, so seductive and inspiring have

New routes from old roots: Comparing the Indian and Chinese middle class

roots

WHEN WE THINK of India and China, a huge variety of popular perceptions and images come to mind, captured in

When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Market Leader Winter 2010

Rory Sutherland argues that mechanistic processes, artificial dichotomies and the urge to compartmentalise are alien to creative activity

One thing

Operating on the customer’s heart

surgery

How does it feel to be the customer when your heart is being operated on? Hugh Burkitt describes his recent

This much I’ve learned

book

The best advice i ever got … Business is about relationships. the worst advice i got … I was once

How to define and drive competitive advantage

car

The role played by customer insight professionals should determine their position in the organisational structure. Melanie Howard provides an interesting

Who is entitled to be entitled?

Market Leader March 2012

Andrew Melsom believes it’s time to reintroduce common courtesy to the workplace

Parents who have brought up their children to

Appealing to Muslims

appeal

In 1991 Stephen King wrote a prescient article predicting, among other things, the rise of the ‘corporate brand’ in coming

Can big companies be radical?

Market Leader 2011

Radical innovations almost invariably come from outsiders – revolutionary entrepreneurs whose style, culture and management are inimical to large, stable

How to make choice easier

choice

If any single word defines the consumer benefit of a market-based society it is ‘choice’. It is rooted in our