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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?

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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

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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

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

Big Al by any other name

Lottery Balls Market Leader

I once launched an advertising agency with the snappy name Delaney Fletcher Delaney Slaymaker Bozell. Naturally this appellation was the

Marketing for next to nothing

market

The words 'free' and 'open' are fundamental values that were built in to the DNA of the World Wide Web

Marketing: the unappreciated workhorse

Market Leader Summer 2009

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University The venerable Peter Drucker was an early fan of the new field of marketing

Herding cats: managing creativity

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As is well known, managing creative employees is rather like shepherding herds of cats. By 'creative', I mean those men