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The second screen

2 screens

Advertisers are increasingly using second screening and social media to encourage engagement with ad content, with a great recent example

Connecting sophisticated technologies with marketing

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Customers don’t care about technologies. They care about the experience that brands give them, on and offline. But to deliver

Do companies really understand what relationships require?

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Personification, humanisation, consumer relationship marketing. Brands are increasingly exploring new ways to connect with consumers by developing relationships that persist

Trumpeting the new Power of Quiet

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The antecedents of one of the Future Foundation’s favourite new trends, the Power of Quiet, are various and heavily intertwined

Everyone is plugged in down Mexico way

computer

It’s 6pm and the Plaza Grande – or Main Square – in Mérida, the capital of Yucatan, is teeming with

Thought leadership in practice

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Almost every ITSMA member company (which includes top technology, professional services and telecom providers) is engaged in the critical marketing

(Ex)aspiration nation – what do our young people really want?

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Earlier last year, Prime Minister David Cameron shared his views on youth aspiration. 'If you ask children in the UK…'

Treat the truth carefully: it may seriously mislead

lifeguard

There’s a full page colour advertisement for Guernsey in some of the Sunday magazines at the moment. I spent many

Counter-signalling or signalling: it’s all about status

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Narrowing down the best things Jeremy Bullmore has ever said will never be easy – but among his finest aperçus

Succeeding in low growth markets

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It is now more than four years since the financial crisis struck. At the time, the conventional wisdom was that

Reflections on an age of faith

Bible

When it comes to engagement, brands could learn a lot from the principal tenets of Islam.

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The science of serendipity

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Over the years the word serendipity has come to mean ‘happy accident’. The original meaning of the word is more

B2B marketing: a more positive picture

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The Capsicum Group’s research report, featured in the January 2013 issue of Market Leader, painted a bleak picture of B2B

Are you getting personal? Then keep your distance!

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Yet again, the internet presents legislators and regulators with problems that were never foreseen in pre-digital times. Barristers have discovered

The best benchmark is the competition, not the plan

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“The real profit ultimately earned from a business is simply the realisation of relative advantage” – Kenneth Simmonds

How much

A fork in the road: Brand loyalty during the digital transition

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How brand loyalty could either be enhanced or diminished in the digital transition.

The on-going digitisation of everyday life

Rabobank: stability, continuity and solidity

cars

In this extract from Business is Beautiful, a collection of case histories in five categories – integrity, curiosity, elegance

Battle of the brands. winners and losers in the culture war

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Brands are beginning to question whether just knowing their consumer is enough to differentiate them. Being culturally relevant and future-focused

Multicultural marketing: taking niche brands mainstream

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There is exciting growth potential for ethnic brand owners working with marketing and advertising agencies. The challenge is to take

Lock sights on the new customer-centric agenda

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Amazon aspires to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company”. Numerous mission statements are sprinkled with customer focus. Yet the brands we

TV's not dead: six recurring myths

Recent rapid changes in the way we consume and access media have led many commentators to conclude that TV is