Month: September 2007
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Action Speaks Louder
There’s probably far more that many businesses could and should be doing to expedite more of a culture of action, innovation and experimentation (captured eloquently here by Vincent). But ultimately it’s always down to the individuals within those organisations to affect real change. I’m not often to be found lurking on self-help blogs (honest guv)…
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Enough Already
These ads are being touted for their effectiveness having driven sales up 234% despite the fact that they are quite possibly the worst ads ever made and are annoying to the point of creating the headache the product is meant to get rid of. Please, please, please – NO MORE!
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White Chalk
PJ Harvey is an artist like no other – she has a rare talent and is the very definition of ‘uncompromising’. Her new album, White Chalk, is released this week. It’s described on Amazon as "standing at the intersection between contemporary classical and Victorian American vaudeville" and "sounding like it was recorded a hundred years…
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Get Me A Place…Now!
Missed this one first time around: The Viral Learning Centre…
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Forbidden Lego
God I wish I’d had this as a kid. Instead of building crappy cars whose wheels fell off I could have been putting together a ‘high velocity automatic Lego plate dispenser’ or a ‘paper plane launcher’. Or howabout this medieval stylee catapult for seeing if your little sister’s Sylvanian family can fly: From two ex-Lego…
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The Gentle Touch
I saw a presentation this morning by self styled "chubby grocer" (great moniker) Mark Price, MD of Waitrose. There was something quite unique about the way he described the approach they have to their communications. It’s been about 10 years since Waitrose ended their advertising drought (for about 100 years the partnership believed that investment…
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Redefining Marketing
MAD posted on Friday on the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s attempt to redefine the role of marketing. Believe it or not, the CIM’s definition of marketing has been the same for over 30 years. It was way back in 1976 (the same year as Chopper bikes, Punk, The Muppets, Starsky & Hutch cardigans, and the…