I recently wrote a guest blog post with my colleague Nick Osborne for progressive (Nick tells me that means left-of-centre, politically speaking) blog Left Foot Forward: The Digital Economy Bill is legislatively flawed. Nick was particularly concerned about inconsistencies in the legislation and constitutional issues. I thought about different issues regarding media economics and technological [...]
The current economic climate will help re-define the basics for many people. Since I was a child supermarkets and shopping experiences have been richer and presented consumers with progressively more choice. During the last recession of the early 1990s supermarkets created own brand products that offered cheaper alternatives with the exact same quality as own [...]
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The recession has brought industrial action that we haven’t seen since the 1970s as unions blame foreign workers for taking British jobs. Its the dark side of the globalisation boom or so they say. My parents came to the UK when my Dad came over to work in the shipbuilding industry in the mid-1960s. Most [...]
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Anne Longley switched me on to this when she wrote a presentation that she had seen from the Future Laboratory. The term womenomics was coined by The Economist to capture the increasing impact that women have on economic growth in developed countries. There is also come some counter-intuitive thinking in the piece ‘A guide to [...]
I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day who sells products and services to both in-house and agencyside PR people. He was saying that it was increasingly hard trying to get in-house people to external events as they wanted to be available on their mobile phone all the time. This isn’t in [...]
Don’t worry, I still believe in branding, trust and providing products and services that customers actually want, in a manner that they want and when they want it. However business management no longer does. At least that’s the conclusion that I drew having read The Short Life of the Chief Marketing Officer by David Kiley [...]
Whist Amazon is a global e-tailer, but it is worth shopping around across their sites, which is the reason why I signed up to Amazon Germany for marketing emails. The German market is much more value-orientated which is why Amazon can be cheaper with many items. Anyway they have Four DVDs for 20 Euros. Time [...]
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