22 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
In October, the Royal Mail asked regulator Postcomm to approve a price hike for business clients in an attempt to raise 100m, prior to a privitisation in 2011.
Postcomm has provisionally approved the proposal, which would see bulk prices rise by some 7% in the second quarter of 2011. The Royal Mail made a ...
08 Dec 2010
| by Arif Durrani
-only proposition, and Revolution, a brand Heseltine helped launch some 13 years earlier, lives on as a quarterly ...
title go, they are all one s children. You feel emotional towards them all in some way. But, magazines ...
should be. Haymarket is at its best when it s agile, making decisions and getting stuff done," he says ...
07 Dec 2010
| by Helen Edwards
and ethical with One, but in the end it's water and you can get it free from the tap. For long-term survival ...
will someone put this anachronism out of its misery?
Digital agencies
They don't get 'brand'. Look what ...
Business School and is a partner at Passionbrand, where she works with some of the world's biggest ...
06 Dec 2010
| by Helen Edwards
much ends there. Here are some comments:
- I have never seen a planner get within a country mile ...
they contribute if they were suddenly thrust into the guest-of-honour seat?
I managed to shed some light ...
partners. If planning is as good as the agency-client relationship gets, the hope for table-jumping is a ...
06 Dec 2010
| by Gareth Jones
To some extent, this may soon be possible, thanks to a new initiative from Sky to provide up to 10m UK households with a range of energy services, including maintenance and repair.
The plan ...
-play business, is anything to go by, its home-energy service should get a warm reception. In fact, its success ...
24 Nov 2010
| by Helen Edwards
. If that is flawed, even in some small way, all the snazzy marketing models, big communications budgets, insight ...
some 35m on ads trying to persuade people to switch to its accounts, while its existing customers ...
can use is also one of the most simple: the zone of intimacy.
Get out a pad. Draw a customer ...
10 Nov 2010
| by Helen Edwards
fundamental level: to remind us all that inside every consumer is a person trying to get out.
Helen Edwards ...
works with some of the world's biggest advertisers
30 SECONDS ON ... GRANT MCCRACKEN
- Grant ...
03 Nov 2010
| by Helen Edwards
is pretty well paid, some spectacularly so, but not for any specialised skill they are performing ...
workshop with the nuts and bolts of a new brand identity, the springs of a new creative idea or the levers ...
in marketing, an MBA from London Business School and is a partner at Passionbrand, where she works with some ...
03 Nov 2010
| by Gareth Jones
it hopes to establish Xbox 360 as the focal point of the modern living room.
If Microsoft gets its way ...
29 Oct 2010
| by Ben Bold
WPP Digital is investing $5m (£3.14m) into Buddy Media, a Facebook management system used by some