Think pieces

How do you contribute to good customer experiences

Last year my handbag was stolen by a very professional thief who instantly  ferreted out my clumsily disguised PIN number

How can marketing represent customers when call centres hog the relationship?

The most widely acknowledged source of stress-in-modern-life index typically puts death of a spouse or close relative/friend first, followed by

Digital natives as employees

One of the requirements for good forecasting is to be fairly old.  In fact the older the better when it

Crisis management skills needed

If PR companies aren’t overwhelmed with business now they are missing a trick.  The BP spill has been well covered

Being good at everything

magazines

Judie Lannon, editor of Market Leader, The Marketing Society’s quarterly journal delves into the history of our magazine and argues

Bad attitude or just trapped in a broken business model?

The  chirpy ‘have a good day’ US approach to service is regularly praised – not just in comparison to a

As companies become more marketing-led, are marketers getting squeezed?

A conversation at a Marketing Society dinner, in which Mike Cass expressed concern that in many companies ‘marketing’ was becoming

Can you empathize with Facebook

I am sure by now you have all seen “that ad” – the Facebook Ad of course, the one done

Marketing is mainly lip service

Years ago in America, Listerine had an antiseptic liquid they needed to find a use for.
So they invented bad

Digital is changing the real world

Faris Yakob is the chief innovation officer, MDC Partner, holding company of ad agencies including Crispin Porter + Bogusky and

Marketing to Digital Natives

Paul Berney, CMO of Mobile Marketing Association, argues that Digital Natives are not as young as we might think.  He

2012: A new (way) foreword

In this month’s blog Faris Yakob, chief innovation officer at MDC Partners, takes a look at the decade of digital

Behavioural Economics is basically using your loaf

Rory Sutherland tells a story illustrating how creative Choice Architecture can be.
A European car manufacturer was trying to shift

Technology isn’t creative

Salman Khan was a hedge fund manager from Boston.
He had three degrees, and an MBA from Harvard.
So this

How predators make time to eat

The main railway station in Warsaw is just like any station.
People are standing around, waiting to board a train

Anthropologists in the boardroom

When I discovered that the discipline most closely related to branding was not psychology or sociology but anthropology, I also

Whose party was it anyway?

Phil Rumbol, 101

Our monthly blogger Phil Rumbol, former marketing director of Cadbury’s and now founding partner of 101 – a free

2012 natural highs

Olympic legacy

It’s been a tough year for the environment, though 2012 could turn out to be a landmark year for the