Newspapers and magazines have been full of their ‘Best of’ lists for 2011 and in traditional style I compiled my own, something I share with a few like-minded music-bores. Music is my one regular luxury purchase and has been for many years. In 2011 I bought over 50 albums, on vinyl, CD and as downloads. [...]
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Ten rules of good client service
I was alerted to the following by Michael Gass in one of his always-informative tweets. It’s by Kenneth Roman, former CEO of Ogilvy and is timely because, on 25 August the Marketing Society in Scotland is celebrating the life of David Ogilvy with a series of events as part of the Edinburgh International Marketing Festival. [...]
What a result
I’m not going to downplay the result of the Scottish elections of 5 May 2011. Seismic is a good word, historic has been used widely, although our work in 2007 also led to historic references so this must be bigger than that. What was our part? It wasn’t political: we didn’t advise on which policy [...]