My new evangelism is data.  Long-time readers know that I bang on about databases quite a lot.  And of course, the information stored in the database is where the value lies. Gaining customer insight from research and activity observations is one of the finesses that I enjoy in direct marketing.  As a marketer I often [...]








The Hand is a great team of biz dev specialists who come and work inside your company to help you out.   I took the title of this post from their most recent newsletter and I think that it's a very telling insight. Rather like when you were dating you found that when you wanted [...]








Tim Reid is a human dynamo that I met online recently.  he posted a question on Linked In What's your BEST MARKETING TIP for those small businesses who have limited or zero marketing budget? To date he has had 27 answers .  All great suggestions.  Please share








Supporting Suw Charman-Anderson's vision of writing about women in tech led off by the first, Ada Lovelace.  I signed the pledge . Leading women in (or near) tech that I've had the pleasure of working with over the years  First one I ever met was Pip Errington .  She'd come out of early days with [...]








Although poorly defined, this is a good question. Linked In – any tips? We're looking at corporate And links from old posts – Biz Dev using social media , some groups worth looking at quick ideas Get every member of staff to connect to each other Seek out former colleagues and get them to declare [...]








Back from the maelstrom that was the Digital Mission I find my in box crammed with trivia.  LIke this one from wonderful agency, Joshua G2 .  Or rather, their PR agency Zest Corporate .  Or rather their account handler Paul   Hi Rebecca Hope you’re well. I have included a release from Joshua G2. Joshua G2 [...]








The Designing Change in America panel will discuss the Obama "brand", it's birth, it's evolution, and it's rise to power. We will discuss the challenges of being in-house designers in a fast-paced political environment and how though challenges informed our process for designing and developing. John Slabyk – Obama for America – art director Scott [...]








Pete Lerma – Click Here/The Richards Group Over the past 10 years we have seen  a bit change in digital.  Integration = leveraging a variety of marketing communications platforms and using each to their maximum potential.  Digital doesn't have to follow the traditional creative lead.   When you do it right the whole is greater [...]








Wendy is doing a series of interviews with women in Tech (or in my case, near tech!) and here's what we shot yesterday.