L>ove this two-hander from South America…thanks to Adriana for the link








Image via Wikipedia Outsourcing has been a hot topic for many years as the slide away from UK / US locations for low cost services continues.  But for an organisation / agency there's an issue much closer to home.  When should my business development be a service provided by an external supplier and when should [...]








Paul and Tom over at creativebrief have kindly listed me as an "associate" on their page of great folk who work in and around business development for agencies. Here's the Associates Page P.S. what do you think of me describing myself as a "not a gofer"….








I have met the creativebrief team several times recently and have been impressed with the way they've swept the top end of the market for high-end brief and agency assessment services. Here's what they say about their offering  creativebrief The first service of its kind, creativebrief connects buyers and sellers of marketing services. They do [...]








From Jock McNeish over at Thinking Pharma.   Made me smile  








I have been approached by ChristopheAsselin the conference director of Ad:Tech [great event BTW] A good opportunity for agencies to showcase their work from a public platform. Let me know if you are successful. I wanted to make you aware that the ad:tech London Conference will be held on 22nd-23rd September 09 at Olympia and [...]








Image via Wikipedia Great Fast Company post about a disgruntled customer redesinging the American Airlines website for free and running into the normal corporate issues with large company sites and multiple approval layers. Compare this to the Obama site design that due to time pressures could not have multiple decision makers in the design process. [...]








Sent by the lovely people at The Handshop The Ministry for Eliminating Darkness.








One of my clients signed up to BudURL services when it was in Beta.  They provide click stats.  They played around for a while but failed to find utility after a couple of months. Today I got a nice email form the BudURL team Some time ago, you downgraded your BudURL plan to a free [...]