Sam at Chinwag has laboriously compiled a full list of panel proposals submitted to public voting for the 2010 South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas from people in the UK. This is going to be a significant improvement on two years ago when a British accent stood out like a sore thumb. And of [...]
I am thinking a lot about interviewing for biz dev jobs at the moment. Seems September is the time many businesses want to relaunch or kick-start their biz dev activities. Some ideas you can use to help find the right person for your job: Give them an 'in-box' exercise to do. Give them a pile of [...]
Image by macinate via Flickr No matter whether you are proor anti the arguments for doing speculative work in order to win a client are discussed in many places – particularly for design agencies. Jacob Cass has written a good summary of the arguments for and against. when I was researching my own view I [...]
I had a nice comment from a new reader and so I checked out their website. Reading the team biographies (CVs) I couldn't help think that a tad more creativity could have been used in the copywriting. Director1"brings with him vast experience having run the…" Director2 "brings a wealth of experience in some of London's [...]
I have been workig for a while with Sergio Giannasso who has launched his hair and make up beauty salon on London's St Martins Lane this month. Being on a tight budget for his first salon, business partner Malcolm Fitzwilliam has made big use of social media and relationship marketing. Here's the Flickr photos from [...]
The principles of working remotely are commonplace and many of us have opportunity to take days away from our office desks and work at home or from another location. Nothing much new there. But what if you could completely redesign your job so that half of your activities were taking place using internet tools? What [...]
Image by Learn4Life via Flickr The boys and girls from Amplified strike again with a new event, the £1.40 conference. London, November 10th, 2009 put it in your diay. Why? In response to the apparent diminishing returns of the high-cost/low-return nature of so many modern tech conferences – particularly relating to 'microblogging', it was suggested [...]
Image by libraryman via Flickr One of my clients uses Paypoint for its website shop payment processing. Recently they sent over a customer satisfaction survey, which I was going to ignore. But, on discussion with the client, I found that Paypoint had recently sent round a letter to all its customers advising that its base [...]
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