rebecca on March 1st, 2010

Image via Wikipedia We have been members of BIMA for a while – it’s a trade body for digital agencies.  They ran an event called “New business generation – farming style” earlier this month.  It was a panel discussion with Chris Cowpe – The Caffeine Partnership, Paul Kirkley – JWT, David Hart – Codegent and [...]

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rebecca on January 19th, 2010

Image by couchlearner via Flickr Reading Jay Baer’s recent post about truth and candour, I think he has got a great point. The RSS-reading public loves a screw-up – an opportunity to poke fun at hubris and pride brought low.  Domino’s is the most recent example of a long list of internet marketing screw-ups. He [...]

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rebecca on August 18th, 2009

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 [...]

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I've said it… the "R" word.  There is one going on right now.  If you aren't yet feeling the early symptoms – be grateful.  Here are some early plans you can put in place to ensure that your business does its best to survive.  I am starting with Lead Generation.  This is the earliest part [...]

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