The Daily Mirror had a great front cover article yesterday with david Cameron relaxing on a Cornish beach on his holiday. More interesting to me was the headline on the paper he was reading however. It was from the Plymouth Herald where they are having a go about an £1/2 million rebrand of the new [...]
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Have a read of this article in the Sunday Times about Saffron looking at rebranding Gordon Brown and New Labour. Click this link to read it Ignoring the politics of it, Wally Olins makes a few points that we have been batting on about for for a few years now. 1. The more you advertise [...]
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We’ve been having problems with T-Mobile and their Blackberry services for months. Every time it sent and email to one of our handsets, it bounced back to tell the sender it hadn’t arrived. Helpful stuff – particularly as it did arrive and we had people ringing and complaining and all sorts. We rang T-Mobile on [...]
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We went to see a speaker from Google the other night and he was talking about a US based business that has totally transformed itself by publishing videos on You Tube. And they sell food blenders, not a trendy youth product. In the first weekend after they put a video on You Tube, they sold [...]
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Well not actually us. But a good friend of ours has and we are being interviewed on it, talking about my view of branding and what you can get right and wrong. Andy is someone we have worked with for years and is one of our best mates and closest business advisers. its worth a [...]
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I’ve just finished this brilliant book about branding and ideas. As my real name is Johnny anyway, I only bought it because the title caught my eye. Its not new and in many ways, its not that original, its just very simple back to basics stuff. Its full of really strong and simple ideas to [...]
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I bought this brilliant shirt the other day from a company in the States. It arrived really quickly and I thought it was pretty funny. If you want your own, click here to visit their site
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Okay, so its not perfect yet, but its a lot better than the old one. It will be updated over the next few weeks and months and we’ll be putting plenty of our thoughts on here, so please bookmark us and come back as much as you’d like. Thanks, John
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