Branding with wings – the Red Bull way

May 25th, 2010

Marketers are sometimes scornful of large corporations lending their name to promotions and events that really do add value to the brand.

But in the case of Red Bull and the Cliff Diving World Series 2010 such criticism does not apply. In fact, it is a case study on how to get it right!

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Social Media 2.0 – it’s is the message not the medium

March 18th, 2010

Social Media appears to be now stabilising as a Marketing channel with the six key players e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter consolidating their position in the marketplace.

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High staff ‘churn’ as a business model? The Wickes approach

February 28th, 2009

Listening to a recent Radio 4 Today programme interview with Geoff Cooper CEO of Wickes (and the Travis Perkins Group) it appeared that company was well-placed to ride out the current recession.
He was later quoted as saying ” We took early action in 2008 to deal with the increasingly tough trading environment and have set [...]

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Get marketing celebrity memoirs!

January 15th, 2009

This morning Simon Fox, CEO of HMV Group, was featured on the Radio 4 Today programme explaining his group’s Christmas figures.
Amongst the information discussed, he mentioned that sales of travel books were down yet sales of celebrity memoirs ‘held up well’. He sounded quite surprised by the fact.
This leads one to consider why one would [...]

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