What We Think

All fools – what Justin Bieber and I have in common

Here’s a clue, it isn’t our dancing, our torsos or our lexical dexterity. What we have in common is that we both played an April Fools trick to generate attention and get people flocking. However, whilst one of us had texts of congratulations on a job well done for mocking

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Pidgin English – PR guru invests in latest messaging tech

Nottingham-based PR agency, Press For Attention PR, has announced plans to revolutionise the way businesses communicate in post-Brexit Britain with the addition of a flock of pigeons to the team. The agency is led by Greg Simpson, a former business journalist and published author on PR who admittedly never lets

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Testimonials – grab them by the you know whats

There’s a reason why testimonials are thus called. Folk on trial in the days of ancient Rome tended to be men and tended to fear loss of some key ‘assets’ rather keenly. I have spared ‘David’s’ blushes in the photo above but I think you get the picture. No, scrolling down

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This blog contains big BUTS…

…and I cannot lie. Fear not, gentle reader, this particular giant but – note singular ‘t’ – is the one most people are defaulting to right now and is another dreaded ‘B’ word…yep, Brexit. Negotiations are much in the news today. I’m writing this ahead of watching PMQs because I

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Stuck for ideas for a CSR initiative? Google it.

‘Don’t be evil’ a key part of Google’s Code of Conduct was quietly shelved back in 2018, probably due to the fact that suggesting it as a possibility hinted at likelihood of it occurring… Anyway, they now work within a more vague ‘ethical business conduct’ guideline which is somewhat dull

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There’s a Hole in Your Bucket Dear Liza

OK, so you’re not Liza BUT I’m about to save you a fortune on wasted marketing anyway. All you need to do is find the holes in your bucket which sounds simple but after a number of similar different experiences in the last month, maybe it isn’t. In the last

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More than a Lidl bit funny

I’ll admit this right from the start, I don’t really like the John Lewis ad. I am clearly soulless. Actually, it is great, it is warm, it is emotive but it’s just too ‘commercial’ for me, which sounds odd for an advert but it feels too much like a plug

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