I get a lot of requests for advice, and try to answer all of them. It always makes me feel good when people come back and tell me what happened – which Julie in Australia did. She said, “You gave …
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Who makes the best role model for us today?
The front pages of two papers today summed up the net benefits of the great Blair-Brown project, which of course started with vows of all kinds, to do with getting rid of sleaze, improving education, ending crime, removing inequality, walking …
Read MoreHow to Transfer Balance from Vodafone to Vodafone Mobile-USSD
Since the initiation system uses battery control, you don’t need your telephone bite the dust part of the way through the method. At the point when the enlistment strategy is finished, you just need to put in your keeping money …
Read MoreWhat’s missing from this picture? And, the great Twitter challenge is on the move
My Aussie pal Malcolm Auld received this just now: Where are your customers coming from It’s like shooting fish in a barrel Hi Sir or Madam, You have the right bait, but are you fishing in the right places What …
Read MoreA Child’s Guide to Modern Britain – reprinted verbatim from that glorious creation The Daily Mash
RUB a dub dub, three men in a tub – Which is a perfectly normal domestic arrangement and exactly the same as a mummy and daddy who are married. Now here’s a cartoon that will educate your five year-old about …
Read MoreA little taste of heaven for corporate coprophiles. Or are your turds granular, baby?
Lester Wunderman is the man who coined the phrase Direct Marketing – a very wise man and a pretty good writer. I imagine he would throw up if he saw the following ripe sample of corporate horseshit which emerged from …
Read MoreHappy Mondays
How are you? I’m in a good mood for two reasons. First, an old colleague sent me some posters that were good fun – but the idiot machine that lets you upload things said they were “dangerous” so I can’t …
Read MoreA fact which seems to have escaped Mr. Cameron – related to the purpose of marketing
A phrase sprang to mind this morning, and I checked to see if I had got it right. I had. It was said, or so his son alleged, by Winston Churchill’s father, Lord Randolph: “It is the duty of an …
Read MoreLaura Craik, Ian’s Dog Moose – and who should really run the countrynext PM
Well, a bit of a pot-pourri for you today. First of all, Laura Craik who I thought must be either suffering from extreme PMT or be completely bananas – or both – and who writes a column in The Evening …
Read MoreWell, who do you think is more likely to sort out the economy? Mr. Can’t Count McToad – or my candidates?
Today I read with incredulity that Loopy Brown thinks he is the man to sort out the economy. This is like putting forward Jack the Ripper to run a Home for Fallen Women. I guess Cameron thinks he could do …
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