I get a regular flow of questions from would-be entrepreneurs who don’t know what to do. Here is my answer to one The internet is awash with lying bastards telling you can get rich easily. This is a reply to …
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This made sense 31 years ago. What about now?
A trip down Nostalgia Avenue. In 1982 advertising agencies didn’t believe in taking their own medicine. They still don’t. We did – and it worked. I’m only showing you this because my old partner Glenmore Trenear-Harvey sent it to me. And because it …
Read MoreA prediction that came true. Read it as you plan your marketing for 2013
The mistake that almost killed some of the world’s biggest brands……and is killing one now, I suspect. I came across this piece just now. I may have run a version in this blog, too, because I think it is important. As …
Read MoreTalking to yourself: the first sign of madness – and no way to run an airline
The Delta-Virgin marriage: made in heaven – or tears before bedtime? Delta recently bought the 49% of Virgin the Great Smiling Silver Beard doesn’t own. Delta is quite liked by investment analysts as they have been busy cutting costs better …
Read MorePink pigs will fly before I invest in Aviva, no matter what the experts say
If you want to know how good a business is, try being a customer. Then ask if they’re running things for their benefit – or yours Recently I transferred my paltry assets to a new home, mainly because the people …
Read MoreA diabolically bad video for Christmas – but I loved every second
The Blues is alive and well at 34th Street, New York city I saw this pair as I was going to catch the A-train a couple of weeks back. (And I can’t help adding that I saw Duke Ellington’s orchestra …
Read MoreMore beer for the two drunks in Downing Street!
What’s really happening to your money? And how are we really doing compared to those poor souls in Europe? “Giving money to a bank is like giving a gallon of beer to a drunk. You know what he’s going to …
Read MoreAn obscenity-free open letter to the manager of Lloyds Bank, Covent Garden
As you know many firms block swear-words so as not to offend their staff, who have never heard them as they never watch TV or go to the movies. So you may not have seen the original of this, which …
Read MoreA Christmas Love Story
With grateful thanks to that incorrigible romantic, my old partner Glenmore A couple was Christmas shopping at the mall on Christmas Eve and the mall was packed. As the wife walked through the mall she was surprised to look up …
Read MoreAn open letter to the manager of Lloyds Bank, Covent Garden
May I explain why I – and I bet quite a few others – would like to blow up your head office after chopping your grasping, witless directors into tiny, blood-stained morsels? I should confess now that the title of …
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