I sometimes have an uneasy feeling that there is a great alternative recruitment agency in the depths below which seeks out idiots for big jobs. They probably run ads headed “A unique money-making opportunity for gormless twats.” Such seems the …
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There’s no hogwash like marketing hogwash … and a possible alternative
I have always thought it was hard to beat the kind of twaddle marketing people come out with, and that the absolute nadir is reached by agency people. Here, for instance, is a quote from a presentation made by one …
Read MoreThe great SEO rip-off – don’t sign a contract: I have a better idea
Do you get a lot of people trying to sell you SEO? I get regular emails – and another agency which has the misfortune of me for its chairman gets people ringing to sell it all the time. The sales …
Read MoreWould you believe one old seaside video could build an internet business? Plus a simple thought about investment
Did you see a video I made the other day about the mysterious word Buckshee? In it I mentioned a man who had built a very successful business after watching a video made 20 odd years ago. I have never …
Read MoreGorillas make £437,000 – plus a few Euro-moans from the aged scribe
I watched a story the other day about the remarkable degree to which gorillas behave like and can communicate with humans. There has recently been a plague of fancifully decorated gorillas in Bristol, placed in prominent places to raise money …
Read MoreGorillas make £437,000 – plus a few Euro-moans from the aged scribe
I watched a story the other day about the remarkable degree to which gorillas behave like and can communicate with humans. There has recently been a plague of fancifully decorated gorillas in Bristol, placed in prominent places to raise money …
Read MoreThe funniest direct marketing speech ever – and James Hammond
I cannot say the words direct marketing often reduce me to paroxysms of mirth. However, a speech I saw a few years ago did. It was at a direct marketing awards event which I attended because someone else was paying. …
Read MoreSomething buckshee after the usual touches of the ludicrous – including Beauty and the Beasts
I had a couple of good laughs the other day – one about a love triangle, the other about a predictable display of political hypocrisy from the younger Milipede. The first was a story about the wife of an MP …
Read MoreTranscendental bollocks: the new hocus-pocus … or the rise of hyper-garbage
Don’t you think it strange that someone you never heard of with not the slightest talent – just a desire to make a fool of themselves in a show you’d never want to watch – is called a “star”. Yet …
Read MoreLogo insanity stalks the land – and Mr. Miliband moves us all to tears
How does design affect results? Take the 2011 Olympics logo – the visual equivalent of dogshit on a pavement. It’s hard to believe it can have done anything but harm, managing as it does to combine so deftly the hideous …
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