I’ll get to the bit about rape later, so please be patient – a word which you could say is my theme today. One of my heroes is Dr. Vernon Coleman, who writes his own books – and magnificent advertisements …
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Locked up in Voice-Mail Jail: Denny Hatch rides again
For years I have suggested to people who run businesses that they try calling themselves some time and see what happens. And for about the same number of years I have passed on something I read to the effect that …
Read MoreCould this £40,000 disaster change YOUR life? If you think so, I’ll pay your travel costs – maybe more
Every year a few people from all over the world spend a little time with me and a few of my friends. Then they spend the next twelve months picking my brains Some say the experience literally changes their lives. …
Read MoreCarlos Acosta – and is there a virulent plague of design phoneys?
I’ve seen two of the world’s finest performers in the last three weeks. First was Placido Domingo in Simon Boccanegra – his final performance at the Royal Opera House. Moving for me, as I first saw him in La Boheme, …
Read MoreMasochists! Rally to me … This could either keep you awake or put you to sleep – it depends
The third How to Write and Persuade is tomorrow at 2 p. m. assuming the webinar people don’t screw up again. It comes with two free check-lists – and I’m going to redo the first one, which was out of …
Read MoreHow to spot the corporate swamp: look out for lots of initials
Business is divided into two utterly different worlds: the corporate one, where the aim is to climb the ladder high enough to escape the consequences of your folly – and the real one where you are the one who pays …
Read MoreYes! The London Olympics Mascot is a worthy competitor to the hideous logo
After the mugs in charge paid gazillions to some “designers” for the ugliest logo ever I wondered in the odd idle moment if they had anything worse in store. How cruelly I underestimated their capacity for the third rate! In …
Read MoreWant to destroy a good business? Fire a 90 year-old legend.
The lady on the left is called Elena Salvoni. She is London’s most famous Maitre – or rather Maitresse – d’Hote. On the walls are hundreds of photographs of her with her customers. For 40 years I have followed her …
Read MoreHow three little tweaks that took a few minutes increased profit 973%. Hard to believe, but true
Not long ago I did lots of short videos featuring wonderful, fabulous M-E-E-E-E-E … and one very long one of my partner Al, who’s put up with my quibbles, tantrums and peskiness for 8 years. The one featuring him was …
Read MoreA conspiracy of jumped-up arseholes
Not so long ago my partner wanted to contact someone at Google to ask them how to get incentives like AdWords packages. It was utterly impossible to do so. When eventually, through a friend nothing to do with Google, she …
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