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What opportunities have been generated for your company by the new credit crunch situation?
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 What opportunities have been generated by the new credit crunch situation? Don't let a sales fall threaten the marketing plans for your company.   

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Between the frames
20 different ways to make great movies special
http://www.cracked.com/article_17079_20-moments-th...


With the Academy Awards coming up, we asked you to show us some awesome things that were (probably) happening between the frames in some of your favourite movies.

 
Torex : Retailers looking to boost sales
Staying together: Predicting the future of customer loyalty
Torex’s Doug Hargrove comments....
http://www.mad.co.uk/Main/News/Articlex/59b36407d2...

Doug Hargrove from Torex With many stores suffering from reduced consumer spending as a result of the current economic uncertainty, promotions are one of the key strategies available to retailers looking to boost sales and drive footfall. 

Doug Hargrove from Torex explains how it is important that retailers use promotions to drive spending habits in a way that benefits them the most, encouraging key customer demographics to visit their stores and take up offers.

[more from Torex inside]
 
Will Twitter settle down?
10 tips for using Twitter and Email Marketing
http://dmaemailblog.typepad.com/dma_email_marketin...

Add a link to your company's Twitter account to all mass email communications

Reading and hearing a lot about Twitter of late and not sure what all the fuss is about?

Sure, there are some sceptics out there - but I believe that all the hype about Twitter will settle down at some stage (remember the RSS hype a couple of years ago and how it was supposedly going to replace email?) and find its worthy position within the digital marketing mix in many companies.

However, understandably, many companies are still not sure how they can take advantage of Twitter especially in the B2B realm.

To our rescue comes Chad Horenfeldt of Anything Goes Marketing. I've condensed his post inside, but you can read the full post here.
[more about Twitter inside]
 

The Mother creative team explain their new ad
"Makes me want to both buy Diet Coke and ride my bike in a supermarket"
Diet Cke and its new £35m ad campaign featuring Welsh singer Duffy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFQXhivo0Ds

Duffy Watch Duffy in the new Diet Coke ad.

Diet Coke used last night's Brit awards to launch its new £35m ad campaign featuring Welsh singer Duffy as a "strong and confident woman who takes control".

The ad, out of Mother London, sees the soft drink shed its associations with scantily clad workmen and instead aims to celebrate a girl’s “right to say no to the pressures of modern day living”.

“It used to be about girls using their breaks to ogle construction workers, but now they’ve got better things to do than sit around and wait for semi-naked men,”
say the Mother creative team. “Diet Coke’s now about inspiring women to take control and do the right thing for themselves.”

 
The many myths that surround social media
Are you creating content for the social Web? Your competitors are already there
If your business isn't putting itself out there, it ought to be
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb...

But before you take the plunge, bear in mind the many myths that surround social media For companies, resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. Your competitors are already there. Your customers have been there for a long time.

If your business isn't putting itself out there, it ought to be. But before you take the plunge, bear in mind the many myths that surround social media.

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Second and third vehicle users marketing
Eclipse Marketing : Vauxhall captures details on second and third vehicle users
http://www.brandrepublic.com/Discipline/DirectMark...

Eclipse Marketing is working with Vauxhall on an innovative, consumer-facing campaign that is enabling the automotive manufacturer to capture details on second and third vehicle users.

The trailblazing marketing campaign centres round a programme of two safety recalls which the database marketing agency is handling for Vauxhall. Originally conceived as an offline prize draw activity, the promotion is now being jointly managed online, via a microsite which the agency designed and built for Vauxhall.
[more about Eclipse Marketing inside...]
 

More about the Oxford College of Marketing
Survive the recession, but not the 'crunch'?
Gill Waters looks at marketing during a recession
http://www.oxfordcollegeofmarketing.com/tallentcru...

Gill Waters, of Oxford College of Marketing

Despite the rather premature observations of a government minister recently regarding the ‘green shoots of economic recovery’ , many organisations in the UK are facing challenging trading conditions as the recession continues in the real economy.

Many will not survive, but for those who do there are potentially greater challenges ahead if they are to remain competitively positioned to take advantages of the opportunities arising when the economic recovery begins. Gill Waters, of Oxford College of Marketing, considers the issues.
[more from Gill Waters inside]
 

Buffalo comments on Mini redundancy debacle
Mini cuts 850 staff in reputation ‘car crash’-
http://www.buffalo.co.uk/index.html

Buffalo Communications MD, Kerry Hallard


BMW’s Mini has announced it is cutting approximately 850 staff at its factory in Cowley, near Oxford.

Employees were given one hour’s notice that they had lost their jobs, resulting in furious crowds, vegetables being thrown at management, unions becoming involved and wide-scale media condemnation.

Buffalo Communications MD, Kerry Hallard, comments:

“BMW has made a major mess of its reputation by completely ignoring the fundamentals of internal and external communication. Its ex-employees are rightly furious about this last-minute announcement making the company the villain of the day – a complete failure on counts of morality and business sense.
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Tesco bars girl
for carrying a balloon......
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Handy new site helps you keep track of all your shenanigans in the sack — from how long things lasted (in minutes) to bedfellows and performance.
 


StrongMail Systems today announced that Equifax has selected StrongMail to power its marketing email services for Equifax customers.
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www.50goldenbrands.com

Vote for Britain's best loved brand

The Marketing Society has turned the clock back 50 years to illustrate the power of branding a product but which will be your favourite?

Vote here.
[more...]
 

Social Media Influence Conference 09

Social Media Influence Conference 09

"How Social media came of age and companies
and brands joined the conversation"
 


 
James Boulton

James Boulton
resigns as HSBC marketing director.
 

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Prompt Insight : identify sales opportunities
Hazel Butters, CEO of Prompt Communications
Cost-effective marketing services from Prompt enable B2B vendors to identify sales opportunities and engage prospects quickly and effectively in challenging markets.
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Marketing spend helps Nestle
http://snipr.com/c6l4h


Nestlé, maker of the Milky Bar, Nespresso, Smarties, Nesquik and Kit-Kat brands, says consumer-facing marketing increased 7.5% last year, which helped push 2008 sales up 8.3%.
 

Excellence Awards Launch


Association of Event Organisers (AEO) is pleased to confirm that the industry’s flagship ceremony, the AEO Excellence Awards, will be held at the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel, on 19 June 2009.

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Laughter Spot
Drunk guy confuses pants with his shirt

After a few too many mai tai's, a speedo-wearing man struggles to get his pants on over his shoulders. The best part is listening to the crowd of people laughing really hard at his efforts.
 

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