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I frequently find myself reminding clients, friends and colleagues that there are marketing lessons to be learnt almost everywhere in everyday life. I was reminded of one of the MOST important lessons the other day…

As you may know, for many years I’ve done a lot of marketing work in the entertainment industry (movies, videogames, music, etc) and we did recently some work for a live concert targeted at under 18s.

When we arrived on the day there were the usual ticket touts (in the US you call them scalpers) in operation trying to sell over-priced tickets to the event to poor folks who hadn’t been able to buy their tickets before the event sold out.

But these scalpers were having ZERO success!

Why? Keep Reading

Chelsea Flower Show

Where I live in London is very near the Chelsea Flower – an annual event where the (actually pretty small) gardens of Chelsea Hospital are taken over by the most amazing floral displays and gardens. And expensive shops and cafes, of course! For the week of the show, the whole area turns into complete chaos… [...]

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London Living In Photos

People are often asking me what it’s like living in London. Much of the online marketing and traffic community is centred in the US, so people seem to be fascinated by rainy old England! I love to travel and I’m lucky that my work and family life have allowed me to visit some fantastic places… [...]

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