At the time of writing, I’ve been in marketing for almost 20 years. My views on the discipline have evolved a bit over that time and I’ve picked up a lot along the way. For many long and boring reasons,…
That Meeting With The Chairman I spent an hour last week talking to Matt Thompson from Best of Belfast podcast. He’s pretty good when it comes to interviewing people and got me talking about a whole range of subjects. One experience we discussed…
If you’re reading this post I guess you fall into one of three categories: You’ve seen / heard me promote it on my social channels or podcast. Someone has blurted out “why don’t we have a TikTok account?” in a…
It’s finally here. My 40th is today (23/01). I’m told life begins at 40, so with a new life in front of me, I thought I’d stick down 40 marketing lessons from part 1, that might be useful to take…
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There are three really simple answers to the question posed by the title of this post. They are: No Yes It depends Before you start to get all frothed up about my new found love of likes, I should urge you…
On World Book Day (WBD) last year, I had great fun writing this post about George’s Marvellous Medicine and a few lessons we can take from it for business strategy. Since then, I’ve read some great books which could have…
Does Northern Ireland have a race problem? I’d say yes. But that’s just my opinion and as a marketer who believes in data, I’ll have to support that statement with both empirical evidence and qualitative data. Actually, the qual is…
Marketing Week recently published a story about Nike’s attempt to break the two hour record for a marathon. #Breaking2, as it was known, was Nike’s attempt to break the holy grail of running. The two hour marathon is the next…
You’ve probably heard of him. Hell, if you haven’t heard of him, you’ve probably not been online recently. Yep, it’s Gary Vaynerchuk. Or Gary Vee to his acolytes. If it’s still not ringing any bells, this is from his LinkedIn…