Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

What does the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive mean for marketing and public relations?

Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 6:51 pm

I’ve been wading through consultation papers on a new UK law that could affect marketing and public relations people by April 2008.

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Categories: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Sales

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 29 June 2007

Saturday, June 30th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Advertising, Direct marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis

Quote of the day

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 at 6:59 am

Quote of the day from Gavin Hilton (Planning Director, WWAV Rapp Collins)

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Categories: Branding, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Social media, Web strategy

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 8 June 2007

Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Business development, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Sales, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Web strategy

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 25 May 2007

Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Advertising, Blogging, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Marketing, News, Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis, Web strategy

Marketing with interactive media

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 6:28 am

If you’re looking for a comprehensive overview of the digital marketing space, then a good place to start is a new report from GroupM.

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Categories: Blogging, Branding, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Video podcasting, Web strategy

Delivering truly integrated marketing and public relations campaigns

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

Nick Porter, director at Iris PR, has an interesting article about how agencies need to delivery genuinely integrated campaigns on the BrandRepublic website.

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Categories: Advertising, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Social media

Direct mail, opt-in, opt-out and saving the environment

Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am

The UK direct marketing industry is responsible for producing 550,000 tonnes of paper mailings each year. Is it time they started sending mailings to people who have actually asked for them?

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Categories: Direct marketing, Email marketing, Regulations and laws

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