Lord Leverhulme famously said that “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the problem is I do not know which half”. In a downturn it is vital that none of the marketing pound is wasted and as planning director at Leeds-based direct response agency PCD, I can reveal how to be smarter with...
Digital digital digital – isn’t it wonderful?! With its power to engage, its speed, the huge choice and access it offers consumers and, not least, the vast opportunity it provides for marketers to get under the skin of prospects and customers like never before. Well, a resounding ‘yes’ to all of the...
You soon could have. That’s because the Internet Advertising Bureau has just put together a ‘best practice’ code on how you go about it. The three main tenets for behavioural advertising are consent i.e. you’ve got to give people a chance to opt out/in; education i.e. you’ve got to tell people how you...
Buried in my usual Obama-heavy copy of Time magazine was a review of ‘buy.ology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy’ by Martin Lindstrom . Talk about digital direct marketing! The legendary marketing uber guru actually wired his guinea pigs to brain computers to see if there was a connection between religion...
