Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category

Distrust of the Corporation

Sunday, October 31st, 2004 Mark Moody-Stuart writing in the Financial Times this weekend Distrust in the land of pyschos and soya milk The aim is to demonstrate that the modern corporation is a dysfunctional development and that the economic system supported by corporations ...

Five years later, the train pulls into Madison Avenue

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 Doc Searls wonders whether the marketing communications industry and their clients will ever be able to truly deliver engagement marketing. in his post Five years later, the train pulls into Madison Avenue. He quotes an article by Scott Donaton ...

How to keep your customers? Use some common sense

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004 Hally Suitt writing in Worthwhile wrote a post on customer retention on 14 September this year. This is what she said I need a new cell phone -- new hardware -- and as I look at what my current wireless ...

The death of intimacy

Monday, September 20th, 2004 A selfish, market-driven society is eroding our very humanity. Martin Jacques has written a very powerful piece on our changing society. He identified 3 important trends: 1). The rise of the individual 2). The spread of the market into all aspects of society 3). ...

Customer Advocacy drives Growth

Thursday, September 16th, 2004 In 1972 New Balance produced 30 handmade running shoes. Today worldwide sales are over 1.3bn pairs a year. Greg Gordon of the Financial Times reports that in the US, New Balance is only second to Nike in terms of footwear sales. Gordon ...

What lies beneath

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004 PR machine has an interesting observation in an article for Global PR blog week: Blogs are posing threats to Fortune 1000 brands and in order to meet the new brand threat that blogs pose, corporations are attempting to influence bloggers in ...