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Natural partners bring unexpected bonuses

Rory Sutherland pushes the principle of complementarity to its logical conclusion: category not just brand promotion
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2011: The year of the desperate optimist

Ben Hayman urges brands to acknowledge consumers’ needs for optimism, against the odds
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Two countries united by a commoner

Allyson Stewart- Allen enjoys the commercial inventiveness that was sparked in the US by the recent royal wedding
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You too cannot be a genius

 MY FRIEND, the senior marketing director of a big Japanese electrical and imaging company, says her agency only shows her YouTube clips and can’t even be bothered to say that the idea they’re showing will, eventually, look a
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How to get a better deal

RECENTLY I took an IPA course on negotiation skills taught by Keith Risk, and was therefore interested to see what Chris Merrington, another IPA trainer, had to say on the matter in this book.
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A marketer’s guide to finance

FINANCIAL ISSUES remain a low-interest area for many marketers.
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How to be simply better

IN BARWISE and Meehan’s seminal book, Simply Better, the authors laid the groundwork for the ideas developed in this more prescriptive handbook.
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Will frugal innovation challenge the west?

Scaled-down products for poorer consumers in BRIC countries could pose a threat to developed markets, says Melanie Howard
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Digital Architects needed

Using the analogy of builders versus architects in the construction industry, Vicky Bullen and Christian Barnett describe how to move beyond function and become a brand architect in the digital world
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Innovate faster, cheaper and with lower risk

 Traditional marketing approaches run the risk of being slow and ponderous. Anthony Freeling argues that ‘agile marketing’ is a requirement to thrive in today’s environment
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