You are on a deserted beach on a hot day. You’ve been there a while and you are thirsty. A friend of yours has spotted a single place selling beer a few hundred yards in the distance.

Mark Earls' latest book, Copy, Copy, Copy, is a perfect example of illustrator John V. Willshire's famous maxim: 'Make things people want, don't make people want things'. This book is a thing. People should want it.

Anyone who has ever sat in focus groups or seen research on trust and brands will know...

If you think about it, there's generally no correlation between how much something cost to make and how interesting it is.

I was on the receiving end of an intriguing direct marketing effort...

I’ve got a pal who met his wife in a brothel. Oh, don’t worry – it wasn’t his idea. It was his financial adviser’s.