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April 22, 2013
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Networking at Conferences – Essential Advice for ‘Buy Yorkshire’

Conference season is coming up fast, kicking off with next week’s Buy Yorkshire event at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. Are you a seasoned conference veteran who knows how to work the room? Or do you sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed by the size of an event? Here are a [...]

Relocation, Relocation Relocation….Moving To Manchester

    I have lived in various cities so far in my life, York, Barcelona, London, Leeds and most recently Manchester. All of which have something unique to offer and cities are great places to be: art, culture, architecture and the inner city buzz atmosphere. I suppose you cannot argue [...]

Oh Paris, what have you done…? A Social Media Disaster.

As a marketing professional, the issue of social media, employment law and recruitment has probably been on your radar for some time now. In fact, you may already have read countless articles from various employment law experts warning you (in a very dry way zzzzz…..) how to avoid the pitfalls [...]

April 17, 2013
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Gentleman – Has the music industry lost control of their marketing?

In the good old days of Top of the Pops and the Hit Parade, you knew why artists and their songs did well. It was down to the music, lyrics and auditory performance. Whilst I’m not quite old enough to remember the times before TV’s (ahem!), I did spend my [...]

Optimistic news for the marketing recruiting industry.

Whilst we are usually surrounded by doom and gloom and terms like ‘bumping along the bottom’ are common place in news reviews, it was very refreshing to see some positive news from the BBC online – article here. Without being too blunt, being in recruitment we’re interested, of course, in [...]

March 28, 2013
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Have Leeds Trinity Missed A Trick?

I walked past the new Leeds Trinity shopping arcade when it opened a week or so ago (I didn’t venture in…) and it was packed. The great and good of Leeds were there including the new “Mr Leeds”, @stuartclarkeuk reporting on this most momentus occasion for Leeds. One of the [...]

March 19, 2013
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How to Dress for a Job Interview – A Gentleman’s View

The interview. The one chance you’ve got to impress on your future employers your suitability for a place in their business or organisation. Half an hour in which you need to be witty, charming and knowledgeable, leaving that lasting impression which could lead to a job offer that might change [...]

Red Nose Day Rowathon – Man vs Machine 2013

Who had the mad idea to row 100,000m for Red Nose Day? Ah, that’d be me then… It all sounded so straight forward when I originally suggested it. 10 hours in the day, 10km per hour, easy. Or was it? At this stage we hadn’t quite worked out how many [...]

March 13, 2013
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Top 10 Most Annoying Social Media Updates

This morning I noticed this piece on the @Telegraph Twitter feed and it made me “LOL”… I think we’ll all have un-followed, de-friended or deleted people who have committed the following social media crimes… 1. Diet and exercise boasters 2. People who share pictures of every meal 3. Cryptic status [...]

Secret Recordings, A Chef And The Home Office – A lesson for Agencies…

For this month’s post I thought I would do an actual case law update. This is not because I am short on material but because it coincides with two new cases that are both ‘legally interesting’ and will likely be of interest if you are running a marketing agency or [...]

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