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Posted on02/09/201420/08/2015Brands, Planning

Positioning is over rated

by Richard1 Comment on Positioning is over rated

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou In…

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Posted on30/06/201421/08/2015Advertising, Brands, Planning, Presentations

Interesting versus right – revisited

by Richard7 Comments on Interesting versus right – revisited

If there is one defining philosophy of my approach to planning and strategic development it is the mantra that it is vital to be interesting…

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Posted on19/01/201404/04/2014Brands, Provocations

Supermarket success – it’s a question of class

by Richard5 Comments on Supermarket success – it’s a question of class

For a time of loving and giving this Christmas saw a bloodbath in British supermarket retailing. As retailer after retailer reported their fourth quarter trading…

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Posted on20/11/201304/04/2014Brands

Brands should be needed not needy

by Richard3 Comments on Brands should be needed not needy

Needy is a wonderful word to describe someone that craves rather too much of something from us rather too much, whether attention, help, love, sex…

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Posted on16/11/201304/04/2014Brands

Trust: Every brand wants it but few know how to get it

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One of the murals depicting the Battle of the Bogside (August 1969) in Derry Londonderry, an enduring records of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Image…

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Posted on27/10/201316/11/2013Brands, Provocations

Trust teaser

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I have been spending a lot of time thinking about trust over the past year. And a lot of time becoming truly frustrated at orthodox…

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Posted on29/07/201304/04/2014Advertising, Brands, Provocations

Why ‘always on’ is such a turn off

by Richard21 Comments on Why ‘always on’ is such a turn off

When you have fireworks like this who needs bonfires. Image courtesy of Fernando Castaneda. In recent years the business of marketing has been assailed by…

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Posted on02/06/201305/04/2014Brands, Provocations

If you can successfully avoid tax you know your brand is healthy

by Richard4 Comments on If you can successfully avoid tax you know your brand is healthy

  From horsemeat in the lasagne to Libor fixing in the blood, not to mention industrial scale tax avoidance, brands have to put up with…

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Posted on10/02/201316/05/2013Advertising, Brands, Saatchi & Saatchi

Keynesian marketing and the business of confidence

by RichardLeave a comment on Keynesian marketing and the business of confidence

I am not an economist but let’s say I am economically curious.   And I wonder whether some of the debates that are happening in…

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Posted on09/02/201308/05/2013Brands

Straight from the horse’s mouth

by Richard1 Comment on Straight from the horse’s mouth

The UK is currently gripped by one of its periodic food scandals. For once this isn’t about food safety – no one has been feeding…

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Posted on07/10/201230/01/2013Articles and columns, Brands, Provocations

Made in Britain

by Richard1 Comment on Made in Britain

Heatherwick studio’s cauldron for London 2012. Provenance has traditionally been the last resort of the strategic scoundrel. If you fancy an early lunch at the…

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Posted on08/08/201205/10/2012Advertising, Brands

Does oxytocin hold the answer?

by Richard8 Comments on Does oxytocin hold the answer?

Chances are that you will be familiar with the properties of oxytocin. Whether male or female you will have enjoyed the sense of warmth it…

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Adliterate has been delivering radical thinking for the brand advice business for 20 years. My intention is to take a more radical view of issues in order to solve deep seated problems and I set myself against orthodoxy in any form. Adliterate is also deliberately provocative, because life is more fun that way. Much of my thinking on brand strategy is now availble in Feral Strategy, my new book which is available here.

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