that canadian girl

Category: Marketing & Advertising

  • Must PR people and bloggers be like oil and water?

    Last week, Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and Wired Magazine blogger, lashed out at lazy PR people. The crux of the story is that Chris gets torrents of press releases, some more or less relevant, from public relations…

  • Your call is important to us: Seven tips to use when dealing with customer service

    We’ve all had situations where we’ve needed to call the customer service number for a product or service where either something’s gone wrong, or we’re dissatisfied with what’s happening. It’s normal for that to happen considering the amount of goods…

  • Asda makes cooking fish easier

    Over the past few years, I’ve written quite a few posts about my amazement at many people’s fear of cooking unknown foods, resulting in Britain households cooking on average 4 meals each. But while watching Hell’s Kitchen (the Marco Pierre…

  • Email marketing software: The good, the bad and the downright ugly

    Back when I worked in email marketing, I kept meaning to write about what it’s like to work in that field and what applications have blown my mind, or been the bane of my life. In March, I wrote an…

  • I wish I could love milk

    I’ve played the Get The Glass game a number of times now, but at most, I got to the second mini-game and certainly got nowhere near finishing the game. I REALLY want to love this game, it’s got such an…

  • Nightmare clients

    A “funny because it’s true” article on nightmare web design clients by MB Web Design, which I thought I’d share to amuse those friends of mine who are also mad enough to have their own design, development or digital agency…

  • Jaw droppingly cool viral video

    Every online corp is trying to jump onto the viral video and user generated content bandwagon these days. Most of them fall off the wagon with a few scratches and a bruised ego, but the occasional one succeeds. Will It…

  • Give poor customer service, pay the price

    These days, so many companies skimp on customer service, hiring teenage-bots who can’t make decisions in-store or outsourcing to a call centre that’s so disconnected from reality, there’s no hope of finding help there. And inevitably, it results in unhappy…

  • A truly mesmerising ad

    I usually get aggravated by websites that force their music and animations onto you, especially without giving a pause, stop or, at the very least, a mute button. This ad is completely different. It’s Audi’s latest A5 advert, and the…

  • Warning: Blogging can result in losing your job or…

    You know how they always say “Watch what you blog about, you might get dooced?” I was never one to really listen to that nonsense, and felt blogging was a great outlet for personal woes and tales, as well as…