Aubin & Wills is a high-end clothing company with five stores in upmarket places, as well as an impressive e-commerce site. Read the rest of this entry »
When website development goes bad
A couple of years ago a client finally agreed that his business needed a new website. Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s start a conspiracy rumour
The dust finally seems to be settling on the MP’s expenses saga, though I think it’s safe to say it won’t be too long before the issue pops up again in some way or other. Read the rest of this entry »
Shameless plug for a new client
A few days ago I met up with some former colleagues from my days as an online journalist which is where we all got to know each other, and have remained friends ever since. We originally met back in 1999, and had all arrived there after lengthy careers working for newspapers in all corners of the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
Tweet tweet
Seeing as the whole world has gone Twitter mad, with blogs abound about how it’s revolutionised everyone’s lives; national newspapers frothing over it and selling it to the masses, as well as long-term users now proclaiming patronisingly “I told you so”, I thought I’d put my oar in. Read the rest of this entry »
PR by default
The creative industry (PR, marketing, advertising, design etc) has many cynics and critics, from Jeremy Clarkson’s endless jibes at marketing men wearing designer shades while driving their BMWs through to Absolutely Fabulous, and the lesser known Absolute Power. Read the rest of this entry »
Hanging with Arnie (sort of)
Friday lunchtime saw me at a Met Club event in Leeds, where the guest speaker was David Parkin, editor of thebusinessdesk.com who gave a fantastic run through of his journalism career highs the pinnacle of which was, perhaps, interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Not that I’m suggesting it’s all been downhill since then; it plainly hasn’t, but more of that later.) Read the rest of this entry »
Members only
Today’s Yorkshire Post ran a supplement entitled Yorkshire’s Top PR & Advertising Companies, which was sponsored (paid for) by the CIPR. Read the rest of this entry »
Going for gold
Congratulations to Nick Copland for winning a gold medal in the corporate identity category of the annual Roses Design Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
Two awards in a week for Old Bear
Keighley’s Old Bear Brewery is raising a toast to itself after two of its beers picked up awards within a week of each other. Read the rest of this entry »
