We didn't see that coming... At the end of February this year we held a reception in central Glasgow to celebrate the company's 40th birthday. The actual date we started was 1st March 1980 but it was easier for all concerned to hold the event a couple of days earlier, on the Friday evening. The office building
When we wrote our last comment on the UK/EU situation very few people, if any, had a clear view of our general direction. Today the picture is no clearer. Indeed it is probably fair to say that most of the population, however they might have voted in the referendum, are now baffled by the seemingly endless wrangling. Only one thing
Result We need to move on The EU referendum result last June surprised many people, not least those who called it in the first place. Had the result been much more clear cut, something like sixty five or seventy per cent one way or the other the weeks and months since would have been far
Creative Strengthening Our Creative Team Any marketing business is only as good as the people in it so we’re very pleased to begin 2016 by further strengthening our creative team. Brian Fitzpatrick joined us officially on January the first as a Graphic Designer and we all welcome Brian to the agency and
Traditions Festive Blues December is upon us and all the traditions we associate with this time of year are in full swing. Christmas trees and decorations, festive songs, late night opening, supermarkets and department store competitive Christmas TV commercials and advertisements for drinks you’d forgotten existed. In recent years though there’s been
Business All of a sudden, you know nothing! We’re supposedly now fairly well on into a new, much vaunted ‘knowledge-based economy’, which would be ok I guess if it weren’t that most knowledge is now utterly valueless! Goodness but that’s a big statement, but one with some foundation I believe. Consider this for
Photography Food photography without using a professional photographer If you run a restaurant, bar or café you know how important your menu is. It is the first introduction to your food that a customer gets and having great pictures can make a world of difference. How do you attract these people into your food establishment with
Future The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Awesome Earlier this month we had a group of students visiting our main office in Glasgow. We do this a couple of times each year and we all enjoy answering their questions. Our visitors this time were from Dundee & Angus College and they really were
Knowledge Marketing And A Good Snog The most popular genre on YouTube is the ‘how to’ video. Up to the end of September over 100 million hours of different ‘how to’ videos had been watched this year alone. As marketers we, and our clients, can learn a lot from this statistic. Life-hacks is
Personal Speaking to Robots! Yes we’ve all been through it. You make a phone call to your bank, insurance company or even British Telecom and after a slight delay on comes the recorded message normally asking you to choose from one of the following 2,000 options (ok slight exaggeration) 4 or 5 options! So,
