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,
Exhibitions Is Your Exhibition Stand Working As Hard As You? Having spent some time wandering around Offshore Europe, the biggest oil and gas industry exhibition in the continent, it interested me to see the lengths exhibitors go to trying to attract visitors to their stand. You still see the old favourites like branded
Efficient A short story about tractors… Back in the day farmers had a horse. Their day coincided with how to treat the horse so that they could get the best out of it for the longest time: when to get up, when to eat, how long to work, when to rest, when
Consumers The more things change… On this morning’s news it was reported that the Poundland chain of shops would acquire the 99P chain in a deal that valued Poundland at 750 Million pounds. Not bad for a business that started just 25 years ago. The founder watched his father in his market stall
We read with great interest recently that the rate of revolution in how we listen to music, from CDs to personal ITunes accounts and multiple digital devices, phones etc is apparently starting to decline. And guess what? Sales of the old vinyl 12” albums are steadily increasing in sales! Does this mean that people are digging their old Decca turntables
There is now little doubt that the UK economy is heading the right way, even if most of us feel that it’s tempting fate to say that publicly. Since the start of this calendar year we have found companies and organisations of all sizes and sorts much more receptive to a new business call and we are averaging a new
The marked increase in client activity over the last 12 months, plus the additional work coming from new clients, averaging one every five weeks so far this calendar year, has been putting quite a strain on our creative team. We were therefore very pleased to welcome Ruaridh Ellery, a new junior Art Director, who joined us at the beginning of
I remember going through Google Analytics reports with clients a few years ago. Almost without exception you’d be explaining the traffic numbers, what country they were from, how long they’d been on the site and how they’d found it and someone in the room would ask ‘aye, but can you tell me who they actually are?’ The answer of course
We’re constantly discovering new apps, websites and programmes. It’s important for us to try and understand all the ones we come across and see if they could have a benefit to our clients or own business. Some do, most don’t. Sometimes we discover something we really like but can’t quite figure what we could best use it for. We were
March 1st saw the start of the company’s 36th year in business and a further piece of good news. Catherine Ross and Mark Graham have accepted appointments to the board of directors, a move that has been enthusiastically greeted by staff in all three offices. Catherine has been Finance Director since joining the company in 2012 making a significant difference
