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From PEST to STEEPLE

Just posted a new resource on our website – from PEST to STEEPLE and beyond – looking at the different categories of macro environment analysis acronyms. The resources covers PEST, SLEPT, PESTEL, PESLEG, LEPEST and STEEPLE along with a couple of others. Useful for students at all levels of CIM qualification, Professional Certificate, Professional Diploma […]

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Which plan will work best?

I make no apologies for another blog related to the motor industry, but this week in Autocar magazine there are two interesting, but very different, interviews with car company CEOs which demonstrate contrasting approaches to strategic planning. One interview is with Dany Bahar of Lotus and the other with Ratan Tata of Tata, owners of […]

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Open day

We are having an open day so prospective students can come and discuss course options for any CIM marketing qualification or CAM digital marketing qualification. Details are:Date: September 14thTime: 2pm to 9pmVenue: Bewleys Hotel, Leeds You can either book an appointment by phoning 01977 649000 or just drop in and have a chat – coffee […]

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Student award winner!

Really delighted tonight – at the CIM Yorkshire Celebration Evening one of our students from SPA Professional Academy, Rebecca McGuinness, won not only the award for the best Chartered Postgraduate student but also the Yorkshire and Humberside Top Student of the Year 2011 award – congratulations Becky, a really well deserved award. 

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What College Degrees Are Really Worth?

It would be really interesting to see an equivalent study for the UK to this one which is discussed in Fast Company magazine: What College Degrees Are Really Worth | Fast Company It certainly looks like graduates from Business degrees in the US do better than quite a few others in the salary stakes and […]

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CIM Centenary Banquet

2011 is the Centenary year for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and on Monday this week they held a Centenary Banquet at Windsor Castle with HRH Prince Philip (Patron of the Institute) in attendance. I was really lucky to receive an invitation so decided I really should attend – it might well be the […]

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3D Printing

One subject I have been covering with my groups when teaching the Emerging Themes unit in the CIM Chartered Postgraduate Diploma is 3D printing – it is a really fascinating technology which will potentially allow us all to make products tailored to our own specification, potentially an exact fit for our own hand or similar […]

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Facebook Deals

The launch today of Facebook Deals may change the way people think about letting their friends (and potentially others) know about what they are doing. Whilst people have been checking in with Facebook and Foursquare for a while the incentives to do so have just increased – at least through participating organisations. But really, this […]

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Pro-active service example

Quick note here but I thought it worth commenting about a good example of pro-active service I have just experienced. My personal bank account is with First Direct (that would help with those data protection security questions!) who have call centres in Leeds and somewhere in Scotland (sorry, I don’t know where specifically). I just […]

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Has Google changed things for SEO in an Instant?

On Wednesday this week (8th September) Google announced Google Instant – a new way of delivering search results. Essentially, as you type in the search request it shows the search results reflecting the letters typed so far with predictions about what is coming, for more information see http://www.google.com/instant/ So does this affect marketers? It could […]

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Morgan Motor Company

As you may have noticed from the recurring subject of my blog posts I am a bit of a petrolhead (OK, probably more than a bit!), enjoying cars and having a fascination with the motor industry and how it uses marketing. Because of this, I had a great day out recently when I went to […]

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Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano and the Triple Bottom Line

I was contemplating earlier the possible marketing related consequences of the flight bans in the UK due to the Icelandic Volcano eruptions and the ensuing ash clouds. Whilst there are many areas which fall into the “Managing Corporate Reputation” area due to the publicity with the obvious areas being in relation to airlines, holiday companies […]

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