Your organisation doesn’t own its brand.   It can shape it, manage it, but never own it. That’s because a brand is not what an organisation says it is.  It’s what the market believes it to be.  It’s a perception developed …

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Does your business have a service element?  Do you measure customer perceptions of the experience?  If so, you might want to take a quick look under the bonnet. Let me share a story.  It sounds far-fetched, but is true.

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Are you normal?  As a business I mean.  If you’re running a B2B marketing agency do you really know how your firm performs relative to competitors? It’s tough to answer this question with confidence.  After all, your competitors only share …

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To say it’s been an eventful few years economically is an understatement.  First we had the credit crunch and a deep recession.  Now deficit reduction measures are biting and bond markets shaking. These turbulent times make the latest instalment of …

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In the latest in my series of interviews with today’s leading business thinkers I spoke with Thomas Jelley, Corporate Citizenship Manager at support services giant Sodexo. But why, you may wonder, is a B2B marketing research agency like Circle talking …

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