The marketing of the Top Totty beer which has been dropped from the House of Commons Strangers' Bar was "nothing worse than you would see on a saucy postcard", said Andrew Griffiths MP.

A secretive multi-billion dollar industry is offering cutting-edge systems that enable governments to identify, track and monitor people through their phones and computers, a cache of hundreds of surveillance brochures and other marketing materials reveals. A German company offers the ability to track ‘political opponents’; an Italian company claims it can remotely seize control o...

A little something I found in my wanderings...just had to share.

Concern mounts about the high costs and aggressive marketing practices of controversial short-term credit

As figures show the Welsh government spent almost £42m on IT, marketing and management consultancy in five months opposition parties want it to justify the costs.

Marketing a cash cow/mature product to a "hole" new customer! As the joke goes, cemeteries are a great business that people are just dying to get into. But how does one cemetery differentiate itself from the one across the street? Babbling brook! Huge shade trees? Celebrity residents? What could make one hole in the ground so much more desirable than another hole in the ground? How about reaching ...

It is the classic question of American marketing – will it play in Peoria? Of the many occupations today, one will indeed be in the Illinois city famous as the litmus test for American popularity. Let’s look at a simple question – how successful have these movements so far been in securing public support.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat conference is coming up in the next couple of weeks and having spoken at it in previous years I am unable to attend on this, the first with Willie Rennie at the helm. However I spent some time this weekend contemplating if any of the Laws of Marketing that I use

The Scottish Liberal Democrat conference is coming up in the next couple of weeks and having spoken at it in previous years I am unable to attend on this, the first with Willie Rennie at the helm. However I spent some time this weekend contemplating if any of the Laws of Marketing that I use

“But even if there had been no march, the Okies would have been made obsolete by the depression. The histories of depressions show that a period of economic chaos is invariably followed by a period of extremely rigid economic controls – during which all the variables, the only partially controllable factors like commodity speculation, unlimited credit, free marketing, and compe...