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Mark Ritson11 min read

Follow Shania Twain’s lead and make sure product isn’t the forgotten P of marketing

Mark Ritson experiences an epiphany on his couch that leads him to revise his opinion of ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

‘Triple-Cooked Marketing Budgets’: The full recipe

Marketing budgeting is flawed. Marketers are more confused about budgeting than ever ...
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Mark Ritson7 min read

Marketers, like chancellors, need time in the job to succeed

Short tenures engender short-term thinking, as the UK economy currently demonstrates. To ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Even if Unilever placates its investors, it still has Ben & Jerry’s to deal with

With CEO Alan Jope set to leave, Unilever faces battles not only with investors aiming to ...
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Mark Ritson5 min read

In the battle between salience and differentiation, Bothism wins

Marketers debate over salience and differentiation like they are mutually exclusive, when ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Look at your brand from the customer’s perspective, not the other way round

Responses to the Queen’s death show marketers think brands have a place in consumers’ ...
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Mark Ritson8 min read

P&O is the rare reputation crisis that really does matter

The damage P&O Cruises has suffered from P&O Ferries’ mistakes cuts to the core ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

For Omega and Swatch, the rewards of co-branding could be astronomical

Far from cannibalising Omega’s luxury sales, the collaboration with Swatch on the £200 ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

An ethnography of pricing: How and why marketers should put up prices

Inflation means price increases are marketing’s number-one priority for 2022. But how ...
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