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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 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 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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Mark Ritson10 min read

Good purpose, bad purpose: Marketers shouldn’t oversimplify the arguments

Brand purpose campaigns underperform ‘traditional’ marketing on average, but for the ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Tom Kerridge’s prices aren’t a rip-off if they’re what the market will pay

Forget worshipping at the altar of revenue. Marketers who take a leaf out of Tom ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

P&G and Coke’s pandemic performances prove it: You don’t cut ad spend in a crisis

Procter & Gamble doubled down on marketing when Covid hit, while Coca-Cola went dark. ...
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As a Creative Director, here's why you should take Mark Ritson’s MiniMBA in Marketing

In our fast-paced, low attention span society, familiarity and understanding are often ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Wondering why Netflix wants to stop password-sharing? It’s all about funnels

Netflix has reached a level of penetration it will struggle to improve, with most ...
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