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Browser wars. From Netscape through IE to today’s more varied than ever marketplace. How do the makers of web browsers set themselves apart? I’ve touched on this before, with its parallels to when we sell our solution offering in a crowded field. I wonder how relevant today a

“Imagine the Party was a person…” This was the instruction given by a market researcher to a focus group in the English town of Crewe. In a room of what claims to be the world’s first ever railway hotel, built perhaps in the 1830s. She gave the assembled panel

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44385593] Children’s author Holly Bourne appears to have scored a hit with her first fiction for grown-ups. Having heard the premise (nine monthly snapshots of whether a woman leaves a relationship clearly not right for her) I was further intrigued to see her

I found out recently about an ebook publisher that sold itself [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hachette-uk-buys-bookouture-500016] March 2017. In just five years, the startup – by Oliver Rhodes, a previous traditional London publisher’s Marketing exec – shipped an impressive nine million [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/

So I was in a fast-growing chain of English Midland-ish coffee shops. The owner was in this particular branch. Being video’d in front of the counter. For on the day in question, a significant – nay, laudable – progression was in motion. No more single-use cups. Now, takeaway drinkers had to