quirky

83-year old music legend Quincy Jones was back in London. For a Proms opera performance. Trying something new. As if groundbreaking with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson wasn’t enough already. I caught a couple of his BBC interviews. My Sales ear pricked when early on, he uttered

The 404 Page. Web users know it as what comes up when a site hasn’t got or can’t find the page you’re looking for. And Westminster silly season political reporting found that the beleaguered former UK junior coalition government party cracked a fairly decent joke with theirs

I heard a lady entitled “design correspondent” on the radio. Eliza Williams [https://www.creativereview.co.uk/landing-page/eliza-williams/] brought into my view rising criticism of current ad slogan output. Her two samples of the recently launched bad; > First Never Follows – Adidas Be Legacy – Stella Artois Her sole example

I was involved in a discussion recently where an industry insider was frustrated with the accepted term for a key offering. He detested the phrase Managed Print Services. Abbreviated in his sector to the even more irksome initials MPS. He was clearly annoyed that, first, it failed to get across

It’s silly season in the English media. The rapacious buzzfeedification of which leads to articles like 14 jokes only intellectuals really understand [http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/14-jokes-only-intellectuals-will-really-understand--bygkJDJeyvb] . Ever happy to jockey a news trend for salesjacking, here’s three you can use in the field to get

The Mail Online’s relentless deluge of relationship “tips” stretched last week to listing someone’s “pHD” (sic) on the maths of why couples split. The top finding? > “You have six good experiences together for every bad one” So, six in every seven ‘experiences’ should be ‘good’. For a

[https://www.instagram.com/boozallen/] The above is an (29 July 2016) instagram posting by Booz Allen [https://www.instagram.com/boozallen/;p style="text-align: center;">] Hamilton. The account strap; “Telling our #BoozAllen story through photographs”. Then first, what about the photo they posted here? My views

Revanchist. A new word discovered in the aftermath of brexit. Through a Remain columnist. Derived from the french for revenge, he used it to frame a major flaw in refusenik machinations. His definition; > a movement to take back lost territory or standing and to reassert the old order The