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Richard Clarke founded Just Ideas, an ideas factory and implementation unit. He specialises in spotting opportunities, building ideas and watching them fly. Richard is also a freelance writer.
Why the route to Integrated Marketing is marked by anything but a color by numbers roadmap

[Richard Clarke] Integration is a buzzword in many industries, not least of all the IT industry where people on the Internet communicate through the Internet Protocol despite the fact that there are many different Operating systems and even more different variations of software.

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Zen and the art of writing press releases

[Richard Clarke] Press releases are a necessary evil in the business of managing media strategy and coverage for a client. I say necessary evil because the writing is devoid of any creative impulse it is simply taking the facts and writing them down.

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Splitting the atom is easier than inducing creativity and innovation in the workplace

[Richard Clarke] The neutron is the critical particle that triggers off the process that leads to an atomic explosion by bombarding and splitting the atom. The creative catalyst is the critical factor that triggers off creativity and innovation in the workplace by breaking preconceptions and inherited opinions.

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Does bare flesh make advertising bad or does bad advertising resort to bare flesh?

[Richard Clarke] I was at the Joburg International airport recently to see my son off to Australia and once I had found my bearings there was some time to kill which meant coffee.

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Leveraging an existing brand to get liftoff in another new industry

[Richard Clarke] I recently spotted an ad in Maxim magazine for a fragrance for men. Whether this ad is leveraging off an existing brand to get liftoff in another market or simply gaining brand reinforcement, it works.

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Achieving better product recall with consumers and the dangers of bombastic PR

[Richard Clarke] The latest ad punting Lipton Iced Tea is intriguing and highlights a technique used in advertising to gain viewers' interest and also log into the old memory bank.

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Some lessons from the Bok book on marketing blunders, bluster, bravado and bullsh#t

[Richard Clarke] One of the more interesting lessons to emerge from the chaos surrounding Bok rugby is how not to do PR and marketing.

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PR is more important than most people think

[Richard Clarke] It is that time of the year again when companies are renewing, discontinuing or starting contracts with PR agencies, says Richard Clarke. Many companies that are in the market for PR are copying competitors or going by some of the media comment on the importance of managing PR. Very few do any form of research about PR agencies and more importantly, about the precise PR needs of their company.

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Daily papers battle for dominance

[Richard Clarke] Every newspaper has access to the same building blocks but the margin between success and failure lies in the combinations and the mix.

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Integrated Marketing - an opportunistic silver bullet by some and an end in itself by others

[Richard Clarke] Integrated Marketing is all about building comprehensive and strategic plans but that can be quite intimidating for the smaller company that is simply looking to improve their existing marketing and communications.

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