After a few long-winded tender processes and chats with others in the industry about procurement and how they affect marketing, we realised that there’s some common preconceptions and stereotypes…
- Procurement only hire big, well-known agencies
- Pricing is more important than creativity
- People and relationships are unimportant
- Procurement people wear grey, don’t smile and aren’t interesting
(that’s a lot of P’s)
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The highly acclaimed Virgin ‘Flying without Fear’ course – with a 98% success rate – is now available as an app for the iPhone. Will it take off?
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Now here at BURN towers we all love our food. It’s one of the true joys in life and second only to drink in our opinion.
That said, even we were alarmed by a new site called Foodista. It brings the concept of the Wiki to cooking instructions, which in our view is a recipe for disaster.
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One camera and several incompetent photographers later, came 11 shocking pictures from the BURN 4th birthday party.
Check out our photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/burnpics/?saved=1.
After years advising clients on the benefits of social media and doing nothing about it ourselves, we’ve finally got our own house in order and gone all Web 2.0 here at BURN towers. First a new blog and now we’re on Twitter. Exciting stuff eh?
We’re on the hunt for followers now. Without those, it’s a little like sending a text message to yourself. So, roll up, roll up and follow us at twitter.com/burnmarketing.
Why do we do it to ourselves…
We had a great birthday party at So Bar last night but we’re feeling the effects today. We’ve all been doing some serious carb-loading and fluids (of the non-alcoholic variety) are being consumed by the bucket load. Remind me never to mix Mojito’s, neat Tequila and lager again…
Thanks to everyone who came down to celebrate with us. You really helped our birthday go with a bang. Apt considering the date…
It’s our birthday on Bonfire Night and we’ll be 4 years old!
Like all toddlers we’re (surprisingly) full of energy and growing all the time. We’ve even been known to answer back.
Needless to say, we’ll be raising a glass or two to celebrate this auspicious occasion. A local hostelry has been booked, bunting and balloons ordered and friends of the agency invited. If all goes to plan, Friday could be a slow day…
Without wanting to be overly self-congratulatory, here’s to us and many more birthdays to come. And thanks to all those clients and supporters who have helped us get to this point.
“A year older, a year wider”, as someone once said… (Or if they didn’t, they should have).
Hope you like our new website? It’s been a while coming, and there’s more to be added in ‘Phase 2’, but it’s nice to have a fresh lick of paint.
Special thanks to Sean and Dave for the styling, Christian for the lovely SWFs and Sam and Ed for pulling it all together.
We’d love to hear what you think – please feel free to comment.