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wash all my tears away.
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wishing I could turn it off.
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over and over again,driving me insane.
cause I'm still in love with you.
you seem to no longer feel the same.
I can't seem to just turn it off so easily as you.
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Business advertising spend in the UK hit a new high of almost £14bn in 2013 and is set to increase to £14.8bn this year. But are businesses getting their money's worth?
Personally, I doubt it. And the reason is that most businesses will miss out on one essential ingredient: experience.
Experiential marketing helps consumers contextualise the narrative behind your product and service.
Let's take perfume as an example. Perfumes are, functionally speaking, a mixture of ingredients that produce a pleasant smell.
But people don't wear perfume for the constituent parts; they buy it for the experience, they buy it in the hopes that they will feel attractive and desirable, and they buy it to give them a sense of confidence.
How is this experience achieved? By creating a holistic experience of the product.
It starts with advertising. Perfume ads usually feature a model sauntering around looking sexy; there is usually a husky voice saying abstract words like "adored" or "eternal"; and there is either lots of colour, for fun adventurous brands (think Joop!), or black and white, for brands that focus on being sexy and powerful (such as CK).
Next comes the in-store experience. The bright lights of each perfume shelf, the imagery displayed nearby — all are designed to continue the experience.
The bottle is also key — it takes the experience from store to home. Some are rough and jagged, others are sleek and curved.
And every time the customer uses the product, they experience that vision.
You might say: "But my business is in accounting software, not perfume."
But you can still apply the same thinking. Experiential marketing relies on bringing together five distinct dimensions into one holistic experience:
Feeling. What will it feel like to use your product or service?
Sensing. How do customers physically sense your product?
Thinking. The experience still needs to take into account the rational, logical value of your product or service. How obvious can you make the benefits of your product? Can you illustrate its potential with a demo?
Acting. What behaviours will your product help to facilitate? Changes in behaviour can be highly motivational and empowering, such as Nike's classic Just do it tagline.
Relating. How does your product or service link the customer to others, or even to a projection of their future self?
As the Chinese proverb goes: "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Copyright © 2014 Richard Edwards, director of event and customer experience specialist Quatreus.
Many small business owners feel uncomfortable about marketing. Some positively hate it.
A new client of ours — the head of a very successful consultancy — has shied away from marketing for years because to him, it feels intrinsically wrong. In his eyes, markeing is putting on an act, pretending to be something you're not. Like many people, he thinks there's a dishonesty at the heart of marketing that doesn't sit easily with the way he feels about himself or his business.
He's not the only one. Pretending to be something you're not is never a good feeling.
We all have a short fuse when it comes to being marketed at by pushy marketers — cold callers, spammy emails, incessant amazing never-to-be-repeated deals (until tomorrow, that is, when you get them again). And that means we don't want to be that pushy person ourselves
We say look at marketing differently. When you approach marketing from the standpoint of 'how can we help our customers better?' rather than 'how can we sell more stuff?' it becomes easier. And, it works more effectively. It's easy to switch off from a marketing message, it's not so easy to switch off from something that genuinely answers a question that's been really bugging you.
Right now, it would be impossible for me not to click on something that showed me how to get my 16-year-old son to revise.
You'll stop seeing it as pushing, lying, or manipulation if you don't push, lie or manipulate. Create marketing content that is genuinely helpful and you take the pressure off yourself.
Of course feel-good marketing is only possible if what you're selling makes a difference. But that doesn't mean you have to be Greenpeace, it just means you genuinely want to improve your customers' lives.
Do good to feel good. That's feel-good marketing.
Sharon Tanton is an expert contributor to Marketing Donut, creative director at Valuable Content and co-author, with Sonja Jefferson, of Valuable Content Marketing.
It was while enjoying a series of single malt whiskies, in the Three Crowns Pub, that I was reminded of a marketing lesson that too many businesses are missing in this new digital world.
On finishing our drinks, I asked my brother if he wanted another round. After agreeing to have "one more for the road", I duly went to the bar and ordered another couple of doubles of Glenlivet. The price I was charged would have made the bottle of Glenlivet just over £100. Yet it is widely available to buy by the bottle for around £30.
Why spend so much extra? I could have easily bought a bottle of Glenlivet in my local supermarket and sat at home with my brother. The drink would have been of equal quality.
The point is that the value was not in what this pub supplied — the drink. There are other pubs that sell the same brand, and there are also many other ways I could have purchased the whisky, many of which would have been more cost-effective.
Rather, the value was in how the pub delivered the product. In supplying pleasant surroundings, a comfortable place to sit, a good atmosphere, a log fire and showing the football, the pub created an experience that was bigger than just the quality whisky. The totality of the experience made the cost of the product acceptable at that moment in time.
Moreover, although this particular pub's main product is beverages, the landlord had thought about other items a customer may want during their visit. Snacks including crisps, nuts and bowls of chips were available. There was also a quiz machine to play. OK, this is pretty standard inventory for a pub, so why the big deal?
The digital economy has seen the increasing commoditisation of products and services — whether you are a business-to-business company, or a business supplying consumers. We are all now working in the experience economy. Of course, products and services have to be delivered to a high standard in order to compete. However, today that is just the price of entry into any particular market.
The value for the customer is no longer in what you do. Your clients will, more than likely, have a multitude of options, of which you will be just one. The value is in how you deliver the product or service. It is the experience that will differentiate your business. It is also the experience that is more likely to be talked about, shared and which will generate referrals.
Moreover, what you deliver is likely to be the same as a number of other suppliers. This being the case, this is not where the value lies in your business. The most precious resource today is people's attention. So the value in your business is more likely to exist in data and the customers you supply.
In other words, the real worth of your business is in the engagement and trust you have with your client base. The more you can deepen this, the more valuable your business becomes. Being able to provide added value to "the experience" enables an organisation to earn more money while creating more engagement and value for the customer.
Understanding your customers' challenges and the contexts in which these occur, will enable you to create new offerings and obtain a greater share of a customer's wallet. It means being truly customer centric and understanding what else a customer may require when they engage with your business. In other words, what is the equivalent of your crisps and nuts?
When jazz musicians Melvin "Sy" Oliver and James "Trummy" Young wrote the song 'T'ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) in the 1930s, little did they know they would be providing the perfect comment on marketing in the digital economy.
Ultimately, what you do allows you to exist, how you do it enables you to compete and differentiate. Too many companies focus all their energies on what they do, rather than how they do it and for whom.
Now that is sorted, I am off for a well-deserved single malt! Three Crowns anyone?
Grant LeBoff is an expert contributor to Marketing Donut and CEO of the Sticky Marketing Club.
In the current market conditions, businesses rely on their key members of staff more than ever — especially as organisations downsize, cut costs and freeze recruitment plans.
However, what plans do companies have in place to retain, motivate and inspire their key members of staff? Or are you taking those members of staff for granted? What about the staff who seem to have been around forever or the people that have been ultra-reliable, that you count on and put a lot of faith in?
These are the people who have been working harder than most for a long time. They are the people who put in extra hours without question — the people you can leave to handle things when you're away from the office; the people who you can rely on to give you an honest assessment of what's going on.
Yet these are also the people who often get overlooked or taken for granted. They get disillusioned, lose motivation and start looking for other opportunities.
For some firms, it's the head of accounts or credit control who keeps late-payers in check and makes sure the cash flow is where it should be. For others, it's the top salesperson that outperforms the rest and brings in large amounts of profit to the organisation. It could also be the head of the admin department or office manager that keeps everything running smoothly.
Now, more than ever it's important to motivate, inspire and retain these key members of staff to ensure business efficiency, productivity and profitability. So how does your company measure up?
As conditions change, the key players in your team may well be different than the key players in the past. So how do we identify the key players now as well as the likely key players in the future? As businesses evolve, it can be difficult, but you can accomplish it with a simple exercise.
Exercise: Get out a pen and a sheet of paper. Imagine you're starting the business again today — one that is designed to succeed in today's market. Draw up an organisational chart of what the business would look like, with the key positions in it. Now step back and have a look at it. How different is it from the company you have now?
If you were to fill in names for those positions on the chart, who are the key players — the essential people you couldn't do without? How do they compare to your key players today?
As businesses re-engineer their offering, the key players may change. Are your team on board with the changes? How do they feel about it? Can you rely on them to deliver under a new structure?
People need leadership now more than ever. As a leader, people will look to you for direction, motivation and inspiration. If you're implementing changes in the business, you need the buy-in of your staff members, and particularly your key players for the changes to succeed.
Many change management programmes have failed because they didn't get the key players on board — those who prefer things the way they were — and the longer they have been in the business, the more likely they are to prefer it the old way.
You need to sit down with them and discuss the changes, the reasons why changes have to be made and what you're trying to achieve and then get their buy in. Failure to do this properly could lead to people sabotaging the project or stiff resistance at the very least.
If you're planning on setting up a new team, or re-engineering the business and the people within it, you have a great chance to take a fresh look at the business and set up the perfect teams within it. So what does a perfect team look like?
Right now you need people who are proactive, who will do things without you having to prompt them or stand over them to make sure it happens. You need people who are determined to make things happen and see things through. You need people that are on your side, who you can rely on to perform, no matter what.
Nowhere is this more important than your sales team. Your sales team are always an important part of your business, but now they're more important than ever. They have a direct influence on your profits and the potential survival of your business.
So right now, who are the members of your sales team that are regularly demonstrating the right traits? They're going to be facing more objections from clients than ever before — things like "we've got no budget", "things are on hold for the moment" and "we need to get a few more quotes" — and these are from clients that would have ordered without a quibble before.
They're going to be facing more objections from new business prospects. There are going to be more competitors; more projects are going to be cancelled; and more companies are going to be closing their doors. How are your sales team placed to cope? And how are you supporting them now?
You need to work on your sales team and their attitude, skills and abilities — to ensure their sales skills stay sharp and to make sure they have tenacity, determination, resilience, self-motivation, confidence and all the successful traits associated with top sales people.
Andy Preston is an expert contributor to Marketing Donut and a leading expert on sales. His website is at www.andypreston.com.
What can we learn from what is going on around us?
Businesses that have recently suffered the ultimate indignity by keeping their heads well and truly planted in the sand include PC World, Blockbuster, Woolworth and Millets.
It is getting tougher out there for most businesses. Customers are smarter, better informed and less loyal than they had been. They no longer need to, and in fact they don't, believe you.
Do not join the queue heading for oblivion by competing on price. As Michael Porter says, "Competing on price is a mug's game unless you can afford go cheaper than the competition."
Sticking to the old model is what has driven so many businesses into the ground. When 54% of people have more online interaction than offline interaction, it is time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Robert Craven is an expert contributor to Marketing Donut. Robert shows directors and owners how to grow their profits. As well as running the Directors' Centre, he is a keynote speaker and the author of business bestseller Kick-Start Your Business. His latest book is Grow Your Service Firm.
Every business needs a phone number for prospects and customers to contact them on. But having the right number can help make the phone ring, whilst the wrong number can put people off and drive them into the arms of your competitors.
Let's take a look at the common number types available and their pros and cons:
These regional geographic numbers are a good choice if you tend to do business locally. They are widely recognised and people are happy to call them. Sometimes customers want to do business with a local supplier, so they can be an advantage if that's you. If you're based out of the area it could be worth adding other regional number codes to your portfolio and divert calls to your head office.
Verdict: generally a good choice
These freephone numbers are widely recognised and can boost response when used in adverts. However, whilst calls from landlines are free, calls from mobiles can cost up to 50p/min, which irritates a lot of people. With the rise of mobile phone use, you may be harming your response by using them.
Verdict: proceed with caution, consider alternatives
Calls to these numbers are charged at fixed rates from landlines but are more expensive from mobiles. They are useful for customer service lines but should not be used as the main contact number as a lot of people resent them.
Verdict: customer service lines only, and even then proceed with caution
These numbers are free for the owner and can divert calls to a landline or mobile. However, they are expensive for callers so should be avoided unless you want to annoy your customers and drive them away.
Verdict: avoid
These are revenue-generating numbers. They can be useful when you provide a service (such as tech support) and want to charge people for your time and limit the number of unimportant calls. They are not suitable for marketing.
Verdict: do not use for marketing
Not yet widely recognised, 03 numbers are the non-geographic equivalent of 01 and 02 numbers. Calls are charged at regional rate, even from a mobile. They are also covered in any inclusive calls package, making them an attractive proposition. They are getting more popular as awareness grows, especially with mobile users put off by high call charges to 0800 and other non-geographic numbers.
Verdict: an excellent choice, but publicise low rates to maximise calls
Unless there's a good reason to choose otherwise, our advice is to select an 01, 02 or 03 number to make it attractive for customers to call you. Paying a little extra for a memorable number is usually worth it, due to the increased number of calls they generate.
Matthew Guise is writing on behalf of Callagenix.


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Paul W. Frields would like to withdraw from the daily activities at Fedora and take on another responsibility at Red Hat, also considering that Fedora 13 is close to feature complete.
In his March 23 blog, Frields announced that he was giving up his Fedora project leader role and "branching out into other ways of championing free and open source software at Red Hat."
Frields didn't reveal the exact date, but he wants the transition to the next Fedora project leader (FPL) to be as smooth as possible and will continue to provide support for the FPL to be "fully successful." It's likely that the date will be after the Fedora 13 release in May 2010.
Frields's predecessor, Max Spevack, ruminated in his own blog about the role of the active FPL and couldn't help mentioning from his own experience how important transitioning can be:
"Fedora does not have, and never should have, a 'benevolent dictator for life'. Reading Paul's post and talking to Paul over the last few weeks has reminded me how much I enjoyed being the FPL, and what an honor it was to have the opportunity to earn the respect and trust of the Fedora community in that role."
Fedora 13, code-named Goddard, is meanwhile making steady progress. As Fedora program manager John Poelstra announced, the accepted features listed in the Fedora wiki for the release are almost all completed. A few notable exceptions among the candidates are GNOME 2.30, GNOME Color Manager and Moblin 2.2. Poelstra encouraged the respective maintainers to update the wiki to reflect the current feature complete state. A team decision about the incomplete features is likely to come around March 28.
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LACEY, Wash. – Thousands of gun owners plan to rally in Olympia and Salem Friday. They're showing their support for the second amendment and opposition to gun control proposals. The rallies come as gun sales in the Northwest are brisk… and so are the required background checks.
At the Aging and Disability Services office in Lacey, the fax machine drones on and on.
This is where police agencies from around Washington send requests for mental health background checks for people looking to buy a gun. There was a big spike in these requests, after President Obama won reelection. And then, the number of incoming faxes nearly doubled after the massacre in Newtown, Conn.
It used to be that two people could do this job. Now seven more employees do it in addition to their other tasks. Kathy Howard is the receptionist here. She now spends up to 6 hours a day working through the growing stacks of papers.
Kathy Howard: "Spokane will send us 30 pages of 30 to 40 names per page. And that's every day. So, it's a never ending, labor intensive job."
Under Washington law, these mental health background checks have to be done within 5 days. If not, the gun buyer receives a weapon regardless of their record.
Photo: Employees organize stacks of faxes by day and month. Each piece of paper can contain between one and 50 names sent by a police agency. Photo by Alexandra Kocik.


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The series was largely overseen by producer/director William Spier. In 1947, scriptwriters Jason James and Bob Tallman received an Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama from the Mystery Writers of America. Before the series, Sam Spade had been played in radio adaptations of The Maltese Falcon by both Edward G. Robinson (in a 1943 Lux Radio Theater production) and by Bogart himself (in a 1946 Academy Award Theater production), both on CBS. Dashiell Hammett's name was removed from the series in the late 1940s because he was being investigated for involvement with the Communist Party. Later, when Howard Duff's name appeared in the Red Channels book, he was not invited to play the role when the series made the switch to NBC in 1950. In 1961 Broadcasting reported that Four Star Productions planned to film a Sam Spade television pilot with Peter Falk in the title role, but no such series ever arrived on TV. THIS EPISODE: July 18, 1948. CBS network. "The Missing Newshawk Caper". Sponsored by: Wildroot Cream-Oil. Spade is hired to find a reporter named Ray McCully. Spade finds him all right, stabbed to death! Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Dashiell Hammett (creator), William Conrad, Sara Berner, Bea Benaderet (possibly), Alan Reed, Gil Doud (writer, director), Robert Tallman (writer), Lud Gluskin (music), Dick Joy (announcer). 29:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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Retail Remedy: The world of Dior for the holidays. Richard Nahem continues to bring us his tour of Paris Holiday Windows I adore the Printemps windows this year but I have a slight problem with them. As fun and imaginative as they are, they symbolize promoting a brand rather than the spirit of Christmas. The windows are…Published on December 19, 2012
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Oggle this! Hermes Paris Holiday Windows for a very luxurious Christmas in Paris 2012
Retail Remedy: The mother of all luxe, Paris style. Richard Nahem takes us there to start is Paris Holiday coverage this week. It's time for my annual coverage of magical, enchanting Christmas in Paris. This year the shop windows and streets are especially dazzling. I want to bring the allure of Christmas in Paris to…Published on December 17, 2012
Fête Fabulous Accessories to Ignite Your Holiday Party Look
Let's face it, holiday parties for most of us are not a red carpet event. But we do want to get our glam on with more festive, fancy, and fabulous accessories. Maybe not as fabulous the model pictured left, but most definitely glam in a realistic, wearable way. RELATED: Holiday Dress Tips How do I…Published on December 11, 2012
Holiday Nails- Manicures, Pedicures & Festive Glam, Oh My
Go ahead, take a gamble. There's a party somewhere and holiday nails will get you there. Even if you have not partaken in the not-so-classic nail polish bandwagon, there's no excuse now not to dare to do something different. You have no excuse but to be bolder without being garish this season. An instant swipe…Published on December 07, 2012
Add some ZING! What color shoes to wear with dressy neutrals for holiday chic
Stylist Advice- Decisions, decisions about what shoe color to wear. How can this reader add pizzazz to a neutral holiday dress… I am wearing a mocha dress with sequins at Christmas and wondering what color of shoes I should get? Please help!!! (A.W. via Fashion Advice) >> READ: Perfect Party Shoes Standout sequins in muted…Published on December 04, 2012
My Super Expensive Gift Guide: If Money Was Not An Option Kinda Luxury Chic
Need not, want more.. Since I hand-picked the Cute, Fun & Cheap Chic Holiday Gifts $50 and Under earlier, I thought it would be fun to SPIN the tables, to create the total #dreamlist in this Super Expensive Gift Guide. IF, money was not an option and all our bills and charitable endeavors were covered, of course…. whoosh,…Published on November 30, 2012
I WANT: Cute, Fun & Cheap Chic Holiday Gifts $50 and Under
Stylish Holiday Gift Guide that doesn't break the bank…. I had so much FUN hand-selecting these cute & cheap chic gifts under $50 for our holiday gift guide. REALLY, I did. I want them all…. There's something for everyone in our cheap chic holiday gifts guide… mom, teen, baby, pup, beau, you, and me. A gift…Published on November 30, 2012
Holiday Sweater Guide- Not the Fugly Kind, But Gorgeous Ones You Would Really Wear
It just so happens that holiday colors are very in this season. So when it comes to holiday sweaters, it's very easy to step it up with easy elegance. Ruby red, emerald green and Chanukah blue (ok, that's cobalt blue) twist a modern yarn on hideous holiday sweaters reserved for Great Aunt Abigal and that…Published on November 29, 2012
Stylist Advice- How to jazz up a conservative red holiday dress
Dear Sharon: I'm wearing this holiday red shiny Tahari dress with an open portrait neckline to my husband's company Christmas party. I am wondering what shoes and jewelry to wear with it. Thanks! (H.E. via Fashion Advice) I've spent some time pondering if I should sugarcoat this or not, and I need to be both truthful to you and to…Published on November 13, 2012
How to Glam Up Everyday Clothes? Look at Kate Hudson Wearing Ann Taylor
Just out: Ann Taylor's Holiday 2012 ad campaign starring actress Kate Hudson What makes my morning soar is to see everyday, real world clothes look glam and gorgeous. Not the red carpet fabulouso outfits that are totally aspirational and inaccessible to our real lives- but real clothes designed for regular women, and that they happen to…Published on October 18, 2012
Ring It In! Stylist Advice on what to wear to celebrate New Year's Eve at home
Dear Sharon: I am not planning a big night out but still want something special to wear on New Year's Eve. As a mater of fact, I'm never one to really go all out on New Year's Eve but that doesn't mean that I don't like to celebrate in some small way. At best, we…Published on December 27, 2011
Perfect Party Hair for a Big Night Out (or in)
New Year's Eve is just around the corner making it a smart time to get a handle on great ways to dress up your hair. Try some easy-to-follow hairstyle ideas from fab editorial and celebrity hairstylist Gad Cohen to get that special occasion hairstyle that's right for you. –S.H MORE: Hairstyle Tips 'Tis the season…Published on December 26, 2011


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Germany's small Jewish community praised Pope Benedict on Thursday for stressing the common roots of Christianity and Judaism but warned him it would be hurt if he honors wartime Pope Pius XII, who it said was silent during the Holocaust. Dieter Graumann, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, also said Jews were hurt by his support for an ultra-traditionalist Catholic group they consider bigoted against Jews, Muslims, gays, women and Protestants.
The close friendship that has developed between Christians and Jews "must put up with others saying things that hurt," he told Reuters after he and other Jewish leaders met the pope and Catholic prelates for about 25 minutes.
"A possible beatification of Pius XII would hurt us," said Graumann, referring to efforts to put the late pope on the path to sainthood. "For us he is the pope who kept his silence too coldly and loudly during the Holocaust."
Critics accuse Pius of not speaking up to defend Jews against the Nazis, but his defenders — including Benedict — say he did the best he could to help them. Graumann said the pope did not react to his objection to beatifying Pius.


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This delightful Hello Kitty Quilt Cover and Pillowcase Set is the purrrfect bedtime companion for your little one.
The lovely quilt cover is designed to fit a toddler, junior or cot bed and features an oversize picture of everyone's favourite friendly feline, along with a cute pink and white design that your little one will love.
There's another cute image of Hello Kitty on the pillowcase to complete the design of this adorable set.
Useful info:
- Hello Kitty Quilt Cover and Pillowcase Set
- Comes with pillowcase and duvet cover
- Fits toddler, junior or cot bed
- Duvet measures 120 x 150 cm
- Pillowcase measures 62 x 42 cm


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