Blogs

Read the latest musings on the business stories and issues that matter from Creston’s marketing professionals. Includes links to external websites.  Creston is not responsible for the content of these Internet sites.

Markets are conversations…

…so declared the writers declared of The Cluetrain Manifesto back in 1999. It’s still enormously relevant and important, even though many of their predictions haven’t yet come to pass, and...

Chris posted on 17 Feb 2010

Want a free coffee? Get Foursquare

If you’re wandering along Oxford Street on a Friday feeling in need of a caffeine injection head on over to Debenhams, check in with Foursquare and collect your free coffee.Debenhams is one of t...

Matt posted on 09 Feb 2010

Social media is dangerous

Poor old @VodafoneUK have fallen victim to the dangers of social media - and boy have they done it in style(!!)  On Friday afternoon, someone posted this homophobic remark on their @VodafoneUK twitter...

Matt posted on 08 Feb 2010

It’s not called a wheel, it’s a carousel…

We’ve always believed that marketing and advertising works best when it delivers an emotional connection between whatever is being ’sold’ and whoever is supposed to be doing the buyi...

Chris posted on 02 Feb 2010

Real (never mind Royal) Mail is Important

The UK has suffered national strikes in the last few weeks: harrassed men in suits emerging from protracted negotiations, oil-drum braziers burning outside locked gates, management and unions both lam...

Chris posted on 09 Nov 2009