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Celebrating our 50th – Jerico
Mon 2nd Jul, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
The black power uprising in Trinidad during the early 1970's was a troubling time for our young nation. Our first elected government faced a group...
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Is last minute in T&T DNA?
Sat 30th Jun, 2012|Ad Industry, Blog
I have figured out a competitive advantage for our small Agency.  For pepper advertising to win, we must adopt a first minute attitude.  You see...
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10 reasons why T&T business don’t tackle customer service.
Thu 28th Jun, 2012|Blog, Marketing Strategy
We do not believe customers expect it. We don't believe Trinidadians could ever change. (we believe it's in our DNA to give poor service or...
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Tactics trump Strategy in T&T.
T&T marketing raised on a diet of tactics.
Wed 27th Jun, 2012|Ad Industry, Blog
"I want a full-page. full color press ad and I want it to run in all the dailies."  You are far more likely to hear...
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Can a T&T ad agency win without pitching?
Tue 26th Jun, 2012|Ad Industry, Blog
I'm currently reading a book by a revolutionary Blair Enns entitled "The Win Without Pitching Manifesto".  Blair obviously has done a lot of pitches as...
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shop drop and roll
Shop, Drop & Roll
Thu 21st Jun, 2012|Blog, Marketing Strategy
Tell me if this ever happened to you... You enter a store and see a small “conference” of store clerks taking place in the middle...
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The top 25 positive songs of popular music of all time….
Mon 18th Jun, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
Here's someone's list...any you would add?...."What a wonderful world" does it for me. “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen “Hold On Tight” by ELO “Everyday...
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Celebrating our 50th – Crawfie
Mon 18th Jun, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
We are almost 50 years old as a nation and today in my celebratory series, I reminisce on 1976 when Hasely Crawford brought home gold...
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Why don’t Trinis like to line up?
Sat 16th Jun, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
I'm in Toronto attending the Toronto Wine and Spirits Festival and I'm amazed, as I always am when I travel, by how people line up. ...
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Meet Mrs Ramdeen…32 years ago today
Fri 15th Jun, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
Lump of Clay Take a lump of clay, Wet it, pat it Make a statue of you And a statue of me. Then shatter them,...
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Celebrating our 50th – Penny
Mon 11th Jun, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
As our nation approaches its 50th birthday, I share Lord Kitchener's tribute to Janelle Commissiong when in 1977 she became the first woman of colour...
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50 years have gone T&T. How yuh feel?
Sun 10th Jun, 2012|Blog, Off-Topic
Twenty five years ago Calypsonian Funny asked the question "How yuh feel?" at the Stag/Vat 19 25th Anniversary Calypso Competition.  Vashty Maharaj was there and...
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