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Thu 11th Aug, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Ad Industry, Blog

Yes. If you have the following: Enough scale for it to make sense If you allow your creative team to create and not be clones...

Beating the competition through love.

Sun 7th Aug, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy

I met a salesman today named Langston Roach. He's the founder of the company that sells mostly cleaning products under the Lanher brand name. Here's...

Scotch Brite ad hits the spot clean

Thu 4th Aug, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Ad Industry, Blog

I came across this ad recently and thought it definitely deserved good mention. SPOILER ALERT!!! If you want to enjoy the ad as I did...

“Dat spot is blight”

Wed 3rd Aug, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy

Every first year retail management student learns quickly the mantra of doing well in business: "Location, location, location". Get the location right and you could...

10 Things only Trinidad and Tobago have?

Mon 1st Aug, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy

Doubles (breakfast, lunch and dinner) Inventor of the steel drum (plus Tokyo, Trinidad All Stars, Desperadoes and Exodus) Creators of Crix, Angostura Bitters, Solo and...

“Do it, we will get mileage…”

Sat 30th Jul, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy

The other day my son Sunil was telling me that he wanted to do something with the brand he manages, Wendy's, because "he would get...

Amy Winehouse. RIP.

Fri 29th Jul, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Off-Topic

I got to find out about Amy Winehouse only after her death. Seems like she was one of a kind. RIP Amy, thanks for leaving...

Making a list of Trinidad and Tobago “geniuses”.

Wed 27th Jul, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Off-Topic

Genius (plural geniuses[1][2]) is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of...

T&T Carnival is now solidly bourgeois.

Wed 27th Jul, 2011Thu 28th Nov, 2013|Blog

Elbowing poor people out of Carnival Trinidad Carnival has become an upper middle class festival. The lower end of the middle class and the poor...

10 things T&T Carnival needs to make it better in 2012

Tue 26th Jul, 2011Sat 8th Jun, 2013|Blog, Off-Topic

Designated Drivers Steelband All Inclusives (Steel and DJ only) More and cleaner toilets Large and Medium Bands go to Savannah only on one day (LIVE...