First Rule of Winning Business: Turn Up
When WPP announced last year that it was acquiring 24/7 Realmedia for $649m, we were all a little surprised. Since then, there's been plenty of speculation of how exactly WPP is going to place 24/7 within its operating group.
Let's hope the 24/7 stand at this week's Online Marketing Show is no indicator of future plans.
Pressing the flesh at trade shows
I was at EyeforTravel.com’s Travel Distribution Summit this week at the Business Design Centre in Islington. I noticed a new type of exhibitor there that I fear will hit us from behind: masseuses. The biggest stand by far belonged to some massage company. At Internet World last month there must have been [...]
Internet World
I spent part of last week at Internet World, a three day event at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. More accurately it was at ‘Earls Court 2′, a name entirely without imagination. Surely ‘Earls Court: The Reckoning’ or ‘Earls Court Strikes Back’ would have given it a bit more umph. Anyway, it is a [...]