Posts Tagged ‘Tonight ITV’

Posted by
Stuart Clark
August 31st, 2011

Working to live or living to work? Red C on ITV’s Tonight programme

by Stuart Clark

The Working Life – Getting the Balance Right with psychologist and author of The Activity Illusion Ian PriceClients to keep happy, prospects to pitch to, ideas to generate. It’s pretty much work, work, work all day, every day here at Red C.

We work round the clock, against the clock…and quite often in fear of the clock. With another deadline always looming it sometimes seems like we never stop!

Which of course we don’t. Ours is a fast-paced industry that throws us a new challenge almost every day – and that’s why we love it.

When the going gets tough we work twice as hard, sustaining ourselves with strong coffee, short lunches and plenty of biscuits. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Posted by
Joseph Reaney
June 8th, 2009

The great potential of Petition Marketing

by Joseph Reaney

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Here’s a question: how do you feel about Paris Hilton? Personally I have nothing against the pointless, insipid, spoilt, undernourished, narcissistic, empty-headed, fame-hungry little brat… but I know others feel differently.

When Ms. Hilton was found guilty of drink driving in 2006, her PR team decided to harness the power of public outcry in a campaign to request her pardon. The Free Paris Hilton petition – which includes the incredible declaration “Paris provides beauty and excitement to our otherwise mundane lives” – received an impressive 33,000 signatures. Unfortunately, a counter petition requesting that the socialite serve her full sentence was signed by over 91,000 people and featured on several major news channels in the US. Proof, if it were needed, that not everybody shares my innate capacity for forgiveness.

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