Yesterday was World Consumers Day. Personally, I wouldn’t have known about it except for someone forwarded to me a Consumers Association of [...]
Some Thoughts
Idea generating campaigns disconnect – Having ideas versus having a vision
I wrote a fair bit last week, and yesterday as well, about the new ideas generating campaign that’s currently ongoing here in [...]
Your Country, Your Call – are there good ideas hidden in the hundreds of submissions made already?
Over three days last week, I wrote about this years ideas generating campaign, Your Country, Your Call. And yes, I have been [...]
The Real Problem with Idea Generating Campaigns
When I first read about the aims of the countries current idea generating campaign, Your Country, Your Call, I was particularly drawn [...]
Ideas Campaign and Your Country, Your Call – deja vu all over again
I was quite sceptical of the original Ideas Campaign when it kicked off in March last year – with concerns which proved [...]
Are Irish business so brazen that “naming and shaming” doesn’t matter any more?
Way back in 2004, Senator Donie Cassidy tried to start a “name and shame” campaign in the early days of what became [...]
Yet another idea generating campaign – can we see some actions sometime maybe?
I feel like it’s 2009 – March approximately. It was back then that I first wrote about the original Ideas Campaign. Some of [...]
As consumers, how much do we mind that certain businesses are closing?
I wrote previously about the (at the time temporary) closure of the Carluccios restaurant on Dawson Street. As I work in the [...]
Isn’t it a “buyers market” at the moment for businesses renting property?
I watched with interest the recent Mexican standoff between the Carluccios restaurant and their landlords over the rental for their Dawson street [...]
How much do you trust Irish businesses these days?
I just had a thought last night.
Way back when, November 2004 actually, 41% of people surveyed on ValueIreland.com admitted that they didn’t [...]
