Some Thoughts

What did you do for World Consumers Day?

Yesterday was World Consumers Day. Personally, I wouldn’t have known about it except for someone forwarded to me a Consumers Association of [...]

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 [...]