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What is branding???

I recently read an interesting discussion thread on LinkedIn (which I recommend you join by the way) in which people were answering the simple question: What is branding?
It was interesting…

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What is branding???

Death of the Family Jeweller and Other Nonsense

The family jeweller is being attacked by the internet. – Nonsense!
I once heard someone say if it’s raining, don’t complain, go out and buy an umbrella!’
In most cases the internet…

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Death of the Family Jeweller and Other Nonsense

Become your customer’s expert

With the recession still biting, people shopping for anything ‘luxury’ want to rely more and more on one person for one thing.  They want a specialist, an expert they can…

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Become your customer's expert

So what is luxury?

Recently I got in to a debate about LVMH taking Tony Balir on its board to help its business especially in India.  http://bit.ly/6CRqHD
To me that spelt a departure of the…

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So what is luxury?

Yes it’s 2010 and my site is up

Firstly Happy New 2010.
A while back I said my site was undergoing a complete overhaul. Well it’s almost like my life has undergone a complete overhaul.
This year is all…

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Yes it's 2010 and my site is up

Emerging Butterfly

I know this might look a little lame – no post since March, but I have been stuffing the site into a cocoon, and towards the end of the summer…

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Emerging Butterfly

FEWER BETTER THINGS

‘Our lives are full of things. Disposable distractions, stuff you buy but do not cherish, own yet never love. Thrown away in weeks rather than passed down for generations.
Perhaps things…

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Draw on this… for the New Year

Now Christmas has been and gone and you’ve taken stock of how the year went, it is the perfect time to look at your business from a new perspective. If…

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Draw on this… for the New Year

Welcome to Colour in its Element

Colour in its element is the gateway to TheGemBank.com (where you can search my stock of Gemstones and Coloured Diamonds) and Gemrunner the Concierge service where I look for stones…

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Welcome to Colour in its Element

We’ll only get through this TOGETHER

It’s starting to get a bit bloody out there. And while everyone has to look after their own interests first, ignoring the interests of those around you does not help…

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