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Brand-aid

Masius in the press: Brand aid for Windsor Life

Our creative director, Surrey Garland shares his views on closed-life book provider Windsor Life’s rebrand to ReAssure…

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Keeping motivated

It’s a tall order: staying motivated and productive at work in the face of pay freezes, cuts, redundancies and the increased cost (and stress) of living…

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Missing the boat

Old wives tales seem to be as good as any way of predicting the unpredictable, they have history and hindsight on their side…

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Veterinary ‘Clients’ or Veterinary ‘Customers’? You decide.

Back in the 1980s I was a salesman selling portable exhibition stands. The stands were lightweight aluminium frameworks that folded down into what looked like a small bundle of rods, then opened out into large structures that you could hang display panels on.

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Why you should drive a Scholes Royce of a brand

Two bits of encouraging news hit the papers this week; Paul Scholes’ return to Manchester United and Rolls Royce’s record sales…

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2012 – a ‘wake up’ year for UK vets?

While much of the economy has been flat or declining, small animal veterinary has been pretty resilient. People will always need vets…won’t they?

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An opportunity to re-invent the role of the print ad?

With print advertising struggling for relevance against the attractions of today’s accelerating mobile, social media and online techniques…

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It’s time for help, not heroes

Nobody minds a performance ad when performance is achieved; but portraying ourselves as more powerful than we are is a sure guarantee in these times we’ll come crashing down to earth…

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Veterinary brand health survey

UK Vets have strong opinions – and rightly so. It’s what their job requires…

Apple iPad2 prize-winner

Megan Wood was the lucky winner of an Apple iPad2 in a prize draw of respondents to our recent Veterinary Brand Health Survey.

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Amazon out-Apples Apple

By saying very little, Amazon can say plenty…

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Compliance – your best marketing tool?

As clinicians, vets are accustomed to thinking of compliance as a major factor in determining…

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MasiusQR in the press

MasiusQR has been featured in Financial Adviser – click here to read it. Get in touch to find out more or visit our QR microsite.

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‘QR codes – passing fad or the future of advertising?’

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QR codes USA

It seems our American cousins are quite a bit further ahead…

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Long live long copy

Has the Campaign/CBS Outdoor long copy competition brought about a resurgence in long copy ads? We think there are more words on more posters… 

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John Lewis is looking through your windows

As Britain’s most trusted brand, John Lewis extending into home insurance feels a sure-fire winner. 

Battle of the Super Bowl car ads

Super Bowl Sunday advertising is as competitive as the game itself. With the best slots going for £62,000 a second, a minute in front of that record-breaking 111 million strong audience came to £3.7 million. No pressure then…