With the final week of festive trading upon us, many retailers are facing a make or break Christmas this year. The Centre for Retail Research predicted high street Christmas sales are on course to be £680 million higher than last year, reaching up to £69.1 billion with online sales up by £2.1 billion, at £13.4 [...]

Today is the last day of June and  according to the UK Meteorological Office, we should be in the middle of a ‘level two heatwave’. But sitting here in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire watching rain trickle down the windows in time-honoured fashion, it seems like a different story.  To be fair, I can’t complain too much [...]

With all the bad news surrounding the economy, it’s easy to get swallowed up by the general feeling of doom and gloom. But does every cloud have a silver lining? Azam Marketing’s Senior Account Manager Karen Clayton takes a look at the success stories of the credit crunch. In today’s hard times, it’s pleasing to hear that there [...]

The 2009 UK Affiliate Census, carried out by Econsultancy in association with AffiliateWindow, was published on the 10th February. More than 1000 affiliates took part in the survey. Azam Marketing’s Senior Partnerships Manager Louise Goldstein shares her thoughts. Having now had a chance to read through the full report, here are my reflections on some [...]

Azam Marketing’s Senior Account Manager, Karen Clayton, looks at the public and media reaction to this week’s snowfalls in the UK, the heaviest in the country for 18 years. With all the recent doom and gloom surrounding the current UK recession, it’s refreshing that something as simple as a few inches of snow has brought [...]

By Rosie Beasley Everyone is looking for money-saving ideas right now, and business owners are no different. While large companies are saving money by laying off employees, the small business must be more creative as its staff is often too valuable to let go. In times of rising inflation and high prices, cash flow management [...]

It ceased to amaze me a long time ago how easy it was to manipulate the rank and file in society and, with enough marketing guile, be able to influence what they say and do (today is the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht), but what still astonishes me is how the supposedly smartest and best educated [...]