Perspective: How to make clients think they're getting value for money
29 Oct 2010 | by Rory Sutherland
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It's paradoxical that media agencies, which have built their business on the successful nurturing of their clients' brands through effective communications planning, seem singularly incapable of understanding, let alone managing, their own brands.
If you want an amusing ten minutes online, simply Google "Amazon recommendation fail".
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