How many directors does it take to move a sofa?

Two.

Plus 2 Designers, a Head of Copy, an Account Director and a Data Analyst.

It'll be worth it for our new super meeting room basement though!

Richard

Clever banner ads

Having spent a few weeks looking for furniture for our new basement-come-meeting-room, these very clever banner ads have started to appear. Now, I might be reading too much into it, and it could just be a massive coincidence, but these ads for Habitat are showing me the exact things I was looking at on their site. Clever, eh?

Richard

More surprise and delight

I've just returned to my desk to find this lovely gift from Helena and Janna from Cancer Research UK.

I often find myself talking about the importance of surprising and delighting donors (see here). This is a great reminder of that.

So, Helena and Janna, thank you too, the pleasure was ours!

A nice start to the week

I got to do a nice thing today and it's all thanks to Linda from Action for Children. Linda was the winner of our Christmas Heroes Quiz and she decided to give her £500 prize money to a project on My Action for Children.

Linda wanted to support a place called The Grove in Aylesbury. They need a special removable seat for their minibus. It will enable young disabled people to access clubs, sports activities and other community events. You can read more about it here (and donate as well if you like!)

So, thanks to Linda, I got to go online and make the donation. It felt good. (Oh, and yes, I am aware it wasn't my money and it wasn't my choice but I enjoyed it nevertheless).

Quote Friday: Giants Wanted

Another from David Ogilvy...

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."

Which is topical, as we are hiring again. Senior account manager and writers/designers wanted.

Apply within.

Richard

And the winner is...

Slightly late, but the results of our Christmas Heroes quiz have been ratified by an independent adjudicator (not really). The top 5 are as follows:

In fifth place, with a respectable 8 out of 15 is Les from St John Ambulance

In fourth, we have Louise Philips from RNID

Technically joint second, but separated by a tiebreaker are Michael from Unicef (with 12 out of 15) and Nathalie from SOFII (with 12.5)

And our winner with a very impressive 13/15 is...

Action for Children's Linda Snellgrove who will now have £500 to give to the charity of her choice!! Well done Linda.

For anyone wanting the answers to the quiz, here you go:

James's hero is: Miles Davis
Hannah's hero is: David Attenborough
Richard's hero is: Harvey Milk
Matt's hero is: J L Carr
Tom's hero is: Ayrton Senna
Nicki's hero is: Donald Woods
Paul's hero is: Stephen Hawking

Tim's hero is: Dr B R Ambedkar
Mark's hero is: Ole Kirk Christiansen (the inventor of LEGO)
Rebecca's hero is: Alfred Wainwright

Sinead's hero is: John Hume
Folake's hero is: Martin Luther King Jr
Caty's hero is: Cleopatra (although Elizabeth Taylor was accepted too, and provided the tiebreaker between Michael and Nathalie)

Louise's hero is: Harry Beck
and finally, Emma's hero is: Judge Judy!

We'll let you know where Linda decides to give her money.

Richard

Worst banner ad ever?

Now, we're no experts in online advertising, but if your banner ad isn't going to continuously scroll, make sure your final frame is really fucking good.

Meet Birmingham... there's nothing there...

Richard