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Here are our current featured place marketing promotion videos from around the world – a selection from hundreds of Good, Bad and Ugly clips that we have collected to entertain you. Register on this website to view the full range, to add your own excellent (of course!) clips, or to access other useful and unique stuff for investment promotion and lead generation. Enjoy!

Andrew Cahn – The Man Who Runs UKTI

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International Business Wales

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Michigan Advantage

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IDA Ireland

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Business Friendly Bahrain

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Invest Japan

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Latest from our blogger

Mike Gourlay
posted on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 by Mike Gourlay No Comments

It’s become a real cliché these days to say that “Change is the only constant”. But this is not a new revelation. As long ago as 500 years BC Heraclitus noted that, like the water in a river, everything is in …

Mike Gourlay
posted on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 by Mike Gourlay 1 Comment

I have just come back from a brief trip to the Asia Pacific region: Japan, Thailand and the Philippines to be precise.  I worked in the Philippines and Japan between the mid 80’s and mid 90’s and visited Thailand countless times in my days as an insurance executive. …

Greg Bishop
posted on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 by Greg Bishop No Comments

The effectiveness of a place brand or a company’s brand can make the difference between success and failure. It’s not by chance that Orange is perceived as a friendlier brand compared to its commercial competitor Vodafone, or that Nike …

Greg Bishop
posted on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 by Greg Bishop No Comments

In these tough times its tempting to drastically reduce or cut marketing spend, sack the design agency, and try doing everything in-house. There are several flaws with this approach:pulling_the_plug.jpg

·         Loss of competitive advantage – Other Investment Promotions Agencies who continue to …

Charles Hardeman
posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 by Charles Hardeman No Comments

Most analysts believe that the credit crunch is likely to be with us through 2008 at least, and, as a result, project finance lenders for infrastructure developments, including Public Private Partnership (PPP) deals, are assessing which sectors are suitable for their …