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This week on Ask Rob & Rob, Chris from Liverpool asked: What questions should I ask at a property viewing? Not an easy question to answer, but there are a few things to always think about, regardless of the property in question. First of all, you have to do your research beforehand, using the tools linked […]

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It’s the final Ask Rob & Rob of 2019! But before the guys disappear for the festive holidays, they’ve got one more question they’re answering. 

And this week it’s from the big man himself.

Our caller, Nick, is wanting to know when Rob & Rob are going to do their yearly roundup of Hub Extra, and he’d also like to see The Robs do some live events in 2020. 

So what have The Robs got in store for us to round up the year and look forward to in 2020?

Tune in to find out…

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The next question on Ask Rob & Rob could be yours. 

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This week on Ask Rob & Rob, Sam...

Asks Rob & Rob – What's the catch with student pods?

Rob D starts by agreeing that the propositions offered can look attractive and if all pans out as promised then they do indeed sound great. The key, however, is trying to figure out if things will work out as promised by the developer! So for this reason it's absolutely key to look at the previous projects of the developer and see if their history backs up their claims.

Rob B is against student pods as he feels they're weighted heavily in favour of the people selling the product as opposed to those owning the product. He suggests that many of the claims made by the developers are greatly exaggerated at best. He also makes a very good point in saying that the mortgageability on student pods is pretty much non-existent, and the market if you want to sell is extremely limited. 

Rob B finalises by saying he'd never buy one and he would never offer them to RMP customers - so no sitting on the fence here! 

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In this introductory episode, I had the pleasure of conversing with Will Ahmed, the CEO of health & fitness monitoring brand ‘WHOOP’. The Whoop strap, renowned for its technology in analysing core health metrics, has become a mainstay in an athletes’ recovery regime owing to its actionable and personalised insights on performance enhancement.

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Tom Rainsford has been named as one of the Top 50 creative minds in the country.  After a surprising start to his career (that still stands him in great creative stead even now), Tom has grown a challenger brand into a household name and now leads the Marketing at one of the coolest brands on the planet – Beavertown Brewery.

What does Tom see as the magic ingredients for successful brand growth, why does he believe culture and fact-based emotion are they key and how is he going to top his show stopping MadFest opener from last year

1. Dancing your way to a top job in marketing
2. Should you do a marketing degree?
3. The first kickstarter brand? David to Goliath on Giff Gaff: 10 years building a genuinely different business model - how to outsmart the big boys
4. Are great brands emotional or rational?
5. The problems with tech marketing are…..
6. Watch your internal language doesn’t end up in your communications
7. Why Tom believes in In-housing: how to nurture creativity within a company
8. Why creativity is not valued in business.
9. The important questions businesses need to ask themselves about why their creative is wrong
10. The importance of Culture: Does pizza on a Wednesday help?
11. Was COVID a blessing for marketeers?
12. Art and advertising reflecting culture: A discussion about Orlando Wood’s Look Out
13. Why pubs can be the answer the growth.
14. Beavertown Neck Oil: Jon and Tom drink at 11am!
15. Has craft beer jumped the shark?
16. Is consistency important in marketing after all?
17. Why Logan (Robert Plants son) founded Beavertown and what’s it like working in Founder led businesses.
18. Why Beavertown innovation works (according to System1)
19. Why Tom wants you to steal his pint glasses.
20. What makes Beavertown stand out?
21. The importance of a stonking product
22. Shifting to Heineken ownership - have things changed?
23. Ensuring innovation succeeds within a titan mothership
24. Madfest: How Tom is planning to top his mobile phone/trust gig
25. How culture delivers brand trust and helps brands ride the storm
26. Can you learn to do what Derren Brown diss in a month?
27. Why being a CMO can be a lonely affair.
28. The importance of making more noise in bad times
29. Do people do good work when they are knackered?
30. Marketing artists vs marketing scientists
31. The biggest failure in Tom’s career (and what he learnt)
32. The reward of messing up
33. Why the more senior you get the less you know.
34. “To do” lists vs “to think” lists
35. What everyone’s next big business question needs to be……

This week we’re in doom and gloom mode once again! Last week it was risks, the previous week it was mistakes…and now we’re tackling the bright’n’breezy topic of being broke in retirement. Yes, the pension crisis is real – more real than most people care to think about. But there is a positive message buried […]

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Rob & Rob are back again today with another Friday market update for you. 

Whilst this week has been a bit of a whirlwind with positives and negatives throughout the media, there were still some headlines The Robs thought needed clearing up.

Apparently, the government has put the housing market on hold. 

But surprise, surprise… this isn’t the case. 

What they’re actually doing is offering advice on buying and selling a property in the current circumstances. 

It’s also been said that banks are putting a stop to mortgage lending. 

Again, not quite the full story. 

This isn’t down to the fact that the banks have no money or are expecting property prices to plummet like some may think. It’s actually due to the fact that they’re overwhelmed by the amount of people applying for mortgage holidays and they’ve had to move their call centres to working from home. 

Plus, they can’t have surveyors going out to value properties which obviously puts a delay on things. 

So, as well as proving the scaremongering headlines wrong, here’s what else you can expect to hear on today’s episode:

• How we’ve adapted our business in the face of what’s going on
• How we’ve still been working on deals
• Why now is a great time for property investors
• A look at current stock market

And to end on a lighter note, whilst there’s a lot of negativity going around, there’s also a huge sense of community and togetherness which is a lot stronger than anything that could ever break us.

Enjoy - and we’ll be back next week!

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Advertising legend Sir John Hegarty returns to the podcast to discuss why he created a course focused on the business of creativity. If you've listened to the podcast before you'll know how important I think creativity is to drive business results, and so when Sir John announced he was creating this course, I had to get him back on the podcast to discuss.

Learn more about the course here.

About Sir John Hegarty
He was a founding partner of Saatchi and Saatchi in 1970. And then TBWA in 1973. He founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1982 with John Bartle and Nigel Bogle. The agency now has 7 offices around the world. He has been given the D&AD President’s Award for outstanding achievement and in 2014 was admitted to the US AAF Hall of Fame.

John was awarded a Knighthood by the Queen in 2007 and was the recipient of the first Lion of St Mark award at the Cannes Festival of Creativity in 2011. John has written 2 books, ‘Hegarty on Advertising - Turning Intelligence into Magic’ and ‘Hegarty on Creativity - there are no rules’.

In 2014 John co-founded The Garage Soho, a seed stage Venture Capital fund that believes in building brands, not just businesses.

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
01:37 - Why clients want to see ads
05:52 - Sir John Hegarty’s top 5 ads
06:47 - Ad 1: Audi - Villas
07:41 - Ad 2: K Shoes - Creak
08:41 - Ad 3: Levi’s - Launderette
11:24 - Ad 4: Xbox - Champagne
12:06 - Ad 5: Levi’s - Flat Eric
17:16 - Has advertising got too serious?
20:22 - The secret to pitching to a more rational audience
23:58 - How to make the most of your agency relationship
26:34 - Improving the brief
29:45 - Have we lost the art of brand building?
33:46 - The business of creativity
39:39 - Collaborators on Sir John’s Course
41:41 - The production of the course
44:33 - The legacy of Sir John Hegarty
47:26 - The format of the course
48:15 - Why training is important
50:29 - The case for creatives in leadership
52:36 - How would Sir John Hegarty launch a new agency