Oliver Craner

luka

luka

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ive won craner a vital retweet

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Iraq Britain Business Council facilitates business, trade, investment, human resources, training and transfer of technology and know-how into the Rep. of Iraq

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Leo

Leo

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Luka, have you considered a career change to PR or social media manager? What you've done is exactly what they do all day, and get paid silly money.
 
luka

luka

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yes but first i need to show results. which is to say, vanity fair. anyone can go through the motions but this is a results game
 
Leo

Leo

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but getting craner's article retweeted by influencers is a big part of what a social media manager does. you're taking a client's content and making it go viral. something like VF is a separate, bigger fish to catch.
 
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luka

luka

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well, let's make him go viral first then. i need results before i start patting myself on the back. hard glinting diamond results
 
Leo

Leo

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I'm sure @craner would be willing to pay you on a project basis, since his essays are infrequent. if he stepped up his productivity, however, he could use some of his substack revenue to bring you on board for a flat-fee monthly retainer. you'd probably need to track your billable hours, though, since by that point craner will have expanded his publishing business to include a CFO, who will need that type of reporting for tax purposes.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
Luka, I think you really need to step things up. Put your thinking cap on and start coming up with some unorthodox, innovative ideas for publicising Craner. Nothing is off the table!
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
Just read your Twitter, Rory Stewart! Wow. It is a great piece, not finished it yet but I will do so this evening probably.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
It's great, though! Just finished it.

Couple of things occurred to me.

First, at one point you obliquely refer to Chirac "pursuing French interests" by opposing an invasion. France was, I believe, Saddam's second biggest arms supplier after the Soviets in the 70s and 80s - do you know if this was still the case in the run-up to 2003?

Second, for all that you loathe Adam Curtis, this line:

Later on, the disintegration of Iraq would expose the limits of both American neoconservatism and liberal interventionism by opening a new era of raw power politics stripped of all progressive and democratic illusions.
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struck me as so Curtisesque that I read it to myself with his voice in my head!
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Mr. Tea said:
It's great, though! Just finished it.

Couple of things occurred to me.

First, at one point you obliquely refer to Chirac "pursuing French interests" by opposing an invasion. France was, I believe, Saddam's second biggest arms supplier after the Soviets in the 70s and 80s - do you know if this was still the case in the run-up to 2003?

Second, for all that you loathe Adam Curtis, this line:



struck me as so Curtisesque that I read it to myself with his voice in my head!
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No, the French weren’t selling arms in 2003, but they were lobbying to end sanctions so that they could trade with the regime — in particular, ironically enough, to secure existing and future imports of Iraqi oil.
 
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