Category: Direct Marketing

If intelligence has brought us the crisis, then the crisis is sure to make us stupid. Irrecoverably stupid.

Mankind is surrounded by intelligence and expertise like never before. We have: elaborated IT systems, regulations and control for almost everything, consultants, auditors, spin doctors, and a bunch of Gurus who should carefully be listened to in every f… more »

The absolute, the ideal and the most fabulous Marketing

The question I want to pose is this: how should the absolut, the ideal and the most fabulous Marketing look like?By closing our eyes really tight and trying to forget everything we know about the given world, I think that this utterly superb and fabulo… more »

Interactivity and the Internet

Along with media budgets, many redirect their hopes towards the Internet, of which the most are those who think the remedy for today’s crisis can be found close at hand - any one of us who does some soul searching can find a solution on his own.And w… more »

Is Direct Mail dead?

There is no database (yet) of consumers groups in Romania – income, age, preferences, habits, etc.And what if it existed? A couple of months after the crisis started, last year’s segmentation wouldn’t be accurate at all. It’s obvious that the purchas… more »

Direct Marketing and the ”In times of Crisis, Crisis Budgets!” rule

The manner in which this crisis started is similar to the so-called “The Phoney / Strange War” - “La Drôle de Guerre” at the beginning of the last world war when, for more than half a year (between September 1939 and April 1940) the belligerents waited a… more »