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Author: Karthik S

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Mantri Square mall wants us to search for its Twitter and Facebook pages!

March 16, 2010March 16, 2010 by Karthik S

After Basics Life, today’s center-spread in The Times of India, for India’s largest mall, Mantri Square carries Twitter and Facebook mentions. Unfortunately, these are not links but just blurbs which claim, ‘Catch us on Twitter and Facebook for exciting updates and offers’….

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What really happens to the QR code in Ford Figo’s print ad!

March 15, 2010March 15, 2010 by Karthik S

A week back I had tweeted, ‘Do Personal QR codes exist in India? Looks like a great idea for brands, why isn’t it popular? ‘ (Link) I got quite a few responses and I was happy that they indeed exist. In fact,…

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Basics Life’s print ad with a Facebook community URL!

March 14, 2010 by Karthik S

One of the few things that could make me choke on my breakfast while reading The Times Of India happened today. It was an advertisement, by the way – not a piece of news. It was an ad for Basics Life, a…

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Be good? That’s it?

March 11, 2010 by Karthik S

Marketing was a way to connect consumers’ need/ want to a product/ service. Let us not go into the semantics of marketing, but in essence, it helped consumers make a choice, for whatever reason, emotional or rational, about a product/ service. Traditionally,…

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Job Search, Version 3.0

March 9, 2010 by Karthik S

We searched for jobs through ads in newspaper, long ago – we still do. Then, those ads were posted online, in the form of job databases and we searched through them…applied to ones that we thought were appropriate. Last week, one night,…

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The arrogance accorded by one-way communication

March 2, 2010March 2, 2010 by Karthik S

No, this post is not intended to berate the advertising fraternity. Lakshmipathy Bhat’s post on the latest Rin Vs. Tide advertising war is bang on target. The issue is quite similar to what Horlicks and Complan indulged in, sometime back. While Bhat…

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Shriram blows the horn – but no sound at all!

February 27, 2010March 8, 2010 by Karthik S

While the country is going ga-ga….or grrrr, over Aircel’s Save Our Tigers initiative, calling it frivolous, baseless and largely pointless, there is another ‘initiative’ that is getting big time paid media push. Strangely that ‘initiative’ is even more hollow than Aircel’s! I’m…

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