Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 72nd Episode. Advertising and Media. The AAAI negotiation workshop by Ruma Biswas happening today in Mumbai took me back many years. Here is what I am talking about. The subject of NEGOTIATION is evergreen and is relevant in every social interaction. Though the relationship and the transaction between Agency Planner… Read More »
Tweet Follow @twitter 71st Episode. Advertising and Marketing. You must give to Dainik Bhaskar Group for being ambitious. For thinking ULTA and for trying crazy stuff those others can only admire. This is during the peak of DNA launch in Mumbai. One day the team thought that it would be a good idea to… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 70th Episode. Many answered my call to share some episode from their life in advertising and marketing, this is one of them where I am not in the picture. Back to 2006-2007. Post launch of two English newspapers in Mumbai, the fight for respectful second was still on. TOI (Times of… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 69th EPISODE. I have been doing and creating these as a self-developed mode of concentration. Now I know that what I mostly do is called ZENTANGLE, a distinct form of art. Anyway that is not the story. People who have seen this happening really understand and appreciate it. I doodle or… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 68th EPISODE Advertising and Marketing. This is pure coincidence that while I was thinking of the next story for the weekly advertising marketing episode, I read this blog ‘The Acronym Trap’ from B Harish in Marketing Buzzar. Immediately I knew what is the story I am going to share with you all. The… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 67TH EPISODE. This is something that demonstrates the focus on detailing and execution that Dainik Bhaskar Group is famous for. It is an organisation that has time and again surprised many industry representatives by the amount of backend work and belief in detailing and processes. The representative of a large… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 66th Episode. Taking you back to the crazy days of advertising and the days when parties were regular feature of life. It was as if party was a way for the mad advertising crowd to release all the pressure, to remind that it was this they worked for and loved their… Read More »
Tweet Follow @twitter 65th Episode. Another party another story. VENUE: a five-star Hotel, near Mumbai International Airport. EVENT: The Divya Bhaskar Dandiya party. Not the party referred in the earlier episodes PERIOD: 2005 or 2006, within 2-3 years of me joining Dainik Bhaskar group. Dandiya Party was the annual hyped event of Dainik Bhaskar group.… Read More »
Tweet Follow @twitter 64th EPISODE. I am not sure which year it was, but if my memory serves me right it must have been 2007 or 2008. DANDIYA PARTY by Divya Bhaskar were world famous in Mumbai and Delhi advertising circles. This was one night or uninterrupted music and dance. Timed just before the real… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 63rd Episode. 1989. Jaipur. Those days I was in Mudra Communications Pvt Ltd based at Ahmedabad and used to service Mayur Fabric account in Gulabpura. It was also the time that we at Mudra were trying to gauge if opening a satellite office at Ahmedabad made sense. Helping me was a dear friend… Read More »
