Tag Archives: MARKETING

GOAFEST HIJACK

Tweet  Follow @s_kotnala Hijacking maybe a hard word to describe, what happened on 3rd April 2008. Jagdip Bakshi was Goafest ( Largest event for Indian Advertising and marketing fraternity) Chairman that year. Dainik Bhaskar Group well known across the Industry for highly innovative initiative and plans decided to take advantage of a schedule loophole (That has… Read More »

TWO MORE

In earlier times much before the fragmented and niche agencies came into being, when 15% commission and not retainer-ship was the norm, the large agencies used to have a huge annual incentive conclave. The cut was by designation. In 1993, if I am right about the year, I made the cut first time. That year… Read More »

ELEVEN MINUTES

This is the time I was with  HTA. Motorola was a new client. And Rahul Verghese (www.runningandliving.com fame) a different kind of client. Dead serious professionally and hugely funny beyond work. Rahul had five  simple rules to work when it came to meetings. On time. Rahul lived what he expected from others. I remember him… Read More »

THINK TWICE

THINK TWICE – Harnessing the power of COUNTERINTITUTION by Michael J. Mauboussin is a sharply focussed book. What makes it interesting is the way  it shows you the possible reasons : why you must THINK TWICE?. Then follows it with sharply defined MISTAKES you could be making in reaching your decisions inferences. At the end… Read More »

THE CHERRY WIN

Tweet Follow @S_kotnala It was my  second year in Lintas. It was like any other usual day.  I was in my small little cabin on the 8th floor of e Mohandev building. The phone rang and that was the   beginning of a small interesting episode. RECEPTIOIST AT DELHI OFFICE : Sanjeev call from PREM MEHTA’s office, shall I patch… Read More »

THE PRESENTATION

Continuing with the brand GILLETTE and WILKINSON SWORD blade, I share with you something that I would not recommend to be copied in the era gone by and the era to come. This is a good revenge story. Simplicity is the key to being effective and efficient. This takes me to a time when RANJAN… Read More »

BLACK GOLD

This is somewhere in the early part of 1996. I had moved from HTA to LINTAS Delhi. I was servicing WILKINSON BLADE account at GILLETTE.  SAMIR VERMA was my boss and RANJAN my junior. It is tough to imagine the science, technology and the quality test for a simple Rupee one blade.  I was fortune… Read More »

BUFFERRED

Continuing from the last episode I share another episode involving brand HERO HONDA . It was a life and death situation – hilariously funny in its way. With hindsight I can now appreciate the humour in it. SO, WE START AT THE END I was on phone from PALAM AIRPORT sometime in early part of… Read More »