Posts tagged with:money

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

I found myself asking the title question to a manager asking me for advice regarding a social media strategy he was paying a lot of money for. The strategy was simple and you’ve heard it before: build facebook apps, get more likes, get more shares, get more retweets. Nothing wrong with that, but where are […]

One friend slipped on the stairs and hit her head. We got her to the hospital and, rather and wait at the state hospital, someone made a call and got her a private doctor to see her. The call was made to a person I have adviced one time on some internet moves and, rather […]

http://techcrunch.com//08/google-mojo/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2018/jan/04/google-spam A lot of people seem displeased with the results of their searches. Meanwhile, google makes money off the bad search engine it has evolved.

Four years ago, Razvan Varabiescu, head of an online agency, contacted me for an advertising campaign on blogs. I chose some of the blogs i thought fit for the job and ran the first advertising campaign on Romanian blogs. After that, i stayed in touch with the other bloggers and started to ran campaigns on […]

People tend to believe and act on the idea that everything is negotiable. As I said before, I have a unique approach to negotiations, as  a former salesman, and I tend to stick by it. Everything is for sale, but that does not apply all the time to everybody. This is also a quote that […]

Finally, some may say. Google has announced it will open an office in Bucharest, hiring a country manager (Dan Bulucea, who left in March from Microsoft Romania). Looking at Mr. Bulucea’s background, i can bet Google is here to offer support to business clients to spend more money on adwords.

This is one of my favorite movie scenes. Some weeks ago, a company gave up the banner they had displayed on my site. Even thought they were selling through it, they said the price is too high for them. I said ok and we parted friends. Some time after, they came back, asking for their […]

It doesn’t. It’s just put back into its place. Bogdan Naumovici, famous advertising man, explained the reason the print and TV dies in one question: why pay 7 Euros for something that it’s not worth that much? Recent years has shown us the results can be the same with 10% of the money invested. So […]

This is basically what is going on in Romania right now. Nobody knows what to do, so they raised the VAT with 5% (now it’s 24), because this measure will, of course, bring more money to the state budget. But it won’t. What will do is make us poorer. I am still amazed that nobody […]