Every now and then I spot incoming links to my blog, from a site called Business Way which I discover is using my content as is, to attract traffic. And I am not alone in getting my stuff streamed without credit – there are other sites too – there are sites from the US and elsewhere whose [...]
Archive for the ‘Business Ethics’ Category
Copyright fraud (?) by a “blogger”
Posted: November 7, 2008 by noshtradamus in Business Ethics, Internet, New Media, What Were They Thinking??Tags: Bloggers, Copyright Violation, Link Farms, Plagiarism
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CEO Brand Ambassadors and the “Main Hoon Na!” syndrome
Posted: October 25, 2008 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Brands, Business Ethics, Creativity, Customer Service, Endorsement, Marketing, Public Relations, What Were They Thinking??The other day I was in small electrical shop in Shakarpur market, and was looking for an power extension board – “give me the best quality” I requested. The shopkeeper smiled with pride, and then with great flourish revealed to me his “best quality” extension board. No it wasn’t Philips, Bajaj, or any such familiar [...]
Random Useful Thought #005
Posted: March 26, 2007 by noshtradamus in Business Ethics, Common Sense, Learnings, Random Useful Thoughts, Talent & Assets, Thinking AloudLegend has it, this is what a senior PR person once told a top US politician who was complaining about the bad press he was getting, and about how people talk badly about him. “If you don’t want people to say bad things about you, don’t do bad things!” It applies to all of us [...]
Attrition in Advertising and Public Relations
Posted: March 26, 2007 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Business Ethics, Common Sense, Debate, Learnings, Public Relations, Talent & Assets, TrendsWhy do people in advertising and public relations shift jobs a lot? Quite simply, because it is a ‘people business’ where the products and services we deliver are really ideas and thoughts of individuals, and an extension of their personalities. The absence of “one right answer” in our business leads people to put their own [...]
Advertising, PR, and the Art of Saying “No”
Posted: December 18, 2006 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Business Ethics, Common Sense, Learnings, Public Relations, Talent & AssetsThe phrases “No, can’t do!” or “thanks, but no thanks!” don’t quite figure in the vocabulary of advertising, marketing and public relations people, do they? And I mean when it is in the context of standing up for what we believe in, or refusing business because it goes against our values, professional instincts, and the [...]
Wal-Mart, Julie Roehm, Draft-FCB – the highs and lows straightened out
Posted: December 11, 2006 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Business Ethics, Common Sense, Learnings, What Were They Thinking??I (like a whole lot of us) have been following the abovementioned story from the time Draft-FCB got the Wal-Mart business… when George Parker exposed the internal memo at Ogilvy… then when Draft-FCB ‘released the lions’… right up to the discovery a couple of days back that Wal-Mart fired Julie Roehm and has put the business [...]
UPDATE: Not me. But my content!
Posted: December 5, 2006 by noshtradamus in Business Ethics, LearningsOkay, I’m back on wordpress and the issue of illegal mirroring has been sorted out. Here’s how: On discovering the illegal mirroring of my wordpress blog at byindia, I wrote an email to both byindia and web2corp, a US based company that recently bought byindia. Within a couple of hours, I received an email from [...]
Indian BPOs: Private or Porous?
Posted: November 10, 2006 by noshtradamus in Business Ethics, LearningsOne of the largest new business opportunities in India is Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).And one of the largest ethical and legal issues we have in India today, also has to do with BPOs – which is Privacy and Identity Theft. A lot has been written about the issue, with many companies and even the government [...]
Talent & The Boss’s Perspective
Posted: November 6, 2006 by noshtradamus in Business Ethics, Common Sense, Debate, Learnings, Talent & Assets, Thinking AloudI received a couple of email (why email?? stop being shy, and post your comments, folks!! make this blog a little more interactive upfront) with regards to my previous post on Talent. In that post, I pointed out that problems within a company, can invariably be traced back to leadership, and bad bosses. Most of [...]
Talent? What talent??
Posted: November 2, 2006 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Business Ethics, Common Sense, Debate, Learnings, Public Relations, Stargazing, Talent & AssetsAt the ICCO Global Summit 2006, one of the sessions was “Talent: Our Greatest Asset“. The Speaker was Jeffrey Fuller of Mercer HR Consulting, and the Chairperson (though I expected him to do a session as Speaker) was Bill Rylance – Asia-Pacific President & CEO of PR firm Burson-Marsteller. My homework on Jeffrey Fuller told me [...]
