Saturday, May 11, 2013

Online departments rant

You know how in big corporations there are departments and managers who take care of "online". Like there is this person and his job is to make sure everything related to online is working.

That's actually stupid by design. Think about it.

Online and offline should not be two different things today, they should be integrated as one thing. Consumers engage you on all levels equally. They don't understand that there is a difference between talking to your phone support or talking to you through Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. They don't understand how and why does some product cost differently offline or online in the same store. They don't understand why a coupon they got via snail mail couldn't be used online or vice versa.

Why are there different people in charge of offline and online sales? Why are there different departments taking care of it?

Well, for the most part, it's because people working in "offline" departments don't have the knowledge to do "online" departments while in most cases people in "online" departments don't have the experience necessary for senior management positions that are held by "offline" department managers.

If you could look at your online and offline marketing as one department, your online and offline sales as one department and so on, you could achieve so much more.

Cross department multi channel digital marketing strategies


What a mouthful this subtitle is. And completely unnecessary. There is no multi-channel today. It's all one big channel in the eyes of consumers. Offline a.k.a. phisical world is connected to the online world through multiple entry points and it's stupid to separate them into different channels.

Consumers don't split your company into different departments like you do. They don't think "I'm going to buy this product through the mobile store of company X handled by their excellent mobile department, because I hate their offline department since I had bad experience buying offline with them".

In the eyes of consumers, you're one company and your sales is your sales, your marketing is your marketing, the channel doesn't matter.

Monday, May 6, 2013

What's up with Toni lately?

I figured I haven't written an update here in quite some time. I apologize to all 7 of you readers, but I've been busy.

Busy doing what?

Well...

1. Moved to another company.

You all know I use to lead ICG at Inchoo. Less than 2 months ago, I decided to make some major changes in my life and moved over to Dejan SEO. It's a well known Australian SEO company with some amazing people and amazing projects. So far, I'm loving it here. I took a position of technical SEO strategist working under Martin Reed.  

I've been working with some of the largest companies in the world over here and it's an amazing experience. I've learned something new every day and also put in use all of the years of experience I had so far. 

2. Moved to another town.

As some of you know, I lived in Osijek, Croatia. I didn't move to Australia, don't worry, I couldn't handle the heat :)

I moved to Dubrovnik Croatia. One of the most beautiful cities in the world. Have a look at my new office:


If you take a summer trip or cruise to Dubrovnik, make sure you contact me to grab a cup of coffee!