Marketing by Permission
Blog URL http://timtrent.blogspot.com/
Located Bracknell, Berkshire United Kingdom
Tags marketing, data privacy, data protection, direct marketing, customer service, ROI, return on investment
Getting business advantage and great return on investment from top quality sales and marketing requires attention to your customer's needs and to the law. That's what this is all about.
Latest Blog Posts
- What does it mean to me to be gay? on Nov 20, 2009 in sex Gay Marriage homophobia Gay Pride Human Rights gay youth LGBT Anti Bullying Week
I started out in life finding being gay to be totally negative. Some of the things that it meant when I was a teenager were: fear of my friends and how they might behave of losing my friends of my parents, and what they would do to me of losing the...
- What do the words "The Gay Community" mean to me? on Nov 20, 2009 in sex Gay Marriage homophobia Gay Pride Human Rights gay youth LGBT Anti Bullying Week
I'll tell you what the words mean to me. Almost nothing at all. When I discovered, or at least started to admit to myself, that I am gay, I hoped for a community which would embrace me and my many foibles. There was none. Instead I found hostility...
- A curious case of leftness and rightness on Nov 19, 2009 in politics
A group of friends and I are taking an online political quiz, to be found at Political Compass. I found the outcome somewhat surprising. Let me tell you why before I share my graph with you. I believe in the free market economy, but I believe in reg...
- A weird relic from Victorian pseudo-morality on Nov 18, 2009 in Marketing health
The Victorians in England had a lot of very peculiar views. Ok, the petticoats on piano legs were a myth, and the menfolk really weren't as moral as peole believe. Use of prostitutes was widespread, venereal diseases were rampant and the Contagious D...
- Roman Catholic Blame Based Marketing Comes Unstuck on Nov 18, 2009 in child abuse religion
Back in September I ran an opinion piece on The Marketing of Blame. I headlined it thus: I was heartily disgusted to read the Guardian article entitled 'Sex abuse rife in other religions, says Vatican'. The attempt to divert attention from the indus...
- Redwood Associates nuisance calls on Nov 17, 2009 in PECR Telephone Preference Service
I just had a call from a very persistent telesales operative who gave his company name as Redwood Associates. He knew my name, and. most importantly, knew that this call was forbidden because my phone number is Telephone Preference Service registere...
- A strange juxtaposition on Nov 17, 2009 in child abuse
In the news this morning is the UK charity, Barnados, has highlighted the issue of missing children and their sexual abuse by paedophiles. The news item is shocking and involves the children, some very young indeed, being moved from place to place fo...
