Why feel guilty?

My last post was about feedback. I mentioned something to the effect that "building database could be the ulterior motive" of designing certain kinds of feedback forms.

Ulterior? Yes, doesn't it look like that in the marketplace? So many brands doing so many activities, running competitions, collecting feedback and most of them with a motive that these activities will help them get contacts of the people whom they can bombard with marketing communication in future.

The question is, why is database building an ulterior motive?

Don't people shop for their needs? Don't people wanna wear good clothes, good accessories? Don't they wanna do up their houses? Don't they wanna give good gifts to near and dear ones? Don't they wanna stay abreast with the latest trends? And besides, doesn't everyone wanna save money?

So why can't database collection be done upfront, explicitly and honestly?

One response to “Why feel guilty?”

  1. Tusha Jambhekar - tujams Avatar
    Tusha Jambhekar – tujams

    Sirjee… how honestly do u feel a person will give his mobile number or mail id in times when spam has become one of the most irritating aspect of life.
    Take any database and I can assure you only about 60% is usable. The rest has fictitious info, some dated, some needed to be filtered due to DND regulations… a small faction entry errors. So an effort to get a database is gonna be a mammoth exercise with a heavy cost.
    I give my mail id to afaqs to get a link to download case studies on brands. Next I get 10 mails- 8 of which are about things I am not even remotely connected with. Whats more, my own mail id features in a database my department wishes to buy.(So that one case study got me tons of junk mail and they earned big money as well)
    If I had a plain download option I would never give my mail id. Just asking anyone for your genuine data will just never work. If you doubt, ask the guys who gonna see you soon when the Sensus happens in 2010, as to how much things change even when its a Govt certified representative.

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