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After failing as a ping-pong player and comedian, Mario ended up in advertising. Besides managing Respond2's new media department, Mario teaches marketing strategy at the Academy of Art University, runs marathons, plays tennis on his Wii and spends inordinate amounts of time talking about his cat Otto. Mario on LinkedIn
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Mario's Posts
I try to not talk too much about my gadget obsession, mostly to avoid spending too many nights on the living room couch. But a few weeks ago I got a Kindle, and Amazon’s little reading device has far surpassed my expectations. Sure, the battery time is great and you can’t beat the wireless [...]
Happy New Year!
Friday, December 28th, 2007
As we move into the new year (and yes, this is our last working day in 2007), we all tend to look ahead with our goals, resolutions and new good habits in mind. At work, I hope for two things. And by hope, I mean we’ll do whatever it takes to bring these resolutions to [...]
DRTV testimonials on YouTube?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
This morning I ran across an interesting study by Nokia, which predicts that by 2012 25 percent of all entertainment content will be generated by peer groups rather than traditional media. While we’re already seeing a plethora of consumer-generated content on the Web (commercial and non-commercial), I am interested to see how this will effect [...]
The good, without the bad and ugly, of allowing user-generated reviews on your site
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
The other day I was sitting in a quarterly strategy session with one of our large corporate clients, and the issue on hand was how to improve the user experience on our corporate site, which also acts as the main e-commerce engine. One of the tactics that was floating around the beautiful mahogany corporate conference [...]
Giving away the four P’s
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
As marketers, we have to get more and more comfortable with the fact that consumers aren’t only making their own purchase decisions, but have more and more impact on the product, price, place and promotion of our marketing mix. Personally, I think this is a wonderful opportunity for savvy marketers.
We’re constantly involving customers in the [...]
How to build your web presence - Step 3: Particize
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Here comes the last post in my series on how to build a web presence. Some of you have been eagerly awaiting this, while others are just glad that this series is coming to an end. Either way, here are the links to my first couple of posts in this series:
How to analyze your [...]
How to build your web presence - Step 2: Optimize
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
After analyzing what’s going on in your sphere of the web, the second step is to undergo a series of (mostly onsite) optimizations. Your goal is to make your site easy to locate and navigate. Valuable content is probably the most important aspect here. Search engines find your site because of text content. Don’t just [...]
How to build your web presence - Step 1: Analyze
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
I spend most of my time either explaining the importance of or helping corporate America build a true web presence, rather than just having a website. Really, just building a website gets you nowhere quickly. In order to be successful online, you have to build a web presence. In the next few days, I [...]
Why we blog?
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Most of our team members have personal blogs and we spend the majority of our days managing blogs and building web presences for our clients. Our r2morrow blog was created for the some of same reasons we believe that blogging is right for our clients, as well as some rather unique ones:
To communicate and share [...]
The evolution of the Direct Response campaign kick-off meeting
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Back in the day, and by back in the day I mean five years ago, campaign kick-off meetings were a fairly predictable procedure.
Of course there were your account people, who explained the product or service, presented the creative brief and gave an overview of the challenges and opportunities within the marketplace. Then you had your [...]






