Selling over Internet

New ways of selling

It's not that hard to imagine what meaning the long term has to a designer in Finland creating a video podcast so that a buyer in Paris can download it on his iPod.

Helge: I wrote this original post December 29, 2005 in Sotkamo. It was the year we made some very important decisions concerning Jatahovi.

The greatest challenge facing makers of arts, craft and luxury goods, after new technology, is the loss of textile and apparel manufacturing jobs in Europe . It has made clothes still produced here very expensive.

Helge: We had the same development in the 90's. Now Finland is facing the fact that traditional pulp and paper is becoming vulnerable. It's all about innovation or die!

But the real reason for a growing concern is that still only a small part of designers, arts, crafts and fashion people are not participating in the technology revolution. But some do, others don't.

Helge: I'm clearly referring to the Design & Craft Fro-project. This project started at this time an we had to think how to build customer relationships and how to improve internal project management.

They are outside the medium rather than inside it. The discouraging thing about watching models flip down the runway is that it doesn't allow you to look at and think about fashion in a new way.

Helge: We discussed the use of video. YouTube was in its infancy at this time.

It's the same aesthetic trip, and the Web has widened our emotional and aesthetic expectations.

Helge: Today I write about how to use Social Media to build Customer Relationships. The social aspect of communication is becoming increasingly important. Selling isn't a one way story telling anymore. It's all about establishing a dialog with users, clients, partners, and potential prospects.

Beppe Grillo's Blog: The Levi-Prodi law and the end of the Internet

Helge: I got this information over Internet. What is there wouldn't be any bloggers, twitterers and microbloggers? Would this be a better world for leaders, politiciens? Who would be the loosers if the freedom of Internet disappears?

Beppe Grillo is a well know Italina blogger. What does he say about the new Levi-Produ Law draft?

Beppe Grillo's Blog: The Levi-Prodi law and the end of the Internet: "

The Levi-Prodi law and the end of the Internet in Italy?

Ricardo Franco Levi, Prodi’s right hand man , undersecretary to the President of the Council, has written the text to put a stopper in the mouth of the Internet.

The draft law was approved by the Council of Ministers on 12 October. No Minister dissociated themselves from it. On gagging information, very quietly, these are all in agreement.

The Levi-Prodi law lays out that anyone with a blog or a website has to register it with the ROC, a register of the Communications Authority, produce certificates, pay a tax, even if they provide information without any intention to make money.

Blogs are being born every second, anyone can start one without a problem and they can write their thoughts, publish photos and videos.

In fact, the route proposed by Levi limits access to the Internet. What young person is going to submit to all these hoops to do a blog?

The Levi-Prodi law obliges anyone who has a website or a blog to get a publishing company and to have a journalist who is on the register of professionals as the responsible director.
99% would close down.

The lucky 1% still surviving on the Internet according to the Levi-Prodi law would have to respond in the case of the lack of control on defamatory content in accordance with articles 57 and 57 bis of the penal code. Basically almost sure to be in prison. "