Money, Money, Money

Certain amount of marketing is theoretically under my 'control'. I have to suggest better ways to 'connect to the customers', increase visibility on the internet, among many other 'stuff', basically web marketing. But whatever proposal I give gets shot down immediately due to 'lack of funds'. Any kind of marketing activity gets shots down for the same reason. I am expected to do anything and everything without a budget. The sales people and my boss keep bugging me to 'dp something more'; I have done everything what I can do, still I am expected to 'do something more' to 'make their selling easier'. It gets on my nerves everytime they say 'with my intelligence I must not say something is impossible'. My boss gets blamed even though they won't give him money for it, and the blame trickles down to me as I am 'incharge of it'.
Out competitors get the 'first rank' in google search because of google ads - I have seen the people involved in evaluating and recommending products have very little knowledge of search engines, know absolutely no difference between sponsored ads and search results. I tell this to my boss and he wants to know 'the basis for this'. I wanted to show him as an example, but did not. He believed me after an hour of explanation that 'pay per click' is the same as 'google ads' and that needs money.
I was always taught you have to spend money to make money, but no one believes in that here. If anything is for free, you have to milk it as much as you can, even if it becomes dry. I know one company that dropped its free demo after my boss 'took advantage of it'; My boss knows the owner of the company, so that guy did this, rather than ask my boss to stop extending the demo and pay for its use. Hmm!

(gasp)

Chicks with asthma - it is easy to leave them breathless

Déja Vu

German kid tries to roll into Berlin to see his Grandma! A few days back, I saw a similar story in the movie Amelie (French). The movie came out in 2001!