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How to mass-call prospects?

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Esther Vargas - Smartphones

In Jan. 2025, I founded DATE INSUFICIENTE S.R.L..

I had to leave a phone number/email, and I gave a real one.

Somehow, my email/phone became accessible to various service providers, and I kept getting calls/WhatsApp messages/emails to be contacted.

The most annoying part was receiving lots of Spam (from my perspective) calls.

I did like the solution of one service provider – they called just one time (others kept repeating), and put a question:

„Our company name is X and we do Y; Press 1 if you’d like a consultant to call you back; Press 2 if you want to stop from ever calling you again”.

That’s it, one call, with an option to unsubscribe.

I liked their option.

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European response to cyber physical threats in the food industry. The ACT4FOOD project officially launched

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Romania is part of the project through June Communications, a key partner in the European consortium

Nicosia, February 10, 2026. The European project ACT4FOOD – Advanced Cybersecurity Tools for Critical Food Supply Chains announces the official launch of its activities, with the main objective of strengthening the cyber resilience of the European food chain, focusing on food supply chain, from farm to fork.

The project, which brings together 11 partners from 8 countries over 36 months, is funded by the European Union through the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), under the call DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07, and is managed by the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre (ECCC).  Among the work package coordinators is June Communications, which manages the communication, dissemination, exploitation, and standardization package.

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I’m not on Facebook!

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I sometimes hear other people saying, „I’m not on Facebook! I don’t like the platform.”

But this is like saying, „I don’t like all the accounts people have on Facebook.”

There are billions of people; even if you select the top 0.01%, you still get a huge number of accounts that post things that might interest you.

I once posted the photo you see attached to this blog post. One person reposted the photo, and they got a reply: „But who’s asking you?”

Even if I don’t like the mechanics of Facebook, some notifications you can’t block, some ads you can’t skip, the difficulty in saving things, the way the video player works, or other things, Facebook is still a very important social network for me.

Why? Because of the people on it.

I don’t like newsletters, I prefer reading news on websites much more.

But there are some newsletters that are so well-made that I don’t want to miss a thing.

I use some messenger solutions that are rather obscure in Romania – Microsoft Teams, Signal. Even Telegram is rarely used. But I use all of these platforms because there are some people in there that I want to talk to.

Even TikTok – I don’t like the network, but I still have an account, because there are things in there that I want to see.

Combing back to „I’m not on Facebook!”, the answer is „But who’s asking if you like the platform or not? Just be there!”.

The conclusion? Be on Facebook, use newsletters, have a TikTok account, use obscure messaging media, not because you like the platform so much, but because there are people in there who are worth being there for.

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GEO Audit Checklist

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High-Angle Photo of Robot · Free Stock Photo

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UNCHAIN 2026 – AI, Legacy, and the Cost of Standing Still: The Strategic Reality Facing Europe’s Banks

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Hundreds of finance leaders keep coming back to Unchain each year. This year, they have the chance to access Super Early Bird tickets for UNCHAIN Festival 2026 now available for a limited period of time, offering a 50% discount until January 31st  https://unchainfestival.com/tickets/. After this period, prices will increase.

How UNCHAIN 2026 Brings Europe’s Banks Face to Face with Execution Gaps, Infrastructure Risk, and the Limits of Automation

Over the past five years, the financial ecosystem across Central and Eastern Europe has undergone a quiet but profound transformation. What began as an urgent push for digitisation has evolved into a deeper reconfiguration of how finance is built, distributed, and experienced, from the unbundling of legacy banking infrastructure and the rise of embedded finance to the convergence of payments, credit, loyalty, and data-driven decision-making.

Insights gathered across previous editions of UNCHAIN Festival and distilled in its sector whitepapers point to a clear direction: finance in CEE is no longer defined by isolated products or institutions, but by ecosystems. Banks are navigating legacy “spaghetti” infrastructures while experimenting with parallel core systems and AI-driven internal automation. Retailers are moving beyond transactions toward experience-first models where payments, lending, and loyalty blend seamlessly into the customer journey. Meanwhile, fintechs are no longer challengers at the edges, but integral players shaping interfaces, expectations, and speed.

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SERP Conf. Sofia 2026: Visibility in AI-dominated Search

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The SEO, E-commerce, and AI conference returns with a specially designed AI Lab, Masterclass and a new host

23/01/2026, Sofia, Bulgaria – On March 25th, at the Inter Expo Center, SERP Conf. Sofia 2026 will once again gather professionals from 20+ countries for its Eastern Europe Edition. The event will deliver curated expertise, strategies engineered to scale beyond academic knowledge or theories, and high-class networking, as it has done during its 6 editions so far – 4 in Bulgaria and 2 in Austria.

In an industry where there are many multi-track conferences promising everything to everyone, SERP Conf. has established itself as an event deliberately focused on substance over scale and measurable outcomes over marketing noise and paid presentations.

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The Superscrieri Awards reach their 15th edition: entries open until January 31, 2026

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The competition expands into new areas of journalism with the introduction of four new categories: Interview, Thematic Journalism, Innovation, and Feature Writing

  • The Superscrieri Awards, which recognise the best journalism in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, are accepting entries from journalists until January 31, 2026;
  • The competition is also open to written materials published in Hungarian in Romanian publications. The articles must be accompanied by a translation of the material into Romanian;
  • This year’s competition comprises nine categories: Investigation, Journalistic Debut, Local Press, TV & Video Journalism, Civic Influencers, Interview, Thematic Journalism, Innovation, and Feature Writing. Of these, four categories are new: Interview, Thematic Journalism, Feature Writing, and Innovation;
  • Dan Duca, editorial director of HotNews, is the new president of the jury. The jury is joined by Alina Radu, director of Ziarul de Gardă, and Marian Voicu, TVR producer and founder of Veridica, as members;
  • Cătălin Moise joins the jury for the Civic Influencers category, dedicated to online content creators who promote social issues;
  • Journalistic materials published or broadcast in any print or electronic medium between January 1 and December 31, 2025, are eligible;
  • The winners of the Superscrieri Awards will be announced at the awards gala in May.

Bucharest, January 23rd, 2025: The Superscrieri Awards, an event that recognizes excellence in journalism in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, announces the opening of registrations for its 15th anniversary edition. Journalists can register until January 31 by completing the registration form. Journalistic materials published or broadcast in any print or electronic medium between January 1 and December 31, 2025, are eligible. The winners of the Superscrieri Awards will be announced at the awards gala, which will take place in May.

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Work from anywhere

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SingleFan - Old_Flickr_Laptop

I don’t like working from anywhere. Whenever I can, I try to work from home, from my computer only.

It’s a desktop PC, with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

While travelling, I use a laptop. But it’s much more inefficient.

I keep thinking that my „inefficient” way of working (at a laptop) it’s others’ way of daily work.

Very hard for me to understand how people can be productive on a laptop, when they have the option of Desktop PC.

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