Everyone’s a Direct Marketer, Part III With every company as a direct marketer, and with (hopefully!) every company embracing some of the best DM principles, what does this shift mean for the way companies will be structured in the future? First, let’s talk about the internal structure of a company. The biggest shift going on here is that customers are becoming a more important part of all employees’ daily lives, not just those in the advertising department. I wrote an earlier posting called Everyone’s a Marketer which applies here. Most likely, more and more members of your organization are touching customers every day — and they need to be trained how to think like marketers. But beyond that, companies will…