TCS Is Within Striking Distance Of FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 – Even Without M&A

A decade ago, China had 29 FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 companies. Today, it has 119. India’s corresponding figures are 7 and 7. The GDPs of both countries have grown rapidly during this period. While China has seen a proportionate increase in its representation in Fortune Global 500, India has not. This has appeared to be an … Read more

Business Cards Are Still Relevant – Because “Case The Joint”

After seeing the QR code on the back of my business card, a customer recently congratulated me for the nice hack which let him add my contact to his mobile phone in a single tap. But before I could bask in the praise, he rained on my parade by asking, “Are business cards relevant in … Read more

PR – Not Free But Delivers More Bang For Less Buck

After reading this half page article on Dunzo in ET PRIME, a customer, Anshuman Shrivastava, Director Toptier Energy Services and ex-Banker, commented that PR is free, unlike advertising. Not true. Even if it appears that way at first blush. You pay for both PR and Advertising, just to different people. In Advertising, you pay an ad agency … Read more

Two New Ways To Overcome The Twitter Identity Crisis

It’s not easy to find someone on Twitter. This includes handles of individual tweeples as well as brands. This creates an identity crisis of sorts on Twitter. In a 2013 blog post entitled The Severe Identity Crisis On Twitter For Digital Marketers, I’d suggested the following tools to overcome the Twitter identity crisis: Twitter Search … Read more

Communications – Low Hanging Fruit For Enhancing CX

In Poor Communications: The Seventh Deadly CX Killer, I described the painful experience of activating the new credit cards I recently received from my bank. To recap, I didn’t get a paper PIN mailer as was customary during the previous renewals, and the instructions given by the bank on how to activate the new cards on … Read more

Poor Communications: The Seventh Deadly CX Killer

In Killing The Six Deadly CX Killers, I attributed six key reasons for poor customer experience (CX) and what brands could do to get rid of them, thus enhancing their CX. In this post, I’ll cover the seventh deadly CX killer: Poor communications. I have a Visa credit card issued by a Top 5 private … Read more

CIOReviewIndia Names GTM360 To Its ‘Top 20 Marketing Tech Solutions Providers 2019 from India’ List

We’re happy to inform you that CIOReviewIndia has named GTM360 Marketing Solutions to its exclusive list of ‘Top 20 Marketing Tech Solutions Providers 2019 from India’. Our shortlisting was driven by two of our martech products, namely, EMAIL360 and MICROSITE360. According to CIOReviewIndia, “The selection committee and the CIO Review magazine editorial board find “EMAIL360 … Read more

Demystifying The Ubiquitous Sample Size Of 2000

Back in the day, we learned in statistics that you need a sample size of at least 2% of the size of population to make statistically significant inferences about the population. In common speak, the expression “statistically significant” means “valid”. Nevertheless, if you’re like me, you regularly come across surveys conducted on sample size of … Read more

Product Versus Services Selling – Part 2

In Product Versus Services Selling – Part 1, I’d highlighted three differences between IT product and services selling. In this second part, I’ll cover two more differences and examine the implications of these five differences on the way forward for the Indian IT industry. #4. PROSPECTING V. CLOSING According to the popular narrative, it’s easier … Read more

Gartner Publishes Our Article About Hootsuite

We’re happy to share with you that Gartner has accepted our recent article about Hootsuite for publication on its prestigious peerinsights review portal. As many of you would be aware, Hootsuite lets you view all your social network feeds on a single dashboard and cross-post updates to different social networks from a single screen. Hootsuite currently … Read more