Web – The Forgotten Channel?

According to the World Retail Banking Report 2012 co-authored by Cap Gemini and EFMA and a few other research reports published recently, customers are viewing the Internet as one of the two most important channels of retail banking worldwide, the branch being the other. OTOH, many banks, nonbanking financial service providers and others are virtually treating … Read more

Your QR Code Works. What Next? – Part 2

Following on from Your QR Code Works. What Next? – Part 1, we illustrate a few more best practices of QR code based CTAs (Call To Actions): INTRASOFT. The ad offers download of the company’s financial results by scanning the accompanying QR code. Since financial results are bulky, we presume that the ad chose to employ … Read more

Season’s Greetings!

With the Mayans proven wrong, here’s to a happy and prosperous 2013 from GTM360 Marketing Solutions. Here are some milestones we achieved in 2012: We expanded into mobility and digital marketing solutions. In the former, our focus remains on Android apps that are functionally-rich and call for superior UX. As for the latter, we’re currently concentrating … Read more

Datahug Fulfills Our Dream For Network Glue

When we’d daydreamed about “network glue” here last year, Datahug is exactly what we had in mind! By placing a Datahug ad on top of this post, Google AdSense agrees with us!! We can now save ourselves the trouble of building such an app and start focusing on using Datahug instead!!! Now that we’re done conveying … Read more

Which Is Best For Business Card QR Codes – MeCard Or VCF?

We love business cards with QR codes. One scan with a smartphone, and the contact is immediately added to the phonebook. No need to enter data manually. No fiddling around with scanners and OCR software. We found this functionality so useful that we made it a basic feature of QR360, one of our digital marketing solutions. … Read more

Launching GTM360 Digital Marketing Solutions

Diwali Greetings from GTM360 Marketing Solutions! When we started GTM360 Marketing Solutions over three years ago, our primary focus was to provide go to market services for the IT and high-tech industry. Along the way, we started deploying modern inbound marketing solutions where applicable in our core target market. In parallel, we developed a range of … Read more

Bridging Social Media With Traditional Customer Service Channels

We left no doubt here and here that we’re big fans of airlines, banks, insurers, telecom operators and other industries that provide customer service over social networks. In the weeks following these two posts, we were introduced to a bunch of cloud-based tools that monitor tweets and other social media updates, identify customer complaints by analyzing their … Read more

Don’t Blame Google For Everything

Apart from using its search engine regularly and being a customer of Google AdWords and a couple of its products, I’ve no personal or professional interest in Google. However, as a technology professional, I feel compelled to point out that the recent Economic Times article titled Is It Time to Sign Off is full of inaccuracies, and … Read more

The Clear & Present Danger With Contactless & NFC Payments

Technophobes and security pundits have been warning for a long time that it’s possible for a passerby with an RFID reader – and malafide intent – to skim debit / credit card details off of contactless cards and NFC smartphones even when they’re tucked away inside their owners’ wallets, pockets or hand bags. I had … Read more