Making QR Codes Work

Over the past 18 months or so, we’ve written several blog posts (here, here and here) about the whats, the whys and the why nots of QR codes. We’ve subsequently seen a steady stream of QR codes used in print ads by banks, insurers, real estate developers, retailers and others. There’s no doubt that this technology has entered the … Read more

To Pinterest Or Not To Pinterest?

With all the recent buzz around Pinterest, our inboxes have been flooded with several white papers and blog posts on the relevance of the latest social media network for B2B. After a quick glance at its website, we realized that it was easier to simply jump aboard Pinterest than to keep mulling over whether to … Read more

Customers Of The World Unite, You Have Nothing To Lose But The Call Center Hold Music

Around the end of 2009, my HP OfficeJet printer broke down. I logged a call with the local office of Hewlett Packard’s service partner. I got no response for three days. I gave up with the vendor’s local office and decided to escalate my complaint to its head office. Thankfully, the company’s Vice President for … Read more

Whither Cross Selling & Upselling With eBills & eStatements?

For a long time, I’ve been hearing about how electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) solutions enable billers to do more cross-selling and upselling. For the uninitiated, EBPP, among other things, generates paperless versions of bills and statements and publishes them on portals or emails them as PDF attachments, or both; the term “billers” collectively … Read more

Pushing The Envelope On Technology – Part 2

In Part 1 of this blog post, I had lauded ICICI Bank for pushing the envelope on adopting cutting edge banking technologies by launching a Facebook App and Online Account Opening offering. In this Part 2, let me share the results of my personal experience with these initiatives and voice a few concerns around their … Read more

Say Goodbye To Leakages & Delays In Handling Leads

Good news for banks, e-commerce, insurers, IT, universities and other organizations who generate a large volume of leads from their website. The new “Rocket Routing” feature of our EMAIL360 website leadgen application automatically routes leads for different products and services to different people in these companies – and, that too, in realtime. With EMAIL360, sales and … Read more

Pushing The Envelope On Technology – Part 1

Banks have the opportunity to cut costs and enhance customer experience by adopting mobile, social media and other cutting edge technologies. However, most of them drag their feet on being innovative, often citing security concerns, regulatory constraints, and so on. For example, statutory KYC requirements precluding 100% online and automated account opening by forcing banks … Read more