IT Marketing

The asphalt road outside my house was getting concreted last year. When I was walking down on the road one day, I noticed that a narrow gully of around two feet width was left untouched on one side of road. When I saw this, I thought there was a massive goof-up somwhere. In all probability, … Read more

In Use And Misuse Of Personas In Marketing, I’d defended personas from being lampooned by some misguided marketers. That doesn’t mean I believe everything is hunky-dory with personas. There are at least three problems I see in the way personas are created and used in Persona Based Marketing (PBM) campaigns today. A. SOLE FOCUS ON WHO … Read more

The ink on my previous post Indian IT – Turning Crisis Into Opportunity has hardly dried than two Indian IT majors Infosys and Wipro have announced better-than-expected quarterly results. Much as I’d like to attribute their superior performance to the guidance given in my post (!), these IT veterans have been doing all this and more … Read more

Buyer persona is the bedrock of targeted marketing. HubSpot provides a succinct definition of the term: A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customer based on market research and real data about your existing customers. Data includes not just demographics but behavior, emotions, wants, aspirations and other buyer attributes. A sample persona … Read more

At the end of my blog post entitled Indian IT – Crisis Or No Crisis?, I reflected on the zeitgeist about the looming crisis faced by the Indian IT industry due to growing automation, digital challenges, H1B restrictions and Trumpism-driven Middle America outsourcing. Even if these challenges are real, there’s no need to panic. The industry … Read more

As the title of our website’s WHAT WE DO page proclaims, GTM360 helps growth-stage companies in technology-intensive industries to “cross the chasm” and break into the mainstream market. In a recent MEDIUM article titled 25 Years Later, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ Has Withstood the Test of Time, author Tiffani Bova has a fireside chat with Geoffrey Moore, … Read more

Wipro lays off 600 employees due to poor performance. Cognizant fires 6000 employees consequent to its annual appraisal. So on and so forth. The media is full of bad news about the Indian IT Industry. Notwithstanding that, rumors of existential crisis for the industry are grossly exagerrated. Whether you use a bell curve or a … Read more

“Can you give us an RFP template to share with our client?”, asked one of our customers recently. “We can Google it but you can save us the trouble if you have something readymade”. Good they didn’t use Google. There’s lot more to sharing an RFP template than finding, downloading and handing over a standard … Read more