Has The Indian IT Industry Missed The FORTUNE 500 Bus?

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL (Netherlands) and MANPOWER (USA) respectively bring up the front and rear of the latest Fortune GLOBAL 500 list published in July 2012. RANK* COMPANY REVENUES (US$ Billion) PROFITS (US$ Billion) 1 ROYAL DUTCH SHELL 484.49 30.91 500 MANPOWER 22.00 0.25 With growth rates of the Indian IT industry cooling down in the … 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

When Does Marketing End & Sales Start?

The typical sales funnel starts from Target Audience and goes through various stages like Suspect, Lead, Qualified Lead, Opportunity until it ends with the Deal. It’s jointly owned by Marketing (which includes product management, business development, marketing communications) and Sales (which is comprised of presales and field sales functions). Since times immemorial, there has been a … 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

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

Why Overcoming The Tyranny Of Excel Is A Bad GTM Theme

Time and again, we come across companies who position their software around the GTM theme of “overcoming the tyranny of Excel”. Recent examples include developers of a business activity monitoring (BAM) platform and a mobile secondary sales application. It is true that Excel-intensive environments are generally fraught with indiscipline and duplication of efforts. Therefore, the … Read more

Use Marketable Items To Provide Targeted Solutions

At the NASSCOM Leadership Summit currently underway in Mumbai, India, the CIO of a leading American company advises Indian IT companies to “come up with targeted solutions for clients’ problems rather than putting a whole lot of effort into a generic sales approach”. Marketable Items created by GTM360 help IT product and services companies to do exactly that. … Read more

Why Pay For Content When You Can Get It For Free?

As I’d pointed out in this blog post a couple of years ago, just because micropayments support convenient ways to pay for digital content doesn’t necessarily mean that people will pay for it. People will pay for content only if they can’t get it for free easily and when they find enough value in it worth paying … Read more