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It might seem ironical that the IT industry, the torchbearer of digital transformation, uses reseller networks in today’s digital world instead of selling to its customers directly. As we saw in Are Resellers Required In Today’s Digital Age?, the basic tension in the direct-versus-reseller debate can be expressed as follows: Why can’t customers be allowed … Read more
You read about a product on Twitter or Product Hunt. You click through and visit the product’s website. You watch a 2-minute explainer video. You like what you see. You sign up for it. See something – like something – want something – buy something. That’s how people shop. – Martech When I started out … Read more
Limitation in field length of payment messages causes endless number of problems in electronic payments. Let me give a few examples: I was unable to fit the payee name MCS MERIDIAN CLIENT ACCOUNT HOUSE RENT 98 MERIDIAN PLACE JUN 2008 in the payee field of my bank’s payment screen. My bank told me to change … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: eBill Vendor Increases Upsells And Improves Win-Rates “QRcomaniacs” reinforce vendor’s thought leadership positioning Our customer is a leading provider of eBilling and eStatment solutions to telecom, banking, insurance, utilities and other industries. Apart from the basic details of consumer, amount and deadline, eBills generated by the software carried instructions on … Read more
(This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the above Quora question.) Legalese is the least of your problems when it comes to sales incentive policy. The crux of the issue is to crack the incentive structure. From personal experience, that’s a non trivial problem. Sales incentive policies always begin with good … Read more
AWS Snowmobile is an 18-wheel truck that physically transports Exabyte-scale data from customers’ premises to AWS Regions in a 45 feet container. For the uninitiated: 1 Exabyte = 1000 Petabyte = 1,000,000 Terabytes = 1,000,000,000 Gigabytes. AWS Regions are separate geographic areas that Amazon uses to house its AWS infrastructure. These are distributed around the … Read more
This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following Quora question: In coming up with plans with 28 days’ validity, I’m guessing TELCOs have been inspired by one of the 29 Psychological Tricks To Make You Buy More that leverage inherent biases exhibited by consumers. According to this Visual Capitalist article, … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: SAAS Vendor Minimizes Churn And Maximizes Revenue New Onboarding Wizard Eliminates Cognitive Dissonance And Enhances Usage This SAAS vendor faced abnormal churn in the weeks following new customer acquisition and reached out to us for assistance. Our analysis nailed the vendor’s use of Excel as the root cause of the … Read more
A Porsche costs $120,000 in USA, which is twice the nation’s Per Capita Income of $60,000. For $3,400, which is 2X of India’s Per Capita Income of $1,700, you won’t even get a Maruti 800. The same model of Porsche would cost ₹1.25 crores ($156K) in India, which is 92X the Per Capita Income of … Read more
Let’s see the pitch of a few B2B technology products: ERP prevents stock-outs by triggering stock transfers from one store to another, thereby driving greater revenues. WMS drives greater inventory turns, and thus reduces working capital costs. CEM increases visibility of gifts across the distribution channel, thereby delivering more bang for the trade promotion buck. … Read more