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In the traditional Onprem software paradigm, a Customer pays the full License Fee of the software upfront and gets the rights to use the software in perpetuity. If he wants maintenance and updates, he additionally pays AMC every year, which is typically 18-22% of the LF. Upgrades are charged separately, as and when they’re released. … Read more
I don’t recall the last time I looked forward to the release of the Fortune Global 500 issue as eagerly as I did this year. (For the first time ever, I set up a Google Alert for the keyword “Fortune Global 500”. It worked, although I’d to filter out a lot of noise in the … Read more
If you sell to a business, you’re B2B. If you sell to a consumer, you’re B2C. That much is clear. According to the popular narrative, if you sell to a business, which sells to a consumer, you’re B2B2C. That’s not correct. The true B2B2C is when Your company sells a product / service to a … Read more
Somebody was recently perplexed on LinkedIn about the kind of marketing adopted by a leading used cars portal: Cold Calling was earlier done by telecallers. Now it’s done via pre-recorded messages. Lately, there has been a bombardment of such robocalls from this company. I’m not able to understand the strategy here. Not everyone is selling … Read more
Oyez Oyez Oyez. My book WordPress Migration For Normies is published! This book chronicles the journey of upgrading this blog, as previewed in Welcome To The New GTM360 Blog. This book is written by a non-geek and is targeted at non-geeks running their own blogs. It’s a one-stop guide for crazy busy people without technical … Read more
It’s no secret that QA is considered second-class citizen in the Indian IT industry. As the OP of this LinkedIn Post says: I interact with a very large array of decision-makers on a daily basis. I am surprised to see many stakeholders not aware of the importance of the role of QA and the need … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: Leading Universal Bank Cuts Compliance Cost CRO Multiplies Conversion Of Website Visitors To Aadhaar Seeders To comply with the government’s “Aadhaar Seeding” regulation, this leading universal bank in India needed to seed bank accounts with customers’ Aadhaar details. In this pursuit, the bank executed an omnichannel campaign targeted at its … Read more
As a sales rep in the era of Buyer 2.0, you need to make your customer eat out of your hands in order to succeed in the high value B2B technology business. For the uninitiated, the phrase “eat out of hands” means To be completely accepting of whatever one says. In the aftermath of the … Read more
Bank accounts are not heavily branded, barring IndusInd Bank and a few more exceptions. The fifth largest private sector bank in India tries to create a strong brand for its bank account on the back of differentiators like return of canceled cheque. (For the uninitiated, banks return canceled cheques to customers by default in USA … Read more
Colgate-Palmolive is currently running a Customer Engagement Management program for its premium toothpaste brand TOTAL. Like all CEM programs, this one also mandates product purchase. The price of the product is INR 102 (US$ 1.25) and the reward for purchase is a cashback of INR 50 (US$ 0.67) credited directly to the consumer’s PayTM eWallet. … Read more