The End Of Google Search Is Not Nigh

I go directly to the websites of my favorite brands whenever I shop online e.g. Amazon for products, Cleartrip for flight tickets and hotels, Housing for real estate, Play Store for mobile apps, Product Hunt for software and websites, StockImages for images, and so on. I can’t remember the last time I went to Google to … Read more

What Happens To KYC Documents After We Submit Them To Banks?

A banker quit his job and started a new company. He applied for a debit card for his company. Ram, as we’ll call the ex-banker, completed the required forms, submitted his company’s board resolution for the debit card and handed over copies of his company’s incorporation certificate, articles of association, and all the other documents … Read more

How To Create A Bestseller Without Marketing

Short Answer: You can’t. Long Answer: As an external marketing solutions provider, we stand to gain when companies outsource their marketing. We’re also okay if they do their marketing inhouse. But what gets my goat is to misunderstand marketing and claim that it’s not necessary for a product’s success. Or, worse, use some of the … Read more

A Good Doctor Is A Great Salesman

Ram and Shyam are twins. As they reach their mid-forties, they develop a knee pain. They go to the same orthopaedist, who does an X-Ray and diagnoses both with Osteoarthritis. According to WebMD, The simplest way to describe osteoarthritis is that it’s wear and tear on the cartilage of your joints. This cushioning tissue is … Read more

PayTM Decimates Trust With A Single #FeatureOrBug

As we saw in Feature Or Bug – Facebook & Tideplus, #FeatureOrBug refers to a feature that masquerades as a bug. To recap: As brands increasingly adopt personalization in their communications, what you see is not what I see. Then there are other types of differences like: What you see on desktop is not what you see on … Read more

Flight Delay Insurance – Why Blockchain?

I covered two Blockchain flight delay insurance products in AXA Fizzy – The New Kid On The Blockchain and Atlas Etherisc – Another New Kid On The Blockchain. In this post, I’ll address the “Why Blockchain?” question. Here’s a quick recap of the background to this question from the first of the above two posts: … Read more

Feature Or Bug – Housing, LinkedIn, Starbucks, Et Al

In Feature Or Bug – Facebook & Tideplus, we saw two cases of #FeatureOrBug, one of which was favorable to the consumer, and the other, neutral. I’ve subsequently come across many more favorable / neutral cases of #FeatureOrBug. I thought I’ll cover them before fulfilling the promise I made at the end of the last post to … Read more

Atlas Etherisc – Another New Kid On The Blockchain

At the end of my blog post entitled AXA Fizzy – The New Kid On The Blockchain, I’d promised to answer the “Why Blockchain?” question in a follow-on post. I’m not fulfilling that promise yet. Frequent readers of this blog would be aware that it’s light on research and heavy on personal experience and anecdotal evidence. … Read more