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They said cash is costly. It didn’t work with merchants. They launched one mobile wallet after the other to drive cashless behavior. It didn’t work with consumers. They scared people away from currency notes, claiming they contain all kinds of germs, bacteria and viruses. It didn’t work with anyone. Today: 85% of world’s transactions happen … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: IT Company Creates Product From Services Product management delivers manifold value from IP assets During the course of 10+ years of its existence, this IT company had created a midsized services business. While executing engagements in a few select domains, the company had gathered massive expertise and built proprietary frameworks … Read more
Content marketers rarely find the space to squeeze in full size versions of images in the body of their content. Therefore, it’s customary for them to include a smaller size of the image within their (online) whitepapers, blog posts and other marketing collateral and leave it to readers to click the images to view them … Read more
In his blog post titled The Power of Location-Based Offers in Financial Services, Jim Marous, Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand, highlights how banks can leverage the proliferation of smartphones to make location based offers (LBOs) for cross-selling of banking and other third-party products at their branches. Let’s say a bank implements LBOs and an existing … Read more
In this post “ALL B2B SALES LEADS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL”, author Garrett Hollander references a BtoB Magazine study according to which only 23% of sales professionals say marketers deliver sales-ready leads. When I read this, it struck me that “sales-readiness” is fast becoming an outdated concept. In today’s world of Buyer 2.0, the prospect … Read more
I drafted this blog post four years ago after reading this article in Economic Times. Not wanting to sound alarmist, I decided to can it. I revisited the post many times since then and I stuck to my decision each time. Until I read this question on Quora a couple of days ago: Is there a … Read more
Buyer power in online marketplaces is obvious. Choice of platforms, sales returns, seller rating and venting on social media are among the many ways in which buyer is king in online marketplaces. Platform power is also fairly obvious: Blacklisting errant sellers and withholding payments to them are some of the tools available to the platform to flex its … Read more
Yes, you read that right. This post is really about how brands can boost engagement with their consumers by using error messages. Normally, error messages are bland: Record not found Your search yielded no results Page not found. You can’t blame the programmers who typically write them because, sometimes, you can’t do better. As @nicksantos points … Read more
A few months ago, I’d posted the following update on social media: Privacy does not equal Security: Privacy is refusing to give out your mobile #. Security is refusing to give out your debit card PIN #. To which a friend had replied, “You made it so simple!!” Then I thought of bank account numbers … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: IT Services Company Boosts Qualified Lead Generation Campaign management best practices improve Inside Sales effectiveness This midsized IT services company has an inside sales team with 20+ SDRs that run outbound marketing campaigns to midsized businesses in USA, Europe and Australia. The company owed its initial growth to aggressive outreach … Read more