Season’s Greetings!

Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2016. Welcome back to the GTM360 Blog! In this first post of 2016, we list the Top 10 posts of 2015: #10. Why Customers May Flee Abroad Sooner Than Tech Startups! #9: Every Pageview Is A Conversion Opportunity #8: Core Engineering Covets Top IIT Talent But … Read more

US Midwest Infrastructure Solutions Provider Bolsters Roadshow Participation

We close the year with our latest success story: US Midwest Infrastructure Solutions Provider Bolsters Roadshow Participation SAP Customer List delivers right target audience on a platter Headquartered in the US Midwest, NETECH CORP provides networking infrastructure solutions that help SAP users save money and increase productivity. The company was planning to conduct a roadshow … Read more

Crack Multicountry SEM Campaigns With This Hack

Many midsized IT companies sell in multiple geographies (e.g. USA, UK, Germany) but have their marketing organization centralized in their home country (e.g. India). When they run search engine marketing campaigns, they’d want their ads to only show up in their target markets (that lie outside their home country). This means their corporate marketing would … Read more

Winners Incite Action. Losers Wait For Actionable Insight

As a technology marketer, I constantly preach that technology must solve a business problem for it to enter the mainstream. I also believe that it’s the technology provider’s job to explicitly convey how their product or service alleviates pain areas. In the context of analytics, this would mean that analytics is useful as long as … Read more

Indian IT Industry Shouldn’t Drink The “Move Up The Value Chain” Kool-Aid

Every now and then, the Indian IT industry has been exhorted to “move up the value chain” (read develop products) or face extinction. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard the value chain Kool-Aid in my two decade career in software but the latest one was in the LinkedIn article entitled The Kirana … Read more

Industry Veteran Generates Buzz For New ERP Services Company In USA

Here’s our latest success story: Industry Veteran Generates Buzz For New ERP Services Company In USA SAP Customer List delivers readymade audience This veteran from the Enterprise Application space launched a new ERP services company. To spread awareness of the company’s offerings, he proposed to conduct an outreach campaign targeted at existing SAP customers in … Read more

Core Engineering Covets Top IIT Talent But Does Top IIT Talent Covet Core Engineering?

According to Economic Times, IIT Bombay has acceeded to the government’s request to open up first day of placement season to core engineering industries. This is despite the fact that these industries offer only “half of the average Rs 30 lakh (~US$ 46K) salary” benchmark set by traditional Day 1 prima-donnas like investment banking, ecommerce, … Read more

Making The Case For A Passport With Lifetime Validity

When I’d visited the local Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) to renew my passport around a year ago, I was delighted with the experience: The staff was courteous. By having a photocopier on premise for last-minute copies through to a well appointed waiting area and a modern display system, the PSK fulfilled its vision statement, adjective … Read more

Three Ways To Hide Your Secret Sauce

They say every product or service must have a secret sauce. Some startups take the secrecy part of this advice to the extreme by going into stealth mode until they launch. Some others point to today’s open world of startup events, mentoring sessions, Twitter and TED talks and question if it’s even possible to keep … Read more