Mobility

How CX Drives Sales

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In this day and age of Amazons and Flipkarts, it shouldn’t take much for a business to appreciate the importance of customer experience. Nevertheless, when we recommend certain features to improve the UX / CX of our customers’ products or platforms, we often receive pushback ranging from “when a customer takes a little more trouble … Read more

Big Pharma Turns To CEM For Cure

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Medical representatives sell prescription drugs by detailing doctors and canvassing drugstores. They do not contact patients who actually consume the medicines. This makes sense because, in the pharma industry, patients don’t play an active role in deciding what to buy. As we know, the way it works in this business, the physician writes the prescription … Read more

When Should Mobile Apps Ask Their Users To Register?

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Just like some people will never pay for a mobile app – or any digital content for that matter – I’ll never use a mobile app that forces me to register before I’ve had a chance to try it out. Of course, this rule doesn’t apply to mobile banking, Twitter, HootSuite, and other mobile apps … Read more

Right And Wrong Ways Of Using Case Studies

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All business development teams understand the importance of case studies in B2B technology sales. But, when it comes to producing and using them, we’ve come across two diametrically opposite approaches followed in many IT companies: Kool-Aid: Use case studies for everything Phobia: Shun case studies altogether  Case Study Kool-Aid Vendors in the first category launch into … Read more

Five Ways To Win Lost SaaS Customers Back

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Many of us have signed up for free software trials and not upgraded to the paid version when the trial period ended. Some of us might have bought a subscription for the paid version, used it for a few months, and then bailed out. In all these cases, we become the SaaS vendor’s “lost customers”. … Read more

How To Fulfill Targeted Offers To Hear More Ka-Chings!

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All of us receive spammy offers from banks, consumer brands, ecommerce websites, retailers and many other businesses. If you’re like me, you probably delete these SMS / email messages without even opening them. Once in a while, we get a discount coupon on our birthday or wedding anniversary. They are more targeted but we still … Read more

Apple Pay Puts Banks Squarely At The Center Of Mobile Payments

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Like many, I’ve long held that nothing is broken with plastic cards for instore payments and made the case for mobile wallets to stick to gift, loyalty, ID and other forms of non-payment cards (see Mobile Wallets Should Fix What’s Broken – And It Ain’t Payments). Until I read this line about Apple Pay: “Every … Read more

Walking The Tightrope Between Driving Repeat Purchase And Rewarding Loyalty

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I recently received an offer for INR 100 discount on my next trip on Meru Cabs, India’s leading cab dispatch company. To redeem this offer, I’d need to enter a certain code when I used the company’s mobile app to book my next ride. My first reaction to this offer was, “How the heck am … Read more

Will Publishers Survive The Mobile Onslaught?

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Looks like mobile has started impoverishing publishers, too, since I wrote Will Mobile Impoverish Bloggers? two years ago. Smartphones and tablets are causing trouble for publishers for more reasons than one:   Their smaller displays support fewer ads  People have a lower propensity to click ads on mobile (unless they’re like the nicely obfuscated Google Ads but … Read more