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Those of you that have read the all time classic business book In Search of Excellence might recall the anecdote of the automobile company that rushes a part by helicopter to a customer whose car has broken down in the middle of a desolate highway. Needless to say, the company wins the customer’s loyalty for … Read more
Retargeted Ad is one of those things on which my take as a consumer is diametrically opposed to that as a marketer. As a consumer, I hate them. As a marketer, I love them. For the uninitiated – or, in this case, the unchased – retargeted ads are the banner ads that follow you around … Read more
Traditional retailers aka kirana stores sell almost everything at MRP* whereas modern retail aka supermarkets sell almost everything below MRP (for the unintiated, this and other India-specific terms are explained at end of the post). Since Indians are price-sensitive, modern retail should totally corner the Indian retail market, right? Wrong! Modern retail accounts for barely … Read more
Ever since I pointed out the yawning gaps in its disloyalty – er loyalty – program in Mast Kalandar Shows How Not To Run A Loyalty Program, Mast Kalandar has thoroughly revamped the way in which the program operates. Diners no longer need to struggle with their plastic cards in front of flaky card readers … Read more
In Retail Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree Against Ecommerce, I’d listed three reasons why I’ve increasingly turned to ecommerce for my shopping needs. As you might recall, none of them was related to price. In the recent past, there were two more reasons why I went online. Money Back Guarantee I recently bought a car charger … Read more
Facebook and Reliance Communications (Top 3 MNO in India) partnered this past February to provide free access to Facebook and a bunch of other websites to Reliance customers via the Internet.org initiative. Yesterday, Uninor, the Indian subsidiary of the Norwegian telecom giant Telenor Group, announced free Wikipedia access to its mobile subscribers. Personally, I thought … Read more
Those of us who redeem our loyalty points on gift portals will have inevitably come across a gift or two that was appealing to us but was beyond our reward points balance. On some gift portals, it’s possible to pick up the goodies by simply paying up the difference with cash e.g. Lufthansa WorldShop, IHG, … Read more
I’ve been buying stuff online since circa 1998 but a few recent events have taken the edge off my enthusiasm for ecommerce: Driven by VCs braying for profits, many Indian ecommerce players have moved from the traditional inventory model to the asset-light marketplace alternative. Thanks to my exposure to this model via eBay India several years ago, … Read more
Welcome to the first blog post of 2015! The Top 10 posts of 2014 were: #10: Big Pharma Turns To CEM For Cure #9: Did Google Acquire FeedBurner Minus The CAPTCHA? #8: How To Make Co-Creation Work? #7: Retail Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree Against Ecommerce #6: Does CX Really Drive Sales? #5: How To Lie With Big Data #4: Frictionless … Read more
Although I had my first taste of ecommerce as far back as 1998, over the years I’ve preferred to shop at brick-and-mortar stores – at least in India – because the offline channel shields me from the intrinsic delivery risk of the marketplace model and saves me the friction of transacting online with credit cards. … Read more