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Consumers who live on the go, who travel often, who want to cut through the clutter, who believe less is more, will no doubt snap up these laundry and soap leaves.

The SACHET MARKETING craze continues: make way for Soap Leafz, which consist of sheets of pure soap (available in 6 swanky colors and 4 ...

28.10.05 07:31 AM - Comment(s)

Custcomm_1

Jim Berkowitz writes:

Forrester Research, in Cambridge, Mass., has identified the principal challenge facing companies pursuing CRM initiatives to be the sourcing of marketing, analytic and technical skills. In fact, based on a survey of companies, 45 percent of marketing executives identified a ...

27.10.05 10:35 PM - Comment(s)

Custconverse

What if you had lovely tool to track if your brands are having a buzz amongst customers on the web? Some of the questions that marketers might want to know:

  •    Is my brand being talked about?
  •    How is my brand doing vis-a-vis my nearest competitor? etc.

I believe it can be a key me...

27.10.05 11:05 AM - Comment(s)

A recent initiatve by McDonalds invited French customers to vote and call the shots on which limited edition classic burger would be launched – McTimber, McSummer and McFarmer were the winners – 40,000 online votes were cast.

A similar empowerment vote was run with shoppers and tenants of the Bordeau...

26.10.05 06:17 PM - Comment(s)

Iptv

Infoworld has an interesting article on how IPTV will impact TV viewing experience:

..."Integration will change everything for our consumers,"

Possible cross-platform services could include the following, she said:

- a family could view a library of all its digital photos on PCs, TVs and mobi...

26.10.05 05:56 PM - Comment(s)

Advocacy

Peppers & Rogers write:

Forrester Research recently published reports detailing the need for customer advocacy. It lists four components of customer advocacy: transparency, simplicity, benevolence, and trustworthiness.

...now the strategy of customer advocacy, specifically making the business mor...

25.10.05 04:10 PM - Comment(s)

Broadband

The Hindu writes:

"....only about 600,000 subscribers among over 5 million Internet users have opted for broadband.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which envisaged a liberal policy framework for broadband, has rightly called for concerted efforts by service providers to achieve...

24.10.05 09:23 PM - Comment(s)

It is a well-known fact that Indian PSUs (Government owned companies) are sleeping giants. When they wake-up the private sector better watch out. The recent State Bank of India campaign is taking the Indian Private banks head-on.

Now, it is LIC's turn:

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is all...

24.10.05 08:12 PM - Comment(s)

Customerdata

Peppers & Rogers Group  writes:

Just over 89 percent of the 348 U.S. executives interviewed say their volume of data has increased over the past five years, and 50 percent report that their data is doubling every year. Many say they're applying additional technologies to automate data, expan...

23.10.05 10:18 AM - Comment(s)

I had written a few weeks back that I did not quite agree with "paid WOM" ( well almost paid WOM) and building a buzz for brands. It will always work as a short-term tactic rather than a strategic fit for brands.

Here's some news on this front:

Procter & Gamble’s Tremor unit – a company ...

22.10.05 02:51 PM - Comment(s)

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