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I was reading an interesting article by Umair Haque on the threat of open customer rebellion and how industrial age businesses are completely unprepared to change the ways they  engage, treat and manage customers.He writes:

"Yesterday's massive, sprawling organizations could pacify "co...

05.04.11 07:28 PM - Comment(s)

With Social Web taking shape over the last couple of years( over 500 million customers are socially networked) and showing signs of aggressive growth, customer profiles are increasingly getting accessible and I see more and more misuse of the same.

The recent one that I have experienced is in Linked-...

23.01.11 03:50 PM - Comment(s)

The world of direct marketing is undergoing a sea change where there is a marriage of new digital marketing tools & methods to the old world direct marketing principles & vehicles.

In fact, almost a decade back, I had coined a term "Hybrid marketing" as the future of marketing - the...

07.11.10 03:24 PM - Comment(s)

In the recent past, i had written saying that we will move in the near future from "search" engines to "do" engines. Looks like Eric Schimdt recently has been talking about serendipity engines as the future. 

Forrester writes about this.

As you look into the future, the distin...

23.10.10 10:30 PM - Comment(s)

I was recently reading an interesting view on  the need for an online data portability policy & the do's and don't for companies and marketeers to publish such a policy. This kind of a policy, I believe, is becoming very important as we leave a lot of personal informatio...

10.10.10 08:48 PM - Comment(s)

NY Times carried an article last week about the new kinds of banking services that are emerging in the post recession era! Some of the new names that they mention are SmartyPig, Kasasa, PerkStreet etc.

The concept is pretty simple these are simple online checking or savings accounts with an objective...

05.07.10 01:51 PM - Comment(s)

Joseph Jaffe makes some incredible points in his new book Flip The Funnel.

Most industries really forget existing customers in their strive to grow market share through new acquisitions. For example, the auto industry is no exception. He makes some fantastic points on how Automotive industry must fo...

27.06.10 11:09 PM - Comment(s)

I had blogged sometime back about Dripvertising in 2007 and recently it was interesting to read an article on Drip Marketing Campaigns by Peppers & Rogers. They shared many of the views that I had shared in that post. I certainly believe the future of marketing is doing more and more of drip mar...

12.06.10 10:45 PM - Comment(s)

I am bombarded in a day with hundreds of emails and SMSs- many of them are promotional emails and SMSs. I simply ignore them.

I sit in front of the TV to watch my favorite program and I see a ticker running with messages.Just fails to grab my attention.

I am out to watch a movie and suddenly I realiz...

21.04.10 06:13 PM - Comment(s)

CMO council has come-up with an interesting report that many marketers have faced as consumers themselves - irrelevant communication!  Many of these marketers talk about it but do nothing about it for their own brands or products. Here are some startling facts to think about:

  • While 64 percent of...
19.11.09 10:11 PM - Comment(s)

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