Year: 2018

Why couldn’t Tapzo – Indian app-of-apps survive?

Tapzo – the Indian app-of-all-apps announced that they are closing down. Partha B., my Linkedin buddy had this question: why are Chinese Taibaos/ WeChats surviving but Indian apps not. I’m reproducing my answer for those who missed it. Three reasons: India is India – not China 5 years back or USA X years ago. Most Indian…
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CEOs Get Social Selling Event

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Sales Planning: how should a Salesperson welcome the financial new year?

Welcome to the first day of the financial year! For may Indian companies & companies across other countries in the world, the financial new year begins on 1st April 2018. For a salesperson it means recovering from the hard-driving ‘close at all cost’ stressful days of the last few weeks. Sales planning is key. Here’s…
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Smarketing zindabad – Sales & Marketing flow into each other!

Time to obliterate the artificial differences between Sales & Marketing? They are the Korean ‘yin & yang’ – whose forms may be different – but the objective is the same. Both the functions are about thinking & executing on bringing profits & revenues for the company. ‘ Smarketing‘ is a way to integrate sales & marketing…
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Can BigBasket continue winning the profitability race?

Yesterday as I was purchasing groceries from a vending machine, old thoughts of the dot-com bust came flooding back.  As one of the earliest e-commerce analysts in the world – working for Gartner, I have been observing this sector since 2000. I am bearish of the sector as I come from ‘show-me the positive cash-flow…
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