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“Your Margin Is My Opportunity.” — Jeff Bezos

Growth strategy is often framed too narrowly: sell more of the product, win more customers, gain another point of market share.What is the brand manager asks,come from?”…

Marketing Myopia & Media Research

As India’s traditional audience measurement systems face uncertainty, marketers risk outsourcing their most strategic asset: consumer understanding, Ashoke Agarrwal. …

After the Agency: Is COMS the Future of Marketing Services?

The next disruption could come from transferring responsibility, not just tasks,forming Ashoke Agarrwal calls a  Contract Marketing Services company (COMS).…

From Bazaar Instinct to Machine Intimacy: Consumer Psychographics in the Age of AI

Used responsibly, AI-generated psychographic insight could help marketers create genuinely better products and more relevant communication,…

Why Marketers Are Taking Over Measurement

For decades, media measurement was largely something marketers bought from established currencies, platforms and research suppliers.…

The Tension Is Real

Performance marketing is attractive because outputs are immediate. Brand-building investments are harder to put in a dashboard. HBR describes this well: short-term performance activity can crowd out investments…

Is authenticity more important for a brand than innovation?

We have become products of the media we consume. Media, powered by innovations in technology, has…

Is Generation Z the “Buddha Generation”? Will It Save The World?

A time-honored practice in the crafting of marketing and communication strategy is to analyze target segments…

Searching for Scale: Remote Healthcare Services in India

Unlocking the potential of remote healthcare services in India needs organisations to tap into the unique…

Shifting from “Projective Marketing” To “Focus Marketing” – The Key Marketing Analytics Challenge

A survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business reports that the percentage of US…

Can Account Planners Reclaim Seats at the Strategy High Table?

The traditional creative agency model, with the 30-sec TVC as its fulcrum, is under existential stress.…

From Stealth To Depth: The Coming Shift in Digital Marketing

The Horror! The Horror! For almost a decade now digital marketing has been hurtling towards dominance…

BGO: MR’s PME problem

Why the alphabet soup post title you may ask?   The answer is that I did…

Social Media Listening – How an Indian Infrastructure Major Managed Sentiment Backlash

How does a corporate entity counter negative publicity about a major infrastructure project that’s going viral?…

The Sequel Dilemma: The Challenge That Political Campaigns Face

Let me outset state that this post is not political and is agnostic to the fortunes…

Social Media Listening – What the Football World Cup Meant for Indian Fans

World Cup Finals – it’s the biggest festival on Earth for the beautiful game. We asked…

AI in Personalised Messaging

We’ve all experienced AI in WhatsApp with predictive text in WhatsApp and auto-complete in Google search.…

Brand Narratives in the New Age Internet

Is there an “Old Age Internet”? Yes, that was the internet before social media. Social media…

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