Marketing Strategy – Session III

Christmas day was not a holiday. The third session of two lectures at ITM, Mumbai on Marketing Strategy was on Sunday, 25-December-2011. Topics included Pricing Strategies, Promotion Strategies  and Marketing Warfare. Thanks to SlideShare, the PPT is available for view / download. Thanks to all the researchers, this presentation was possible. Please share your comments [...]

Samiksha – Panel Discussion at NITIE

It was a pleasant surprise to receive an invitation from National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Powai. The invite was for a panel discussion on the topic ‘Advertising – Is it all about creativity or strategy?’
Classic conundrum! But fun topic.
The panelists were:

Mr. Ravi Banka – CMD – Eggfirst Advertising and Design Pvt Ltd
Mr. Raghu Bhat [...]

Krishna’s Lessons on Brand Management – Afaqs!

Afaqs! – The leading portal for Advertising, Branding & Marketing folks has been kind and published an article that I had written about Brand Management lessons one can get to learn from Lord Krishna. The article can be found here. Do check and give your comments.
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Brand You, Brand Me

Brand Building is neither a science nor an art. I believe the answers lies somewhere in between. Anyone with a bit of knowledge on Marketing would understand a Brand Life Cycle. In the initial days of the brand, it is important for the brand owner to put in a lot of effort, time and resources [...]

Dwaitham and Brand Management

Hinduism – which I believe is a way of life and not a religion – has two very strong concepts. Dwaitham and Adwaitham. To simplify, Adwaitham is the higher goal where one is able to experience God formlessly. Which means that at very high levels of devotion, meditation or any equivalent path, God’s form wouldn’t [...]

Yin And Yang

Fortunately for me, Advertising & Brand Building as a subject during my Management Education was taught by a practicing professional rather than an academician. Else, it would have been possible that my view of ‘brand’ and ‘branding’ would probably be the same as many others in this business.
I learnt that the western world views brands [...]

Pulse of the market

I am taking reference to the Tamil Nadu Market for this post. Although I am not sure how many readers of this blog belong to this part of the world. But I believe there is a fundamental lesson waiting to be learnt from some very astute marketers.
For many, these guys might look like the morons [...]

Marketing Movies

Going back to T Nagar!
I used to live in a place called Mambalam Road, which was once an integral part of a thriving industry. Film Hoardings.
There used to be two large players in this market with the largest being J P Krishna. Almost every single hoarding in the state for all large banners Tamil Film [...]

Social Movements as brands

Building a social movement brand is an awesome experience as well a tiring one. Many such brands have been able to garner unconditional support in the recent past and some have even been able to get a lot of money pledged for the cause. Many times it depends on who is the man (or woman) [...]

Brand India – 63 years old – a review

To begin with wish you all a very Happy Independence Day.
Many entities which have started much after the independence of the country have made it big and have gone international. But from a brand perspective, I just wanted to review where India Stands.
It has been a roller coaster ride for the country and the last [...]