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Checklist for Social Growth Tools

Checklist of Social Growth Tools – Free Download

Social Proof is a powerful marketing technique that can build trust, improve your reputation and boost sales. We adapt our behaviour based on what others are doing. We also use the opinions and actions of others to shape ours.
Have a falooda - Happy Teachers and Learners Day

Have a falooda – Happy Teachers and Learners Day

Today you can teach yourself a bunch of stuff without an actual teacher. All it takes is the desire to learn. By opening this...
13 ways to use social proof for growth

13 ways to use social proof for growth

Last Sunday, a friend was wondering which restaurant to try out in Rome and ended up at a hole-in-a-wall place called Bonci. Why? Because Anthony...
8 Ways to Drive Growth Without Discounts

8 Ways to Drive Growth Without Discounts

Last week a founder pre-empted my discussion on user rewards and incentives on an ecommerce app by asking “Why do I need to give...
6 Things Salespeople Want

6 Things Salespeople Want

Social selling is the context to bring Sales & Marketing together for bigger business results. “Selling through social channels is the closest thing to...
A tale of Dunbar, Gore, Whatsapp, Mom and Zomato

A tale of Dunbar, Gore, Whatsapp, Mom and Zomato

We were driving around a forest near the tea country in Southern India. No people. Just monkeys and deer. As we passed a remote village my...
The next big thing is...

The next big thing is…

I was just talking to Nattu Alagappan of Lead Walnut (part of the Paul Writer Impact Network focusing on ABM) on how rare it...
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“Customer Experience (CX) Rocks at VFS”: A First 100 days interview with Belson Coutinho,...

Responses by Mr. Belson Coutinho, Chief Marketing Officer, VFS Global 1.You are in the first 100 days of the job as global CMO for VFS...
Monopoly

What me worry?

Monopoly was an intense and serious game at our home. Winning mattered. Like a lot. So much so that as adults most of the...
Is Rahul Bose Bananas?

Is Rahul Bose Bananas?

My daughter loves the green apples offered – for free – in the fancier hotel gyms. She makes it a point to eat one or two every day from that bowl and often, after a 3 day stay, their bowl is empty. Maybe this is the situation faced by actor Rahul Bose after a work-out at JW Marriott Chandigarh.