Marketing Concept | Grassroots Marketing
Grassroots Marketing is purposefully targeting a high niche group of people to persuade that group to propagate your message then organically. The defining concept behind the marketing of grassroots is one of audience and intent. To succeed, Grassroots marketing depends heavily on social media and virality. Since encouraging people to share a story is an […]
Featured Startup | PhonePe: Enabling Digital Payment Ecosystem
PhonePe, which started in 2015, is a digital wallet platform. It was founded by Mr. Samir Nigam, Mr. Rahul Chari, and Mr. Burzin Engineer. Mr. Rahul and Mr. Sameer launched and worked together at Flyte, a music downloading platform. One of the reasons for the shutdown was the firm’s inability to solve issues regarding payments […]
Case Study | General Mills Flour Recall 2016
General Mills, Inc., is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores. It is often referred to as Big G. It has headquarters in Golden Valley, Minnesota. It sells many of the popular brands like Gold Medal flour, Annie’s Homegrown, Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totino’s, Pillsbury, Old El Paso, […]
Marketing Concept | Crisis Marketing Management
Crisis Management or Reputation Management is a practice to regain and reshape public opinion about the company and organisation. Many organisations like Toyota, Domino’s and many others have faced a brand crisis at some point or other, As a marketing manager, one should be prepared to tackle such a crisis. Many financial institutions like Bank […]
Brand | Etihad Airways – The Making Of Youngest 5-Star Airlines
Etihad was established in 2003, and since that time it has become one of the fastest-growing major international airline companies, thanks in large part to the financial backing of its home government. As per the company’s website (www.etihad.com), in February 2020, the current passenger fleet consists of 96 aircraft (Airbus A320- Family, Airbus A380, Boeing […]
Marketing Concept | Influencer Marketing
In today’s world, where digital marketing has become an essential element in boosting your sales and brand presence, many people complain about seeing too many ads in a day. Around 66% of consumers said they are overwhelmed by too many online marketing messages, and as good as 20% of consumers have stopped using a brand […]
Brand | Vodafone India – The Journey From Hutch To Vodafone To Vi
Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone), founded on 17 July 1984, is a telecommunications company. The organization works in two regional regions: Europe and Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific (AMAP). Its segments are Europe and AMAP. Its segment in Europe comprises regional areas such as Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the rest of Europe. […]
Featured Startup | Medlife – India’s Largest e-Healthcare Provider
Medlife was started in 2014 by Mr. Prashant Singh and Mr. Tushar Kumar. The company started as an online medicine delivery service but later expanded to offer a wide range of services ranging from online doctor consultation to diagnostics services. As Mr. Tushar puts it, the company began its journey after seeing the gap in […]
Brand | Siemens India – The Strategies And The Success Factors
The brand Siemens, as we know it today, started as Siemens and Halske in 1847 as a telegraph construction company. Founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske, it is one of the world’s oldest engineering firms. In 1848, the company constructed the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe. In 1966, the company changed […]
Marketing Concept | Moment marketing
Moment marketing is one of the ways brands use to create viral content using the latest trending news around the world and plugging their Product with it. It’s all about Storytelling, and humans told stories for as long as they could even start speaking. So, the Brand sells well if the story behind it is […]
Marketing Concept | Market Research Process Steps
Market research is an approach of gathering data about the customers, competitors to take the advantage of all the resources and practices available in the market. This helps us in understanding customers’ needs, the latest trends, and understand the present dynamic of the market. Marketers adopt six steps of the research process for market research: […]
Brand | Cognizant – The Successful Run Of IT Giant
Cognizant is an American international IT service provider providing electronic, technical, consulting, and administrative services. It is part of the NASDAQ-100 and CTSH exchanges. Its headquarters were set up in 1994 in Teaneck, United States of America (USA). As the internal Engineering unit of Dun & Bradstreet, it represented external customers in 1996. The initial […]
Case Study | How Parle Agro’s Bailley Broke The Monopoly Of Bisleri
In 1993, Prakash Chauhan’s Parle Agro decided to enter the mineral water market with its brand, Bailley. But there were two clear challenges that Bailley faced. For one, the concept of bottled mineral water was not very well known, with its usages restricted to foreign tourists and jet-setting Indians. On the other, brother Ramesh Chauhan’s […]
Marketing Concept | PESTEL Analysis
Environmental Analysis Environmental factors are those factors outside the control of the firm. This is often analyzed with the help of the PESTEL framework/model. This model analyses the environmental factors that are not in control of the firm but have an impact on the firm. Thus, PESTEL analysis is used to analyse all external factors. […]
Marketing Concept | New Product Planning
The product life cycle is divided into four phases, namely introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Product planning is done based on these steps. Product Initiation: In a product initiation phase, a request comes up for a new product or a modification in the existing product. Various management teams review these requests and study them in […]
Marketing Concept | New Product
The market has been growing exponentially, and thus, new product development becomes an important activity to keep generating more revenue. Therefore, companies have constantly been changing and updating their products. New products are being developed and introduced in the market. This is a complicated step and requires a massive amount of innovation. Reports suggest that […]
Case Study | Mitsubishi Electric – Promoting IoT By The Means Of e-F@ctory
Mitsubishi Electric Company has extended a wide variety of services enterprises, including Electricity and Electrical Systems, Manufacturing Systems for Automation, Information and Communication. The company also has a wide variety of world-class goods and technical facilities in the FA (Factory Automation) and e-F@ctory has been promoted since 2003. The objective is to reduce growth, production, […]
Brand | Blue Dart Logistics- The Success Story And Branding Strategies
Blue Dart, South Asia’s, particularly India’s, premier express air and integrated transportation, distribution, and logistics company, offers secure and reliable delivery of consignments to over 35,000 locations in India. As part of the DPDHL Group (DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding & DHL Supply Chain) and E-commerce solutions, Blue Dart accesses the largest and most comprehensive […]
Case Study | Royal Mail London Program
Overview The Royal Mail London Programme has transformed the capital’s mail processing operation. It has provided a cost-effective operational platform for high-quality customer service, value for money, and room for future business development. With technological advances and increased competition, it was important to provide an operational network in London to support Royal Mail’s commercial strategy, […]
Marketing Concept | P.O.S.T. Method
Social media plays a vital role in inbound marketing and is an important channel to spread your marketing message across your audience. Inbound marketing/content marketing focuses on attracting customers through good content and engagement. The main aim is to convince your customer that you offer more value than your competitors. Social Media is a very […]