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Topic of the week : The Art of Digital Branding Go to Topic

The Art of Digital Branding will be in-depth, informed, and insightful...

Are blogs bad for brands?

Yes

Trends in digital advertising

The term “digital agency” as a catch all for doing everything digital not matter what the discipline will start to lose relevancy. As PR, brand, direct and design agencies all develop digital skills “digital” will just become a specialism within those disciplines. As of now, consumers worldwide spend about 11% of their time on the Internet. There exists an obvious gap which will eventually be bridged as advertisers recognise lower ROI from other mediums where consumers may not really be spendin

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What should be done for supply chain system to satisfy the demand of the customers?

461 referals, 2 ideas, 228 views

	Referred by malladi madhukumar, AGM -MKTG, Andhra Cements Ltd \| 1 year ago
	As you know that the right products at the right place at the right time in the right quantity, which are critical to meet market demands and capture sales, which is very important for retailers. The supply chain management system should take...

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What could be the initiatives that a FMCG company could do to improve Supply chain?

5 referals, 4 ideas, 415 views

	Referred by malladi madhukumar, AGM -MKTG, Andhra Cements Ltd \| 1 year ago
	Optimizing supply chain is very important to improve profits. lets discuss important ways through which big FMCG players adopt to make their products reachable?

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What are the insights that companies looking from consumers to serve them better??

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	Referred by Jayant Vishnu, Art Director/Sr Art Director, Creative \| 1 year ago
	Any brand if it wants to win with the consumer— like, when one buys and when one uses the product or a solution. While as a country we are on the maturity phase on consumer insighting or research with respect to branding, communication and concept...

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How can we balance the India's capital ownership

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	Referred by Manmath Patil, MBA/PGDM student, Mohol College Pune \| 1 year ago

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what are effective strategies for online branding eSuccess?

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	Argument added by Manmath Patil, MBA/PGDM student, Mohol College Pune \| Topic: The Art of Digital Branding \| 1 year ago
	Classify your customer group specify the multiple channel to approach them for short period of time and analyze the results give ranking to every one and continue with the channel which gave maximum rank and accordingly use the logo to communicate...

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How Can Brands Best Get In Front Of Digital Audiences?

536 referals, 2 ideas, 21 views

	Argument added by Jayant Vishnu, Art Director/Sr Art Director, Creative \| Topic: The Art of Digital Branding \| 2 years ago
	You are absolutely right Shiuli, and now Search engines entering TV space it will make all the your SEO strategy all the more sense and also Twitter will play a huge role here....but content and online community will what drive things in future, but...

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Solutions for the Indian Retailers

22 referals, 7 ideas, 402 views

	Idea added by malladi madhukumar, AGM -MKTG, Andhra Cements Ltd \| Topic: Dynamics of Retail Marketing \| 2 years ago
	Especially the II Tier and III Tier stores are samall. The personal rapport with customer will help in bringing back the customer to the stores repeatedly.

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When does a brand become burden?

353 referals, 1 ideas, 6 views

	Referred by Jayant Vishnu, Art Director/Sr Art Director, Creative \| 2 years ago
	Friends.... Brands are meaning-filled names that connect a firm’s products or services with consumers. And it is consumers who, based on their experience with the brand at different touch-points, assign the meaning to the brand. Brand names become...

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How Can Supermarkets Truly Differentiate?

127 referals, 6 ideas, 209 views

	Idea added by santosh kumar, Marketing Manager, AUTOMOBILE \| Topic: Supply Chain Management: Opportunities & Challenges \| 2 years ago
	They can - health hygiene, variety pricing quality, target market segmentation , innovation etc

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How can we tap the highly popential COSMETICS' segment??

7 referals, 3 ideas, 42 views

	Idea added by santosh kumar, Marketing Manager, AUTOMOBILE \| Topic: Fashion Retailing in India \| 2 years ago
	Asians usually tend to look upto westerners for their lifestly,luxury beauty. The same aspirational value can be utilised thru possibly a brand ambassador.

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Social Media Network Pervara Kapadia [http://www.facebook.com/pervarakapadia] Go to Topic

Facebook Has Brought New Developments To Fan / Business Pages

Yes, I Like The New Facebook Fan / Business Page

No, I Do Not Like Facebook Fan / Business Page

As Freelance Person Maintain Your Professional Brand

As a Freelance person you need to have a focus and understand what you are doing. You need to zero down and stand for something. For instance if you are a Freelance Writer you need to focus on what kind of writing you want to specialize in. While you should write on various topics and various formats - you need to concentrate on your specialization. If you are a Writer then demonstrate what is your area of expertise, is it article writing? blogging? and so on. Additionally what industry can you

Role and impact of Loyalty Management Go to Topic

loyalty cards are used for getting customer insight or they are just used as discount tool?

Retailers don't map their customers buying habits

Retailers are mapping and engaging their customers

How To Improve Employee Loyalty ?

Top Rated Answer :

Here are just a few ideas to get your brain going: • Develop an employee emergency fund that will be used to help employees and their families in times of need. Unforeseen circumstances happen, such as a house fire, robbery, or severe illness....

Engagement & Empowerment in Supply-chain / Logistics Go to Topic

Security Guards - Are they empowered real-time and are they utilized properly in the SCM/Logistics scenario

A BIG NO! They are practically used as only a decorative piece

Yes! They have reached the zenith of utilization

What is the meaning of damrage ( Logistics/ Port )

Anil Kumar panda

Any one

Business Development -Retail Go to Topic

I want to know how to go about store coding in a retail shop

Top Rated Answer :

You can use Vb-6 software for store coding. You can download the software from the following link:-http://www.sourcecodeonline.com/list?q=vb_6_software_for_retail_shop_with_source_code_-

How do I contact local retailer

Yes

Economic Growth Go to Topic

micro economics

women empowrment

child empowerment

PM says: Corruption will hit Economic growth


	4 Give more power
	2 Back Fire - People putting penalty on officials
	1 Privatization of authorities and departments

Inidan Retail Trends Go to Topic

Is Indian Retailing moving in the right direction at right pace?

Top Rated Answer :

Indian retail is a huge story along the growing incomes in rural, semi urban and urban pockets. Although the distribution of retail is significantly still in the organized sector, the retail is one of the largest sources of employment for the...

what are the recent trends in the marketing?

internet marketing

mobile marketing

COMMUNICATION Go to Topic

What misconceptions affects retail business?


	2 Convenience is important than price
	1 Pattern Identification
	1 Bigger and Better

How to Communicate Effectively - Guidelines

How to Communicate Effectively To communicate effectively: Use language that is understandable. Use terms that are non-judgemental and are free of jargon and slang. Do not use terms that are overly technical. Jargon and technical terms serve their purpose to the correct audience, but when used with the general public, these words and phrases can confuse people and lose their interest. Brief statements allow other people the opportunity to respond. Lengthy and wordy statements can lose people's

Security Matters: Shoplifting, Thefts, employee ethics Go to Topic

India No.1 in Retail theft

A survey of retail crime and loss in the world says India has the highest retail shrinkage at 3.2% in the world. Retail shrinkage is the loss of products due to shoplifting, employee theft, paperwork errors and supplier fraud. The country’s retailers complain that the main causes for the US $2.6 billion loss are shoplifting and employee theft. The survey, the third annual Global Retail Theft Barometer 2009, covered 1,069 large retailers across 41 countries between July 2008 and June 2009. India

How to prevent Retail thefts?

Top Rated Answer :

Periodic high value count, Stock audit check point devices etc are efficient sytems etc developed based on identifying tags (Hard/Soft tags etc). But as the shoppers to are becoming professional shoplifters with ageing times more needs to be done...

Various formats of organized retail Go to Topic

What is the Best Store Format for Indian Customers and why?

Top Rated Answer :

Dear Mr Majumdar, Thanks for asking a lovely question. I m eager to read opinions of different experienced and educated professionals. I m a retailer and have experience of 10 years in retail, wouldl like to cotribute my idea for your question....

New Formats/stores & retail destination for the new India

New stores, new formats, new retail destinations, new… review of claims (various announcements made in last 70 days) by the companies in the business of retail says that next five years will see thousands of crore being pumped in to open over 4,000 modern retail outlets in about 50 lakh square feet of space across India. It was about 70 days ago, when the companies winded up the financial year and started making announcements of their newly chalked-out plans. The retail news section, almost eve

Life Skill Education Go to Topic

MahaManan: The excellent –incomparable system of essential education for true & universal self-developmental

MahaManan The excellent –incomparable system of essential education for true universal self-developmental Welcome to our ‘MahaManan’ education program. We think, customary (formal) academic (school – college etc.) education is not sufficient for true development of human beings. For that, we need such an uncustomary (non-formal) basic self-development-education which can help us to be fully developed human beings. We want to establish an excellent –incomparable system of essential educatio

Do you feel only subject knowledge is enough for a child

Top Rated Answer :

Dear Mr. Jayant I am in agreement with you 100%, The real life after the graduation is so tough these days, the subject knowledge alone will never help one to reach higher rug of the ladder in their life. I have seen so many talented ones who...

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