Me and Sean Rach from Prudential talk about digital media and marketing- starting with a mobile led marketing initiative.

In past life, I have been a salesperson. As a matter of fact, I still am one. Come to think of it, we all are, in a way.
More so those who have been around in the digital marketing industry (across its various disciplines).
In the founding years of Digital Marketing in Asia (1999-2006), if you had anything to do with digital marketing, you essentially had to sell hard. Everyone loved to listen, but few actually bought what you were selling. Specially ‘digital media’ was an abstract thought in the early days …

It’s that time of the year again. Conferences. forums and industry gatherings – some large scale and some niche ones.
ad:tech falls in the former category. For those within the digital marketing industry, it is not just large scale. It is BIG.
I have attended ad:tech events in the past and have shared my experiences. (Can’t believe its been a year since I wrote on this topic). This year, it opened today (in Singapore- 3rd June 2010) and what a bummer- I had to miss the first day.
However thanks to tweets from …

Time Flies. The popular Worldwide forum is back and hopefully with a more interesting mix this time around. For starters, I am chairing one full day of the conference…

This is one thing India was missing on till now- but I see some traction building up now.  And its about time.
Karam Lakshman, this year’s programme manager for iAccelerator (an incubator of internet & mobile startups in India) introduced me to this relatively new but exciting programme they have come up with.
The Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), an IIM (Indian Institute of Management) Ahmedabad endeavour, has invited entrepreneurs in the internet and mobile space to submit application under its iAccelerator incubation programme.
The incubation programme runs …

Some marketing initiatives from government aided institutions in Singapore

We decided the winner of the Final cover layout design. And the winner is…

Meet Malcom Gladwell in Singapore- and a deal for ChasingTheStorm readers

My first book. Help me with the cover.

Follow these golden rules of entrepreneurship- and first-get the glamor on!

In part 4 of this 4 part video brainstorm, we discuss how to market a start up.

In Part3 of this 4 part series, we discuss the funding story- and whether downloadable apps are better

We featured Orsiso in Part 1.
In part 2 of the discussion between myself (Shalabh Pandey) and Thorben, amongst other things, we discuss advertising on social networks, its significance and nuances.
 
Enjoy!

eBook review on How to utilize Facebook to the maximum for marketing advantage.

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Podcast from my talk at the Social Networking World Forum Asia held in Singapore