Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Imagine this: a 70-year-old man is walking down the market wearing an interesting t-shirt. The T-shirt has the text, ‘My son is the writer of (name of a movie). Do watch the movie!’. Most of the people walking around him see the…
A decade ago, while I was traveling back from Mumbai to Bengaluru after a work trip, I got a call from my boss (the India head) while I was in a cab (from the airport). He told me that the regional office…
When I first interned at a Delhi-based IT company in the corporate communications team immediately after my post-graduation in the late 90s, besides my formal education and a half-heartedly completed year at Aptech Coimbatore (R.S.Puram!), I did not know anything about corporate…
Recently, Vish Ganti, VP of Product Management & GM at AutoGrid India, a software company that operates in the clean energy space, had shared on LinkedIn about his experience of taking his electric scooter to his 5th-floor apartment through the elevator and…
In one of the episodes of the TV series Friends (season 4, episode 5), Ross uses a fist-bump gesture at Rachel and she doesn’t understand what it is supposed to mean. Ross’s sister Monica explains that this was a gesture invented by…
A significant part of my corporate workshops on personal branding, after I have set the context for its need and assorted nuances around social media/networking platforms and articulation, is about content. On the internet, anything and everything is ‘content’. It is also…
Have you ever wondered about the brand positioning of a cat and a dog? Not cat food and dog food – actual cat and dog, as pets. No? Here you go – let me think aloud 🙂 When considering the brand positioning…