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While munching on that spicy paneer burger yesterday at Delhi airport’s McDonalds, I noticed how busy and engaged the staff were. The manager type lady was under some pressure and was glaring at one of her co-workers, possibly over some mistake. The…
Let us park all the talk of ROI from social media engagement for a bit and explore the ROI of speaking at an event, preferably as a result of sponsoring the event too. I’m referring to the ad:tech session by Fashion and…
More than a decade ago, when I had freshly started life in Bangalore after a stint in Delhi, I stumbled upon a former colleague from Delhi on Bangalore’s famous Brigade Road. We hadn’t kept in touch ever since I moved to Bangalore…
Let me start on a positive note. As a paneer-loving vegetarian, I love McDonalds’ new McSpicy paneer. It gives me a decent enough reason to go to McDonalds when my son pesters me for those McDonalds toys – collecting all Rio toys…
One of the two specialties that could change public relations is content management, according to John Bell’s blog post. Now, I’ve always been an active proponent of the content-based approach to PR and have written about it in the past too (PR…
One could look at what Anna Hazare has achieved from his recent protests in an emotional, sentimental way; ‘the ‘What will happen to this nation but for people like Anna?’ way. One could also look at the whole thing clinically, in order…
There are stages in your life and career when you have an opinion on another opinion almost instantaneously. Shonali Burke had it when Ragan published that AVE piece recently and she gave a fitting reply. My turn now. Not on AVE. But…