Duct tape found! Three men arrested!!!
on 25 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Well, thats exactly the type of news items I am reading / watching these days. Not that there is nothing else is happening in the world, for some obvious reasons most of the MSM have chosen to adopt the policy of selling the news instead of reporting the news.
So, even PHD decides to celebrate this [...]
How to serve the customer
on 14 Jul, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
This week I came across two service orgs (cafe coffee day and shoppers stop) and observed peculiar things about their service.
The “we serve you faster than anyone” problem:
After roaming a lot in hot chennai sun (well, slowly people have been dropping hot adjective for chennai, you see, it has become redundant these days), ashwin suggested [...]
Whats cooking PHD? - Part 2
on 8 May, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Item: Vegetable Fried RiceIngredients: vegetables, cooked rice, soya&chilli sauce, lots of free time to experiment
I was toying with the idea of cooking fried rice for last few days. Finally encouraged my bro and we went shopping all the needed stuff despite the unseasonal rains in hyderabad. The outcome aint that bad.
Chopped vegetables, while [...]
Moving to Wordpress…
on 9 Feb, 2006 in blogging | 6 Comments
Its almost 4 in the morning, I have been trying to change the blog to wordpress for the last 2-3 hours. Lots of template editing, a little bit of photoshopping and finally I have a page that looks similar to my ‘blogger’ page. The next challenge is to link up the archives and moving everything [...]
Read More >>Welcome to the miraculous world
on 16 Jan, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Last night while switching the channels I stopped quite sometime at the TVC/Tele-shopping infomercials in some channels. I thought to myself, why not do some research on this type of marketing. The result is this post.
What is tele-shopping all about?In the words of Mehesh Panna, a country manager at TeleBrands,
“The basic concept of telemarketing [...]
Rediff Shopping - another failure
on 28 Dec, 2005 in Random | 0 Comments
Its sad that one of the leading online shoppers in India has committed such mistake. (incase you haven’t figured it out, the picture is of iPod Nano, where as the product they are trying to sell is something else)
My earlier post on online shopping in India.
The lastmile of online shopping
The way Indian online shopping is shaping up only suggests that it will take several years before the market matures… an incident to back my argument.
A couple of days ago I have ordered an iPodShuffle from one of the leading shopping sites in India. After a day I got an email from them saying that [...]
