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Heard of black tickets? Well you must have somany times. After Aamir Khan glorified selling black tickets big way in Rangeela, Chennai’s private bus operators couldnt help but pick up a trick or two of the trade. So there I am, unaware of the UCBTM (Undergroud Coimbatore Bus Transportation Mafia) cancerously proliferating and thriving in […]

First up, Porok! MTV India has tied up with Microsoft XBOX and is welcoming xbox to India in style with “Porok”. [Read news items 1, 2] As they say in the Ad, “Porok might have been inspired from cocks, but inside we are all tigers”. Having seen a couple of XBOX ads, I am sure […]

Today I ran a search in Del.icio.us for Infosys to get some information. What I saw in the results page is height of online anti-advertising. Generally you expect to see some ads related to the search tags. What you see here is on a different dimension altogether. When I clicked on the ad, it took […]

Its been 2 years since I have posted such a message. A recent look at my website statistics revealed that most of the visitors are first timers, and quite a few of them land here searching one of the “iim”, “indore”, “iim indore blog”, “iimi” or “chandoo iim”. So, let me take a moment and […]

Dashboards are very common business monitoring tools, but creating them in excel with all the bells and whistles is not so easy. So here is a quick 1-2-3 on how to do it. Lets take a sample of 2 consecutive year sales figures for 7 regions. The colums have Region name, 2004-05, 2005-06 figures and […]

I recently had to perform some analysis on a set of insurance companies in certain geography. After searching the net I found such list of companies operating in that continent. But the problem is, These companies are listed multiple times, one time for each of their geographical area of operation. I cannot count each company […]

This is that of the year when a huge business would thrive. A conservative estimate of the size of that business would be 60 crores or more per year. And its none other than Indian MBA entrance exams and their coaching. The CAT notification is out and so are the notifications for other prominent schools. […]

PS: Click on the image for a bigger version This is amazing. Adsense now comes with hindi ads as well. Noticed it for the first time in CNN-IBN site today. Since their search is available in local languages, adsense in regional lingo would be a killer business application.

Couple of things… – my stuff from indore hasnt arrived yet. thanks to safexpress folks. The excuse they gave is “we couldnt find the address”, God should only know why they are in the delivery business. – Been to my native place “machilipatnam” for a couple of days. Now you know why I didnt smell […]

Finally I am going to Tata Consultancy Services as a business analyst. Location and other details of the job or not known at this point of time. but it should be clear in another couple of weeks time.

HT seems to have gone overboard to invite advertisers… 😀

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 […]

My date with a mall Indorians suddenly found a new hobby, “mall hopping”, thanks largely to the new mall ‘Treasure Island’. After hearing rave reviews from several of my classmates I went there a couple of days back, my experiences… Park here, not there:Since the mall has very limited capacity of 2/4 wheelers parking, we […]

There is a clear shift in the distribution of TV ads, its no longer FMCG or consumer durables alone, you have a variety of ads ranging from financial services, recruitment, online services and electronics. For once it’s a pleasure to watch more than the powder and paste ads. One clear trend I can spot is […]

Implemented in: Business Process Reengineering & Enterprise Resource Planning (dont wonder, we do have such course names :D) Sessions Max: 10Sessions Over: 10 Endterm Declared? YESOpen book? YES End term at: 9:30 AM, 29 November – 2005Study Material for the course collected at: 9AM, 29 November – 2005 First time book opened at: 9:12AM, 29 […]