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Microsoft Posts $3.1 Billion in Profit, a Year After Big Loss

21Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Microsoft Posts $3.1 Billion in Profit, a Year After Big Loss

AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft said Tuesday it posted a profit of $3.1 billion in the just-ended quarter, swinging into the black a year after hefty charges from writing off mobile phone assets. "This past year was pivotal in both our own transformation and in partnering with our customers who are navigating their own digital transformations," said chief executive Satya Nadella. The profit in the tech giant's fourth fiscal quarter was nearly identical to the loss from a year earlier, when it took charges of more than $7 billion to reflect the lower value of the Nokia mobile phone division it had acquired. Revenue dipped to $20.6 billion from $22.2 billion in the same period a year ago. Overall, the results were better than most forecasts and sparked an after-hours gain of more than 3% f...

My Sales Experiences- From Class 11th (Fund My Education) To Running a Startup

16Jun By No Comments

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My Sales Experiences- From Class 11th (Fund My Education) To Running a Startup

It was the September of 2014. Indian entrepreneurs were making headlines. Funding, valuation, and bootstrapping were among the most common words in the newspapers. India was becoming hottest destination for venture capital. I was already selling Indian dresses to NRIs through Instagram to fund my college education. The headlines gave a spark to my desire to become an entrepreneur. I began searching entrepreneurs group on Facebook and Google and came across a meetup group 'Entrepreneur's Walk run by Piyush, an IIT Kanpur alumni. I kept attending the meetups regularly, got to know Piyush better and realized he was looking for a co-founder as well. We went on to co-host 18 more meetups together, met a lot of founders (Deepak of Shifu, Blaze of Stayuncle, Umang of Bonita India, Ashim of ...

12Jun By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Wildcraft to Invest Rs 300 Cr By 2020, Eyes Rs 1,000 Cr Sales

Outdoor products firm Wildcraft is investing Rs 300 crore to strengthen its network and fund overseas expansion as it targets an over twofold jump in sales to Rs 1,000 crore in the next three to four years. The Bengaluru-based firm, which is looking to have 500 exclusive brand stores (EBOs) in India by 2020, up from 140 at present, and double number of points of sales to up to 8,000, eyes to enhance presence in the Middle East, South East Asia and in neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka and Nepal. "Our aim is to have a sales of Rs 1,000 crore in the next three to four years. We did around Rs 300 crore last year and we are looking at doing Rs 400-450 crore this year," Wildcraft co-founder Gaurav Dublish said. In order to achieve the target, he said the company is focussing o...

Nasscom Tie-Up with Salezshark For Sales Operations

20Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Nasscom Tie-Up with Salezshark For Sales Operations

SalezShark, a relationship cloud based startup in USA will handle customer relationship management of Nasscom. Salezshark has chosen over the likes of Microsoft and American cloud computing company Salesforce.com to handle sales operations of Nasscom. SalezShark will now manage the entire gamut of operations from marketing, events and publications to internal member and non-member data, functions for which Nasscom had been relying on multiple systems. "Requirement came from Nasscom's end to manage their huge data and help increase productivity within the organisation," said SalezShark founder Ajay Chauhan. "They will utilise SalezShark for our sales and marketing automation as well as introduce social selling in their sales culture," he said. SalezShark has implemented a marketing eng...

23Feb By Sonia MotwaniNo Comments

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Starting Up at 19 to Helping Companies Improve Customer Experience, The Story of Zeenath

Zeenath Kuraisha was 19 when she started with a home-based administrative support model for professional in the FSI industry. Zeena is one of the pioneers in the Call Centre industry in Singapore. After acquiring skills in the call center industry in 1996, she set up her first professional consulting company to help organizations improve and implement CRM, Sales and Tele Marketing processes into their existing operations via Call Centre structures. She started Asia Pacific Sales and Marketing Academy (APAC SMA) in Singapore after close to 20 years of Industry experience in the areas of Customer Experience, Inside Sales and Customer Focused GTM practice with various global MNCs. “I always loved the freedom, the ability to display and work interesting ideas my way which a normal role strapp...

Don’t Copy. Be Different. And Your Marketing Will Win.

22Dec By No Comments

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Don’t Copy. Be Different. And Your Marketing Will Win.

Gary Vaynerchuk nailed it when he said, “Marketers ruin everything.” Because it’s true. The moment they see people flocking to a new website, posting to the latest social platform or watching the hottest new TV show, they swarm in and fill it with ads for their stuff. To them, eyeballs equals dollar signs. And that is how it works. Until everyone starts doing it. Then, it’s an uphill battle to capture and keep your audience’s attention. In light of this, what’s the savvy business owner supposed to do? Well, rather than scraping the bottom of the marketing barrel, you can use a different strategy altogether. You can zig while everyone else zags. And when you do this, you end up light years ahead your competition. Today, I want show you three easy way to zig with your marketing and ...

Babajob.com Joins Facebook’s SME India Council

15Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Babajob.com Joins Facebook’s SME India Council

In a significant development today, babajob.com, India's largest online job marketplace for the informal sector, was identified as a member of the SME India Council set up by Facebook in Asia-Pacific today. Facebook, which has over two million Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) on its platform, has set up a SME Council to help small ventures from various industries share feedback and discuss ideas around leveraging technology to grow their enterprise. This is the second SME Council set up by Facebook globally, the first one being in the US. Globally, over 45 million small businesses actively use Facebook pages to connect to their consumers. In a post, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg mentioned that "Babajob.com, a job site in India, which uses Internet.org's Free Basic Services app, ...