Amit Gupta

Why do customer buy our products?
 
a) We feel your product is the latest.
b) We have a best marketing plan.
c) We have the best solution for the customer need.
 
Obviously C, customers buy our product not for any other reason. Customers will be happy and keeping come back to us if we keep meeting their need. We should strive to not only meet but exceed customer’s expectations. And while doing so there are moments where the customer feels delighted.
 
The delight come from the “experiences ” we give to the customers and not the product. The experience offered to customers …

My fond childhood memories of Chacha chowdhary , Sabu , rocket (Chacha’s pet dog) are back. Chachaji can solve all the problms in the world cauz ”Chacha ka dimaag computer se bhi tez chalta hai” . Watch him in new avtaar making Rajnikant and Mithun da the superstar.
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I have just checked out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 version and Firefox3. I would not be comparing them but there are certain new feature I liked about both of them.
But the most exciting feature to me is Actiities in IE8. I lets to do certain activities on the webpage you are working on. Its like talking to many other application from one page (uff.. internet making me lazzy and more demanding every day).  Though the application integrated are few but all are worth mentioning.
See how useful a Live Map …

Monsoon Clouds Captured on my camera  

Bill Gates call it a day at Microsoft , the giant software empire he has founded and build over last 33 years. A richest man on the world for many years will now focus on philanthropy. 
Time will tell the impact of this change on Microsoft.   
                                               

Good Bye Bahadur Sam
(April 03, 1914 – June 27, 2008)

Bharti , Vodafone to bring Apple 3G iPhone to India later this year and with Bharti on verge of launching 3G services (Subject to all statuary clearance) .

Hmmm… so would we get to see a revolution in the way people get to use mobile and mobile internet in India. The success will largely depend on the cost of acquiring the technology (Handset + Service). Indian consumers are very price senstive and to an extend slow adapter in terms of mobile innovations. Still we have very limited usage of GPRS and related applications.
Mobile services were launched …

Hmmm… very true . Thank you for reminding me of this. I surely need a break of of couple of days. And all you workaholic check out the cool mailer from Yahoo and you might find your dream holiday…  
Yahoo Local (India) has much more than a holiday destination search. It is a local search engine as of now limited to Delhi, Mumbai , Bangalore and Chennai. And has features like rating, maps etc … But Once it comes to local search engine My vote will be with justdial.com  for the sheer database and asklaila.com for …

No where , I was very much around but again busy with some upgradation and imrovement work on Makaan.com. I have been hearing and experiencing much about web 2.0 and the rub of effect was evident to come on Makaan.com  So Makaan.com member backend is now been changed and made more action oriented and user focused.
We have tried to reduce the umber of clicks to do activities and all the relevant information is available upfront to the user. Action buttons are more prominent and sytem prompt the user about possible actions …

 Know your customers and the environment in which they operate.  At Makaan we found out that our customers (property providers) are not very tech-savvy and don’t have regular internet access, infact only little fraction of our total customer universe are internet friendly. But the irony is that thier customers (Property seekers) are more and more depends on new age mediums for the needs.
So the challange was to build a product which will bridge this gap and property seeker & providers can be brought closer. The answer was in mobile phone which is …