2009

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2 Million ONLINE Leads Market for BFSI Sector in India!

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. One of the largest spenders on internet in India is the Banking and Finance Services Industry (BFSI). No, don’t be under any illusion, BFSI sector is not the most evolved sector when it comes to using the web to it’s full potential. Anyways, a large chunk of spending by BFSI can be attributed to generating and buying leads for various products including loans, insurance and credit cards.

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How is Facebook Going to Make it’s 1st Billion Dollars?

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How can facebook make it. Do you know that there may be a social networking site which is bigger or almost equal to Facebook? And do you know it earns 2-3 times more than Facebook already? That site is Qzone (Tencent), and it earns over a billion dollars in revenues per annum. How did this happen? And what can Facebook do to catch up quickly? ‘I will cite a personal example- just before Diwali I was playing this awesome game on Ibibo.com called Teen Patti.

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Recession? Not for Social Media Marketing!

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. The latest report from FORRESTER (Q4, 2008 SOCIAL MEDIA ONLINE SURVEY) outlines a very clear trend: 53% of the marketers are determined to increase their social media budget during the recession. Further 42% said that they will keep their spend intact and not reduce it. Very clearly 95% of the marketers are positively inclined towards investing in Social Media, even during recession.

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Will ‘Technology’ Survive the Recession?

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. . . . www.atomthought.com. . USD 250b technology giant in 2008 reduced to USD150m nobody in2009! Is this the beginning of the end of technology giants? . NORTEL at one point in time commanded almost 33% of Canadian stock market value and boasted of a stock market value of over USD250b before filing for bankruptcy as we entered the year 2009.

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Bean bags don’t make a Google!

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I am not an entrepreneur (so far!) or a CEO of an Indian Internet organisation, but I am an Indian who has worked for a few years in global and Indian internet companies and over the years have tried to fathom the gaps that have succeeded in disabling Indian companies to scale heights which they deserved as also tried to understand how Indian CEOs can make their companies fare really better and not just look better!

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The Next Big Thing After Twitter! Is FourSquare The Answer?

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I was beginning to hear a lot about Foursquare in the past few months , actually more after I bought the iPhone3G, and in the past few days decided to explore and experience Foursquare myself. To start with I have always been very impressed with the idea of using location based targeting with social networks (though I understand that people always may not want to reveal their locations and may be averse to this concept).

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I Need Your Support!

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Hi Friends, As they say motivation is the food for creativity! Your blog ‘AtomThought.com’ has been nominated for the category ‘Best New Indiblog’ 2008, and your vote can help your blog win this title! I know your support for AtomThought is accessible at all times, and I am looking forward to you not just voting for Atomthought but also asking your friends to do the same.