OME Community March Meetup Christ University, Bangalore. MOM & Discount to SEO, Web Marketing TrainingOME Community March Meetup, Christ University, Bangalore Online Marketing Enthusiast Community Bangalore, the largest network of Online Marketing Enthusiast in India with more than 480 Online Marketers including SEO, PPC, Affiliate Marketers, Social media marketers, students, working professional, Entrepreneurs, Professors come together every month to discuss the latest happenings in online marketing eco system supported and mentored by NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore, Christ University, Web Marketing Academy met in Christy University in March 2011 to discuss The state of Affiliate Marketing in India and across the globe. With close to a year, OME community is educating small businesses, students, individuals through their monthly meetups. An informal setting with open network opportunities and some of the highlights for march meetup were:
OME April meetup will be held on the 3rd weekend of April, stay tuned for updates OME members are also having a informal get together for a snack, dinner and possible barbeque with marketing talk this Sunday April 16th around 6 pm. A great networking opportunity to get to know each other and to share your experience. Attendees shall Dutch the expenses for Food. See who are coming and all the updates are posted in ourOME Face book Group. If you not part of the OME face book group, you are missing out a lot, here is where all the experts come together and answer your marketing question. OUR OME FACEBOOK GROUP LINK Minutes of Meeting: OME Community as always started with a round of introduction, each participant shared who they are, what they do and how they came to OME. Interesting to see people from different background and industry. Swati welcomed the attendees, and Suresh Babu, Co-Founder introduced about OME Community. We appreciate and Thank Christ University for providing this wonderful auditorium for OME. Our special thanks to:
Affiliate Marketing · How can others earn money? Partnership/Relationship building · Amit-Ecosystem Tech-ERP/Smart solutions · Other dimensions attached- Social Media, Learning technology, Internet · Rethink on the revenue model Agenda · What is affiliated marketing? · How can we get benefitted out of it?- AD sense from Google · Example by Suresh Babu- Carnival cruise line : Miami to eastern/western countries : Travel agents, they create lead sales and get treated as VIPs : Travel agents as affiliates e.g. Redbus.in · We think big and kickass – Google AD sense – IBM · Harish – 1. 2004, Affiliate Marketing , 13 years back, Christite 2. Mondera – sell diamonds to US 3. Chris Anderson - Guru Q- It was asked that a lady wanted some work related to the online marketing and she also promised that she would bring in business. But she didn’t do it. What is to be done in these situations? Did you able to follow her? Check out firstly the legitimate affiliates credentials. Create your community. Bring in traffic. Types: 1. Come and Go 2. Come, see and read 3. Come, see , read and buy. Affiliates – Channel Partners Websites – TARGET.COM, FLIPCART, TESCO Q- Is it legitimate to be an affiliate? Who can be a legitimate? How can you earn money? · Discussions: Affiliated marketing – AD sense- Pay Per Click (PPC) · Google – AD world – promoting keywords – Relevance · Increased revenue – bloggers- Increased Effectiveness · Affiliated network- tracking code by middleman so that merchant cannot cheat- DGM Pro · Business owners- wants to run business online- Networks : Channel between affiliates and business owners) · Outsource Programme Managers- Traffic, sales, information like email id, phone number · Myths- Shell out 80% of capital cost- affiliate marketing Q- Can you name people/merchants we can go ahead and join? · Networks: Linkshare, Shareasale, Affiliatecurry · Areas- Recruitment, Travel, Pagalguy-education, Matrimony-Shaadi.com. · How much sales are required for you to pay me consistently? Win-Win situation Money from Adsense- Mobile industry – SMEs – 1407$ or 1.25 lakhs and for merchants, niche matters a lot Adsense tips and tricks: · Use latest events and trends so as to keep the traffic flowing in · Niche matters · Traffic is not everything, Adsense background markup Google insights for search: · Accounts and tax in finance · Seasonal news, trends and festivities · Google trends- breakups of celebrities/marriage/news · Trends- cricket, holi- from here you can find the keywords people use How to get in? · .net.in · Write about controversies in blogs, own websites · You can type alphabets as well and see what all options people type in the search engines · Targets – Telecom, insurance, mobile broadbands, cars · Latest is the buzz word to search for any keyword · Linkbuilding – more people get relevant links, strategies · E.g. Netsafe, Wiredsafety.org, Cyberangel, Getnetwise, Kidshield · ISPA (Internet Service Provider Association) · How do you search?- Delhi to Bangalore, take a niche in your keyword for your business. You need to index websites in Google. Write related content on the daily basis. · Anytime you can make money with the business, i.e. Mobile Phones in Ad sense Discussion: · Markup.in · E-blogger – CTR rate, ususal and unusual traffic, Google AD sense revenue model · Google webmaster tool- expertise for wordpress- http://www.---.com-> change the location to say, Uganda · Black and white hats techniques- SEO · Mitsu.in, Rs 79, get the domain free · Phpscrip- xyz fold- scrip available- wordpress – Marketing perspectives Q- What happens if we generate cheap ways of generating traffic for our websites? · You can get penalised but it generates leads and sales · Choose a keyword rich domain · You can use ( ! or - ) in the url of your website · How do you get a domain name which is available?- Answer- keywordtool (broadband) Websites: affiliateforyou.org, sphinn.com (Internet Marketing news and discussion) · Broadbandcomparison.co.uk · Jonathan Volk · Google trends, snapdeals, groupons, bidoo are popular now Discussion: Conversion+traffic inflow -> mindjacking ->Sales
· How to make money online in simple terms? · Affiliate Marketing · Adsense · Google trends, Insights, Adword tool, Traffic estimator, Keywordspy- Paid and optional · Freeinuk.co.uk - traffic 55,000/month, free samples, target, commission less around 1 pound, added section- voucher code section, GODaddy- check all the shops listed and target · It’s important to rank for term in the website so as gain an edge – People will be competing for the terms · Bounce should be really high, what happens is that you’ve awesome content however, there is low conversion · Adsense: Never gives full information, they transfer the traffic to another affiliates – come and get out to · Broadband-org.uk- which country are you targeting? Virtualcode.in, .cc .tv extensions, keyword domain in url · Mobile broadband- positive; i-pad launch + in brands (O2, Vodafone, Airtel), traffic would be less but conversion will be there , you need to take the call. Websites: · Google doesn’t promote sites but provides information about products/ services available · Go and compare deals- done by affiliates · Laptopreview.org.uk · Google penalize- manual or automated panelty · Never interlink between sites, overoptimization Power Tips: We had a round of power tip session, one of the OME’s Classic and best session, where everyone shares their tips, tricks and resources. |
Monday, April 11, 2011
OME Community March Meetup, Christ University, Bangalore
India Product Management Association P-Camp
Product Camp on Sunday, April 10th 2011
P-Camp on Sunday, April 10th 2011 @ IIM Bangalore NSR Auditorium
Agenda9 am - Registrations and Networking (Tea and Coffee)
9:30 am - Welcome remarks by Ravi Padaki, Founder & President IPMA
9:50 am - Introduction to P-Camp, Anand Xavier, Vice President IPMA
10 am - Keynote by Dr. G. Venkatesh, CTO of Sasken Communications Technologies on "Top Trends in Product Innovation in India"
11 am - Talk from Sponsor - Bala Girisaballa, Director, Yahoo! Entrepreneurship Network, Yahoo!
11:15 am - Panel on "How to build a Product Company in India"
Organized by Startup Saturday
- Sujai Karampuri - CEO Sloka
- ThiyagaRajan M - Founder Motvik, Trustee MoMo Bangalore
- Sunil Bannur - MD GROMOR
- Prateek Dayal - Founder Muziboo
- Moderated by Amit Singh, Co-founder Startup Saturday
12 pm - Parallel Sessions
- Track 1: Compelling User Stories by Sarit Arora, Sr. Manager, UED, Yahoo!
- Track 2: Corporate Entrepreneurship - enabled through Product Management by Shaju Nair, Director of Product Management at Wipro
1:15 pm - Lunch
2:30 pm - Parallel Sessions
- Track 1: 5 mistakes you should not commit when you are a Product Manager/Owner/CEO by Ganesh Prasad Puranik
- Track 2: How to define a minimum viable product by Viveck Kumar
- Track 3: How do you benchmark a Product Manager? Certifications, MBA, Experience - what counts? by Pinkesh Shah
3:30 pm Tea and Coffee break
3:45 pm - Parallel Sessions
- Track 1: Impact of Social channels on product innovation by Rajesh Kumar Thiagarajan
- Track 2: Test your web 2.0 product management skills by Viveck Kumar
- Track 3: Launching a new product in a large company - unique challenges and their solutions by Pinkesh Shah
5 pm: Closing remarks by Chandrashekhar Naik, Treasurer, IPMA
OME Meet-Up December
Minutes of the meeting: OME Community meet-up December- 2010
Programme Outline:
- Introduction - attendees and members
- Introduction - OME Community (by Suresh Babu)
- Introduction - NSRCEL and the NextBigIdea concept (by Suresh Babu)
- Introduction to e-commerce (Suresh babu)
- Presentation on e-commerce (A Malve)
- Q & A
- Coffee, Networking, and Discussions
- Power Tips
- Photo Session
- Conclusion
Sunday, the 18th of December 2010 saw numerous new and most of the regular Online Marketing Enthusiasts get together for the tenth time, since the inception of OME in April 2010. From established brands to startups, from veterans to amateurs - the OME now boasts of members from several industrial sectors, who unite under the Central Pergola roof of IIMB to imbibe and share knowledge on topics of online marketing and most of all enjoy themselves immensely during the process. The start was as enthusiastic as the members on the floor; introductions revealed abundant inquisitiveness among all attendees to know what the evening had to offer them.
Introductions were followed by brief introductions on OME and the NextBigIdea challenge launched by the entrepreneurial sector of IIMB, NSRCEL.
Presentation by Aashish Malve
Aashish was working as Marketing Manager - Online in Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore taking care of their online campaigns and website.
Presentation on:
Optimizing and Maximizing Online Sales During Holiday Seasons - Workshop in IIM Bangalore
Suresh Babu:
Introduction to E-Commerce.
Examples of Décor- New York
Sentiment Analysis
400 Algorithms used by Google
Aashish Malve:
· We would not be talking about SEO, PPC today.
o We will find out something new: E-commerce.
o What is SEO, PPC?
o SEO, PPC will not generate business. They can only help in better search.
o E-commerce is useful. Shopping Cart, Navigation, etc helps in online buying.
· Sales Guy needs to go to the consumer’s door to sell something
· Online sales: The customer comes to the seller’s Web Site.
· Many tools are available: Google Trends
o We generally notice that sales and sales planning start 2 months in advance.
o Especially Holiday season, the planning starts much before 2 months.
· In India, Coupons are not as popular at all.
o Discounts are highly favored.
o In the U.S. Coupons are growing, whereas, discounts show a declining trend.
· Christmas planning starts 2 months in advance
· India is a difficult market to understand. Discount is in our culture.
· Tip: Update your content for every holiday using: keywords, tools, analytics, trends, etc.
· Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu are major e-commerce states.
· Optimize the Web sites for U.S as well as India.
· Wants are different:
o India: Shipping Not trusted, Needs Driven
o U.S: Impulsive, Deals driven.
· There are three types of Online Customers:
o 1. Buy Online. Search Online. Do everything Online.
o 2. Avail Online. Pay offline.
o 3. Search Online. Pay / Buy online.
o The target should be the 3rd category. Lure them by providing cash on Delivery options. Give them a Hotline number. They will convert.
· Return Policies are not good in India. We should think beyond profit. Gain Customer trust.
· Best Part: Create your own festivals like Back to school, IPL, Geographically linked festivals as per the target market.
· Use Google Insights. Google trends.
o Create campaigns, applications, viral, buzz, etc like FIFA Calendar.
o Engage customers.
· The customer spends about 7 seconds on your landing page. Create value. Engage them.
· SEO Tip: Meta tag is important on a Holiday. Call to Action.
o Update meta tags
§ Seasonally
§ Festivals
§ Geographically
o Add Anchor texts
o Add Anchor links
· People want Guides, Service, Educators, Demos
o Make PPC Effective
o Start Pre-Order
o Do It Now!!!!!
o These strategies are not adopted in India.
· Indian Online companies and businesses need Repeat Orders.
· Shiva Purohith:
o Lead Visitors
o Email Storage to be maximized
o Get in Touch
· Gift me this: Shoplocal.com from Facebook
· Connect Online, SMM, Offline, etc.
· Social Media is for better awareness, knowledge sharing about the product. Not a place to push sales. It should be used to improve relations with the consumers and get closer to them.
· Like Button Deals: People click Like for different reasons:
o Discounts: 40%
o Show Support: 38%
o Share Knowledge: 13%
· It is always good to buy something for yourself.
· Why do customers leave the Shopping cart?
o High Shipping Costs
o No Money
o Compare before buying
o Security
· Indians compare before buying. Therefore, provide a compare option.
· How to offer Discounts?
o Have strong economic sense
o Price is inversely proportional to Demand
o Discounts should improve sales volumes
o Economies of scale have to be achieved
o Sell products on a higher margin via counters
o Build an online presence that is trustworthy
Inputs, Question & Answers:
Shankar SEO: What about services?
· Focus on identifying customer needs.
· Discounts, repeat orders should be the main focus
· US: Relationship model
· India: Transactional relation with the customer.
· Gain Customer Trust. It is a MUST for service industry.
Swapna: Ticket Sales?
· Print Coupons
· Luxury Sales
· Have a Physical Store for premium brands, customer want to be highly involved in buying a high-priced product.
· Check Offline. Buy Online.
Brand Bull Shyam: Retail Product Chain
Retailer should work on some percentage model
Price should be competitive
Direct delivery will not make sense
We should have delivery points, and warehouses.
Amit: Fliers can also help.
Raghava: Gifts. What is a method to sell Gifts, promote online gifting?
Lots of personalities exist.
Match and TAV concept.
Give e-books, PowerPoint presentations on the Web site. That will help them learn, get idea about the product, and understand its value.
For expensive products, such catalogs are important.
Cheaper goods: Provide choices, and a good variety.
Provide experiences, testimonials, reviews
Add, share videos, demo videos, personas.
Swapna: individualistic products do not need testimonials. Transparency is a problem in such cases.
Experiences:
1. There was a discussion on Home Shop 18. People shared the bad experiences. The lack of clarity in their transactions, and the misguiding behavior.
2. Flipkart there was a bad experience with a deal.
3. Redbus amazing service. Superb gesture.
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