Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian, a child heart specialist does a blogathon (blogs for 24 hours at a stretch) on September 15th every year. He won’t be doing the blogathon this year. Why? Because this year, he is doing a Tweetathon 🙂 In view of the popularity of the Twitter platform, he will be tweeting for 24…
I recently watched a video by Frank Kern that shows how a subject line that says "bad news…" got a whopping 39% open rate. And that triggered a flood of emails from copycat marketers. Can you guess the subject lines of these emails? You guessed it right! All of these emails had the subject "Bad…
Congratulations to Abhinav! He is the first Indian to win an individual gold for India at the Olympics. Several Indians like Milkha Singh, P.T. Usha, Anju Bobby George, Rajyavardhan Rathore have qualified for the finals but this is the first time an Indian won the Gold. India has won hockey gold medals earlier but even…
I recently got frustrated by the really bad service provided by my ISP… I had been patiently complaining and bearing up with all the lame excuses for too long… and sent them a letter requesting cancellation of my account. I was curtly told that I have to fill up a form that required all sorts…
Recently I found a smart, modern bank demonstrate prompt customer service totally lacking in imagination and they lost good business because of that. Here is what happened and what they could have done: I had a decent sized fixed deposit with Yes Bank which matured recently. The bank promptly issued a cheque for the maturity…