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Be Good to your Customers. They Talk (and Tweet).

— Posted by Gagan
Monday, July 28th, 2008

Need a gentle reminder why you should be a good customer service provider? How about 11 reasons to keep a sharp focus on our customer and their experiences with your brand offering.

Starbucks, I caused all your problems

— Posted by gdiesh
Friday, March 7th, 2008

Yes, I am the one who tries to avoid buying your coffee. I tell others to resist the convenient temptation of your omnipresence. I believe I am the cause of your recent troubles. I am not apologetic, but I hope that you will learn from your mistakes and rise up to the challenge of being…umm… less starbucksy.

Five 80’s songs to make sticky websites

— Posted by Gagan
Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Let’s talk about building stickiness. Sticky like rice. What makes a website sticky? In other words, why do we go back to same site time and again? With this month’s article I am outing myself as someone who grew up listening to 80-ish (one 90’s and one 70’s song thrown in) music. Here are 5 songs about people who come back to websites and help make them sticky.

Phat or Fat? Finding your brand voice.

— Posted by Gagan
Sunday, October 1st, 2006

It’s relatively easy to hide behind a faceless stone mask of a named corporation. Even easier is to pretend to be big and ‘worldwide’ and use technology and gimmicks to remove the immediacy of human contact. But why would we want that? Why would we want to feel secure from our [...]

(Not) Navel Gazing. Part 2. Context.

— Posted by Gagan
Monday, May 1st, 2006

I suggest we need to consider two major elements to focus on when it comes to creating successful businesses: Context and the User. This month’ article will focus on context. We will move our attention to the user in next month’ article

Sensation Transference

— Posted by Gagan
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

All of us appreciate and are influenced by the
power of design. However what we don’t realise at times, is that we are sometimes enchanted by not only the
product but the packaging as well..