IPL & Youtube: The new strategic online revenue model

by Paurav Shukla on March 21, 2010

In this post, I want to focus on how a completely new and highly strategic internet marketing revenue model has been created by the brains behind Indian Premier League (IPL). Image via Wikipedia Most of the readers of this website I believe are aware what is cricket? It is a game of umpteen nuances and [...]

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The local dimension of luxury

by Paurav Shukla on March 1, 2010

Recently, I was re-reading the book ‘luxury brand management’ wherein the authors – Chevalier and Mazzalovo – suggest three criteria to classify a luxury item: (a) strong artistic content; (b) unique craftsmanship and (c) international reputation. While I agree that the artistic content and craftsmanship is what differentiates most luxury product and brands from non-luxury, [...]

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Massification of Luxury: the Chinese Invasion

by Paurav Shukla on January 31, 2010

Analysts world over have been writing about luxury consumption among the Chinese consumers. Few have also discussed the issues of Chinese luxury brands aimed at global consumers including ‘Shanghai Tang’ and ‘LaVie’. However, there is little discussion on how slowly but steadily Chinese entrepreneurs are acquiring or taking over Western luxury brands. This post is [...]

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In my earlier post ‘Status (luxury) consumption among British and Indian customers’, I discussed the theoretical implications relating to one of my recently published study in the International Marketing Review. In this post, I am going to focus on the managerial implications. Image by minxlj via Flickr To briefly summarise the study, it focused on [...]

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Recently one of my research papers got published in the ‘International Marketing Review’. It focused on comparing the status consumption tendencies of British and Indian consumers. In this post, I shall focus on the findings of this study. Firstly, let me define what status consumption is and how it affects our behaviour? Researchers define status [...]

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Consequences of consumer confusion

by Paurav Shukla on December 25, 2009

As stated in my earlier post ‘antecedents to consumer confusion‘, I shall focus on consequences of consumer confusion in this post. The earlier post focused on three important antecedents to consumer confusion namely; expectations, attribute confusion and information confusion in the context of financial services industry (i.e. banks, insurance. credit card, mortgage and other such [...]

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It is only the later part of the 20th century financial services institutions (FSIs) started morphing into a different shape altogether. Previously, a bank provided only banking services (i.e. mostly a place where you can deposit and withdraw money or similar assets). However, banks changed their role in a short span of time from consumer [...]

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Marketing research

by Paurav Shukla on November 28, 2009

This course is designed to enhance the analytical capability of the participant using basic as well as advance techniques and tools of marketing research. A management student is believed to be a good analyst in the corporate world. To give justice to the same a student must learn the process of marketing research. S/he should [...]

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Global marketing

by Paurav Shukla on November 28, 2009

The ultimate aim of a marketer and marketing both is to satisfy customers’ needs and wants. Customers’ worldwide share many common features however, they display a unique response when such common elements are combined. This module focuses on the daunting issues in global marketing. Module content: Course outline Sessions Global marketing mix Marketing in emerging [...]

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Marketing in international context

by Paurav Shukla on November 28, 2009

The module aims to develop the knowledge and skills of marketing needed to manage successfully in any organisation which has intercultural contacts. This is not limited to global organisations, but includes organisations that deal with staff or other stakeholders with different national cultures. Module content: Course outline Sessions Scope and challenges of international marketing Cultural [...]

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