Bloomberg recently reported that Gamestop, JC Penney, Gap, and Nordstrom have all closed their Facebook stores.  Just to be sure I checked Nordstrom's Facebook page.  It is true, the shopping tab is gone. 

In the summer of 2011, I walked out of Payvment's Palo Alto office blown away. They had more than 60,000 merchants on the Facebook Commerce Platform. But I was still intrigued about the proposition of Facebook Stores. I wondered shouldn't the focus first be on…

Ever wondered...

What makes a good blogging site ? 

How to get visitors ? Grow traffic ? ....

I did some reading on this and would like to share my learning here .

1. Topic on Top:

The first step is to choose the topic to write on. Select one in which you see a lot of discussion happening on the internet.

How to find this out?

Find keywords trending in top searches made on Google/Bing/Yahoo. 

Browse on websites…

Facebook is planning to make its new Timeline format available for Brands soon. Reports indicate that the announcement will be made in its first ever event specifically for marketers called FMC to be held in New York on Feb 29. 

As you may remember, Timeline was first launched back in September for select users and was rolled out in December to everyone. Timeline gave users an opportunity to visually tell the story of your life. Users can post the timeline of most memorable events of…

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Hi People, my first point on The Rodinhoods. Below is a copy of the post that I made on my blog today. Thought I will share my thoughts here and get your reasons for using Facebook and Twitter.

Best Regards,

Tejas Patel

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Read this interesting article in the Economic Times about how people find it difficult to quit their jobs despite being miserable and planning for a long time.

Yes, I am all for following one’s passion and doing what they love but the mantra should be taken with a pinch of salt, especially in this day and age when…

Advance Analytical tools for Digital Marketing:

The article lists two analytical tools used to measure the performance of digital marketing:

1.       Wisita:

This is analytical tool to measure performance of  online video marketing. It also provides ad-video hosting facility to its customers.

These videos can be embedded easily on your website, in email campaigns and share with internal or external audience.

1.  Analytics…

If ' SUCCESS ' is .. .

If Success is achieving high % in education but lack of wisdom.

Huge bank balance but no credits in ethics and honesty.

If success is making difference in standard of living but no MORAL standard.

If success is more 'ME' and forgetting 'WE'.

I am glad and proud that, I am ' NOT SUCCESSFUL '

The internet made me an entrepreneur, it truly did. Never before did i have the courage to even think that a boy like me who comes from a middle class family could work out a way to start off on his own. Thanks to social media(specially twitter), many meetups and rodinhoods , i started getting the feeling that the entire world is in fact moving towards becoming one. I must specially mention Alok and this platform which has allowed people from all over to come share, get inspired and get…

Hi All,

The following data points from the Venture Intelligence India Venture Capital Report-2011 report quantifies the resurgence of VC investments in India catalyzed by the well known excitement for the E-Commerce segment:

Venture Capital firms invested about $1.09 billion over 209 deals in India during the twelve months ended December 2011 to touch all time high levels. The amount invested during 2011 was significantly…

For quite some time, we have been noticing a Lull in the markets. Some people blame it on Low Demand, Some to governmental issues, some to low Domestic Consumption & some to the Weak World Economy etc.

We can say whatever we can with our limited Knowledge, hear Say and assumptions. To be true, that’s how people predict and some of them are true.

However, let us get our facts right on what have been the core throny issues:-

• Government on a Defensive:…