Insights from India's Favourite Product Consultant & Coach

  Hey guys, this is Christmas 2021 and I'm sitting at my laptop at well past midnight in Kolkata, India where this day has always meant something special to me. As a child, I used to study in the oldest Christian missionary school in India situated in the city of Kolkata, and I was the lead singer of the choir. Every year we would have the nativity play during Christmas and I would sing carols at the St. Stephen's Church inside our school compound. Evenings would be spent with family, sometimes with my late maternal grandfather, who would take me out to Park Street and the St. Paul's Cathedral and we would feast on street food and bakery items there. Anyway, all the festive spirit and memories aside, let's focus on today's blog. I might be horrible at this myself but I think the key to good communication is the ability to sense and read the feelings and thoughts of the other person in conversation. Here are a few tips and tricks to understand the other person better...

Yeah, right - like I know it all about building a successful online brand. My posts get roughly 1% conversion in terms of likes and shares and I don't receive enough leads for help when I need them. But my writing is experimental and like many, I try to reflect upon my experiences and then transform previous experiences to better achieve better outcomes. Here I am sharing my experiences at building a successful online brand, whether on LinkedIn or Instagram, or Facebook. Be frequent - If you're out of sight on social media, you're definitely out of mind. There is so much happening in this space that people don't have enough brand recall if you keep disappearing every now and then. So you've got to be frequent and push your audience to remember you time and again. Also, remember that on social media people usually have the attention span of a housefly because they have so much to choose from and explore, so keep it attractive. Be humourous - Everybody likes humor, ...

I live with a lot of regrets. I am scared of failures in life and that's what these regrets amount to. Does that mean I have failed so far? Life is a long race and it is unjust to call yourself a failure in the short term. Nobody knows how things will pan out in the future and like one of my favorite persons once said, "Life is a culmination of all that you do until you're dead. Death is inevitable, but it sums up all of your life's failures and successes into one single outcome. Hence, don't judge on failures." Guess who said this? It's me. I often become my favorite, hell yes! Just kidding! Anyway, coming back to the point of this post. Some of the common terms while learning strategy in a management class full of mature executives are value creation, value capture, competitive advantage, and roadmap planning. Let's try to dissect each term and correspond to one's personal life. Value Creation - unlike in a corporate environment where value is ...

  The psychology behind building great products Scan the user's psyche You’ve decided that you want to build a product from scratch or you’re interested in understanding more about how to make great products. Whether you want to build the product yourself or are interested in understanding more about how to build it in the future, you have to be sure that you want to get into the mindset of product building. If you come from a services background, then I would like to introduce you to the product mindset. There is a psychology behind product management. It is a mental framework that can be developed. Infact, it is present within all of us since birth. We just have to discover and polish it. Remember those days when you were a child and you would build clay models or just paint on chart paper? Yes, finishing a painting on chart paper is as good as executing a project from scratch. Fetching accolades for your painting from your teachers and parents is also as good as monetizing it. T...