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Vandana Ahuja

Vandana Ahuja, PhD.
Amity Business School
Dr. Vandana Ahuja has over 21 years of experience across the corporate sector and academia. She is the author of the book on Digital Marketing - published by Oxford University Press. She is a Professor with Amity Business School and has several years of research experience across the domains of Digital Marketing, CRM and Social Media Marketing. She is an expert in the usage of Digital and Social Media platforms across diverse industry verticals.

The 7 Functional Benefits of social media for the banking industry

The volumes of banking consumers who also happen to be on social media are too large to ignore, thereby making social media an interesting...

Customer Intelligence for Sales, Marketing and CRM using Blogs

In these times of data overload, businesses are facing a data explosion as enormous volumes of consumer-generated content vie for organizational attention. Concepts of...

Blogs as Marketing Campaigns: Influencing and Mining Consumer Sentiment

When lacking consumer sentiment data, organizations resort to blanket promotional schemes, thereby not matching the true consumer expectations. Using a corporate blog as an...

Blog Interactivity for Increased Brand Communication.

My research paper on Improving Corporate Blog interactivity for increased brand communication This paper focuses on the use of corporate blogs as tools which foster...

A Troubled General Motors Blogs to Connect With Customers

General Motors is celebrating its 100th anniversary, facing the future with ledger books bleeding red. As it asks the U.S. Congress for billions in...

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008, lists Behavioral Economics, Mobile Robots, Surface computers, Augmented reality, Cloud Computing and Microblogging as the new...

162 Brands Use Social Media for Marketing

The variety of social media delivery mechanisms is increasing in leaps and bounds-Social Networking, Corporate Blogging, Online videos, Facebook Fan pages, Widgets, Microblogging, Twittering,...

Corporate 2.0: Some Companies Are Catching On–and They Are Fast!

The beauty of the use of the social web to track the voice of the customer became evident today, when in a couple of...

Web 2.0 Emerges Strong in McKinsey Survey

A McKinsey survey on usage of Web 2.0 tools in organisations has some interesting results. 1.Tools they looked into:Web services, Blogs, RSS, Wikis, Podcasts, Social...

Emergent Social Software Platforms: Some FAQs

Enterprise social software, also known as Enterprise 2.0, is a term describing social software used in "enterprise" (business) contexts. It includes social and networked...

Consumer Engagement and Technorati Authority: The Realm of Social Media

Research clearly indicates that organisations have accepted 2 facts- 1.Cultivating a respectable level of customer engagement is a strategic challenge. 2.The volumes and degree of…

Building Loyalty the Southwest Way: Let Your Customers Drive the Discussion

"It is the season to tell someone you'd love a Southwest giftcard" "Want to see the airport gate makeover, Southwest style?" "Do you like the…

People-Centricity or Customer-Centricity?

India recently witnessed the launch of the Tata Nano-the "people's" car-The much awaited $2500 car for the common man. Tata Motors Limited is India's...

Achieving consumer engagement and building a brand relationship through interactivity

A 2005 article at "gapingvoid" on The Porous Membrane-why corporate blogging works talks about the internal and external environment of a company being seperated...

Cocreation-Participation From Passionate Customers

As questions arise on the degree of interest a consumer has in a company or brand enough to 'participate', I guess the issue of...

The CRM Forum, Mumbai, India, October 2007

I was invited to conduct a session on 'Social Media and the Customer Relationship' at the CRM Forum organised by Marcus Evans at the...

Branded Online Communities Move to Television

Branded Online communities, set up by companies for Building brand equity are now tying up with the electronic media for greater visibility. As...

Consumer-Generated Media and the Dissatisfied Customer

In an article on Comcast must die Bob Garfield on Ad Age, solicited ideas for a consumer jehad against digital and internet cable company...

Calculating the Marketing Value of a Social Network

Further to the discussions on Companies trying to use social networks for CRM, and a series of product/brand related networks springing up on these...

Marketers Start To Use Social Networks as a CRM Tool

An ADAGE article on Marketers start to use social networks for CRM instead of ads strengthens my understanding on the uses of social media...

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