Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

SIMPLY SEVEN- ERIC SCHLEY, JORGE RHEINBOLDT & MARCEL WAESCHE



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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins


These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :


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·         Josh hotelman

·         -First Round capital. If B2B becomes hugely “successful” by getting thousands of businesses, from around the world, then we will write to hotelman (27-11-13).

Page no. 1

·         As we plan to do with B2B

Page no. 2

·         In B2B we too plan to introduce online payment in ¾ months after launch.

Page no.4

·         We launched 3p jobs.com on 14 Nov.1997.

Page no.6

·         B2B & B2C will offer such a service.

Page no. 8

·         The least we should do, in B2B/B2C:

·         On “our subscribers” page, make each subscriber`s name, CLICKABLE, leading to its own website.

Page no. 11

·         Advertising is an already established market

·         Newspaper/ TV/ Hoarding are “less effective”

Page no.13

·         I tried this in first launch of 3p jobs.com it failed. I gave up –made FREE service-and launched.

Page no. 14

·         When 3p prepared its Business plan for getting VC funds.

Page no. 20

·         B2B will fall in this

·         Messaging to many

Page no.21

·         In B2B, we will be selling:

·         Ability to target sharply

·         Wide reach

·         A Instant reach be cost-effective reach

·         Feedback of your message campaign  

 

Page no.22

·         3p jobs.com launch on 14Nov.97

Page no.28

·         B2B will enable occupancies to send out their mktg. messages around the world. (13-11-13).

Page no .29

·         For B2B, after testing for few months, we will introduce a “pay user” revenue model, with advance

·         Online payment, thru PayPal.

·         India has millions of SMEs & self –employed persons, who have never marketed their product/service

·         By “Advertising, on TV/Hoarding/Newspaper, become they just cannot afford the cost!

·         (Recruit Guru included)B2B should help them. 

Page no. 30

·         B2B is without, a “SERVICE” But companies need to market/advertise themselves, perpetually!

·         Hence, I expect /our subscribers, to return again & again. To use the B2B service

·         I suppose all 3 do apply for B2B.

·         Thru B2B Govt. Depts. Will be able to send out periodic circulars & Notices to all types of companies.

·         B2B will help political parties to reach voters

Page no. 31

·         Skype enables “verbal messaging “B2B enables “written Text messaging” But both are, internet based “communications. Skype users also use it again & again.

·         Pay per use

·         Send out its “marketing messages” to our starting, passive data base of 2.6 lakh companies, they must

·         “Register” and be open to “Receive” messages from other subscribers. So, “service” wills self itself!!

·         For all businesses, “marketing” is a perpetual activity. If so, they would need to use, B2B again & again.

·         Wedding Anniversary day also uploaded B2B, yesterday. But tweaking will take 2 more weeks, before

·         I send promo. Emails to 2.26 lakh companies

·         We are calling them so.

·         We will keep B2B FEER for 2/3 months.

 

Page no.32

·         But businesses need to advertise /market more aggressively during a recession. India is in economic

·         Down turn right now. So if I am right many businesses should want to

·         Cutback on Advt. expenses……..but

·         Still be able to “market” aggressively B2B, ought to be the RIGHT thing for them.

Page no. 33

·         On B2B subscribes are “advertising and registrar is online B2B meet this “mktg. need” for all businesses

·         Locally & globally.

·         So is B2B in B2B we plan to create data base of 26000 Chambery of commerce (from as many cities, would the world. I plan to leverage them to promote B2B amongst their member firms.

Page no. 34

·         In B2B we are trying to incorporate a FEEDBACK mechanism i. e. each response received against a given campaign “% Rate of response will prove useful.

·         In B2B what would keep our subscriber “Locked in”?

·         I suppose, it would be “absence of SIMILAR alterative” website

·         Could B2B become an alternate model for “online Advt”?

·         B2B too, would be peer-to peer.

Page no. 35

·         May be B2B could prove a threat to Advt. Industry (TV/Newspaper, Hoarding, Ad word, in mobile etc.

·         If B2B, gets 1000 new subscribers per day and send out a MILLION mktg. emails/day, sure, if would require could of additional server AND. More leased line (broadband) but that cannot cost much!

·         If B2B clicks, we could write to him.

Page no. 36

·         Although, many coup nice which currently spend millions on traditional (online + offline) advertising

·         Will start using B2B,my target “Group is those SMS companies (millions of then) who, to day, cannot

·         Afford to use these traditional meatus of advertising Idea is to convert “Non – consumers” in to “consumers.” Not so much compact for market share in an EXSITING MARKET, but to create an altogether NEW MARKET.

·         Quote

·         In B2B I am thinking of charging 10 p per email delivered

Page no. 38

·         Since our own subscription model, will be “pay per use” it will generate “constant Revenue stream” only if subscribers, keep coming back, again & again, to blast their mktg. messages. (18-11-13).

·         In B2B they will pay per use, only. In our case they need not worry about this.

·         We will have no time- limit they have credit to their a/c.

·         True, in case of B2B.

Page no. 39

·         I think, no other website allows ”blasting” of mktg. message to a 1000 recipient with one touch!!

·         We hope to make B2B like this.

·         Pay per use No other website

·         Big websites/companies/may not is interested to offer 10p per email.

·         This VERY low price will keep out completion.

Page no. 40

·         B2B will offer this

Page no. 43

·         If soon after launch of B2B if some big reputable companies “register” we can use      this fact to promote B2B too many others.

Page no. 44

·         This is like: If, by some luck WIPRO/TCS/INFOSYS start using B2B rest of the software

·         Industry will follow!!

·         The more subscribers join B2B   the more everybody benefits. So, as more join, more tend to join.

Page no. 45

·         On “Blast Message” pages, we are enabling human to select various “search parameters and drill down.

·         If be nice, if Google spider can do the same!

Page no. 46

·         We hope B2B will be

·         In our case too.

Page no. 52

·         Even though, ultimately, B2B will service companies world-wide, we are starting off, with a small data base of 2.26 lakh “recipient” companies of India I expect service to spread over the globe gradually.

·         I will try to promote B2B, worldwide by

·         Uploading a data base of 26000 chambers of commerce from around the world

·         Appealing them to inform their members about advantage of using B2B (19-11-13)

·         We will need to find solution to this, when companies from all over world try to make online

·         Payment thru PayPal.

Page no. 53

·         Pay pal

Page no. 54

·         but hosted 3p jobs.com, by 1997

·         In B2B subscriber will be able to see a list of 52 “Industries” and 100+ “companies.” Selecting any COUNTRY will reveal a long list of CITIES

·         Ability to quickly (with few clicks) ZERO-IN on what you want.

·         I started 3p in 1990; GM tried then backed off when car dealers revolted 

Page no. 55

·         This is the reason, DELL started operations, only thru phone calls, initially (when small) and thru Interment later on for many years, DELL had no “Brick” retailers.

·         May be someday B2B will enable a small company in one corner of the world, to connect with another small company in another corner of the world!

·         Avl.in our library

Page no. 56

·         In B2B also, as more companies from different countries join-up the more will get tempted to join

Page no.  57

·         Millions of companies of the word get mentored on interment, but if would take days and month to prepare a list. With their email ID and city location country wise leave alone INDUSTRY to which these belongs a given business could SELL its product services to many of these. B2B will make it possible and dramatically EASY, to zero-in (20-11-13).

Page no. 58

·         On B2B a regd. Subscriber (company) may or may not recommend our site to other companies, but I expect that the executive (who use B2B) will talk about us, to their co- professionals when they meet at seminars meeting etc.

 Page no. 59

·         On “my campaign feedback” page we will create such a “personalized page for each of our subscribers.

Page no. 60

·         B2B is planned to become a Global Marketing platform, for companies around the world.

Page no. 62

·         B2B will make this possible.

 

Page no. 64

·         In B2B, each subscriber will try to market its products/service to other subscribers, by sending out marketing messages. BUT, it will also buy from others, when it RECEIVES mktg. messages from other subscribers.

Page no. 65

·         It would be an achievement even if B2B managers to get 10000 subscriber, at the end of first year! 30/day!!

Page no. 66

·         India`s economy is going thru bad times right now. This puts “marketers under pressure to cut advertising costs, and at the same time, reach out to many more potential clients. B2B may be arriving on the scene at a very right time.

Page no. 68

·         What “%age of recipients” respond to any given company`s marketing companies?

·         That is the “success Rate.” A company`s “success Rate” (overall) would depend upon footers,

·         vis:  

·         HOW appropriate were its massagers to the need of the recipients

·         What is that company reputation in the market

 

·         We definitely plan to compile these “Response Rates” for each campaign and for each company.

·         If these look impressive we will use these STATISTICS to attract more subscribers.

Page no. 69

·         Our own B2 B, is not going to be “commission based” it will be pay per use subscription

·         Based (22-141-13)

·         And then we are not concerned with actual sales. Only with delivering of messages

Page no. 74

·         HOW does B2B differentiate itself?

·         It is FREE (at least to login with)

·         It enables “blasting “ of “Advt” (mktg. message) to many businesses, simultaneous

·          by with Just one click.

·         It will have an in built mechanism for recipient feedback

·         Upon receipt of feedback email, an email will alert the sender to visit & lookup.

·         In our case, “recipient companies”   

·         Response rate %

·         Mktg. messages of sender companies

In our case, this is “recipient company.” Many will get annoyed, no doubt, but, since them, they wish to market their product, they will register & “tolerate “incoming messages.

Page no. 75

·         I presume that the SENDER companies will carefully select their TARGET companies –who are most likely to “buy” their products/service. So, in our case, messages will be “targeted”

·         In our case companies will seek out our site to “SEND” the Ads.

Page no. 79

·         Val. In our library

·         Val. In library

·         In B2B, will make use of Google Maps (thru API) (23-11-13).

Page no. 81

·         At some future date, we could consider this method as an alternative to our

·         Proposed “pay peruse” subscription model which we plan to introduce, a few months, after launch of B2B by 6 moths, we would have compiled enough statistics to compute “Response Rate% for each campaign.

·         So do B2B

Page no. 84

·         What will they say when they find that businesses will bypass tradition MEDIA   (TV/Newspaper/hoarding) & send out their mktg. messages directly thru B2B /Pr2C?

·         Where our Response Rate % statistics would excel.

·         Entire world`s companies (B2B) 52 Industry sectors.

   Page no. 85

·         I hope, B2B will make these go down, even more, if we get a 2% “Response Rate, for most companies.

·         Like “pay per message blasted” subscription model.

Page no. 86

·         Once we implement “my campaign Feedback” page, where in, every Email Response from Recipient

·         Is captured/stored, for the sender to view, it is very likely that some of the SENDER

·         Cost: will incorporate a survey from in their mktg. messages. The SENDERS would want the RECIPIENTS to

·         “Interact” with their mktg. message.

     Page no. 87

·         We are integrating Google Maps, in our B2B to select companies by

·         Industry sector

·         Country

·         City

·         Not much of issue in India.

·         We plan this in B2C.

Page no. 88

·         I click “MUTE” on my TV remote, as soon as Ads come on!

Page no. 89

·         What we have in corporate in our App, “My Jobs”

Page no. 93

·         In B2B, companies will register/ join, in order to be able to send out their marketing Massages, But doing so,

·         Exposes them to, also Receive mktg. messages from other subscriber! So, each company “pays” for this FREE service, by way of an obligation we may succeed in starting a VIRATVAS CIRCLE. 

Page no. 94

·         Both of our Apps (my jobs/ Resume Blaster) are using In Mobi Ad. Network platform.

·         Our Apps are based on Android.

Page no. 97

·         In July-Aug-set (2013) quarter, 80%  of smartphone shipped by all licenses,

·         Put together, were ANDROID –based (worldwide) with Apple ios, cornily some 15% at this rate (of growth of ANDROID devices) it may not surprise it Apple falls to less than 10% in 2014.

Page no. 100

·         I hope I can do something like this on a smaller scale for mktg.! B2B the affordable mktg. service for SMS

Page no. 101

·         With the advance of Google`s ANDROID o/s I don`t think this will last very long

Page no. 102

·         Now 80% mkt. share in smart phones shipped last quarter world-wide!!

·         In B2B, every subscriber, created “content” from the simple act of “registering”

Page no. 103

·         In B2B we will be concerned with “user Exp.”

Page no. 104

·         This may not work any more 

·         Does not support Flash –point most common video software

·         When launched world-wide jobs, Telco’s were offering me 10% -15% revenue-shares. I was forced to agree, since

·         I needed to use their. SMS gateway. With mobile Apps, everything changed. App developers are no more dependent

·         On Telco’s.  (25-11-13).

Page no. 105

·         In phase II of B2B, I plan to charge, Re. 1|= for ten messages! In B2C it will be Re. 100 messages.

·         Will Advt. Industry “advise their clients to “shun” B2B? I am sure they will try.

Page no. 106

·         By now there are dozens of smart phone mfre who use ANDROID for free. Google tempted them by offering Android for FREE already, desktops & tablets & even TV sets, working on Android have started appearing Apple will disappear!!

·         Here Google has advantage we designed our Apps on Android.

Page no. 107

·         e.g.:

·         Apple job content?

  Page no. 123

·         A collectors Item?

Page no. 124

·         For B2B, making its service FREE in the beginning is to get a large no of subscriber to register and

·         Give DATA in phase II, we will figure out, how to monetize this data. At the minimum,3p and sentient should be able to use  this data, to expand their off-line businesses

Page no. 125

·         Val in our library

 

Page no. 127

·         PDF Reader- free (95%)

·         PDF creator – paid (5%)

·         We are using FREE version of team viewer for years

·         Will B2B, enable millions of SMS of India to announce their existence to the world? I hope so.

       

        Page no 128

·         Only thing that subscribers of B2B, are giving us is some “data” about them service in return for FREE usage of B2B, if we find that (after a few months) our FREE service really picks-up and hundreds of companies are registering DALLY, then, we can enlarge the “REGISTRATION” from and ask them to give us a lot more data about themselves. We can then figure out some way to “monetize” this additional data. (26-11-13)

 

 

Page no. 129

 

·         We have Google hope integrated in B2B.

 

 

Page no. 137

 

·         I hope data of 27,000 chambers of commerce that we have compiled over last 2 months will prove “valuable” in affricating subscribers, to B2B.  

·         We have yet to utilize “properly” some 5 million job-Advt that we have compiled over last 5 years.

 

 

Page no. 138 

 

·         In B2B we will compile “Response Rate%” (on “my campaign feedback” page) for each campaign of each subscriber.

·         Then we will average these “Mktg. messages, “in order of “Response Rate%” then, for we may allow subscribers to

·         “View” such successful campaign messages to learn benefit

 

Page no. 139

 

·         For most SMS in India, even “classified” in national Newspapers are expensive beyond affordability.

          I hope to rope in many of these on, thru our FREE service.

          Just Dial.com does change for “premium” data display. Basic listing is free.

 

Page no. 140

 

·         Will B2B pose such a risk to Newspapers, TV, and Holdings?

 

 

Page no. 141

 

·         Quote while (phase II) we may consider charging (pay per use) only Large public Ltd companies (few-5%) and keep our service Free for the other 95%

 

 

Page no. 144

 

·         I have mentioned this clause, in our own “Terms & conditions “on B2B.

 

 

Page no. 145

 

·         What we are planning

 

Page no. 161

 

·         For this reason, it is VERY IMPORTANT that we keep B2B, FREE, for the first few months. Once, subscribers have

·         “Experienced” the benefit of using B2B, they will not hesitate to pay-per-use, when in traduced later on. (29-11-13).

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