Hello friends! I’m writing again after a long time. Really sorry for the long break! But all this time I was busy making TNMG a more valuable offering for all of you. Time is precious so without any more elaboration let’s come to the point. Yesterday, Manoj – a very good friend of mine came to me at around 3 AM in night (or should I say early morning ). Now,  in a busy B-School [...]

If you are a person like me who spends most of his time in the virtual world – Google is perhaps your best friend, philosopher and guide. But many a times you don’t get the desired results in your Google search or it takes more time and efforts than you expected. And you never liked the extra time and effort that you had to spend. May be you could have spent that precious time with your ‘better [...]

Heard about competition? Obviously you have. And, advertisement? What a silly question to ask! Of course, you did. So, may be now it’s time to learn a little bit about ‘competitive advertising’. This is how a dictionary describes the term: “a commonly used type of advertising that communicates the unique benefits of a product, differentiating it from the competition”. So, it’s basically [...]

Launched in 1983 Maggi is the creator of instant noodle category in India. As per Maggi ads it was targeted to children but in real life it has been loved and cherished by college going and hostel living teenagers as well. Maggi was positioned as ‘2-minute noodle’. Please find below a Maggi ad from mid-1980s which shows a young girl asking her mother for quick food: ‘Mummy, I’m hungry’ – [...]

NESCAFÉ is the world-wide popular coffee brand from Nestlé. The official website of the brand is: www.nescafe.com. In India, there are four sub-brands under NESCAFÉ: NESCAFÉ CLASSIC NESCAFÉ SUNRISE Premium NESCAFÉ SUNRISE Special NESCAFÉ CAPPUCCINO NESCAFÉ CLASSIC is targeted to urban youth and positioned as ‘100% Pure Instant Coffee’. The ads shows youths enjoying the NESCAFÉ CLASSIC [...]

Water is a must for living. But even a decade back none really bothered much about it. India being a land of rivers water was never scarce. But as they say resources are always constrained. And, here comes a time when you need to pay for a basic entity of living called ‘water’. In last few years we have seen hordes of companies jumping the bandwagon of water business. Bottled water has [...]