Gupshup

Gupshup, the leading smart messaging platform, has won the $100,000 Grand Challenge for enabling payments on feature phones in India. The Gupshup solution dramatically improved the payment user experience through seamless integration with secure messaging. This will potentially change the lives of nearly half-a-billion feature phone users in India by bringing them into the digital ecosystem for commerce, payments and other services. Gupshup is working with enterprises, handset manufacturers and payment providers to bring…

As 2018 draws to a close, it’s a good time to take stock of the year in the world of messaging and conversational experiences. Unlike prior years, this one is characterized by less hype and more progress. Developers have been quietly working away, far from the madding crowd, as messaging volumes grow massively and conversational experiences continue to pervade every aspect of human existence. Over the last few years, mobile messaging usage has exploded. It now dominates smartphone usage. While consumer communication grew…

Chatbots will continue to transform virtually every business function from marketing to sales to customer support. One of the other areas that we'll see a major transformation is HR. HR teams have a very challenging job with seemingly conflicting objectives: keeping employees focused and working hard while also keeping them happy and satisfied. HR teams are often held accountable for employee retention and churn without the ability to manage them directly. HR is expected to have a finger on the pulse of a very large…

Our Interview Series Has The Choicest Industry Experts Sharing Precious Insights From Their Years Of Experience. Here’s A List Of The Key Takeaways From CEOs that MTS Spoke To We did the work so you wouldn't have to. Here is a round-up of some crucial learning from the last year in MarTech Interview Series. "Bots Will Empathize" Alok Kulkarni - CEO, Co-Founder, Cyara: The very dynamic nature of providing a personalized service to the consumer with a bot can be challenging because of the vast minutiae involved with…

This Thanksgiving, I’d like to take an opportunity to show immense gratitude for the many gifts that we marketers have received this year. First and foremost, I am thankful for an opportunity to have a direct, one-to-one conversation with our customers. Previously, we did not have the tools to do that. We had to resort to inferior tools to communicate with our customers. It started with print and TV ads, and got a little better with search and social media ads. However, messages were still targeted at broad customer…

With the rise of ‘conversational experiences’, just about every business function — from marketing to commerce to support — must be redesigned to be conversational. The greatest impact felt due to conversational marketing is that businesses interact with far more consumer prospects than they do with those paying customers. Each one of us will soon be experiencing this as a target, if we aren't already. But it’s merely the latest phase in the evolution of marketing. The earliest phase was known as ‘outbound marketing’ and…