Scaling E-Commerce through marketplaces - The BiC story

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, noon

About the speaker - Ahmed Gowda (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedgowda/)

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With a career spanning across organizations like Microsoft and Asus, he now heads E-Commerce and digital for BiC MEA. He has successfully scaled BiC in the last 2 years on all marketplaces. 

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In this episode

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  • His LinkedIn banner says, "In search of incredible". What's the story behind that?
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  • Stationery, light, and razors... With almost no overlap in the audience, what's the positioning of the brand? What does it stand for? How does marketing go about things?
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  • How did you go around achieving such growth over these last 2 years?
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  •  What was the most amazing learning along the way with that data - like some aha moment he had? Does one feel that sometimes we have too much data? 
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  • One of the biggest challenges of an organization steeped in traditional distribution is to adopt a digital mindset. How did he integrate digital into the organization's culture?
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  • What was the learning during Covid as an e-commerce marketeer?
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  • His advice to those who have started their journey in e-commerce today.
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  • Going forward, how big a role would AI play in digital marketing e-commerce? Do you believe it will change the way the media is bought in the next couple if years?
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