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Tea is India’s most favourite beverage and tea breaks are something that everyone enjoys. We rewind, relax, chat and discuss over a cup of tea. Bengaluru based paper cup startup, known asGingercup is trying to make the best out of tea breaks, by reaching out to potential customers at tea time through their branded and beautiful paper cup.
GingerCup is a paper cup startup that thrives to provide the most innovative and effective marketing solutions, to its clients in creating a strong emotional connection with their customers. Ginger Cup is also known as the Ginger media group, has a long term goal is to be a media company that is the best and the default choice for branding across various verticals and to convert every white paper cup into a coloured cup branding.
Gingercup – Industry Details
The offline marketing industry is rapidly growing with the evolution of new media in OOH space. Consumers spend more than 70% of their working hours outside their homes. 60% of them are dedicated to regular consumer tasks such as commuting to work, working in the office, socializing, and drinking and eating outside their home or in the workplace.
Also, since India is a tea-drinking nation, people from the age group of 18 to 80, from tier 1 city to villages, everybody loves tea. A typical Indian starts their day with tea and consumes at least 2 to 3 cups throughout the day. And that is where all the hot topics of the day get discussed.
The ability to engage with consumers in their tea break makes paper cup marketing a powerful standalone medium and this is how the Ginger cups marketingstrategy complements with other media. When an emotional moment combines with a discussion topic over tea, it exceeds the reach of word of mouth, amplifies the campaign and drives consumers to engage with brands online and in-store.
Gingercup – The Idea
GingerCup founders is Deepak Bansal and Devleena Neogi said –
Deepak came up with this innovative idea and discussed it with me one day. I could completely visualize the impact of paper cups as a media for branding at that very moment. The beauty of the idea was its simplicity. That was my AHA moment. I loved it, but I had mixed emotions. I was very excited to execute the idea but at the same time a bit hesitant because of my stability in profession. Back in our mind, we were thinking – Why no one has tried this so far? Is it really going to be impactful? Whether the market will accept it or not?
Every idea has its pros and cons. When we say simplicity is best at the same time it’s a threat in terms of business perspective. After hours of research, observation and executing a pilot campaign, they realized that it really was a breakthrough paper cup advertising concept.
They both then decided to dedicate their full time to Ginger Cup. Also, the families and friends encouraged and supported us in every way. And that’s how GingerCup was started.
GingerCup logo and name comes from India’s favourite, “adrak wali chai” or ginger tea.
‘adrak wali chai’ holds a special place in the hearts of every individual. That’s where the name of our company, GingerCup, came from. Just like ginger gives flavor to the tea, our cup branding concept enhances the look of plain-white boring paper tea cups by displaying marketing messages.
The tagline of the Ginger Cup reads-“‘cup that serves a purpose”. It serves a dual purpose, as it can be used to serve any beverage such as tea, coffee or water and for advertising purposes.
The paper cup startup has a beautifully designed and meaningful logo.
Gingercup Logo
The letter ‘G’ denotes a piping hot paper cup reaching out with an arrow to a brand’s target audience.
Gingercup – Product
Ginger media group is a creative advertising agency that specializes in paper cup advertising. The paper cup business helps brands engage and interact with their target audience by printing marketing messages on paper tea cups. It helps brands reach out to their target group during tea breaks at offices and colleges.
Unlike other advertising mediums, our paper cups advertisement provide an exposure time of 5-7 minutes in a clutter-free environment. Every cup branding campaign is planned keeping a client’s target audience in mind. For example Professionals in Tech parks, Corporate Companies, HNIs in Airlines, Trains, Colleges, Hospitals or Fitness centers, shopping malls etc.
Gingercup Marketing
Gingercup – Business Model
GingerCup business model is based on outsourcing paper tea cups from third-party vendors and prints advertising messages on them. The uniqueness of cup branding is the biggest USP of the company. Today, brands are constantly on the lookout for innovative ways and techniques to reach out to their target group and get them to take a call to action. This paper cup startup helps brands realize this dream.
We strongly believe that our product is different in the market because it is a personal, dynamic and cost-effective marketing medium. We want our client’s message to reach as many people as possible. Thus, we have created a large inventory base through our tie-ups.
Paper cup advertisement with Gingercup, allows brands to get access to 1400+ corporate companies that include MNC, SME, Startups, Co-working spaces, Food Courts of tech parks, 1500+ colleges, 60+ Hospitals, Shopping Malls, 7 Airlines (International and Domestic) and 75+ Premium trains (Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto) across India.
Gingercup – Funding
When its comes to Gingercup funding, the company gets its funds through seed funding and angel investors. The two major Gingercup investors are
Sanket Gupta, Programme Lead, Google USA.
Rahul Shah, Technical Lead, Microsoft.
Gingercup – Customer Acquisition
Initially, Ginger Cup acquired clients through general sales and marketing techniques. Cold emailing worked great for them. After a couple of pilot campaigns, people began to notice and contact them.
That’s when they truly started getting recognition for their work. From facility managers to leading brands, everyone was interested in understanding the advertising concept and ginger cup business model.
Word of mouth has really helped us become who we are today – Devleena
GingerCup counts Hotstar, Uber, Volkswagen, Huawei, NH Hospitals, Bookmyshow, Exide Life Insurance, Clovia, ISL – Delhi Dynamos, bahubali and Jet Airways as their clients.
Gingercup – Challenges
There are two major challenges faced by GingerCup at the beginning was getting the right manpower and building an inventory base.
Firstly, hiring the right set of people was a big hurdle. However, to our luck, we were soon able to overcome it. Thanks to networking and references, we soon had the right talent joining our team.
Secondly, building an inventory base was not a breeze either. Based on a campaigns demand, we were required to build consumer networks in new domains. Soon, we tied up with consumers in various locations and set up a large inventory base. Ginger media group is now operational in PAN India.
Within a short period of time, Gingercup has started offering services Pan-India, in cities such as Bangalore, Delhi, Noida, Pune, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, and many more. The paper cup startup is also planning to expand abroad.
Gingercup – Founders
Deepak Bansal and Devleena Neogi are a couple entrepreneurs and teh Ginger Cup founders.
Deepak Bansal was working in the IT sector. He also worked as ‘Tech Lead’ in Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore.
Devleena Neogi was an HR professional with exposure in business development for 6 years at different organizations like Wipro Technologies, iGatePatni and Magna Infotech Pvt Ltd.
Gingercup – Work Culture
We encourage an open door policy and believe every person should have a voice. We bridge the gap between leaders and employees by fostering open and honest communication. Our culture fosters diverse communities to create a large impact. Every employee in our organization works together to enhance the value we provide to customers.
There is no direct competition to GingerCup. But some of the GingerCup Competitors are Cupshup, Google and Facebook.
We look at Google and Facebook as our competitors. Today, digital marketing and social media marketing have created a firm place for itself. We consider ourselves still in the nascent stage of experimental marketing. – Devleena
Gingercup – Future Plans
To sustain the attention of various target groups, GingerCup is looking to add a burst of innovation to their paper cups.
Paper cup advertising and innovation are synonymous We are already working on an AR-enabled paper cups that will offer brands enhanced awareness, visibility, and engagement. Ginger cups aim is to make paper cup business a potent marketing tool rather than just limiting it to a beverage container.
Mr. Rahul Shah and Mr. Sanket Gupta who happens to be the GingerCup investors and also is the mentor of the startup.
Gingercup – Founder’s Advice
Start fast, move fast and fail fast.
I would like to tell my fellow entrepreneurs and readers not to rush immediately into fundraising. Rather create a real profitable business, solve real problems, and provide real products and services to real customers.
Also, stay away from mental pollution. Maintain a good work-life balance by taking care of physical health and well being. Prioritize eating well and exercise. Only when the mind, body, and spirit are energized you will be able to get the taste of success.
Being an entrepreneur, it’s sometimes a lonely journey. Besides, look at the brighter side. You get to do what you want and you get to do it your own way.
Gingercup – Founder’s Productivity Hacks
GingerCup founder Devleena Neogi shared some of her productivity hacks with us. Starting up a paper cup startup is definitely not easy. But it’s very important to keep yourself productive and organized always.The biggest productivity hack for Devleena is to strike a fine balance between his work and personal life.
I give a lot of emphasis to self-care. Only when your mind is clutter-free can the creative juices flow. I also lead a systematic and disciplined lifestyle. My morning starts with yoga and meditation. Staying in sync with nature keeps me refreshed and helps me take on every new day with enthusiasm and confidence.
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The Indian logistics market is one of the most significant ones in the global logistics and supply chain market which is worth $4.3 trillion. The growth of the logistics and supply chain sector is phenomenal and contributes to more than 14% of India’s GDP. Zipaworld is a logistics engine or can be called a marketplace, or an e-Mall that exclusively caters to the logistics services needs of the market and customers. Zipaworld happens to be the most unique digital logistics platform where e-booking and other transactions can be done related to air freight, ocean freight, and surface freight all from one platform.
Zipaworld has already managed to bring multi-modal transportation and logistics like air freight, ocean freight, road freight into one platform just within a span of 9 months since its launch in September 2020. Over the past few months, it has grown organically with partnerships and associations with various vendors and other players within India, in the Gulf countries, Europe, and the USA. It managed to have associates in over 35 countries across the world providing logistics services.
StartupTalky interviewed the core team @ Zipaworld to know the Startup Story and the roadmap of the organization. Get insights on How Zipaworld started, its business & revenue model, founder, parent company, what Zipaworld does, its growth/expansion plans, and more…
Zipaworld is a logistics service provider but the digital way, or a digital logistics platform. The team calls Zipaworld – The Logistics E-mall. The concept of E-mall is applied here, that is, a single-window portal that displays several catalogs, products, or vendors providing their products and services. The idea is to provide a single-window solution to the customer who is otherwise required to go from pillar to post for their requirements.
In the logistics arena, there has been a dire need for the centralization of processes and single window sources, as currently, the customer must go to various vendors and service providers. The concept of e-Mall for logistics was coined by the founder, Dr. Ambrish Kumar, and named Zipaworld. As the name suggests, Zipaworld provides various logistics services to the numerous zip codes of the world. This includes multi-modal transportation, other freight forwarding services through air, ocean, rail, road freight along with the other aspects of the supply chain.
Zipaworld is an online platform that provides automated solutions for domestic and international courier services, air freight, ocean freight, road/ rail freight, door-to-door services, first/ last mile pick-ups and deliveries, express services, warehousing services, customs brokerage services, and other logistics services. Zipaworld offers a seamless digital experience with features like freight query management, freight rate comparisons, online booking, prompt freight forwarding, automated freight documentation, live tracking, instant invoicing, online payment gateways, e-dockets for storing and archiving e-documents, and so on.
Zipaworld Integration Process
The vision for the next few months is to integrate more than 25000 zip codes of India into the platform and integrate the same with the global zip codes connecting them using the various modes of cargo transportation. The idea is to provide a seamless convenience to the end consumers like manufacturers, distributors, exporters, importers, traders to avail transparent logistics services at their own ease without much interference by the multiple mediators. The concept of delivering anything and everything will be achieved by the end of this year. The company plans to expand outside India on a large scale in the coming couple of years and become a global player with a virtual presence in more than 150 trading countries. It plans to create a huge network in the supply chain integrating all stakeholders for smooth movement of trade.
The long-term vision of Zipaworld is to use the latest technology like Machine Learning, AI, IoT to automate the complete logistics processes and bring in blockchain technology in the logistics and supply chain. The idea is to turn the tables for the supply chain bringing in sheer visibility, mitigating risks, reducing the demand and supply gap, consequently reducing the logistics cost which is currently very high.
The logistics and supply chain sector in India is the second-fastest-growing sector after e-commerce. The growth of the sector is phenomenal and contributes to more than 14% of the GDP. The worth of the sector stands at USD 170 billion currently and is expected to grow up to USD 250 billion at a CAGR of 10.5% in the next 5 years. This was the prediction pre-COVID, but the prediction has not changed much post-COVID as well. As the global trade is increasing and the dependency of the various nations on one another is also increasing, logistics is a sector that is getting benefitted. The Indian logistics market is one of the most significant ones in the global logistics and supply chain market which is worth $ 4.3 trillion.
Also, India is set to become a global investment hub for production and manufacturing, warehousing, and a potential trans-shipment hub and gateway for trade movement from the nearby countries. The supply chain and logistics sector in India is also the largest employment provider, with more than 8 million people employed across India. However, there are several drawbacks that keep the logistics cost at 14% of the GDP.
The major reason being the unorganized, disintegrated, and fragmented processes and players across the whole supply chain ecosystem. Only 15% of the players have an organized and integrated working model. Other reasons include the under-developed infrastructure of ports, cargo terminals, not up to the mark road and rail network, an uneven network of warehouses, lagging cold-chain facilities, lack of multi-modal transportation, issues pertaining to first and last-mile connectivity, decentralized customs procedures, and most of all non-availability of centralized and single-window logistics platforms.
Zipaworld – Founders and Team
AAA 2 Innovate Pvt Ltd, the parent startup company, and Zipaworld were founded by Dr. Ambrish Kumar. The core team comprises of his co-companions from his previous company, some experts of the supply chain & technology sectors, fresh young minds aspiring to kick-start a career in logistics and supply chain and IT fields of work, and those seeking to grow with the growth of the start-up. The core team that is taking the concept forward consists of personnel from the shipping line, airline, ports and terminals, freight forwarding, technology backgrounds.
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About Dr. Ambrish Kumar | Founder, Zipaworld
Dr. Ambrish Kumar is a renowned name in the logistics and supply chain fraternity. He has been the brain behind the award-winning Indian startup LogYcode that revolutionized the Air Freight logistics ecosystem a couple of years back. The concept coined and implemented by Dr. Ambrish Kumar turned out to be one of the initial movers to launch a mobile app for Logistics services. Dr. Ambrish holds the acumen of more than 16 years of experience in stalwart diverse combinations in the domains of Logistics, Freight Forwarding, CFS, Operation, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing & Evaluating New Project Movements.
He has held senior management pedestals of different reputed organizations like APM Terminals India Pvt. Ltd., Eastern Cargo Carriers India Pvt. Ltd, Group CEO of S.A. Consultants and Forwarders Pvt Ltd (SA Group) and LogYcode Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd (Founder).
He has an affluent academic background, having attained P.HD. in Economics, with his thesis on ‘Industrial Policy and Industrial Growth’. Also, his qualifications include M. A. in Economics and MBA in International Trade and is also SAP qualified. There is an innovation involved in every action of Dr. Ambrish and his team whether it is designing the office space of the start-up or designing a digital gateway to revolutionize the logistics sector.
Team and Work Culture
AAA2 Innovate Pvt Ltd. – Office Reception Area
The startup is gradually growing which started with a team of 6 core members and now has a team of more than 30 members in the direct payrolls. In addition, the start-up has also managed to acquire stakes in a domestic transportation company by the name of Radiant X-Ways Logistic Pvt Ltd, which has offices in more than 40 locations across India.
The startup has formed a vibrant work culture and the office resonates an aura that every employee looks forward to every day. The startup follows a circular hierarchy rather than the usual vertical or horizontal hierarchy, where any member of the team can approach any other member or senior without any hurdles or protocols.
There are only mentors and no reporting managers. The company promotes working from home as the processes are fully digitized.
Anyone can use the office space any time with sheer flexibility in timings.
There are no strict office hours to be followed as the company has aligned its work partners with its vision and everyone feels responsible towards their work.
The office encourages leisure and fun with an in-house chill-out and gossip area with couches, bean bags, and recliners, reading nooks, Table-Tennis, and other activities to keep its people engaged with more than just work.
The startup focuses on the happiness index of its workforce with policies and norms molded to justify this factor.
The startup has done its best in supporting the team members and their families during the crisis hours and the pandemic.
AAA2 Innovate workspace
Hiring and Head-hunting
While head-hunting, the company looks for partners in their crime and not employees. The aspirants who wish to be an integral part of the team, who are responsible themselves, and who wish to grow with the growth of the company. The startup is highly instrumental in campus recruitments and offering internships to freshers and thereafter rendering them opportunities to make a career in the company itself.
Zipaworld’s Ideation Journey – How it Started
The founder of Zipaworld, Dr. Ambrish Kumar is a hardcore logistics professional who has grown from ground level and held senior-level positions in various levels of the supply chain like, ports and terminals, shipping lines, freight forwarders, etc. He is also SAP qualified and always was inclined towards technological advancement, artificial intelligence, and human development. As he has experienced several loopholes in the conventional logistics processes that still exist with manual workflows and heavy paperwork, he realized that automation and integration are the need of the hour.
He, along with a team of logistics and IT experts had developed a prototype model of a logistics platform in his previous company where he held the position of CEO. However, since the company was only into freight forwarding, the scope of the digital platform was only limited to the B2B model and could not explore the larger supply chain. So, he planned to start his own venture by the name of AAA 2 Innovate Pvt Ltd which was launched during the pandemic in July 2020.
While the industry and most businesses were apprehensive of taking any new risks during the pandemic, Dr. Ambrish and his team found the pandemic as an opportunity to capitalize and bring about a digital transformation which was the need of the hour. During the unexpected and prolonged lockdowns, many conventional enterprises of the logistics sector suffered as they could not carry out their operations due to dependency on manual working, and businesses were badly affected. Zipaworld was launched within a record time of three months in September 2020 and started with automated processes for air freight transactions. This turned out to be a boon to many exporters and importers, traders of pharmaceuticals, and also to small freight forwarding enterprises as they could carry out their logistics transactions like checking competitive pricing options, book shipments, get automated freight documents, pay the freight online, track their shipments, get deals and discounts, and much more, all round the clock at their convenience.
Within a month’s time, it managed to get more than 20 customers and 30 vendors onboard the platform. There are some other reasons that rendered an impetus to Dr. Ambrish Kumar and his ambitious team to develop Zipaworld. The increasing logistics and supply chain cost which is almost 14.5% in India, compelled for integration and digitalization of the processes offering single-window solutions. Another major reason is the improving Government policies and initiatives to encourage the logistics industry and draw global trade opportunities and investments.
Zipaworld is a logistics engine or can be called a marketplace, or an e-Mall that exclusively caters to the logistics services needs of the market and customers. Zipaworld happens to be the most unique digital logistics platform where e-booking and other transactions can be done related to air freight, ocean freight, and surface freight all from one platform. Not just that, Zipaworld can be used to book both international and domestic air freight. The platform integrates multi-modal transportation. The customer can just feed their zip codes for the origin and destination and Zipaworld offers an end-to-end solution and booking options. Zipaworld has now also reached the doorsteps of people across India by getting into the B2C concept with its newly launched domestic and international Courier product, where it is even providing doorstep pick-up services from more than 2000 pin codes across India.
Hence, the customer does not need to go to various vendors for various services like transportation, warehousing, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and so on. The portal negates conventional delays caused by time zone differences, as the price quotes and the processes are fully automated and are available 24×7.
Moreover, the whole process moves in a simple ‘Previous-Next’ model, which makes the user comprehend the flow easily. The portal logs and records stage-wise updates and send push messages and notifications to the customer thereby keeping utmost transparency of the transactions.
Zipaworld is developed keeping in view the end customer or a layman. So the user interface of Zipaworld and its flow are easily understandable by even a layman. The portal simplifies the complexities of logistics and renders an easy gateway to book cargo just like booking travel or vacation. While the platform provided end-to-end logistics services like door-to-door logistics, but it does not use complex terminologies like the Incoterms or confusing documentation names. The platform has simple-to-understand terminologies that anyone can use without any training or demonstration. Moreover, the platform does a single invoicing for multiple services availed for a single shipment. There are various analytics and reporting available for the users to assess the trends and anticipate seasonal fluctuations based on historical data.
Zipaworld is a web and cloud-based platform that makes it readily handy for anyone with a smartphone or laptop to use. It is developed in such a way that people located in remote areas can also carry out their logistics and supply chain transactions from one gateway without having to go through the otherwise puzzling processes and documentation formalities.
While discussing the pain areas that have been addressed by Zipaworld, let us first highlight the pain areas of the customers seeking logistics services –
The logistics sector is largely disintegrated and fragmented. This causes the end customer or the owner of a consignment, to suffer the most.
Currently, not just in India, but across the world, there are very few single-window gateways that offer all logistics and multi-modal transportation services from one gateway.
Hence, the end customer must go to various disintegrated vendors for various services, like a vendor for warehousing, another for transportation, another for freight forwarding, and so on.
Moreover, the customer is required to manage the pricing, invoicing, and payments separately for each vendor.
This calls for not just wastage of time and energy, heavy paperwork, multiple authorizations, etc., but also fetches high-cost factors as there are many players and mediators involved.
In a nutshell, the uniquely designed Zipaworld portal addresses the pain areas and optimizes cost-effectiveness, time efficiency, and service efficiency.
Zipaworld – Name, Tagline and Logo
Significance of Name ‘Zipaworld’
The name ‘Zipaworld’ signifies the various zip codes of the world. As Zipaworld is a centralized platform that is involved in 3PL/ 4PL services, the name justifies the service portfolio encompassing all logistics services from origin zip code to destination zip code from a single window, anywhere in the world.
Notion Behind Zipaworld’s Logo Design
The logo shows speeding lines with Zipaworld written, which shows fast and prompt service.
Zipaworld Logo
Zipaworld’s Tagline
The tagline ‘The Logistics E-Mall of India’ again means a one-stop e-marketplace that offers all logistics services.
Logo & Tagline of Zipaworld’s Parent Company
AAA Logo
The logo of the parent company AAA 2 Innovate Pvt Ltd is a pencil with a tree growing on top of it. This denotes writing and starting innovation and flourishing into various levels and fields of work. As the startup is into various other services like software (ERP, SaaS) development, digital marketing, cloud and server services, Trading and sourcing, financial management services, logistics consultancy. The tagline of the parent company is ‘Innovation is our addiction’, resonating with the innovative addictive impetus that each team member carries with them.
Zipaworld is an online marketplace from where the customers can choose and book one or more logistics services as per their requirement. Zipaworld offers options to pick and choose services with instant pricing quotes available for air freight, ocean freight and express services thereby optimizing the turnaround times. For air or ocean consignments, just like booking a travel ticket, one needs to insert some basic information like origin, destination, date of materialization, number of packages, weight and dimensions, and commodity type, checking the requisite services from the checkboxes.
The portal flashes instant live market pricing options with all-inclusive cost options to view cost break-up. The customer may choose based on service levels and cost, and e-book the consignment. Upon booking, the Airway Bill, Bill of Lading, or other freight documents get automatically created after which the online payment can be made. The pricing is fetched real-time from the various contracted vendors and carriers, thereby making the pricing realistic and competitive.
Zipaworld’s revenue comes from the incentives, performance-linked bonuses and volume-based contracts, and commitments with vendors and carriers. The margins levels and service/ convenience fees and commissions have always been kept on the lower side as the bigger aim is to cater with a competitive and reliable gateway for the service seekers.
Zipaworld – Startup Launch and Growth Hacks
The company was launched during the pandemic which was a time of disillusionment for most businesses. However, the team saw it as an opportunity and looked forward to launching the platform for prospective customers from the pharmaceutical and medical sectors. The idea was planted rightly and they started getting pharmaceutical customers on board just within a fortnight of the launch. The first customer to be on board with the company was a pharmaceutical manufacturer and trader. The customer located in Mumbai could easily access the portal and e-book shipments on their own which helped them during the pandemic when they could not rely on their vendors who were mostly closed.
Earlier people had to approach multiple vendors like transporters, warehouse providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, which was hectic and they could not focus on their core business. Also, they had to chase the vendors for freight documentation, trade-related authorizations, billing invoices which was a painstaking hassle. Also, they did not get proper information regarding the status of the processes and shipments. Zipaworld portal helped them improve their supply, procurement, exports, and distribution turnaround time to less than 1/4th of what it was before. They were able to focus on their core business more and maximize the production and distribution activities during the COVID time.
It initially managed to multiply the customers through existing customers who suggested Zipaworld to other exporters of pharmaceuticals, mostly they were from western Indian cities. Hence it can be stated that the initial customer onboarding was through word-of-mouth and traditional sales and marketing drives.
Zipaworld started carrying out digital marketing activities through social media, news media, and email marketing which further enhanced the reach of Zipaworld to other parts of India and also globally. It managed to get recognition from customers from the Middle Eastern countries and Europe as well. Gradually the startup managed to gain more than 100 customers within 4 months of the launch of the Zipaworld portal.
By the first quarter of 2021, Zipaworld started witnessing a huge influx of visiting customers and prospects through the Zipaworld portal which could be used for price comparison purposes without logging in or registration process. The launch of the Ocean Freight Module in early Feb 2021 saw an increasing demand for ocean freight inquiries through the portal mostly from the western Indian regions.
Further, the team managed to leap ahead investing stakes in Radiant X-ways Logistic Pvt Ltd, a 10-year-old Indian domestic logistics giant renowned for express distribution, catering to the first and last-mile transportation by air and road to a huge client base that consisted of electronics, spare parts, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors. This helped it gain access to catering to the international logistics requirements of the customers.
Zipaworld – Challenges Faced
The Logistics sector still follows an orthodox working model. If one compares the air freight forwarding process with the passenger air travel industry, the latter is fully automated for almost 15 years with e-booking platforms and smooth paperless transactions.
In the logistics and freight forwarding sector, the fraternity is still accustomed to using e-mails and phone calls for inquiries with paper-based transactions galore. The team at Zipaworld faced an initial reluctance from the prospects to cling to a new digital means to carry out the transactions. However, they started getting overwhelming penetration and recognition amongst its customers within a month as the need of the hour was a digital single window gateway during the pandemic. The customers started understanding the dire need for automation of processes, accuracy, transparency, visibility thereby reducing turnaround time and following best practices. The idea of saving time, cost, and manpower and rather using these elements for more productive works has been comprehended by the customers.
Zipaworld is a digital portal that can be accessed from across the world, hence the idea is to be virtually omnipresent in all parts of the world. Over the past few months, it has grown organically with partnerships and associations with various vendors and other players within India, in the Gulf countries, Europe, and the USA. It managed to have associates in over 35 countries across the world providing logistics services.
The complete logistics market of India is worth $170 billion and is growing at a CAGR of 10.5% to reach $ 250 billion in the next 5 years. For assessment, the startup takes into consideration only the exports market from the top 8 cities of India, which as per its study from the DGCA data, stands at approx. 1020 tons.
With the kind of centralized and multimodal platform developed, Zipaworld has considered a modest 5% of the total volumes handled from the origin. This is only an instance of the exports market, however, its scope includes imports, domestic market, express and courier, and other logistics services.
The team at Zipaworld expects the payback period of the initial investment in 2.5 years as per the growth trend and assessment of volumes, revenues, and cost.
The Zipaworld has an average of more than 5000 visitors daily which forms the base for the visiting customers. This is in addition to the already registered 250+ regular customers availing of logistics services across the world. The popularity of the Zipaworld website (zipaworld.com) has been growing phenomenally with the website being ranked 70000 among the global websites and 7200 among the Indian websites in just within a span of 9 months on Alexa ranking and various other popularity measures.
Zipaworld – Funding
The startup has remained self-funded and bootstrapped till now and has managed to successfully stay above the breakeven. The team shall look for the funding when it is the right time and have encompassed most of the supply chain activities within the online platform.
The concept and the idea are formulated and mentored by the founder of the company, Dr. Ambrish Kumar who leads from the front to propel the ventures to achieve the larger vision and mission.
However, it has several IT consultants and mentors guiding to use the right technology, switch gears whenever required to stay abreast with the market requirements. Zipaworld has a robust team of logistics professionals who keep the workflows up to the mark with the present standards also adhering to the trade norms and protocols. It has reliable and renowned vendors and partners associated who provide the most competitive and transparent pricing options.
Zipaworld – Acquisition & Investment
It invested a stake in Radiant X-ways Logistic Pvt Ltd, a 10-year-old Indian domestic logistics giant renowned for express distribution, catering to the first and last-mile transportation by air and road to a huge client base that consisted of electronics, spare parts, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors.
The company has a presence in over 27 states across India with more than 40 offices and warehouses. The direct control over own and fixed transport fleet of specialized vehicles enabling reach to the remotest part of the country makes Radiant commit pick-up from and delivery to any corner of India.
There are several traditional logistics players embracing technology to automate processes and a lot of startups entering the supply chain arena to bring innovative solutions to the pain areas. However, one fact to be noted is that most of the digital transformations are taking place at the entity or enterprise level. That is, the automation is taking place to simplify a particular process and not integrating the complete end-to-end workflow.
For instance, there are enterprises and startups that have come out with solutions for first and last-mile connectivity, there are others that have brought solutions for warehousing, some others with ocean freight booking platforms. However, until the integration between these players happens with more single-window solutions, the loopholes in the supply chain ought to remain and the end customer will suffer.
If looked at the competition, it can be stated that there are very few online platforms across the world that offer multi-modal freight options in one dashboard. However, there are ocean freight platforms like Cogoport, FreightBro, air freight platforms like Freightos, and other logistics platforms like Far-eye, Shipsy, etc.
The growing popularity of the Zipaworld website across India and around the globe is the most significant recognition for the team.
Zipaworld has been in the news for all the good reasons that have been highlighted and praised by the various media that have covered the endeavors of Zipaworld in addressing the pain areas, especially during pandemic times.
The team has seen enterprises and organizations showing interest and getting associated with them over the past few months from the Middle-east, Europe, and the USA.
The parent company AAA 2 Innovate Pvt Ltd is registered with DPIIT (Start-up India), is MSME registered, and is a member of the global logistics trade network 7Connetwork.
Zipaworld – Future/Expansion Plans
Zipaworld will be soon having its Partner program for registering on-board the aspirants who wish to carry out a logistics business from their convenience and location and be a part of the logistics ecosystem.
The online portal is all set to integrate more than 25000 zip codes across India with extensive global connectivity in the remainder of the year 2021, thereby resolving the first and last mile connectivity issues pertaining to the sector.
Zipaworld will soon be introducing a fleet of more than 150 Electronic/battery-operated transport vehicles along with its partner companies in their drive to reduce carbon footprint and also to reach out to cover the remotely commercial and non-commercial locations across North India.
Further ventures this year include integrating goods transportation and drivers to the Zipaworld application and connecting them with the manufacturers, exporters, shippers, traders, bookings through Zipaworld App. The concept of delivering anything and everything will be achieved by the end of this year.
Zipaworld plans to expand outside India on a large scale in a coming couple of years and become a global player with a virtual presence in more than 150 trading countries. It plans to create a huge network in the supply chain integrating all stakeholders for smooth movement of trade.
The long-term vision of Zipaworld is to use the latest technology like Machine Learning, AI, IoT to automate the complete logistics processes and bring in blockchain technology in the logistics and supply chain. The idea is to turn the tables for the supply chain bringing in sheer visibility, mitigating risks, reducing the demand and supply gap, consequently reducing the logistics cost which is currently very high.
Zipaworld – FAQs
What is Zipaworld?
Zipaworld is an online platform that provides automated solutions for air freight, ocean freight, road/ rail freight, door-to-door services, first/ last mile pick-ups and deliveries, express services, courier, warehousing services, customs brokerage services, and other logistics services.
Who founded Zipaworld?
AAA 2 Innovate Pvt Ltd, the parent startup company, and Zipaworld were founded by Dr. Ambrish Kumar.
What is AAA2 Innovate?
AAA2 Innovate Pvt Ltd is the parent company of Zipaworld. It is into various other services like software (ERP, SaaS) development, digital marketing, cloud and server services, Trading and sourcing, financial management services, logistics consultancy.
How does Zipaworld make money?
Zipaworld is an online marketplace from where customers can choose & book one or more logistics services as per their requirement. Zipaworld’s revenue comes from the incentives, performance-linked bonuses and volume-based contracts, and commitments with vendors and carriers.
What is Zipaworld’s USP?
Zipaworld is a logistics engine or can be called a marketplace, or an e-Mall that exclusively caters to the logistics services needs of the market and customers. Zipaworld happens to be the most unique digital logistics platform where e-booking and other transactions can be done related to air freight, ocean freight, and surface freight all from one platform.
When was Zipaworld launched?
Zipaworld was launched in September 2020, amidst the pandemic.
Is Zipaworld an Indian Company?
Yes. Zipaworld is an Indian Company headquartered in Noida.
With the growing digitalization across the world, people are opting for various advanced products and services. Among such advanced services, subscription boxes are widely popular! It works best as it saves your money and also provides you a quality product. That’s the fun of Subscription boxes.
Today, numerous companies have opted for the Subscription-based business model. From the past few years, Subscription services have expanded on a large platform, especially in a pandemic, people have tried several online grocery and meal kit boxes. The result has been tremendous. When you receive a brand new Subscription box in your mail every month, nothing could be more joyful!
Whether it’s about beauty products or entertainment, Subscription-based businesses are earning great revenues. Moreover, Subscription boxes are the best gift for your loved one these days. These boxes are available in all categories and occasions, you just need to choose the right one for you!
The most fascinating thing about Subscription boxes is that they are extremely affordable. And that’s what attracts the audience most! In this article, we have covered some of the best Subscription box services of 2021. Let’s get started!
It’s a monthly subscription box service made for beauty products. GLOSSYBOX sends five selected (according to your preferences) beauty products to your address in a beautiful pink box.
GLOSSYBOX offers a wide range of beauty categories including fragrance, skincare, haircare, and makeup. All products are varied from foreign beauty brands and are tremendous.
Facetory works on offering the best and most affordable beauty products to its customers. With such a wide range of products in the market, Facetory aims for producing the most attainable, affordable, and practical usage products. The company works best for all occasions and categories. You can give Facetory boxes to your friends, family, and anyone.
Winc
Winc
When it comes to wine subscription boxes, what’s better than Winc! Can you imagine, WINE for every month! That’s unbelievable. And that is what Winc proposes.
It offers a palette quiz from which the customers can choose the personalized wine bottle for their every month subscription box.
No more standing in a line at your local shop for buying a bottle of wine, you can have it delivered to your home every month. Winc charges $13/bottle as it delivers four bottles per month.
Fresh Baked Cookie Crate
Fresh Baked Cookie Crate
Imagine, unboxing a box filled with the most delicious cookies, Tasty! Yes, it is. Fresh Baked Cookie Crate delivers a box packed with delicious ingredients, simple and handy guidelines along with the best surprise a foodie could ask for, by every month.
Fresh Baked Cookie Crate prepares its boxes with great compassion and puts each item meticulously chosen that provides the most amazing pleasure of eating cookies.
SnackNation
SnackNation
Thinking of something to gift your colleague who is missing out on the pleasure of snacks in the working hour? Well, SnackNation is the best choice for you! It delivers a box of various snacks which are very healthy. It provides around 15 to 50 treats in each box, based on customer’s preferences and budgets. SnackNation is best to spend your quality time eating the most healthy and delicious snacks of all time.
Trunk Club is an incredibly popular subscription box company under the Nordstrom Umbrella. It offers a huge range of inventory for both men and women. Your browsing is done by professional stylists.
Trunk Club prepares your box and in case you want to swap any item, you can do it before the shipment. It delivers 6-10 items in its box every month. Trunk Club charges $25 for the styling fee along with other items that you purchased.
Trunk Club offers the best customer service and offers tension-free shopping experience.
Nuuly
It often happens when we choose urban clothing from Anthropologie or free people, it gets pretty expensive. And that’s where Nuuly comes in!
Through its subscription service, Nuuly delivers six styles from the stores’ prominent brand, every month at the price of $88. Nuuly also offers free shipping and return access to its customers.
Kiwico
Kiwico
Kiwico starts at $19.95 and offers various boxes filled with tons of hands-on fun activities for all age groups and their interests. The customer gets to choose from the preference of age-based subscriptions for STEM and inventiveness.
Kiwico offers great service and shopping options that builds up a huge customer base for it.
Birchbox
Makeup and skincare often becomes pretty expensive, plus it is really tough to go with experiments in these products. For that purpose, Birchbox was founded. The subscribers get various category options of skin type, hair concerns, and more; from these, Birchbox sends five new mini products, based on their preferences and types, from the top brands every month with the starting price of $13/month.
Ritual
Ritual
Ritual is entirely based on the commitment to simplicity, traceability, and elements that are formulated for body health and fitness. Ritual offers the products in the form of the only vitamin required for a healthy functioning body.
Ritual utilizes beadlet-in-oil embossing which is meant to provide great nutrients in comparison to traditional capsules. Its package includes a 60 capsule containing bottles which are absolutely vegan-certified.
Subscription boxes are the best choice when you are looking for getting your required products in general proportion every month. It makes your life easy and filled with joy. You can buy clothes, beauty products, or groceries; anything you require.
These subscription-based companies offer great deals and deliver the box every month as per the delivery date. In today’s digital world, subscription boxes are the best to save money and buy quality products.
FAQ
What is Subscription box?
Subscription boxes are recurring delivery of niche products.
What are some of the top Subscription boxes?
GlossyBox, Facetory, Winc, Fresh Baked Cookie Crate, SnackNation and Trunk Club are some of the top Subscription boxes.
Why are subscription boxes so successful?
Subscription boxes are successful because it gets straight delivered to the consumers home which is more convenient than walking to the store.
The prototype of healthcare companies in India is changing.
The technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality and telecommunications are now amalgamated into health care services, giving rise to better healthcare facilities with more precision and efficiency.
And this got merely possible because of IoT technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) is able to change the way we work and live. The ecosystem of connected physical objects, which are accessible via the internet, is called IoT. If IoT comes to its full potential, it will change all areas of our lives.
This can be testified by looking at the type of change in the healthcare sector where paper and pen are the primary means of documenting information of patients for decades. But now, the healthcare industry is developing in a new way.
Digital health care applications allow patients to plan their appointments without having to wait for a receptionist or call the doctor’s office. Also, it allows doctors to transfer information with patients via smartphones.
There are so many impediments to the growth of the healthcare system. It includes the increasing cost of treatment, shortage of medical professionals, the lack of adequate infrastructure, lack of access to quality healthcare in rural and remote areas, and the increase in chronic diseases. The IoT healthcare startups in India can help to meet the demands of today’s increasing patients.
Some of the benefits of IoT in the healthcare sector are:
Advantages of IoT in Healthcare
1. Improves the quality of healthcare
IoT healthcare startups enable easy access to healthcare data of patients via simultaneous reporting and monitoring through connected devices. It will enhance the ability of healthcare providers to offer customized treatments for patients and evidence-based treatments. Also, It ensures the wider coverage of patients and a shorter treatment cycle.
2. Reduced medical costs and errors
IoT helps to monitor health parameters using mobile health applications and diagnostic tools. Also, it gives live reports to doctors via interconnected devices. Medical personnel can make decisions using this collection of health data. It will reduce medical errors. As a result, hospital stays, re-admissions, and unnecessary visits to the hospital will be reduced.
3. Healthcare accessibility in rural areas
The IoT can increase the reach of quality healthcare to rural places via remote health monitoring. IoT enabled patients who live in remote villages to connect with doctors in urban specialty hospitals from their homes.
In recent years, there has been limited growth in the Indian healthcare sector with the country lagging behind in many health indicators.
Currently, India is the second-most populated country in the world. And 20% of the global disease burden is in India itself. Also, infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates are high in India. The Internet of Things (IoT) based healthcare companies have the potential to transform our healthcare system into an efficient, integrated, and patient-centric system.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has got the attention of everyone in India. The Indian government announced that it plans to make a $15 billion IoT market in the country. Medical Council of India reported that the doctor-patient ratio is 1: 1674 in India. In this situation, IoT can be a great leveler.
Some of the IoT-based healthcare startups in India are mentioned below:-
IoT has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare sector in India
1. Spectral Insights
Spectral Insights is a technology company providing solutions and systems to solve the challenges in the healthcare industry. The company was co-founded by Prasanth, Dipankar Das, Sumit Nath, Raghubansh Gupta, and Suhash Gerald in 2016. They have created a platform that provides innovative imaging, advanced analytics (AI/ML), and digital microscopy for hospitals, pharma R&D, and clinical laboratories. The headquarters of the company is situated in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The company operates with the pathology department to give any time access to high-quality digital slide images (blood smear, biopsies, TB, pap smear, etc.). Also, it offers a comprehensive suite of analytical tools to their clients that improve accuracy, and objectivity. Spectral Insight is a multi-faceted platform with spectroscopy, optics, artificial intelligence, algorithms, data management, visualization, and cloud computing.
Forus Health is founded by a group of engineers in 2010. It is a medical technology startup with a goal to eliminate avoidable blindness. Over the years, they have developed technology solutions to increase affordability and access to eye care. The first product of the company is 3nethra classic. It is a portable and compact non-mydriatic fundus camera used for taking digital images of the anterior (cornea) and posterior (retina) segments of the eye.
The device will help to identify common eye problems such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, cataract, ARMD, etc. Also, it is integrated with a cloud-based telemedicine platform that enables remote diagnosis. There are 40 million people who are blind in the world out of which 15 million people are living in India. The major reasons for this problem are the high cost of treatment/surgery, limited access to eye care facilities, and lack of awareness. The aim of Forus Health is to utilize technology to reduce diagnostic costs, increase access, and raise awareness.
Cardiac Design Labs is founded by Anand Madanagopal in 2011. The headquarters of the company is located in Bengaluru, Karnataka. They offer diagnosis and cardiac monitoring by deploying intelligent systems that give automatic remote reporting. It saves both cost and time. Their aim is to provide advanced diagnostics to the peoples in an affordable way. The company has created a wearable device named MIRCaM (Mobile Intelligent Remote Cardiac Monitor).
That device is able to provide real-time cardiac monitoring and diagnosis in remote settings. In India, there are only 4000 cardiologists for 64 million cardiac patients. Anand Madanagopal believes MIRCaM can bridge this gap. They have a core team of experts, from different disciplines, including material science engineers, cardiologists, software and system hardware engineers.
4. Bagmo
Bagmo Pvt Ltd. is founded by Ashfaq Ashraf, Anas Dalinatakam, and Arshad KA in March 2017. The headquarters of the company is located in Kochi, Kerala. The aim of the company is to eliminate the lack of blood availability in rural India. They created a blood bag monitoring device. It will monitor the temperature of blood bags during storage and transportation. Each blood donation will be recorded on the cloud platform. After the testing, the components (blood cells, plasma, platelets) will be stored in separate bags.
This B2B company helps to improve communication and logistics issues. Also, it helps reduce wastage at blood collection centers. An RFID (radio frequency identification) card is connected to each bag. The refrigerator that stores the bag and its unique ID will be stored in the cloud. In blood requirement cases, the individual/hospital needs to enter the details in the cloud. Then the blood bag monitoring device shows which bag is suitable for the requirement and in which refrigerator that bag is stored.
So far we have seen what advantage IoT brings to the healthcare industry. This gives a gist of how IoT is going to be the future of the healthcare industry by solving the pain points of patients.
IoT with its far-reaching benefits and patient-centric approach has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare sector in India. But for making a maximum result, support infrastructures should be more strengthened. It includes a low cost of IoT-enabled devices, internet availability and reliability, strong IT framework, data security and privacy, and seamless user experience.
FAQs – IoT Healthcare Companies
What does IoT mean in Healthcare?
IoT (Internet of Things) enables healthcare professionals to keep a watch on their patient’s conditions and connects actively via smart devices. IoT devices are tagged with sensors to track the real-time location of medical equipment like wheelchairs, defibrillators, nebulizers, oxygen pumps and other monitoring equipment.
What is the role of IoT in health and fitness monitoring?
IoT will be the future for monitoring the patient’s health. As the combination of IoT and wearable devices like fitness bands helps to monitor and improve their health. Moreover, IoT based healthcare system provides service in a quick manner which would help to save millions of lives.
How does IoT affect our life?
IoT-enabled devices and sensors are helping us in making our life easier by making everything possible from our smart devices. One does not have to put extra effort into spying on any smart appliances. It can be monitored by their smartphones from anywhere. It also helps to reduce air pollution, waste management, improve agriculture and food supply.
Is IoT the future?
The future of IoT has the potential to be limitless. Advances to the industrial internet will be accelerated through increased network agility, integrated artificial intelligence (AI), and the capacity to deploy, automate, orchestrate and secure diverse use cases at hyper-scale.
What are the main social impacts of IoT?
IoT devices impact society in a meaningful way. Smart homes and offices can save energy costs by controlling the electricity or temperature when one is away from home or work, and they can offer better security by constant surveillance and taking proactive action in case of a security breach.
Which companies are working on IoT in India?
Nearly all companies are shifting towards IoT. Some big companies are:-
TCS
Infosys
Hyperlink InfoSystem
Wipro
Tech Mahindra
LTI
HCL Tech
Mphasis
How companies are using IoT?
Companies are using IoT for the following purposes:-
To improve customer satisfaction by providing instant support through the integration of chatbots and artificial intelligence with IoT.
Better inventory management and tracing of assets by embedding surveillance system with IoT.
To gather information about the customers in order to study their requirements, buying behavior and the scope of improvement.
To check the performance of their product or service.
IoT allows companies to facilitate omnichannel services.
To obtain real-time data of customers for better decision-making by minimizing the risk and cost.
What are the different ways in which IoT devices are used in healthcare?
IoT devices offer a number of opportunities for hospitals to monitor their patients and patients to monitor themselves.
Remote patient monitoring has become the most common application of IoT devices for healthcare.
Glucose monitoring has become easy now. Patients can monitor their glucose levels on their smart devices.
Heart rate monitoring can also be done easily via IoT devices with approx. 90% of accuracy.
The wearable fitness band is also an IoT device that helps to monitor or track the physical activities of the person. It also monitors their heart rate, sleep quality, step counts and much more.
Ever wondered why Apple isn’t active on social media platforms? Obviously, it’s surprising and at the same time, a little strange that an enormous tech company like Apple does not have a huge social media presence. Apple has always been pretty strategic and surprising with its marketing strategies. And especially when it comes to social media, Apple follows entirely different social media marketing strategies to reach its customers.
In the era where every brand is competing on this digital platform and opting for various strategies, Apple functions entirely differently.
Other prominent brands work on creating engaging content to reach out the most customers and following the trends to achieve an effective social media presence and let the customers know about their latest along with upcoming products.
When we combine Facebook and Twitter, Apple has around 12,921,598 followers, who have never seen Apple posting anything. In this article, we will be discussing WHY? That is why a brand like Apple does not have any social media presence. Let’s begin.
When it comes to exposure of a company into the global marketplace, Apple has a well-established position. Apple provides its own application for listening to music on AppleMusic, any help of guidelines on AppleSuppprt.
Generally, brands use social media to enhance their company’s exposure and awareness on a global scale. But as we know, Apple doesn’t need that. The company is well established and widely famous around the globe. Every individual across the globe knows the image and standard of Apple. And that’s what this brand believes in.
Apple goes with a very solid strategic planning with the social media platforms. The biggest flex for it not using social media is, no hate comments and trolls from any users. And if a user did tweet something related to Apple, only their followers will be able to see it.
Apple doesn’t work on anyone’s suggestion like it’s the latest update of restrictions on batteries inside the iPhone; if Apple had published this on any of its social media you can’t even imagine how much hate would have come to the company.
When any such thing happens to other brands, people know they’d get a response on its improvement. But since it’s Apple, people were already prepared that they ain’t getting any response.
However, in the past, Apple has posted a few things on its social media like Twitter and Facebook which you must have seen. This is for general promotion of their products.
Apple posts things occasionally, on festivals or holidays only. They encourage people to give Apple products to their beloved on holidays as a gift and push them out in various forms. Recently, the tech company is pushing more towards such promotions and marketing.
But when it comes to Apple, the tech brand already has the highest customer loyalty engagement index with its computers, smartphones, tablets, and Laptops. That’s why Apple doesn’t need to have a more social media presence.
Social media buzz
Apple works on increasing the social media buzz among its fans for the latest and upcoming Apple products on various social media platforms. Its marketing strategy is based on organizing conferences and events to promote the release of its new products and the PR team manages the rest.
And that’s why the company creates social media buzz through its fans, influencers on social media platforms as well as public relations.
Most Valuable tech brand
Apple is stated as the most valuable tech brand in 2015 by Millward Brown, who estimated its value as worth $246,992 billion. With such immense popularity and success, does Apple require to find customers through social media? No, with its popularity, customers get attracted to themselves.
Apple has put great effort and planning into creating its social media strategy. It works precisely with the right strategy. And that’s how the company remains on top even without active social media.
Great Customers Service
For any company, formulating a good product isn’t enough. Along with the quality, customers should also get the best services in hand. And Apple knows this very clearly. Apple provides the best customer service with its great quality products.
Social media marketing is partly based on improving the customer’s services and as Apple already offers them through great customer engagement, it doesn’t require a social media presence.
Apple’s social media agency
With such immense success, does Apple have any social media agency? Maybe, maybe not! The answer is uncertain but, when we look at the estimated data and Apple’s success, we can conclude that the company has an almost non-existential social media presence.
Apple may have someone from their company for managing social media, but they sure don’t trust outsiders with confidential and sensitive information regarding the company or any of its products.
However, the subsidiaries of Apple may hire social media agencies for managing their social media presence and promoting their accounts.
Conclusion
Managing social media the way Apple does, requires absolute boldness and global domination. Social media has taken over every other brand across the globe, but Apple doesn’t give it the power to increase its global presence.
For a long time now, Apple has been working towards establishing a strong market position. Apple is moving with a very strong strategic marketing planning. And their plans are worth considering! Its distinct form of social media helps the brand to safeguard itself from various social media pitfalls. And who knows, in the upcoming years these strategies grow even more differently.
FAQ
How does Apple promotes its brands?
Apple promotes its products through commercials and print ads.
What is Apple’s Social media strategy?
Apple follows different social media strategy than other brands, it avoids promoting its products on social media.
Creating a startup can be an exciting time, but you must plan it correctly and understand why many startups fail. In today’s market, we have a flood of startups and 10 percent of all startups fail within the first year. The industry matters little as many startups will eventually fail. An estimated 70 percent of startups fail within the first two to five years.
Lack of Knowledge
Many people who begin a startup don’t know how to succeed in business. You can mitigate the risk through better knowledge. Many people enroll in business school to receive their master of business administration degree (MBA). The prohibitively high cost may have you wondering if you can afford school. You can request a student loan from a private lender to pay for your degree. Fill out an easy application online to get started. The lack of knowledge often leads to mishandling of funds. Effective use of your resources will lead to getting through the hard times as a business since these cycles will inevitably come. Learning how to get through the hard times will make you a better entrepreneur.
Part of the Learning Process
Considering how many businesses fail, you have to learn to take the failure as part of the learning process. Being an entrepreneur also isn’t for everyone. Many times, you can do everything right, but if the timing is off, the business will still fail. Take it as a learning experience. Think of Colonel Sanders. He failed before he became world-famous for his Kentucky Fried Chicken. As you can see, he was someone who enjoyed the process of being an entrepreneur because he stuck with it throughout the years until he succeeded at age 40. He became a millionaire at age 60 and a billionaire at age 88. Having a startup is as much about enjoying the process as it is about success. And you can learn just as much from avoiding mistakes made by entrepreneurs as you can their perseverance.
Running out of Cash
Many startups fail because they are not following any good tips for properly managing finances and they run out of cash. Entrepreneurs must understand how much they have left and how to use it to go the farthest. You must know how to keep acquiring new customers and keeping the ones that you have happy. Many times, businesses fail to reach their milestones, which can lead to them running out of cash before they can replenish the business. In some cases, keeping cash reserves on hand can save you money.
Poor Product
Startups must contribute something of value in today’s competitive environment. The biggest cause of failure for startups will come from the fact that they didn’t push a strong enough product. You must meet the market inadequacy in a way that helps you to stand out. Don’t feel bad if the first product brought to the market didn’t meet the needs. Oftentimes, you will need to make revisions until you create a product that becomes a success in the business world. Think of feedback from the market as a productive way to refine your product to make it more valuable. Startups can fail for many reasons. You can do everything right and still fail.
Every Business has faced this situation, where there’s depletion in the company’s sales turnover as a new product has been introduced, repercussions affecting the sale of old products in the similar product line.
In other simple words, generally, Cannibalization refers to eating one species, where the devourer belongs to the same species. Just like that, in the business field, the instigation of modern products is coupling the demand and supply of former products.
Obviously, people purchase the new launch and totally overlook the old product considering it a banal version of a similar product line, moreover this is prevalent in business.
For instance, Apple constantly releases a series of iOS to its customers, when the company introduced iPhone 12 Pro, people were enthralled to acquire it and ultimately shut one’s eyes to its previous version-iPhone 12. Thus; Cannibalization engenders no vicissitudes in the company’s sales turnover regarding existing products but gradually accelerates sales growth for the new product.
Numerous corporations practice Cannibalism in Brands, by discounting existing products to compete with their recent products in the market. As a result, this will bring an augment profit on both existing and new products of the company. Besides, Cannibalization is nothing but a competition between exciting and fresh products of the same brand within the company.
Effects of Cannibalization
Just like Newton’s third law: for every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction. So, when the incorporation did anything, then it would definitely influence the incorporation in terms of sales or production.
If the company inaugurates a fresh product, say McDonald’s comes up with BTS meals, no wonder the BTS armies are everywhere and BTS meal is hyping up in recent times, albeit the existing food products like Big Mac or McMuffin are receiving derivative fond as customers prefer BTS meal to any other foods in McDonald.
Therefore; no one holds any reprehensible for the loss of the company’s market share, but itself the company by inaugurating new products as one of the newest versions of its old products.
Why is there a need for Cannibalization in Brands? How they overcome Cannibalization?
Cannibalization plays a crucial part in brands; where existing products are overlooked because of the newest product introduction. This will accelerate the demand for new products and decrease the sales of former products of its similar product line.
Businesses cannibalise their existing or outdated products by employing two ways to meet the same demand of their new product:
Discount
Company plans to touts existing products due to cannibalization, by providing discounts on such products in order to compete with the same demand for fresh products.
For instance; Samsung has launched its new version Samsung Galaxy F22 in July 2021, which overruled its preceding product Samsung Galaxy F12 which came to the market in April 2021.
What is the company planning to do, provided the former Samsung Galaxy F12 sales slump due to the demand for Samsung Galaxy F22 inflates?.
Factually, it is apparently evident that people would buy stuff when it is provided at a discount rate. So, the company vents former products at a discount price, where people fall for Samsung Galaxy F12 rather than paying a higher price for its newer version.
E-commerce
This pandemic became a beneficiary to e-commerce, where everything is supplied through Amazon, Flipkart or Myntra etc. E-commerce is the best way to captivate customers by generating many offers such as festival offers, Today’s Deals or deal of the day etc. For instance, Amazon recently applied for 26th-27th July Amazon prime Day India by selling products at low prices.
Five examples to state that Cannibalization works for existing products
Cannibalization for existing products can be seen in every company when a new product is launched ranging from low-cost products like school supplies to high-end products like vehicles. The cannibalization of existing products can be proved through these examples.
iPhones
Apple introduced iPhones which cannibalized iPods
Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple in his biography has quoted saying that ”If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will”. And likewise, Apple itself cannibalizes its products.
The iPhone first model was launched in June 2007. During this period Apple was coveted for its iPods and sales were at a high rate but Apple came out with iPhones that practically had the music feature along with phone services with internet connectivity and media support.
This led to consumers straying towards iPhones as they were a better substitute for iPods. This product like in the case of iPhones is an example of Self Cannibalization.
Coke-Zero
Coke Zero Cannibalized Coke
Coca-Cola, famous for its product Coke and Diet Coke, chipped away at its sales by introducing Coke-Zero targeting the male population that worried about their sugar intake in 2006 in the UK while compensating their total revenue.
Coca-Cola has also cannibalized itself by introducing Minute Maid, Fanta, etc. and removing coke and its variants as the essential face of the company.
P&G’s Tide Detergent
Tide Detergent was introduced to cannibalize P&G’s Ivory Soap
Procter & Gamble was mainly known as a manufacturer of soap and was known for its Ivory Soap which had drawbacks of its own like dirt wasn’t removed when used with hard water.
So even with risking cannibalization of their Ivory Soap, the company went ahead and introduced Tide Detergent in 1946 which was the first synthetic detergent that could deep-clean clothing as P&G didn’t want to be cannibalized out of the soap producer industry.
Maruti Suzuki Alto
Maruti launched Alto which cannibalized Maruti 800
Maruti Suzuki Alto manufactured by Maruti Suzuki was introduced in 2000. It was the Indian built version of the fifth-generation Suzuki Alto. In 2006, it was India’s largest selling car and by 2008 it had crossed 1 million in terms of production. But this increase in sales was only achieved by eating away the sales of the famous Maruti Suzuki 800. This was done with the help of price cuts and an ad campaign that lured many.
WeChat
WeChat was introduced to cannibalize QQ
China’s Tencent famously known as the world’s largest gaming company and the most-used internet portal used QQ an online instant message service during the period when desktop computers were the hype.
QQ failed to meet the standards with the development of smartphones and electronic devices. Therefore Tencent ordered a group of engineers to develop a messaging platform that would cannibalize QQ. Thus, WeChat was developed and released in January 2011.
When human beings, in general, see something better, they essentially want it and feel inadequate with the thing they already possess and an urge to be updated with the upgraded version begins to fester. This is exactly what leads to the cannibalization of products.
The overlooking of existing products for a new one. If this phenomenon doesn’t work, there wouldn’t be customers for a newly launched product be it smartphones or vehicles.
Also known as corporate cannibalization of market cannibalization, this phenomenon is also the doom for a company as this nips away the sale of the previously introduced product. Thus proving this phenomenon to be double-edged.
FAQ
What is the example of brand cannibalization?
Coke Zero was introduced by Coca-Cola which chipped away the sales of Coke is one of the famous example of brand cannibalization.
What is Cannibalization?
Cannibalization is nothing but a competition between exciting and fresh products of the same brand within the company.
Why do brands cannibalize their existing products?
Brands usually cannibalize their existing products to accelerate the demand for new products and decrease the sales of former products of its similar product line.
Sometimes situations occur when you don’t want to or can’t do your homework. Certainly, you can pay someone to do your homework. But whom? Nobody wants to entrust writing his homework to the first stranger.
You depend on the writer. Will he do everything precisely and send the work on time? Will your expectations meet the result? It’s all very controversial. Besides, the monetary issue troubles young people badly. Is the work worth the money you paid for it? Won’t you regret the decision?
Taking into account all possible nuisances, we’ve picked out the 6 best homework writing services.
Paperhelp
WriteMyEssays
CheapPaperWriting
MyAdmissionEssay
EvolutionWriters
ExtraEssay
How did we choose the best online homework services?
First of all, we have conducted a special investigation. We have visited different sites and forums, studied reviews, and so on. As a result, we’ve allocated several features that distinguish a reliable essay service.
Here are the main criteria we based on selecting the best essay writing services.
Price
Websites that write essays for you should not be very cheap and very expensive. No specialist will agree to spend hours working for two dollars. At the same time, nobody will waste hundreds of dollars on a simple paper. It would be better to settle on a golden mean.
Quality
All papers should meet your expectations. They must be easy to read, reliable, and compliant.
The quality of work depends on the order. Make your order precise, so the result will be better than ever.
Time frames
Of course, we should not leave the waiting time without attention. All works must come on time, without delays and other supporting problems.
Staff
All team writers should be: 1) well-educated, 2) experienced, 3) punctual.
First of all, we look at the qualifications of staff members. The more diversified the team is, the better the homework writing service is. Saying diversified, we mean the company should consist of specialists from different fields.
Secondly, writers should have a degree. The higher the degree is, the more professional the author is.
Finally, writers should be active specialists. Rules stop working as a year passes. Ideas change, as well as the format of writing. So, specialists should keep their eye on the ball to keep pace with these changes.
Reviews
Last but not least, paper writing service reviews. Only users that have experienced the platform themselves can give us an understanding of what the platform is like. Thanks to their opinion, we’ve completed the list of top homework writing services.
Top 6 Homework Writing Services
Paying attention to all nuisances we’ve encountered, we picked out the best paper writing services.
Meet the list of 6 the best essay writing services that are worth visiting.
1. PaperHelp
PaperHelp is the most popular essay service used by American students. It has gained an audience of 105000 students that appreciate the quality of PaperHelp’s work. By the moment, the platform can boast a rich portfolio of 658000 paper samples and low prices for homework writing.
The gallery of services is very diversified. Here you can order any paper type you like. From bibliography to the dissertation. You can order proofreading, typing, rewriting, and even resume. Moreover, you can get help from experienced writers that will guide you on your coursework, term paper, or research paper.
As for the PaperHelp staff, it consists of experienced and checked writers. To become a member of the team, they have passed grammar and writing tests, online interviews, and 1 month of a test drive. There are three levels of PaperHelp writers:
Basic writers take general orders without extra charge. Each of them has at least 3 years of writing experience in different fields.
Advanced writers focus on their subjects and constantly study them. Their rating is not lower than 4 stars out of 5.
Top writers are native English speakers that have the highest rating and the best reviews.
You can get acquainted with the list of authors in the “Our writers” section. There is a list of top writers with their ratings and reviews.
The prices for homework writing are average. Of course, they depend on your current academic level, deadline, number of pages, and paper type. But still, the prices are justified.
The minimum cost of the easiest essay is $12. The waiting time starts from 3 hours, so the platform suits urgent orders. The company guarantees 100% anonymity and refund of money if you are not satisfied with the work.
Besides the low prices, there are different PaperHelp bonuses. Being a newcomer, you can claim a 20% bonus for the first order. It is the most generous welcoming offer we’ve come across searching for candidates. Besides, you can get extra discounts for further orders based on the loyalty program provided for permanent clients.
Finally, we’ve scrolled through PaperHelp reviews given by American students. Most of them are very positive that encourages us to place this essay service in the first place among other platforms.
We appreciate PaperHelp as the best essay writing service and highly recommend it.
American students like
American students dislike
Average price
No choice of authors when ordering a paper
Bonuses and loyalty program
Experienced team
Wide range of services
24/7 support
2. WriteMyEssays
WriteMyEssays occupies second place in the rating of essay services loved by American students. It is younger than PaperHelp but managed to attract a good audience and retain users. As a result, over 580 college students stick to these services and choose the best homework writing help. The team is not large, but it has written over 647 papers during 3 years of work.
The choice of options is also sufficient. Here you can order any type of essay on any topic you like. Argumentative, law, and chemistry, history, etc. Also, you can order term papers, lab, and book reports, even research papers. WriteMyEssays offers all types of writing you may require.
Its team contains young and enthusiastic specialists that are ready to help students with any issue they have. All of them have a degree and English proficiency. They know well how to communicate with customers and work with tasks. Besides, the company strictly monitors their behavior and punishes any violations. As a result, there are no delays or cases of plagiarism.
The quality of work is at a high level. All texts are unique and come on time. The reason is that the platform practiced a personalized approach. With such assistance, you will receive work that meets your requirements. The small team plays into the hand here. It allows writers to concentrate on the customer and his wishes.
The price is about the same as the prices of PaperHelp. The minimum cost for a paper is $12. It varies depending on your academic level, paper type, number of pages, and deadline. The waiting time starts from 3 hours, so WriteMyEssays is one of the best urgent essay writing services.
As for WritMyEssays reviews, they are good. American students enjoy this platform and recommend it to others.
We advise you to try WriteMyEssays for it is a reliable essay writing service worth visiting.
American students like
American students dislike
Affordable prices
Absence of bonuses
Variety of topics and papers
Communication with authors
Quality of work
3. CheapPaperWriting
CheapPaperWriting is another interesting essay service widely spread among American students. Now, briefly about all features that distinguish this company from the others.
Firstly, low prices. The minimum cost starts from $12 similar to the previous platforms. The price varies depending on the academic level you choose, the time frames you set, and the number of pages you require. Nevertheless, the prices remain average on the market.
Besides general offers, the company offers some free benefits that reduce the initial sum.
As you know, some people recommend excluding from your order bibliography, formatting, and other options like that. They say, thus, you can reduce the sum you pay for homework writing. Of course, it can work on other essay writing websites. But CheapPaperWriting has envisaged these nuisances and provided them for free. So, you can receive a full paper with all the components cheaper than on other platforms. Not to be unfounded, the company has placed the statistics of their price in comparison with other websites. According to it, you can save up to 41% with CheapPaperWriting.
Also, there are special bonuses for newcomers. From the very beginning, you can claim a 10% bonus with the promo “cheappaper10off” and save money for the next order.
As for the gallery of paper types provided by the company, there are plenty of them. Here you can order over 30 types of writing on any topic you like. Coursework, case study, term paper, etc. The list is far from complete.
The quality of work is also at a good level. The CheapPaperWriting team consists of experienced writers. All of them have certificates and diplomas in various fields. They improve their skills constantly by passing tests and advanced training courses regularly. Hence, they are always up to date with novelties and remain competitive.
American students appreciate this platform for the quality of work, bonuses, and free benefits.
So, we recommend CheapPaperWriting as the cheapest essay writing service among reliable platforms.
American students like
American students dislike
Good prices
One way of communication with authors
Free benefits
The splendid choice of services
Qualified staff
4. MyAdmissionEssay
MyAdmissionEssay is another platform cherished by American students.
The company has over 21 thousand referred clients. Over 31 thousand clients returned to the company. And over 141 thousand orders are fulfilled by the moment. The indicators are impressive. Then, what benefits does the company offer its users?
To start with, the monetary issue. The minimum price is $11. According to the MyAdmissionEssay data, you save up to $49 on this platform. The saved sum is significant, especially if we speak about students.
The range of paper types is rich. From homework to research papers. The gallery of topics is limitless.
As for bonuses, there are not so many. The welcoming offer for newcomers is 5% for the first order you make. But this does not detract from its reliability and convenience.
The staff is numerous and multiple, consisting of 3754 authors. All of them refer to 3 different categories depending on the level of work they take.
Basic writers have an advanced level of English and splendid writing skills. They know everything about academic standards. If you need a specialist with a higher qualification, you are free to request another author.
Advanced writers specialize in a specific area of science. So, you can ask one of the experienced writers to help you with your research in a particular field.
Top writers are the best of the best. You can choose any top writer you like taking into account his specialization and ratings.
American students choose this company for the diversity of writers and democratic prices.
To sum up, we recommend MyAdmissionEssay as the most professional essay writing service.
American students like
American students dislike
The rich choice of authors
Not so many bonuses
Skillful team
Democratic prices
Good choice of paper types
5. EvolutionWriters
EvolutionWriters stands in the fifth position after the titans of the homework writing world. It has been working for 10 years and has gained the popularity of a trustworthy site. Over 105000 American students enjoy its help and advice other users to try EvolutionWriters.
By the moment, the company has finished over 324000 papers and developed a rich range of services. With EvolutionWriters, you can order any type of paper. From simple movie reviews to coursework and lab reports.
The price of EvolutionWriters is lower in comparison with the previous platforms. Its range starts from $10 for the easiest paper. The price depends on the paper type, the number of pages, deadline, and academic level you require.
Besides, you can claim a welcoming offer valued at 15% for the first order you make. Also, you can grab a 5% discount and a 10% bonus for the next order by entering the promo GRAB15.
The EvolutionWriters team is experienced. Each member of the team has strong writing skills and advanced English. Also, they have a professional background and knowledge of academic requirements. If one of the components is missing, high-quality execution of the task is impossible.
As for American students, they like this site for bonuses and low prices that we see in their reviews.
All in all, we can advise EvolutionWriters as an affordable essay writing service sufficient for ordering papers.
American students like
American students dislike
Tracking of the progress
Sometimes the quality of work fails
Plagiarism report for free
Big bonuses and promos
Experienced team
6. ExtraEssay
ExtraEssay completes the parade of the best paper writing services. Over 36000 users stick to the company. What are its advantages?
Let’s start with the prices. The minimum sum for the essay starts from $9 which is lower than the average price. Of course, it depends on the academic level you choose. Also, time frames and the number of pages influence the indicator.
Being a newcomer, you can claim a 10% bonus for the first order. Besides, ExtraEssay offers several loyalty program discounts available to regular users. It is a pleasant gift for customers.
The range of services is good. Here you can order coursework, dissertation, report, review, case study, term paper, and so on. This is more than enough for such a service. Besides, ExtraEssay provides creating titles and bibliography, formatting, and revision for free. This brings ExtraEssay closer to CheapPaperWriting.
The staff of ExtraEssay company is not inferior to its competitors. All members of the team are experienced and have high-valued certificates and diplomas.
American students like this platform for low prices, bonuses, and free benefits.
So, we recommend ExtraEssay as a good online essay writing service worth visiting.
American students like
American students dislike
Low prices
The interface is not very convenient
Free benefits
Subscription
Bonuses
FAQ
What are the main principles for choosing the top writing service?
First of all, pay attention to users’ opinions. Their assessments influence the company’s rating and show how it works. Read reviews and decide what platform suits you more.
As you’ve studied users’ reviews, visit the essay websites you liked most. Look at their design and navigation. Check the gallery of paper types and prices.
Is the homework writing service legal?
It is legal to order papers, so you can visit essay websites without any fear of being caught red-handed. All platforms mentioned in our review are trustworthy and legal.
Also, homework writing services provide keeping personal information secret. No one will know neither about your identity nor about your card details.
How can I entrust my homework to these companies?
Each of the platforms we’ve described above hires only proven and successful authors. They vouch for these writers and severely punish the slightest non-compliance with the contract. If you were dissatisfied with the work, the company guarantees a money refund.
Anyway, you can do the task yourself relying on the general principles of writing essays.
What things influence the price?
The price depends on your academic level, the number of pages you order, paper type, and deadline. The most urgent tasks are the most expensive.
How can I reduce the price?
There are different ways to lower the sum you pay for the order.
Firstly, you can choose the cheapest service ever seen on the market. Of course, you will get the text, but it is unlikely to be of high quality. Furthermore, it’s not a fact that you will get it. It is better to stay on proven sites, the prices on which will be slightly higher.
Secondly, you can exclude some options from the order. For example, you can create a title and bibliography yourself. Also, you can format the text. It all will make the order cost lower. Luckily, some platforms provide these options for free. So, you can receive full work without overpayment.
Bottom line
We have finished reviewing the best essay writing services according to the version of American students. At first glance, it may seem that they are the same. But it’s not true.
Each platform has some features that distinguish it from others. Some have a diversified gallery of paper types. Some can boast generous bonuses and low prices. Others contain an excellent team of experienced writers from various fields. It’s up to you to decide what features you prefer to others.
Anyway, we tried to include only those companies that provide each of them. Only the unity of price affordability, top writers, and wide range of services make some companies stand out from the rest.
Thus, we concluded that PaperHelp has won this competition and took the deserved first place. It has gathered everything an average student can need. That’s why it is the greatest solution for all your homework issues.
We recommend you try each of the mentioned sites to find out which of them suits you more.
WordPress is the most popular Content Management System (CMS) in the world. WordPress is used by millions of websites worldwide, from blogs to commercial websites.
WordPress is an open-source platform that is free to use and no company owns it.
Every 6 months, WordPress registers more than 1.1 million new domains.
WordPress is responsible for an additional 1.1 million domains every six months or so, according to a survey of global internet CMS usage from 2015.
Users love the ease and convenience of setting up an online profile. Since WordPress’s market share has grown since then, it’s understandable that this number has risen to well over one million.
35% of the internet’s websites are built using WordPress
WordPress powers nearly 27 percent of all websites, says the W3Techs web technologies survey. Around 58% of the internet’s websites use WordPress.
In other words, WordPress powers about one-third of the web. There are an estimated over 1.3 billion active websites, which means that approximately 455,000,000 websites are using WordPress today. This is a significantly large number!
WordPress receives 2,940,000 searches in a month
“WordPress” is searched 2,940,000 times a month by people around the world, according to KWFinder. All relevant long-tail keywords would result in a much larger search volume.
WordPress is available in 196 languages
WordPress has 196 languages with 40 of them being translated to 100 percent. It can also be translated into more than 65 native languages.
Plugins developed in WordPress allow you to create a multilingual blog easily. You can now use WordPress in your preferred language.
WordPress is a multi-million dollar organization
WordPress is used by hundreds of companies and thousands of professionals around the world. For thousands of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs, WordPress provides exceptional opportunities to build their businesses on the its platform.
WordPress earns and grows its business by generating commercial plugins.
54,000+ Free Plugins with 1.48 Billion total Plugin Downloads
A total of 1.5 billion plugins have been downloaded from the Plug-in Directory, which currently lists over 54,000 plugins. 2016 saw a total of 1.48 Billion downloads of WordPress plug-ins.
Plugin downloads have increased by 48 percent since 2015 when they passed 1 Billion.
Sister projects of WordPress
There are also sister projects like bbPress, BuddyPress, and Gloss Press that are run by the WordPress community. All of them are open-source applications built on top of WordPress.
WordPress is used by 35 percent of the internet population
According to WordPress.com and Netcraft, a once-obscure content management system now powers more than 35 percent of the web.
As a result of its versatility, WordPress has been adopted by a wide range of companies, including Sony Music and Forbes.
There are an estimated over 1.3 billion active websites, which means that approximately 455,000,000 websites are using WordPress today. In the year 2020, this number has risen by nearly 5 percent and is up 4 percent from 2019. WordPress is currently used by 64 million websites.
Akismet is one of the most popular WordPress plugins
Your website is protected from spam with Akismet, the best WordPress plugin for filtering junk comments.
As of today, Akismet has been downloaded 30.528.112 times, with an average of 18,000 downloads a day. Filter spam with Akismet, so you can focus on what’s important.
Cleaning up spam can be time-consuming and frustrating. To remove irrelevant, malicious content before it gets published and damages your site’s credibility, Akismet compares all your comments against our constantly-growing global spam database.
To prevent your site from being hacked, Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam.
Just 283 people were working for WordPress.com in 2015, which was being used by millions of web users. Fewer brains, but they are amazing!
Now, more than 500 times fewer Amazon employees work at WordPress. The fact that WordPress has only 1,148 employees is truly amazing.
These employees are dispersed throughout the world and are able to complete their work by working at home remotely.
71 percent of all WordPress content is written in English
English is WordPress’s most popular language for writing content. Second, on the place is Spanish(4.7%), followed by Indonesian in third place (2.4%)
The average annual salary of a WordPress developer is $51,000
According to Payscale.com, the average WordPress web developer earns more than $50,000 a year.
As reported by PayScale, the average WordPress developer salary is $50,000 per year. The average Glassdoor salary is $61,083 per year.
Indeed’s average WordPress web developer salary is in the middle of PayScale’s and Glassdoor’s averages; $52,623 per year. According to Indeed.com, the average WordPress Developer salary for Indian workers is 20,313 Rs per month.
WordPress organizes meetups in 58 countries around the globe
There are many WordPress meetups taking place around the world. WP meetups are smaller, local events organized by local WordPress communities.
A total of 62,517 users attended 3193 WordPress meetups in 2016 in 58 countries.
FAQs
What is WordPress?
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), and free no code website developing platform.
What language is WordPress written in?
WordPress is written and developed in PHP language.
How many sites are using WordPress?
There are around 455 million websites that uses WordPress.
Who is the owner of WordPress?
WordPress was created by Automattic. Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005.
Everyone affinities to travel in the airline once in their lifetime and two-thirds of people in India have experienced their dreams. We all know, India is renowned for the Civil and Military aviation industry according to the International Air Transport Association.
Starting its Voyage on 18th February 1911 by covering 9.7 kilometers from Jumna River to Nainin and ultimately becoming the burgeon aviation market in the world. Epiphany, India Aviation industry became the blue ribbon and prognosticate to rank third largest aviation market in the world by 2024.
In the remote times, those people who are rich could afford the airline ticket, besides there is not much development made from the side of Indian Aviation industry.
As time ticks away, we are here eventually becoming the fastest-growing aviation market and owning 128 operational airports as of now.
The history of the Indian Aviation industry incipient back in 1911, where the plane was set as a tool to carry out mail across the Yamuna river to Naina. When it comes, domination of aviation- IndiGo stands top of the list, along with Spicejet, Vistara, AirAsia India and Air India.
Furthermore, these six aviation networks connect nearly 80 cities across India and play a vital part in the development of the Indian Aviation Industry. On the other hand, Indian Military Aviation would never let us down in bestowing a major role.
The three crucial constituents of military aviation in India are the IAF, Wings of the Army and the Navy where the Indian Air Force is the world’s 4th largest air force. As well as, it is stated that the military aviation industry is plotting aerospace research to study the aviation model related hardware and software.
Day by day, the number of travellers in India board gradually accelerated, which is reported as the industry quadrupled in size and expected passengers to be tripled around 560 million by 2037.
Notably, the Indian aviation industry is the third-largest aviation industry in the world and stands 5th largest market regarding aircraft passengers in both domestic and international.
Indian Aviation industry represents oligopoly characteristics and also sees a great impact in 2010- 2019 where a CAGR of 13.4% augment in the domestic passenger traffic, whereas the international grew at a CAGR of 9.3%.
As is the case, the ongoing pandemic lucidly tumours the Indian aviation industry which incurred 2.9 billion in 2020 and 4.1 billion in the current fiscal year 2021-22, where the industry faced a decline in India’s passenger traffic.
Government Initiatives & Developments in the Indian Aviation industry
A Scheme for India’s unserved and under-served airports
According to the National Civil Aviation Policy 2016, a scheme has been framed in order to enlighten the connectivity to India’s unserved and under-served airports. Additionally, the scheme also focuses on the price of a one-hour journey to be estimated at around 2500 INR.
Indian Aviation industry may look into Investment upto USD 5 billion
In the next four years, the Indian Aviation industry may look into USD 5 billion worth of investment and anticipate nearly 25 Billion foreign investment to enter the airport sector by 2027.
The report by the government of India permitted 100% FDI on the Indian Aviation industry in order to consolidate the connectivity overseas. We could witness, UK group invest 950 Crore in Turbo Aviation New airline Trustar.
Indian aviation industry set to build water aerodromes
In 2021, the Indian aviation industry is set to build two water aerodromes in Assam and Andaman & Nicobar island to entice tourism as well as GDP. Besides, the government is planning to launch 14 more water aerodromes across India.
Indira Gandhi International Airport
The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi is set to dilate in order to augment passengers, which subsumes new instalments such as Terminal point, additional runway and other advanced facilities.
On the Government side, they are working diligently to maintain the sustainability of the Indian Aviation industry by providing financial services to many airports across the country under the UDAN scheme for advancement and development.
Zurich Airport International to corroborate in development of Jewar Airport
Zurich Airport International is corroborated to design or operate Noida International Airport for the next 40 years on the development of Jewar Airport.
Runways at seven airports across the country
Prior to March 2022, the Airports Authority of India concurred to establish runways at seven airports across the country.
Krishi Udaan scheme
Krishi Udaan scheme is introduced under Union Budget 2021-22, to reduce air pollution by letting 50% for agri-perishable and ameliorate air cargo transportation in North-east states of India.
In 2015, 22 airlines were operating in India. The Indian aviation industry has grown so much since then and the top players in the Indian Aviation Industry as of 2020 are:
Interglobe Aviation (IndiGo)
IndiGo is an Indian airline based in Gurgaon, Haryana that offers low-cost travel. The company was founded in 2006 by Rahul Bhatia of InterGlobe Enterprises and Rakesh Gangwal. The airline is the largest in terms of passengers carried and fleet size with having a domestic market share of 59.24% as of August 2020.
SpiceJet
SpiceJet is another low-cost airline based in Gurgaon, Haryana. The company is the second-largest airline in India by the number of passengers carried and it holds a market share of 13.6% as of March 2019.
The company was established as an air taxi provider and was acquired by Ajay Singh and renamed SpiceJet in 2004 and took off its first flight in May 2005.
Jet Airways
Jet Airways is a Mumbai based Indian International airline founded by Naresh Goyal that started as an air taxi operator in 1993 and became a full-fledged airline in 1995 and started its International flights in 2005.
It was one of the largest Indian airlines with a market share of 21.2% in February 2016. But due to competition and price war, the company underwent a downfall leaving it Bankrupt and forcing the company to cease its operations in April 2019. The company is due to come back at the end of 2021.
Air India
Air India is previously known as Tata Airlines and was founded by J. R. D. Tata in 1932. After 1945, the airline was made into a public limited company and was named Air India.
Air India is headquartered in New Delhi and is owned by the Government-owned Enterprise, Air India Limited. It is the Largest International carrier out of India and holds a market share of 18.6%.
Condition of Indian Aviation Industry In the COVID Pandemic
Indian Aviation Industry consists of both military aviation like Indian Air Force(IAF) and civil airlines like IndiGo. While Government controlled Airlines like Air India, Alliance Air and IAF have been a saviour by carrying medical cargo during these COVID times, the civil airlines have seen a tremendous loss that is estimated to be INR 210 billion in FY 2020-21.
To compensate for the loss, the Centre allowed for a hike in fares of airlines by 30% which only worsened the situation. During April-October 2020, domestic flights had been declining over 70% while International flights have declined at 77%. IndiGo and SpiceJet reported having lost INR 31 crore per day during the first half of 2020.
Conclusion
The COVID pandemic has not only made us cancel our planned trips with friends and family but also has many industries on the brink of a complete shutdown and has made the economies of top countries crumble.
The Indian Aviation Industry was one of the main industries that took a downfall due to the COVID situation around the globe with many countries still not lifting their ban on International travel. And this loss would tremendously affect the GDP of the country as the aviation industry contributes $72 billion to the GDP of India.
It is predicted that the Indian Aviation Industry will bounce back to its pre-pandemic level by 2022 or 2023.
FAQ
What is the Indian Aviation Industry?
Aviation Industry is the business sector in which all types of aircraft are manufactured and operated. According to International Air transportation Association(IATA), Indian Aviation Industry is the fastest-growing aviation industry in the world and is set to be the third-largest aviation market in the world by 2024.
What is the revenue of the Indian Aviation Industry?
The aviation industry in India has seen a loss for the FY2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The estimated net loss by ICRA for the fiscal year 2020-2021 was INR 210 billion.
How many branches does the Indian Aviation Industry hold?
The Indian aviation industry is classified into two branches: Civil aviation and Military aviation. India’s aviation manufacturing hub is situated in Bangalore and holds a 65% share of this economic sector.
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