Sunday 24 February 2019

The Quintessence of Digital Marketing


“Digital Marketing creates and requires data. But just having data isn’t going to change anything. Data must be accurate and have context to be actionable.”

We, as UBS Students feel privileged to have anticipated in the Digital Marketing workshop which was conducted in the month of October. As a management student, one must have sufficient knowledge about backlinks and analytics, and was something which we did learn efficiently well in that tenure. There has been widespread growth of Digital Marketing across the globe, and this is also considered as an integral pedagogy in many business courses. Paving its importance in many marketing lessons, Digital Marketing has its practical applications in many fields as well. Whether it is about designing a market plan for a company or a brand, or simply creating an advertising campaign, Digital Marketing plays a vital role.

As undergrad students of Universal Business School, we personally feel enough obliged of getting such a magnificent opportunity and which is helping us in applying it in other sub-academic disciplines. Although, I have decided of taking Marketing as my specialization, and I don’t think that this would have gotten any simpler if this workshop hadn’t come. The workshop was excellently organized and delivered with utmost precision. Those three days were quite significant for us as we encountered ourselves with a plethora of marketing strategies. Some of them include Blog Designing, Backlinks, and Google Analytics. The importance of Blog Making has made management students revel further in many business and start-up ideas. Although, Blog Making can be as interesting as it might seem from outside when related to promotion or expressing views about any product or organization.

Makrand Sulay
BABM6
Taking BlogSpot as an example, we did make individual free blogs, designed them with great creative vision, and learned how to generate money out of them. Later, we had a session on Backlinks and Google Analytics, so one could learn in making their blogs and posts famous on the internet. There are various tools and techniques when learning about Analytics, and we are sure to have capitalized on that perfectly well.
Personally, I was benefitted through these sessions because of the skills that we learnt in them. I was working on a start-up that required high focus on the digital marketing aspect. The start-up was related to tourism industry, and required a high focus and generating traffic on the website that I designed along with my partners. As the industry has got a cut-throat competition, it is very important to generate views on the website, as it will be our primary source of generating income and revenue. The payment and other main marketing functions will also be handled by means of Digital Marketing tools and other online platforms like “e-mail marketing”, “SEO’s” which we were taught to us during the sessions.  

We would like to extend our sincere gratitude towards Mayur Sir who wholeheartedly conducted this important session on “Digital Marketing”, and shared his inciteful words and knowledge with us. Secondly, we would like thank the Digital Marketing Club and Finally, Universal Business School for these sessions.




Monday 11 February 2019

The learning from Indoor Sports Club!

When it comes to MBA, there are variety of business schools in India but Universal Business School is one of its kind. UBS is a truly global business school having collaboration with multiple leading universities across the world namely Cardiff Metropolitan University, University of Economics Bulgaria, Swish School of Management e.t.c. It is endorsed by 60 CEOs and focuses on experiential learning. The faculty in UBS carries a vast experience of industry and the teaching methodology here varies tremendously from the other B Schools as every year the syllabus gets revised according to the demand of the industry. It is specially taken care that 80% of the learning is practical learning. This help the students to know the big picture of the industry before going to the industry.
UBS consists of total 11 clubs such as: UBS Innovation Club, Indoor Sports Club, Finance Club, Marketing Club, HR & CSR Club, Tech Ops, International Club etc.
“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and loose and most importantly it teaches you about life.” – Billie Jean King
“Sports build good habits, confidence and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes and cherish growth opportunities.” – Julie Foudy
Being a sports loving person, I always wanted to join Indoor Sports Club and I am fortunate that by seeing my calibre, the club has given me an opportunity to prove myself. It organises all sorts of indoor sport events such as Box Cricket League, Intra College Badminton Championship, Full Night Pool Night, Quadrangular, Run 4 Fun, The Biggest Looser etc. This club gave me a lot of things, such as:
1. A Mentor who is Always There for Me to Help You in Difficult Situations
2. A Family Away from Home
3. A Team that Works Day & Night for Making the Event Success
During my tenure in this club, the learning curve always went up. I have learnt a lot by working in Indoor Sports Club. My key learnings are:
1. Leaving behind the ego while working in the team.
2. Taking Leadership initiatives.
3. Treating everybody in the team equally.
4. Making strategies for organising the events.
5. Marketing for the events.
6. Managing Budgets.
7. Taking ownership of the work.
8. Handling pressure situations
9. Creating future leaders who can carry the legacy of the club ahead.
Experience, dedication and creativity are the key determinants for success and Indoor Sports Club is the live example of that. When it comes to generating revenue, at that time ISC shows its power. It not only manages its events and club expenses through the revenue but also gives back to UBS in the form of maintaining the Indoor Sports as well as gym area. ISC is the top rated club of UBS, its events are blockbuster and its team is well organised. ISC runs on performance based model and believes in creating leaders for future hence it gives opportunity to each and every team member who has the potential to grow.
ISC will always be close to my heart and my experience in working with ISC will always help me in future.
Ashutosh Panda
Director Indoor Sports Club