About
Sampad Swain is an entrepreneur & web enthusiast. Currently he’s working on an innovative eCommerce concept based on collective buying called DealsAndYou.com (formerly known as WanaMo.com which he co-founded with AS and got acquired by Group Buying Global AG & Harish Bahl).
About DealsAndYou – DealsAndYou.com is deal-a-day website on the best things to do, eat, see, experience & buy in various cities across India. DealsAndYou.com is aimed to be a one point stop for consumers to explore their city with amazing deals at heavy and attractive discounts. In turn, retail service vendors/providers reach out to such targeted consumers! Basically social media mashed-up with group buying in local markets.
He’s also the chieftain of sampadswain.com’s highly engaged clan. Here he daily rants about social media, emerging media, technology, VC space and tries to put forth his PoV on the intersection between all these in our culture and business.
Apart from these, in his previous avatars, he’s been in the role of product and community evangelist managing the efforts of sales, marketing, content and product management in one of India’s leading UGC platform for creative community. Also, he’s been an International Marketing Manager and New Business & Product manager for one of the biggest Indian conglomerate. Before that, he also had a brief yet enriching stint in one of the biggest brand launch in foods category against Pepsi’s Frito-Lay’s with a major FMCG player in India.
Before jumping into the corporate alleys, he earned his Engineering in Electronics & Communication discipline and MBA in Marketing & Finance.
Usually you’ll find him crunching numbers – be it decoding vagaries of online statistics or encoding different shades of consumer behaviour in digital media for meaningful & wholesome outcome. On this regard, you might want to check out the deck on “Branding 2.0 & Social Media“.
Currently, he resides in Mumbai (the commercial capital of Emerging India) and some of the places he’s been last seen are various Digital Media events and Tweetups for sure.
What this blog is all about?
It is one of the most widely read blog about Social Media Marketing, Consumer Internet Technologies, Digital Branding, Tech 2.0, VC rants & Entrepreneurship narratives.
Can you email me questions?
Of course! The best way to contact is through “Contact” page or shoot an email at Sampad[at]SampadSwain.com. Feel free to do so if you’ve any queries on the related topics or just want some work done. Sometimes deluge of emails can be a problem but nonetheless, you will surely hear within a day or two.
Is there any other way to connect?
Of course! You can connect on all of the following services:
| Twitter | Friendfeed | LinkedIn | Facebook | StumbleUpon | Digg | Delicious | Slideshare | Flickr | Tumblr | Posterous |
Can you stay connected?
Sure you can. If you like the content of the blog and find it useful, then you might want to subscribe via RSS Feed or by Email.
Thanks and hope you enjoy your visit! Feel free to browse through the articles by going through the “Categories” or “Top Posts” section in the blog.
Updated: 13th Aug, 2010
