Subhakar Rao Surapaneni

Mr [Subhakar Rao Surapaneni](http://www.subhakarrao.com/) is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the [Champions Group](http://www.championsgroup.com/) and Luxury Resorts & Homes. He is the brain behind all innovative technologies and growth of Champions Luxury Homes project. With a vision to leverage technology to solve high cost home build problems, Subhakar Rao Surapaneni started Champion Homes Project at 2005 to help out all those people at Bangalore to make their luxury housing dreams come true. He is also the proud owner of Champions yacht club, a leading Goa's marine luxury yacht services within the yachting industry. He is focused on strengthening the business proposition and building a robust operating model for sustained growth of the company. He has initiated and implemented effective business models in India and US and has built several successful strategic partnerships. Mr Subhakar Rao Surapaneni ( Stanley ) is the author of the book "[The New Frontiers of Marketing ] (http://www.newfrontiersofmarketing.com/)" launched in 2015 that has made him a recognized face as an entrepreneur for his extraordinary digital marketing insights & dynamic marketing strategies that are field-tested & proven to work. Not only that, apart from being a digital branding expert, he is the "think-tank" of contemporary digital marketing strategies & tactics. [Subhakar Rao Surapaneni featured in Fortune magazine as a "game changer in business"] (http://www.prnewswire.co.in/news-releases/champions-group-chairman-subhakar-rao-surapaneni-featured-in-fortune-magazine-566011031.html) is an influential digital marketing expert that has enabled companies grow globally via multiple new age digital marketing channels in 108 countries. Go Green Initiatives Taken by Mr. Subhakar Rao Mr Rao, Invites Corporates to Go Green Run event For a Greener Bengaluru. Go Green Run will cover a distance of 10 kilometers, starting from Sarjapura, close to the Decathlon sports shop. This 10K run will flag off at 7:00 am on July 20th , 2013. It is no coincidence that Bengaluru has achieved this distinction of being called the "Go Green Knowledge Capital of the new flat world. It is the hard work, perseverance and tenacity of our young workforce who work day & night, round the clock to keep our economy growing. But, the city has become a concrete jungle and it's time to Go Green. It is time to make our city greener. Come, participate in the Go Green Run and each runner also gets to take home a plant." An Interview with Management Next Video is the New King By S. Rao, Chairman, Champions Group India is an entrepreneurial country where SMBs want to grow quickly using modern digital tools. How can digital and social media monetization happen? 66% of SMBs we spoke to, say that they are moving their marketing purchase into digital because they are seeing that it is more responsive. That's a $58 billion dollar pie in 2014. It is up for grabs for Indian digital marketing companies. Website and blog are predominantly used by SMBs today. New technologies are emerging and SMBs have to be bold in using them. So which global markets are ready for digital marketing? The Americans have arrived but definitely India is ready too. India is eager for this. Do we have a market that uses digital? Is India really there yet? Online purchase numbers in India has beaten Japan and Honk Kong. There is a lot more that is going to happen in this space. Average frequency of online purchases out of India is 2 ½ times every month, likelihood of making a purchase in the next three months 10- 11%. So the increase in digital marketing spend is high, traditional ad spend is decreasing. 70% of B2B marketers have started using videos; it's one of the most important content delivery channels. The eye can capture 2500 words in a video versus 150 on paper; you then definitely want to reach more through video. In everything you do, you should have the next level of personalization. Marketing and sales are doing various activities together; we talked about segmenting, customization, individualizing communication components. What's happening on the sales side? Earlier it was feature selling, then benefit selling, solution selling and now it's all about vision selling. Video is the right way to sell vision. The top CEO problem is - business is not growing fast, expenses are going up, salaries are increasing even if sales are sluggish and profits are down. CEOs need to be aligned with the CMO to identify a matrix of the marketing spends. CFOs also need to be in tune about what the company is doing on the marketing side. Employees first Who do you market to first? I think you should market to your internal team first. That's where a good chunk of your marketing spend should be. A lot of SMBs are missing this. They are ready to market to the world, can't change the world, first start changing the mind-sets of people in your enterprise. These are people who can take your capabilities to your client base. You got to work hard, play harder; you got to use digital, video to reach your employee base first then customers SMBS can go digital, grow global without breaking the bank. You can deploy a lot of the solutions within a couple of lakhs today. For example, you can have a 10 country presence online with just Rs. 10,000 to 20,000 a month and you can start growing digitally. It's about speed. The digital thought process of personalization should be carried to the offline space as well. We should also map the partners, anybody can partner with them, all within a couple of lakhs. You don't need to invest lots particularly if you are a digitally empowered organization. Why am I so gung-ho about digital marketing and the potential for India at large? For every dollar being spent on IT at least 3 dollars is being spent on marketing. Of which most companies are spending 30-40% on digital. Are we ready to grab the B2B digital marketing pie? A huge opportunity awaits all of us. Let's not relax and let this pass by us. We are in the green zone. It's high time for marketers in this country to wake up to this huge opportunity that is awaiting B2B SMEs.