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Me: 
I'm Kaushik Subramanian, and I'm a marketer, consultant and now a tech product person who derives immense pleasure out of sharing what I know. I've spent my entire career building businesses, and currently work in a large tech company based in London

 If you want to know more about me, I'm reachable via http://kaushiks.me

 This Blog:
This blog was started in 2011 when I was working in sales in a rural India, in a place called Siliguri. I realized that sales isn't actually taught in any school, and hence started this blog to share my knowledge on the topic.

 Over the years, it has ramped up over half a million hits, and a few contributors. I now plan to expand this to include marketing, strategy and general life advice.

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 Anupriya  Singhal: 
Currently Marketing Manager, Equity for Dettol & Lysol in Asia, Africa & LATAM. She has been a FMCG marketer for over 11 years and has done the whole shabang in FMCG from sales to strategy. As passionate about teaching marketing as she is about building brands. As she sums it up - she is a wanderer by compulsion and a marketer by choice

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All views expressed are personal and do not reflect the view of any company
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