About This Episode
Ramalingam Subramanian is the Head of Brand and Communications at CoinDCX – India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange platform. He has extensive experience working as a Brand Consultant with various industry leaders, SMEs, and young startups. Previously, Ramalingam worked as a Managing Partner for Prarambhan Creative Works.
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Priyam: How has COVID impacted you as a professional and the industry you work in?
Ramalingam: Initially, there was a lot of confusion regarding the validity of trading cryptocurrency. There was a lot of misleading information floating on the internet. But when the Supreme court gave us a green flag, we started seeing an upsurge until lockdown happened.
→ We are a company of young employees and saw a difficulty for us to cope with our lives during the lockdown. Hence, we did a dry run initially to prepare everyone to effectively function from a remote setting.
→ The physical touch-point for us is KYC. Somehow, the business is going slow and we are not able to get benefit from the green flag due to this sudden lockdown.
→ As per my job role, I am more focussed to reassess the strategies and return to the basics of the role irrespective of the mediums available.
Priyam: What marketing strategy have you adopted to survive in this phase?
Ramalingam: Our budget hasn’t dried up completely. Rather there is an extra budget in certain favorable avenues that might arise during this lockdown.
→ We are a strong community-driven company. Social media is not the go-to platform for us. The community and the product is the key.
→ The main focus is towards the awareness and the utility stand-point instead of being fully sales driven.
Priyam: What changes in consumer behavior have you witnessed at CoinDCX?
Ramalingam: People are holding money right now. But they are also figuring out the new ways to invest and experiment with different platforms.
→ There are more accounts registered to us but with a lesser amount. They are trying to understand the system and trying hard to crack it.
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