The real estate industry in India and Bangalore in particular is growing rapidly with real estate companies establishing new developments in and around the city. Real estate developers are also using digital marketing to update their clients and potential clients on the new projects and any exciting news that they may have.
From opting for a responsive website to having engaging social media content across channels, real estate developers are including digital marketing as part of their marketing and sales strategy. Keeping this in mind, we have put together a detailed report on the digital marketing strategies of some of the top real estate developers in Bangalore.
Mantri Developers
With developments ranging from residential to retail, from commercial to hospitality sectors, Mantri Developers are one of the few real estate businesses that have provided high-quality properties that match the current trends and future needs.
Website:
Mantri Developers have a descriptive website that covers details of all their projects elaborately.
Key features:
- Live chat
- Email Sign-up and Newsletter Subscription
- Mobile responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 46.2K | 0:02:57 | 3.8 | 49.58% |
span style=”font-weight: 400;”>UX Audit: From a user’s perspective, this website has a lot of useful information. However, a more organized and spacious layout would connect better with the users and improve their experience.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 40 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 47/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 59/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 3k followers. They do 4 to 5 tweets per week and have many promoted tweets too. The tweets are good from the users’ perspective. However, the engagement is low.
Facebook: They also have an active page with only organic posts and around 20k followers. Although they have tried interactive posts like the one shown below, the engagement is quite low. However, they can try to boost their posts to make it reach masses.
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 4k followers. No recent updates are there in the page, but the older posts have good engagement. They respond to the comments on posts, which gives really good impression to the audiences.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account with 164 subscribers. They post one or two videos every month which has good engagement.
Their Google+ and Instagram Pages are not active.
Content Marketing:
They have a WordPress blog, but the last post was in August 2013. Blogs can give them a lot of traffic, so they should start posting at least one blog per month.
Prestige Developers
Prestige Developers is a real estate company that has triumphantly built a lot of residential, commercial, retail, leisure & hospitality based properties.
Website:
Prestige Developers have a common website, which covers detail of all their projects across all the cities they are serving currently. Their website is mobile responsive.
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 147.7K | 0:02:56 | 2.89 | 54% |
UX Audit: The elite images rolling in the banner connects the user to the luxury of the brand. The main menu could have been more prominent, instead of being placed against the sliding banners, but that apart, the site has very nice organization of the project information – presented state-wise and sorted by price.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 42 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 63/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 2.5k followers. They do 10 to 12 tweets per week and have no promoted tweets. The tweets are mostly about their projects or on reasons to buy property. And the engagement on tweets is decent.
Facebook: This is also an active page with around 4 lac followers. All posts are organic and the engagement is low. They have almost same posts on Facebook as the ones they have posted on Twitter.
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 3.5k followers. The page is active and engagement is also decent but they are posting same content on all the channels. They should differentiate the content as the audiences are different in different channels of Social Media.
YouTube: They have a YouTube account with 867 subscribers but it is not active. The last post was posted a year ago.
Their Google+ is not an active account, and they don’t have Instagram Page.
Content Marketing:
They don’t have any blog linked to their website. Blogs are a very good source of traffic and link building, so they should start a blog and link it to their website.
Tata Housing
Tata Housing is one of India’s leading real estate developers. It is a closely held public limited company and is a subsidiary of TATA Sons.
Website:
They have a website that covers details of all their current projects. Website has many tools like EMI calculator, Property finder, etc. and has a payment option as well.
Key Features:
- Enquiry form
- Mobile responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 144K | 0:01:47 | 2.72 | 65.56% |
UX Audit: The website comes with a clean layout and a very neat color scheme. One of the hugely useful utility – Search, is well planned here. User experience could be enhanced by placing the search in the primary top portion of the layout – so that it is easily discoverable. Every internal page corresponding to a project, has a different color scheme suited to the image. Even though the common practice is to maintain color consistency across pages, from the UX perspective this is indeed appealing.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 39 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 80/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 82/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 14.5k followers. They do 3 to 4 tweets per week and don’t have promoted tweets. They have a diverse set of tweets ranging from customer testimonials to the initiatives they have taken in general. The engagement on tweets is good.
Facebook: This is also an active page with around 2 lac followers. All posts are organic and the engagement is good. They have interesting posts like the one shown below:
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 12.5k followers. The page is active, and the engagement is also good. Content is exactly same as what they have posted on Twitter.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account with 1187 subscribers. They post 1 video every month mostly about their new projects.
Their Google+ is active with around 600 followers, and their Instagram account is not active.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog which is linked to their website. The blog is not active as last post was on 6th Jan 2016.
Sobha Developers
Founded in 1976, Sobha Group is one of the largest real estate organisations in India and the Middle East. Today, they have presence in 24 cities and 13 states across India and throughout the Middle East.
Website:
They have a website that covers detail of their current project in all the cities they are serving in India, and they have an option to go directly to Dubai site.
Key features:
- Email Newsletter Subscription present
- Mobile responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 226.8K | 0:03:10 | 3.3 | 59.85% |
UX Audit: The submenus on the main menu are very interesting, with an image and well placed submenu items. Even for mobile, the menu is optimized well. The banner is the most informing entity of their website. It covers all the deals, promotions, new launches, etc. Usually extensive sliding banners don’t work, from user perspective. However, since the information below the banner is very minimal, the user has a better opportunity to focus on the extensive banner.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 32 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 67/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 75/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 2k followers. They do 5 to 6 tweets per day, which is a lot as compared to their competitors. They have a diverse set of tweets ranging from their new projects to the general industry based news. Despite these, engagement is low on tweets.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 5.5 lac followers. All posts are organic, and the engagement is good. They have interesting posts like customer testimonial which is shown below:
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 15k followers. The page is active and engagement is also good. Content is almost same as what they have posted on Facebook.
YouTube: They have a YouTube account with 466 subscribers but it is not very active. The last post was 8 months back.
Their Google+ is active with around 515 followers, and their Instagram account is not active.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog which is not active. They do not have any mention to their blog on their website.
Century Real Estate
Century Real Estate prides itself on being an integrated, full-service landholdings development company that offers the best real estate & property developers in Bengaluru.
Website:
They have a descriptive website, which covers detail of their current project in all the cities they are serving in India.
Key features:
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- Live chat
- Mobile responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 20.5K | 0:04:48 | 3 | 46.54% |
UX Audit: The elevation overview image used in the banner is very attractive. It gives a very detailed idea of the luxury and environment of the residential project. The location sorter-tab is a good utility to filter residential projects in specific areas. The slide-in enquiry form looks neat and works comfortably.
The section ‘Bangalore – the place to be’, is well aligned with the idea of living in a place overlooking green luxury – the strength of their residential project.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 27 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 69/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 70/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account, but the followers are very less; it is around 50 only. They do 5 to 6 tweets per week, but the engagement is very low. Some of the tweets are interesting which give emphasis on Call-To-Action as the one mentioned below:
Facebook: They have an active page with around 47k followers. Some posts are organic, and some are boosted, and the engagement is good overall. They have interactive posts like the one shown below:
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 1.2k followers. They don’t have any post on their page till now.
YouTube: They have a YouTube account with only 13 subscribers and it is not very active. They post once in around 3 months.
Their Google+ is not active, and they don’t have Instagram account.
Content Marketing:
They have an active blog which is linked to their website. And they have newsletter sign-up option for their blog.
Puravankara Group
The Puravankara Group commenced operations in Mumbai and has established significant presence in the metropolitan cities of Bangalore, Kochi, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Mysore and overseas in Dubai, Colombo and Saudi-Arabia.
Website:
They have a website with categories for cities they are serving in India and then cities have description of their current projects.
Key Features:
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- Live chat
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- Email Newsletter Subscription present
- Mobile Responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 91.4K | 0:01:44 | 2.2 | 67.51% |
UX Audit: They have a very interesting drop down menu with all their residential projects listed. The supporting icons plus location information makes way of navigating to residential options more convenient.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 35 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
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- For Mobile Site their speed is 53/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 48/100.
- For Mobile Site their speed is 47/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 59/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account but the followers are very less, it is around 360. They do 5 to 6 tweets per week but engagement is low. Most of the tweets are themed around investment like the one shown below:
Facebook: They have an active page with around 37k followers. The posts are organic and have decent engagement.
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 4k followers. They don’t have any post on their page till now.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account with around 400 subscribers.
Their Google+ is not active, and they don’t have Instagram account.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog, but it is not active. It is also not linked to their website. The last post was in 2014.
Ozone Group
Ozone Group one of the top builders in Bangalore & Chennai among the real estate construction companies.
Website:
They have a website with description of their projects on the banner images, which is very visual and catches the attention.
Key Features:
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- Enquiry Form
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- Email Newsletter Subscription is Present
- Mobile Responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 72.2K | 0:01:23 | 1.76 | 72.22% |
UX Audit: The information architecture of this page is very well-planned. Banner information with different projects and their status, makes it a valuable source of information. The website has a very well-built footer with latest news, enquiry form, and contact us.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 35 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 69/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 85/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 1.5k followers. They do 2 to 3 tweets per week, but engagement is low. Most of the tweets are informative, like the one shown below:
Facebook: They have an active page with around 1 Lac followers. The posts are organic and have decent engagement. They have many images posted for different occasions.
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 800 followers. They have posts related to their achievements and activities on their page.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account, but the subscribers are less. They have almost one video upload every week.
Their Google+ is not active, but the Instagram account is active with similar posts as Facebook.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog which is active, and it is linked to their website. Content is mostly about their projects.
Total Environment
Architect led design company in real estate development, Total Environment creates luxury apartments and villas for sale in India.
Website:
They have a website with very less content. They have put images of all their projects and every image has a small description of the project.
Key Features:
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- Enquiry Form
- Mobile Responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 10.7 K | 0:04:42 | 11.86 | 22.30% |
UX Audit: The image slider is very different from the usual websites. It focused on every facility that the residence provides, thereby giving the user an entire perspective of what they’re signing up for.
On the con-side, there is no evident attractive information about their residential projects; the user might lose out on the purpose of the page
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 21 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 91/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 96/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have a Twitter account with only 100 followers. The account is not active, last tweet was in April.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 15k followers. The posts are organic and have good engagement. They have interesting posts like the one shown below:
LinkedIn: They have a LinkedIn business page with around 2k followers. They have very few posts that are about job openings only.
YouTube: They don’t have an YouTube account.
Both their Google+ and Instagram are not active.
Content Marketing:
They do not have a blog.
Nitesh Estates
Nitesh Estates is the luxury real estate brand, which has developed state-of-the-art homes, hotels, office buildings and shopping malls in India.
Website:
They have descriptive and visually appealing website, which tells about their projects and promotional activities in detail.
Key Features:
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- Email Newsletter Subscription is present
- Mobile Responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 17K | 0:04:30 | 3.9 | 29.11% |
UX Audit:
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- Convenient categorization of content along the home page.
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- Nice clear images of the property, enhances the look of the page.
- The content of the page really communicates trust via sections like ‘Ambassador banner’ and ‘Commitment to Excellence’.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 31 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 52/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 65/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 9k followers. They do 5 to 6 tweets per week, but engagement is low. They have tried engaging in campaigns like the one shown below:
Facebook: They have an active page with around 42k followers. The posts are organic and have decent engagement. They have many posts that talk about the facilities they have in their projects like the one shown below:
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 3k followers. They have posts related to their projects and the engagement is good on their page.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account with around 1.2k subscribers. They have almost 2 to 3 video uploads every 2-3 months.
Their Google+ is not active but the Instagram account is active with similar posts as Facebook.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog which is active and it is on their website. Content is very diverse ranging from general topics of real estate to specific topics like tour of their property.
Brigade Group
Brigade Group is a real estate and property developer in Bangalore & the rest of South India since 1986.
Website:
They have very colorful website, which tells about their projects across various cities. Their website is Mobile responsive.
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 99.7K | 0:01:55 | 2.22 | 58.56% |
UX Audit: Quick Finder turns out to be an excellent feature and well-placed to a user’s visibility. Categorizing their properties based on Commercial, Retail and Hospitality is very thoughtful. However the second half of the website could have maintained a more prominent and vibrant color theme like the first half of the site.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 40 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 55/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 69/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an Twitter account with around 150 followers. The account is not active, and the last tweet was in 2015.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 13k followers. The posts are organic and engagement is low. They have tried interactive posts but still the engagement is low as the one shown below:
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 9k followers. They have posts related to their projects and the engagement is decent on their page.
YouTube: They don’t have YouTube account.
Their Google+ is not active, and they don’t have an Instagram account.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog, which is on their website. It is not active; last post was in December 2015.
DRA Group
3 decades of delivering Quality Homes has made DRA a name synonymous with quality apartment constructions in Bangalore.
Website:
They have a website with good description of their ongoing as well as upcoming projects.
Key Features:
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- Enquiry Form
- Mobile responsiveness
UX Audit: Each of the individual projects has a set of features that can viewed by a simple click, and all changes being reflected in a single space. This is a very simple navigation.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 19 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 39/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 47/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 300 followers. They do 4 to 5 tweets per week but engagement is low. Most of the recent tweets are about their new project.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 25k followers. The posts are organic and have decent engagement. They have most recent posts only about their new project.
LinkedIn: They have an LinkedIn business page with around 80 followers. They have no posts till now.
YouTube: They don’t have a YouTube account.
Their Google+ is not active and they don’t have Instagram account.
Content Marketing:
They don’t have a blog.
Casa Grande
Casa Grande defines designs and develops quality livings spaces and operates in niche residential segments like luxury villas and apartments in Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Cochin. The company also sells plotted development spaces. Projects in the pipeline are to the tune of around 2500 crores in the luxury apartments and villas category across these 4 geographies.
Website:
They have a website which is visually appealing with big banner images, info-graphics and video testimonials from clients.
Key Features:
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- Live Chat
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- Email Newsletter Subscription is present
- Mobile responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 76K | 0:05:29 | 3.21 | 43.02% |
UX Audit: The semi-parallax look adds a luxurious feel to the general theme of Casa Grande. The well laid-out contact information at the top of the page facilitates easy contact. The feature that shows the number of completed, ongoing, and upcoming projects. Clean color theme of the website and well organized layout is a great advantage.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 22 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 69/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 76/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 2k followers. They do 4 to 5 tweets per week, but engagement is low. Most of the tweets are same as the ones posted on Facebook.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 1.2 Lac followers. The posts both organic as well as sponsored posts have decent engagement. They have some engaging posts like the one shown below:
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 490 followers. They have posts related to their offers but the engagement is very low on their page.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account but the subscribers are around 200 only. They have almost two video uploads every month.
Their Google+ is active but engagement is low, and they don’t have a Instagram account.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog which is active and it is linked to their website. They post almost twice per month which is good as compared to their competitors.
Asset Builders
Website:
They have a website with description of their projects and lot of content related to their mission/ vision. They have videos of testimonials by their clients.
Key Features:
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- Live Chat
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- Email Newsletter Subscription is present
- Mobile Responsiveness
UX Audit:
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- A long scroll page with all information laid out in a very appealing manner.
- A very different set of visual elements like project details in tabs, featured works in the slider, and various testimonials from client builds trust as a brand from the user perspective.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 24 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 43/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 54/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 150 followers. They do 4 to 5 tweets per month which is low as compared to competitors. The engagement is low on their posts.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 8k followers. The posts are organic and have decent engagement. They post once a week mostly.
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 100 followers. They have posts related to their achievements and activities on their page but the engagement is low.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account but the subscribers are less. The last video they uploaded was 9 months back.
Their Google+ is active, but they don’t have Instagram account.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog tab on their website but after clicking it is re-directed to their home page only.
Mahindra Lifespaces
Mahindra Lifespaces is one of the most reputed real estate property developers and they provide a one stop solution for NRI investment in India.
Website:
They have a website which is very colorful and interactive.
Key Features:
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- Enquiry Form
- Mobile Responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 56.6K | 0:02:19 | 1.76 | 65.56% |
UX Audit: Using green as a theme is very impressive to an audience in real-estate. The simple and clean design appeals to the user’s experience. Sticky enquire and book now buttons, really serve the purpose of contacting, comfortably.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 41 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 66/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 79/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have an active Twitter account with around 1k followers. They do 2 to 3 tweets per week but engagement is low.
Facebook: They have an active page with around 1 Lac followers. They have both organic as well as sponsored post and have decent engagement. They have some video posts that are quite interactive.
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 22k followers. They have posts related to their projects mostly and the engagement is decent.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account but the subscribers are less. They have almost 2 to 3 video uploads every month.
Their Google+ is not active and the Instagram account is active but engagement is low.
Content Marketing:
They have a blog which is active and it is on their website. Content is diverse which ranges from general real estate topics to specific topics like their projects.
Godrej Properties
Godrej Properties has been instrumental in the construction of Residential, commercial and township projects across 12 major cities in India & continues to be.
Website:
They have a website with all the information needed but it is very simple in terms of design. They have all the information on the banner images which is very visual.
Key Features:
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- Enquiry Form
- Mobile responsiveness
Website Insights:
| Total visits | Avg time on site | Page views | Bounce rate |
| 209.2K | 0:01:20 | 2.05 | 72.01% |
UX Audit:
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- A very simple design layout without any cluttering elements, garners user attention.
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- The information in menus is very well organized, promoting navigational convenience.
- Their ‘Book Online’ feature is a well built utility.
SEO:
Moz Rank: They have a Moz Rank 46 for Domain Authority.
Website Speed:
- For Mobile Site their speed is 41/100.
- For Desktop Site their speed is 57/100.
Social Media Presence:
Twitter: They have multiple Twitter accounts according to projects.
Facebook: They have multiple Facebook accounts according to projects.
LinkedIn: They have an active LinkedIn business page with around 33k followers. They have posts related to their activities and the engagement is good.
YouTube: They have an active YouTube account with around 550 subscribers. They have almost one video upload every week.
Their Google+ is active and in Instagram account they don’t have any posts.
Content Marketing:
They have a multiple blogs for various summits and projects.
~Other contributors to this blog post are Allan William, Pournima Balasubramanian, Nandita Raman, Rohit Uttamchandani, Srilakshmi Indrasenan, and Akila Priyadarshini.
