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Dive into #MindfulMinutes, a thought-provoking podcast for Indian small and medium businesses! I am Tanay Sarpotdar and I am here to challenge the idea of marketing as a mere expense, exploring fresh perspectives with business leaders and marketers. Join us for insightful discussions that will shift your view and spark creative marketing strategies – all within a convenient 60-minute format. Get ready to add "mindful marketing" to your list of new skills!A big thanks to Marinoid, for sponsoring all these podcasts!
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- 3 weeks ago34 min
SAP S/4HANA Condensed: What CXOs Actually Need to Know with Prashant Pimplekar and Tanay Sarpotdar
In this episode of MindfulMinutes, Tanay Sarpotdar, Strategic Marketing Advisor, speaks with Prashant Pimplekar, Founder of Magnum Primus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and author of SAP S/4HANA Condensed: For CXOs to Consultants, about making enterprise technology understandable and actionable for business leaders. Drawing on over three decades of experience in the SAP ecosystem, Prashant discusses the gap between technical expertise and executive-level understanding, the business case for SAP S/4HANA transformation, choosing the right migration and cloud strategies, avoiding costly implementation mistakes, and bridging the communication gap between business leaders and technical teams. The conversation also explores how SAP consultants can broaden their expertise to become more strategic advisors and how a shared understanding of the S/4HANA ecosystem can help organizations make better decisions, streamline transformation planning and accelerate business development. Whether you're a CXO, transformation leader, SAP consultant or implementation partner, this episode offers practical perspectives on navigating enterprise transformation with greater clarity and confidence.
- Sep 18, 202633 min
The Economics of Borrowing a CMO with Tanay Sarpotdar
In this episode, Tanay Sarpotdar, Strategic Marketing Advisor, explores the economics of borrowing a CMO and why businesses today are rethinking how they access senior marketing leadership. From the cost of hiring a full-time Chief Marketing Officer to the flexibility of a Fractional CMO, the conversation looks at engagement models, investment considerations, and the realities of building marketing capabilities without committing to a full-time executive role. Drawing from his experience working with growing businesses, Tanay shares his perspective on how founders can evaluate the right level of strategic leadership for their stage of growth, what they should expect from the engagement, and why the real question isn't simply how much a CMO costs, but what kind of marketing leadership the business actually needs.
- Aug 31, 20266 min
The Half-Life of Certainty – Why Great Leaders Know When to Let Go of Being Right with Tanay Sarpotdar
Every era has its certainties.Companies once believed customers would never buy online. Search engines would always be the gateway to information. Experience was the ultimate competitive advantage. And businesses could confidently plan five years ahead.History tells a different story.In this thought-provoking episode of MindfulMinutes, Tanay Sarpotdar explores the concept of the "Half-Life of Certainty"—the idea that every business assumption, no matter how successful or well-established, gradually loses relevance over time.This isn't an episode about AI.It's about leadership.It's about intellectual humility.It's about recognizing that the greatest risk isn't making the wrong decision—it's holding on to yesterday's certainty for too long.As Artificial Intelligence accelerates the pace of change, leaders are challenged not to predict the future with greater accuracy, but to question their own assumptions with greater honesty.Because in a world where answers are abundant, curiosity may become the rarest leadership trait of all.
- Aug 15, 202627 min
The Unfair Advantage of Understanding Your Buyer with Suhasini Kirloskar and Tanay Sarpotdar
B2B companies spend enormous amounts of time understanding their products.Features. Pricing. Competition. Differentiation. Positioning.But how much time do they spend understanding the person actually making the buying decision?In this episode of MindfulMinutes, Tanay Sarpotdar speaks with Suhasini Kirloskar about the behavioural side of B2B growth—and why understanding your buyer can become one of the most powerful competitive advantages a business can develop.The conversation explores what businesses often miss when they look at buyers through traditional ICPs, personas and customer data. It moves into the psychology behind B2B decisions, the role of trust and perceived risk, and what behavioural insight can reveal when leads are coming in but deals still aren't moving.The discussion then moves from behaviour to strategy: how can businesses actually use what they learn about their buyers to rethink positioning, messaging, marketing and sales?Because understanding buyer behaviour is interesting.Using it to make better business decisions is where the real advantage begins.About Suhasini KirloskarSuhasini Kirloskar works at the intersection of B2B marketing, behavioural insights, sales and business growth.Her work focuses on helping businesses understand the psychology behind B2B buying decisions and translate those insights into practical strategies that improve how companies market, sell and build relationships.She is also the brain behind B2B Growth Essentials, which takes behavioural thinking beyond theory and applies it to practical B2B situations across marketing and sales.A Thought to Take AwayYour buyer doesn't live inside your strategy deck. They live inside their own world—with their own fears, ambitions, pressures, biases, relationships and reasons for saying yes or no.Understanding that world may be one of the most underrated advantages in B2B.Register for B2B Masterclass Series and get a 10% off by using the code "MARINOID10": https://b2bgrowthessentials.com/b2b-influence-strategy-online-masterclass/
- Aug 3, 202642 min
Global-From-India GTM: Winning Cross-Border Brand & Demand in 2026 with Smriti Dhingra and Tanay Sarpotdar
Indian B2B and SaaS companies are expanding globally like never before but successful international growth requires far more than translating websites or running global ad campaigns.In this episode of MindfulMinutes, host Tanay Sarpotdar speaks with Smriti Dhingra about how India-founded companies can build brand credibility and predictable demand across international markets in an AI-first world.Together, they discuss:Building effective Global GTM strategies from IndiaRegional differences in AEO/GEO and AI-powered searchPersonalization while staying compliant with GDPR and India's DPDP ActWhich channels—LinkedIn, communities, podcasts, and events—are driving real B2B pipeline in 2026The capabilities founders and CMOs need to stay globally competitiveWhether you're a founder, CMO, or growth leader, this episode offers practical insights for scaling internationally with confidence.
- Jul 17, 202610 min
The CMO–CFO Alliance: Sizing Marketing Investment in an AI-Driven World with Tanay Sarpotdar
For decades, the relationship between Marketing and Finance has often felt like an endless tug of war—one chasing growth, the other guarding the purse strings. But what if the problem was never the budget, but the language?In this episode of MindfulMinutes, Tanay explores how Artificial Intelligence is changing one of the oldest boardroom rivalries. From replacing gut instinct with measurable insights to transforming marketing from a cost centre into an investment portfolio, this episode uncovers why the future belongs to businesses where the CMO and CFO stop debating expenses and start co-owning growth.Along the way, expect a few laughs, relatable boardroom moments, and practical perspectives that every founder, marketer, finance leader, and business executive can take back to their next planning meeting.
- Jun 5, 202636 min
Cognitive Whiplash: Marketing Leaders on AI, Voice, and Trust with Manas Panda and Tanay Sarpotdar
What happens when every AI tool in your marketing stack optimizes brilliantly but your brand slowly starts sounding like five different companies?In this episode of MindfulMinutes, host Tanay Sarpotdar sits down with Manas Panda, Co-Founder & COO of MindGen and former Global Marketing & Brand Engagement Lead at MoneyGram, to unpack a growing challenge in modern marketing: Cognitive Whiplash.As AI reshapes emails, ads, websites, chatbots, sales conversations, and customer journeys, brands are gaining speed, scale, and efficiency but often at the cost of coherence, tone, and trust.Together, Tanay and Manas explore:Why AI-driven optimization can unintentionally fragment brand identityHow marketing leaders can protect voice and trust while scaling automationThe hidden risks of “performance-first” communicationWhy India’s multilingual and culturally layered market makes AI messaging uniquely challengingGovernance frameworks every modern marketing team should considerAnd how brands can remain recognizable in an increasingly algorithmic worldAdding an extra layer of perspective, both Tanay and Manas are alumni of the Executive Programme in AI-Driven Marketing & MarTech from the Indian Institute of Management Indore, bringing a practitioner-led and deeply strategic lens to the future of AI-powered communication.This isn't another “AI will change marketing” conversation.It's a discussion about whether brands can scale automation without losing their humanity.Because in the age of AI, consistency may become the new competitive advantage and trust may become the hardest metric to automate.
- May 29, 202613 min
Fractional CMOs in an AI Buyer Economy: Designing Growth When You Don’t Control the Journey with Tanay Sarpotdar
If you don’t control the buyer journey anymore… what exactly is your role?In this episode, we bring the series together by redefining the role of marketing leadership—especially Fractional CMOs—in an AI-shaped world.Building on the Shadow Buyer, Algorithm Economy, 6-Second Decision Engine, and AI Buyer Committee, we introduce a new mandate: 👉 From campaign execution to decision architecture.You’ll discover the three critical layers of modern growth:Pre-decision influence (where AI shapes perception)Decision compression (where direction is locked quickly)Post-decision validation (where choices are justified, not made)This episode is not about doing more marketing. It’s about designing the system in which decisions happen.Because in 2026, growth doesn’t come from controlling the journey.👉 It comes from influencing what happens before the journey even begins.
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Dive into #MindfulMinutes, a thought-provoking podcast for Indian small and medium businesses! I am Tanay Sarpotdar and I am here to challenge the idea of marketing as a mere expense, exploring fresh perspectives with business leaders and marketers. Join us for insightful discussions that will shift your view and spark creative marketing strategies – all within a convenient 60-minute format. Get ready to add "mindful marketing" to your list of new skills!A big thanks to Marinoid, for sponsoring all these podcasts!
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