Smart Suburbs

  • Pune, India
  • MarketingDigital Marketing (SEO/Automation), Enterprise SoftwareLocation Based, Advertising, Consumer Internet, Location Based Services, Hyperlocal

SmartSuburbs - your Location specific Read - Find - Shop - Engage - Share - Job n more for location.

Founded:
2016
Stage:
Early Revenues
Market:
B2B

Startup Video

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www.SmartSuburbs.in


Founded

SmartSuburbs.in umbrella initiative is ready with 5 local web portals of Pune

May

2016
Customer

First Enterprise customer booked (Club29.in) which paid Rs.60000 for digital sv

Aug

New Product Release

Local Marketplace rolled out for 1 community Commerce portal (wakad.in/bazaar).

Nov

Jobs

Media/Community Content Strategy Head Office Manager
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Pune, India
partner/business development , Strategic Partnerships, content Management

Job Description
Looking for a Digital Content Head who is keen to be a co-founder preferably equity + reasonable salary. An experienced person with over 5 years experience in Media / Press / Community Content experience and well networked individual.
Resident of pune is preferred. Previous experience with media companies/media startups a must.

Digital Marketing Head Sales & Marketing
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Pune, India
Digital marketing, digital m, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Partnerships

Job Description
Looking for a Sales & Marketing co-founder preferably equity + reasonable salary. An experienced person with over 5 years eCommerce / Digital Content experience and well networked individual.
Resident of pune is preferred. Previous experience with successful startups a must.

Team Summary

Smart Suburbs is founded by Parag Pathare, a serial entrepreneur having past 5 years committed to startups. His other eCommerce operational venture is RightDeal.in, a Preschooling vertical store with multi-channel B2C & B2B focus. RightDeal.in initiated a "Reading Initiative" YoungReadersClub (2yrs old) which today offers services to 9 preschools.

With over 24 years in IT/Telecoms domain, of which 16yrs of APAC/Global IT/Consulting/Delivery experience managed out of Singapore where he served Singapore Telecom, Cap Gemini-Singapore, Lucent, StarHub.
Local Community Commerce is Parag's early dream and this is shaped into SmartSuburbs. Parag drives overall design, technology, partnerships and currently has a team of 4 members cover Operations, Marketing & content management.

He knows very well the need for good co-founders and is actively looking for 2 experienced co-founders for Marketing & Digital Content Managment verticals (equity). Investors with co-founder on-boarding preferred.

Team

Founding Team

Parag Pathare

Parag Pathare


Founder

Founder @ RightDeal.in - Edu & Learning store for Pre & Primary schoolers, Founder @ Hyperlocal Smart Suburbs (SmartSuburbs.in)

WORK

RightDeal.in - Edu & Learning store for Pre & Primary schoolers (2011 - present)
Founder

Hyperlocal Smart Suburbs (SmartSuburbs.in) (2014 - 2016)
Founder

Tech Mahindra, India (Pune) (2010 - 2011)
Solutions & Bid Manager, ASEAN focus

EDUCATION

PMI.org (Project Management Institute)
PMP • 2005 - 2005

Specialist Diploma in e-Commerce(IDA endorsed), Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
Specialist Diploma e-Commerce (IDA endorsed) • 2004 - 2004

PG Diploma Adv Comp Sciences, Board of Technical Exams, Maharashtra
Advanced Diploma in Computer Software, Systems Analysis and Applications (Post-Graduate Diploma) • 1989 - 1990

Product/Service Summary

SmartSuburbs is a brand initiative under which it runs geodomain web portals mapping dense suburbs of Pune & Mumbai. Each suburban portal (eg; wakad.in) offers, location specific Biz Directory, local Advertising, local News, Events, Happenings, Jobs & location specific Marketplace/Bazaar offering retail, subscriptions, rentals and services.
Currently SmartSuburbs manages 5 suburbs of Pune (Wakad.in, PimpleSaudagar.in, Aundh.in, BanerBalewadi.com, Kothrud.com). To know more about our Smart Suburbs umbrella initiative, please visit www.SmartSuburbs.in.

Product/Service Descriptions

Premium Directory Listing on local portal

Following is our Premium Business Directory Listing which provided 12 rich features (our USP):
1. Almost 2 to 4 pages of your Business, Products & Services description
2. Top Banner picture of your Business on your listing page (JD)
3. Upto 20 pics of your products/services (JD)
4. Direction Guidance Button for customers to reach you Biz location (JD)
5. Contact Form for businesses to reach you via email (JD)
6. URLs / Links of your..(truncated)

Localised Digital Marketing, Events, Featured/Ads

Smart Suburban portal addressing Dense Suburb of Pune & Mumbai offer the following capability for local businesses to get Maximum ROI on marketing dollar.
1) Premium Biz Listings, 2) Localised Social Media/Marketing 3) Local Events engine 4) News/Happenings/featured news, 5) Ads on 1 website or on Smart Suburbs network of local websites (currently we have 5 web portals addressing 5 dense cosmo suburbs of pune)

Hyperlocal Suburban Bazaar

Each suburban portal has dedicated suburban local Online Bazaar allowing local residents to enjoy their best local and nearby products, services, rentals and subscription services offered centrally online (eg; wakad.in/bazaar). Checkout the screenshot. Currently Wakad Bazaar has just gone live with one local Broadband service provider and 1 local rose seller on board.

Community Engagement / Services

As a Community Commerce portal, we want the Community engagement in place for it to be truly Smart where local residents share about 8 types of free content. This will make it a truly sticky local platform where residents are in the know about neighbourhood matters and will enrich the platform. Commerce aspects will flow in naturally.