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Gurgaon-based Fashion e-tailer <keyword id="1153436" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yepme">YepMe</keyword> has planned to open 400 stores by the end of this financial year, as a part of the omnichannel strategy that most e-tailers are following in order to boost sales. 
 As of now, YepMe has four stores in Gurgaon, and for its expansion plans, has identified cities including Noida, Meerut, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ludhiana and Latur, where it would expand through franchise, CEO <keyword id="2430540" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vivek-Gaur">Vivek Gaur</keyword> told <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/yepme-to-open-400-stores-by-the-end-of-this-financial-year/articleshow/53482739.cms">ET</a>. While metro cities would have company-owned stores, tier II towns will have franchisee-owned stores. 
 
A new initiative of the company, as a part of its offer of a seamless shopping experience, would be to run similar schemes and offers and allow "anywhere returns" of products, which means that products bought by customers anywhere across different cities could be returned to any store they like. 
 
Founded in 2011, YepMe raised $75 million in September 2015 from investors led by Malaysian state fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad and existing investor Helion Advisors. 
 
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YepMe aims to open 400 stores by March 2017

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What inspired the venture: The three co-founders came up with the concept to help mobile-first Internet users discover interesting and relevant content. “While talking to our partners in India for another project, we suddenly realised how an entire generation of people across the world, hundreds of millions of them, are accessing the Internet via mobile devices and many of them are doing it for the first time,” recalls Revanth. The trio felt that a mobile-ready way to connect content, brands and consumers would be the key requirement of every business. That’s how Paisa Swipe was born – it is the <keyword id="1956538" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mobile-content-discovery-network">mobile content discovery network</keyword> for the mobile-first generation. The company was set up in May 2013 and its Android app became functional on October 15. 
 
What’s the pitch: India’s No.1 mobile lock screen ad/content discovery network. It’s time to ditch that boring old lock screen for a smarter one. One that pays you! Paisa Swipe connects brands and <keyword id="63341" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Advertisers">advertisers</keyword> directly to consumers across the world. The start-up enables consumers to find products, applications and daily deals they are interested in – controlled totally by them. 
 
How it works: For upfront users, it is quite simple. Once the app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paisaswipe.android) is installed on your mobile device (it has to be a <keyword id="1956545" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Touchscreen-android-device">touchscreen android device</keyword>, with V 2.1 or higher), you need to log in and customise your profile by providing more information regarding your interest areas. Paisa Swipe then takes over the lock screen and every time you wake up your phone, you will see a customised and curated piece of ad content. The topic will vary depending on your interests – it can be a Bollywood/Hollywood trailer, news updates, fashion trends, entertainment bytes, real-time local deals and more. 
 
If you like the content, simply ‘swipe’ to learn more and Paisa Swipe advertisers will reward you. As of now, each member gets up to 60 paise per day per ad display, and the upper limit for monthly earning is Rs 300. When you reach the ‘encashment’ point, you can use the amount to cash out at Freecharge.in, which offers recharge services for mobile, DTH and data cards. If you refer your friends to download the app, you may also win referral prizes. Moreover, you can get free prizes, buy products and get cashback on those, and give donation to charity with the money you earn from Paisa Swipe. 
 
Claim to fame: The app is just a month old and the traction had been slow at first. But it seems to be picking up now. Last we checked, total <keyword id="6795187" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="downloads">downloads</keyword> at <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword> Play stood at 11,000 and the rating was 4.3 out of 5. But according to Revanth, the app is currently seeing 1,000 downloads a day, has crossed 4 million ad impressions and is witnessing at least 100,000 ad impressions per day. The other ‘plus’ is users get <keyword id="1956527" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Curated-ad-content">curated ad content</keyword>, depending on their interests. The ‘relevance’, the ‘control’ (one can choose not to ‘swipe’ the ads) and the ‘reward’ parts are the unique triggers that will further drive mobile marketing, says Revanth. 
 
Show me the money: The start-up is currently bootstrapped and its monetisation happens through <keyword id="1049940" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="ad-revenues">ad revenues</keyword>. Paisa Swipe has already signed deals with a few companies such as Yepme.com, Snapdeal.com, YellowFashion.in and Mydala.com. “We are now working hard to get more <keyword id="1956550" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Local-advertisers">local advertisers</keyword> and <keyword id="1956552" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Big-Indian-brands">big Indian brands</keyword> on board,” says Revanth. “Once that is done and we gain significant traction in terms of downloads, we will approach investors. But that will take at least a year or so,” he adds. Growth will be faster when the app is available on other platforms (iOS and Windows), according to the co-founders. The company will also expand to five more countries in the next quarter in order to grow its user base. 
 
Biggest challenge: Finding the right kind of <keyword id="1956555" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Consumer-engagement">consumer engagement</keyword> to keep them viewing the advertisements. <keyword id="564900" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mobile-advertising">Mobile advertising</keyword> is growing at fabulous pace – so keeping things interesting and relevant for a fast-growing user base is the biggest challenge for all mobile ad networks.

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If you have leadership qualities and talent to create wealth, you fit the bill. E-Commerce companies like Flipkart, Amazon, Ola, Uber, Jabong, etc are hiring and offering huge salaries. If estimates of headhunting firms are to be believed, they could roll out 500 jobs with salaries of more than Rs 1 crore each this year. 
 
As per the five search firms including RGF Executive Search and Longhouse Consulting, Snapdeal, Quikr, CommonFloor, Yepme, OLX, Junglee, FashionAndYou, Hungama, BookMyShow, Cleartrip and Lenskart are among companies offering jobs with one-crore-plus salaries. 
 
Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal account for a huge chunk of these offers. 
 
Siddharth Raisurana, Director at ABC Consultants told Economic Times the company conducted more than 100 senior-level searches for e-Commerce companies in the past six months. 
 
The executive search division of CareerNet, Longhouse Consulting, is looking at a dozen plus mandates a month. 
 
"We have 70-80% of our business coming from e-Commerce and expect to handle 180-200 mandates this year, up from 75-85 last year," Anshuman Das, managing partner, Longhouse Consulting, told ET. 
 
"We are filling in at least one position a day at the leadership level," GC Jayaprakash, executive director at RGF Executive Search, told the financial daily. 
He added that the companies were willing to pay a premium to attract top talent that would lead to wealth creation and high valuation if they go ahead with an IPO. 
 
Meanwhile, human resource heads of e-Commerce companies also agreed on the estimates. 
 "Investors are bringing hundreds of millions of dollars. We can spend it either on infrastructure or people. And that's what they are doing - investing in people," the <keyword id="231518" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Human-Resource-Head">human resource head</keyword> of one of the leading online retailers, on conditions of anonymity, told ET. 
 
The financial daily also reported that the HR head of another online retailer was currently scouting for such senior level talent for several of its revenue generating core functions. 
 "This year also we are looking at 30-40% increase in hiring across the board and a corresponding increase in leadership levels," said Raj Raghavan, head-HR, <keyword id="6354743" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon-India">Amazon India</keyword>. He declined to comment on salaries. 
 
Even Snapdeal is looking to beef up leadership hiring. 
 
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