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How D2C Brands Are Leveraging Martech Solutions, Social Media To Solve The Retention Puzzle

Inc42 · inc42.com Free Intermediate India

Inc42 is the sharpest Indian startup-business press on the martech landscape founders actually shop in, and this piece maps how Indian D2C brands are stitching together tools (not just picking one platform) to hold onto customers.

  • Most scaled Indian D2C brands run a stack, not a single tool, across engagement, CDP and support.
  • Social and martech increasingly work together on retention, not just top-of-funnel acquisition.
  • Grounded in how Indian founders and marketers are actually buying and combining these tools.

The question it answers

  1. Should I use Klaviyo, WebEngage, MoEngage, or something else for email and retention marketing?

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