The Hindu 09.11.2010
Meet the woman who logged Hubli in for e-commerce
Girish Pattanashetti
| Deepali Gotadke's venture ushered the city into the age of online marketing and gifting services |
Gotadke's firm has a network of florists, bakers across the country through which it delivers gifts
Her team has so far designed and developed more than 250 websites for various clients
Right click:Deepali Gotadke receiving the award for ‘High-Performing Women IT Entrepreneur' at the Bangalore IT.biz 2010
HUBLI: Once dubbed as the “next IT destination” in Karnataka, the twin cities Hubli and Dharwad are yet to attract bigger information technology firms. There are, however, smaller IT and IT-enabled services firms that are gradually making a mark here.
Amid them, a woman entrepreneur who started off on a small scale stands out. Deepali Gotadke has successfully implemented her business model in e-commerce.
Ms. Gotadke, who launched her business model working from her home office initially, now heads a small firm of 10 employees. Her firm has spread its network in the past decade.
Awarded
For her successful venture, she was recently conferred an award instituted by the Software Technology Parks of India and Department of IT and BT of the State.
Ms. Gotadke was adjudged the ‘High-Performing Woman IT Entrepreneur' at the recently held Bangalore IT.biz 2010 in Bangalore. An engineering graduate from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, Ms. Gotadke designed and launched her e-commerce site, Clickhubli.com, in 2001, which was the first e-commerce site to be launched and operated from Hubli.
Gifting services
Initially, the site offered gift services in Hubli-Dharwad, Belgaum and a few other cities.
The firm now has a network of florists and bakers across the country through which it delivers gifts.
The site also provides information on Kasuti, the traditional form of embroidery typical of north Karnataka, and undertakes the responsibility of booking and delivering saris and dress material with Kasuti work. With 10 years' experience in Web designing and development, Ms. Gotadke and her team have so far designed and developed more than 250 websites for various clients, including some government agencies such as the Hubli Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC), the Hubli Dharwad Police Commissionerate and North-west Karnataka Road Transport Corporation.
There's more
She also runs the website Clickroses.com, an e-shopping site and gifting service.
And if that's not enterprising enough, she has also helped the Hubli-Dharwad police in solving a cyber crime case on the misuse of credit cards on e-commerce sites in December 2009 and is also on the IT advisory committee of the HDMC.
