Remit2India Announces Winners of its Anniversary Promotion

Feb 26 2009: Remit2India, the popular online money transfer service for NRIs, recently announced the winners of its Anniversary Promotion. 

While the offer had an assured winning amount added to every transaction booked on remit2india, there were a few lucky winners who really hit the Jackpot. The first one in this category is Mahendra Kondur from Enciniats, California. This regular customer of Remit2India won the special ‘8888′ price which meant that he had almost $200 added to his money transfer to India.  

The winner was excited to be the chosen one & he had this to say  “Remit2india money transfer service is the only service i have used since 2004 to send money back home. I didnt even feel to try other services. Its very easy to use and the exchange rate is best among what I have seen. Another feature that impresed me is their very efficient customer support. I even have recomended remit2india to my other friends, who are also pleased with their service. Keep rocking guys”

So obviously, it literally ‘pays’ to send money through Remit2India.

 

Remit2India celebrated its 8th Anniversary on the 14th of Feb but the celebrations for its customers continue through the month. 

The offer is still available for a few days & NRIs can get more details on the website www.remit2india.com

Mahendra Kondur - Winner of the Remit2India Anniversary Offer

Winner of the Remit2India Anniversary Offer

Remit2India celebrates its 8th Anniversary with a special offer for NRIs!

Feb 13 2009: World over, Feb 14th is celebrated as Valentine’s Day. However, for NRIs, there is also an extra-special significance to this date. Remit2India, the online money transfer service from the Times Group also celebrates its 8th Anniversary on the 14th of this month. And as has been the tradition, the celebrations are spread across all the tens of thousand NRI customers across the globe.

Sticking with the theme of ‘8′ , Remit2India has launched an innovative offer where all transactions this month are guaranteed an additional rupee amount with ‘8′ as on the numbers. So, an NRI can win R208, Rs.1008 or even Rs.8888 by simply sending money through Remit2India this month. That means a whopping amount of almost $200 could be added to the transaction on Remit2India.

Over the last 8 years, Remit2India has been the leading online money transfer option for NRIs. Apart from winning a host of awards & recognitions*, Remit2India has also been the pioneer in innovative remittance products such as Direct Debit, remittance cards, Standing Instructions etc. The service is currently available for NRIs from the U.S, U.K, Australia & 20 other countries to send money online to any account in India. The service can be user for all kinds of remittances from family needs, buying property, sending to NRE accounts, bill-payments, donations etc.

More details of the service & the anniversary offer are available on the official website, www.remit2india.com.

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- Winner of the Saville Row Brand Award at the Asia Brand Congress 2007

- Winner of the Brand Excellence Award for Product Innovation at the Asia Brand Congress 2008

- Rated “World’s No.1 Online Money Transfer Portal for NRIs” by A.C Nielsen in 2007

Remit2india – Remit2India bonds with the NRIs and their families

Remit2India, India’s leading online remittance portal, organized NRI family day, a meet for NRIs and their families at St. Antonio D Silva School, Dadar, Mumbai on Sunday, 21st December .The event had a healthy attendance with more than 1000 NRIs and their families. The event was testimony to the euphoria NRI families’ back home could garner.

The event aimed at celebrating the bond Remit2India shares with its NRI customers and their families and reinforced the magic by striking an emotional chord. It also offered an excellent opportunity to vendors to interact with thousands of potential customers at a personal level.

NRI Family Day presented a range of options from entertainment and lifestyle interests to its guests. There were four zones put up which offered the guests with delicious food, free health check-up, free eye check-up, free astrology advice and the likes.

To check out all the action on NRI Family Day at Remit2India visit their microsite at:

Click here or copy the following link into your browser
http://www.timesofmoney.com/remittance/jsp/r2i_nriFamily …#

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At the Health zone, an expert from Asian heart institute explained the health concerns for the middle aged, their food habits and advisable exercises. More than 400 people got their free health check ups done and attended the fitness and yoga session.

The Investment zone provided financial advisory to the audience through stalls by insurance, mutual funds houses and property developers. The experts from ArthaMoney, ING Vysya and Times Card helped them with their queries on how can they maximize their returns from investments apart from innovative financial product offerings. Speakers from Croma, Lodha Builders, Tata Housing and ING also discussed their product offerings and the benefits they hold for the NRI and their beneficiaries in India.

The entertainment zone had laughter therapy, show by stand up comedian from television, Music, Astrology etc for the audience. There were hosts of cultural programs like comedy shows and games. The Radio jockeys from Radio Mirchi also charmed the audience throughout the evening with regular games and music .The participants were also given free vouchers from Country club and Travel port. Stalls like free mehendi and Tattoo had a turnout of more than 200 people. The participants got their horoscopes by Mr. Bejan Daruwalla.
Lastly, the connect zone had Remit2India and Window2India brands present. The Remit2India booth on one hand, clarified queries adeptly regarding the money transfer process, while handing out mementoes to the customers. The crowd continued to pour till late in the evening.

The fun filled evening finally came to an end with a raffle draw worth Rs.2 lakh This initiative was taken by Remit2India, remittance arm of TimesofMoney group to establish a connect with the beneficiaries of the money remitted by NRIs. It also gave an opportunity to families of NRIs to address their concerns regarding the brand and their expectations from it.

“The event has been a resounding success and we are delighted with the overwhelming response. We hope to recreate similar success in other cities as well”, said official spokesperson, Remit2India.com

Remit2india: NRIs – now pay utility bills in India, online

Imagine you are sitting 4000 miles away from home & you get a sudden email alert in your Inbox “Your Landline Bill payment is due. Please pay at any of our centers in Chennai immedieately”.

For an NRI, managing utility bill payments in India is often a nightmare. With different time-zones, no one who you can send the payment with, very limited online options & so on, it sure can be an unnecessary pain to deal with.  But now there is a solution in sight. Remit2India, the online money transfer service for NRIs, has recently launched a service called ‘BillPay2India’. As the name suggests, the service allows NRIs across the globe to pay a wide range of utility bills across 28 cities in India. The list of bills that can be paid range across landline & mobile service providers, electricity bills etc. In all, there are 55 service providers across the country, listed for the service.

To make the process even simpler, Remit2India allows the NRI to choose the exact rupee amount that he wishes to make the payment for, irrespective of the currency that he is using. BillPay2India is definitely making the world smaller for the global Indian.

More details on the service are available on the website, www.remit2india.com.

Celebrating the festive season with Remit2India

Oct 2008: The Dandiya season in Gujarat this year, had the distinct NRI touch, as always. And adding to the touch was the presence of Remit2India, the brand that has been closely associated with NRIs across the globe over the last 7 years.  The venue was the glamorous Rajpath Club in Ahmedabad & as one of the co-sponsors of the Garba nights, Remit2India had organized various NRI specific activities to add to the festive mood. There were various engaging contests for the crowd with a host of exciting prizes for the audience, ranging from gift vouchers to iPods. The icing on the cake was a bumper prize of an LCD TV.

Apart from the Garba nighs, Remit2India also had several other events for the NRIs in major malls & multiplexes in Ahmedabad. All in all, it was indeed a special home-coming for the NRIs.

Remit2India launches new Brand TVC

Oct 14 2008

Remit2India, the leading online remittance brand from TimesofMoney, recently launched its new ad commercial for the international market. Keeping in line with its positioning as a one-stop shop for all money transfer needs to India, the commercial talks about the dreams & aspirations of different NRIs & how remit2india offers a safe & convenient channel to fulfill them. It starts with a young NRI girl in a U.S cafe dreaming about gifting her dad in India a car. It then goes on to showcase different scenarios of an NRI buying property, saving in his NRE account in India, donating for a cause & paying utility bills. The commercial ends with all the NRIs converging in one place & putting their ‘wish’ in a remit2india box.

The commercial would be aired in Indian GEC & regional language channels, overseas.

Remit2India wins Brand Leadership Award

Oct 1 2008

Remit2India, the online money transfer portal, from TimesofMoney, recently added a new feather to its cap by winning the Brand Excellence Award for Product Innovation at the Asia Brand Congress. Following up on the Saville Row award it won last year, Remit2India won this year’s award for the product innovations in the NRI money transfer space. As the pioneer in the web-based money transfers, Remit2India has recently launched various customer focused product innovations such as fixed exchange rates, utility paymen/ts etc.

Remit2India offers an online platform for NRIs across the globe to send money to India in a safe & convenient manner & has a huge base of customers from the U.S, U.K, Australia & other countries.

Remit2india – MyExchange Rate

SEP 2008: Remit2India recently launched a new variant of its money transfer service for NRIs aptly called MyExchange Rate. The product offers NRIs an option to choose the rate at which they want their money transfer to happen. How it works is that if the current rate is 45 and the NRI wants to make a transfer of $2000 only when the rate is 48, he simply books a transfer on remit2india.com. When the rate touches 48, the transaction is automatically booked & the money is transferred to India.  The product is aimed at protecting the NRI from fluctuations in the rate with the convenience of not having to track the rates regularly.

More details of the service are available on www.remit2india.com

Remit2India offers insurance cover for transactions

Mumbai : Think about it. If you have insured the primary concern of a customer, you have pretty much guaranteed and ensured his smile. Thats exactly what Remit2India, the worlds No. 1 independent online money transfer portal, has done for all its customers. For the very first time in the industry, Remit2India has insured each and every money transfer done through its website.

Web-based money transfers, though completely secure, are often perceived to be otherwise due to widespread practice of fraudulent emails, hacking, phishing, etal, Remit2India has insured this value proposition.

The money is insured against any kind of financial loss on account of negligence, technology issues (viruses/hacking), dishonest acts by company employees, or non-delivery of funds due to loss in transmission, dispatch of error in processing.

Remit2india uses Paypal

REMIT2INDIA recently launched Fast Track, a product that enables Instant Online Money Transfers through PayPals online payments service. Fast Track has created a wave in the remittance industry as it marks the fastest web-based method of sending money home. For long, there has been a need in the market for an emergency solution to send money home. NRIs have traditionally banked on offline methods of transferring money, viz, Swift Transfers through banks and agencies like Western Union and Money Gram. The price paid for time, through, is prohibitive Fast Track is committed to change the rule of the game by coupling instant money transfers with affordability. Through this agreement, Pay-Pal users with an existing account can remit funds to India by sending money to Remit2Indias Paypal account. Paypal account. Paypal  enables anyone with an e-mail address to send and receive money and make payment for purchases online. Paypal is available in 45 countries and six currencies, and is an ideal solution for international payments. It has more than 63m member accounts and transacted $ 18bn in total payment volume in 04 the money transfer process is simple. The remitter a logs on to www.remit2india.com, www.remit2india.com, books a transaction on Fast Track and initiates a credit instruction from his existing PayPal account into Remit2Indias account. The money is converted into India rupees and the funds are dispatched to the beneficiary.