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The official marketing society of DTU

Don't wait
for placements.
Start now.

Everyone starts prepping in third year. By then the good stuff is gone. We have been winning national case competitions with people who started in second.

Orientation
Sept 10
Applications
close Sept 13
Portfolio?
Skip a round
01 / Reality check

Your placement clock
is already running.

Pick your year. We will tell you exactly how much time you have left before the season you have been putting off shows up.

days until your placement season opens
02 / About MarkSoc

You just saw the clock.
Here's what to do about it.

MarkSoc DTU is a student-led marketing society built around real client work instead of a syllabus. Two tracks, two different skill sets, one shared standard: work you can actually show, not just talk about.

800+Members
20+Colleges
100+Projects completed

Every project further down this page came out of one of two tracks. Pick whichever matches how you actually think, not whichever sounds better on a form.

Consultant

Market research, competitive analysis, case strategy, and the B2B outreach and corporate partnerships that turn a case into an actual client relationship.

Creative

Video editing, graphic design, social content, and the PPT and deck work that gets a strategy in front of a client instead of stuck on a laptop.

03 / Not a pitch, a portfolio

Work we've actually shipped.

Every logo below is a real client. Click a card for what we actually did and, where the client shared numbers, what it actually moved.

800+Members
20+Colleges
100+Projects delivered
21Recyclers onboarded, one client
250+At one gaming event

    04 / Receipts

    One year.
    Many results.

    Not a promise of what we might do. This is what the last batch actually did.

    01 / WINNER
    National Winner
    Lal Bahadur Shastri Case Competition, 2026
    02 / INTERNATIONAL
    BRICS India Representative
    National delegation, 2025
    03 / RUNNER UP
    National Runner Up
    IRMA Case Competition, 2025
    04 / TOP 10
    Top 10 Nationally
    BIMTECH Best Manager Competition, 2026
    05 / FINALIST
    National Finalist
    IIT Bombay Competition, 2025
    06 / PUBLISHED
    Paper Presentation
    SOIL International Conference, 2026
    07 / RUNNER UP
    Runner Up
    SRCC Business Conclave
    08 / RUNNER UP
    Runner Up
    SRCC TownHall Case Competition
    09 / FINALIST
    National Finalist
    Marsh Corporate Case Competition
    10 / FINALIST
    National Finalist, ISRO BAH 2026
    34 of 15,000+ teams, Grand Finale, NRSC Hyderabad
    11 / NEXT
    Your name here
    Applications close September 13, 2026
    05 / Track record

    Where our consultants
    have gone.

    MarkSoc alumni and current consultants carry work experience across these firms. This is a snapshot, not a promise, but it is exactly why the guesstimate practice above earns its place on this page.

    06 / The actual round one

    Nobody cares
    about your number.

    Round one of MarkSoc interviews is a guesstimate. Every candidate thinks it is a maths test. It is not. You get two to five minutes, and the interviewer is scoring how you clarify, how you segment, and whether you check your own answer. This walks you through one, decision by decision, the way it actually happens.

    Live guesstimate
    Step 1 of 5
    Interviewer
    "How many cups of chai are sold across DTU campus in a day?"
    The five stages above are the whole method: clarify before you calculate, pick one approach and commit, segment so your buckets do not overlap and nothing is missing, state assumptions with a reason, then sanity check from a second angle before you go quiet. Most candidates skip stage one and stage five entirely. Those are the two that separate people.
    07 / The live case

    TAPRI is growing fast
    and losing money.

    A hypothetical D2C brand with genuinely broken unit economics. Five decisions, each with a real tradeoff, every number below runs on actual Indian D2C benchmarks. Fix it, then stick around, part two tells you which track fits you.

    TAPRI.
    D2C masala chai premix · Founded 2024 · Gurgaon

    TAPRI sells a masala chai premix at ₹799 for a month's supply. Revenue is up 18% month on month, they just crossed ₹4.2 crore annualised, and every dashboard in the office is green. The founder wants to raise a seed round and triple ad spend.

    "We're growing 18% a month. Why would we slow down to fix accounting?"

    The board is not convinced. They pulled the per-order numbers and found the brand loses ₹186 on every new customer it acquires, and only one customer in five ever orders again. Right now growth is just buying revenue at a price the business cannot sustain. Your job is to fix the economics before anyone raises anything.

    Goal 1 · LTV to CAC ratio
    1.17 / 3.00
    Goal 2 · Monthly contribution profit
    ₹1.7L / ₹10L

    Per customer economics

    Average order value₹799
    Contribution per order₹345
    Orders per customer (12mo)2.00
    Lifetime value₹690
    Customer acquisition cost₹531
    First order profit-₹186
    New customers / month1,890
    LTV : CAC1.17
    Below 3.0 the model does not work. Below 1.0 you are paying people to take your product.
    Part two

    Now, which side of
    MarkSoc are you?

    You just fixed a case. Four quick questions on how you actually think, and we will tell you which track fits and which part of the form to fill.

    Question 1 of 4 25%
    08 / The thing you post

    Get your card.

    Everything you did on this page rolls into one card. Your track, your guesstimate scorecard, your campaign result. Put your name in, download it, put it on your story. If you scored well, make people jealous. If you did not, that is a better story anyway.

    Put a name in first.
    Pulled from what you did above
    TrackTake the quiz
    Guesstimate rubricNot attempted
    TAPRI caseNot attempted
    Your typeDo something above
    Downloads as a PNG sized for an Instagram story. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, it is drawn in your browser.
    09 / Before you go

    Leave your mark.

    One thing you'd change about marketing. Or just what being here is actually like. Shown publicly without your name once we've had a quick look, so the wall stays real and stays clean.

    180 left
    Say something first.
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    10 / Recruitment 2026-27

    Two tracks.
    One deadline.

    Applications close 11:59 PM, September 13, 2026

    Consultant

    All years, 2nd onwards

    Live client briefs and national case competitions. This is the track behind every single result above.

    • 6 to 10 hours a week
    • Resume shortlist, guesstimate round, final round
    • Mentored by the people who won those competitions
    Apply as Consultant
    Skip a round

    Creative

    Video / Design / Social

    You build the posters, edits and pages that put everything else in front of people. Bring real work and you go straight to the final round.

    • 6 to 10 hours a week
    • Strong portfolio skips the guesstimate round entirely
    • Video editors, designers, social media, poster creatives
    Apply as Creative
    How it works

    Three rounds. No guesswork.

    01

    Shortlist

    Consultants on form answers and CV. Creatives on portfolio. Make sure your links are set to anyone with the link can view.

    02

    Guesstimate

    A case style round to see how you think out loud. Exactly like the test above. Strong creative portfolios skip this.

    03

    Final round

    HR and managerial. Fit, availability, and what you would actually bring to the team.

    Every shortlist and round update goes out on the WhatsApp group, not email. Join before the deadline or you will miss yours.