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Travel, travel and travel
2008-06-06 15:43:00 Hello Friends, Sorry for not updating my blog for quite some time. I had a hectic schedule for last one month with Internet World in London, followed by a family holiday in Dubai. Before I could recover, I am visiting the NASSCOM BPO Strategy Summit in Bangalore. To be frank, I am not used to so ... More About: Personal , Travel
Speed or distance - what do you want?
2008-04-21 11:56:00 I found this very interesting quote in someone’s signature whom I met on a business networking website: "If you want to go fast, travel alone; but if you want to go far, travel together." - African Proverb How true - specially for software programming teams, which are so vulnerable due to individualistic goals. As if ... More About: Speed
Do you send handwritten seasonal greetings to your clients?
2008-04-11 22:22:00 Do you send handwritten seasonal greetings to your clients? It may sound to be very simple, regular stuff. But it is surprising that still a large percentage of small businesses fail to use such an opportunity to strengthen their relationship with their clients on a personal level. And when I casually asked some of the culprits about ... More About: Seasonal , Clients , Send
Is he really a business baazigar?
2008-04-11 21:48:00 Guys, Recently some of my employees got unsolicited call from a gentleman called Manish Gupta, who wants to woo them away from my company to his startup. Of course like every normal human being, my colleagues also need a reason to go and work for a relatively unknown and small company. So they need convincing. And he ... More About: Personal , Business , Entrepreneurship
Use EasyBM today to boost your productivity
2008-04-03 13:25:00 I came across this rocking website called EasyBM (www.easybm.com), a FREE online service, which can help you in boosting your online productivity to new levels. I generally do not get excited about something so quickly. My exposure to new ideas and business plans make me immune to general ideas. But I got excited by the ... More About: Reviews , Today , Productivity , Boost
Use META DESCRIPTION as your advertisement copy!
2008-03-31 08:58:00 <META DESCRIPTION> tag lost its shine after the emergence of off-page factors (like link popularity) for rankings in SERPS. In fact it lost its purpose to a great extent when Google started using contextual content from within the page as the description of the URL in its SERPS. However in an interesting turn of events, <META DESCRIPTION> is back in business! Most ... More About: Advertisement , Usability , Meta , Copy , Description
Top SEO Blogs!
2008-03-29 11:02:00 In a fast changing world of SEO, the best way to keep your knowledge up-to date are the authoritative blogs on the subject. I stumbled upon a nice post by Daniel from DailyBlogtips.com, who has done a thorough research and listed Top 25 SEO Blogs . He has considered various factors including Google Pagerank of the blog, Alexa Rank, Number ... More About: Reviews
The REAL Programmer automates his job
2008-03-28 06:36:00 Just a random thought: Programmer s are supposed to use their programming skills to automate business process for their clients. Therefore, a good programmer should be one, who takes an initiative of automating his own work and never repeats the line of code he has written once Charity begins at home! Unfortunately I have hardly seen many such ... More About: Technology , Real
How to generate exhaustive keyword combinations?
2008-03-24 16:21:00 When creating an exhaustive keyword list for your AdWords / PPC campaigns, you might face a tedious job of creating all possible combinations by joining two words / phrases to cover the keyword that your prospect might key in. This can be a very frustrating experience. Recently, I sumbled upon this website: http://www.imscripts.com/keywords It can generate these ... More About: Keyword
Managing vs. Leading - What an organization needs?
2008-03-24 15:32:00 I regularly hear about terms like Manager, Managing, Management, Management Team, etc. The dictionary term for manage is "cope: come to terms or deal successfully with" and "pull off: be successful; achieve a goal" In my opinion, the word ‘manage‘ makes me think about: Control, Status Quo, Monitoring Come to terms Somewhere it reflects a sense of compulsion, where someone ... More About: Entrepreneurship , Organization , Leading
Sky-high bids on Adwords! Do they work?
2008-03-24 14:58:00 The bids on AdWords are soaring to new heights everyday. Some advertisers are even shelling out up to $10 per click. So, naturally the question arises - Is this complete madness or is there any logic behind such aggressive advertising? To me, it does make some sense to bid aggressively if you have the right strategy ... More About: Work , Adwords , Business strategy , High
Gallery submission to improve web site traffic and/or rankings
2008-03-22 11:48:00 Attractive designs do get attention. It can also get good visitor-customer conversion if some best-practices are followed. But the question is - how can attractive designs get traffic to your website? They can! or, They can at least help your site in getting good traffic. Here is a simple technique posted by Daniel on his blog. Design an attractive ... More About: Traffic , Site , Gallery , Submission , Improve
TemplateKingdom revisited
2008-03-21 08:53:00 I have recently revamped my five year old venture TemplateKingdom, which has till date sold 5000+ original template designs to companies and various template sites around the world. And so TemplateKingdom 2.0 is right here. Come, buy the ready-made web site template that best suit your next project. All our templates are quality checked and are ... More About: Business strategy
New kind of website spam
2008-03-21 07:21:00 I just made a blog post - Buying and selling websites. Within minutes, I got a trackback. I was a bit puzzled at the lightening speed. I thought - how can someone read my entire article and blogged about it in less than a minute! I followed the link and found a new kind of spam, ... More About: Website , Spam
Buying and selling websites
2008-03-20 11:04:00 In recent times, I have seen a growth in marketplaces which help website owners to buy/sell websites. It looks like a good idea, as it allows website owners to reshuffle their portfolio of websites and offer services / products which are more aligned towards to their largest consumer segment (read traffic on their most popular ... More About: Reviews , Entrepreneurship , Buying , Selling , Websites
Cookie that fails to crumble
2008-03-17 15:42:00 It is a true incident about, how a cookie shop messed up its sales! Cookie Man is a fast growing cookie brand in India. They have a small outlet at Chennai airport. Till recently, before boarding the flight, I used to buy some delicious cookies from that outlet to keep myself indulged for the evening. Now, the real shocker! On ... More About: Reviews , Travel
Search engines opening up!
2008-03-03 08:42:00 Yahoo announced that they are opening up their search results for third party data integration. This will allow third party to contribute to Yahoo search experience and make it more useful for their users. It will be interesting to see how other webmasters use this open search platform to gain popularity by sharing data with Yahoo, while still retaining ... More About: Technology , Reviews , Search Engines , Search , Usability
India?s Union Budget 2008 - Preparing for Lok Sabha Election 2009
2008-03-01 12:44:00 Today, Finance Minister P.Chidambaram presented the Union Budget for FY 2008 -2009. A full copy can be downloaded by clicking here. Some highlights of the budget are listed below with my comments: Revenues New tax slabs for Income Tax: No tax for earning less than Rs. 150,000, 10% for Rs. 150,000 to Rs. 300,000, 20% for Rs. 300,000 to ... More About: India , Election
CSS reference
2008-01-31 08:45:00 Recently I came across this excellent CSS reference website: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css I highly recommend this website since it has been written by two of the world’s most renowned CSS experts — Tommy Olssen and Paul O’Brien. In this online reference, the entire CSS language is clearly and concisely explained, including browser compatibility, working examples, and easy-to-read descriptions. For the purists, ... More About: Technology , Reviews , Reference
HTML 5 - Web developer?s paradise
2008-01-25 13:02:00 W3C HTML Working Group has recently released HTML 5 working draft. This is a very important step forward; the same is available for review and comment at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-200801 22/ The new standard addresses the need of web application developers in more pro-active way: Basic template facility has been implemented with facility to repeat elements There are also new elements ... More About: Technology , Developer , Paradise , Html , Web developer
Project management softwares reviewed
2008-01-25 08:10:00 Proper project management is key to a successful project. To manage multiple projects and teams which are geographically spread across the globe, you need a quality project management tool. As a medium sized web development company, we looked around for some quality software which suits our requirement and does not burn a hole in the pocket. Here is our ... More About: Technology , Reviews , Project Management , Management , Project
Open-source products are great. But know the limitations before you use it.
2008-01-23 09:25:00 Apart from doing software / web development on Open -source platform, Indus Net Technologies also customize and implement open-source products for clients on demand. Some popular (and free) open-source products are SugarCRM, Drupal, osCommerce for CRM, content management and e-commerce respectively. IMHO, these are some limitations that I have observed. It is important to know them before ... More About: Technology , Reviews , Products , Open Source
Offshore outsourcing will be de-glamourized by 2010
2008-01-13 09:36:00 Offshore outsourcing - a concept that made IT & India synonmous with each other in the first decade of 21st century is set to loose its glamour quotient by 2010. Hundreds of software companies will not be able to maintain their competitiveness as an offshore outsourcing outfit in years to come. Some hard facts: Increasing wages in India: Salaries are ... More About: Outsourcing , Usability , Offshore
SEZs are not good for Small & Medium sized IT Enterprises
2008-01-13 08:54:00 With the uncertainty over the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme after the union budget, a mad rush towards Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is very much expected. I have been studying about SEZ or last three weeks and two things are very clear - The SEZ Act is under constant change. So whatever is stated there ... More About: Reviews , Small , Good
Virtual Tables - A problem solving technique for small networking groups
2008-01-11 16:15:00 Among all the social-business networking sites, I find Ecademy and LinkedIn to be the best ones. Ecademy is my favorite since it has very nicely integrated offline networking in its system which results in creating trusted networks. I experienced a very nice group-problem-solving technique called Virtual Tables during an offline networking event organized by Ecademy. I found ... More About: Networking , Technique , Usability , Small
Take a positive attitude to work
2007-11-27 15:25:00 I often hear from people: I hate my job. I don’t feel like going to work. I have no excitement in my career. It is the same old grind. This happens more so often because most people are doing things that they never wanted to do in their professional life. I have written about this problem in ... More About: Personal , Work , Positive Attitude , Attitude , Positive
Can entrepreneurship be taught?
2007-11-20 15:20:00 I was recently speaking on "Myths & Facts of Entrepreneurship " in Entrepreneurship Summit 2007 at IIT Kharagpur (KGP) on behalf of NEN. Overall, the event was nice, but it made me think over few points. 1. Can we really teach entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship, as I see is, An instinct, An attitude to create something new, An activity which creates value ... More About: Rene
Hostorix launches fail-safe linux based reseller hosting
2007-10-14 07:25:00 I recently visited Hostorix.com. This is a new hosting company from an Internet marketing veteran - Armand Morin. I was impressed how Armand has identified a pain that most webmasters feel - Downtime! Aren’t we all worried about our website going down? I fail to understand how large hosting companies like Lunarpages, 1&1, Hostgator, GoDaddy etc. overlooked this ... More About: Linux , Technology , Reviews , Hosting , Safe
Visiting London from 13th October till 23rd October 2007
2007-10-08 15:41:00 Hello Friends, I will be visiting London from 13th October till 23rd October for some business meetings. If you - are an existing client of Indus Net Technologies (or any of our service brand) OR are a business considering outsourcing your web design, web development or Internet marketing business OR just want to meet up for a friendly 1-2-1 ... More About: Personal , Travel , October 2007
Effectiveness of online candidate search databases offered by job sites
More articles from this author:2007-09-29 21:26:00 IMHO, online candidate search is a great service. I currently use two such websites and shell out almost $5000 per annum for the same. I always do a solid cost / benefit analysis and I have found that I am saving almost $15-$20K on my recruitment cost alone. We manage to find decent candidates. However there ... More About: India , Reviews , Search , Sites , Online 1, 2 |
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