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THIS BLOG HAS BEEN MOVED
2007-12-07 10:57:00
For some reasons, I moved this blogger blog to wordpress. Might be I love wordpress ;)The new blog address is, bizzhy.wordpress.com... Check it out... and obviously, I'm awaiting for your comments... Contact me @ bizzhy@gmail.com for more information..Thanks..
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How to become a Human Calender??
2007-09-17 17:28:00
Mentally finding out the day of the week for any date is a skill you can easily learn. You don?t need to be an autistic genius ? all it takes is basic memorization effort and some trivial math. When I first learned this technique many years ago, I did it just for fun. With time, I learned to enjoy the convenience of not needing a calendar anymore. It?s far more useful than I first thought, and with just a little practice, you?ll be able to find out the days of the week much faster than when reaching for a calendar. The MethodTo find out the days of the week for any date, use the formula:[day of week] = (yearcode + monthcode + day) mod 7 If you?re not math-inclined, this may look quite scary at first, but don?t worry: using the formula is straightforward. Let?s walk through each one of of its parts.Month and Year CodesThe month codes are one of the formula?s most troublesome parts, since they don?t follow a clear logic. We?ll have to memorize them, but don?t worry with that just yet,...
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Simple ways to add ?personal power? to your emails
2007-09-04 16:03:00
In the world of online business, email is the medium with the greatestpotential for one-on-one communication.The trouble is, this potential is rarely exploited.All too often emails to our customers and prospects are written in ahurry, without much thought being given to making a personal connectionwith the reader and building a lasting relationship.Why companies pay so little attention to email is a mystery to me.Time and again the emails I receive from companies have clearly beenwritten without any effort being made to connect with me as an individual.This lost opportunity is most evident when I provide my email address to acompany for the very first time. Maybe I sign up for a newsletter, maybe Iregister for some kind of service, maybe I buy a product.Almost without exception, the automated emails I receive to confirm theaction I have just taken are uniformly drab and impersonal.This is craziness.When a customer first gives you his or her email address, you have a smallwindow of o...
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Would like to do the work by yourself? Sometimes its a better idea.
2007-07-23 18:09:00
My frequency of posts are lagging since because I'm busy with my MBA exams. Out of 6 Papers, I completed 3 and preparing for my next exam on Wednesday. Its on Information Management System (IMS). This course is helping me to learn more about management, marketing, business, finance, budgeting etc., These are all main benefits if you study side by side.I had gone through Digital Point forum and was little interested in: SEO article Rant and adviceIf you are an Entrepreneur/Managers/Leader, you should not do all the works by yourself. You'll have to giv eopportunities to your juniors too. But, doing yourself will make you feel happy about the work you did and you would make it done successfully. From the Thread,"I myself advertised for writers to write 1000 word articles not long back and here is the result of that advert.26 writers applied and were given the instructions of the job.18 actually agreed to do the work and all were give an article to write with an agreed 48 hour deadli...
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Your Difficult Problem will Make you to Win $20,000
2007-07-10 08:19:00
A contest for all the online marketing experts: Explain about your most online marketing challenge in 100 words. You'll get a chance to win a $20,000 online marketing makeover contest. If you win,you'll get a sweepstakes for your business, analytics, ppc management, logo design and more...Tell them about your problems and get a chance to win.Check it our @ http://caffeine.eprize.net/marketingjolt/
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RATER Model for Customer Service
2007-07-10 07:52:00
Check it to know more about RATER Model in customer service. I just got this information from our local magazine with more and more examples. :)The URL is, http://www.ilink-systems.com/ThinkingBeyo nd/Blog/
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Interview wiht Lois Kelly
2007-06-28 07:37:00
Lois Kell y , - Communication Expert, CEO of Foghound and author of ?Beyond Buzz:The Next Generation of Word of Mouth Marketing?. Connected Marketing interviewed this expert and discusses the marketing activities. Connected marketing says,Lois tells us her own story then delves into her book and talks about where she sees word-of-mouth marketing heading. She explains how brands can embrace the art of ?conversational? marketing and get out of the rut of the old marketing and communications model.Would you like to download this free conversational marketing podcasts?PC USERS: Right click on button below, choose ?Save Target as?? to download the file.MAC USERS: Click and hold down button below, choose ?Download Link to Disk?.Episode 1Download mp3 fileDownload m4a fileEpisode 2Download mp3 fileDownload m4a file
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Ambush Marketing!!
2007-06-27 18:05:00
What do you think of Ambush Marketing ? Lets ask Wikipedia."Ambush marketing occurs when a brand pays to become the official sponsor of an event and another brand tries to connect itself to the same event, without paying the sponsorship fee and without breaking any laws.Another company, often a competitor,intrudes upon public attention surrounding the event, thereby deflecting attention towards itself and away from the sponsor?. This is form of "Guerilla Marketing". Why people have started advertising their business in this way?Basically it started from sports cups like FIFA, Olympics etc., For big companies, its very easy to sponsor an event for brand awareness etc etc., But small companies cannot participate in it thru' sponsorship. So, they followed Ambush Marketing for their business advertisement with less spend.Just got an example of Ambush Advertising when I search the net...In that advertising, you can see only one sponsor. It doesn't mean that only one non-sponsor will try...

B2B Marketing Tips from Music World
2007-06-26 07:47:00
B2B and B2C marketing world changing rapidly in a new way with the use of Internet. There are number of marketing tactics in the world like Guerrilla Marketing , Psychological Marketing, Social Media Marketing Tactics etc., We could learn lots of marketing tactics through music industry. The music industry is known for using a variety of guerrilla marketing methods before anyone else. For instance, bands were one of the original groups to use MySpace as a promotional tool.As someone responsible for B2B marketing at HubSpot, I thought it would be useful to look at some of the techniques rappers are using to promote their music, since they are considered to be on the more aggressive and cutting edge side of the music industry. (You don't need to like rap music to learn business lessons from rappers.), and see what we can apply to B2B marketing.Here are some marketing lessons that a B2B marketing professional can learn from Rap Stars.1) Repetition is good. Most marketing experts and...
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Why your Campaigns must be more Compatible to Mobile Phones
2007-06-18 15:33:00
Recent survey says, the mobile search is increasing. The percentage of checking their emails in mobile, are increasing. Are you sending any designed, HTML newsletters to your members group? Before sending test it in your mobile device, your mail box, different service provider etc.,For example, Check in, your mobile device, you own official mail account, gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, if Office 2007 install, please check everything before launching it. The percentage of getting sign-ups through your mobile device in increased when compared to the last year.
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Do you think Open Source Software means Free Software?
2007-06-13 15:52:00
What is the different between Open Source and Free Software ?Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution.What is mean by Open Source Software? Open Source software is a free one where the source code is freely available. Programmers can read, modify, improve, adapt, fix bugs.... everything. There are many advantages of Open Source software. But what are all the disadvantages?The software will be qualified with the contribution of many people. Its not possible to audit the entire code to prevent voilation of previous vertions. This makes opportunities for the contributors to release trespassing codes. It does not include any intellectual property representations, warrant...
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Google Street View
2007-06-12 14:06:00
In Googl e Maps we have a new feature called "Street View ". Though it is not available to all the cities in US (Only avaiable for Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver and New York according to Colin Colehour from the US), it is the hottest news and Google Maps hits lots of traffic because of this new Feature. When you check Google Map, this additional feature will be available. If you click it, you can see cameras in those selected regions. Click it and drag the human symbol. It will show you that specific street's 360 degree overview. Though it is a very good feature and its so cool, it will affect the privacy. The Google help blurb on the Street View feature, displayed at Search Engine Land, explains how the navigation works:?Blue outlines show roads where street view is available.? ?[A person icon on a green arrow] shows where you are on the map. The green arrow points in the direction you?re looking. You can drag the icon to navigate to a different location. You can also jus...
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Forrester Research in Emerging Technologies
2007-06-12 07:36:00
Kerry Bodine at Forrester researched in the topic of "The Emerging Technologies That Matter Most To Interactive Agencies".The research was conducted in 15 large interactive marketing agencies in North America to know which emerging technologies will have the greatest impact on the future of their design practices. Online Videos, Mobile Devices, AJAX and Social networks are all on top of it.
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PerformancePoint Webinar @ iLink
2007-06-11 07:19:00
We are conducting the Perform ancePoint webinar on 21st of June @ 4 PM EST. This is a repeated webinar we conducted on May 10th. In the webinar we'll discuss about, Introduction to Microsoft BI and PerformancePoint Server 2007Features of PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Monitoring and Analytics Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and PerformancePoint Server 2007 - ComparisonDemo 1 - Building dashboards and scorecards using PerformancePoint Scorecard builderDemo 2 - Creating Parameters for DashboardsWould you like to learn more about PerformancePoint and its unique features?Register here @ http://www.ilink-systems.com/PerformanceP ointRegistration.aspx
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Which is Important - Technology?? or Problem Solving??
2007-06-08 16:01:00
I was reading a Marketing thread this morning from SoftwareCEO and a PDF I got from my PM. Both were more or less in the same and I got a *click*. Do organizations need to care about Technologies? What I feel is, You could use any technologies which will help you grow better. "Do not care about technology for technology?s sake. Instead focus on the problems that buyers are willing to spend money to solve". This makes sense. If an organization is in a problem, they won't is a position to choose technologies. Their only target will be to solve the problem. For example, both MS SQL and MySQL are broadly used by the organizations. Both have excellent features. But Eventhough MySQL is open source, by comparing with MS SQL its having only basic security mechanisms. SQL is C2 Complient, native encryption support, asymmetric and symmetric keys. MySQL does not have that provisions. Don't think that I'm supporting MS SQL. Just wanna tell you the facts.But we can consider of using an upgrad...
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MySQL to SQL Server 2005 Migration Offer
2007-05-21 11:43:00
A very good offer from iLink Co-operation with Microsoft. iLink Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Preferred Vendor, last week announced an offer with MySQL to SQL Migration. It's worth of $20,000. Wanna learn more?? Please check here....MySQL to SQL Migration: http://www.ilink-systems.com/ContactUs/Sp ecialOffer s/tabid/151/Default.aspxFillup the Form: http://isvnxt.com/ilinksignup.aspx
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Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt
2007-04-19 10:40:00
At the Web2.0 expo today, John Battelle, Founder and Chairman of Federated Media Publishing inverviewed Googl e CEO Eric Schmidt . They have discussed many issues.Google Docs and Spread SheetsDoubleClick Situation and PartnershipGoogle PrivacyFuture of Google and Internetetc.,
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Prospecting/Marketing/Lead Generation Methods
2007-04-17 13:23:00
I did little research on it and I found a list of methods for lead generation using marketing. As a marketing person, you'll already know most of the methods. but this might refresh your mind again and rethink of implementing it. Check it out....Buy LeadsBuy a ListCold CallingDirect MailAdvertisementsNetworkingTrade ShowsSpeakingSeminarsWeb PageReferrals - From CustomersReferral Ecosystem - i.e Not customersLeads GroupsEmail/Newsletter/Nurture campaignAttend client industry meetings (network, speak, sponsor, get one of your clients to speak)ArticlesTeam account planning (get everyone who has customer contact involved ? on-site folks will see targets of opportunity and not execute against them)Periodic Management reviewsExecutive/executive meetings (usually for existing clients)Google for trigger events (list building)Walk the halls at customer sitesGet invited to their meetingsReverse seminars (they come to you and speak on trends in their industry, dealing with sales people, etc.)...
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My Repeat Visitors are Increasing n I'm Happy!!!
2007-03-14 16:23:00
It's a good news that this blog is getting more repeat visitors nowadays. :) It says that I'm also doing something useful for others. Let me try to post more updates, useful info's. This month my MBA exams are going on and I'm working more time. Thats the main reason of my slow post. I didn't even check the updates going in the industry :(. I got tons of info' mails from subscription sites. I'm
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I Need a New Search Engine
2007-03-14 15:35:00
Hey!!! I need a very new, innovative search engine. I'm not satisfied any of the search engines i'm using now. Let me explain you one of my situations. Yesterday I was searching Award related sites and I didn't get the latest awards happening currently. I got 2006, 2000 awards sites. How sad!!! Now I'm searching a new search engine which is equal to my expectations. :( Unfortunately i'm not
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Microsoft Fixus PPC Bug
2007-02-27 17:19:00
Many of Online Advertising partners of Micro soft overcharged for their Pay per Click ventures. Many of the Microsoft AdCenter Advertisers have posted it in many of the forums that they had charged $900 for a single click. "This issue is now resolved and those of you who were overcharged, we're working on a plan to credit your accounts for overcharges as soon as possible," a member of the
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What's new on Gmail? Get mail from other accounts
2007-02-22 10:45:00
Just now I checked my Gmail and I've seen "New Features!" in red at the top, right corner near settings. Now you can check upto 5 of your mail accounts within a single gmail account. I like it. Instead of login all those account everytime we can check all our things within single account. I tried this feature in Yahoo! mail itself. But it wasn't working well for me. It's saving time. :)
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Site Penalization by Google?
2007-02-16 09:32:00
Got penalized by Googl e for duplicate content and excess of keywords? Google doesn't care about your site PR even if you have 5 or more. Here are my suggestions to come out from sandbox. Rich Content Remove more links and pictures from your index page that have jammed your page to open slowly If you have some irrelevant back links, please remove it optimize every page of your site with rich
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How Effective is Email Campaign Medium - Part 2
2007-02-15 18:02:00
I explained the basic needs of email campaigns and listed the important things to be noted down when launching the campaign. Your work is not ended up after sending the campaign. You got the statistical report and you realize the you didn't get even single clicks from it. don't loose your heart. Recollect the opened emails and send them again with a better landing page or better offer with good
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Online Marketing is Growing Up!!
2007-02-13 10:46:00
The Search Engine Market ing Professionals Organisation (SEMPO) has released a research saying online marketing advertisers in North America spent some $9.4 billion on search marketing in 2006 and the 63% growth by comparing 2005. It shows that many retailers are shifting more of their budgets towards online media. This is not only the US situation but UK retailers are also doing the same.
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Master Plan - About the power of Google
2007-02-13 10:45:00
We all are using Google products like gMail, Google Search etc. for our needs. Do you think that Google is caring about our privacy? Google is tracking everything. Our searches, our mails from gMail, our statistical reports from Analytics etc. Google is getting the database of all the persons in the world. Check the below video. At one time we all will be locked to the computers. and one more
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Live Help in the Website - Useful??
2007-02-07 11:39:00
What do you think of using Live Help! in the website? How far it will help your company to grow? Consider you are doing an ecommerce business and a website for it. Your website is good in all aspects and you have given perfect contact information in the website. Your competitor also having a good website in all aspects & contact information with Live Help Desk. A customer is coming into your
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Finally Got Certified!!!
2007-01-29 13:48:00
Atlast I wrote Yahoo Ambassador Certification exam and got passed with 87% (Surprised!!!). They've updated their learning materials and layouts of account. The new features are very useful and user friendly. It is more or less same as like Google features. We have an Overture account for one of our clients. But the current changes in accounts are not reflected in that particular account. All our
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How effective is Email Campaign Medium? - Part 1
2007-01-23 16:12:00
Has anyone sending Email Campa ign s about your Client's services, News, Events etc? Have you generated reports after sending those campaigns? How effective of sending the email campaigns? Email Campaign is a very good medium for getting leads. But you must taken care of some important things before sending campaigns. There are many tools in market to send email campaigns. Using an effetive tool
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Get listed in Job Sites
2006-12-14 07:07:00
Sorry. I've taken much time for my next post. But its because I got some personal and official issues to work around. You guys will get frequent new updates hereafter. By analyzing competitors you'll get some good job sites list. You also can use those sites for your company. Try collecting as much job sites as possible. List out Those sites n check their Alexa ranks and other stuff's to
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