10 Reasons why your work from home business should have its own website

Posted on August 29, 2010 by naveen

You have launched your new work-from-home business recently and started your efforts for marketing the same. You have already got few customers or assignments and looking for expansion of your business.

What I am going to explain in this article is how a website can do wonders to your business and help you achieve amazing success.

Your business could be anything ranging from a MLM business, screen-printing, network marketing concepts, beauty products or a kitchenware product business or copy writing. The list goes on.

Read the article and learn how you can leverage internet as a powerful marketing tool for your business expansion. Here go the points.

  1. Your website is a central place listing your products/services which is open to whole world. Anyone can visit your website and know about your services or products and potentially can turn into a customer.
  2. Several online advertising tools are available for free using which you can market your products. This method of online marketing is easy, targeted and saves your time and money.
  3. If you are a MLM Network marketer, a website is great way of promoting your business. Just create a capture page (a single page website) and see the results yourself.
  4. Your business has more credibility after getting its own website.
  5. Include a contact page and you will start getting enquiries from the people whom you even don’t know :-)
  6. You can link your twitter page and other social networking sites to your websites. These days, social networking sites can be used great marketing tools. They make your product/service updates easier and spread word about your business.
  7. Create a blog to your website and since blog is an interactive medium, you can (and any one can) see the responses to your post thus bringing transparency in your product value.
  8. Your business card now looks great and complete with a website address.
  9. You can even add a complete shopping cart application to your website/blog in simple ways thus by automating complete selling process. Isn’t it amazing?
  10. Last but not least, you can earn some extra (some time extraordinary) money through your website/blog if you wish to display advertisements.
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25 tips for becoming super performer in your job

Posted on August 28, 2010 by naveen

You have been working since quite long time in your job career. You feel that you are quite good in work. How ever, you are not getting expected promotion or raise or sometimes even recognition. What could be the reason?

Read beow points and check whether you are doing these things are not. If not, give a try.These points don’t limit themselves to any

specific industry or job position. They are universal. Some tips are simple, and some are humourous :-)  Read on.

Transform yourself from an under-performer to super-performer in 25 (easy) ways.

  1. Reach office early
  2. Buy a diary and note down your today’s task and priorities or better , use notes in computer if you work on computer.
  3. Clarify everything before you start actual work.
  4. Ask questions. Don’t assume things.
  5. Participate in meetings.
  6. Don’t miss conference calls- Be active.
  7. Make good colleagues.
  8. Always help others.
  9. Look people in eye.
  10. Smile when you meet any colleague.
  11. Dress well.
  12. Buy a good perfume.
  13. Create official email signature.
  14. Decorate your desk.
  15. Automate things.
  16. Maintain statistics of what you work on daily basis. Some or the other day you need it to prove your point.
  17. Put Out of office replies when on vacation.
  18. Take initiative.
  19. Never work in isolation.Always publish your results.
  20. Test and publish your results frequently. Don’t wait till the end.
  21. Spend free time in learning surrounding area of your ‘CORE’ work.
  22. Take interviews.
  23. Be ready for critisism. Dont worry, its a sign that you are moving up in the ladder because you are held responsible for some work. Accept and correct your mistake. Thats it.
  24. Work smart and balance your work life and personal life. Don’t make it a habit of staying late in office every day. I am sure you need not since you have read point 1 already :-)
  25. Well done. You are on your way for becoming a super performer.
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Blogging tips for new bloggers

Posted on August 1, 2010 by naveen

With this article, I am revealing a secret for making your blog hugely popular and drive good blog traffic.

No, I am not going to talk about adding comments to other blogs or submitting to blog directories. I am also not going to discuss about SEO or link building.

What I am going to discuss here is the something which is core of the blog. I am going to reveal it soon but not before this below example. I suggest you to read below example.

Imagine, you have ventured a new restaurant with lot of entheathism and now your aim is to make your restaurant popular.
What you do now? Nobody knows about your restaurant since it’s new. Your immediate aim is to advertise about your restaurant all over the city.

Hold on, there is one more important thing than advertising your restaurant. What is that now?

Your restaurant should have great tasty food to offer. Isn’t it?
This is the one single aspect which can either make or break your restaurant business. Your restaurant may have fancy furniture and interiors but if it does not offer quality food, your customers are likely to move away from your restaurant and chose other places available in the area. After all everything has a purpose. Tasty food is the purpose of restaurant business.

Once you start offering quality food which is liked by most of the people then they do advertisement for you ?
You have done your part and the word of mouth advertisement is powerful and your business will take a high for sure.

Why did I say this short story which may sound strange when I am titled this article has “Real secret for making your blog popular”?
It is the same with blogs as well. Just relate the above restaurant business with your newly created blog. You will start realizing the core purpose of blog.

Some people start blogging for hobby and most of them for earning money with blogging. But I have seen bloggers jump to popularizing activity before they have written enough compelling and connecting articles to share with the rest of the world.
Remember the taste factor in restaurant? Relate the content of your blog to taste factor of the restaurant. It doesn’t matter what design your blog has.

What all matters is the articles in your blog which are the core of your blogging success. If you want to build a high traffic blog, then please create great content which offers a unique value to your visitors. Your visitors are going to spread the word if they like it. Spreading the word in blogosphere is faster than spreading the word in real life. We all know this already.

So don’t worry about your blog not becoming popular. Don’t worry if your Google analytics graph is not fascinating. These things will turn in your blog’s favor eventually.
Just focus on producing compelling content. Readers will find out your blog somehow. Thanks to Google for making the world so small and connected.

If you are planning to earn money through blogging then you must write lots of articles which have valuable content within them. Title your blog posts properly by doing a little research on Google Keyword search tool. But don’t spend much time in these things in the initial days.
No matter what your blogging niche is. If your article connects with the readers, then nobody can stop your blog from becoming popular.
Once you have written a good numbers of posts let us say a 100 or 150, you can start the activity of popularizing. This activity can start; let us say after 8 or 10 months after you start your blog.
For full time bloggers, it could be even 3 months. Some blogs have quite less articles but the quality of the content is driving high traffic to those blogs.

Do the basic groundwork. Submit your blog (including the XML site maps) to Google, the big lens on internet. It will index your blog and find your articles. Apart from writing nice to read articles, another aspect which can benefit you in your long term success with blogging is your web based skills and knowledge.

I suggest you to spend some time on learning basics of CSS, Photoshop and HTML if you don’t already know it. These skills help you in customizing your blog and building a brand for your blog.
Your blog is your business brand. It must be unique to distinguish it from the rest. Photoshop is wonderful software which can help you in producing your own blog.You must know that where your blog files are located in your hosting server. I mentioning about this because most of the bloggers use the blog templates for the blog and it is really good if they know the structure of blogging programs such as sidebars or footers or any other element of program. Believe me it’s easy to learn and its fun. Just get a FTP client and login to your account. You can see the structure of your blog.

About your blog design, keep it as simple as possible. Make sure that it’s kept simple not a boring one. So don’t hurry for build blog traffic immediately when you start your new blog. Success never happens overnight. It is achieved over the time and through hard work.
You have wide array of tools for making your blog popular or building traffic. But there is no tool which writes articles for you unless you hire a personal robot for you ?

You can see that even this blog is fairly young blog and I have myself and few others who can write good content when requested in their niches. They will be part of this blog as guest bloggers and mostly they will write articles about Art and music and I will be focusing on writing about personal development and sharing my experiences. I have long term goals with this blog and contacted few people who have great interest in sharing their success stories. Who doesn’t want to become popular?

I hope I have shared the secret for your blogging success. So what are you waiting for? Open your blogging software and start writing a new post.

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How to create a website

Posted on July 27, 2010 by naveen

As you read this, there are hundreds of websites are getting created by people all over the world. I decided to write this article so that new people get a head start in their attempt to create their own website. I am keeping this article fairly simple. Of course, creating your own website is simple too :-) . You need not learn the HTML to create your website. You will start understanding it eventually in the process of creating the website.

Get a domain name: First step in creating the website is to get a domain name and hosting space. When I say domain name its nothing but yoursitename.com and hosting space is the server space where your site’s pages are going to reside. Chose a good hosting company.  I recommend nettigritty.com How ever you can chose any hosting company of your choice since there are many out there. Register your domain name. Chose your domain name wisely as this is important. Your domain name should reflect the content of your website in some way

Buy hosting space: Next step is buying hosting space. You can either chose windows hosting or a Linux based hosting for your website. I suggest Linux based hosting as it is supported by lot of open source software and of course it is cheaper as well.

Start designing pages: Easy so far? So far you have just done purchasing the domain name for your brand new website and buying some hosting space. Now its time for you to create your web pages. Decide on your design. Visualize how your site needs to look. Your design may vary depending upon your topic of the website. If you decide to create a simple personal webpage with 5 pages, then your design could be simple design with few images. How ever if you decide to build a website with lot of pages and dynamic content then your design could be different. Since this article is targeted for beginners, I will be taking example of simple personal website. Most importantly, you need to get a HTML editor to create your pages with ease. I recommend Adobe Dream weaver or Microsoft FrontPage. These are WYISWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors. Create a folder in your local drive and this is where all your pages are going to reside

Creating Index.html page: This is the most important page. Index.html is the page which will be seen by the world when somebody types yoursitename.com. Design this page with various elements like content and links to other pages. When I say linking, you can do it in 2 ways. Either use the href tag in HTML or use Front Page’s hyperlink feature to link to other page. I suggest you to use the later and then observe how it creates the code automatically in the backend. Let’s work smart :-)

Design other pages: Design other pages similar to index page with relevant content. Note that each page should a link back to home page (index.html)

Keep your local website structure organized: Wondering why did I say local website? Yes, your local folder that you created in the earlier section is nothing but your website structure which you are going to host to the server about which I will be telling you soon. So organize your local folder structure by creating sub folders for images, scripts or any other documents and link them properly in your pages.

Get ready for hosting your website: Now since you have done with development of all pages, its time to get a FTP Client. I recommend FileZilla. Get this and here you need to login by supplying your cpanel username and password.

Locate public_html folder: Once you are logged in, you will see two sections in your FileZilla tool. Left side area is local area and right side is server area. In the server area, you need to go to public_html folder. This is where all your pages are going to reside. Now go to you local area in your computer and select all the files including the subfolders and chose upload. Now all files will be transferred to server including the index.html

Your website is live now: Hurray, you have just created your own website and confirm your website’s presence by typing yoursitename.com in the browser.

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Life 1.0

Posted on July 11, 2010 by naveen

Hello folks. I am back from my unauthorized absenteeism from the blog :-)

My sincere apologies for the same.

You know folks, when we look back at our own lives; we feel strange and surprised that how things changed around us.

With rapid developments in electronics and computer technologies, we have everything at our fingertips. No debates on this.

Lifestyle has changed. Our definition of “Comfort” has changed. What we used to say “Comfortable” 5 years ago is now no more the same. We rather say its “Outdated” or to be more technical…”Old Version”.

Every now and then new models are being introduced, whether its car or television or bikes or laptops. Not to forget, aggressively marketed and people “Upgrade” their existing equipment to “Latest” version.

I think its time to reveal the fact that why I started to write this blog or what is the purpose of this article. Actually I already started sharing the purpose. It’s all about so called “Upgrade”. It’s about so called “Latest Version”

Folks, have we ever asked a question to ourselves, what actually makes us happy?

Have we ever noticed that why we run behind materialized things thinking that it gives us happiness?

Have we ever stopped getting tempted when we noticed a latest version gadget?

Where I am going with this article? Let me simplify.

We are heading towards an addiction which I would like to name as Virtual Happiness.

That means, we are creating an illusion of happiness which is not only momentarily but also comes at a (high) cost.

We buy latest gadget thinking that it makes us happy. It does make us happy only until next version arrives.

Again, we run behind getting that version.

Have you ever noticed that happiness you are experiencing by upgrading your gadget to new version, fades down within months and you start regretting that why did you buy this as a new version has arrived already. Is not this true?

What I am saying doesn’t just apply to gadgets; it applies to your cars, your laptops it applies to many things.

Time has changed, technology has changed. Lifestyles have changed. But the source of happiness has not changed. We are creating a new virtual happiness and thus by masking the real happiness.

So when do we actually experience real happiness then?

Happiness lies in creating.

Have you ever done a painting of your own?

Have you ever given an advice to aspiring student?

Have you ever composed your own music song?

Have you created your own new software product which actually can solve many people’s problems?

Have you ever created something new which never existed before?

How did you feel when you did any of these things? I am sure it’s a more fulfilling and long lasting happiness feeling.

I must say that these things need time, take time but its worth because it is created by you. It’s your own creative child.

I recall a famous saying “Happiness lies in small things”.

What we used to do when mobiles were not invented?

How we used to feel happy when motion gaming never born?

Why we were so healthy when nobody had even heard of treadmills.

Were we not happy and content that time?

We were. Probably more than what we are right now.

So. Folks.  It’s time to slow down a little in your life.

Its time to regain that real happiness.

It’s time to stop that carried away feeling when you see the latest version of your favorite gadget.

It’s time to take your painting brush and canvas.

It’s time to switch off your television and go for a walk and hear the sound of real birds.

It’s time to stop changing your desktop wallpaper and go out and smell the fresh flower and enjoy its creation.

It’s time to stop playing 3d games and go to the nearest playground and awaken child in you by playing a real game and becoming healthy.

It’s time to stop being virtual.

It’s time to get real.

It’s time to go back to old version of life.

It’s time to create something new.

Have a real evening.

I am here posting my own poem which I wrote several years ago.

A lost soul

Man created machines for his own use

In turn, machines turned him of no use

Discoveries take place every new morning

Who cares about nature’s warning?

Natural things have come to a standstill

Everyone thinks now digital

Man calls himself as independent

In real, he is now machine dependent

In the forest of machines…

On a gifted planet called earth

A search has begun

For a soul called human

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Ten tips for achieving great success in your job

Posted on April 2, 2010 by naveen

Top ten tips for professional growth

I have been working in industries like Satellite Mapping, Digitization and computer programming over a decade now and from my observation and interaction with various colleagues, co-workers, I decided to write below article with tips for one’s professional growth. Though budding IT professional may find this article relevant to them it could apply to other areas as well.

  1. If you are a new joiner to an organization, everything is new to you including the environment, people, practices, culture. Once your introduction or induction program, its time to you to start participating. Here are 3 important actions you need to take to get familiar with new organization. Speak, Ask and Discuss. Follow these actions and you will come to know about the working atmosphere. Know who your supervisor is and speak with him on day-1 about your roles and responsibilities. Please don’t leave any communication gap else it would create a not so good first impression.
  2. One of the important practices that put you in right place in the professional career is your punctuality and regularity. I feel punctuality is more important than regularity. Be on time at your work. It makes you available and approachable and gives a good boost to your career
  3. Learning is one of the most important aspects of one’s professional career. Learning is a skill in itself. One has to apply different techniques while learning different aspects. For example, if one is learning a CAD Software such as AutoCAD or ProEngineer or Data warehousing Tools as part of project training, what he needs to observe is the various menus and options and screens. He should note down the menu hierarchies and screen pop ups, because CAD and DWH works on manus not by programming. On the other hand if one is learning a new programming language, he needs to understand various programming constructs, practice them and read the code snippet and understand those. Use Google to learn about code snippets. Be smart learner not slow learner. Treat Google as your personal tutor. Believe me its more powerful than you think. I have learnt many skills by watching you tube videos alone.  Thanks to Google. While you learn, maintain a nice large sized diary which can accommodate your notes. Avoid using small notebooks which you may end up replacing quite often and may lose as well
  4. Dress well and look well groomed.
  5. Be a team player and don’t indulge in office politics. I have seen this happening in various organizations. Let me tell you guys, doing tricky politics can get you temporary high but over the time it’s the work and attitude that wins the race. Politics will bite you back over the time.
  6. Communicate your achievements. Don’t just work and wait for rewards. It doesn’t get you much mileage. You need to make sure that your achievements are seen by proper people. To make this happen, use communication/presentation tools such as emails and conducting a presentation of your work and speaking in meetings about your work. Remember, no work is small work. Every work is important as it could have a great value in terms of dependency.
  7. Speak up in meetings. Top management likes the people who speak and communicate. When I say speak, it doesn’t mean that start complaining about things. Yes if its genuine issue, approach your supervisor and ask for a resolution. In meetings, you should speak about the issues you are facing while working on the project or extracts about a client interaction details or anything related to project. Message here is don’t keep quite. Keeping quite puts you last in the race no matter how hard you working.
  8. Respect your organizational values. Don’t speak badly about the company. It’s the place which is earning you bread and butter. Every organization will have its own merits and demerits. What’s important to you is how good your team is because you will be working in teams.
  9. Take ownership of tasks.This is the most important I must say in achieving professional growth. When you take ownership of some piece of work, it generates interest within you. This interest fuels your ability to work upon the task. It puts you into an important position in the race and when you complete your owned work, it generates a wonderful peace within you. Taking ownership will lead you to way to leadership.
  10. Never stop learning. You need to upgrade yourself constantly. It could be your technical skills or management skills or certifications. I give you an example here. If you are a web programmer with loads of experience in ASP programming, you should definitely upgrade yourself to .NET platform, because technologies are rapidly changing. Software product companies are releasing new features more rapidly than ever before. Growth of social networking and Artificial intelligence applications demand much latest tools and skills to be used while developing. So keep an eye on trends and upgrade your skills. How to upgrade? Find a tutor nearby or just login to you tube and find a video and switch on your speaker and take a notepad in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other and start learning.
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Hello world!

Posted on March 31, 2010 by naveen
Everyone has to begin somewhere at some point and I am no exception.
Though I am not new to blogging since I blogged as guest to some of the websites and has few blogs which I had created on free sites, I am feeling all new when I am starting blogging here at my own blog.
Well, I have interesting topics to share, useful utilities to give and some humorous stories to tell .
I treat this blog as my personal diary , my online journal.
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