I am a keen reader of Seth Godin’s books and stumbled on David Cummings’ post on Seth Godin’s views on leadership and management.
Indian Online Businesses That You Can Start Without Any Money Literally
This is a unique time in history. It has never been as easy as it is today to be an entrepreneur. You can start a business doing almost anything, from anywhere and working on your preferred time.
How To Make Your Hobby A Business?
How you can you turn your skills, hobbies and passion to be a freelancer, blogger, entrepreneur and develop a business around them.
As A Developer Freelancer How do I Manage my Finance
Almost a decade as an entrepreneur, blogger, and freelancer I had it all and so let me share with you key aspects of managing your money and finance efficiently.
Dr. Robert Cialdini’s 6 Shortcuts to Persuasion
Persuasion is changing a person’s behavior. In an animated video Dr. Robert Cialdini who is known as “Godfather of influence” describes 6 shortcuts to influence and persuasion.
10 Success Mantras to be A Successful Entrepreneur / Freelancer
Success is a moving target and so instead of trying to chase a moving target, here are the 10 success mantra you can implement to be successful
Attitude Vs Talent – Harsha Bhogle Speaking at IIM A
Harsha Bhogle speaking at IIMA where he shares how the most important ingredient to being successful is attitude and not talent with real life examples from sports fraternity.
Five Common Freelancing Disasters and How to Survive Them
Have you ever had a time when things are going perfect and suddenly you are hit by a disaster? What are common disasters that can hit you as a freelancer?
10 Essential Pages Of A Freelancer’s Blog Or Website
The 10 essential pages which should be there on any kind of site, a blog, a freelancers profile website, a services company.
How to Scale Up Web Services Business – A Leaf out of Infosys
Small web design and web development start ups have issues scaling up to 10 folds or 100 folds. The solution is to apply the business model of the best service industry companies.
Hire or Outsource – 10 Points to Consider Before Hiring Local vs Remote Talent
If you want to get things done remotely than doing it in house, see how you can make the most of your remote talent.
How Small Startups & Small Business Owners Can Expand?
Every small business or startup wants to expand. Let me share 10 points for small business entrepreneurs to expand quickly and profitably.
What Are the Personality Traits of an Entrepreneur?
You may want to be an entrepreneur but do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
How to Get a Credit Card as a Student in India?
Purchasing an item online from an international seller who does not accept PayPal and you will need a credit card.
5 Things to Avoid in Startups that are routine in MNC’s
Things to avoid when making a move from being an employee in a large organization or an MNC to owning a small business as a startup.
Want to Quit your Job? The 6 step process I used to quit my job
Blog readers, school friends as well as ex-colleague discuss about starting a business with me but more often they are mentally not prepared for quitting the job.
The Biggest Myth About Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
You may have read lot of articles about 10 biggest myths about entrepreneurship or top 5 myths about entrepreneurship but then which is the biggest among it all.
Bong Excuses for Not Trying to be an Entrepreneur
I have seen some really weird reasons for not trying to be an entrepreneur by Bengali’s and so let me share the top excuses. No 4 will blow your mind.
Is This The Right Time to be An Entrepreneur / Self Employed / Blogger?
Pros and cons of being an entrepreneur or self employed or freelancer or an online blogger now and may be few years earlier and few years later.
5 Perspective Changes From Being an Employee to Becoming an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs have a different perspective and I have seen that there is a considerable amount of difference in perspective when it comes to being an employee and being an entrepreneur or an employer.
The Misconception About Being the Pioneer of an Idea?
Bloggers and online entrepreneurs wants to start with a brand new idea. But I see that there are very few big ideas that has become great businesses (for computers and online world at least) for those who pioneered it.
Why Tech Indian Startups Are not Able to Become A Facebook or A Google?
Why aren’t any big Tech companies coming up from India like a Facebook or a Google? Is this something to do with Indian Environment as a whole for Tech companies or Indians aren’t qualified enough to make such a big mark on Internet.
Really Funny Business Proposal That Made Me Freak Out
I get so many emails each day with lot of business proposals for forums and blogs but this one was just too funny. The story begins with some Guy called Mainak from Kolkata
5 Most Used Excuses By Newbie Entrepreneurs
Many readers come up with excuses on why they are not taking the route to entrepreneurship. Let me share widely used excuses and why those excuses are nothing but imagination of feeble mind.
How To Know You Are An Entrepreneur – The Only 50 Words You Should Read Today
The answer is really simple and funny and I think this is the only 50 words you should read today.
Techies or Marketers – Who has More Advantage to Online Entrepreneurship?
Who has more advantage when it comes to online entrepreneurship – Techies or Marketers? The best 500 words you would ever read.
7 Personality Traits of Successful Freelancers
The art of freelancing is starting as a freelancer, developing into a solopreneur & becoming an entrepreneur. The 7 personality traits a Freelancer must have to become an entrepreneur.
7 Biggest Entrepreneurship Challenges – Indian Perspective
No matter where you are on this planet, entrepreneurship is always challenging but today I will be giving my view point which is – an Indian’s point of view. How Entrepreneurship Challenges are different in India.
Lessons Learned in 2010 & Targets for 2011
It’s that time of year where we all set our new year’s resolutions (to be broken) but I prefer to set myself few goals and target for the year ahead because it really helps me a lot. (See how target can help here) Let us look back at what I had for 2010. Last year […]
How Internet Connectivity Can Impact Your Holidays?
Holiday season is getting started with Christmas round the corner and I have a holiday planned from December 24th to January 2nd and I will have very limited internet connectivity and so this question struck my mind. How Internet Connectivity Can Impact Your Holidays? Have you ever thought about it? Every morning the first thing […]
What Makes Me More Money And How Much?
Yesterday I shared a topic where anyone can Ask me Anything and as expected the first comment question was related to How much money I make and from where. I will be answering each of the questions in comments at Ask me Anything in the detailed possible way I can and so it may take […]
What Business Strategy Can Work for Entertainment Niche?
I got a very interesting question in my inbox today. I have an entertainment site targeted towards celebrity wallpaper and I am trying myself to rank higher in Google. I have tried everything I can to get links. I have tried link exchange, article submission, directory submissions, social media submission to Digg, reditt … and […]
Is “Web Hosting Business” an Opportunity?
We see thousands of online entrepreneurs opt for web hosting business and new web hosting provider come up on a daily basis. As a web entrepreneur we may sometime think, how such low priced hosting packages are available and what kind of profit do these hosting companies make? To answer this question first we need […]
Biggest Challenge To New Bloggers. Are You Ready for it?
M. Ramanathan Asked a very simple yet very important question Greetings my firend! I read through your site today and got very much interested. You know why? Coz in your “About me” page, you said about blogging at home everyday after the full time job. Thats what now I’m at in the present. I’m trying […]
Building A Blog or Building A Forum – Which One is Easier?
We will do comparison of blog Vs forum with respect to building an online business when you still have a full time job and can only work on your business for very small amount of time
Building An Online Business When You Still Have A Full Time Job
14th June 2004 Monday is when I started my first full time job but before getting into my full time job (i.e. when I was in college) I was doing some freelancing work especially home work help type of projects. I am a member in Elance since August 2002 and in vWorker (Known as RentACoder […]
Handling Failures
As an entrepreneur / webmaster you must remember that failure is always a possibility period. Take failure with a pinch of salt but that is not where the life ends, it is a stepping stone towards bigger success. Remember you are not the first person who has failed. Instead of doing all lectures about failures […]
What are the Common Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs?
What are the common qualities every entrepreneur must have and what qualities of ultra successful entrepreneurs are taken as common myths among aspiring entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur’s Never Quit
We all get so many forwarded emails and so do I. I normally give a glimpse to almost all of them and one day I I got this One Day I Decided To Quit One day I decided to quit… I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality. .. I wanted to quit my life. […]
How to Live your Dreams – Action Items
In an interview have you ever faced question like “Where do you see yourself after 5/10 years?” If your answer is yes think for a while about what was your answer before reading further and if your answer is No read further. Have you ever wondered why such question is asked or what is the […]