Lesson on Time Management
August 30, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Leadership Skills
In our daily lives, there are so many things waiting in our hit list to get fulfilled and at the end of the day there are still more to finish, even after spending the whole day working on fulfilling them they are still remaining or spring up from somewhere or the other, these are little pit holes in our lives which makes our lives congested and confused. If we do a little of time management we can conquer any race or any battle. Time management have been taught to us from the very beginning, may be when we were in our 1st grades but in a different manner, even you might not be knowing that time that those were time management lessons we were learning at that age, take for example, reaching your class on time, doing homework on time, playing sports on time, drinking milk on time, etc. these are just some of the examples which we were used to, when in school and as we grow up, these become more important for passing our semesters, you work upon different projects, collect databases, etc. if you don’t do any of these, are you going to fulfill the need of your assignments, its no, right?
Managing time is important to grow in life and achieve what you are striving for, there are a number of management lessons and at the same time there are even lessons which helps you get free to manage some time with your family or loved ones.
Work is not just the only criteria to fulfill in life, as men grows in life, there is more meaning to life and rather than just money he feels a need to belong, belonging to a family, and that can only happen if you fit in that family in your fully packed professional schedule. What I am trying to portray you here is as much as time management is important to you from a professional point of view, you need to manage the same time with your family, below is one example which I recently came across during one of our management classes and I am really keen on sharing that stuff with you.

The class was fully packed with going to be management graduates and everybody had to share some illustration and give presentation, starting with the professor, he bought out a wide mouthed glass jar and started pouring some big rocks inside, until there was no space left for other stones to fit in, asking excitedly to the class if it was full? They answered yes, but he shoved some gravel inside and filled up the parts left empty by big stones. Again he asked the class whether it was full, this time the class said “No”. Again the professor started pouring in some sand and it did fit in the parts left empty by big rocks and the gravel and asked the class whether now it was full, the class said “No”, more excited he started filling sand inside the jar and asked the class whether it was now full, still the class said, “No” so he got a glass of water and poured it inside and this time he was sure the jar is full and even the class agreed, he asked to students what did they learn from this illustration, there were various answers, and cool logics relating to management in that question answer session but what really made my heart sink was the answer from one shy guy sitting at the back row, the answer was amazingly perfect and reached everyone’s heart without a doubt.
Now, you guys must be as anxious to know the answer as I was that time, it illustrates that the big rocks if not fitted first inside, you never will and the big rocks indicate your children, your family, your dreams, your education, your health, your personal time, and many other important things. It teaches us that you should put big rocks first otherwise you will never get them at all, if you look after little things in life like gravel, sand which will fill up your life, these are actually small worries and office tensions that will occupy your mind so first give preference to big rocks and then give attention to smaller things of life so identify the big rocks in life and put them in your priority list first. I myself learnt so much from it and each person I meet up who is rushing towards life achievements I remind him or her of this story.
Tips on creating Brand Names
July 27, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Leadership Skills
Naming Newly Born Baby, Your Business! – Creating Brand Names
Industries today anywhere across the globe have great start up success stories, we all know that, unless, the foundation of a company is strong, nothing works up. Most of the time when we see huge business enterprises, we often see how the company names are so close to the work they are doing, its all about Innovative Ideas, and using Creativity in framing a particular mind set amongst people, for ages then a particular name or a logo goes with that particular product. In my 10 years of career, I have started so many websites, blogs networks, projects, working as a joint partners with firms and I have marked every time that start up phase of my business process was spent in picking up a name for my company. After so many years I have well understood one aspect of picking up a name for the companies, it has be informative, interesting, eye-catching, easily spelt out and memorable, if your company name has all these then your company would be remembered as a brand for ages to come.
It takes longer time to think of a name which would purely describe your business type and at the same time very unique and well understood, in big companies I remember, there used to brain-storming sessions where all industrial biggies used to gather for just picking up a name after all, your company or brand name is going to do it all, of course counting on your product quality also. Think from customers point of view, how would they gel a particular product with some name, it has to be original not copied and if you are planning to put your business over the web then check whether that particular domain is available. You will well know, what it is like naming a business, its just not any A,B,C steps you have to go through so many processes before finalizing on one name.
Today, I am going to share with you some ideas for naming your enterprise; you will also learn the trick to find words which are very unique and memorable in the eyes of people:
- We have come across company names which are totally out of the world and don’t resemble its company products but still they are in public’s mind for generations, why? These companies have made use of great marketing efforts to build up a brand image to gel with a particular product, say for example, clothing brand like crocodile, guess, etc. if you want to build up a brand for your company with not much of marketing finance at hands, the best is to select the company name which is relevant. Then it doesn’t matter whether its tutoring class you are running, or a garment shop or setting up a multi national company, remember to choose the names which describes about the products. In the fast paced times like ours, no one wants to remember lengthy names, they want something which is short to speak and pleasing to hear, this is the best way to win your customer’s heart and you are already half way of your marketing efforts.
- Select a name which customers can visualize while shopping. A name should be short and simple and memorable so every time they are out, they will recollect it faster than other brands. Try to put a positive image which people will recall on a particular occasion, make your company brand get heard in the market through good marketing efforts by selecting a proper Logo of the brand.
- Find the words which are easily Spelt, there are many companies I have come across who have had such complex names even when their product is better, people disliked it because of the complex word and that they dint remember it while shopping. Make sure when you select a name it doesn’t get confused for another brand or a product name.
- Select a name which you feel would be Available, no domains are booked on that name. when you know there isn’t any duplicate sort of the same company name you have selected, there are almost no chances your customers will get mislead. As we know that most of the businesses are getting online, it is very important to make your presence felt on Internet as mostly people look out for businesses they can transact from home and try to get the domain with .com extension, don’t settle for .net or .org.
Company names doesn’t strike easily, you will have to spend a peaceful time with your colleagues to reach upon a perfect name which sounds very good and resembles the product and remember to make it sound friendly.
8 SEO Blogging Tips
As we know blogging is a big business today, optimizing your website is of utter most important things today. If you don’t do search engine optimization for your site then no matter whatever great content you might have on your site, it is of no use. Bloggers, especially need to do SEO for their blogs network if they really want to get heard, let me give you brief notes on some of the basics to start with SEO:
- In the world of blogs, content is of prime importance. Whatever, content you write reflects, how popular your blog will become. As Content is the King in the world of blogs writing, you can well put all your resources and energies in to
writing creative blog which are informative and innovative too. Its not the quantity that counts but quality of the topics you are writing on. If your content is quality contained then you are surely going to attract readers in to your blogs and it might happen they may pass on your link for other readers to read your blogs, this could be one of the best advantages for you for your SEO rankings. - Search engine optimization is all about key words, you should be able to anticipate the type of words people would be searching for, over the Net for information, once you get a hang of it you can write content based on those keywords and you can simply attract the attention of the readers. Using words which are often searched over search engines leads to top ranking of your site.
- Titles are of great importance when you are being searched over the net, make sure that you put your title in the “title tags” on the back end of the blog this is very important from SEO point of view. If you are writing your blog from an SEO point of view then try not to include the blog name with your title tags as there is every possibility of your keywords being diluted. Remember that the words you use at the start of your article carries more weight than the words mentioned later in the profile.
- Once you are done identifying the important key words, try using them in your posts. If you want a good google ranking for your terms and phrases then you need to use them in your blogs. You can even use the words in sub headings by using h tags. Don’t go over bored that people will get bored reading out of the topic post, so write whatever comes naturally to your mind.
- For increasing your blog ranking you can put links from other sites, and also put links of your blog both are fruitful as interlinking will help readers to share information and it is surely going to give you a good search engine optimization ranking. You can also try linking to key posts on your blog from other places on the blog like front pages, side bar, etc.
- Doing an SEO for your site is of great advantage and putting links from other sites gives you good results in SEO ranking. You can start linking to your blog from other sites which ever you are active member on, the social networking sites like twitter don’t count as much on anything as they have no follow tags so there are more chances for people to access your site and perhaps some might help you with SEO itself.
You don’t have to be obsessed for getting the links, if at all you need to become obsessed then get obsessed about how you can write great content for your site and once you are well with writing then links will follow and if you feel that the matter you wrote is relevant to other blogging sites you can write to them and they might well link you up with their blogging network.
Try thinking of the posts that will attract attention, as much that you get good offers from other sites to link up your site with theirs. There are many such websites offering you information on how to generate linkable content, you can develop your own technique and excel ahead.
- Generally, while writing blogs you don’t have anything on your mind except for the keywords and that you have to write super creative, attractive, interesting blog but what grabs my attention here is that if you are using wordpress then there are good chances here, with Plug-ins you can get very close to your target, it is surely going to help you with your SEO and grabbing the readers attention.
- This is a proven fact that magnets attract each other, similar is the case with Blogging and Readers, as you have more readers on your site there are more chances that it might attract even more readers there is some type of snowballing you can say, which happens over blogging sites, as your loyal readers like your content they may pass on the links to other readers in their network, then the new readers read your content, link to you, bookmark you, email about you to their friends, etc. so there are so many things which are not seen but are actually helping you become popular and that may indirectly help you for your SEO.
I want to discuss few more things relating to SEO, perhaps that I have helped you this much I can do even more so that you become perfect.
You don’t necessarily have to be an SEO master to do the SEO for your site, true knowledge about google tactics and right linking will help you surely win the match. Its been now 10 years I have been in a blogging business and had a great number of ups and downs as a professional blogger, sometimes you face criticism from people and sometimes they dearly like what you write, its all about perceptions you have to get them thinking the way you want to think them and that can happen through the content you write that is the real art of writing or blogging, you can say that! Google is not just into money making, they need the best of information for their users so that it can become more popular and I know they are pretty well in their jobs. As a professional blogger your main aim should be to provide the best and latest information for the users its not the quantity but quality that counts. When you are using keywords, make proper meaningful sentences so that readers can understand what you are trying to say.
Google might not use the whole data for ranking the sites, but they use some information to place your sites over their network, recently they are coming with some methodology which will let search engines generate data based on the content that is being shared over the networks and book marking sites. At the end my advice to readers is to create quality content using the best information you can collect on pertaining topics and join networks that will get you interacting so that you know what people are looking for, All the Best!
Thinking of an Online Business
June 6, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Freelancing, Leadership Skills
Thinking of an Online Business, If Yes, then, Here is the RIGHT Key!
Doing business modern style that is Online business have been in people’s mind since a decade now, but people are still hesitant to make it fully solid proof to be totally online. Well, it has its own drawbacks, but even traditional business has its drawbacks but if we count on both, I think, the online business cuts the cake. As the world is getting globalize, people are spending less time shopping outside, more people are hooked onto internet even for their daily routine work like shopping for groceries, toiletries, clothes, food, etc. this time lets have a word with Cynthia Minnaar, she advices to start your online unit with budget in mind. Cynthia is from South Africa and has her own online home business unit. She is the owner of the site www.cyns-home-biz.com, this is one such online site which lets you do business sitting back at home, the site carries various ideas on online business and how can you start with one, having your site online means there is an extra scope for income to add to your regular income and you can enjoy your life and spend more money too.
The site also contains varied information on internet marketing training programs held online or workshops by experts in the field and also has brief introduction to affiliate marketing solutions and resources. With increasing internet based business and online conferences held frequently people are giving more importance to the businesses which are online, through which the transactions are made easier and simpler. Today Cynthia is here with us sharing her top 10 reasons, why you should be doing an online business, make note of each of the points they might be of utter importance to you or may be your colleagues or partners.
The common men thinks only from present point of view, but a real business men would think of today and tomorrow, basking in the glory of present you cannot forego your bright future, if your business is going well today no one would like to make any change to their business so they may find a really strong reason as to why they should switch to internet based home business which is economical and also yield you more income. We are not aware of the life’s twists and turns, we better be prepared for our tomorrow which may be really bright if we want or we would make it dark ourselves. The market scenarios in a recent while has although been good, but still the changes of recession will take long long time to recover from the actual shock. It is always better and advised that we have a dual source of income through which we can live a more fulfilling and more respectful life. There are varied motivational factors behind business too, unless a businessmen is really keen on getting things done, how can he achieve his targets or goals, follow the given below rules and you will never turn back from your achievements in life.
- You can start counting on the total capital required if you are going to retire the next day and live comfortably rest of your life, deciding on the amount is in itself a big motivating factor to turn to internet based home business which hardly takes few hours of your time in a day.
- If you feel you are going to loose your job, then here is your chance to even make more money by doing less work sitting at the comfort of your home.
- You can start with internet business at home to pay for the education of children at home and later for their university expenses, etc.
- There have been many people quitting their jobs at young age because they have already made arrangements of their internet based business.
- Some people live their current jobs for the fear of heart break living their child at day care center, so internet business is a good viable option through which they can stay with their children at home and earn money too.
- Increasing inflation has led more people cutting down on their holidays and other luxurious activities whether at home or outside, this extra income will let everything in balance and they can get back to their normal comfort life again.
- You will need extra income for the sudden expense of car crash repairs or an accident or older’s illnesses at home, this is a good motivating factor to start your own business unit.
- Salary of an individual is fixed for a particular expense, but what about other expenses like loan repayments or debt at a general store, so supplementing your income through online business is a good option.
- Quitting your job and starting your own business unit will let you have more leisure time for your activities, pursue your hobbies and also spending more quality time with your family members at home.
- You can help coupe your parent through their daily medicinal expenses and other family expenses by starting an online business of your own.
The above stated are just few reasons which can motivate any individual highly, there are many more reasons depending on person’s lifestyles and the kind of life a person wants is also a great motivating factors other than this. Your interests of earning an extra income could be many but remember one thing that it takes time to build up your business enterprise and it takes time to develop relations, so start your business and wait patiently till you get good results.











