Business Tips

February 14, 2010

  • Winning Strategies – A career perspective from Arun Agrawal

    Last week, my friend Arun Agrawal agreed to do a guest post on my blog. I found the subject interesting and aligned to the taste of my readers. So here it goes:
    Winning Strategies
    What is your formula for incredible success in any field that you decide to work in? Technical skills, right connections? If you ask [...]

February 21, 2009

  • How to have an economical stay in the UK (mainly London)?

    United Kingdom (UK) is an expensive economy with high cost of living. For business visitors, it is important to have an economical and comfortable stay. Based on my experience, I am putting together some tips for fellow business travelers.
    Hotel / Stay:

    Accommodation in UK can vary between GBP 10 per night (for bunker [...]

February 18, 2009

  • Street smart strategies for the recession

    Hello Friends,
    Here are some street smart strategies to survive the recession:
    1) Invest in marketing. Your competitors are not doing so to save money. You shall go ahead and make the kill to get maximum leads and exposure. As we know offense is the best defense. So it is best to attack recession with your [...]

February 9, 2009

September 3, 2008

  • How not to write a business plan?

    I am always interested in investing in new venues. Few days back, I stumbled upon a bunch of entrepreneurs who wanted to develop a 3D action game. It looked like a freaky idea and I was all game for it. I asked them to put together a basic business plan. Nothing monstrous. Just a simple [...]

April 11, 2008

  • Do you send handwritten seasonal greetings to your clients?

    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 [...]

March 28, 2008

  • The REAL Programmer automates his job

    Just a random thought:
    Programmers 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 [...]

March 24, 2008

  • Managing vs. Leading – What an organization needs?

    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 [...]

March 20, 2008

  • Buying and selling websites

    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 [...]

March 17, 2008

  • Cookie that fails to crumble

    It is a true incident about, how a cookie shop messed up its sales!
    CookieMan 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 [...]

January 25, 2008

  • Project management softwares reviewed

    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 [...]

January 23, 2008

  • Open-source products are great. But know the limitations before you use it.

    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 [...]

November 27, 2007

  • Take a positive attitude to work

    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 [...]

November 20, 2007

  • Can entrepreneurship be taught?

    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 [...]

September 23, 2007

  • Businesses can never be in equilibrium

    Business organizations can never be in equilibrium or achieve stable position. Either they are moving up or they are moving down, depending upon their innovation quotient. 

    If you are trying to keep things stable, they won’t remain so. You will slowly slide down simply because:

    there is no exclusivity,

    competition will catch up on the technology front and [...]

September 20, 2007

  • Embracing Pain For Entrepreneurs

    I came across this quote today at BusinessPundit. 

    We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

    How true When you start a company, you get rejected by almost everyone:
    Bankers:
    They want to lend you money only if you have a strong financial background. Ever thought, why will you even go [...]

August 20, 2007

  • Learning in the age of information overload

    Blogs have fueled the growth of peer-to-peer information flow in form of news, knowledge packets, ideas and individual point-of-views. However it has also resulted in "Information overload" which drives a normal person nut as he is at risk to wasting too much time reading the flesh before he reaches the crust.
    Learning becomes more difficult as we [...]

August 8, 2007

  • Paper napkin business plan

    I have often seen people struggling with their business plan. I have a bit unconventional take on the subject. May be, because it has worked well for me till now. So here is what I sugget:
    A business plan does help. However a business plan should be proportionate with the size of investment you are making [...]

July 26, 2007

  • Manufacturing Ideas!

    How many times have you heard?

    He is successful because he has the first mover advantage.
    I have a bright idea. I will seek venture funding and make it BIG!
    There are so many simmilar businesses around? There will be a lot of competition for my new business.

    I bet, you must have come across a variant of one [...]

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