The New Year is a great opportunity to revisit your plans, set new goals, be grateful for what you’ve received, and aspire to make the coming year your best ever. Check out this webinar from Gary Ryan Blair, popularly known as the Goals Guy, who shows you how to set goals, and challenges you to achieve lot more in 100 days than you did in the entire year. Please feel free to leave a comment... 

Is email marketing still effective? With so much of hype surrounding social media, email marketing looks passé. This article tries to explore whether email marketing is still effective, and some of the best practices in email marketing. Industry statistics In 2011, average return on investment for email marketing was $43.52 for every dollar spent.[1] More than 50% of consumers make purchases as a... 

Your slutty behavior could be jeopardizing your business… There is a huge difference between being a professional, and being a slut. Most sluts are usually amateurs, and sometimes even professionals, who don’t respect their work enough. Now, what do I mean by a business slut? This term is used in some business circles, where professionals give away their work for free or allow themselves to... 

One thing common among successful business people is that a big majority of business people are good networkers. The old saying “It’s not about what you know, it’s who you know” probably holds true even today. Some might argue further saying “It’s NOT who you know but who knows you.” Either ways, you get the point rt? I always knew networking was important,... 

A tribute to the best selling author Stephen Covey. Stephen Covey, motivational guru and best selling author of books such as the 7 habits of highly successful people, the 8th habit, first things first and several others passed away on July 16th, 2012. Stephen Covey, 1932 - 2012 Stephen has impacted the lives of several business owners, entrepreneurs and working professionals all over the world in... 

Recently, Adrienne Graham invited me on Google Hangout to talk about “Lean StartUps”. Initially, I was a bit hesitant because I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on “lean” practices and besides it was at 7pm Eastern Standard Time and since I am based in India, it would be 4:30am in India. But I decided to take the plunge and see where it leads me. I am glad I took up... 

Pranab Mukherjee, India’s finance minister served a death sentence to startups in India by introducing a startup tax when he presented the Indian Budget 2012-13 on March 16, 2012. Basically, what this says is that “if an Indian resident who is NOT registered as a venture capital company pays a share premium above the fair market value, the amount in excess of the fair market value would... 

One of the biggest challenges for first time entrepreneurs or want-to-be entrepreneurs who have never started a business is “How to start a business?” It is easy to get lost and not have a process when it comes to starting a business. In this article, we have outlined a step-by-step process to starting a business. Step 1: Define your job as an entrepreneur This might sound like something... 

Every business needs a strategy. In fact, every business has a strategy but the strategy is not always at a conscious level. Vinil Ramdev, Editor of StartUpGrowthExpert.com discusses what strategy is all about, and how you should prepare a strategy for your business. Which Direction Should I Go? When I first started off in business way back in 2004, unlike most people who start their first business,... 

As mentioned in my previous post, I went through Tim Young’s article on raising capital and I worked on my investor presentation. I believe presentation is very important. I would have liked to share the new slides that I have made here on this platform but some of the information may be confidential and so I am not sure if I should make them public yet. My slides are NOT a cut and paste of...