Category Archives: Business

Do you need a website, or a blog?

Short version: the two are the same. But there ‘is’ a difference between a website and a blog, and you’d be better off knowing that difference. Some basics: When you put up web presence for your business online, you do … Continue reading

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If you could do one thing…

If you had Millions of dollar in your bank account, what would you do then? You would buy everything, and do everything money would allow you do (and that’s quite a lot). Yes, after you’d done all of that, then…what. … Continue reading

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Force Majeure?

Force Majeure: It is the easiest escape route, you as an individual and as an entrepreneur can take. Blame it on ‘superior’ forces. (Quickly, read the first paragraph on Wikipedia on Force Majeure – it’s alright to not know – … Continue reading

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Meeting Malik Hanif, the Unicorn breeder

Feeling big about travelling hundreds of mile in my not-so-comfortable car to just ‘meet’ with someone who has reached the epitome of success as I’d define it, I was already happy that I was in Hafizabad. The person I was … Continue reading

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Please, do not make this mistake

This happens to the best of us, and it has happened to the biggest amongst us. From solo freelancers to Small & Medium Enterprises and from Large companies to really, really large companies – everyone is known to make this … Continue reading

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Let the 80/20 rule save you money & give you more time

Do you know of the 80/20 rule? There was this Italian scientist (somewhere in the 1800′s)’, Pareto, who noticed that 20 percent of the population of Italy owned 80 percent of the land. Well, nothing scientific about that, surely, but … Continue reading

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The Friend Discount

If I have had a penny for every time I have been given advice on how to handle ‘friends’ as clients, well, then I’d hardly have a pound, frankly. I have learned the following the hard way i.e. by making … Continue reading

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