If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!!ever considered a zero overhead organization?
sounds ridiculous?
Didn’t think it was possible?
It could be possible for all you know.
how do you do that?
Well, for starters …
1.Plan your business well in advance and think whacky.
2.Enable technology.
3.Use part timers
.4. Try to out source things you aren’t so good at.
5. Be self-employed.
You might never have a ZERO overhead
biz ever, but maybe you could save tons of cash.

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I can now blog from anywhere. Thanks to my new sony ericsson p1i and the Airtel GPRS enabled on it, I can actually start checking mails, read online content, articles, news, view attachments, download or edit or view them, be active on facebook or linkedin – all of it without burdening myself with a laptop or a PC, at least while I am travelling.
 Yes of course, the speed isn’t something you can yelp with joy, but it certainly keeps you mobile, always connected and suits casual browsing and emergency email …

That is something I have been doing off late. I had realized that there are hardly any companies ( even among very large ones!) That use technology to leverage their business and to easu some of their support functions. It is very disturbing to see that most of us learn about everything like ‘Computer Architecture’ and a lot more of those subjects but we don’t even try to see where we could possibly implement them.
Technology is like steroids. We should be using it to bring efficiency and enchance productivity. I …

While on the quest to start off on my own. I had some very good friends of mine critique my ideas. I was kinda tossing things around here and there trying to see how it goes with them and they had all come out affirmative, except of course a few of them. Now they had been talking about something or the other that doesn’t seem to be right…As previously mentioned – the Location, the marketing plan, the lack of demand for the service, presence of competition, saturation and a lot …

Had been busy trying to search for a location for my training institute that is going to start in a few weeks now. I had been combing the whole city for it but either they aren’t located where a million eye-balls can rest on it or they are too expensive. I had learned that it is rather futile to open a training institute in any place apart from the main streets. Well, although the reason is rather evident, I still fail to grasp the almost mono-maniacal obsession on this one …

Marketing Consulting is bound to have the potential to be the next big thing after the telephone and the Internet in India. You might want to ask how? Well, everyone here seems to open a shop and run it just like that depending on fate to get him/her customers rather than developing a marketing plan, a strategy and a business plan to follow.
The reason why marketing consultants have great demand is the fact that I had noticed a great demand for anyone who could manage to come with some real …

I am not an Online expert, but then, ever since I knew what Internet was, I was set about researching and scooping out whatever the Internet had to provide. So, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to list down those sites, which I thought were just awesome. You might be familiar with most of them. I guess. This will be updated continuously. You may please add your comments too – I would be including only those which are relevant to business and services.
 
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Ain’t that true? No one really cares about you ( well, there might be a few poor souls who might really do!) Mostly, people in general don’t have any soft corner for you and the sooner you acknowledge this, the better it will be. Why am I saying such a thing? Well, you see baby, people have enough to worry about, aim for, live for and die for. They simply don’t have the time and any intention of taking care of you and your myriad problems.
Hey, but you still need …

I had heard a lot about online affiliate marketing and had been involved in it for quite some time now. But then, It just struck me to use this powerful model for my own business. So what did I do? I had set up an off line affiliate system ( working on some fine tuning before the final launch now!).
Referral marketing is a very cost effective and much more economical method than traditional advertising and can be used by any budding entrepreneur for his or her own use. Just ask …

Here is a confession : I have been reading a lot of books from a very tender age, but I rarely took any of them so seriously. The reading was done as a mere hobby and I enjoyed picking up new words. I do know what this habit of mine had done to me and I am out here for the world to see. But this is not what I am going to talk about.
I was reading up on ” How To Win Friends and Influence People- By Dale Carnegie”  …

I don’t know how many of us will really get to taste this one, but the thrill of being to able start, run and market one’s own business is something that should be experienced in one’s life. No, I am not talking about the crappy family business that is handed down to you and would most likely run just like the founders did.
I am talking about one’s own business.
The feeling is euphoric. It is just amazing. It feels great and it feels heavenly.Little will so many punks who still …

I was just surfing through www.inc.com, www.allbusiness.com, www.entrepreneur.com and a few other sites that are usually my favourite hide-outs. Yeah, I use them to escape from the dirty, out-side, real world. I did stumble across a few articles that discuss how a business card needs to be designed. Pretty valuable information. Most of which would have been missed out by most small business entrepreneurs.
However, I am still to decide what I need to do with my own business cards that will soon be rolling out of the press. Should I …

It had all started with my relentless quest to find all those hidden markets in India. I  have been talking to a lot of people about different business models and I had realized that we either have high-capital B2B business models which need you to have a lot of cash upfront and hence are impossible to start or the wannabe entrepreneurs simply get into some kind of business that is already practiced in India, but then they just run like everyone else and barely manage to survive with just a …

Some websites are hot and are found. Well, there are some and they aren’t found that easy. Kinda hidden.
Here is an amazing round up of over 100 sites that might prove to be what you must have been looking for. Tons of web apps, resources, ideas, articles and other goodies that you might never ever find again.
PC Magazine : Top 100 Undiscovered Sites

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The decision has been taken.
Much like the mystic stories of those valiant warrior kings who had their ships burnt upon reaching the shores of the ‘Enemy Nation’ such they either ‘Win or Perish’ , I had taken the big step a few months ago. I went through the expected turbulence in my mind. The inevitable shivers, unjustified apprehensions and a roomful of doubts ( I still have them, though It is a never ending battle !)
It’s been done. It is an amazing feeling, though. The ancient ecstatic feeling of being …