18 Mar 10 Is Writing Really Fun?
No. It is not.
Writing is hard work. Go and ask anyone who is in the business for long and he or she will tell you what a drag this is. As they say it, “The worst part of writing career is to sit still on your desk and write.”
Writing never comes easy, no matter at what stage you are into your writing career. It will never come easy. It takes time, effort, and pushing from your side. Do not assume that someone just sits on the desk and starts stroking keys and articles or books or reports or whatever starts forming itself. It never happens this way. To draw an analogy, let me tell you that writing is akin to polishing gold necklace—it required time, determination, precision, attention to details, and ability to continue even when your mind is saying “F” Word out loud.
I have been long enough in this field to realize this. Initially, I was delusional. I thought it will come easy to me as I am into this since I was a kid is class 3rd. But, as I wrote I was delusional.
Should you take up writing?
Indeed, you should. If writing is tough then what is not? Nothing is easy. You will have to exert yourself in everything that you do. But there is one thing about writing that none of the profession shares, at least not in the essence that writing does.
Writing creates a world, where you are in control of what each of your words will do. But, still your readers are in control. As it is upon them to make whatever sense they want from the writing. Writing is a game being played between the minds of the writer, readers and everything that falls in between.
This indeed makes writing fun.
Yes. Writing is fun. In the truest sense of the word, not in the sense that mean no work all play.
Tags: Analogy, Attention To Details, Control, Desk, Essence, F Word, Fun, Game, Gold Necklace, Profession, Sit, Time Determination, Time Effort, Writing Career
17 Mar 10 5S Principle of Web Hosting
A lot depend upon a web host, when it comes to starting a business online. Therefore, you need to a pay close attention to the quality of a web host to opt for. Only money should not become the basis of your judgment because what looks cheap may cost you dearly in the long run.
Will you like to have a website that is down half of the time?
I hope not. For that matter, I have decided to outline 5S principles of web hosting, and will ask you to verify a web hosting account on all these parameters during your purchase process. Yes, money matters, but not as much as these do.
5S of Web Hosting
Swift: Speed is the essence of our time, so this not something on which you should compromise. A slow website is as good as dead. And the speed of your website does not only depend upon the code and the design of your website, but it also depends upon the strength of your web host. If your web host uses state-of-the-art technology and data center then your website will be faster.
Stable: How good a rocket-fuel-propelled website will be if it gets down even now and then? Your speed only matters if your website is live. For a website that is down often, it does not matter how speedy it is when it is live. You need to go for a webhost that gives 99.99% uptime—everyone writes that, but very few delivers, so check their credibility.
Secure: Who does not know the risk of venturing out on the Internet? There are viruses, spywares, malwares, trojans, and other types of malicious codes as well as hacker, crackers, spammers, etc., to crack into your website and take control of it. Hence, security is not something you should compromise on. See if the web hosting account you are using is secure or not.
Support: Ideally, I would like to suggest you to go for the one that never fails, but you also know that this suggestion will not take you anywhere because there is nothing like never-failing system. I would rather ask you to go with the web hosting company that has a strong support system to help you in case of eventuality. You should not be made to wait in queue for hours, if not days, when you need them.
Service: Agility and nimbleness of service and delivery is another thing that you need to look for in a web hosting service provider. Do not go for the ones that are too slow in responding your queries, or system of which is not fast enough.
Filter a web hosting company through this, and what you get is a strong, reliable, seldom-failing web host. And after all this, you should think of price of the service.
Recommendation: I would suggest you to check Gossimer’s the Ultimate Web Hosting
account as it has everything that you are going to need in your web hosting account.
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14 Mar 10 3 Deadly Sales Mistakes to Avoid
The sales department is the lifeblood of any company. It is the only department that brings money for the company, rest of them incurs cost. Therefore, it becomes very important for you to keep performing well. After all you and your department earns bread for your company. I am going to talk here about 3 mistakes everyone in your sales team should avoid.
Mistake number 1: Data, data, and data
Yes, no one is interested in your long boring bar graphs, or your endless number of slides. No one cares about them, not even your clients. You should not excessively indulge in churning numbers and discharging them on slides to show your clients. They are bored of all these things. If you want sales to happen, avoid doing that. And start connecting with your clients.
Mistake number 2: Words, words, and words
Do not rattle off the speech you memorized yesterday. Do not even try to make it sound like an extempore. No one cares what you have to say, especially not your clients. Your words don’t mean anything to him. What matters to him are his own words and his alone. Listen to him intently and try to figure his needs from his own words. Be mum, if need be. Your goal is not to talk, but to sell.
Mistake number 3: Sell, sell, and oversell
I have seen many sales person who will start selling the moment they enters the room, and keep on selling until they are either metaphorically kicked out, or their battery get discharged. Do not do so. You should not oversell yourself. Draw a line and never cross it. Do not speak even a single word related to the product, until asked to, once your client agrees to your point. Overselling backfires!
Keep these mistakes away from your organization, and you will see a difference in the inflow of orders as well as in customer satisfaction.
Tags: Bar Graphs, Boring Bar, Customer Satisfaction, Endless Number, Inflow, Lifeblood, Mistake Number 1, Money, Sales Person, Single Word, Slides
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