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What I Learnt About Fire Alarm Systems

April 25, 2014March 18, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

A few weeks ago, one of my friends came with his family to visit us over a weekend from Irving,TX. They stayed overnight with us and we had a great time cooking, watching movies and just talking about various things.

As they returned to their apartment community the next day, they discovered that there had been a fire in their neighborhood during that night and two or three buildings around their building had turned into ashes. They just got lucky as their building was still standing and so their belongings were safe.

Why Small Businesses May Need Business Storage Services

April 25, 2014March 14, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

How many small business owners, especially home based business owners do you know who keep very low inventory levels of their products simply because they don’t have enough storage?

I have many friends who participate in distribution industry. Yet they do not keep any inventory of the products they sell. They do so simply because they want to avoid the cost. Cost could be the cost of products or even renting of a business storage facility.

How To Use Google+ Hangouts For Video Conferencing

April 16, 2013March 7, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

Have you used Google+ Hangouts for video conferencing with your friends, family members or your business associates? When it comes to video conferencing, Google+ Hangouts are one of the top free choices available on the internet.

Note: Image courtesy of Kate Harper's blog post on awesome tips on Google+ Hangout Etiquettes.

A few months ago, I shared some of the free conference services to conduct teleconferences involving international countries. Now, it's time to take the discussion up a notch by doing video conferencing for free.

Can you imagine how powerful it is to have 10 people from different places join LIVE in one video conference and talk to each other? And on top of that, isn’t it incredible that you can do it for free?

If that isn’t enough, it is also possible to put your video conference on live streaming to be viewable by public and also record and upload your hangouts to your YouTube channel . All this comes to you for free if you just have a Google Plus account.

5 Keys To Developing And Maintaining Positive Attitude

January 28, 2014March 2, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

“Whether you have a Positive Attitude or a negative attitude, it is contagious. Whatever is your attitude, people around you are catching it whether or not they desire. Therefore, it makes sense to have a great attitude,” said my business coach once speaking of attitude.

Positive Attitude is something we all desire to have. Consciously most of us want to be positive, be around uplifting people. However, subconsciously, we are very sensitive to negative, as Wallace D. Wattles writes in his famous The Science of Getting Rich first published in 1912.

WordPress Plugin To Boost Your Amazon Marketplace Earnings

April 30, 2013February 25, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

If you have paid attention to the sidebar and the Products page of my website, you already know that I participate in the Amazon Associates Program, where I get paid when people click on my Amazon links and buy something from the Amazon marketplace.

I have been buying products from Amazon (especially books, CDs and electronics items) and mostly, you shop at Amazon too. I love recommending Amazon products I enjoy – to my friends, family members and also reference them in my writing when the topic comes up (especially books).

Then, why not be a partner with Amazon and leverage my efforts to generate some passive income? This program made total logical sense to me and therefore, I joined a few years ago.

Choosing An Autoresponder For List Building And Email Marketing

January 29, 2014February 24, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

List building and Email Marketing may not be something that a new website owner plans for initially when starting out. While setting up our new website or blog, most of us start out to build our brand identity online.

However, as we start to mature and begin to get confidence, we begin to commit a little bit more, and then a bit more.

A time comes when we begin to ask ourselves, “Can I also make money while I continue to do what I am doing online?” If you've had this question on your mind, what you are thinking really is – how to build an online business with your website.

How To Discover Your Talents And Become An Expert

April 8, 2013February 22, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

To become an expert at anything, I believe, we must truly believe that we are talented in that area. We must believe in our God given talents and abilities. More importantly, we must believe in ourselves.

Do you value your life? Then waste not time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ~Benjamin Franklin [tweet this]

The value of anything that we desire to acquire is determined by how much of our time, our resources and our energy we are willing to invest to acquire it.

If we believe in ourselves, we also value ourselves. We value our God given talents and abilities. We value our life and in turn, others begin to believe in us, value us.

Why Toastmasters Is A Great Confidence Building Platform

April 8, 2013February 18, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

When I heard about Toastmasters International a few short years ago, I didn’t have any business. I was doing my IT consulting job, had no website, didn’t have any ambition for any kind of public speaking. Yet, I was fascinated by the name and therefore, I decided to check them out.

Actually, at the time, my project manager recommended that I should consider joining Toastmasters as part of my personal development goals for that year. Credit goes to my open-mindedness, I immediately decided to give it a shot.

How To Build Your Brand Identity Using Google Authorship

September 15, 2013February 16, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

Everybody wants to build a brand identity online for good reasons. Whether you are in business for yourself or you are looking to have a successful career in your profession, building a brand for yourself is absolutely critical in today’s marketplace.

Over 92% of employers searched candidate's name on Google in 2012. I can’t imagine buying anything from anyone today without making a few Google searches and checking on social networks.

When someone Googles your name or the name of your business, the search results speak volumes about who you are and what you do. If you haven’t done so yet, Google your name now. What are the search results you see on the first page?

Schools Kill Creativity – TED Talk By Sir Ken Robinson

March 18, 2013February 13, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

All kids have tremendous talents and we squander them pretty ruthlessly. ~ Sir Ken Robinson [tweet this]

Going through my old bookmarks, I found this brilliant 2006 TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. In this incredible TED Talk, he argues that the public education system across our planet is designed to kill creativity.

In his 10.29 minutes of funny, engaging, and powerful TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson argues that we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.