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Shared WordPress Hosting – GoDaddy Or BlueHost Or HostGator?

April 5, 2014August 1, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

If you are planning to buy a Shared WordPress Hosting plan or planning to switch your hosting provider, you can relate to this post. If you already have done what I am sharing here, may be you can share your experience to help my readers make a better decision.

I first started to use GoDaddy when Snigdha decided to start her self hosted WordPress blog. We bought the domains we needed and got started. Since GoDaddy readily provides WordPress Shared Hosting, we got started with the Shared Economy Plan.

How To Use Email For List Building, Prospecting And Relationship Building

February 4, 2013July 24, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

If you have ever been in any of the situations below like I have many times, you will relate to me.

1. You are an entrepreneur, you need to build a list of names to grow your business and you wonder how these online marketers have thousands of people in their list.

2. You need to send a broadcast marketing emails to a big list of people frequently and next day and you wonder if you should send your emails individually to avoid being seen as spam or should you take the risk of mass emailing.

3. You had to send the same message to a lot of people and you wished there was a way to personalize your email to address each recipient without making them feel they were just spammed.

Well, the answer to all your questions is found in the Email Autoresponder Services! These are extremely valuable to keep your prospects, customers, vendors – your audience in general engaged and informed. It is a great way to keep your business in front of your target market even while you are away.

Your Klout Score -Why It Matters And How To Increase It

May 5, 2013July 16, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

If you don’t know what Klout is, you should probably spend 15 minutes of your time to learn about it. I wondered about this for sometime and I am here to share with you what I learnt when I researched as to why and how much does it matter today.

If you have a Twitter account, you already have a Klout score whether or not you’re aware of it. If you are on Social Networking websites, you have a Klout score already though you may not know. I tend to think it is worth finding out anyway.

Beware Of Self Proclaimed Internet Experts

January 8, 2013July 12, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

No doubt the Internet and the Social Media have enhanced how business is done today. Opportunities today are more then ever and so is the competition, so is the noise! Everybody has the opportunity to do more, be more – it's a level playing field today! Internet has given the platform to people from around the world to interact with leaders in various industries, learn, contribute and grow.

When it comes to networking, I go by the principle, "Treat everybody as genuine until they prove themselves to be otherwise." Therefore, I generally accept all connection requests and disconnect or ban people later if I realize it wasn't a good decision.

Brand Yourself To Success: Get The Personal Branding GPS e-Book

July 8, 2013July 8, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

The subject of Personal Branding is no more a new phenomena. Everybody knows and everybody is doing it. It is more critical today than ever to your success as the world is getting much more competitive and noisy today than ever. But the question is, Are you doing it for you?

Whether you are in school looking out to grab your dream job or you are employed already the personal branding is of absolute importance to your career. And… If you are an entrepreneur, you need branding like nobody else.

Here is a very well presented 2.46 minute video that talks about the importance of personal branding for job. I believe this video will challenge you to think even if you aren't looking for job. It is worth giving your 3 minutes!

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Interestingly, there are so many people on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and all over the web who are actually damaging their reputation by posting inappropriate content,

My Favorite Top 6 Free iPhone Apps

January 18, 2013June 26, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

As iPhone 4S got released last year, I switched to iPhone from my favorite Blackberry and joined Snigdha in the iPhone club where all my other associates and friends were waiting for me to give up my love for Blackberry. I am glad I did the switch, finally!

Initial couple of weeks went by figuring out things, exploring the Apps world and finding out what I needed and what not. You might be like me in my initial iPhone days – new to the iPhone trying to find out a few good apps to install and may be you would love what I love using on my iPhone.

How I Lost 12 pounds in 12 weeks and FREE App MyFitnessPal Helped

October 5, 2013June 25, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

The author of several incredible self-help books, Charlie "Tremendous" Jones once said,

You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. [tweet this]

This is true to every aspect especially when it comes to the power of association. The same is true for setting up some weight loss goals as well. I experienced this year as we tried this at office!

As this year started, a few of my coleagues got together and started the initiative for setting up a weight loss competition. I immediately jumped on the wagon as the competition began. The goal was to lose 10% of the current body weight within 12 weeks

Book Review – Beyond Success by Brian D. Biro

December 6, 2012June 23, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

I have read literally hundreds of books on topics like leadership, team building, motivation and the like. As I read, if something comes up with an extraordinary message, it goes into my classic collections. Beyond Success is clearly goes in my favorite classic collections. The book is full of extremely useful and practical leadership and team building skills that go straight into the heart!

Coach John Wooden of UCLA will always be remembered not only for his unparellel success record, but for the quality of the character he helped build in the teams he coached. Most NBA teams today have trouble emulating the team effectiveness

How to Develop A Continuous Stream Of Referrals For Your Business

February 4, 2013June 18, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

Referrals are considered widely as the best way to build growing and stable business today. Therefore. having a goal of giving the best customer service plays so much important role. Happy customers can be a huge gain for any business.

And when customer isn't happy with your product or the service, that is the worst thing that can happen to your business because with social media and internet, good or bad – the news flows incredibly fast either way.