I am so late to Twitter (Twitter Id: @UpbeatNow) that it’s not even funny. I am getting educated day by day on what are the best practices on Twitter. Being in the student mode puts me in a state of “wonder” which makes it easy to learn. In that regard, I looked at the “State… Continue reading
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Gary Vaynerchuk on "Secrets of Success"
Summary of Traits: #1 – Patience (Things Take Time.) My $.02 – The 3T Rule #2 –Hustle (for the monetizing) #3 –Content (Greatest hustle with crap content will still fail) #4 –Community (You got to give, give and GIVE) If you don’t have the goods, nobody will care. You will be EXPOSED! Here it is… Continue reading
Staging the sale
Two weeks ago I was at the Farmers Market in Mountain View. There was one stall where a person was selling balloon arts. It was interesting to watch him create characters out of balloons. He was quite successful at what he was doing (in terms of business) as there was a big queue of kids… Continue reading
Inspiration for 2009: Lessons from elBulli
Reading in 2009 started off wonderfully for me with a surprise book “A Day at elBulli: An insight into the ideas, methods and creativity of Ferran Adria” It’s a magnificent book (527 pages, full of beautiful pictures) about what happens inside elBulli in one day. elBulli is supposed to be the world’s most famous restaurant…. Continue reading
Reasons Facebook Ads don't work…
At the outset, Ads are ads – whether they are on Google or they are on Facebook. But there is a BIG difference. When people come to Google, they are “searching” for something and an “Ad” appears that matches to what people are “searching for.” In Facebook, people don’t come to search for information. They… Continue reading
Fighting on textbooks now…
I read recently that Chegg.com raised $25M from KPCB and Foundation Capital for expanding their textbook rental service. Chegg.com is another proof point that whenever there is inefficiency in the marketplace there is an opportunity. Students NEED textbooks AND they are EXPENSIVE. Chegg.com’s model is not to lower the prices on text books but to… Continue reading
What should a printing company do in a green world?
There is so much talk about going and being green. I see so many emails that ask me to “print responsibly”. What would a printing company do in this environment? It would be odd if they start asking people to print “irresponsibly”. That won’t work. One way is to help people create more materials that… Continue reading
"Behind The Car" now behind the car (literally)
A quick progress report on my little project (background) with my son Sumukh. Quick Background “Behind The Car” is a community project to collect cool and interesting bumper stickers from across the world. An example of one such bumper sticker is here: The project was launched on his 10th birthday. So it has now been… Continue reading
The art of customer (dis)service
It’s been a while since I used a PC. Every other computer in my home is from Apple. However, I see that McAfee was automatically renewing my Antivirus subscription for a PC 🙁 This time I did catch the email that said “Automatic Subscription Renewal Service” and found that there is a simple option to… Continue reading
A tourist will always find…
Always insightful Timo Wadhawan at Heartwood Studios shared this gem with me on Saturday. “A tourist will always find what he or she is looking for” Think about it as a tourist. You will find what you are looking for. You can be at The Louvre but not know how to enjoy the artwork or… Continue reading