By contrast, all the Norwegian company behind Opera can offer is the best feature set it can craft and the fastest browser it can make. But that turned out to be the best strategy in Belarus, which remains a largely socialist state with the infrastructure to match, including a state-run communications monopoly, Beltelcom. “One of the main reasons why Opera has a large market share in Belarus is because of the Internet infrastructure in the country; it was pretty bad a few years ago,” Espen André Øverdahl, one of Opera’s community managers wrote in an email, pointing to features that allow users to strip out images and other bandwidth-gobbling web extras.

Looks like Opera’s Turbo feature did the trick for them. It’s a useful feature to have, especially in the developing world where internet speeds are still nothing to boast about. It’s a bit surprising though that none of the other major browsers have this feature built-into them.

Why Is Belarus the Only Country Where Opera Is the Most Popular Browser?

The above article - The Only Country Where Opera is the Top Browser was published at Jeet Blog.

Is it making more money through Adsense or other types of ads?

Is it getting more RSS subscribers? Email sign ups maybe?

More traffic? From where? Google?..No? Then?

Conversions? .. What kind of conversions?

Whatever optimization techniques or conversion tactics you are looking to execute, it is going to be nothing but shooting in the dark if you don’t know your blog’s goals.

Tracking everything just because it can be tracked is a sheer waste of time. Understand the goals first. Prioritize them. Then execute tasks accordingly and track them.

Keep in mind that your goals maybe entirely different from that of the blogger next door. If you are looking to have your readers click on ads and make you more money that way, you shouldn’t be as worried about the bounce rate as he might be.

Get the picture?

The above article - Do You Know Your Blog’s Goals? was published at Jeet Blog.

The comments section of a website or a blog is a platform for the reader to express his opinion about the article he just spent time reading. This feature used to be limited to blogs at one point of time, but now, almost every content website that updates regularly has them enabled.

For instance, you could be reading WSJ or NYTimes as part of your morning routine and once you feel an urge to say something about an article all you need to do is go online, find the web counterpart of that article and post your comments there. No sending of letter to the editor and no waiting of the next issue to see if your letter was published…you could start the discussion in an instant on the newspaper’s website.

Commenting platforms have evolved over the last decade and so has the commenting habits of readers (or so it seems). Anonymous criticism or trolling as it is infamously known is a big problem that publishers face these days. It has even forced them to shut down comments completely. Then there’s our old foe – spam. Wherever you go, spam follows and comments are no exception. Large sites tend to get so much spam in the comments that they have to take measures like developing advanced software or deploying manual moderation on a big scale to counter the nuisance.

So, like everything, there are pros and cons to comments. But if you were to ask me, I’d say the pros outweigh the cons. In my own experience of running Guiding Tech and some other sites, I have found some novel uses of comments that I intend to share today.

Here are the ways in which I think publishers, both large and small, can make the most out of reader comments and the commenters.

Gathering New Ideas

For bloggers, one of the biggest impediments to day-to-day writing task is idea block. New ideas suddenly seem to stop hitting you and you find yourself staring at the screen and the blinking cursor.

There are many ways to tackle this problem. Browsing reader comments is one of the better ways to do it. Readers tend to post their own tips in the comments, some of which can often be harnessed into full fledged posts. For example, just yesterday we did an article on accessing an Android phone’s SD card over the air. Now, we have had similar articles in the past but this trick never occurred to us until a reader posted a comment about that on an older post.

The ideas can also come from the questions that readers pose, and the problems that they say they face while trying out the suggestions in the post.

Spotting Talent

Some of the best posts on Guiding Tech have been written by commenters who used to comment frequently and often shared brilliant insights. In fact, some of them had never written a single word of blog content before I emailed them and persuaded them to convert their ideas into blog posts.

Keeping an eye on commenters for potential hires is something that all multi-author website owners should do. Writing talent is very hard to find these days. Hence innovative ways like these need to be implemented to fuel the flow of new content on the site.

Letting Commenters Help Each Other

One of the interesting things I have found about commenters is that a significant percentage of them subscribe to the thread and come back to it to answer questions asked by other commenters. This is actually a great reason to always have comments open, even on the oldest posts on your blog. The influx of spam compels some publishers to take steps like closing comments on posts older than 60 days or something like that, but I think that’s a mistake.

A lot of times it has happened that a commenter posed a difficult question on an article on Guiding Tech, and due to time constraints the writer couldn’t answer it. I have found that these questions invariably get answered by a random visitor after a few days. There have been occasions when a comments thread has more information than the post itself. This not only helps you but also a new visitor who lands up on that post looking for answers.

Criticism

For anything to progress, constructive criticism is important and websites or blogs are no exception. Comments offer a way for readers to criticize the author, the content, his style of writing etc. While this can go out of hand at times, not having them at all doesn’t help either.

Often I have found that a good criticism in the comments lets the author look back at his practices and helps him contemplate on ways to further refine it.

Recently, we had a nice post on an Android feature on Guiding Tech. We pride on well-researched and quality content but we are humans too and prone to occasional errors. A few days after the post was published, a Google employee who was a part of the Android development team commented on the post criticizing it for incorrect information and data. The author decided to research again and found that the Google guy was indeed right. This revelation led him to delete the post, and rightly so.

This was a lesson learnt and henceforth the author has incorporated some additional research methods in his workflow to ensure authenticity of each piece of information that is shared in our posts.

Your Turn

That was how I have been utilizing reader comments, and how I think all the publishers should do it. What do you think? Comments are a boon or bane?

The above article - How Publishers Can Make the Most Out of Reader Comments was published at Jeet Blog.

Web publishing is no different. You create content and expect that readers will like it and come in hordes. Like any form of marketing, web marketing too could be done through questionable tactics. What constitutes such tactics isn’t really a matter of perspective any more; Google’s Panda and Penguin updates have shown that black hat SEO techniques are dead. If you are not adding value, you are simply dispensable for Google and for your readers.

It’s been more than two years of starting Guiding Tech in probably the most crowded niche of the web: technology, and right from the first day I have followed the philosophy of “marketing without selling your soul”, which is what Rand explains beautifully in his presentation below. I can tell you today, after looking at Guiding Tech’s pageviews and other stats, that it’s absolutely the right path to tread.

I agree 100% with all of Rand’s points. If you are a blogger or a publisher, or anyone who’s involved with web publishing in some way or the other, it’s time to realize that content is truly the king.. it always was.

(Thanks to Amit Banerjee for sharing Rand’s presentation)

The above article - The Right Approach to Web Marketing was published at Jeet Blog.

RT @Pinboard: BREAKING NEWS: Pinboard acquires medium coffee at a $1.50 valuation. Believe this will have sitewide benefits; excited go ...

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Arpit Kumar

RT @4JIT: 1 billion for Instagram is like paying 10,000 Rs for a pack of lays chips.

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Nirmal

Facebook: "We want to buy you. What price is cool with you?" Instagram: "You know what's cool?"

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Andre Kibbe

RT @JennyJohnsonHi5: Instagram is now in a relationship and it's complicated.

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Chris Anderson

RT @nestguy: "Please give us all your users' data." "No way!" "Here's a billion dollars." "Well in that case... We have image filters too."

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@bgardner

Brian Gardner

RT @beastoftraal: Instabook. Facegram. Instaface. Instacebook. Factagram. Facebooam. Instagrook. Inook. Facram. Faceram. Ink.

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Clinton Jeff

RT @PabloVikasso: So does this mean my Facebook timeline is going to be full of images of locks, windows and other useless objects shot ...

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@madmanweb

Madhu 'MadMan' Menon

RT @RyanJCormier: Wonder which pisses Instagram users off more: release of Android version or news of Facebook acquisition?

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Vikas SN

What to expect with the new Instagram/Facebook acquisition: http://t.co/iE1FsWZk

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Sean Percival

The above article - The Funniest Instagram-Facebook Tweets was published at Jeet Blog.

This why twitter is flawed. You can treat it as a narrative stream all you want, but people react to the most recent tweet with no context.

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@copyblogger

Brian Clark

Quite true. It also applies to our lives, isn’t it? We tend to assume and draw conclusions from a sentence, a look, a sound, an appearance, a situation or a moment. We rarely care about the context. If we did, life wouldn’t be so much fun, right? You know, less misunderstandings, more respect for the individual, less conspiracy theories, constructive curiosity…who needs all that simplicity!

The above article - Lack of Context was published at Jeet Blog.

Copyblogger has an excellent piece up on their site that explains why the bill needs to be stopped now. I urge you to read that article word by word, and then act by signing the petition here – americancensorship.org.

If you are in the US, it clearly states what you should do but if you are not in the US, you need to scroll down a bit and put your email address in the box that says Not in the US? Petition the state department.

You need to understand that a bill like this getting passed in the US could cripple your internet usage no matter where you are in the world. That’s because whatever sites you can’t live without, like Google, Facebook etc are headquartered in the US and bound by the laws of that land. Also companies like Paypal, which form the backbone of Internet businesses around the world, are based in the US and will need to adhere to the provisions of this draconian law (if the act becomes a law that is).

Spread the word about this and pray that US Senators get some sense in their head and vote against this bill on January 24th. If it does become a law then God help the Internet.

The above article - Stop SOPA From Becoming a Law.. Act Now! was published at Jeet Blog.

So, when I received a request from him regarding a guest post, I readily agreed. I assumed he was a genuine blogger so I didn’t have to worry about the content.

I assumed he was genuine.

2. I was in the process of hiring writers for Guiding Tech, and a friend of mine introduced me to a writer, who apart from maintaining his own blog, also wrote for a number of sites, some of them being well known. I checked his articles, and found that he was good. I decided to seriously consider him for the position.

I assumed he was genuine.

Turned out that my assumptions were wrong. The first guy copy pasted the majority of content from other sites in his guest post. And the second guy, I just found out, almost copy pasted an entire article from a top tech blog, to another blog where he started writing recently.

In one of the episodes in the first season of 24, the famous US TV series, the protagonist Jack Bauer tells his assistant Nina Myers why he exposed some of his own colleagues when he found that they took bribes. Here’s what he had to say:

“You can look the other way once, and it’s no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that’s all your doing; compromising, because that’s the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren’t, they weren’t bad guys, they were just like you and me. Except they compromised… Once. “

The two people we are talking about in this post aren’t someone who cannot produce quality stuff. They are the people who are capable, and know the shit. They have produced good and original content. But they decided to take the easy route once and hoped no one will find out..they decided to compromise once.

The result is that I lost faith in the first guy and didn’t publish his guest post. Not only did the guy lose an opportunity to promote his blog and get a backlink, he also lost an opportunity to establish a professional relationship with someone from whom he could have benefited in a number of ways in future.

I obviously decided not to hire the second guy. I did email him to know his side of the story though. He mentioned that he forgot to credit and he should have. For me, it wasn’t really about forgetting to credit. It was about not doing the things he could have done if he had invested some time. It was about taking a part of someone else’s work to produce a below par article that lacked originality.

It was about taking the easy route.

And as you see, sometimes, it really pays to never take the easy route.. to not compromise.. not even once.

The above article - The Easy Route was published at Jeet Blog.

For those who do not have an iPad or another device, I have an idea – use different user profiles on your computer. One for work, and other for fun. You could also block sites like YouTube and Facebook on the work profile if you cannot resist visiting them while doing something important.

The thing about using separate profiles is that you can not only block sites but even distracting software, browser extensions and much more. Obviously, you would need to know what distracts you. It might not be very easy initially to figure out. But once you do, you can mass-block those on your work profile.

And when you need to take a break, and have fun, just switch to the other profile. That also ensures that work doesn’t come in the way of your fun time. Sounds good?

So, how do you eliminate distractions while working?

The above article - On Eliminating Distractions was published at Jeet Blog.

Working from home isn’t a new phenomenon. Most of the time you’ll find people who are self-employed – especially, freelance writers, journalists, photographers, designers et al – like to have a home office and usually work from there when they are not in the field. So, bloggers like me have now joined people like them in this commute-less(mostly) working experience.

I’ll definitely accede to the argument that working from home is something that you’ll find more and more people opting for these days. The rise of the world wide web – and the unprecedented earning opportunities it has brought along – has caused many to use it as a medium to create a full-time income source.

Moreover, even traditional office goers, who could have never imagined that they’ll enjoy the freedom of working from home, are now asking their bosses to let them do that. And surprisingly enough, most of the bosses these days don’t seem to have issues with that. If the employee wants to avoid the hectic commute and claims that he can be more productive while working from home, why not let him do that.

I think even if 5% of the skilled working population of the world starts working from home, that could result in an unimaginable decline in traffic snarls, pollution, road rages and accidents, and other such related things. That said, the grass isn’t usually greener on this side. I’ll talk more about that later but first lets see what are the advantages of having a workplace that’s just a few steps from your bedroom.

The obvious advantage is the freedom from long commutes and traffic congestions. In my previous job, it took around 2 hours to reach office from my home. Sure the company used to send an air-conditioned cab for pick and drop, but the commute still amounted to a lot of wasted time…the time I could have utilized in learning a new skill or practicing an ignored hobby.

Another advantage is the ability to set your own routine. While in some cases it might not be possible and you would still need to be at your laptop from 9 to 5, in most of the cases the person working from home has a specific work target that he needs to meet irrespective of when he works. So that means you get to decide your own working hours, the hours when you are likely to get the most work done.

You can also attend emergency family situations faster if you are always at home. Be it the kids or an ailing grandparent, you can quickly come to their rescue if something goes wrong.

So, working from home has its own charm for sure. But, as I said earlier, the grass is not always greener on this side. The lack of co-workers to talk to, and the absence an office environment could be more of an impediment than you might think. If you are someone who likes to have people around when you are working, it could be extremely difficult to stay productive and creative while working alone in your home office.

If you stay with your family, it could be difficult initially to set and follow a work routine. Your family members will take time to come to terms with the fact that you need a no-disturbance time zone to get work done. Friends and neighbors might not understand that you are “working” even though you are at home. They could come knocking at odd hours and expect you to respond and meet them amicably, because, after all, you’re at home and not in the office.

One more situation you’ll find yourself frequently in is the 24-hour working mode. The lack of set work hours could mean that you are glued to your computer screen when your family expects you to be watching TV with them. You are working when people in your previous office are done with their workday. You are almost always working.

Overall, working from home isn’t as easy as you might think. Ask me, I’ve been doing it for the last 3 years. And I have encountered a number of obstacles on the way. Obviously, I’m still doing that means I overcame them (I like to believe that I did).  But this working from home thing is definitely not for everyone.

What do you think? Have you given a shot at working from home yet? Are you thinking of going that route?

The above article - Thoughts On Working From Home was published at Jeet Blog.

There was a time – and it wasn’t long ago – when I could produce almost 1000 words in an hour. And all quality stuff. But lately, I haven’t written much. Writing, like any skill, needs practice. The more you write, the better you get at it.

Guess, it’s time I start following these 10 steps to become a better writer. High time.

The above article - Writing Practice was published at Jeet Blog.

So, one might ask why the hell did I start a tech blog when the niche is already overcrowded. Well, first, I know more about tech blogging than about blogging on any other topic. And second, a crowded niche means there’s already a huge market you can tap on. You just need to produce quality stuff and market it the right way.

The end of September marked the completion of 9 months for the blog. I have to say that these 9 months, both for the blog and myself, have been a huge learning experience. There have been both good and bad times, points of immense excitement as well as complete helplessness, frequent surprises and myriad frustrations.

I thought I’ll share some of the lessons I’ve learnt along the way, here on this site. If you are planning on starting a blog, it might help to know what you are up against.

1. It’s Bloody Hard Work!

I knew blogging was hard work. I’ve been doing it since 2008. But starting a blog in 2010 and ensuring that it survives and thrives is harder. And it’s only going to get tougher from here on.

Now, if you’ve got cash in hand and can buy a blog or two, or have the resources to hire great writers and marketers, that’s a different story. But if you are planning to bootstrap a blog like I did and want to make money out of it, well, just know that it’s pretty rough out there.

The funny thing is, in just 2 years since I started working online fulltime, things have changed drastically. Building links have become harder, going viral on a social site is harder, writing unique content is harder….overall, it has become a tougher nut to crack.

2. Relationships Matter

Yes, this hasn’t changed. And this won’t change till humans exist. If I tell you that most of the success Guiding Tech has had so far was, in some way or the other, due to my network of friends in the blogging and social media industry, that won’t be an exaggeration.

I think you should start building relationships even before you start a blog. The best ways to get started is by making insightful comments on the blogs of people you admire, offering them help with something and doing it without expecting anything in return, getting them on Gtalk or Skype and initiating constructive discussions…many ways to do it really.

3. Getting Featured on Popular Sites Works

Whether it’s Mashable, Lifehacker or Problogger, if they talk about an article on your site, it’s good. It exposes your site to new people and helps to build authority in the eyes of Google. In fact, I’d go on to say that getting featured on high authority sites is much better than a short-lived exposure on Digg’s or Reddit’s front page.

You should try and seize every opportunity of having your article linked by a top blog. That could involve sending them tips, getting involved with their community and getting your presence felt, requesting those site owners for a guest posting opportunity and any other such networking/relationship building methods.

4. Digg is Dead

You might have heard this before but let me say that again: Digg is dead! Yes, I urge all the aspiring bloggers to not waste time and energy to get on the Digg front page. Gone are the days when a Digg front page brought tons of traffic and backlinks….not any more.

I won’t ask you to ignore Digg completely but don’t focus on it. Instead, focus on other marketing methods and building relationships.

5. It’ll Take More Time Than You Think

Everything will take more time than you think. Whether it’s writing a post, getting a certain number of visitors, getting a new design up and running…everything!Things just don’t fall into place within our expected timeframe.

Hence, if you’ve set certain goals for the site, I’d suggest that you revisit them and increase the timeframe for them.

6. Admin Issues Can Suck Life Out Of You

You know who’s the most efficient blogger? Someone who can write well, and also possesses considerably good designing and programming skills. If you don’t belong to this category of people, be ready to get frustrated frequently when you run into a design issue, a server issue or any other coding related problem.

The way out is to learn design and coding basics, or get help from trusted friends who can design or code. Don’t spend days trying to get that navbar aligned properly, when you know that you don’t know what you are doing.

7. Creating Action Based Goals is Better

Finally, I’ve learnt that creating action based goals like you’ll write one post each day, or you’ll tweet two links every hour, is much better than stat based goals like 100,000 monthly pageviews by August or 200 subscribers by next month end.

While you should keep an eye on various blog stats and analyze their growth or decline, lets admit it – you don’t have a lot of control over them. They are governed by factors like Google, a Digg front page, a tweet by a top twitter user etc.

What you do have control on is the work you can produce. Hence, when you set targets, it’s better to focus on what you can do and set goals accordingly.

The above article - 7 Lessons I’ve Learnt In 9 Months of Starting & Running a Tech Blog was published at Jeet Blog.

What do you think? True, isn’t it?

The above article - On Leadership and Attracting Followers was published at Jeet Blog.

It’s been a while since I started it with my co-founder Himanshu, and the response has been pretty good so far. The blog covers how-to articles, in-depth Windows guides and tutorials, and detailed posts on internet tools, software and other interesting tech related stuff.

Check it out and give me your feedback on the content. I suggest that you browse through the categories listed on the sidebar. Here are some of its most popular articles.

• YouTube Guide: Best YouTube Tips, Hacks & Resources
• 8 Cool Online Alarm Clock Websites
• The Definitive Guide To Connecting PC/Laptop to TV/HDTV/LCD

The above article - Check out Guiding Tech was published at Jeet Blog.

You probably know by now, that your writing skills can make you some cool cash if you know how to use it. Believe it or not, people are willing to pay you lots of money to write for them, especially online businesses and publications. In fact, the demand for writers has never been greater, with thousands of mom-and-pop business looking to outsource their writing tasks.

That’s why I was intrigued when I first came across a guide called “Freelance Superstar” by Monika Mundell and Gobala Krishnan. According to the site, it’s a “complete guide to get started with freelance writing”, so it’s probably most suited to newbies who want to get in the game with a bang.

See the site here: Freelance Writing Guide

In case you don’t know who the creators are, let me give you a “brief” history.

According to their website:

“In 2005 Gobala quit the rat race, fired his boss, and decided to be a full-time writer. Working just two hours a day from his home, Gobala soon discovered that he could expand his writing career into information products, and have since produced multiple best-selling ebooks, guides and systems. Monika, who started off as a part-time writer, soon landed enough high paying writing jobs to kiss her boss goodbye too. She has written for high-profile blogs and continues to expand her writing career like a maniac on steroids.”

The product’s main guide is a well-written PDF guide that reveals key components and tips on becoming a freelance writer:

1. How to get started with freelance writing
2. What to expect from freelance writing
3. Online writing job sites exposed
4. How to attract high-paying clients
5. Regular writing vs. SEO writing
6. Regular writing vs copywriting
7. How to enhance your language and writing skills
8. How to get regular clients and stable income
9. How to get paid as a freelance writer

.. And much more.

Besides the main guide, Gobala and Monika also provide you with valuable supporting tools and documents. These are indeed quite useful and will help you save lots of time. You’ll also get:

1. Email templates you can use to solicit for clients
2. Process map for your freelance career
3. Gorgeous “Portfolio” WordPress themes
4. Step-by-step blogging video tutorials

In terms of quality and value for money, this is definitely one of the best products I’ve seen. Sure, there are lots of free blog tips and forum posts that you can refer to, but you probably realize by now that the more of those you read the further away you get from actually doing anything. Many of the forum posts are by dodgy characters who probably haven’t landed a paying client in years. Some are just too sell-contradicting to be of any real value.

That’s why I give “Freelance Superstar” the thumbs up for producing a well-written, clear and straightforward guide that anyone can understand.

To get more information, visit the site here:

Freelance Writing Guide

The above article - Calling All Potential Freelance Writing Superstars was published at Jeet Blog.

I am sure those are the most important skills for a person to succeed in business, be it an offline business or an online one. However, apart from that I think there are certain essential work specific skills which a person should possess that would allow him to run his business with greater efficiency.

Lets talk about an online business. It could be a blog, an e-commerce website, a membership site or an affiliate marketing business. If you have an idea related to any of these formats, you could just go out and hire people who could set up a blog or a website for you. So you see even the basic knowledge of things like HTML and FTP isn’t needed to get started.

But when it comes to running a business and managing day-to-day activities, it’s always good to have a basic knowledge of certain important aspects of your business.

For example, lets say you’ve got a WordPress blog which brings in a good sum every month. You’ve hired writers for producing content and a tech guy to take care of any technical glitches the blog might come across sometimes.

Now, one day you suddenly find that the blog is down since it has got to the Digg front page or due to some other reason. It could be a minor issue related to a plugin which can be easily taken care of by disabling it. But if you don’t have the basic knowledge of WordPress and how things work in a WordPress blog, you can do nothing except contacting your tech guy. And if he isn’t available at that time, you lose out on a huge number of visitors.

Recently, I faced a similar situation. I was working on a landing page template for one of my affiliate campaigns and needed some changes to the format. I don’t know CSS and never bothered to learn it. I always had my designer friends help me out in one way or the other. But this time, it was an odd hour of the day and I couldn’t find any of my friends online. Consequently, I had to postpone the work for the next day.

Later, when I consulted a friend on the issue, he found that it was just a minor CSS related hack which was needed. If only I had the basic knowledge of CSS, I could have easily resolved the issue myself.

So, the idea is to have the basic domain knowledge. You don’t need to become an expert on it. If you are an entrepreneur or aim to be one, process expertise will always be more important than the domain knowledge.

Having said that, here are some of the essential skills I think one should have if he is thinking about starting an online business.

• Knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Knowledge of FTP.
• Some basic content producing skills.
• How blogs work and how to install a blog platform on a particular domain.
• How WordPress works.
• Basic knowledge of Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ).
• How RSS feeds work.
• Knowledge of Google Analytics.
• Basic knowledge of social media marketing.

The nice thing about these skills is that they can be acquired easily. There are huge number of resources online which help you learn these things. And believe me, none of them is rocket science.

Are you running an online business or thinking about starting one ? What are the skills you think is important in order to succeed in your business ?

Photo courtesy : nyki_m

The above article - Essential Skills You Need To Run An Online Business was published at Jeet Blog.

Here’s an excellent video I came across which answers those questions in about 8 mins. Check it out !

Thanks Mani.

The above article - History Of The Internet ( Video ) was published at Jeet Blog.

I was one of the speakers at the event and talked about certain things one should do after installing WordPress to get the most out of it. The presentation was primarily aimed at the beginners who find themselves at crossroads after installing WP and are not sure where to start.

Here’s the presentation. You are free to download it and keep it for your reference.

The event fared quite well and the presence of Matt and Om further added to the excitement.

Here are my pics with Matt and Om. Thanks to my friend Rohit for taking them.

For more pictures, check out my flickr stream and my friend Abhishek’s flickr stream. The videos will be uploaded to wordpress.tv in due course of time.

The above article - How To Get Started After Installing WordPress – My WordCamp Delhi Presentation was published at Jeet Blog.

ZoneAlarm Forcefield aims to make your internet browsing more secure by isolating the browser from the computer. As the PC Magazine points out, ” The heart of the system is a “bubble of security”—a virtualization system that isolates the browser from the computer. Any browser-based exploits fail because they can’t touch your computer’s actual files or Registry items. “

You can get the free version here by registering your name and email address and they’ll send you a download link along with a license key. This offer is valid only for today and the download link which you get remains active for the next 7 days. I’ve just received my email containing the download link and license key and hope you don’t miss the chance too and get the internet security software for free.

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