Prepared to fail
Optimism is a necessary skill in everyone’s toolbox, but no matter what, we should also be prepared to fail. We should not allow the thought of failing to stop us. A lot of people beat drums and make a fuss …
From known to unknown
We all like to start from the familiar. When your products and services cannot be described in terms of things your customers already understand, you will have a harder time selling to them. You want to be faster than Konga …
The Ambitious and The Visionary
Life should not be all about you. When all your goals and plans are all about you, you and you, I do not think it is a good sign. (Ok, it might include your wife, your kids and your parents… …
The repeat customer gold
The real gold in business is found from repeat customers. After all the work of finding prospects and converting them into paying customers (not users), more work should be done to see how you can get them to do more …
On Spamming by Telcos
I think its a real shame that many people now complain about SMS and Voice call (Robot calls) spam messages and there is little they can do about it – the spam messages originate from the telecom companies themselves. It …
Instagram overtakes Twitter with 400million users worldwide
Instagram has seen 100 million users sign up within the last nine months. In terms of active mobile users, Instagram still lags behind its parent company’s 1.3 billion, as well as Facebook-owned apps WhatsApp (900m) and Facebook Messenger (700m). But …
The Protege, the Apprentice and the difference
Who is a Protégé? A Protégé can be defined as person who is guided and supported by a more experienced or influential person. A Protégé seeks out and finds a Mentor that can assist with achieving pre-defined goals. Who is …
It must have bad side effects
The default response people have to new technological ideas are usually skeptic. Most people love to point out any danger they can see whether they be imagined or real. It is so because people are always afraid of anything they …
Don’t despise small things
Because inside every small thing is the seed for bigger things. All the big things you can see around you mostly evolved from smaller things. Every successful company you see out there started from ground zero. And then they became …
What do you need faith for?
If I can get it done naturally, I do not need faith for it. If you can take a piece of paper and write out all you want to get done over the next couple of years and write out …