Dream big but dream wide awake.

Dream today, dream often, but dream with your will not leave it at the mercy of time. Best thing about willful day dreaming is that it’s all yours, no one else knows, there is no limitation on your dream, no boundaries. You realize something only if you dream it first. Don’t delay don’t postpone, do it now, when you are travelling in a public transport, when you are driven in your car, dream in your bed before you are asleep tonight, dream in your bed when you wake up tomorrow, dream when your are sitting idle now, dream if you don’t like something, dream when you really like something, dream of what you think is achievable and dream of what nobody think is achievable. You dream and you realize your dream, only if you dream. 

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Its solution, which you were looking for…

He was lost and he lost.

He was confused, lost, caught in the process; he was so much into the process that he forgot the purpose, lost the track of time. He did not know the purpose, he didn’t ask for propose, he had a task given and time ample, he didn’t bothered. When he realized it was too late, and they shouted and they blamed. He listened and he promised but he did same again.  

This is a common story of any person who is trying to earn livelihood, in majority of cases and at many occasions. We often lose the focus, the purpose. Purpose is to find out solution, whether its business, a project, a client’s requirement or a question staring right into your eyes. Solution is, what you were looking for, there are many choices to make many ways to define, many ways to solve the same question.  A war can be fought in a battlefield, with thousands of lives at stake or same can be resolved in a secret meeting room by signing a peace agreement. It’s not about how we do it; it’s about what we want. Solution. And there are ways and means to arrive at solution, at work place and in business and at home in much more peaceful, effortless, economic and pleasing ways.   

You know, you will win.

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Do you need to go to college to be an entrepreneur?

It partially depends on what kind of business you want to start. Formal educations up to the college might not be necessary for some creative entrepreneurs but it helps you on many fronts like personality development, interaction skill, of course industry knowledge, business intricacies etc. but usually pre-college education can help understand the basics of business dynamics, and will help interact with people in general and specifically client. Whether college or not one should definitely learn basic finance and one can always keep increasing their business and industry knowledge while keeping track of market affairs. 

In this information age it’s easier than ever to acquire knowledge, through different social media streams. It’s an open knowledge economy; people are much more open and willing to share their success stories, business tricks, business pitfalls and lessons compared to past. Feedback was never so readily available through the emergence of blogs, forums, etc. There are ample success stories to justify the need of formal education and equal ample stories where successful entrepreneurs have emerged without formal college education, but there were few common traits in both the categories, which is – Vision, determination, hard work, persistence and continual search for knowledge while reinventing themselves. 

Learn how to read a business bestseller before it’s written in the following post

http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/03/reading-bestsellers-before-its-written.html

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25 Rules of success for business and online startups

Launch early - you can’t afford to wait till you have a 100% fail-safe plan

Learn from your mistakes

Don’t repeat the same mistakes again, ..http://bit.ly/ArDoG0

Understand the legality of your business, choose your business name and content which is unique and does not attract legal notice.

Leverage your business through common attributes..http://bit.ly/xbhCGZ

Create business synergy among many businesses or support service or product line

Improve your products, services and online experience based on customer’s feedback.. http://bit.ly/xaNRyo

Reduce number of clicks to sell your products online

Reduce turnaround time

Promote relevant products

Do not get spread too thin doing multiple task yourself

Hire people for those parts of business you don’t like doing yourself

Keep track of your accounts from the day one; you are going to need those details on way to success

Maintain professional attitude from the get go …http://bit.ly/wEn1rh

Maintain focus- it’s easy to get distracted.. http://bit.ly/zuyxst

Be careful while hiring or joining friends for business…http://bit.ly/wi5I0i

Hang out with people with positive vibes, avoid people with negative spirit

Listen to criticism passively and discard everything which demotivates you

Utilize technological possibilities and help at your disposal ..http://bit.ly/yuGSYU

Utilize social media potential or hire someone to help you optimize it for you

Create a product or service capable of triggering word of mouth publicity… http://bit.ly/yibMqn

Pause to have a reality check, review and restrategize if needed… http://bit.ly/wv6vUE

Pause to appreciate what you have been doing

Don’t judge your success by someone else eye, only you know what you are getting from your business apart from money, things like satisfaction, attention , authority, control on your time and life etc. ..http://bit.ly/xLfxjc

Pay to yourself and feel good about you and what you have created.

Learn how to materialise every Business Opportunity which comes your way -http://bit.ly/x5Dv24

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Some tricks of the tech-trade for service delivery business-

You need to have strong data base (single largest qualification criteria) of all the existing and future prospective clients, (let it grow)


You need to track your transactions using behavioral tracking software/ systems, 


Understanding nature of customers in terms of frequency, choice of product, etc.. and offer similar promotional products and services 


Technology will help provide tailored service experience to individual customers.


It will help you make loyal customers by exceeding there expectations, every time they come back to you


Word of mouth Publicity

Learn about the top 5 problems faced by new startups in providing customer service here - http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/02/top-5-problems-faced-by-new-business.html

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Business on the go - Ever ready entrepreneur

Always be dressed and presentable in business hours and beyond - 

  *You are the image of your company

  * Well dressed look increases your confidence level
 - Let the people enjoy your company and presentable personality 

Always keep your plug and play USB storage device with you-

                                You never know when is the next presentation

·                            You don't want to lose that precious new client  

·                             Keep Your Company information / proposal ready in different format

·                            Keep your company profile presentation updated

Keep your business relevant numbers and information at your fingertips

Keep one page profile/ project summary with you 

Learn tricks of “one page” business success strategies in the following post - http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/02/one-page-business-philosophy.html

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Why you need to have a Vision for your business

What is Vision?

Vision is a macro level perspective of your future business direction. It is summary of what all you are committed to provide through business and where you see your business years down the line. A strong vision should be capable of conveying the core capability and commitment in a string of few words.

Why need to have Vision?

It gives a direction to your vision

Helps you, your business partners and your employees keep focused and keep going in difficult times

Vision directly interacts with customers and helps make brand image

It helps orient different projects and assignments in the desired direction acting as a common tying element

Represents company culture

It’s a sticky element that lingers on to the memory of customers and help in word of mouth publicity 

To survive the tough business competition you should learn how to deal with business competition, discussed in the following article - http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/03/how-to-deal-with-business-competition.html

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Brighter side of partnership

Your partners validate your dream

They keep you rooted when you deviate to far from subject

They can help keep you rational when things go wrong

You feel lonely at times walking alone – having company is mostly fun 

You should know what precautions needed to be taken while forming partnership with close friends to avoid any future business complexity as discussed in the following post - http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/02/what-precautions-needed-to-form.html

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Top 5 problems faced by new business owners in providing customer service

New startups should be aware of traps of technical support to customers

Handling multiple contractors and coordination - a toll on time and resources

Unreliable contractors - Brand image at stake

Lack of uniformity in support services due to multiplicity of outsourced work

Poor workmanship by contractors - Difficult to meet the quality of services provided directly by Office staff

Not that profitable

Suggestions

Online and Telephonic customer services can be encouraged

Make a robust FAQ section, answering every possible customer queries,

Following article will answer youre all the basic queries about the customer service - http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/03/why-and-how-of-customer-service.html

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What is common between successful business owners?

They have strong feeling of ownership

They believe in their dream and product

They have focused passion for their business

They advocate their product

Learn how to materialise every Business Opportunity which comes your way in the following post - http://fromthediaryofmentor.blogspot.in/2012/02/never-miss-business-opportunity-again.html

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