FOURDY Wlog Expressing the unexpressed!

Does the idea of starting your own business seems like a dream come true?

Although being self employed and owning a business provides one with several financial and personal freedom, but these paybacks only kick in when the business you are running gets conventional and established. Starting your own business requires lot more than what one has always thought or heard of — to just get your business off the ground, you will find yourself probably spending more time than you had ever imagined or spent on anything else. This phase of the start-up business is very critical for it takes an entrepreneur through an assessment of his acumen and well positioned endurance. As we think that quitting a 9-5 life and starting own business is a relaxation, let me bring to the knowledge of all that it’s not uncommon for the new business owners to undergo compounded hardships while working to build a successful business.

Before you run out and decide to be your own boss, there are 5 questions to be answered for yourself. Although it would be tempting for one to lie to all these question, but it’s essential that you be brutally honest with yourself.

Read the rest of this entry »

Amidst of all discussion happening to save non-renewable resources why isn’t anyone thinking of web space? Where do you classify the webspace? Do you think you can go on and on and on putting anything over the internet?

With this though, I (as a web designer,) decided to optimize the size of all graphics that I use to build my webpages. For doing so, I came across many ways to do it and many tools which help you do it. I am listing the 6 excellent tools to do so.

Non-techie people can also use it while mailing/uploading photos taken from Digital Camera – which are generally huge in size!

See the tools now »

Are you often confused between .gif and .jpeg extensions when you are deciding a file format for your web images? Great! You are looking at the right place for a solution. 

Fundamentally, both of these formats compress an image to make it web worthy. Any file with a .jpeg or.gif extension is recognized as an image file by a browser. Only when a site loads quickly into a browser we tend to declare it good in spite of the best functionalities operating otherwise. Agreed? Therefore, it is necessary that the file size of the web page remains small.

Here are stated few points that one needs to know about JPEG & GIF: (a subtle reminder for those tech people who know it )

Read the rest of this entry »

Are you forever racing against time to meet deadlines? Does your most common refrain happen to be “so much to do and so little time”? If you have answered in affirmative to both the questions, there are also chances that you just can’t get through that to-do list stuck neatly to your workplace or set on your mobile phone. The unfinished tasks that you are not able to complete from a long time are overwhelming you and are also jeopardizing your career . Time is your most precious resource today, because it is limited. So, Time management is what I suggest.

How to get the most out of your time?
From my last month’s experience I will recommend you to leverage and audit your time. NO, it definitely doesn’t mean spending more time to manage time!

Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since the time in memorial I used to wonder that what could be the key points to a business making an unremitting success all the way its existence? Little did I know or had I ever realized that any economic process, not necessarily only significant to money making, had to have some checkpoints before they actually become ‘successful’.

Just few days back when I pondered upon this issue to draw away the conclusion to the ever existing question of my mind, was when I jotted down these “5 Golden Do’s” that should be embraced by any business process to flourish.

Once you reckon this out, you can convert the ultimate challenge into the ultimate opportunity.

Read the rest of this entry »