Archive for July, 2009

My Online Social Networking

How about automating the whole bunch of it? But what’s the point if I’m just gonna pose like a robot to my friends and colleagues. Then again how on earth am I going to find time for all 64 of them (ok, I admit. 64 is bit exaggerated).

Looking back at my approach to social networking for marketing a blog, I found out that being a human on social networking sites has helped me gain some exposure. What I had done wrong was to become impatient with the ‘time consuming stratergy’. Now here’s the dilemma, I really want to build a quality network around me at the same time I don’t want to spend hours and hours on social sites. There is no way out… is there?

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Posted by Ameen Aliyar on July 25th, 2009 6 Comments

My Route To Success From Failure

Good job I had this domain lying around. A tough ride, has it been my journey online so far. But wait, I haven’t given up yet. Not just yet.

It has only been just over a year since I first started registering domain names. I’ve always had this dream, that someday I could make big money online working from home. It still is a dream, unfortunately. Let alone big money, I have so far managed only a mere $10 from adsense. So recently I set myself the duty to look back few months and learn from the mistakes I’ve been making, at the same time to keep a weblog of my system debugging.

My uncle always used to say “Failures are the pillars of success” a famous saying I guess. A friend of mine recently reminded this with a more humorous substitute “Failures are the pillars of utter failures”.  Although I laughed at the time it manged to stick to my mind and taunt me at times.

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Posted by Ameen Aliyar on July 23rd, 2009 1 Comment