My online business grew and expanded by accident. There was no plan or method to it for a very long time. Only lately have I tried (only with partial success) to structure it to be more organized and to leverage on the strength of its many parts.The benefits of planning and structuring your […]

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Yes, I do.

The overall sentiment on ‘drmani’ at Twitter is great
How’s yours?  Take a look and see.

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When you get started with an online business, one of the first questions to answer are these:

What will I sell?
Whom will I sell it to?
And how?

There are some who gloss over this stage and move on to the action steps. Unless you are very lucky, chances are you’ll find out (after many frustrating days, […]

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For the next 10 days, I’m going to blog about online business basics.
This will be useful content for anyone starting out to launch a business on the Internet.
Over this 10 day period, I’ll be watching to see how many people comment on each post, and how many emails I get in response.
If this figure is […]

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Cricket is a sport that drives people in my city crazy.
In the 1970s, our home stadium had a unique feature - the pitch would crumble on day #4. This means a ball bowled in the right direction could hit one of those worn out patches and veer grossly off-track, leaving the hapless batsman with […]

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On December 4th, 2007, I looked into my crystal ball and made some bold predictions for 2008.
It’s 6 months later, and I thought it would be fun to take a look and see how close to the mark (or off it) my rambling thoughts have been!
I predicted “Social media overload”.
It’s happening. And it’s actually […]

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On my evening walk yesterday, I saw an unusual number of tiny tots between ages 2 and 5 playing.
A little 3 year old girl was driving her tricycle, holding on to mom’s hand. A stumbling young boy who couldn’t have been more than 2 was running around his front yard, […]

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My wife’s visiting her parents and took our daughter along. I’m missing them a lot… but also see the silver lining. With 2 ladies out of the way, I’m seizing the chance to clear out a lot of the junk cluttering up closets and storage space.
Where I’d hear objections right and left, I […]

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Pallipattu is a small township on the border of 2 states in South India.  In 2006, I met a young man from the town with a burning desire to succeed.
He was raised by his widowed mother, who cleaned houses to earn an income to support 3 children, leaving little to fund her son’s dream.  So […]

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Today, I asked a business owner if he would rent me the use of his list of postal mailing addresses of prospective JV partners.
We operate in the same niche, and having such a list would save me some time and expense of having it compiled from data (that is publicly available anyway).
He replied to explain […]

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