Archive | July, 2006

Google — Make me unhappy. Please!

Com’on Google! Do somethng to make me unhappy so that I can make some noise about it and then you can send me some goodies like you sent to Kirb! No Seriously, I mean it! [...more]

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AdSense is slowing down your site — what to do about it.

Do you realize that AdSense is actually slowing down your site. Studies have shown that people will give you just give you a few microseconds before they decide if they want to read your page (on which they spend no more than 10 seconds). The reason why your pages slow down when AdSense is placed on [...] [...more]

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A really inspirational quote from Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity.

I just finished reading Richard Branson’s autobiography - Losing My Virginity and boy I couldn’t be feeling more inspired. Though each page of this book was uber-inspiring and makes you want to get off your ass and repeat Mr. Branson’s success but it was just one line which really pushed the button for me. There is an [...] [...more]

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WordPress 2.0.4 is out.

Man! First of all in the morning my VPS had a small glitch and sites were down while ServInt migrated me to another server. Now as soon as I am done uploading WP on a few of my sites, a new version comes out — WordPress 2.0.4. But Kudos to WP team for releasing a new [...] [...more]

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AdSense GeoTargeting screwed up?

No doubt the owner of that site would be wondering why he isn’t making any money! :p Show me ads in Hindi or Punjabi, I might click. But ads in Chinese to an Indian guy? Uhm. Probably a bad idea. [...more]

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Can you Think Outside the Box like these 10 People did — and made some Solid Money.

So what is the most important aspect of succeeding in business? One answer which I hear the most often is - Thinking Outside the Box! I beg to disagree. In my opinion, the most important aspect of succeeding in business actually composed of three things – 1. Thinking outside the box. 2. Executing an idea. 3. Forcing that idea [...] [...more]

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Do you have an eMail signature?

Here’s the eMail signature that gets attached to each of the message that goes out of my address. Lord Brar, CEO and Co-Founder, IA9 Holdings. Read my personal blog at : http://www.streetlessons.com eMail : lord@lordbrar.com Phone : +91.******** / +1.646.***.**** / +91.141.***.**** Legal Disclaimer : This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential to IA9 Holdings and subject to legal privilege. [...] [...more]

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Is it time to fire your agency?

iMedia Connect has come up with a nice report about if it is the time you fire your agency – 1. Lack of passion 2. They don’t know your business 3. You’re getting the B team 4. Ideas they cannot execute 5. They have no related clients 6. High agency staff turnover 7. You’re the biggest client 8. You’re feeding your own ego 9. [...] [...more]

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What is a good domain name? Take the BillBoard Test.

While reading SERoundTable today, I came across this post which pointed to a WMW thread. In there, there was a quick checklist to see if you own a high-quality domain. 1) Easy to remember, because drivers won’t be able to write them down. 2) No hyphens or non dot-com TLDs - drivers will forget hyphens, and probably [...] [...more]

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How firefox screwed me up today and ServInt managed to save my ass.

FireFox screwed it up for me today. I mean it literally screwed it up. That f*cken’ memory leak issue totally screwed it up for me and I am damn mad. Most probably Opera is gonna get a brand new user today. Here is what happened — Remember that long post about how to start your [...] [...more]

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