http://abdulvasi.com Perspectives at the speed of thought.. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:31:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://abdulvasi.com/irrefutable-laws-of-marketing-and-sales-you-should-remember/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irrefutable-laws-of-marketing-and-sales-you-should-remember http://abdulvasi.com/irrefutable-laws-of-marketing-and-sales-you-should-remember/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:31:08 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2385 Marketing stands at the epicenter of every business. It’s so important that virtually no business ever exists without marketing running through the very spine of your business. Whether you like it or not, marketing is central to your business. As such, here are some golden principles that will guide you to sell, pitch, or send [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/irrefutable-laws-of-marketing-and-sales-you-should-remember/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/questions-you-should-ask-as-your-customers-would-while-running-a-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-you-should-ask-as-your-customers-would-while-running-a-business http://abdulvasi.com/questions-you-should-ask-as-your-customers-would-while-running-a-business/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:44:14 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2381 Setting up a business is easy; running a hugely profitable business is the hard part – the kind of thing that gives you sleepless nights, makes you harder than you ever did, forces you to think creatively, urges you to find creative solutions to everyday problems your customers have, and literally forces you to question [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/questions-you-should-ask-as-your-customers-would-while-running-a-business/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/3-reasons-training-your-staff-is-pivotal-for-your-profits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-reasons-training-your-staff-is-pivotal-for-your-profits http://abdulvasi.com/3-reasons-training-your-staff-is-pivotal-for-your-profits/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:04:02 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2353 Four out of five companies – especially small businesses – don’t spend any time or efforts in training their employees. People are hired and they are left to work for themselves. It appears that everything else is fine until either employees burn themselves out or when they are fired. No matter which way you look [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/3-reasons-training-your-staff-is-pivotal-for-your-profits/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-enthusiastic-in-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-enthusiastic-in-business http://abdulvasi.com/the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-enthusiastic-in-business/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:01:15 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2349 To have a successful business, there ought to be a degree of thirst. In satiable appetite to get more, do more and aim for more. Sadly, most business owners are fraught with daily operations so much that none of the above mentioned traits come to the fore. Plenty of case studies exist to prove that [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-enthusiastic-in-business/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/4-must-haves-for-your-outdoor-advertisements/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4-must-haves-for-your-outdoor-advertisements http://abdulvasi.com/4-must-haves-for-your-outdoor-advertisements/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:20:52 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2344 On an expressway, with speeding cars and high risks associated with taking eyes off the road, outdoor hoardings or billboards have their tasks cut to the bone. It’s getting more and more difficult to keep wayfarers interested in your ad and perhaps even make it work. To get the most off your billboards and outdoor [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/4-must-haves-for-your-outdoor-advertisements/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/how-sequential-planning-and-execution-works-wonders-for-business-owners/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-sequential-planning-and-execution-works-wonders-for-business-owners http://abdulvasi.com/how-sequential-planning-and-execution-works-wonders-for-business-owners/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:19:15 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2342 Do you have too much to do and barely anytime to execute? Have you been piling up ideas on your table but didn’t inch forward to make even one single idea come to fruition. Do you feel that you are swamped with work every day? The reason all of that happens is lack of planning [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/how-sequential-planning-and-execution-works-wonders-for-business-owners/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/3-biggest-time-wasters-for-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-biggest-time-wasters-for-entrepreneurs http://abdulvasi.com/3-biggest-time-wasters-for-entrepreneurs/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:50:02 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2338 Entrepreneurs or small business owners are all always hard-pressed for time which in turn means money, doesn’t it? However, time is abused relentlessly and much of this abuse happens either because small business owners tend to neglect the true value of time or too many external factors because time delays that these entrepreneurs don’t have [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/3-biggest-time-wasters-for-entrepreneurs/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/4-elements-your-branding-must-have-to-help-in-conversions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4-elements-your-branding-must-have-to-help-in-conversions http://abdulvasi.com/4-elements-your-branding-must-have-to-help-in-conversions/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:21:51 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2334 Branding is a big thing – at least most of the Fortune 500 companies and scores od ad agencies would make you believe so. However, if you look at it all closely, you will realize that it is really common sense. Simple things often lead to phenomenal changes in the world of branding and it [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/4-elements-your-branding-must-have-to-help-in-conversions/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/3-q-a-sites-you-should-be-on-if-you-are-a-business-owner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-q-a-sites-you-should-be-on-if-you-are-a-business-owner http://abdulvasi.com/3-q-a-sites-you-should-be-on-if-you-are-a-business-owner/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:10:17 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2329 Q & A sites – a part of social search — are a growing trend on the Internet today and provides immense leverage for entrepreneurs looking to promote their products, services or businesses. Users ask relevant questions on these sites waiting for experts (or other users) to answer their queries. Business owners too can leverage [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/3-q-a-sites-you-should-be-on-if-you-are-a-business-owner/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/explorative-ways-to-find-new-business-ideas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=explorative-ways-to-find-new-business-ideas http://abdulvasi.com/explorative-ways-to-find-new-business-ideas/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:07:03 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2326 Have you been looking for some great business ideas? Did you feel the pinch for not being able to come up with some really awesome and profitable business ideas to start your entrepreneurial journey? There are some cool ways to explore and find business ideas effortlessly (Ok, there’s no such thing as no effort!). Here [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/explorative-ways-to-find-new-business-ideas/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/why-should-you-spend-time-with-social-search/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-should-you-spend-time-with-social-search http://abdulvasi.com/why-should-you-spend-time-with-social-search/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:46:55 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2315 If you have been online for any length of time, you would understand the power of the Internet for businesses. The only thing you will need, after your website has been put up and is live, is targeted traffic. One amazing way you can leverage more traffic for your website is to tap into the [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/why-should-you-spend-time-with-social-search/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/how-the-tables-for-marketing-have-been-turned-around/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-tables-for-marketing-have-been-turned-around http://abdulvasi.com/how-the-tables-for-marketing-have-been-turned-around/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:26:49 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2308 Every MBA who passes out would be familiar with the term “Marketing Mix” which basically defines the basic characteristics of a marketing plan which begins with the 4 Ps of marketing: Product, Price, Place and Promotion. This would have been true for many companies earlier but things have been changing rapidly for marketers. This is [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/how-the-tables-for-marketing-have-been-turned-around/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/how-to-dazzle-your-prospects-for-better-sales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-dazzle-your-prospects-for-better-sales http://abdulvasi.com/how-to-dazzle-your-prospects-for-better-sales/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:24:30 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2306 All too often, most entrepreneurs fail to make a favourable impression when they are out pitching their products and services to prospects each day. Meeting new prospects is an effort and it shouldn’t go wasted. How then should a small business owner leave an indelible impression in the minds of prospects? How should an entrepreneur [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/how-to-dazzle-your-prospects-for-better-sales/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/peeping-into-the-life-of-an-internet-entrepreneur/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peeping-into-the-life-of-an-internet-entrepreneur http://abdulvasi.com/peeping-into-the-life-of-an-internet-entrepreneur/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:39:20 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2302 An entrepreneur’s life is one big irony – you set out to do something you thought you love to do but then realize that it was far more tough and back-breaking than your normal day job. If you hadn’t loved being on your own so much, you really wouldn’t survive the vicissitudes an entrepreneur’s life [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/peeping-into-the-life-of-an-internet-entrepreneur/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/does-your-website-have-what-it-takes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=does-your-website-have-what-it-takes http://abdulvasi.com/does-your-website-have-what-it-takes/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:23:16 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2299 Needless to say, websites like are oxygen for your business. Try and survive without it and you can just book your morgue. Thinking of an existence in an information thirsty era like the one we are living in without a website is akin to asking for your ticket to the game of doom. Just what [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/does-your-website-have-what-it-takes/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/top-5-financial-reasons-why-businesses-fail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-5-financial-reasons-why-businesses-fail http://abdulvasi.com/top-5-financial-reasons-why-businesses-fail/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:19:16 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2295 Businesses fail, don’t they? You would have seen a million articles throw numbers and statistics at you — I wonder where these numbers come from — like 95% of businesses fail in the 1st year alone and so on. The veracity of those numbers is hard to nail at, but one thing does stand out: [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/top-5-financial-reasons-why-businesses-fail/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-2 http://abdulvasi.com/a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-2/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:50:01 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2290 We were talking about following a risk-free approach to getting rich in a few steps that are real. These are all going to happen to you on the way to ‘Rich-Dom’. If you haven’t read the previous post, please read A Step-by- Step Approach to Get Rich without Risk- Part 1. Moving on: Step 4 [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-2/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-1 http://abdulvasi.com/a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-1/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:50:39 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2285 Let’s try to get used to the fact that “Cash” is going to be the only thing on your mind for a long time to come. Don’t even tell me that you don’t intend to get rich. If you do, you might have to kindly stop reading this. I would have love to say mushy [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/a-step-by-step-approach-to-get-rich-without-risk-part-1/feed/ 1 http://abdulvasi.com/how-to-get-rich-by-not-working-at-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-get-rich-by-not-working-at-all http://abdulvasi.com/how-to-get-rich-by-not-working-at-all/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:50:12 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2280 Now that we got your attention, we’ll talk some sense. First, you’ll have to work; else you won’t see the dough. However, becoming rich isn’t some rocket science and all it takes to make it big is to plan properly. Now, since is planning is boring and calls for a protocol, most people don’t bother [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/how-to-get-rich-by-not-working-at-all/feed/ 0 http://abdulvasi.com/advertising-is-dead-try-this-instead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advertising-is-dead-try-this-instead http://abdulvasi.com/advertising-is-dead-try-this-instead/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:29 +0000 Abdul Vasi http://abdulvasi.com/?p=2274 Entrepreneurs or small business owners, marketing managers and those associated with product development, sales & marketing and anything that comes close to anything to do with the customer buying the product might not like to know this: your advertisements aren’t going to work as well as they should. Am I kidding? Advertisements had a charm [...]]]> http://abdulvasi.com/advertising-is-dead-try-this-instead/feed/ 0