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Essential Skills You Need To Run An Online BusinessApril 11

I have always been a believer of the fact that to be successful in a business the only skills you need is spotting talent, convincing those with the talent to work with you and then managing them.

I am sure those are the most important skills for a person to succeed in business, be it an offline business or an online one. However, apart from that I think there are certain essential work specific skills which a person should possess that would allow him to run his business with greater efficiency.

Lets talk about an online business. It could be a blog, an e-commerce website, a membership site or an affiliate marketing business. If you have an idea related to any of these formats, you could just go out and hire people who could set up a blog or a website for you. So you see even the basic knowledge of things like HTML and FTP isn’t needed to get started.

But when it comes to running a business and managing day-to-day activities, it’s always good to have a basic knowledge of certain important aspects of your business.

For example, lets say you’ve got a Wordpress blog which brings in a good sum every month. You’ve hired writers for producing content and a tech guy to take care of any technical glitches the blog might come across som

History Of The Internet ( Video )March 24

Ever wondered how this amazing thing called the internet was created ? When and how the first time computers were connected to form a network ?

Here’s an excellent video I came across which answers those questions in about 8 mins. Check it out !

A Simple Trick To Fight Wordpress Comment SpamMarch 3

If you are running a blog which attracts a decent number of pageviews then comment spam is probably one of the things which you have to deal with on a daily basis. Of course we have Akismet, the old and trusted plugin which does a pretty good job in stopping Wordpress comment spam but still there are times when spam bots are able to dodge it and enter your main comments section.

Also, you might want to go through the comments moderated by Akismet to check if it has marked some genuine comments as spam. That’s what I used to do until a few days back when I found that Akismet was blocking around 3 to 4 thousand comments per day. Moreover, the number of spam comments which bypassed Akismet’s filters were increasing everyday.

Hence I started to look for a solution and that is when I came across this post by Shoemoney, where Jeremy talks about a plugin which closes comments on older posts since he found that those were the posts which were hammered by the spam bots. And that is what I found on my blog too.

Now the plugin is a pretty old one and hasn’t been updated since a long time. So if you are on the latest version of Wordpress then what do you do ? It’s actually quite simple. Just go to Settings - > Discussion and there you find that Wordpress already gives you that option. So n

2009 Blogger Appreciation Awards - Nominations OpenFebruary 26

Who doesn’t love awards ? And bloggers are no different. Being recognized for something you love to do is always a great feeling. So if you are a blogger who has been blogging for two months or more and would love to get more recognition then go ahead and nominate yourself at the 2009 Blogger Appreciation Awards organized by Cellphones.org.

You could also nominate your favorite blog and later vote for it once the voting is open. I expect Jeet Blog to garner a few votes at the time.

Here are the important dates to remember.

• Submissions Accepted until February 28th 2009.
• Voting until March 17 2009
• Final Results March 19 2009

And here are the prizes.

• 1st Prize: 1 year of your cell phone bill on us (Cell Phones . Org) - up to $1000
• 2nd Prize: Free cell phone of your choosing (does not include plan, just the phone).
• 3rd Prize: $100 off your your next purchase at Cell Phones .org - this is transferable and never expires.

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How To Get Started After Installing Wordpress - My WordCamp Delhi PresentationFebruary 23

India’s first WordCamp was held at Adobe’s offices at Noida, near Delhi on 21st and 22nd of this month. It brought in Wordpress lovers from all around the country along with some eminent people which included Matt Mullenweg, WP founder and Om Malik, editor of gigaom.com plus a celebrated blogger.

I was one of the speakers at the event and talked about certain things one should do after installing Wordpress to get the most out of it. The presentation was primarily aimed at the beginners who find themselves at crossroads after installing WP and are not sure where to start.

Here’s the presentation. You are free to download it and keep it for your reference.

How To Get Started After Installing Wordpress ( Wordcamp, Delhi )

The event fared quite well and the presence of Matt and Om further added to the excitement.

Here are my pics with Matt and Om. Thanks to my friend Rohit for taking them.