FAMOUS MALE CELEBRITIES AND THEIR SIDE BUSNESSES

Who does not want to be successful in their life but there are some persons who never get satisfication by getting success in one field, they are so capable that they can do multi things in their life.

Today I will discuss some of our famous and dear celebrities, who have a lot of income in the entertainment industry but still, they have mind blowing business minds. They are not only                     entertainers but running successful businessmen also.

Ashton Kutcher-Investor in Technology

In 2010, Ashton Kutcher invests in technology start-ups like Spotify, Uber, Fab, and Airbnb. Along with   he personally invested in Foursquare and Skype.

Justin Timberlake - Myspace

Myspace.com is a famous weekly network about people and entertainment. On 3oth June 2011, Justin Timberlake with US advertising agency purchased MySpace.com for $35 million. Timberlake is now co-owner of Myspace.

Kevin Costner – Ocean Therapy Solutions

Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, film director, producer, musician-singer, and owner of Ocean Therapy Solutions Company. This company separating oil and water.

Leonardo DiCaprio-Mobil

The famous movie wall of wolf street fame actor Leonardo DiCaprio is a co-founder of a website called Mobil. This is a photo and video sharing website.In 2013 it had 12 million users.

Edward Norton – Crowd Rise

Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, a filmmaker who support a lot of charities and causes,   but actually, he is a co-founder of Crowd Rise.

Clint Eastwood – Golf Club

He is a golfer and owner of the Tehama Golf Club. He is also invested in the world-renowned Pebble Beach Golf Links west of Carmel. He is also the owner of Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant in Carmel.

Steve Carell - Marshfield Hills General Store

One of my favorite move of Steve Carell is Dan in real life, he is an owner of Marshfield Hills General Store in Marshfield, Massachusetts. He bought it in 2009.

Armie Hammer - BIRD Bakery

Armie Hammer is an American actor opened BIRD Bakery with his wife Elizabeth Chambers in San Antonio, Texas. He opened it in 2012. BIRD Bakery famous for cupcakes, bread, sandwiches, coffee, and quiche.

Kevin Smith - Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash

 In 1997, Kevin purchased the comic book store in Red Bank, New Jersey for $30,000 and renamed it Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in 1997. 

Like Hollywood actors, there are some Bollywood actors who have their own businesses.

Ajay Devgan – Investor in solar project, Gujrat

Ajay Devgan is a part investor in the solar project located in Charanaka, Patan District in Gujarat which   is a joint venture between Roha Group, Ajay, and producer Kumar Mangat. The plant is functional from December 31, 2011, and was set up in a record period of eight months.

Shah Rukh Khan – IPL team

DDLJ fame actor Shahrukh khan who does not his name has an incredible sense of marketing. He is an owner of a production house called Red Chillies Pvt. Ltd. and owns IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders with a joint team of  Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta.

John Abraham - Fitness Franchise

He is an actor, producer co-founder of fitness franchise. He has a production house JA Entertainment, which produce a movie like Vicky Donor. He opens his fitness franchise with British boxing legend      David Haye that will focus on the boxing. 

Ronit Roy – Security agency

Famous TV actor and now very much known in Bollywood actor, Ronit Roy is the owner of a security service called Ace Security and Protection. Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Mithun Chakraborty like stars take the services from his agency.

Arjun Rampal - Lounge-bar-restaurant

Delhi base LAP lounge-bar-restaurant in Delhi spread over 17,000 sq. ft., designed by Gauri Khan, designers Tarun Tahiliani and Rohit Bahl owns by him. He is also the owner of an event management     firm called Chasing Ganesha.

Salman Khan – Being Human

Salman khan is CEO of a well-known NGO Being Human.

Sunil Shetty – Boutiques/ Gym

Sunil Shetty is one of the most successful businessmen in Bollywood. Although he does not become a superstar but he is the owner of various gyms across India. Beside his gym, he is also the owner of Mischief, a series of boutiques. Also, he has production house name Popcorn Entertainment and               security services.

Mithun Chakraborty – Chain of hotels

Mithun Chakraborty has been the first Bollywood actor who has started his own hotel business during his acting career. He is the owner of a chain of five-star hotels in Ooty, Maharashtra.

Dino-Mario – Chain Hotels

Dino-Mario is not much succeeded in his acting career but he has chain hotel in Mumbai.

Chunky Pandey – Restaurant

Last but not least Chunky Pandey is not a famous actor in Bollywood as he is in Bangladesh film            industry, But also he is the owner of a restaurant in Mumbai.

Really impressive, means they are not only working alcoholic people but also know how to value their time very well?

That’s all for today. Hopefully, you will find it interesting and put some impressive comments in below comment box. Also, comment with your email id in the comment box.Which is my favorite movie which I mention in this article and get a chance to win a smartphone.

HOW TO START CAB SERVICE BUSINESS?

Cab service as we heard about this we have some common names in our mind like OLA, Uber. No doubt going through vehicles like bus, local trains, autos in the local area is very old way, but OLA and Uber companies make it a need of daily routine, especially in metro cities these cabs use more than metros or own vehicles.

Some of the interesting statistics about cab service

• Almost 18 lakh population of Mumbai use cabs only for their work.
• The taxi industry includes about 7000 establishments with about $6 billion in combined annual revenue in the United States.
• There are around 450,000+ taxis in Europe, the USA has 300,000+ and China has 500,000+.

So no doubt this is one of a profitable and big business nowadays.

In this I will focus only on how to start a cab business, if you want to know how to start any business, then please read this article.

So keep the following points in your mind to start any cab business

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First step Research, if there I any requirement of taxis in your area. Check your competition, their growth, their services, their rates. You can do this online also through their websites. Remember if your area is a small town or village ten surely you cannot run cab service business but in big cities, there is always demand of the cabs.Make a list of services you can provide there are various types of cab services.

Kid’s taxi services: For working parents, you can start this service to drop and pick their kids to form school. Especially for those women who are a housewife and know how to drive can start this type of business.

Health taxi services: You need to tie up with your local doctors, and health professionals to run this type of business. You can drop and pick their patients or you can deliver also the medicines.

Water taxi services: If you how to do boating and you have a boat then you can start this business very easily.

Car rental services: As name describe you can give your cars on rent with some advance on weekly, monthly basis.

Limousine services: Everyone wants to enjoy the expensive cars and limousine is one of them, but this is true very one cannot afford it. No doubt the initial investment is really very high but the truth is it’s really a very profitable and long term investment.

Apart from this, you can offer airport shuttles or group/sharing transportation.

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Next the main component of your business Vehicles. If you have a small budget you can start with a single vehicle or if you have the plan to start with the big company then purchase vehicles, which are available for resale but in good condition. Choose them very carefully and buy them with all documents. There are so many websites and apps which offered such type of services like http://www.auto-m.com/, https://www.carwale.com/, http://www.euromobiles.com/, http://www.usedcarscanada.com/ and much more. While selecting vehicles, check properly that they are clean, guaranteed safe, proper registration papers, all documents like pollution certificate, insurance all you need a check. Some sellers sell including all this and sometimes you need to do all this by yourself. The thing is the main startup cost for this business is the vehicles and buying second-hand vehicles can save you money on the startup expense, but be careful if you choose wrong vehicles then it can cost you more than the new one. One major thing if you modify existing vehicles either new or used for taxi use, you need some changes on them like

• You need to paint them.
• Put your company logo on them.
• Special number plates.
• Develop software, apps or websites according to your requirement.
• Provide cell phones to keep in touch with your drivers.
• Provide uniforms for staff.
• If you have very big company then a call center for your customers.

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Prepare the Require documents, such as Business plan, Marketing plan, Expansion plan. Also, apply for a license to register your vehicle with your local department of motor vehicles. Get the insurance from reliable insurance companies, for example, United Insurance Company, Salama Islamic Arab Insurance Co, Tata AIG General Insurance Co. Ltd., HDFC ERGO General Insurance Co. Ltd, Keith Michaels PLC.

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Now Hiring Staff, Hire drivers, accountant, and other employees.

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Choose a location   that is accessible to all major routes in your area with enough parking spaces

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The last step Advertise your taxi service, as much you can online or offline. Advertise in the phone book, a local newspaper, with full of your services and contact details. You can put your contact details in your taxis also. List your taxi company to tourist websites. Start some loyalty schemes, referral programs. Give some good discounts and make some extra services for your registered users.

Set up social media accounts like in Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn extra.

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Except for the above mention way, three are some well establish companies like Uber and Ola allow to start your business under their name. Follow the following steps to work with cab companies in India as a freelance driver.

• Connect your current car in good condition.
• You need to show documents like Id Proof, Police Verification and PAN, UID, Bank Statements or Driving License to apply for cabs like Uber & Ola.
• Contact them and open a current account.
• Apply for Income Tax and Service Tax Number registration as it is required with these cabs company in India.
• After all these steps done company will give you a new smartphone with their app in a couple of days.
• They will inspect your documents and details and here you are ready to start working with them.

The other famous cab services all over the world are:

J21,Ace cab,Comfort taxi,Red Cab,AAA cab,Ascot taxi service,Lyft,Didi Dache,Top limo,Asociación Radio Taxi Iluchmajor Arenal,South Kerry taxi,Belek Transfers,Taxi Alessandro
Air trail

So, as other business ideas, this also require a lot of hard work and passion. But according to today demand, it is surely a profitable business.

That’s all for today. Hopefully, you are ready to drive now. But before that please share your comments the below comment box. 

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TWITTER

Twitter, Almost every person must familiar with this word nowadays because of the news ticker which always full of twitter trendsJ. Jokes apart, this is the one of the powerful medium of sharing your         opinion online. Although, it has only 140 character limit but still every big company has account with this social platform. The terminology used in it is very special like:

Twitter Handler: Account created in twitter know as twitter handler.

Tweet: The message posted by a user in the form of text, link, image or video.

Reply: Respond given to any one tweet.

Retweet: Retweet is to sharing someone tweet with your followers.

Like: Bookmarking the tweet you like.

Hashtag: Any word starts with # symbol without space, act as tags.

Mention: Someone use your username @username in their message, like mentioning you for some specific reason like asking a question. 

Some Stats:

Twitter is used as

Customer care (66%)	For purchase purpose (94%)	For Sales (69%)
Most of well establish companies take direct questions or complaints from their twitter handles.	Users purchase from SMB they follow.	Take orders directly with the help of @Reply or @DM

Tools use in twitter:

Twitter Toolbar: The top search bar is used to search any type of tweet, but make sure if you are looking for particular tweet then use #keyword, and if looking for a particular account then use @username.

Hashtags.org: As I told before #keyword is acted as tags in twitter and known as hashtags. Theses hashtags are managed by hashtags.org.

KeyHole.co: KeyHole.co is a search engine used to search for hashtags and keywords in twitter and Instagram.

Buzzsumo.com: This is another option, in which you can do a search according to the time frame like 24 hrs. Before, or past year. Best option to keep eye on your competitors and niche market and trending topics.

Tweetreach.com: This service is used to get a full report about your tweets, account or any specific keyword. It will tell your tweet reach to how many accounts and much more.

Yfrog.com:  This is image hosting service which shortens the URL(the web address which we type in the address bar of a browser) up to 140 characters so that, those can be tweet easily.

YouTube.com: You can share the direct link to videos from youtube in your tweets.

AudioBoom.com: Like YouTube, audioboom.com is used to share your audios on twitter in the form of links. These audios called podcasts.

Tweetups: Tweetups start with the hashtag. Basically, this a face to face meeting organize by a person   for individuals or group of people. These type of meetings convert your 140 characters long tweets to     full conversations.

Where exactly twitter is use in business?

Twitter is use to Generate Publicity about your products, services, brands or company. You can share products or coupons through tweets and your followers must consider your coupons at least for once. This can be used to increase Brand Awareness by tweeting at least 4-5 times per day.                                 Email Subscription is the latest feature, given by twitter so you can easily manage your subscriber lists. Yes, you can put subscribe button in your twitter account with the help of twitter cards and ask your followers to subscribe to it. These twitter cards give one-click signup button and if anyone clicks on   that button then automatically his/her email address added to your newsletter. Because of this, no one needs to fill out the form or confirm/activate the link. Also, you can drive traffic to your website or     blog by sharing your website or blog links.

Some other tips

• You follow me, I will follow you this is the key rule to get more followers on twitter. You can follow maximum 2000 users from one account.
• If you want quality and engage followers, find out the targeted keywords tweets. You can click on the favorite button of those tweets and ask them to follow you.
• Same like click on a favorite, you can offer something like eBook, information in the exchange of following you.
• Always be particular about your tweet created by you, it should be original and fit into your purpose. 
• Use headiness in the form of lists, how to, refer some famous personality, use keywords, so users get attracted easily.
• Tweet your content at least 4-5 times per day.
• Connect all your social platforms with Facebook, LinkedIn or blogs.
• Always track your results with Twitter analytics.
• Use Buffer App or hoot suite to share your tweets on other social media platforms.
• Optimize your Twitter bio.
• Organize whom you follow with lists and conversion lists.
• Create a Twitter landing page.
• Try to use google keyword planner while searching in twitter so you can get trending and top tweets in your search.
• Use social media tools, like Klout.com, Peerindex.com, Kred.com, Wefollow.com to check your score.

After all, this, if I say that twitter itself become a very powerful medium to grow your business then it is not wrong. 

Hopefully, you like the article. Please share your comments below comment box and give some more suggestions about how to use twitter properly? 

READ THIS BEFORE STARTING AN E COMMERCE WEBSITE/ONLINE SHOPPING CART

Nowadays, I am working on an e-commerce website http://dealsinemirates.com/,where you will found amazing deals on travel, hotels. Then I thought why not I share my knowledge about the concept of an e-commerce website or online shopping cart with my readers, so I just grab my coffee and start writing. Hopefully, you will enjoy it and post your comments on it.

Before starting how to set up an online shopping cart let me introduce what exactly the e-commerce website is? Let us assume you have a shop and you want to sell your products online or you are manufacturers like a fashion designer, handicraft designer, jewelry designer but shy to go door to door to sell your products, in these both cases you need an e-commerce website or online shopping cart. The products can be digital products like air tickets, hotel vouchers or physical products like we see the product range in amazon.com, souq.com, ebay.com, snapdeal.com and much more.

Let us start. I will explain essential steps you need to take, but the rules and regulations about licensing or registration of business will vary from country to country so you need to check those carefully. But I can assure if you follow the following steps with full dedication you will defiantly establish your e-commerce business easily.

The first step Search a name which suits to your product and a bit catchy so people can remember easily like myntra.com, themodernshop.ca, apple.com. The main objective of your business name is must be easily remembered by people.

The Second step secures your domain name according to your business name and secures your online space which is called hosting. For more information about what is hosting please refer my previous article Hosting Services for beginners.

My strong recommendations to book your domain and hosting services use ipage.com. I am working with this company from last several years and if you found any type of problem with these company you can mail me directly at prakritiaryan1@gmail.com.

The Third step to get a license, permit or you can say need to register your company with the government. As I say before this is not a fixed thing it varies from country to country. But some things are common like you need to get your employees identification number if you are hiring from another country you need to provide them employment visas, health insurances for employees, opening accounts for employees, must have office space. According to my thinking, the main difference is the registration fees which you need to pay to government or taxes else the name are different but the process is almost same. This step also clears your business structure like you want to start our business individual or in partnership extra.

Now Fourth step, a bit technical thing develop your online store which is also called e-commerce website. Now this is totally depend upon tour requirement, if you want your website fast then you can use website builders like shopify.com, where you can pay them on monthly basis like you rent a shop in your daily life, But if you want to become boss of your website so that you can make any type of changes or modifications in your website timely, then you must hire a web design company. An upcoming web design company is http://webartrix.com/, which not only in developing websites but also do the proper research for digital marketing. You can hire freelancers also but I will recommend going for a company instead of freelancer because to develop this type of website you need a graphic designer, coder, data entry operator, payment integration developer, QC and then for promotions digital marketer means a full team. If you hire all these in the form of freelancers may be there will be coordination problem among them or the ways of their working can be different which create confusion in your website and delay your work. So go for a company where a full team already work and you can get satisfied work.

Fifth step, when your website layout is done, with the features of responsiveness, beautiful and user-friendly. Start entering your products. Make sure the product you want to sell, you must be passionate about that product. Choose right vendors or dealers so that you can get products on time and price must be right o that you can also get proper margin or cut on every sale. Try to start with local vendors.The most expensive thing in e-commerce website is shipping of products so try to get some contract basis relationship with courier services. Because all payments will be done online so you must be careful about the payment method you choose. It must be secure as well must be in with cheap rates. The payment gateways you use are connected with bank accounts and they also take commission while transactions so keep this point in mind while choosing your payment gateway. Try to use the payment gateways which are easily available in your place like cashu.com, authorize.net, paypal.com, knet.com. Along with include other payment methods in a website like cash on delivery, Net Banking or e-wallet.

The Sixth step, now you are ready with your business licenses and website what next, to sell your products. Yes, this is the most exciting part of your business where you will start make money. You must start early marketing of your website like make social profiles, word of mouth, submit your website to online directories related to your product, Get registered with online manufacturers. You can increase your sales if you allow other sellers to make their own shops on your website and allow them to upload their products as well. You can get a commission from them to sell their products on your website.

Last but not least, you may found it’s a difficult thing at this stage but if you are passionate about your product, have the right team and using right software or tools, this can be a good option to earn money.

There is a very good book available on Flipkart, Electronic Commerce: From Vision To Fulfillment 3rd Edition 3rd Edition which can help you to understand what is e-commerce exactly? You can purchase it here

Hopefully, you like it please share your comments and opinion in the below comment box.

QUICK LOOK ON TOP 10 BUSINESS SOFTWARE AND TOOLS

Business, as all we know it’s not a single handed thing but a teamwork, in which we give some service, product, a solution to the people, so they can make their life easy or beautiful.

But, nowadays there is so many software available online or offline, which can help us, to run our businesses alone. These are in the form of virtual assistants, virtual executives, online databases or online tools. There are so many and very easily available, some are free and some are paid.

Here I will discuss, only ten main software which can act as a pillar of your business. But trust me if you go to do research by yourself you will found amazing software and tools. 

1) Accounting Software:  One of the important department of the business is accounts.Tally is an example everyone heard about it but now there are so many improve and advance accounting software are available in the market like Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho, Kashflow and much more. The features of these softwares are:

• Convert quotes into the invoices
• Track expenses, billable hours, bills
• Manage vendors, suppliers manufacturers
• Manage inventory, fixed assets

These software price range is from $0-$36, depends upon features and services taken by you. 

2) Backup and Recovery: Unfortunates are the part of the business and hard disk crash or fire in office are the most common accidents which happen in offices. But now do not worry about these type of things, because you have some amazing software available in the market which can help you to take the backup of your data and to recover any time. Some examples are NovaBackup, Acronis True, Genie, TurboBackup and much more. The features of these softwares are:

• Highest level of Encryption
• Cloud integration
• Full system imaging

These software price range is from $0-$100, depends upon features and services taken by you. 

3) Project management software: Business survives only on projects done by it. Nowadays time is everything and every client wants his/her project should be complete on time without any error, so this is one of most important software or tool of the business. Some of best project management softwares are Freshdesk, Confluence, Slack, Trello, Basecamp and much more. The features of these softwares are:

• Budget Management
• Team management
• File sharing,
• Easy to communicate with client as well team
• Client and admin can see work progress online
• Time and Expense Management

These software price range is from $0-$100, depends upon features, services and number of users taken by you. 

4) CRM: The full form of CRM is Customer Relationship Manager. Any software who can help you to manage your customers either in the form of sales, project tasks, marketing automation, support or help is known as Customer Relationship Manager.Some of the examples are Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP, Pardot, SugarCRM and much more. The features of these softwares are:

• Streamline the email marketing
• Give clean report to client
• Real-time data analysis and reporting.

These software price range is from $0-$100, depends upon features, services and number of users taken by you.

5) Database:  In simple words, a database is a group of tables, in which our data get stored. All our applications get to connect with these databases and retrieve the information according to a user request. MS-Access which comes with the Microsoft office is the most common and known database. But now, there are so many other databases which are available in the market with advanced features like Oracle, MYSQL, SAP, Teradata and much more. The features of these databases are:

• Intelligent optimizer to process queries
• Combine unstructured and structured data in a smart way
• High performance for transaction base application
• Security and Safety of data

These software price range is from $0-$100, depends upon features, services and number of users taken by you.

6) Email Application: Emails become the important part of our daily life, whereas in business this is the most important part of the marketing department. Although there are so may other ways but email marketing still have its position or importance in marketing, So keep this point in mind, developers develop so many email marketing softwares like Inky, Sendblaster Mozilla thunderbird, Opera Mail, Zimbra and much more.

The features of these softwares are:

• Built-in calendars
• Auto scheduling of sending mail
• Multiple email accounts
• Easy to use

These software price range is from $0-$10, depends upon features, services and storage space taken by you.

7) Remote access: Sometimes it happens, especially in startups or small businesses where you need to make your client happy at any cost, client give the changes and developer are missing. In these type of critical conditions where the work has to done on the urgent basis and the worker is not available, these remote access software is very helpful. These softwares allow anyone to use the device from the remote location. The other way around, we can use them for real-time editing or changes.  Some of the remote access softwares are Team Viewer, Remote Utilities, Ammyy Admin, Ultra VNC and much more. The features of these softwares are:

• Easy control of mouse and keyboard to a remote PC
• Bult in chat application
• Transferring files
• Cursor Tracking

These softwares price range is from $0-$500, depends upon features, services, and a number of computers taken by you.

8) Security Suite: Security is the major part of our life either offline or online and when we talk about business it becomes the critical need of our business.  Nowadays so many Internet security softwares ar available, who continuously monitoring our devices so that no virus or bug can affect them and steal any type of data. Some of best internet security softwares are Bitdefender, Norton Security, Kaspersky labs, Avast and much more.

The features of these softwares are:

• Antimalware
• Act as Firewall
• Scan all the emails
• Protect login and passwords
• Online backups

These software price range is from $0-$100, depends upon features and services taken by you.

9) Social Media applications:  nowadays, LinkedIn, twitter, Quora, Facebook and many more social media platforms where we need to market our products, services or solutions, so we can reach more users or customers. But when the point comes to post or follow on this platform it becomes a huge project. So to manage all these things there are so many software available in the market like ONEsite, Exo Platform, Hoot suite, Social engine and much more. The features of these softwares are: 

• Give access to all social platforms under one roof
• Auto schedule post, comments
• Follower tracking
• Comments & posts tracking
• Suggestion tools for comments and post creation

These softwares price range is from $0-$100, depends upon features, services, and a number of accounts added by you.

10) VOIP: VOIP means Voice over internet protocol, in easy words with this software we can do instant messaging, internet voice calls and voice conferring altogether. Some of the examples are Skype, Google hangouts, ooVoo, Viber, Jitsi and much more. The features of this softwares are:

• File or Screen sharing for online meetings
• Group video chats
• Serves multiple users simultaneous

These software price range is from $0-$10, depends upon features, services and number of users taken by you. 

There are some other software like calendars, instant messaging, blogging tools, website builders, and freelancer or workers providers and so on. Really want to grow your business without the help of so many people, go and include all these software in your business now.

That’s all for today, hopefully, you will like it. Please share your comments and opinions in the below comment box.

5 WRONGS RESPONSIBLE FOR STARTUP FAILURES

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5 TIPS TO START PART TIME BUSINESS

6 EASY STEPS TO START A BLOG

When I start, this blog I was not aware that I will come this far, 60 posts are finished today and I was not expecting even 6😊. Throughout my, this small journey I met so many people who have amazing skills either related to writing, art, poetry or have a marvelous knowledge about cooking, gardening which they can teach to the other people but they do not know how? Then I make my mind to write this article to encourage them to start their own blogs because according to me this is the best and cheapest platform where you can share your thoughts all over the world.

First, who can start the blog?

• The author of a book to promote his/her work.
• For those people who feels writing is passion.
• Want to show their art to the world in the form of image blog or vlog.
• A poet, who can write Shayari, with the every sip of coffee or wine.
• A knowledgeable person, who is always ready to share their knowledge with other people.
• A businessman, who wants to promote their products.
• You follow the daily news on regular basis.
• Make money from home

So if you are any one of above then you are welcome to the blogger community.

How to start a blog?

• Find out the reason for starting your blog
• Choose the domain name and hosting service
• Choose the blogging platform
• Make your blog beautiful
• Write the posts and make the pages.
• Market your blog

Let us discuss each point one by one.

1) Find out the reason for starting your blog: This is the main and most difficult step to start a blog but if you are a skillful person then this is the easiest step for you. Find your reason to start a blog, like you want to solve other problems, share your life experiences and teach them something new, entertain them with your poetry, video or writing. So this is the main step, once you finish this rest is very easy.

2) Choose the domain name and hosting service: Once you decide what is your reason, according to that decide your domain name. Basically, the domain name is your blog name or blog link, which you share with your followers or reader. For detailing of hosting services please visit the link Hosting services for beginners, where you can get full details about it.

Hosting services you will find paid and free both, but I suggest you use paid services because these paid services take tens of your dollars but give you fully support in the form of technically or other ways. Even if you are not a technical person they will set up a blog for you and give fully training.

Here I am recommending some hosting services, which I personally used from last few years.

Ipage.com

Click on any of link and it will redirect you to the hosting service.

3) Choose the blogging platform: Like hosting services, these are also either free or paid. But again I will recommend the paid one.

It is very easy to customize.

These are very cheap.

You can choose your designs according to your wish.

You get the blog in your own name.

You have totally control on your blogs.

Wordpress is the best option among the blogging platforms. You can get beautiful WordPress themes here.  Except this, you can use Blogger, Tumblr, Weebly and so on.

4) Make your blog beautiful: The next step to make your blog beautiful and more over user-friendly.There are some elements which you need to add in your blog.

Subscription box, with which visitors, can subscribe to your blog.

Comment Box, where visitors can share their opinions.

Author Information, if you have multiple authors.

Make sure you have catchy images, beautiful colors, and a responsive design which will fit on all devices. Try to avoid complicated technologies because remember your visitors coming to your blog only for your contents. There are certain WordPress plugins which are used for blogging like WordPress Popular Post, Post Hit Counter and more. Keen to learn WordPress contact me at prakritiaryan1@gmail.com.

5) Write the posts and make the pages: Design is done, now it’s time to real action. Make a post inside your blogging platform. Generally, you will find it in your dashboard with the label of ‘New Post’. Write your contents and publish them with suitable labels or tags. Actually, if you did all the above steps properly this is the easiest part.

6) Market your blog:  The last step to show your work to the world. At this point, you will get a link with your blog name, which you can share with your friends, relatives on Facebook, twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms. You can hire some marketing professionals also who not only market your blog but also get more and more visitors for your blog. Wordpress even have some special plugins which can use to market like tripwire.

Blogging is not only to show your passion about anything but also helps to make money, connect with new people through your comment box, increase your discussion or communication skills, helps other people with information sharing, makes you a better person, improve your writing skills and above all you get self-promotion.

Still, have any doubt mail me at prakritiaryan1@gmail.com, I will surely clear your doubts as much I can and as soon as possible.

So guys, be a good reader and post your comments below in the comment box so we can increase our argumentation skills.  

10 PROVEN WAYS TO FIND LEADS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

I already discuss with you how to start a company, or how to decide target audience for your business. Today we will discuss how we can generate leads for our business. I am sure you all heard about these but if you found something new or want to share something new please do comments in following comment box.

Twitter: Yes, twitter helps you to generate business leads as twitter has millions of users around the world so you can imagine. There are so many ways like use hashtags, search keywords related to your business, share the links, use images and videos, in short, do not make your tweets boring make it a bit interesting so the audience gets attracted to them. Along with learning properly how to use twitter cards or twitter. Search.or twitter. Search.

Infographic: what is an infographic? Information shows by graphics,. but its true you have seen so many infographics nowadays, check my previous post where I put infographics my favorite new year resolutions, it is not only entertaining but also easy to understand. Now how it helps to generate leads. Everyone use subscription or sign up forms on their website, try to put as much information you can put there beside the form and it will become your first infographic.Same if we sharing infographics in social media platforms they got more likes and shares rather than links or text.Think yourself how much links you share today?

Webinars: Another interesting way to generate leads, webinar means web base seminar, Where an organizer organize an online presentation and participants can attend his or her presentation through your computer, browser, speaker, and microphone from the home only. The only way to get register for participants to a webinar is their email address. In this way, an organizer can get easily email addresses of their niche customers in the form of participants.

LinkedIn: A research said 44% of business leads generate by LinkedIn. Everyone know that LinkedIn is purely dedicated to professionals either for jobs or business rather than other social media platforms. In LinkedIn, you can create your own or can send your posts to other groups. The main thing promotes your products only in your niche group for better results. Along with you can make your connections only with those you fit into your buyer’s profile. And this way you can easily get 500-1000 leads in the week for your business, as we know linked have almost 400 million users registered.

Use advanced technology/apps/tools for marketing:  As I mention before, infographics, webinars there are some apps or websites also who help in your marketing and save your time like email software, automatic publish your tweets or posts. Sendblaster is most commonly use for email marketing and HootSuite for automatic publishing.

Answer a question on Quora: With my personal experience I am telling you Quora is a very reliable source for lead generation. But make sure you are not there to promote your company links or blog links. You should give your honest and detailed answers so that you can get upvotes and people direct connect with you. Again, answers only those questions related to your niche market.

Offer Freebies:  Always offer some free software, ebooks, graphic icons or any type of freebies on your website, which can be downloaded by only get registered with your website by using the email address. There are some other ways like you can embed facebook likes, twitter followers or LinkedIn connects to download your freebies.

Live chats on the website: Live chats is the other way with which you can generate leads for your business, by making starting the chat session with a sign-up form like subscription form etc. In this form, you can ask for name, email address and interest of the customer to connect you.

These are some ways who can help you to get business leads, along with, last but not least SEO, Newsletters, Email marketing other social media like Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Interview influencers, Podcasts, Forums, Encourage happy clients to provide recommendations

Subscription boxes/landing pages, youtube videos are some other ways who can help you to generate business leads. Also the traditional methods like flyers, word of mouth, networking events where you exchange your business cards extra.

At the end, business is all over give those services to your customers which they relly need. And the key to a successful business is happy clients.

That’s all for today, hey guys please share your opinions in the below comment box.