When a new customer contacts me for a web development the first question they would prefer to ask:
Customer: How do you charge?
Me: Well, Rs X per hr or fixed amount for a particular website
Customer: Your charges are very high. What is the best price you can quote?
I just answered a interesting question on Quora –
You can read my answer to this below
User Profile has become a common aspect of all kind of website. Say it is a news aggregator, social networking, recommendation site, e-commerce or social gaming, the user profile plays a vital role. The only reason behind this is the sites known more about its users. In other words, analyzing this data will give a new business opportunity. The simplest example of this is to send a birthday greetings to the users with some discount on the product site sell.
OK, that’s enough. Now one knows how important the user data is. Let me speak about the user experience while you collect their data. Further of the post just deals with that!
Update : I had written a support e-mail after this post was published. Two days later LinkedIn had cleared this notification. But why this error happen is still a question in my mind.
From last few days I was trying out with Vtiger CRM which is an Open source CRM which got split from Sugar CRM. In fact even today few codes of Vtiger are used by Sugar CRM and vice versa. In Vtiger this has been clearly mentioned using comments. So we can identify the original author of the code.
The Vtiger make use of Smarty template as presentation framework. But the internal framework is bit clumsy. Since many elements of Vtiger make use of other open source projects the code is included as is. In other words for first time developer understanding the location of the codes is bit difficult.
Actually, I started to look into Vtiger to enter into Customization market. That’s the reason I suppose to look into these aspect of the system. But one thing which I must say is that it is very powerful CRM which is strictly build over OOPS concepts.
Being said that, I have few more things to say. There is a very less market for Vtiger in India. Yes, in Indian market Vtiger is not much adopted. Probably you may say adoption is very less in Asia too. In fact, according to an expert whom I spoke to, said me that automation has very recently started in India. So that’s the exact reason for the market status of Vtiger in India. Vtiger has a huge market in US and Europe. Many small and medium enterprises are in automation mode.
From last few days I have met people/businesses who are facing the problem with supply chain. The problem is not about the shipping or quality of the product …it’s all about the Stock Inventory.
Say you are running an E-commerce Retail business in a particular niche. Your customer orders a product on your website. Now you need to run to your vendor to check the availability of the stock. That’s where the problem resides. That’s because you don’t have the updated stock inventory of your vendor.
Of course your vendor provides his stock status on request. But every time you need to request for it. One more problem is that the stock status is sent in excel sheet. The structure of the excel sheet varies from vendor to vendor. Also your vendors will not be professional. They really don’t understand your technology , In fact they don’t want to !
So how is that big companies handling it ? Well, It may surprise you that there is no such automated system in place. Every business does it manually. Even Flipkart is no exception.
Hi every one… From long time I have not posted in my site.I was tied up with some task. So today I have changed few things in my site. May you have already noticed it by now….If not, navigate to all the pages from main menu….
Daughters Are Precious: Female Foeticide. Large-scale killing of girls before birth has led to a serious gender imbalance in the Indian population, and severe social problems as a result
According to the YouTube statistics as on 09-05-2012, this program (show) is popular among males between the age 25-34 , 35-44 and 18-24. You can also have a look at geographical distribution of viewer below
Many of you may be a website owner from many years. Even after a long existence you may be worried about the website because its user acquisition is miserable slow. You may be able to grab maximum of 60-100 users per month. Suppose this happens to be the status of your website, then you have landed up in the right place. This write up would suggest you few tips to make your site viral and acquire more users.
Before I move straight into tips, I would introduce the concept of virality over web. To explain the concept, let’s go offline for some time. Come out of your house/office to a busy road, look around you may see huge advertising board. Say you see an advertisement which is very funny then, very next day you tell that to your friend. That’s great! He again tells that to his friends and so on. The message goes viral so soon that at one point of time you find most of the friends in your circle know it.
Coming back to web, the story is same. People over web use social networking site, e-mails to recommend something to their friends. That means your website should support all of them in meaningful way.
This write-up is about thought process of the business owners. I have tried to put them together here. You may also discover solutions for a problem of same nature you are facing. So read on…
Many business owners ask very first question about SEO –
“Sachin, tell me….. How much time will it take to get my site on first page of Google?”
The immediate answer I would be give them –
