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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 –

Very recently, a business owner contacted me for SEO on his upcoming e-commerce site. Did you note it – it’s an upcoming site, which means that there is long way to go from design to development of the website. We had an informal talk, nothing much specific about SEO. I just listed different headings under off-page SEO. That’s it- we concluded our talk. “We will start the SEO soon” he said.

 

 

Hi every one,

As the title of the post says , it is a special day for me. This post is to show significance of it.

 

Last Saturday at around 9.00 PM I received a call from Aditya Patil, student evangelist for YourStory.in inviting me to a meet up at coffee day in basaveswar nagar. My Sunday was not yet planned; hence I agreed to attend the meeting.

If anyone is unaware of YourStory.in here is a brief on what they do. YourStory.in is a media company which covers news on business, particularly startups. They generally include intelligent and innovative startups in India. The site also has many articles and videos which are help full for an entrepreneur. In more simple words YourStory.in is TechCrunch for India.

Before I proceed to speak about meeting, I have to tell you how I got in touch with YourStory.in. That’s pretty simple in fact. You are supposed to fill an online form. This article YourStory Launches Student Campus Ambassadors Program has to guide you through the process.

After I resigned Real Bridge Consulting Pvt Ltd, I was ready to move back to my student life. I was waiting for my counseling and start of college. Besides this one more opportunity was waiting for me. It was not even two days after my resignation; few of the ex-employee of Real Bridge decided to quit the job to start their own. I was requested to have a friendly meet over a coffee. The talk was all about starting a new company and I was supposed to walk into the startup as web developer. I agreed to work for them, but as part time. Since it was a startup they said “That’s fine”.

The experience at Jars InfoTech was completely different. None of the things were organized. We were slowly setting up everything one by one. There was must to do but was waiting for the right time. I have to make few decisions on the technology such as programming language, e-mail system, hosting and domain and so on. That environment in the new office was full of fun. Since it is a start, I as a web developer had very less job. This gave me opportunities learn more, other than technology; most of the operations were transparent and discussed in groups.

Within few days of launching the company, we found a need for a company website. That was the first point of hurdle. We don’t have a designer yet in the company. Hiring a new one is not affordable and also it’s not easy to get one. After roaming around for a freelancer designer for a week or so, we gave up and decided to launch a company website with a free template. Availability of free template over internet is known to me much before and recommended it on the day one, but other people of the company said “let’s have our own design”. Finally one issue is solved.

After the introduction of object oriented approach in PHP, many keywords are being used in programming PHP applications. Few of them are straight forward as any other language and few others are just confusing. Today I am going to discuss such confusing elements of PHP OOP. Following is a quick list on what you find in this post.

• $this
• self::
• parent::
• static::

$this Operator in PHP

It is used to access the properties and methods of the same class inside a method.

Example:

class example1
{
public $name = "Sachin";
public function ShowName()
    {
      echo “ The Name is :  “.  $this->$name;
    }
}

The self:: operator

This is same as that of $this with a small difference. It is used to access propertis and methods in cases where both of them are declared with static keyword.