PHP Developer in Bangalore

If you are reading this post, then you are well aware of what those terms SaaS and CRM mean. May be you are in the process to evaluate the best CRM system for your business. You are doing this because CRM from brands such as Salesforce, Sap or Microsoft is too complex for your medium sized business to fit in.

So which is the best SaaS based CRM for your business? Believe me, none of them are your best fit. Now you may think that this is baseless argument. Of course, it’s not. I am going to tell you the thoughts collected from various entrepreneurs during my freelancing from last 5 years. Read ahead, if you are interested.

Missing factor in SaaS based CRM system

Your company finds a sweet spot in the market by differentiating on how you serve the customers. This is directly dependent on how the company operates internally. In simple word, business process directly reflects the customer service. Better the business process at your company, best you serve your customers.

Now that said, most of the CRM available as SaaS focus on 3 key areas – Marketing, Sales Customer service. This is required by all the companies irrespective of their size. These CRM can be customized to a predefined extent to increase their relevancy to your business. But they real miss is the business process integration.

You may be motivated to start your freelancing career after reading blogs and speaking to other freelancers. Everyone advice you to have a personal website to promote you service. In fact they tell you that websites as your identify on the internet. But what they don’t tell you is how to make your freelance website such that clients come to you. This blog guide you to build one such website.

First impression is the best impression

Home page is the first page to visit by any new clients. Since you are completely new in their world, they willing don’t want to stay more than 20 seconds there. This means you have got just 20 seconds to retain them.  You can do that by introducing yourself in just a line or two. Below is a quick example of mine.

Also note to have a good tagline for yourself that would convince your customer to stay back and browse rest of your website. If you achieve it, you have won a client – of course not an extent to get a order placed.

Today I attend the Mobile Developer Summit in NIMHANS conventional center,Bangalore. This event was very well organized and was information filled. Mainly I liked two session of scott davis – One Web Many Screens , Mobile OSes : More than Android & iOS. I would write a post with collective of those two.

Here are key take away from the sessions :

1. Today users access you web app with many devices , hence one web & many screens . Giving the same user experience through out the device is challenging.
2. Apps must save it’s state on a device for every user  and resume back to the same state when switched between the devices
3. Apps must eventually learn it’s user behavior & get automated based on the same.
4. Apps can use GPS for location based automation
5. Apps must give instant activity updates across the device, across the OS, across the browser.
6. These days web has become a collection of different pieces which are loosely coupled.
7. Mobile devices can be integrated with other day-to-day machines like car.In fact car may be seen as a extension of mobile.
8. By next year the mobile OS spectrum may include few more OS like Tizen, Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch etc
9. Big companies are trying to take a pie of mobile market .However the approach may be different  – Market Share or Profitability
10. Mobile OS , Mobile Hardware & Apps store are 3 elements of a mobile industry. Owning all of them by a single provider gives more control & market share. Hence Google , Apple , Samsung , Amazon are aiming at it.

I have just covered the major points of the whole talk. I would write more about them some times later.

That’s being said….I like the way scott gives the presentation. Good and engaging…

As you all know I am a PHP Freelancer & Consultant in Bangalore & I use LinkedIn.com a lot. In fact I get most of my new clients in LinkedIn.com.

But, I do have a day job. Recently I saw a opening in LinkedIn.com & applied for it. And today I logged in to see  status & updates.Unfortunately I have found a security bug in LinkedIn.com. Below is the screenshot of the same.

Exactly what Happened ? 

Let me start off my saying PHP Developer is not a PHP Consultant. If you have ever worked with a PHP developer before, you may have noticed few annoying things – unrealistic development promises, absence of long term commitments etc. May be you have seen a PHP developer quitting the project in between or not responding to your calls for weeks together. If you think why it is so – I would say that’s why they are called PHP Developers.

Yes, that’s a basic difference between a PHP Developer & PHP consultant. The PHP consultants are oriented towards fact & time. They speak the hard truth no matter what would be after effect – facts are facts!

Being made a point above, that is not an only reason to choose a PHP consultant over PHP developer. If you have spoken to a PHP consultant before the way they put their thoughts are much different than PHP developer.PHP developer speaks in terms of what needs to be developed , but PHP consultant speaks in terms of what needs to be achieved & how it helps the business or client. PHP consultant take the “ownership” of the project they do – let me tell you ownership mindset come by hard way.

I just answered a interesting question on Quora –

How a web developer should keep him/her updated with latest web technologies?

You can read my answer to this below

Read Quote of Sachin G Kulkarni’s answer to Web Development: How a web developer should keep him/her updated with latest web technologies? on Quora

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.

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….