Do you need a website, or a blog?

Short version: the two are the same. But there ‘is’ a difference between a website and a blog, and you’d be better off knowing that difference. Some basics: When you put up web presence for your business online, you do it via a web host. That is web...

Understanding Blogstarta

I’m a blogstarta, make no mistake. I love blogging and have been at it since the day it was born. Literally. I have been blogging since the time John C. Dvorak called blogging the best thing since CD ROM. And www.blogstarta.com is the perfect domain name for...

The Newspaper Man

The newspaper man is not happy. The global newspaper industry is considered by many to be technically dead. The problem that caused this almost-sudden death is said to be the change in people’s preferences. More people are tuning online to get their news fix....

What a Pakistani can learn from an Indian entrepreneur

I was reading an article on Techcrunch and it occurred to me that the article had some very concrete lessons to teach anyone willing to either start, maintain or grow his or her enterprise. The article was about a company from India, but I read it like a lesson in the...

Let your calendar be your boss

It is about choices, never forget that. So, choose that you will let your calendar be your boss. You will let it tell you what to do. You will listen. Being someone who is ‘unemployable’ (i.e. self-employed), you find it hard enough to cancel important...