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books by Llewellyn Publications
Grimoire for the Green Witch: A Complete Book of Shadows
Ann Moura
Llewellyn Publications, 2003
The author of the popular Green Witchcraft series presents her personal Book of Shadows, designed for you to use just as she uses it-as a working guide to ritual, spells, and divination. This ready-made, authentic grimoire is based on family tradition and actual magical experience, and is easily adaptable to any tradition of Witchcraft. Grimoire for the Green Witch offers a treasury of magical information- rituals for Esbats and Sabbats, ...
Easy Tarot: Learn to Read the Cards Once and For All!
Ciro Marchetti
Josephine Ellershaw
Llewellyn Publications, 2007
Created especially for beginners, the Easy Tarot kit is the easiest way to learn to read Tarot cards. In the Easy Tarot Handbook , author Josephine Ellershaw shares tips, shortcuts, and time-saving techniques gained from more than thirty years of experience reading Tarot cards. Using the beautiful Gilded Tarot deck, you'll learn how the seventy-eight cards link to one another and provide insight as their unique energies merge in the ...
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications, 1989
Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca ...
Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body
Melanie Klein
Anna Guest-Jelley
Llewellyn Publications, 2014
In this remarkable, first-of-its-kind book, twenty-five contributors—including musician Alanis Morissette, celebrity yoga instructor Seane Corn, and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried—discuss how yoga and body image intersect. Through inspiring personal stories you'll discover how yoga not only affects your physical health, but also how you feel about your body. Offering unique perspectives on yoga and how it has ...
Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn's New Age Series)
Anodea Judith
Llewellyn Publications, 1987
As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, the chakras offer unparalleled opportunities for growth, healing, and transformation. Anodea Judith's classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 200,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, and a new section on raising children with healthy chakras. Wheels of ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Witches' Datebook
Magenta Griffith
Elizabeth Barrette
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
Today's busy Witches can stay on top of it all—the magical and the mundane—with Llewellyn's Witches' Datebook , now featuring enchanting illustrations from award-winning artist Kathleen Edwards. Add a little magic to each day and keep pace with the ever-turning Wheel of the Year with this indispensable, on-the-go tool. You'll find fun, fresh ways to celebrate the sacred seasons and enhance your practice—inspiring Sabbat musings (Deborah ...
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)
Raymond Buckland
Llewellyn Publications, 2002
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft has influenced and guided countless students, coven initiates, and solitaries around the world. One of modern Wicca's most recommended books, this comprehensive text features a step-by-step course in Witchcraft, with photographs and illustrations, rituals, beliefs, history, and lore, as well as instruction in spellwork, divination, herbalism, healing, channeling, dreamwork, sabbats, esbats, covens, and ...
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Llewellyn's Sourcebook Series) (Cunningham's Encyclopedia Series)
Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications, 1985
Do you work magic with herbs? Do you use them in spells, for talismans or simply use their innate powers? If you don't have Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, you need to get it right away. This book has become a classic in its field. Paul Beyerl, a respected author on herbs calls it "…an essential reference book by students of herbalism and magick alike … Scott's personable charm touches every page… I highly recommend this ...
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Michael Newton
Llewellyn Publications, 1994
Learn the latest details and most recent groundbreaking discoveries that reveal, for the first time, the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on Earth—proof that our consciousness survives—in Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, Ph.D. Using a special hypnosis technique to reach the hidden memories of subjects, Dr. Newton discovered some amazing insights into what happens to us between lives. Journey of Souls is the record of ...
Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small
Ted Andrews
Llewellyn Publications, 2002
Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world. Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirit guides by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world. Animal Speak shows you how to: identify, meet, and attune to your spirit animals; discover the power and spiritual significance of more than 100 ...
Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Michael Newton
Llewellyn Publications, 2000
A pioneer in uncovering the secrets of life, internationally recognized spiritual hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Newton takes you once again into the heart of the spirit world. His groundbreaking research was first published in the bestselling Journey of Souls , the definitive study on the afterlife. Now, in Destiny of Souls , the saga continues with 70 case histories of real people who were regressed into their lives ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac: Holidays & Lore, Spells, Rituals & Meditations
Barbara Ardinger
Elizabeth Barrette
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
Spells and Rites for All 365 Days of the Year Transform each day into a magical one with the daily spells in Llewellyn's Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac . Spellcasters of all levels can enhance their daily life with these easy yet powerful bewitchments, recipes, rituals, and meditations. The 365 spells are conveniently cross-referenced by purpose, including love, health, money, protection, home and garden, travel, and communication. ...
The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)
Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications, 2002
One of the secrets of real magic is that it is controlled by the mind. The more things in your ritual to help your mind associate with your goal, the more powerful your ritual may be. Colored candles, scented oils, natural incenses, and more all add to the impact of the magic you wish to do. But how do you know which incense to burn? Is it possible to add scented oils together to get a more powerful oil? And how do you make your own ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living (Llewellyn's Magical Almanac)
Magenta Griffith
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
Featuring favorite authors Ellen Dugan, Mickie Mueller, Susan Pesznecker, Emily Carding, and dozens more! Inspiration For Your Magical Journey Filled with practical spells, rituals, and ideas for invoking the power of the elements, Llewellyn's Magical Almanac has been inspiring all levels of magical practitioners for over twenty years. Discover over three dozen fabulous articles, grouped by element. Organize your life with a ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Astrological Calendar: 82nd Edition of the World's Best Known, Most Trusted Astrology ...
Bruce Scofield
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
The 82 nd Edition of the World's Best Known, Most Trusted Astrology Calendar Plan Your Year Wisely Discover comprehensive and inspiring astral wisdom with monthly horoscopes, an astrology primer, and gorgeous original artwork by Christine Mitzuk. Featuring horoscopes for each sign by Lesley Francis, and: A guide to the planets, signs, houses, aspects, and transits Travel forecasts by Bruce Scofield Best days for ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Witches' Calendar
Barbara Ardinger
Elizabeth Barrette
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
Witchy Wisdom for the Cycle of Seasons Weave a little witch-inspired magic into your life with a bestselling calendar that has been enchanting Wiccans and Pagans for over fifteen years. Honor your personal connection to the Earth and the gods and goddesses with magical spells, correspondences, planting and harvesting dates, invocations, and an abundance of folkloric wisdom. Original art by Kathleen Edwards and enchanting essays, spells, ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Moon Sign Book: Conscious Living by the Cycles of the Moon (Llewellyn's Moon Sign Books)
Penny Kelly
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
The number one lunar guide to natural living since 1905 Plan your year with the moon's energetic wisdom For more than one hundred years, Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book has helped millions take advantage of the Moon's dynamic energies. Use this essential life-planning tool to choose the best dates for almost anything: getting married, buying or selling your home, requesting a promotion, applying for a loan, traveling, having surgery, ...
Wicca for Beginners: Fundamentals of Philosophy & Practice
Thea Sabin
Llewellyn Publications, 2006
"In her first book-length work, Sabin presents a first-rate, fresh, and thorough addition to the burgeoning field of earth-based spiritual practice volumes...written in a light, informative style that magically mines depth, breadth and brevity."--Publishers Weekly, starred review Due to the sheer number of Wicca 101 books on the market, many newcomers to the Craft find themselves piecing together their Wiccan education by reading a ...
Llewellyn's 2015 Sabbats Almanac: Samhain 2014 to Mabon 2015
Denise Dumars
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Llewellyn Publications, 2014
Festive Sabbats for You and Yours Pagan Folklore • Rituals • Crafts • Recipes • Planetary Guidance Now in its sixth year, the Sabbats Almanac features a wealth of recipes, rituals, craft projects, and lore. Filled with over fifty articles by your favorite Wiccan and Pagan writers, Llewellyn's 2015 Sabbats Almanac provides welcome ideas and insights into each holiday on the Wheel of the Year. Plan spiritually uplifting ...
The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot
Johannes Fiebig
Evelin Burger
Llewellyn Publications, 2013
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's most popular tarot deck. The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot details the ten most important symbols on each and every card in the deck complete with hundreds of illustrations for easy use. In addition to an explanation of the symbols, each card is given a brief interpretation by topic: • Primary meaning • Prognosis or tendency • Spiritual meaning • Love and ...
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New Yorker Hotel Joins Wyndham Brand
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NEW YORK—Wyndham Hotel Group welcomed the New Yorker Hotel to the company's upper-upscale Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand. With 1,083 guestrooms, the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel becomes the largest property in the brand's portfolio.
The addition of Wyndham New Yorker Hotel, located in Midtown Manhattan at Eighth Avenue and 34th Street, is a significant milestone in Wyndham Hotel Group's strategy to fly the Wyndham flag in key cities around the world. In the past 18 months, the brand's footprint has expanded to city-center locations in major markets including Boston, San Diego and Philadelphia in the US; Istanbul; Berlin and Salzburg, Austria, in Europe; and Cusco, Peru, and Guayaquil, Ecuador, in Latin America, among others.
Owned by New Yorker Hotel Management Company, Inc., the 40-story hotel becomes the fourth Wyndham hotel in Manhattan, joining Wyndham Midtown 45, Wyndham Garden Chinatown and Wyndham Garden Manhattan Chelsea West.
After previously undergoing over $100 million in renovations, a new multi-million dollar renovation is currently underway at the historic hotel to upgrade all guestrooms, public spaces and meeting facilities.
"The New Yorker Hotel is an iconic mainstay that is synonymous with one of the greatest cities in the world," stated Keith Pierce, EVP of brand operations for Wyndham Hotel Group. "This key landmark and recipient of TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence in 2013 puts business and leisure travelers in the heart of New York City's excitement and greatly strengthens the Wyndham brand's profile in this important market."
Currently, the property's 25,000 sq. ft. of meeting and event space is comprised of 14 conference rooms and two large ballrooms that cater to functions ranging from 10 to 600 attendees. Upon completion of renovations, meeting and event space will increase to over 30,000 sq. ft. Guests hosting events at Wyndham New Yorker Hotel have access to state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment and services, personalized catering and an on-site, dedicated events team.
Newly renovated guestrooms feature views of New York City, flat-screen TVs and art deco-style decor. The hotel offers two on-site dining locations: Cooper's Tavern, which serves fresh American cuisine at lunch and dinner, and the 24-hour Tick Tock Diner featuring classing American dishes.
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Ryan Williams practices, expects to play for Arizona Cardinals Saturday
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- For Ryan Williams, getting back on the practice field Thursday at University of Phoenix Stadium was a very important step.
After all, given that he's missed the last few weeks due to injury and, in the process, may have lost his hold on a roster spot, playing is now of the utmost importance.
And he expects to play Saturday when the Cardinals take on the San Diego Chargers in the team's third preseason game of the season.
"I will be out there," he said. "I don't know how many reps I'll get, but I'll be out there.
"Hopefully I can get some plays and get in the end zone."
Williams has dealt with his fair share of injuries, as a ruptured patella tendon cost him his rookie season in 2011 and then a shoulder injury forced him to miss the final 11 games in 2012. Though talented, he does not have enough on film to allow a new coach like Bruce Arians to feel comfortable without seeing what the player can do first-hand.
And that's why Williams understands the importance of the next few weeks.
"I have about two weeks left -- well, a week and a half left -- to kind of erase the past couple weeks that I haven't been out here," he said. "If everything works well, then it will. But that's what I'm hoping for, that's what I'm shooting for."
And likely what the coaching staff needs to see, especially given the depth at the running back position. Because along with Williams, the Cardinals have Rashard Mendenhall, Alfonso Smith, Stepfan Taylor and Andre Ellington, though only Mendenhall has experienced any kind of success in the NFL. All have shown flashes of ability, and all have been healthy enough to get a good amount of work in this training camp.
Thus, Williams is most definitely behind.
"Every evaluation for him is critical for him now," Arians said before Williams got back on the field Thursday. "He's missed so much that I want to see how he does in practice before I put him in a game.
"Hopefully he'll do as well as I think he will and be able to get out there and play full speed, get tackled."
Williams did not do as much Thursday as he wanted to, but did get a chance to shake off some of the rust he's built up by sitting on the sidelines. Where that leaves him for Saturday depends on how he feels over the next couple days, but for now Williams is confident he'll be ready to go and be effective when on the field.
Asked if he's confident his leg will allow him to show what he can do, Williams' response was pretty straightforward.
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Mercedes-Benz has an incredible new concept car, one with energy-saving ideas we can only hope will become standard in the future.
Tesla teases the 'D' – but is it a diesel hybrid, self-driving Model S, or something else entirely? October 6, 2014 at 11:16 am
Later this week at the Paris Auto Show, CEO of Tesla Elon Musk will 'unveil the D.' Assuming this isn't just a thinly veiled reference to part of Musk's anatomy, what might he be showing off on October 9? Does the 'D' allude to a Diesel-electric plug-in hybrid? Or perhaps it's a version of the Model S with some semi-self-Driving tweaks? Or is it as simple/boring as a Dual-motor — all-wheel drive — version of the Model S? There's even a possibility that the D is some kind of brand-new car entirely, to accompany the Model S, X, and 3.
BMW i8 takes on the Tesla Model S, while stretched Model S encroaches on BMW turf June 16, 2014 at 2:15 pm
It's a plug-in hybrid sports car vs. all-electric sport sedan. The two more be closer in buyers' minds.
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MADISON, Va. (AP) - Attorneys for a Newport News man accused in the slaying of three in Madison County have been granted permission to visit the scene of the killings.
The Star-Exponent of Culpeper reports that a circuit judge granted the defense motion this week in the case of Rashad Riddick. He is scheduled to stand trial in September on a capital murder charge.
The current owners of the property opposed the visit, calling it an invasion of privacy.
Riddick is charged in the killings in February 2011 of 55-year-old James Clark Jackson, his wife, 53-year-old Karen Lee Jackson, and her daughter, Chante Latrice Davis, who was 26. James Jackson was Riddick's uncle.
Riddick has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
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The Rodinhoods 2014-11-28T08:25:47Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod http://api.ning.com:80/files/om7hf3ZmNbTKJq*zEdKKDXnue8XnoG8fW9KkFQS4mNHYPXWj*Ku6ZErgJakuM-WN*Xx8XmOOowTx*xQlEUS*iuu9Weo-D-RK/jiten.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1 http://therodinhoods.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=0imkqyy8rviok&feed=yes&xn_auth=no Research Topic for FPM program tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-27:6328457:Topic:247259 2014-11-27T17:45:27.229Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod Hi Rodinhoods,

 Could you suggest main issues that start up company faces which I can research for MBA FPM programme.

 I am one of the guy who is aspiring to become Entrepreneur and I quit my job to join
 MBA and I decided to do research programme which I strongly feel, I can contribute useful learning to Entrepreneurs of India and that can be very useful to my start up too.

 I wrote my CAT exam and preparing for next rounds. It would be great to start thinking and working on my research from… Hi Rodinhoods,

 Could you suggest main issues that start up company faces which I can research for MBA FPM programme.

 I am one of the guy who is aspiring to become Entrepreneur and I quit my job to join
 MBA and I decided to do research programme which I strongly feel, I can contribute useful learning to Entrepreneurs of India and that can be very useful to my start up too.

 I wrote my CAT exam and preparing for next rounds. It would be great to start thinking and working on my research from now on.

 so, if I were to do research to help Entrepreneurs what should that be.

 I can add great value to Indian Start up community with my research.

 Please help me on this.

 Thank you,
 Lokesh SafeCity needs your 2 mins to make India safer tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-26:6328457:Topic:247330 2014-11-26T11:12:37.574Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod
In 2012, a very brutal gang rape incident happened on the streets of Indian capital city - Delhi, it is so gut wrenching to even recall that incident & quote it here; this horrible incident made huge news waves and awakened a nation of billion to act up. The girl dint survive, she went by a pseudonym as 'Nirbhaya' (fearless) for her valor in fighting the assailants. Her real name was never released in any news media to protect her modesty and identity...

 Shortly…

In 2012, a very brutal gang rape incident happened on the streets of Indian capital city - Delhi, it is so gut wrenching to even recall that incident & quote it here; this horrible incident made huge news waves and awakened a nation of billion to act up. The girl dint survive, she went by a pseudonym as 'Nirbhaya' (fearless) for her valor in fighting the assailants. Her real name was never released in any news media to protect her modesty and identity...

 Shortly after, a startup by three women, Elsa, Saloni & Surya, decided to change the way women are treated in public places and put an end to sexual harassments, cat calls and abuses, by using technology & the power of Internet. Thus Safecity.in was born, a not-for-profit initiative that aims to 'pin the creeps' on a crowd-sourced Google Maps through anonymous entires of data submitted by women who are subjected to harassment of any kind at public places.

 Today, over 4000 incidents are reported on Safecity.in, and they are tirelessly working on addressing this problem by working with local communities, police, etc., to make India a better and safer place for women.

 Safecity has made it to the finals of Google Startup Success Story, do take a look at the video here and should you like to help them? then 'up vote / like / thumbs up' on the YouTube video. Your like is what will make them win the Global challenge. The last date is 4 December 2014 - not much time at hand. Do share on your social media profiles as well. Pleaaassssseeeee.

 More details can be found here

 Google contest or no contest, this video is worth sharing with every women - friends, sisters, cousins, etc., Come on, lets support Safecity and help them make India safe for women. The web is what you make of it, and Safecity uses it make India a safer place for women.

Thanks for your support
 How to make readers tweet your content 63% more. tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-26:6328457:Topic:247059 2014-11-26T06:06:26.937Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod

 It was on Justin Wilcox's marvellous website called Customer Dev Labs that I first saw some sentences Twitterized.

WTH is Twitterized?

 …

 It was on Justin Wilcox's marvellous website called Customer Dev Labs that I first saw some sentences Twitterized.

WTH is Twitterized?

Twitterize: Dressing up key sentences in your blog post so readers can tweet them instantly.

Like that.

Why Twitterize

Typically, we put sharing buttons at the side or bottom of the post. Like this.

There is some default text attached to those buttons (like the title of the post), and the un-shortened link to the post. Like this.

But let's say you've said something important in your blog and your reader reckons that is what she'd tweet about, instead of the title of the post.

In order to do so, she has to shorten the link to create some space, and type in the sentence again, or at least copy and paste it. Now imagine doing all this on the mobile phone. How many of times out of 10 you reckon your reader's going to do that?

What if instead, you did all that hard work for your reader? What percentage increase in twitter shares would you get?

I got a 63% increase for my blog kkirank.me. Yes, I discovered from experience that –

This simple hack can make your readers tweet 63% more.

If you have tens of thousands of visitors every month, the Reach and Return from those tweets could be massive. And the cost ZERO.

OK, not zero since you need invest some time in doing this.

So, here's how you do it

And here is the code to dress up your tweet on your site.

Your tweet text goes here<a href="http://the_ctt_shortlink_goes_here target="_blank">

Don't know what this is? Watch the video above.

Two tips that'll increase efficiency

I mention two important tips in the video. I will reiterate them here.

Don't surprise the reader

The text that goes out as a tweet should not be different from what the reader intended to share from your post. Otherwise, the reader will re-think about sharing it.

It helps to –

Treat your readers like shoppers. Give them the fastest way to tweet (shop).

Now go ahead and click on the twitter bird. You see how the text above and in the twitter box are almost alike. If you felt like sharing this, the tweet text doesn't surprise you.

On the other hand, if this hasn't motivated you to share it, then having a different text altogether will most certainly not.

Land the visitors in the context

The second thing to remember is when someone reads the tweet and clicks on the link in the tweet, make sure you land them in the vicinity where that particular text appears in the post.

Since what is tweeted is not the title of the post but a particular sentence in the post, the sooner your visitors see the text that brought them to the post, the more they are likely to get hooked.

I explain this point in the video above at 0.50s onwards.

Conclusion

 I hope this twitter hack is useful. If you try this, please come back here and let others know how this or some other twitter tip has helped you get more on Twitter.

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 Operating and promoting a writing competition online - Seeking ideas from Rodinhoods tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-26:6328457:Topic:247052 2014-11-26T04:42:22.358Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod
Hello Rodinhoods,

I have worked as a an Internet industry entrepreneur and product manager in India but have been living and working in Australia for about 10 years. My knowledge of Indian online markets and practices has frayed on the edges after all these years of absence, and so am hoping to get some ideas from you for a project involving India.

I am helping an Australian philosopher and entrepreneur to expand an essay writing competition to take it global and her special…

Hello Rodinhoods,

I have worked as a an Internet industry entrepreneur and product manager in India but have been living and working in Australia for about 10 years. My knowledge of Indian online markets and practices has frayed on the edges after all these years of absence, and so am hoping to get some ideas from you for a project involving India.

I am helping an Australian philosopher and entrepreneur to expand an essay writing competition to take it global and her special focus is on India. Open to all, it entails writing an essay on a given topic and submitting it online. Raw material to write the essay (book as a pdf) will be provided in email. But there is a registration step before the material is provided and a registration fee. The reward to the writer of the winning essay is a significant cash prize. To make it more attractive to a broader audience, we have also introduced several levels of effort / commitment - like writing just a slogan, a 500 words piece or of course the essay, and obviously all have varying registration amount and reward levels.

The registration amount can vary from as low as Rs. 100 to a max of Rs.5000. We would create a website for information, registration, receive payment and entry submission. We want to operate and promote this contest at SCALE and therefore reach out to the offline audiences too.

We are struggling with deciding upon the right mix of techniques (technologies) and methods in

1. Receiving registrations and entry submissions

2. Receiving payment and handing out reward payment (to potentially dozens and of different amounts from very small to large)

3. Sending out raw material

4. Promotion

In Australia with its almost 100% broadband and credit card penetration, the mix, referring to above, was 1. registration form, 2. Paypal for entry fee, bank trfr for reward, 3. email with Dropbox links and finally 4. Wordpress website, Facebook page and Facebook Ads.

We would be interested in knowing about what should be our solution in India - one that automates the process, allow scale and yet can be personalised. Although we are happy to implement one for India alone, it's great if it can be globally applicable.

If you happen to pitch your own services, happy to listen, I just ask you to segregate the advice from the pitch in your post.

Thanks for your patience.

Hasnain Zaheer
 How Relatas.com increased customers by 30% - Guerrilla Marketing tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-26:6328457:Topic:247217 2014-11-26T04:40:21.339Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod

Guerrilla Marketing

We were just back from the TechSparks event where Relatas (www.relatas.com) was selected the Top 30 start-ups chosen from India, when we realized that we had the #NASSCOM Product Conclave event the next…

Guerrilla Marketing

We were just back from the TechSparks event where Relatas (www.relatas.com) was selected the Top 30 start-ups chosen from India, when we realized that we had the #NASSCOM Product Conclave event the next week. I had been in talks with the event organizers to help us get a booth so that we could showcase our just launched beta product to the audience that would be attending the event. But their choice of start-ups was already made. No hard feelings for NASSCOM as they have a tough task at hand and to be fair to them we were late in approaching them.

Guerrilla marketing

We have all heard or know about Guerrilla marketing. We thought of implementing it. Post the sad news that we can't showcase our beta product at the event, we brainstormed how best we could present ourselves and get in front of the audience that love start-ups and are early adopters. Then it just clicked. We had few underutilized flyers from the TechSparks event and we thought of using them.

We decided to use these underutilized flyers at the NASSCOM event. We networked heavily during the morning session and had a quick lunch. When the auditorium was free during lunch we put these flyers on all the empty chairs so that when the audience returned post lunch for other talks, they could read about us.

Boy, how effective was this guerrilla marketing for Relatas.com

Post the session during the evening networking dinner we noticed lot of people knew Relatas and were eager to ask questions and we knew that we were successful in spreading the word. We then followed it up with our pitch to most of the people we could meet and explain how Relatas could be useful to them in their daily life.

We saw increase in the new user registration over the weekend. We followed it up with an email campaign after few days of the event. We didn't want to send out the emails right after the event as we realized others would be doing it too and this would be one of the many mails. We saw an increase in new registrations post the email. Through this, we were able to get 30% increase in new registrations from a single event with no additional cost (except of course the event attendance cost !!)

Few pointers for successful guerrilla marketing that we learnt

Surprise your target audience

Do something that others aren't (at least not there and then)

Give them something they can relate to

Follow up so that they remember you

Live up to your promise

From: http://blog.relatas.com/guerrilla-marketing-for-startups/
 My first post..Our journey so far at ConfirmTkt.com tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-26:6328457:Topic:247214 2014-11-26T04:23:40.050Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod
We launched ConfirmTkt.com on july 5th this year.

Just to give a background how it all started.

Me(Dinesh) and Sripad worked together at IBM.We were passionate to startup something.We started thinking of problems.First thing that came to our mind is the problem we face daily with Autos in bangalore. So we came up with this android app Meterup! auto fare in 2011.It gives…

We launched ConfirmTkt.com on july 5th this year.

Just to give a background how it all started.

Me(Dinesh) and Sripad worked together at IBM.We were passionate to startup something.We started thinking of problems.First thing that came to our mind is the problem we face daily with Autos in bangalore. So we came up with this android app Meterup! auto fare in 2011.It gives an estimate fare for auto so you can negotiate with Auto drivers.It didn't kickoff as we expected.We added taxi estimates also in the same app.Currently it has around 12k downloads.Meanwhile we got stuck with an Idea with trains. Every time we tried to book a train ticket we used to see waiting list.And we used to analyse and predict if train gets confirmed and book our tickets.We thought of building a software which does this instead of we doing it manually.So in late 2012 We started writing software to accumulate data so that we can analyse.We were correct we were able to accurately predict for most of the trains.Provided we have enough data we launched our website ConfirmTkt.com on July 5th 2014 with train waiting list and PNR predictions .

 It is hard to promote in the beginning.Initially we posted in various forums and various social networking sites.We hardly got 200 visitors every day after 1st month.We launched our android app in the same month on July 27th.

We were able to get first 1000 downloads in 10 days.We crossed 1000 downloads by August 4th.And by August 21st we were at 1613 downloads.So over all daily usage from mobile was around 200 users and website 200 users.The turning point was on August 22nd when our app got covered in various National news papers.Downloads spiked.People started talking about us.

 We launched our windows app and mobile website in September.We felt the mobile users in India have very low bandwidth and we need a very light website for them and we launched it.

And today we see good usage .I am putting some stats as of today

Android App downloads: 36000(19500 active)

Website pageviews : ~ 9,81,986

Website unique visitors: ~86000

Total PNR queries so far: 4,64,698

Total train queries so far: 42,08,962

Daily Average mobile app usage : ~2000 unique users

Daily Average Website usage: ~1200 unique users

Windows app downloads:1800

Android app rating:4.34

Also we included Meterup functionality in our website .We added a new tab for Taxis .We want to monetize with this .Provide functionality for users to book taxis.Also added forum to our website.We have got very interesting features lined up.Adding screenshots of one of the features.Hope you will understand looking at that.

Will write more about them in my next post.So please visit ConfirmTkt.com before you book a ticket.

Thanks
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 ConfirmTkt.com

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 (Comic) From the Desk of a Wantrepreneur tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-26:6328457:Topic:247044 2014-11-26T03:33:42.758Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod

Just as you can't judge a book by its cover, you can't judge an entrepreneur by his/her desk. Or can you?…

Just as you can't judge a book by its cover, you can't judge an entrepreneur by his/her desk. Or can you?

Standing desk, traditional wood-trimmed table, lap-desk, or a makeshift corner of a dining table, the desk is an entrepreneur's kingdom. Key characteristics of the desk can tell a lot about the type of entrepreneur and the type of work being done.

Clutter

A meticulously clean desk may indicate a a deeply-entrenched entrepreneur, and perhaps someone who must think logically about their business. A cluttered desk may indicate more creativity and divergent thinking. Here are some more details about the nuances between clean and messy desks.

Stuff

The daily work of an entrepreneur is timely, pressing, and relevant. The daily work of a wantrepreneur, on the other hand, is superficial, distracting, and fleeting. For example:

Other work - the wantrepreneur probably has a day job or is keeping his/her options open. A resume, a "day job" laptop, and the job postings section may be tell-tale signs.

Motivational propaganda - many entrepreneurs have a guru or a mentor, but only wantrepreneurs surround themselves with the books, audio, video they think will make them then entrepreneur they want to be.

To do lists - the wantrepreneur will add in unnecessary non-business related items just to make the to do list seem longer - e.g. doing the laundry, going to the bathroom, etc.

So what does your desk look like? And is there room for improvement? Let us know in the comments below.

This was originally created by Kriti Vichare for #entrepreneurfail: Startup Success.

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 24 Things I've Learnt from Starting a Successful Pseudo Start-up tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-25:6328457:Topic:246985 2014-11-25T17:51:40.338Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod
 Some friends and acquaintances call me up to discuss how they should 'go about' their start-ups. Now, just because Lawctopus became a hit, doesn't mean that I am an authority on start-ups.

Also, Lawctopus is hardly a…

Some friends and acquaintances call me up to discuss how they should 'go about' their start-ups. Now, just because Lawctopus became a hit, doesn't mean that I am an authority on start-ups.

Also, Lawctopus is hardly a successful start-up. It's a popular website, yes. It earns me my living, yes. And it changed lives of many a law student for good (hopefully), yes.

But it's still a cross between a popular website and a successful start-up. Start-ups grow faster, earn more than what Lawctopus is doing, for now, etc.

Anyhow, I've learnt a few things over the years, and here they are:

1. Measure the depth of the river with one leg, not two.

Start in college, when even if you fail, you have the time to rectify things.

If you start late, don't quit your day job. Work after the work hours or on weekends.

If you quit your day job, make sure your savings are in order.

2. Start.

Jotting down your ideas should take a day.

Researching on them should take a couple of more days.

Discussing it with friends/experts should take a couple of days more.

From the aha! moment to the launch, it should take you a week.

Many just don't start, because hey, it's tough.

Quietening the million years old Lizard brain is bloody tough.

You never feel 'ready' to launch, you have to take the plunge, and keep doing it till it becomes a habit.

3. Be prepared to be rejected.

Launching a business is tougher than asking a girl out.

In asking a girl out, you can face rejection by one person, in a personal space.

In launching a business, you should be prepared to be rejected by multiple people; and expect people to talk about it a lot.

4. Simple, basic features.

Start-off with simple basic features which require less money and less time to launch.

Aim to be professional, not perfect.

Get feedback from users and improvise.

The fancy website/office can come later.

5. Get out there. Be Shameless!

You'll have to market yourself.

Share stuff on Facebook, send promotional emails, meet random people etc.

If you are shy, don't do a start-up.

6. Don't expect quick results.

Keep at it. Patience pays.

See what's working and what's not.

Know what the 'basic functionality' of your start-up is. Do that continuously.

Dheere dheere re manna, dheere sab kuchh hoye, maali seenche sau ghada, ritu aaye phal hoye.

7. Always look for solutions.

"This cannot be done" is not a phrase of a start-upy person.

Everything has a solution.

If you don't have that attitude, work elsewhere.

8. If there's a co-founder get a formal contract.

Friends fight in start-ups, always. Always and every where.

You two/three are no different.

9. It's not rocket science.

Provide something of value and people will buy.

Most of the business is common sense.

10. It shouldn't be the number 1 thing in your life.

Taking care of your body, spending time with your family, love etc. are more important than work.

Even if the start-up is your passion, all of this, your body, your family and your love are more important than that passion.

Learn to take a step back and see things from a different vantage point.

Also, don't take yourself too seriously.

11. Read.

Reading is like getting to listen to a foremost expert on the subject.

Don't believe in everything that you read, of course.

12. Spend money wisely.

The most Lawctopus has spent on a website design is Rs. 5000. (I know it isn't great, but still).

I know people who've spent Rs. 90,000 for a similar looking website.

Do invest money in professionals. But before doing that check if you actually need to spend that money.

13. Know yourself.

With your start-up, you are creating the life style for yourself.

Some people like it slow and idyllic, some people like if fast.

Don't buy into what seems cooler, bigger etc.

Make it large, but know what large means for you.

14. Talk to people in the industry.

A word from the wise can save you an insane amount of time and effort.

You don't need to reinvent the wheel always.

A introduction from someone who knows both the people, works the best.

15. Maintain a diary

Maintain a diary/journal wher you jot down ideas, new things, resources etc.

16. Invest in technology/automation

If things can be automated with technology, that's such a bliss.

It drastically reduces man hours and helps you make a BIG thing in single flash of code ligthening!

This comes later, but is well worth it.

17. Deals

1 out of 10 deals will be eventually signed.

Have a healthy mix of both big and small deals running.

Big deals look exciting, but hardly get through, and if they do, are rarely as good as they look.

18. People

People are both good and bad, just like you. Have faith in people, but not of the blind sorts.

Don't take things personally.

Develop a Hippo like hide and 'move it' merrily at every criticism or praise.

19. Things are impermanent.

Success and hardship, happiness and sadness, will come and go in waves.

Learn to live with it.

Expect your start-up to be dead tomorrow.

Expect it to be sold in a multi-billion deal (or whatever gives you the equivalent amount of kicks).

20. Meditate

Learn to meditate.

Vipassana meditation is the purest (and the most painful too) form of meditation I've tried.

21. Meet

Meet a lot of people.

You never know when an idea from you and from the other will, well, have 'sex' and result in something amazing.

Meetings open doors to other meetings and so on.

Doing this once a week should be fine. On other days, do the work.

22. Parents

Parents are generally wary of their kids launching start-ups.

Parents want safety and success for their children, and start-ups are anti-thetical to all that.

However, you don't need to buckle under what your parents say. They are humans and not always right.

At the same time, respect them, always.

When you show them that you are succeeding in what you are doing, they'll turn your biggest supporters in the most selfless, unconditional manner.

This, however, may take time.

23. Don't do it for money

If you do it for money and it doesn't succeed (which is very very likely), you'll feel like a loser when you lose.

If you do it because it seems like your calling, you'll be happy even when when you quit. Because the experience would have added something to your 'self'.

If your passion is earning money, do a bit of re-thinking. Read something on the subject (of money, happiness etc.) or go for the 10 day meditation retreat. :P

There's another philosophy here. That you slowly become amazing in a subject (even if you don't like it) and it's then that you start enjoying it.

I don't subscribe to this view. You might.

I believe that we have some innate strengths and passions and that's what we should pursue (an intersection of passion, skills and the market, to be precise).

24. Break the rules

All what's been said above has an equally convincing anti-rule.

Don't expect quick results? What? Start-ups should be 'go big, or go home', the hockey stick growth and so on.

Know yourself? WTH! You are creating the start-up to solve a pain-point of others and not for yourself.

PS- So these our learnings I've derived from my limited experience and based on what I value in life. Things maybe totally different for someone else.

COMPULSORY READING LIST

Rashmi Bansal's Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish AND Connect the Dots

The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

Seth Godin's Blog

PS: Lawctopus is at cross-roads and I am looking to talk to/consult someone who's well versed with the online media space. If you are such a person, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com

Lawctopus' Facebook page is here. We are on Twitter here. @Lawctopus
 Meet Kashish, a doer. tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-24:6328457:Topic:246896 2014-11-24T16:31:19.287Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod

What is your story, Kashish? What got you here?…

What is your story, Kashish? What got you here?

I was a stubborn kid with can-do attitude. And I thought there's a place and audience for every artist and you just have to find what you love and then monetize it. That simple! I wanted to be a Pilot back then, but I didn't want it bad enough. I didn't know what else to be. I wasn't the brightest kid in my class, my scores were not consistent, and sometimes I will do too well other times I will flunk. No one knew what was going on.

Later after high school, I chose commerce because I knew I wasn't Engineering material, I graduated business management because my father owns a clothing store and I thought could use my education to help him scale his business. But that's not what happened.

During my final year, my brother was working for a small start-up IT company in Pune as a business development executive, that's how he kick started his career. He once asked me to handle a petty data-entry project for his company and I did it. It was my final year of college and I would spend most of my time watching movies. Doing any work for my brother made me feel worthwhile. A few projects later, I did not wanted to do anything else. It was challenging but easy work. It didn't take me very long to understand the whole business model behind their company. It was a small company so they outsourced small and time consuming jobs. My brother was responsible for handling such projects for the company and he let me do these jobs because he wanted me to do something that will get me interested in jobs. And it was a good pocket money. Working with my Dad meant doing things his way. With these small jobs, I could work late at nights and spend the day watching movies.

How did the nature of work evolve?

When the projects stopped coming in, I got relentless and I signed up on freelance portals to find some work. (I needed work. Doing these small projects really made me feel good about myself. I received decent pocket money so money wasn't a factor) Thus, I started off with business in writing. Well I had to choose one between Programming, Writing and Admin work. Writing was relatively easier so I chose writing. After a few jobs, I realized most of my writing goes on SMB website as blogs. I made a few hundred dollars doing this and I saved all of it. The competition grew each day and scoring a writing job was getting difficult. After a brief consultation with my brother, I chose to put all what I earned back into the business and create a website. My brother helped me set up a small website called writingline.com (still active) where you can outsource your blogs to us and we'll update your website daily, weekly or monthly. I wasn't sure if it's going to work and it never made sense to anyone who I shared this idea with. It was a funny decision really but I knew the job hunt over freelance website has to stop someday. After I managed to set up a convincing landing page, I simply reached out to a lot of businesses over emails to see if they'll be interested.

Look good, sound professional,
 and be local was the idea for my website.

It was subscribe-only payment module via PayPal and you could order a blog sample for $10 paid in advance. No refund if you don't like it. We did made a few exceptions for some businesses but it worked well. I automated the website since Day One. I compared my website with that of an established business. I changed everything everyday on it. After a little satisfaction, I put rest of the money on PPC (pay per click). Visitors come in, they choose the plan, they pay and I get back to them within 12 hours. I had an unhealthy bounce rate and, as a result, the conversion rate was terrible. I was losing money on PPC. Email marketing worked well and I could get some to buy the plans from website. After a little marketing, it was a decent $1000-2000 each month on subscriber mode in 2 months from the website. I'd ask anyone with good writing skills to write for me (even you Sushrut, remember doing an article?) Clients did not like the grammatical mistakes and I could never really get good writers to work for me. I charged $10 for a blog and I paid very little forward.

Gradually I lost all the business in next 3 months.
 It was good; I like what happened.

Because I was left with a few clients, a good experience and a failed attempt. I tried something and it worked, I wasn't smart enough to handle it. It was a big deal for me to earn some money, decent good money at that time. My brother earned 40k a month and I did 85k rough with this idea. I was happy, so was my brother.

Did you move to another city for service improvements?
 Was there a turnaround?

I wanted to take this more seriously so I went to Pune, where my brother worked. I needed to find really good writers to keep this thing going for me and help revive the site. Meanwhile my brother left the company and started freelancing. We lived together, he used to guide me and I used to work hard to make it happen. We both were excited to see this whole thing work, he started markup services and I did writing.

But the whole revival plan didn't last very long for me and down the line; I lost most of my clients since the write-ups weren't good compared to native writers. I was losing the whole thing, I knew it but I didn't wanted to do anything about it anymore. I earned some good money in this and I wanted to start over. Once I tried getting native people to write for me but I couldn't scale very much with them either. The few clients I had, who were okay with what we could offer soon left.

I believe good customer service can change the business.

I was always readily and happily available for my clients. I was available 16 hours a day; I made sure I was there most of the time. I repeatedly asked my clients if there's anything I could do for them. I did their small jobs, which later became big ones. I had this give-me-whatever-you-can business where the work was simply outsourced to the right kind of people. If I could do it myself, I'd save some money and do it. Soon I hired 3 guys and the work was good.

How was the transition and business growth from here?

After some trial and error, I was maintaining social accounts of a few businesses, handling server and website maintenance for some and consulted some websites on user-engagement. Down the year, I grew my business from $12000 a year to $30000 a year. This is not combined, my brother had some of his employees and I had mine. He was way ahead of me, earning more than what I did.

We later moved to Aurangabad, since we (me and my brother) wanted to live with our family. We had trouble hiring people here, we lost big business in transition, later we built things on our own. My brother works with WordPress and is a big time Domain Investor. He flipped tempt.com and some notable 3 letter dot-coms while making decently good money on them. Though I work on WordPress, I mainly offer social media automation and work assistance.

Today, we manage more than 290 social accounts along with their advertising campaign with a total monthly spend over $5x,xxx, we maintain websites with daily hits of more than 50,000 visitors and we have developed more than 700 websites in WordPress in last 3 years. We've also acquired some 3 letter dot coms as investments and we continue to add more in our portfolio.

The growing-out-of-office phase? :)

My brother is my mentor, without him I couldn't do what I did. It all seems like a stroke of luck. Despite the challenges we face here in Aurangabad, we have nearly doubled our sales from last 1 year, a 100% growth rate. Last month, we started another office here in Aurangabad itself. I think it was much needed since we were using the first office to its limit. It's a 2BHK apartment, and I use to work from kitchen, later I shared space with my brother. New staff came in, we had to ask older ones to move to Kitchen, It was embarrassing but my brother is a good convincing skills. We had trouble finding good employees but the economy is so bad in the small city; that people will want to work with us here, even after asking them to sit in a kitchen.

After my brother suggested adjusting one person in the bathroom,
 I knew we needed an office.

So we now we rented a 1000sqft commercial space with a seating capacity of over 25. We are hiring again, we are a team of 15 now. We should be a team of 25 this January and next November, we will be 50. I know we will be, because we got something cooking fresh and it looks great as of now. We don't have a website yet, I am working on it now. But we have new business channels, partners who work for us offshore and a big team who now works relentlessly for our success. I have little problem setting them up, but I am sure I will get over it soon.

You were earning good money. Did you consider investments & purchases?

Right when we shifted to Aurangabad, we were in touch over funding issues. I was very much interested in what you (you = Sushrut) do. Since you seemed like a man with a map. It felt assuring to put money in your business than to try something of my own. But the whole transition from Pune to Aurangabad was tiring and our business took hits. Hence, I didn't really put many thoughts to any investments back then.

When I was doing well, I took time off buying things I always wanted to buy, a sports bike. I always wanted one, since a kid. I bought a Honda CBR600RR as starters, later a Suzuki Hayabusa!

Is riding a good vehicle similar to running a good business? Lessons you learnt?

I crashed my Hayabusa into a truck at 120kmph. Had a third degree rupture on left calf and others were minor injuries. Bike was good as dead. But I learned a lot from that incident. Just like writingline.com, I touched to 220kmph on this bike over roads, which weren't really suitable for it. I was shivering yet I had kept going. I crashed the same day, reminds me much of my first business. Although to over come my fear of riding, I got a Harley, sold within 1 week and a GSXR1000, sold within 3 months. I am not afraid now but that crashed bike taught me the best lessons in life.

In all these years, I never took my business for granted or for the sake of it. I wanted it, is why I made all this happen. There were times when I wanted to give up and take the easy way (my dad's business). It was hard, there were times when there was no success at all, and there were roadblocks.

There were nights when I couldn't sleep.
 Times when I had no idea what I am doing with my life.

My friends were the one who were studying in MBA colleges, having time of their life in clubs. My parents doubted me, and sometimes I did too. I didn't know what will work and how long I can do this.

Do share your college experiences, hobbies and what keeps you occupied other than work.

I graduated from Swami Vivekanda College. My teachers hated me as a student, I always asked them questions and I knew the curriculum was out of practice. We were being taught of Microsoft 98 when we had Win7 ourselves. I use to fix computers in IT class while we were taught DOS Commands. I was expelled from classes a lot because I use to ask questions that were out of the textbooks.

My college HOD barred me from placement and told me I won't do anything in life.

2 years later, I was invited to have lunch with him right after I hired 6 guys from their placement drive. During lunch, HOD asked me what college I graduated from, I didn't answer his question. 3 of 6 are still working with us.

I like computer games; I play Battlefield in my free-time or during weekends. I also enjoy biking and reading about aviation. I practically played all Airplane simulation games ever existed, if you leave me with a Bell helicopter, I can literally turn it on. I wanted to be a pilot since I was a kid. Real bad. Rest of the time, I play with my awesome little dog. My day doesn't start if I don't see him and I almost made it a habit to come home by 6 (and go back by 7) just to take him for an evening walk.

What is it that you do? To whom and how is it relevant?

We connect daily with 1000 customers of different brands and businesses (our client's customers). We manage social media, website maintenance and mark-up services to businesses in US and Europe. We also run paid marketing campaigns for some of these social accounts with monthly spend of more than $5x,xxx. They trust us with their money and we never fail to deliver results. Since last1 year, we have an amazing client retention rate and our repeated business rate is more than 70%. We're kind of a mixed business agency; we're still sorting this out. We work with amazing freelancers to make all of this happen, everyday.

Key hurdles you tackled? Current challenges?

Deciding to quit freelancing portals and get a web presence was a difficult challenge, but I had nothing to lose. That one risk introduced me to decent good possibilities, I knew I needed to run and I did. I was not sure at all; it was funny how I actually did it.

If I look back now,
 I doubt I'll be willing to risk what I have to get what I want.

December of 2011 and January of 2012 (during transition to Aurangabad), I made close to nothing. Writing didn't work for me anymore and asking clients for work who no longer wanted to work with me was a challenge. Consistent availability, good customer support led them to give me a chance with small jobs and hence to new opportunities and then things kicked off.

When we impressed one agency from Europe, they asked us if we could handle 4x the work we were currently handling. Prep time? 3 days. I agreed. I needed 3x staff, 3x computers and good system in place. Pulled it off, we started 4th day.

As we grow, my job has changed from managing sales and business development to administration and management. It's very hard to keep up with new employees, explain them the job and get the most out of their time. So I spend more time interacting with my employees than clients. It's hard to find good managers here, but we're on it. We are forced to work with employees with not so good education background. Clear communication, written instruction and being available is helping us solve the problem at the loss of business direction.

You're a state level basketball player and an archer!

I am not an Archer, I practiced archery for 2 months in school. I focused on Basketball more after I was selected to represent my school in District level, but we lost the State level Under-17 match. The only reason I played basketball was to avoid the class-rooms and the only reason why I was selected in one because I was taller than other kids.

That's you being humble. Lessons from sports that you apply at work?

Don't do something you don't want to do just because others think you are good at it.

Why Aurangabad? Benefits of staying in a smaller city than Mumbai or Pune?

To be honest, there are no benefits of staying in Aurangabad. We have a below average internet connection. Hiring is a challenge here; the education system doesn't create any qualified developer that can even slightly address current market challenges. You don't get to meet new people who share similar business interest. The IT hub here is insanely expensive, thanks to the political system. I would love to meet like-minded people here but there is nothing in place that helps us do this. It's very challenging sometimes.

One thing that you would do differently if you can start up all over again?

I would start an ecommerce business for Indian Market with all my first year's earnings instead of targeting offshore. Or I think I could do both, efficiently.

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Thanks, Kashish! I would credit you big time for the kind of persistence and dedication that you have clearly displayed. Apart from entrepreneurs, our interview series has showcased an MBA musician who represents the wild side of business and an industrious HR manager driving towards better responsibilities at work. You, my brilliant friend, are a doer.

You are a perfect muse for a business writer, with the apparent ease you have transitioned and built hardcore businesses from scratch. And you're doing it so well. The way you write showcases precision, tells us that you mean business. Keep going and keep inspiring all of us.

Key Takeaways-

Be customer-oriented and product-focused. That wins you battles.

Be under dogged pursuit of what you seek to achieve, no matter what.

Make the most of your human instincts; everything can be channeled the right way.

People around might not always understand. Communicate when necessary, be good.

Blaming the situation doesn't help. Build something out of an unfavorable nothing.

Keep your senses open and learn lessons from the little things around you.

Treasure your hobbies & interests, they keep you amongst us.

Do not give up.

Connect with him here!

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About the Author: @sushrutmunje

I build Hammer and Mop - specializing in marketing, service and operations. I'm a published poet and a writer. Startups excite me. Have been a part of speaker panels and given guest lectures at business schools, been a speaker at Youth to Business Forums (powered by AIESEC) and I sit on Unltd India's selection board once in a while. Contributing as a business writer at TheRodinhoods - creating content, interviewing inspiring entrepreneurs / intrapreneurs / professionals and covering events.
 Windowing Music - Helping Artists Monetise Music tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-11-24:6328457:Topic:247024 2014-11-24T13:51:36.308Z jitendarsingh rathod http://therodinhoods.com/profile/jitendarsinghrathod
The sales of CDs and records has been falling for years. When iTunes arrived and online sales of music took off; for a brief period of time it seemed as if a messiah had arrived who would put an end to the troubles of the music industry. It was not to be.

The troubles for the music industry began with the increasing penetration of internet. It has nothing to do with how the distribution took place. Around the mid 80's music started going digital. By the mid 90's it was truly…

The sales of CDs and records has been falling for years. When iTunes arrived and online sales of music took off; for a brief period of time it seemed as if a messiah had arrived who would put an end to the troubles of the music industry. It was not to be.

The troubles for the music industry began with the increasing penetration of internet. It has nothing to do with how the distribution took place. Around the mid 80's music started going digital. By the mid 90's it was truly digital. More music was being distributed on CDs rather than on tapes or records. The real trouble for the music industry began when copying became possible.

Vinyl records could not be copied. Cassette tapes could be, but involved a lot of work. I remember having to spend hours playing each cassette that needed to be copied. At times it was just not worth it. CDs made copying a lot easier. I could be done with copying a CD in a matter of minutes and the quality was also as good as the original. I am from the Tape Cassette generation and I used to have to go to my friends place and get the Cassette or CD from him and record or rip at home. I was constrained by the distance that I could travel and the fact that all this consumed time.

The geographical constraints and time constraints diminished the injury that copying caused to the industry.

Internet changed all of that. The internet made the distribution of the ripped content easy. I could suddenly send across a song that I loved to a friend as a attachment on e-mail. Unintentionally, I was killing the music industry. When a music file was available for free, there was no further reason to buy it.

The dial up internet was constrained for speed. It made distribution of large number of songs still quite difficult. Every year after 2000, internet speeds have been gradually rising up. As the internet speeds increased, sharing larger and larger files became ever easier and piracy became the way to go. When I can get music easily for free, why should I bother paying for it? Then came along torrents (peer to peer sharing) taking internet distribution to a 'Pro' level. Today, it is possible to get the entire discography of any artist on any torrent site. The entire exercise of finding the torrent and downloading the file would take less than 10 minutes.

Streaming is one format that got around the problem of downloading by not permitting the users to download the song at all. Songs, Spotify, Pandora, Beats and many other are taking varied approach to allow listeners to consume music. The issue with this format is that it does not have the strength to generate revenues the way downloading does. So the content gets consumed millions of times at a fraction of the revenue that downloads generate. Artists have been getting paltry cheques from the streaming companies and it does not make any sense to support this format.

Music Artists as content creators are being hunted. Their ability to monetise their creation is being threatened. The need of the hour is a solution, but what might that be?

For a solution the Music Industry needs to look at the Film Industry. They are also content creators whose content is equally susceptible to piracy and hurt by the advent of the internet. You can just as easily find any movie on any torrent site. Why is it that the Film Industry does not seem to be in a state of turmoil?

The Film Industry uses this thing called 'Windowing'.

A movie makes its money from various 'Windows'. The first window is the Box Office, then the Cable Rights and then finally the rights to Internet and CD distribution. By the time the box office is done, the producers have recovered the production cost along with a sizeable profit, so the monetary losses that they take due to the copying and piracy of the digital format is not as hurtful to them.

The Music industry needs to come up with a format that allows them to rapidly monetise the initial buzz and excitement surrounding the release of their songs. They must not immediately make it available in digital format for everyone to download. It should be controlled through a Window that does not allow for easy copying. The moment digital content is downloaded, its as good as free. (Even Walter Issacson's recent book 'The Innovators' is not available in e-book format).

Taylor Swift recently pulled her music from streaming site Spotify and netted a neat $12 Million in sales, causing a stir. I feel streaming is unfair to the artists, but letting people download is no better. Agreed, it allows for cash to flow in but the music is copied as quickly as well.

One possible format could use an event based release for the songs, where the musicians have control over the channel of release and listeners pay per use. Once the initial 6 months are monetised through such a channel, the next step can be to allow downloads before finally allowing streaming to take place. The essence of success is to delay the inevitable availability of the content in digital format. That is the best way to ensure that the content would be paid for and the artists can monetise the content that they have worked on.


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Wow! It has been so busy at Sophie Clarke Wedding Designs HQ's in the last couple of weeks!
On Saturday 8 November, I was very excited to exhibit at the Grinkle Park Hotel. It was my first visit to Grinkle and I have to say, what a stunning venue! You start off with a wonderful drive down the lengthy and leafy driveway until an awe-inspiring elegant baronial mansion comes into view. When you enter this mansion through the luxurious original looking double doors you will be struck by the sumptuous interior and décor of Grinkle Park Hotel.
Photo Credit : Dirk Van Der Werff Wedding Photography
I was exhibiting in the beautiful Palmer Suite and loved watching the world go by out of the deep windows looking over the North Yorkshire Moors, allowing viewers to see all the way to the sea.
I met some truly wonderful couples and am very happy to say that I am now working with the lovely Sharne and Chris. Working together, we will make their dream of a rustic and natural barn wedding, with an outdoor ceremony. The wedding will be at Ox Pasture Hall Hotel and I can't wait to show you the pictures, but you will have to wait until next year! ;-).
Here are some pictures of my table designs I showcased at Grinkle Park Hotel.
Thank you for reading and it won't be long until I am back with more exciting news! It's all go.
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