5 Habits That Will Badly Fail You as a Businessman

Business is all around us. With the world getting over populated, ideas are flooding around everywhere. Every new idea gives birth to a new earning plan. The most difficult process for any type of earning strategy is taking the first initiative to turn an idea into a practical plan. Rest all those profit and loss sinusoidal waves follow naturally by themselves. 

Note: For bloggers and freelancers who are looking to expand their career goals, the habits below are a must read.

The success of a real time earning mechanism is based on strong principles and set out rules and unless you know them then you are really just riding your business on a knife edge. I am sharing below some significant habits in a businessman's life that unless rectified could lead to a terrible end that leads no where.

1. No Clarity + No Purpose = No Results

Most of the business decisions that often fail are because of no clear rules, aims and financial plans. Statistics from U.S Small Business administration reveal that approximately about half of all new small business launched in USA will fail in coming 10 years. Reason? Poor financial management and set out goals.

Unless you clearly know what you need to do, how can you lead the cavalry following you at your back. Make your goals clear and write them in paper and pin it on your notice board to keep yourself focused and determined. Now to achieved these well defined goals, you need to be clear with every move you make. The best advise in this case is to look at your competitor and track all his moves. Only then you know what can turn into profit and what can cause loss. Keeping an upper hand is also the Market Samurai's style.  Clarity and Purpose will surely give fruitful result at the end of the day.

2. Abusing The Freedom

The above picture defines it all. Its every entrepreneur's dream to work late and sleep late. Having the freedom to work when you want and do what you want is awesome but this will drag you down to floor! Yes you are the sole boss of your business but you need to be much more disciplined when you are not working under someone. There is competition all around you and your competitor is well focused and his eyes are on all your activities. A slightest slumber can ruin all your empire. Being lazy will certainly fail you but hard work would undoubtedly rise you high.

To be honest being lazy at work is my biggest weakness. With increasing readership I should rather be thankful and should work even more, but the physical laziness has pushed me several miles away. The readers often find it uncomfortable to receive late replies to emails and comments but being late at their call is badly ruining the blog's growth. This something we need to work on it seriously.

3. Acting Like a Rabbit Rather a Wise Turtle

People often switch from one idea to another. Anything that seems more attracting, distracts your attention you jump to that discarding the project you were working on. Have patience  and give your plans a space to grow. Act wisely and never postpone or abandon a business target unless you are too sure.  Consistency and strong determination are key requirements for a risky career like entrepreneurship. Don't run like a attention seeking rabbit with distractions all around him, walk like a focused turtle who knows what his target is and how long will it take to finish.  

4. Early Demands

Small business owners often attach huge expectations before the Business has not even groomed properly. Keeping short term goals is the biggest mistake you can commit. Keep your demands high and expect them once the time is right. give a space for the business exposure. Let the market know and publicize your services as far as you can. Once you become the next Giant whale fish, you can take at a gallop all the small fishes.

5. Keeping Two Coins and  Investing One

The great billionaire and one of world's richest investors: Warren buffett gives great emphasis on investment. To grow a company no matter small or big, you will need to sacrifice a bigger share of your cake piece.  You need to keep the stomach half empty else too full a tummy could turn you clumsy and let your competitor win the applause. You must learn to invest more and store less for a bigger and faster Boom.

What are your views?

What do you think about the habits explained above and what habits do you know that has always given you the lower edge when it comes to performance. How far do you agree or disagree, please let me know your valuable views on this important topic. We will be publishing such posts more apart from coding and web designing stuff in order to keep you updated with all spices of online business requirements.  I just hope you find it helpful. Peace and blessings pals. :>

Does outsource staffing really works?

With the rapid advancement of technology it has become almost impossible for one person to have knowledge of everything. We’ll be specially focusing on web development and web programming here. Even before couple of years the situation was completely different as most of the websites were being built using any of the popular scripting languages (like .NET, ASP or PHP) in a customized way. But these days with the advancement of technologies there are so many open source and free PHP based projects are available, that people are tending to build their web applications customizing these open source projects.

To work with these open source projects one developer must have profound knowledge of PHP, Object Oriented Programming, CSS and JavaScript. Along with these technical knowledge there has to be sound debugging capability.

Off course it is not possible for a single developer to have all the above mentioned technical skills, and thus to complete a project successfully it has to be a group of developers working together with their individual technical skills. There comes the benefit of outsourcing your project to a company, who has got qualified programmers. PHP is becoming very much popular with its new features and versions. Most of the web projects are done on PHP. So if you are planning to have a project in custom PHP or in open source like Joomla, WordPress, osCommerce and etc. It is the best dicision to hire a PHP developer from a well known company, so that you can get the help of other required resources from the same company without employing a bunch of developers. This lower down the development cost heavily. Moreover in countries like India and China, PHP programmers cost much less compared to European Countries or the States. So if you are from Europe or the States then it is a good idea to look for a company in India to hire PHP programmers, because India has got very talented programmers and well profiled IT companies.

Finally before hiring a PHP developer from a company, judge the company by talking to some of the existing clients of the company. Portfolio always may not work, even it is really hard to be sure that the project displayed on portfolio was actually built by the company. May be the company initially built the project and after that another company made betterment to the project. So it is wiser to talk to the developer, judge the developer and talking to their existing clients before hiring developer(s) from them.

Iphone A Dream Phone For People

Note:This is a Guest Post from our new honourable member Subro.
As is known to all, iPhone has become an important tool in our daily life.In addition to communicating with friends, we also listen to music, watch movies and surf the internet etc. with it. Most of time, we’d like to use iPhone to watch all kinds of movies to amuse and relax ourselves. It is so cool and portable that we could show it anywhere and anytime we like.

Due to the huge success of Apple’s iPhone and its rapid spread amongst the users inspired lots of companies to jump into iPhone Application Development. Beside the device Apple has also provided the magnificent development tool xCode, which is an add-on benefit to the developer. Many people around the world are building different type of apps with different usability.
While programming a iPhone app It is easy to generate the idea behind the app, but it is not so easy to convert the idea into an app which is simple to use yet have cool features and user interface.

While developing a iPhone application, the very first step after finalizing the idea is to draw the screens and flow on white papers. This practice reduces UI redesigning or flow changing heavily. Drawing all the screens with complete detail like how the tabbar will be placed, what will be tabs, how the navigation will be displayed, how the table view will be laid up, where and how the buttons will be placed and etc. It is even better to use a pencil while drawing up the screens, as any amendment or modification can be done easily by erasing certain portions. Do not draw the screens tiny, instead draw larger screens so that every part is properly visible. Being a good iPhone Developer you must follow basic rule.

The scope of this article is limited to strategy only, so we’ll not talk much about the iPhone programming, but while programming, maintain proper naming convention for your variables and methods. Use proper indentation. Don’t use extra lines or spaces. All these make a code more readable.
Finally when you are packaging your application make sure that the Version Number, App Identifier, Product Name, App Display Name, Required Icons everything has been setup properly. Then build it and give it a test drive on your actual device!