On Gratitude

November 25, 2010

Today is Thanksgiving in the US – a day when we take some time out to remember all that we are thankful and celebrate our friends, family, successes and failures. I do have what is called a “gratitude journal”. I take some time out whenever I can and think about all the things that make [...]

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Setting Goals and Priorities for Personal Dividends

September 17, 2010

I have been busy. Personal Dividends was started in January 2009, and in the intervening months it has grown significantly. We now have over 40 contributors writing for the site, hundreds of subscribers (RSS and email) and a good amount of traffic through referrals and search engines. However, for the past few months, it all [...]

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Social Networking for Academics

August 13, 2010

Networking with our peers and discovering new and interesting people is probably one of those needs that is built in to the human psyche. After, that is how humans developed language, and this is what makes all the progress possible. So it is not surprising that we have seen social networks such as Facebook, Orkut, [...]

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Move to VPS, New Look and Other Changes to my Sites

June 20, 2010

Last two weeks have been extremely busy for me. With the growth in Personal Dividends, and the start of Value Stock Guide and Corporate Wiki, the sites I hope will grow its readership and popularity over time a great deal, I realized that my existing shared hosting at Blue Host was just not enough and [...]

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Dad, This is For You

June 20, 2010

You never saw your children grow up, but you continue to guide us every day. We have done many things you would not approve of, and quite a few that you would be very proud of. I remember all the times we had together, how you were always so eager to show us off; our [...]

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Friday Round Up and Trip to the Carnivals

June 4, 2010

Corporate Wiki was represented this week at the Blogging for Profit Carnival – May 31 Edition hosted at BlogConduit.com. The Carnival featured my article on keyword research techniques. Check it out, there are many other nice articles on blogging in the carnival. Technorati Tags: blog carnivals,seo

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How do I Conduct Keyword Research

May 16, 2010

When I first started publishing on the web with my first site over 2 years ago, I was pretty clueless about how to get traffic coming my way. I subscribed to the theory that if you have great content, visitors will show up. Some did, but not as many that I hoped for or wanted. [...]

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Readying Value Stock Guide for Rollout

April 21, 2010

I do not want to term this as a launch. A launch smacks of frenzied activity and clenched buttocks. This is neither. In more than one way, it is a recast of my own classic, Arohan’s investing life, which I am going to retire soon. Story of Arohan’s investing life As my first blog, I [...]

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Failure is Just a Step Towards Success

April 7, 2010

Of course, you never are really done succeeding. There is still so much more to do. In the same way, you do not really fail. You learn. Sometimes this learning costs a lot. But invariably in such cases, it also teaches a lot. Failure is an Option Take for example my earlier foray into franchising. [...]

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What I Know Is

March 25, 2010

Welcome! I was wondering when you will show up. This blog is an attempt to chronicle my personal adventures through entrepreneurship as I try to build a business empire from scratch. You can follow along my journey. I plan to write more than just about entrepreneurship. Whatever is on my mind, really, although it is likely, [...]

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