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Freelancers are supposed like a machine that never get tired, do not have own life. Majority of business managers deals freelancers like that. They all are not wrong. For them what important is your work, they do not have human connection with you. Its directly give and take relationship. However, as a freelancer when you are about to sign a contract must include these points in your contract clause. If you client is serving a contract clause request to include these points in the clause. 1. Work description Make a detailed work description point wise. What you will do. Best way to draft is listen your client and make sharp pointed notes. So your client and take agreement. Include this in the contract clause. This way you will delivery exactly what was asked not more not less. Also this will save you from trouble when a client suddenly want to change everything or seek to do more.

A-void, if we look into the word Avoid, we can break into two different words A' & Void' In life we need to avoid negative sources of energy. Irrespective of who you are, student, job goer or business person, situation arise when you need to avoid some particular people or situation. You need to create 'A Void' and the source of destruction. Often what happen is, in the process to avoid we overthink about that particular and negatives. The negative emotions that we build within our mind create much stronger association, we think more and more and do the damage. The law of physics says, negative attracts. The negative thoughts that we feed in our mind attracts that particular set of object or person. Better remedy to avoid is, assign yourself new set of responsibilities, engage with better things, better thoughts and better emotions. When you are engaged with better things there will be no space in your mind to let in negative thoughts. Avoid does not employ you

FAIL, FAIl, FAil, Fail, fail When you fail, it creates deafening noise, for a moment it feels, your failure is the only news in the universe, people talk day in and night out about your failure and slowly noise diminishes. Nobody cares how much efforts you have put in there to create that mess. You feel dejected, you feel rejected, you feel lonely, you feel ashamed. You feel like a culprit. Often in the mist of hollow noises you forget to enjoy that failure point, you forget to celebrate that milestone and forget the fact that success is always next to failure. If you won't recognize your milestone why others will. People wants fruits not trees. It is the you who dared to plant the tree give it ample time to grow. You wished for the tree not fruits and tree is there. Fruit is a by product of tree. Success is a by product of your efforts. You need to be whole tree and not only fruits. Remember only a horse rider may fell down of a horse back. There are two kind of people in th

Phone ettiquete   Calls are important. You need to make and reply. When call must ask first if the receiver is in right situation to respond. When taking a call do not hold caller for the other person. When you are in a meeting with anyone do not take calls. When you hold a person for the sake of answering next it gives impression that man who was already engaged with you is less important. Systematic approach is important. Basic etiquette are important to make your business successful. I never met any successful person not having phone manners. On the other hand those less serious are complaint box, no manners, no systems, no etiquette. The way a person handle his phone from that I guess seriousness of doing business. On a given day a man was sitting with me we initiated a serious discussion, he took call in between and next I told him to decide first if the work in discussion is right for him. A given day I made a call to my office colleague, project was very important

Books are boring; 95% people will quote this. However problem lies within you and not in the books. There are books for everyone. Problem lies within you. You don't want want to read. If you say reading is a difficult task tell me how many books you tried? If reading is not a thing for you then you definitely miss out on learning. And without learning you will never fail. Then you are always successful in your own world. Reading books propels you to take new challenges because you learn from the mistakes of others. Human mind is designed to ask questions. And to raise that question you need a point of reference. Your minds tells you what you ask to it. That's why Theory of Relativity has taken birth. Reading is like a vehicle, you need to learn to drive on it to reach your goals. If one book seems boring to you, go library, search there, you will one that will interest you. Books does same work to your life that chewing on a bubblegum do to your jaw. In your best interests

Perhaps you run a blog or you planning to have one up. You want more and more comment to build some links. Right? Everyone want. But the problem begins when you leave open comment section to everyone, so anyone can come and write a comment. Normally people start spamming. This trend i have seen across all websites on Internet. So if you want to get some quality links moderate every comment. Be honest to yourself. Publish a comment if its worth else do away with it. A bad quality link or content on your site is like a parasite. Keep your blog clean of spams. Nobody likes those unwanted threads. To say a no is better than yes.

Study competitor keywords to win the SEO is most popular myth on the Internet. It could be one technique to win over your competitor but not the whole strategy. SEO market is full of keyword, many of the companies miserably fail in audience research. The noise around Keyword research is so loud that business managers missed out on the main thing; i.e. what users want? I am not against keyword research, many companies win the SERPs game by focusing on SEO keywords but fail in generating sales.They feel appearing on top of searches will win the customers. However, true SEO is, study of audience needs and then working those pain points. To know what your audience wants, reach them and ask. Understand your customers pain points. Then address those issues, make the SEO points your title keywords, meta description, keywords and tags Time have changed now. Today audience get everything without asking. Google search is still good business in inventory but I doubt if this is equally good as

If you are not productive this is you and not the surroundings. Sometime surroundings interfere but we can get rid of such things with little efforts. I am a work from home person. Outside noises are obvious when kids play outside. I use that time to go and pick essentials from market, long walk and meeting with common friends. That is just one example. If I can so you can. If your productivity is less see and analyze where your energy is flowing and do the following 1. Get up daily on same time. Go to bed daily on same time. 2. Plan your meal time. Irregular eating habits are big culprit. 3. Exercise daily on schedule. 4. Schedule your work hours. 5. Give time to family. 6. Weekends are for friends. 7. Enjoy lonesomeness. Do not go to amazon instead every now and then say once in a week go alone for couple of minutes and spend time with yourself. 8. Learn something new or read a book 9. Do small tasks more often, polish your shoes, iron your dress etc. 10. Be thankful to ot

Gadget Detox / Social Media Detox / Digital Detox are common terms these days. Since Android took space in our Jeans either we are busy on social media or talking with friends. Today phone takes 70% of an average man's concentration. Often I spot people who have second priority to even take money. Phone is like lifeline for huge population. The funny part is 98% phone users simply don't know why they are using that app. The Mobile Phone was a luxury, smartphone is pain in the ass. Cheap Data has made people mindless. And the this mindless phone users aid to traffic vows. Often its like one deaf is honking horn to other deaf. I am not a fan of gadgets will I don't need it truly. Since I bought my first mobile some 15-20 years ago the phone was my bed partner lying few feet away from me but reachable even if I am in sleep. I get only calls with purpose. I bought smartphone much later that too in confusion if smartphone and app can be more productive. Since I bought smartp

Automation is good but is it reliable too? For very long time Android phone was alien to me. But considering public demand of SEND ME Whatsapp rants lastly I invested in this idiot gadget. Not more than 24 hours and I realized it's a complete waste of money given if you do not take too many photos and if you do not work in an android environment. But anyway hole was already burnt in my pocket. Only one thing become easy for me that is reading email. I kept only emails on and relied on email notifications. However today no mails popped out. I thought may be everyone celebrating India's Republic Day. I text message to CEO of reputed company regarding a pending email answer. He is a busy fellow. You can get him easily. Since matter was important I thought to give a text message. Out of nothing I opened my email and found his reply which he did early morning. SHOCKED. Lesson learnt check your mail box manually before texting.

Too much of anything is just bad. You cannot consume too much in your tummy, you cannot consume too much in your mind. I was never a social media person because if I don't know a person how can I interact and share my personal interests. However, at one point I worked for a social media company and created many accounts, written many social media guides and published online. The noise that social media creates gives an illusion that you can make big things out of it. Though I never spend many hours on social media but I started sharing content on it, on and off, and with certainty I can say my own sites performed better without social sharing. From my experiences I found going on many social channels means dilution of ideas. Because I am individual and not a company I cannot go to many social channels and create content. I don't have budget to appoint someone who can work for me on social media. If you are individual blogger like me and creating many social channels for sure

Blogging is way of living for me. Whether I blog here or for my employer, in either case I am getting something. Medium has choice to go for a free or paid version. Since I publish content and keep it open for public viewing, I would expect to at least read articles of my liking from it. Going for a subscription is one option but for a price of $5 a month I can buy a book, read it, re-read it and preserve it to be read by future generations. I will like to extract maximum from 5 bucks and not just to spend on a monthly subscription. In addition, since I give away content free on my medium.com I would expect to at least have privilege of reading. If I can't have this luxury why I will keep staying at any such platform and give them profit without return. Yes, you heard it right, when I sign up for any social media or any website or app, I give them one customer. There number of user increases by one. Number attract more numbers. More people show interests, as busine

Data is cheap now, in fact raw cheap if I compare it from ten years down the line. For the price of a meal or less you get Internet data for almost full month. ISPs has there own ways of making holes in every pocket. No one is spared. Data has become basic need of the times and ISPs making good profits. But question is how much data? Are we not overusing it. Shall there become a time when data will be in danger of becoming extinct and we will need to make campaigns same ways as we do it today for air, water or electricity? Time will give the answer. Stories are served day and night and we are using data mindlessly without thinking how much we are paying for it. Android Smartphones has added opium to data consumption and Push Notifications given that extra mileage. Many smartphone users subscribe to notifications unknowingly. Once smartphone is hand you get many things which you want or don’t want. There is an impression that I am paying for data only, that too very small sum, smartp

DesignCap Lets You Create High-Quality Posters and Flyers for Free DesignCap is a web service that offers hundreds of templates, thousands of photographs, clip art, fonts, and shape. All are free of charge. You can easily create posters or flyers for all purposes such as the advertisement, sales, wedding ceremonies, events, holidays by using templates. You can change the arrangement of objects by drag & drop, and intuitively customize your design with easy-to-use editing tools.

Japanese company Nomura is planning to hire more robots than humans in 2019. Perhaps you could be next. Here are 7 benefits of hiring robots. 1. Robots can work tirelessly. 2. Robots do not need parenting leaves. 3. Huge savings on free coffee and snacks. 4. They can't involve in office politics. 5. Work place harassment will be thing of the past. 6. They listen instructions and follow as advised. They never say no or put lame excuses. 7. They don't ask for raise in hourly wages. News Source http://toi.in/FHivkY0/a19li

Instant messaging made huge presence in forms of free messaging apps like whatsapp, IMO, fb messenger, Truecaller etc. There is huge line of instant messenger waiting in the queue for success. Due to massive use of instant messengers email is slowly becoming an old lady in the neighborhood. However, it's still preferred and trusted medium for business communication. Most of the business communications  happens over messengers. Emoji, customize auto responder, quick replies and free call features makes instant messengers popular. To give old school buddies a new flavor of email Gmail has rolled out automatic customer responder, Some typical responses are Thank you Thanks a lot Thank you all Looks like Gmail picks your most used words in email to generate a typical quick response. Open any email, in the end you will see couple of automatic quick responders Click on any and reply window will open with auto filled fields, to, subject and mail body. You can edit all these fiel

Social networks take huge space over Internet.  Anyone can join any social media for work or passion. Today it's a big playground for creating connections and build human capital. Often there is confusion about social media selection.  People join many but enjoy none.  If you are a professional and thinking to select right social for you,  here I have tried to divide social media uses according to professions. Medium.com : Good for Copy writers,  content marketers and authors. Written a book? Now take to medium,  start blogging. Let people know your book is available on Amazon. GIT Hub: Do you know a computer language.  Go to GIT Hub. Write your code,  build programs that work for humans. Build connection with fellow GITans Pinterest: Good in colors and graphics. This is the social media for people who can create nice pictures. Instagram: Obsessed with phone camera or looking to make career in fashion and modeling or you have a design boutique,  show what you have on Instagram

Do you handle a team? Are you responsible to report someone? Chances are you are sending cc of every email to Boss. Stop doing it now. Instead send bcc Heck,  why they call it blank carbon copy. Indeed its boss carbon copy. Some team members may get uncomfortable when CEO is reading every email. This happened to me, suddenly a team member is losing her peace of mind. I am content consultant for a company and handling a small team. I repeatedly explained her whole procedure, she not followed. Now,  here, game turned ugly. She gave an explanation which was excuse because Boss is reading. I turned out heavy hand and she lost control. Lame excuses are definitely not Welcome but before marking a cc think twice. A bcc won't do any damage to transparency. I was asked by my CEO to mark cc of every email but from today it's bcc.

Custom domain; a domain name starting from https; like https://example.com is considered as secure domain. When you submit your personal information on one such website, it travels through a secure path. Only two person know your information; you and the backened guy behind the website.Your data has no chances to get exposed to hackers. Security become a major concern for IT companies. In the information age Data is costly than Gold. Google has announced, the websites with a secure domain name shall be considered safe and hence may rank better on search engines. Many companies follow the trend. Google on its blogger platform enabled https option, means a person blogging on a blogspot platform can chose a domain as https://myname.blogspot.com however this luxury was not available for bloggers using a custom domain name. Today, I can see Google has enabled security certificate for Blogspot Bloggers with custom domain name. How now you chose to host your domain as https://myname.tl

Every blogger want to be seen on top of Google Search Engine Result Pages also called SERPs. This is digital era. Writing a blog and not seen on SERPs is very much like leaving the money on table. This is pain point of many bloggers and gain point for SEO companies. If you have written a blog post or planning for it and want to be seen on search results here are some points to consider 10 tips to show your blog posts on top of search engine result pages (serps) 1. Your post idea is great. Ask yourself, what problem this post is going to solve? 2. Write for the audience. Massive content is generated every minute. From observations I know average user stays on a webpage for less than a minute. A very small population truly read whole post, normally people look for key points. Instead of reading thoroughly people quick scan through a post. Write in bulleted points or numbered points. 3. Give references. Perhaps, you are an expert in your field but without references people are les