Ahmed Bilal

Should you sell or should you hold?

August 23rd, 2008

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You have a business that’s making you good money. It’s growing, people envy you and things are rocking.
Then someone comes along and offers you a lot of money for everything – more money than you could get if you sold the business today – and makes it clear that it’s now or never (the longer [...]

Future Proof Your Business

August 21st, 2008

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When you’re building your business, planning your next house, thinking of your new website or writing the specs for software, think of how it will be used an year, two years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years in the future.

Rage Against The Machine

August 18th, 2008

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If you understand how people tick – how they respond to certain ideas, how they act in certain environments – if you understand the basics, you can, theoretically speaking, affect the way people think around you in a deliberate, pre-determined fashion.
And if you do this in a specific way, you can get people to buy [...]

Manage Your Expectations

August 9th, 2008

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Usually our expectations are based on what we want to happen. On the other hand, what actually happens depends on what we do, or if your expectations are from other people, what they do.
Clearly there’s something wrong with this world since it doesn’t exactly conform to our expectations – however there’s always something to be [...]

8 Tips For Business Success

April 20th, 2008

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A few ideas I jotted down earlier this month – I’ll be adding to this list in the future (feel free to leave your additions in the comments):

5 ways your business can make more money

April 17th, 2008

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To paraphrase a famous author:
Consider any businessman at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his profits.
Making more money starts with intelligent financial management – and in this article you’ll read 5 steps for your business to make more money:

AdSense is not evil

April 14th, 2008

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Many people have criticised AdSense for encouraging lazy monetization (at best) and splogs (at worst). I respect these people, I just don’t respect this opinion that much.
Taking any monetization method to its extremes will produce a lopsided business that is overly dependent on one form of conversions. AdSense = niche search traffic. Now you can [...]

4 reasons to beat your ego with a big stick

April 12th, 2008

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Self-respect is a good thing. A positive sense of self-esteem gives you the confidence to handle difficult moments in life, and also acts as an attracting force in bringing you closer to others and to your personal goals.
There are times though, when believing in yourself turns into rigidity and a blanket refusal to change your [...]