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AUGUST 18, 2016
Here is a compilation of websites that offer beautiful photographs for free... Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/ Free Images - http://www.freeimages.com/photo/braille-reader-1314597 Pixabay -...
JULY 31, 2016
Here's an easy way to compile your editorial calendar and it is suggestive that you should open your editorial calendar on your system while you are working; as when you get an article idea you can...
JULY 31, 2016
why do some writers take a whole lot of time - a day, a week, months to come up with a piece of writing; while some others write almost every day, consistently. what is the reason of their...
JULY 29, 2016
“Nilofar possesses a bizarre marketing interpretations and ideologies. Very detail oriented, innovative player and eye for detailing perfectionist, her creative ideas, entrepreneurial spirit,...
JULY 29, 2016
“Nilofar possesses a bizarre marketing interpretations and ideologies. Very detail oriented, innovative player and eye for detailing perfectionist, her creative ideas, entrepreneurial spirit,...
JULY 29, 2016
What keeps me engaged as a marketer is the ever changing and fluid nature of the job. Every day is a new challenge that needs a different perspective and thought process. It is nowhere close to the...
JUNE 29, 2016
Buffer– Use Buffer to schedule your content across Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for posting at the best times optimized for your account or at the times of your choosing. Buffer helps streamline...
JUNE 29, 2016
Contently – A platform that allows businesses to work with high-quality freelance writers that also handles the payment and management of the editorial process. Skyword– This tool offers businesses...
JANUARY 25, 2016
We all want to be as efficient as possible, but that can be a challenge -- especially if we have an overwhelming to-do list. How do we determine which tasks on our to-do list are most important?...
JANUARY 25, 2016
Did you know that it takes 30 days to form a new habit? The first few days are similar as to how you would imagine the birth of a new river. Full of enthusiasm it gushes forth, only to be met by...
JANUARY 25, 2016
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." "Imagination is more...
JANUARY 6, 2016
In late 2014, we made 17 predictions about the content marketing industry for 2015. We were on the money for most of our guesses (distribution took over), but some of our forecasts may have been...
JANUARY 3, 2016
Lately, I have been obsessed with taking care of my skin and have seen some amazing results on me and my friends who have been using my routine. It is however not a fixed routine but may help many...
JUNE 9, 2015
I heard about traffic in my childhood, which meant a literal traffic concerning transportation - road, sea and air traffic to say. But now, people are more concerned about traffic to their website,...
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Planning constitutes an important part of an individuals life. Proper planning leads to effective implementation and achievement of the desired goal. Tips for a successful career plan: Rank your...
OCTOBER 29, 2014
To start ones career with a satisfying job there are some things to be understood first of all. 1. Does the job you are applying suits your attitude? Attitude plays a very major role in working...
OCTOBER 23, 2014
I still remember the time when the first time in India yahoo mail was launched years ago and everybody was so happy about sending emails to each other in a fraction of second. The first thing I did...
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
When you have your startups you are worried about your operational costs and reducing your fixed liabilities. Given below are some of the techniques which you should follow to spread brand...
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
It was a pleasant morning when me and my brothers went to eat the morning breakfast at a local stall in hyderabad. This guy in the picture religiously wakes up at the morning thread of first Sun...
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
1. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing--that’s why we recommend it daily.” --Zig Ziglar2. “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Written by James Altucher at Quora.. I'll answer this with the same advice I've given my kids. First off, forget about your bachelor's in Computer Science. I did that and then went to grad school...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Today a 2nd year girl came for an interview at Marcostat for the position of an intern and I wondered how I was when I was pursuing my MBA. When I was studying my MBA at Jamia Millia Islam is...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Marcostat, a Marketing and Staffing consulting company in Hyderabad is launching Marcostat Certification Program for Management Graduates in Hyderabad. BBA and MBA graduates (pursuing or passed...
JUNE 19, 2014
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MAY 24, 2014
I was blind but now I see: By James Altucher Choose Yourself: By James Altucher Trade like Warren Buffet: By James Altucher How to be the Luckiest Person Alive: By James Altucher
MAY 21, 2014
MAY 20, 2014
Any piece of information that can be used to convey a message to the readers is a content. This takes the shape of article, case study, testimonials, whitepapers, research reports, blog articles,...
MAY 9, 2014
[slideshare id=33526952&sc=no] How to Produce Better Content Ideas from Mark Johnstone
MAY 8, 2014
1) Optimize your website for "searchers." 2) Create content using the right keywords. 3) Ensure your site provides a cognitively fluent experience. 4) Write blog posts on topics people need answers...
MAY 8, 2014
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO TAKE YOUR LEAD NURTURING CAMPAIGNS TO THE NEXT LEVEL: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
MAY 2, 2014
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MAY 2, 2014
Inbound marketing is the process of helping potential customers find your company – often before they are even looking to make a purchase – and then turning that early awareness into brand...
MAY 1, 2014
Click Here to Download: The Greatest Lead Generation Tips, Tricks and Ideas
APRIL 29, 2014
In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler...
APRIL 29, 2014
Companies are concerned about the budget involved need to be careful where to publicize their brand. Mentioned below are some of the promotion that you need to do if you want to promote at a lower...
APRIL 29, 2014
The Ultimate Guide to PPC Landing Pages CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
APRIL 29, 2014
I happened to come across this amazing site called Buzzsumo, http://buzzsumo.com/ which allows you to check what are the content trends depending on the keywords that you provide. Find Amazing...
APRIL 26, 2014
Words leads to confusion, actions don't. .. #Sri #quote2014
APRIL 25, 2014
When you know yourself thoroughly (if you ever do) you will also know much about others. #Quote2014
APRIL 25, 2014
Humility is the forerunner of success.
APRIL 25, 2014
I have added new books in my blog: Check out here.. Art of the Start: By Guy Kawasaki The Macintosh Way: By Guy Kawasaki The Art of War: By Sun Tzu Maxims from – Benjamin Franklin: “The Way to...
APRIL 13, 2014
Being honey-tongued may or may not be my criteria when I am more focused on stating truth and laying down facts. #Quote2014
MARCH 13, 2014
[slideshare id=31774041&style=border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] 6 Steps to Optimize Your Emails for Higher Click-Through Rates and...
MARCH 12, 2014
[slideshare id=31737862&style=border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] Stop Being A Creep! Why Email Tracking Is Useless Without A Sales Strategy...
MARCH 11, 2014
[slideshare id=31401959&style=border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] 10 Ideas for a Better LinkedIn Banner Image from HubSpot
MARCH 11, 2014
The 2013 Design Guide to Email Marketing [Infographic]From: HubSpot Marketing Software
MARCH 11, 2014
[slideshare id=28850072&style=border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] How to Write Emails People WANT to Respond to [Sales Template] from HubSpot
MARCH 10, 2014
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MARCH 4, 2014
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MARCH 4, 2014
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MARCH 4, 2014
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MARCH 4, 2014
[slideshare id=31847900&style=border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] The CMO's Guide to Marketing Org Structure from HubSpot All-in-one...
MARCH 3, 2014
What is a case study: Case study is the descriptive and informative way to portray how your company provided solution to your customer and solved their business issue/challenge that they were...
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
Marketing plan is not a stand alone document but an image and supporting set of activities which aligns with the business vision and the sales strategy. An understanding of the current scenario is...
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Webinars are a great way to say, "hey we are thought leaders in our space and we know our stuff". It helps in branding, promotion, building thought leadership and trust in the industry, closing...
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
JANUARY 29, 2014
Not till the time that it has its differentiation quotient intact. Also, there are other variables in consideration. If the market leader is still price competitive, has a loyal customer following,...
JANUARY 29, 2014
1. All starts with a strategy: Frame a marketing plan including extreme clarity on what offerings you have, what is your USP, clarity on cost and deliverable, target market, segment, positioning...
JANUARY 28, 2014
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JANUARY 28, 2014
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JANUARY 28, 2014
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JANUARY 27, 2014
I was blind but now I see: By James Altucher Choose Yourself: By James Altucher Trade like Warren Buffet: By James Altucher How to be the Luckiest Person Alive: By James Altucher Art of the Start:...
JANUARY 24, 2014
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JANUARY 21, 2014
OCTOBER 21, 2013
Courtesy: Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2013
1. Learn new ways of being productive 2. Sleep with an empty mind: Einstein put it best: "Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think." This is a practical...
OCTOBER 1, 2013
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JULY 26, 2013
1. Website: Your website speaks a lot about your business. It is a store house of information which you must use for displaying your capabilities and your service portfolio. However, you must make...
JULY 26, 2013
The website is usually the first face of the company and should be taken seriously. People usually start clicking on the web url of the firm when they first hear about it. Here are certain things...
JULY 26, 2013
1. Drink a glass of water when you wake up 2. Remember the greater goal of your life 3. Exercise: A healthy body is an important asset. Make sure that you do some form of exercise or yoga in thr...
JULY 25, 2013
Here are some of the steps which you apply to promote your e-commerce website: Step 1: Apply Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to your e-commerce website SEO is a vital technique essentially used to...
JULY 5, 2013
JULY 3, 2013
What Does Your Handwriting Say About You? infographic
JULY 1, 2013
The State of B2B Content Marketing in 2013 infographic
JULY 1, 2013
Why Email Marketing infographic
JULY 1, 2013
4 Tools to Leverage Pinterest and Drive Traffic infographic
JUNE 28, 2013
JUNE 27, 2013
JUNE 26, 2013
#5 Greatest Decision—General Electric. Jack Welch’s decision to fully fund a first-in-class training center at Crotonville, led to the development of hundreds of great leaders who practiced the “GE...
JUNE 25, 2013
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JUNE 10, 2013
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JUNE 9, 2013
To all marketers.. How about doing one piece of content marketing each day??
JUNE 9, 2013
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] Time is a Tickin' (Photo credit: im elsewhere)[/caption] The most effective way of using time is to finish the task which you can do 'NOW'
JUNE 8, 2013
Ditch. Dare. Do! 3D Personal Branding infographic
JUNE 6, 2013
JUNE 6, 2013
"You may think to lay down your weapons and take rest for a day, that is the time you should say - 'I WON'T', and continue to strive harder"
JUNE 5, 2013
Hyderabad, 5th June 2013 –Freyr Inc., a specialist provider of regulatory solutions announced the launch of “Green Earth Initiative” today on the occasion of ‘World Environment Day’. This...
DECEMBER 31, 2012
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,100...
DECEMBER 18, 2012
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DECEMBER 12, 2012
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DECEMBER 7, 2012
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DECEMBER 4, 2012
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DECEMBER 3, 2012
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DECEMBER 3, 2012
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DECEMBER 3, 2012
NILOFAR NIGAR is a branding professional with over 8 years of experience into corporate and employment branding, events, content and digital marketing, communications and innovative marketing...
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
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NOVEMBER 27, 2012
by Shane Snow. Check out our data visualization blog.
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Learn about data visualization tools.
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
"It will come to you eventually, if you are persistent and passionate enough."
NOVEMBER 23, 2012
"Education should raise awareness and provide clarity of thought, mere digesting of the subjects without understanding the connect, does NO help"
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
"Nothing can be done about the past nor can the future be predicted, only the present can be worked upon well.. Do one thing today which will make a difference to your personality or your work.....
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
"It is not what you dream that you achieve but it is what you innately desire that you crave to achieve"
OCTOBER 25, 2012
OCTOBER 22, 2012
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln Ever imagined your life working without any breaks, well it is indeed dreadful and monotonous. You definitely need a break...
OCTOBER 9, 2012
To win, holds different meanings to different people. It can be as small as getting your first job, to as big as establishing your own company. Actually what is small and what is not, is again a...
OCTOBER 8, 2012
"You don't realize the importance of having time for yourself till you are at fixed at something and you dont have time to even breathe"
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Preparing and delivering a presentation is a skill and can be developed by following some very easy steps. Time: Take adequate time from your schedule to prepare for the presentation and focus on...
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Every one is in the gyan mode on how to crack interviews. So here as well are some of the easy tips on how to perform in interviews by 'Strengthening your Strengths'. The basic qualities that...
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Planning constitutes an important part of an invidual's life. Proper planning leads to effective implementation and achievement of the desired goal. Tips for a successful career plan: Rank your...
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Microsoft Powerpoint is an excellent tool to make a powerful presentation. It comes with easy features which you can go through in the help section. Given here are some of the things that you...
OCTOBER 2, 2012
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity", is rightly said by Adam Smith. Ambiguity in the general context refers to non clarity or simply something...
OCTOBER 2, 2012
The recent buzz in the LPG cylinder segment is profound. The central government had declared that six cylinders will be provided to Indian households which was again after much deliberation and...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Winning is the satisfactory completion of one's priorities... Read full article
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Being humble doesn't mean u r weak, it is not a nature of the weak but the character of the strong to be humble an non arrogant yet place his views rightly and logically..
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Success comes to the person who is content.. Well it holds a different meaning for different beings.. Asking a question like: how successful you are? or Do you think you are successful?, depends on...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
There are no good or bad times, it is how you feel to the circumstance which makes you feel it is good or bad... Time...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Social equality can only be achieved through Knowledge. Knowledge fades away what is unreal and leads you to proper path.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Keeping hope is an excellent thing to have but to cling on to that hope and doing nothing is futile. When I say that one of the prime reasons for laziness is hope, I mean to defend this statement...
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Here's a list of articles that have been published on various online sources: Ezine: Brunei Darrusalam National Vision 2035 - The Real Inclusive Growth Benefits of Transforming Into Low Carbon...
JULY 5, 2011
Remember a number of tasks that we have planned and left unfinished. Leaving it unfinished does not only hampers the task but also hampers our own selves. It slowly becomes your habit that you...
JULY 2, 2011
All set, daily routine broken down into the life’s priorities, buffered slots, weekend time for leisure and you can go on. How many times have we all done it? We have read articles about time...
JUNE 14, 2011
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JANUARY 20, 2011
Tesco is one of the world’s largest retailer. How did it become one and how did it sustain its position? What were the strategies that were followed? Let’s take a look in the below where I have...
AUGUST 17, 2010
We have all read in management books that a manager has the following qualities: Planning Leading/Directing Organizing Controlling Coordinating Monitoring Then if these are the basic qualities that...
DECEMBER 24, 2009
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DECEMBER 9, 2009
Join this exclusive network of Senior HR Professionals for free. This serves as a platform for mutual learning and comes with lot many benefits. Please mail: nilofar.nigar@kenexa.com to register...
DECEMBER 8, 2009
DECEMBER 6, 2009
We all are well aware of Cigarette breaks, lunch breaks, tea breaks while in office but what emerges now as a trend is the Social Media breaks. As we are getting more and more addicted to sites...
DECEMBER 4, 2009
This article basically talks about how you measure the effectivess of print and online media coverage. There are several methods that usually people talk about like the ones mentioned below but...
DECEMBER 3, 2009
All markets are liars. A line which is really famous and most of the people agree to it. The moment anybody says marketers, all they have to say are never trust them. But if this was true howcome...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
A person should be a good learner, what does this imply? It invariably depicts that The know all factor is the feeling that you tend to know everything an
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
Newsletters are a great way to consolidate information and present it to your target audience. The question is how to begin.. First, zero down on your target audiences. Who do you want to read your...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
I have always wondered how writers like William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Homer, and Charles Dickens to name a few make their mark as writers...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
Marketing is one of the most crucial aspect you need to consider for a sustainable business. For that reason, it is more important than ever to reflect upon and improve your marketing practices...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
An entrepreneur’s responsibilities reach far and wide. You wear a number of hats on a day-to-day basis, none more important than marketing. To succeed, you must learn the strategies and practices...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
See around you...... Everyone is so worried about their weight. They keep talking about how many pounds they have put on, issues with not enough time for workout, and so on. Even when they start...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
Run outside instead of Treadmill Gardening Avoid Paper Recycling Avoid plastic bags
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
What is going to happen? What if it does not work? Don't even know if that option is better? -- All of these emerge from what is called the 'unknown'. Fear primarily is a product of not knowing...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
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NOVEMBER 30, -0001
Sales proposals: Love them or hate them, they're an integral part of any successful deal. While some salespeople might view these documents as unnecessary -- or even as a waste of time --they're...
NOVEMBER 30, -0001
Serving as HubSpot’s CEO since the company’s inception, Brian Halligan is a senior lecturer at MIT and the author of two books on marketing strategy. Halligan got his start in sales and marketing...