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Tomorrow will be a Better Day

15 Aug
Your career has its ups and downs
We all have or have had career slumps and they do pass. If you are feeling “slumpish” these days, know that you will look back one day and recognize the valuable lessons you’ve learned from this time in your life. Everything happens for a reason-you just might not know the reason yet.
If this is a down period for you, the good news is it’s up from here.
While You Are Figuring Things Out, Trust That Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day. Here’s How To Focus On What’s Yet To Come:
1. Write Down What You Want Your Future To Look Like
Create a picture of where you see yourself in the future. Your picture can be one of where you want to be in a day, a week, a month, a year, or even farther into the future. This picture gives your journey a clear and reachable destination and provides focus.
Close your eyes. Let your imagination take over. Get in touch with what you really want and what is important to you. Ask yourself what you want and get your answers down on paper. Keep this description with you and look at it every day. Great things tend to happen to those who know where they are going.

2. Have A Plan

Once you have your answers, you can begin to put them into a formal structure.
Having a plan is vital to your success. With a plan, a fulfilling career will be far easier to achieve. Without a plan, you will be working far harder than you have to.
The trick is to be clear about the steps that are necessary to ensure your success. The more specific you can be in describing your steps, the better. Figuring out in detail what steps you will take-and when you will take them-is the foundation of your plan.
Another reason to create a plan is that it will prevent your goals from becoming overwhelming. The temptation to feel overwhelmed is normal. You are, after all, about to jumpstart your career. The structure of your plan will give you comfort and help you get moving again.

3. Take Action
Action is essential to your success. And, one of the best ways to keep your momentum going is having the steps you created in your plan written into your calendar.
Use your calendar as your friend to help guide you and keep you on track. Having a calendar will help determine whether you reach your goal or not. If your steps are written into your calendar, there is a higher probability that you can quickly check them off your list, because what you need to do is in front of you. If your steps are not in your calendar, they probably will not get done, because you may forget what you need to do.
Your calendar is your friend. Begin your friendship by opening your calendar and entering the steps from your plan into it. Commit to doing at least one thing every day, whether you feel like it or not. One action per day leads to a substantial number of actions taken over time. This is how you will be successful.
4. Tell Yourself That Greatness Is Waiting For You
The workplace, from time to time, can take a toll on your self-esteem. For example, if you are working in an environment that is filled with negativity, it will be harder for you to be positive. If your boss tells you daily that your work is no good, it will be harder for you to believe in your abilities. If you have been out of work for some time, it will be harder for you to trust that you have something worthwhile to contribute to the workplace, or more difficult to think why someone would hire you.
How you view yourself is how the world views you, too. If you are confident, the world sees a confident individual. If you don’t feel good about yourself (for whatever reason), the world sees a person they don’t have to pay much attention to.
Many clients have asked me whether I think they will be successful in reaching their goals. My answer is yes-if they do the work and they believe in themselves.
So, what do you say? You only have one life to live, so it might as well be a
 
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Web Life Cycle

02 Aug

Every website planted on the Internet unfortunately do not grow. Some never get planted, some simply fail to grow, some struggle for a while and then disappear, and only a few happen to stay, grow and prosper. There are several factors playing role to filter the best websites to reach the top of the competition and be successful.
First and most important factor is understanding what is the Web Life Cycle. Only if you take your website through a healthy life cycle it will grow and be fruitful. Web success rate is only 5% when hundreds and thousands of websites are launched every day.

Let’s discuss step by step the Web Life Cycle:

1. Planning
A website need to have a clear plan of action. Its purpose, its features, and how it will serve its Target Users. Based on the plan a Domain Name following your Brand Theme is required. The concept of the website should be focused on its ideology and the whole website should be in the same theme.

Market competition analysis is very important to understand where our Web Service can make the difference. More also it help us analyze how people are currently working in the industry.

The plan should include a time line, investment budget, and third party resources and services required to make it happen.

2. Vendor Selection
Vendors are available everywhere, from our neighborhood to friends at Facebook. Building a website is not a myth anymore, however a professional and high impact website requires much more efforts and skills.

You should contact multiple web development parties, by sending them your website requirement plan. You can send them a summary of your project and see what they propose you and for how much. Contacting vendors having experience in your industry help you to make a decision.

Vendor and technology selection is the backbone of the website’s future. By having a comparison between multiple suggestions, technologies, and proposals, you can help decide your best partner for the development or setup of the website. Single or multiple vendors may work on a web project.

Many of the website technologies such as shopping carts to social media portals are available ready made under free Opensource licensing. However for certain projects custom web development might work best. The solution is different form person to person, and destiny is different for everyone.

3. Testing & Setup
Once the website is ready, it should be tested by normal users to get necessary feedback to know if its ready to use. Usability testing does not cost much but can help in a big way. Many websites are never tested properly before they are launched. There are several testing methods and techniques which include multiple browsers testing, multiple operating systems and screen sizes testing. Website security testing etc.

Once everything is working okay the site is placed online.

Until this time, we are so exhausted with fixing all that HTML, hosting and DNS things. Most of us think that this is it and the job is done. Now the website will make a lot of money. While this is just the start of the cycle, the actual life cycle which will grow the website is yet to start.

4. Internet Public Relations, Social Media, & Marketing
Introduce your website through various social media sites on the Internet such as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Exchange links with your related sites. Go to other famous (high traffic) forums related to your industry and discuss issues with people there. Tweet about your business and activities. Engage with people by all means and perform an energetic campaign to build your public relations over the Internet.

You will get a lot of feedback from the social media about your website and how can you improve it further. Remember, nothing is perfect, and everything needs enhancements to grow.

There are unlimited activities you can perform on the Internet and also offline in the real world for the marketing and development of your website into a successful project for you.

5. Monitoring & Maintenance
There are several paid and free tools available to monitor websites. Best of them which we like is Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. These tools let you monitor your website very closely to identify errors and also help in search engine rankings.

This monitoring let us know what people like and not in our website. The statistics include a lot of information such as where the traffic on the website is coming from, which pages are they viewing, from which pages people leave the website etc. All this information help us to decide what changes and enhancements we need to make.

6. Enhancements & Upgrades
All websites need continues enhancements and upgrades. These must be performed in order to provide fresh information on the website. Fix problems and issues disturbing the audience.
A website which is never updated, offers no interest to its viewers. Users of a website need it to have something new every time they come back.

Introduce new features, and segments in the website as per your business plan made initially. Provision for the growth of the website is very important while building the website initially. Do not make the mistake of getting a static website, a dynamic website can help you grow, by adding more pages time to time. For example a blog can have as many pages as we want.

The process of growth is continues. We keep on moving between 4th, 5th and 6th step of continues promotion, monitoring and upgrades of the website. More we do these steps, further it will take us. Its simple!

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