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Azhar Iqbal Market Research Analyst at A.I Training and Consultancy
2008-09-10 07:15:59
I have enjoyed being a market research analyst at A.I Training
& Consultancy as it always you backgrounds and fresh basics
when you are in an environment which is your industry.
Feeling those stages again which we have crossed one day, helping
juniors find their way in an appropriate manner… Interestingly,
most of the students when they join know nothing about “search
engine optimization” and now they are well equipped with knowledge
as sometimes I have no answer to their queries being untouched within
the industry for a while :)
Hmm, so the environment is fantastic… and the procedure of
training is pretty logical. There is so much “seo stuff”
available on the internet, but it goes over with newbie’s.
We train them step by step comprehensively, a clear cut concept
of things involved in the strategy. We train them think seo like
a race game, strategizing the plan, purpose in front, you have to
beat your competitor, follow right rules, continuous efforts...
Alarm!!! Relax!!! Alarm!!! Relax!!! It’s a whole mind game,
one who is out, is out! Training Overview Summary / Overview SEO
Training Pay per Click Ads Tracking Results Website Credibility
Site Monetization Videos and Audios SEO Tools Marketing Tools Interviews
I will be back with more updates from the academy.
A.I Training & Consultancy
Suite#11, Rafi Mansion, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Near Air Port, Karachi,
Pakistan
+92... , 4594455, 5412088
http://www.aitconsultancy.com
azhar@aitconsultancy.com
Confidence is the key to
tackle recession in Marketing Industry
2009-04-28 21:04:37
Business worldwide is affected with this recession. Marketing Managers
and IT Managers are getting it hard to win the situation. They are
looking for some magic! Their confidence is now on toes…
“You are “Confident” when you know you will get
positive results with any activity or decision”. This is a
great way to conduct business, of course, but most of us know that
living by these words is a difficult practice.
Confidence is a complex quality that plays tricks on us, which
is why we sometimes lack confidence when we shouldn’t, or
become overconfident at times when we should show some humility.
In short, maintaining confidence takes work.
In good times: Confidence swells. We all know what happens when
the economy hums: A lot of what businesspeople try works. AIG discovers
a profitable market in insuring dicey securities. General Motors
sells lots of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles. Innovation and
entrepreneurial flourish because the odds of success rise. And confidence
climbs higher — often, as we can now see so clearly, dangerously
high. “There’s evidence that in good times, suddenly
everyone thinks that they’re better than everyone else,”
says Don Moore, an associate professor of organizational behavior
and theory at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
“On average, that’s just not true.” Our problem?
We can’t easily view our achievements with anything approaching
objectivity. In a study on confidence published last year, Moore
gave participants 18 computer-based trivia quizzes and then asked
them how well they did. Turns out, most were horrible at assessing
their performances — about 90 percent of the subjects guessed
wrong about how they did. Hubris and delusion, as you might imagine,
are a dangerous combination. When things are going gangbusters,
the truth is we get too full of ourselves. Our confidence has us
looking at our businesses through rose-colored lenses. When business
is OK but unspectacular, we get conservative. We lean on practices
that served us well during the earlier boom. Our confidence lies
in the fact that we know what works, and we stick with it.
In downturns: Confidence evaporates. Confidence experts say that
in these stressful times, leaders need to be level-headed and courageous.
Be brutally honest with yourself and others, and get comfortable
with making changes and even going against the grain. Marriott,
for instance, recently took what could be viewed as a leap of faith
when it agreed to buy West Virginia’s iconic and bankrupt
Greenbrier resort.
In the long run, the hotel’s estimated $130 million price
tag could very well represent a bargain. “This is a time to
do things even if you don’t want to do them,” says Marina
Gorbis, who runs the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley
think tank. “This is a time for heroic actions.” But
that confidence can lead us astray again, as we adopt the false
belief that experience can replace effort. Veteran cops do this:
Moore cites well-known research in which seasoned policemen frequently
erred in determining whether or not suspects were telling the truth.
The related study, titled “Who Can Catch a Liar,” proves
that few folks really can. Experience, it turns out, counts for
little. “If I teach the same class for 10 years and start
failing to prepare, then my performance suffers,” Moore says.
“You have to find that sweet spot: sufficient poise to work
with what you’ve already got, and sufficient anxiety to invest
time and energy into your work.” In stable times: Overconfidence
dictates You have to look at the proverbial glass as half-full.
“These days, I bet there are a lot of managers imagining that
they’re not doing well, and that others are doing better,”
says Moore.
“On average? That’s untrue.” Again, Moore says
that confidence — really, the lack thereof — is misleading,
slightly out of whack with reality. Yes, the national unemployment
rate is a sobering 8.5 percent, but that means the employment rate
is still 91.5 percent. Real estate is cheap, certainly compared
with a few years ago, when those looking for homes bemoaned the
sky-high prices. Weaker businesses are ripe for acquisition. Here’s
where we are now.
The economy has tanked. People are paying off mortgages worth far
more than their homes; folks are out of work. Those still on the
job, including company management, walk around office hallways with
their heads down, in part because they fear becoming the next casualty.
DON’T START WITH FEAR
OF FAILURE
2008-01-30 12:12:34
Taare Zameen Par! An Amir Khan bollywood movie… It has got
an excellent approach for those who always posses a fear of failure
inside them. The next day when I have finished the movie i remembered
my old days of SEO…
When I was a very newbie and I had huge fear of failure inside
me! Huh.. In the same week I received a call from my trainee SEO.
He was very stressed and tensed with the poor SEO results he’s
had. I thought to research a little and post about those who have
fear of failure inside them before even they begin. Failure! What
do you feel when you think about failure? Inadequate? Unworthy?
Unlovable? It is so sad that you might have learned to link failure
to your value as a person. Most people who are successful in their
work and their relationships have experienced many failures along
their road to success. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric
bulb, is often quoted regarding failure: "I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "I am not
discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step
forward." "Many of life's failures are men who did not
realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a
failure." If Edison has been afraid of failure, or believed
that failure meant he was inadequate, he would never have invented
the light bulb!
In order to achieve success in any area of your life, you need
to redefine failure. Instead of seeing failure as an indication
of your inadequacy or lack of worth, you need to see failure as
a stepping-stone to success. Some of the most financially successful
people experienced repeated failures.
* Walt Disney was a high school drop out who suffered bankruptcy
and repeated financial and business disasters.
* Milton Hershey, chocolate maker and founder of the famous Hershey
Foods Corp., found success only after filing for bankruptcy for
his first four candy companies.
* Henry Ford filed for bankruptcy for the first car company he
started. He didn't succeed until he started his third company, Ford
Motor Company.
* After P.T. Barnum, American showman, went bankrupt, he joined
forces with circus operator James A. Bailey to found Barnum and
Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth.
* Quaker Oats went bankrupt three times, as did Wrigley from Wrigley's
Gum. Pepsi-Cola went bankrupt twice. Other famous companies that
also went bankrupt are Birds Eye Frozen Foods, Borden's,? and Aunt
Jemima.
* Albert Einstein did poorly in elementary school, and he failed
his first college entrance exam at Zurich Polytechnic.
* Winston Churchill had a lifetime of defeats and setbacks before
becoming prime minister of England at age 62. All of his greatest
accomplishments and contributions came when he was a senior citizen.
* Sir Laurence Olivier, one of the greatest actors of the 20th
century, tripped over the door sill and fell headfirst into the
floodlights the very first time he had ever set foot on the professional
stage!
* Woody Allen flunked motion picture production at New York University
and the City College of New York and failed English at N.Y.U.
* Astronaut Ed Gibson flunked first and fourth grades.
* Lucille Ball was once dismissed from drama school for being too
quiet and shy. (From http://www.joesabah.com/dseibert/008.htm) If
these successful people had been afraid of failure, they would never
have offered the world their talents. They were able to go on to
success because they saw failure as a learning opportunity rather
than as an indication of their inadequacy. Are you ready to change
your concept of failure? Are you ready to let go of worrying about
what failure says about you and just learn from it? Are you ready
to free your soul to do what you really want to do? If the fear
of failure is stopping you from doing what you really want to do,
I want to encourage you to change your concept of failure. I want
to encourage you to let go of your old way of seeing failure and
start to envision failures as learning opportunities on the way
to success. Just as Thomas Edison did, I encourage you to see every
failure as a step forward!
MagNag Launched - Azhar
Iqbal Partners with Rihan Saeed
2008-11-17 07:44:25
SEO Pakistan - Azhar Iqbal partners with Rihan Saeed to launch
a newly based internet marketing platform MAGNAG Technologies (http://www.magnag.com)
“Azhar Iqbal and Rihan Saeed have been together in projecting
advance SEO techniques to generate maximum sales for many clients"
“It is such a nice period, we are together to overcome troubles,
problems and issues with our beloved company. It’s true that
Rihan Saeed is a master developer, but he never looked a helper
but an idea generator…
Sometimes I had to re-think about my strategies, how Rihan bhai
takes charge into the project is a lovely experience. He is tensed
every time concerning the tasks he has, he limits the tasks according
to the time and has always helped me calculate the true way of applying
SEO strategies.” Says Azhar Iqbal
Now, it’s the time when we have all those skills and experience
to implement for more peoples and businessmen.
There is a tremendous amount of businessmen looking for SEOs in
Pakistan, Karachi. And, they always get confused the more they discuss
their projects with other SEOs from Pakistan, Karachi. I have had
many businessmen worrying about their business, sales and ROI (return
on investment).
These are many projects and no one guy can handle and maintain
the real effort to benefit all. Me and Rihan had a meeting on this
issue and decided that now we should get together and develop a
real skilled team to market maximum amount of businesses.
WWW.MAGNAG.COM Your Chance to Expand Business
At MagNag.com, we are providing:
Internet Marketing
Brand Identity Development
Search Engine Optimization
Online Advertisement
Pay Per Click Management
Online Public Relations
Email Marketing
SMS Marketing
Conversion Services
Web Tracking and Monitoring Services
Multilingual Marketing Pack
Website Maintenance
Website Development
Ecommerce Application Development
Web Enabling Legacy Applications
Software Development
Website Re-designing
Logo Designing
Custom Web Designs
We all are good friends:
MAGNAG TEAM
CEO: (Rihan Saeed) rihan@magnag.com
Digital Media Manager: (Faheem) faheem@magnag.com
Business Manager: (Azhar Iqbal) azhar@magnag.com
Marketing Manager: (UK) (Matt) matt@magnag.com
Sales Manager: (UK) (Rizwan) rizwan@magnag.com
If you are still looking for SEO Pakistan, SEO Karachi or other
individual service provider. This is your chance to expand business.
We have experienced and specialized guys working on ideas every
time…
Please contact MagNag Technologies at more@magnag.com
Make Your Website a Lead
Generating Machine
2009-06-16 05:44:41
Everybody knows one-sided relationships never work. The same is
true with websites. If a website is focused entirely upon you, you
will lose any visitors that may stumble across it. On the other
hand, a website done correctly (one that focuses on the visitor)
can easily become a lead generation machine! When designing your
website, think about these four ideas:
• People are egocentric. Subconsciously they're viewing your
website and thinking, "There's tons of companies just like
you. What are you going to do for me?"
• People love being entertained. If they believe your website
is providing interesting information, you'll have them hooked.
• People want their opinions valued. This is why most companies
have incorporated a blog or forums-so their customers can put in
their two cents.
• And this is the ticket for generating leads for your business:
visitors want to do something.
Give your visitors something to do. Give them something free to
download. Offer a free report or whitepaper. Ask for their opinion
on a blog entry. Do something, anything, and once the person responds,
you "Require" the following information: name, address,
phone number, and email. Guess what you just got? A qualified lead.
Qualified because they stayed on your site long enough to take action.
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