The Top 5 Traits of Successful Digital Marketers

How to become a successful digital marketer? Before we get to it… We need to understand one thing. What makes those super successful digital marketers? How do they earn such respect and salary? How are they so successful? What is it that separates them and the rest of you? How come they get paid in gold when you scrap peanuts? A lot of you has been wondering, and many of you want to be them. Because if we find answers to those questions, then we can use them to become successful like them. So I went ahead and spoke to …

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Start Something Early. Start Today

My blog gets more than 50,000 new visitors a month. I sell my marketing courses to 1000s of students. I have a team of around 10 people. We work out of a cozy office in Bangalore. And the future looks better than ever. The growth is exciting. If I had a chance to look at myself in the present situation 5 years back, I wouldn’t have believed it. Just like it is hard for me now to believe that I might run a company with 1000+ employees 10 years later. May be one day I will run a large organization, …

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Be Genuinely Excited about Technology and the Future

If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you need a genuine excitement for the technology and the future. If you are in the tech business, you have to love technology. Most people in the tech business have no problem with falling in love with technology. But even if you are not in the tech business, you should not shy away from technology. Human life is far more exciting and comfortable than most other species because we are good with technology. Every piece of technology that we have invented has made our life easier. Language, printing press, radio, transportation, electricity, …

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Learn to Feel all Your Emotions on a Deep Level

Entrepreneurship is the toughest sport that I know of. Most of the sports demand a certain aspect of you. Some sport demands you to pay your full attention, some sports pure creativity, some demand your speed and some your stamina. Entrepreneurship demands all of you, nothing left behind. When entrepreneurs succeed, people call them risk takers, courageous and fearless. Media portrays a very superficial image of entrepreneurs and that leads most people to believe that they have to be fearless. People who have not been entrepreneurs, and people who never will be have very wrong notions about entrepreneurship. This false …

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Your Startup Should be the Top Idea in Your Mind

Modern life in the 21st century is rich with many possible experiences but it is also very demanding. There is so much to do, so much to take care of and so much to achieve. There is a Russian proverb which goes like “If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.” You have to focus on one thing at a time. There can be only one thing that occupies your mind at any given point in time. Paul Graham calls it, the top idea in your mind. What you think about most of the time will have …

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