In today’s blog post, I want to talk about branding. You opened this blogpost because I asked if you think about me. But I didn’t ask on a personal level. I asked it from the angle of branding and business. Let me explain… What comes to mind when
Many people approach me and ask me: “Deepak, suggest me a way to make money using the internet.” I honestly do not know how to answer the question. Many people think that there is a secret way and if they know that secret, all the income problems in their life
A lot of people have a very misplaced idea about the word “hard work”. It has been repeated time and time again that to succeed, you need to work hard. Every successful person agrees that they did not get where they are without hard work. So people think they need
Recently I was on a podcast and the host asked me “Deepak, what do you think are the top three things that contributed to your success.” My first answer was “I’m not successful yet and there is a long way to go.” However, it also forced me to think
What if I said I am not going to allow you to read this blog? What if I had the power to prevent you from reading this blog? What if I used that power against you? How would you feel? That feeling is called Rejection. Rejections pains. If you are
Are you afraid you will fail? I am. I have the fear of failure. Everyday. I am afraid that I might fail in my career. I am afraid that I might fail in my fitness and health. I am afraid that I might fail in my relationships. And I am
Building a great brand from scratch is the dream of every startup entrepreneur. If you are starting up, I’m pretty sure you want to build a brand that is friendly, well-known and stands for something beyond profits. In most of the cases, companies try to build a brand with
There are certain things we know. And there are certain things we don’t know. When we think about what we don’t know, there is a certain kind of haze. It’s like your car window being unclean. You can’t see through it. It’s blind. When you
In the present day world, the internet has become cheaper and more accessible to the general public. Would you believe me if I say that the number of people who are online every day is still increasing? Well, it is. To be more precise, according to Pew Research, “constant” internet
Today, there is a more significant number of audience online than anywhere else, and reaching out to them is more comfortable and practical digitally than reaching out to them in person. But the modern market is unpredictable; the contemporary consumer is brand conscious. Do you want to win their hearts
As opposed to the traditional form of marketing, digital media has changed the flow of business, making it even faster, smoother and taking it to social forums for one-to-one interaction with customers and clients. So one thought that would inherently come to your mind is that what makes digital marketing
Are you happy at your work? Studies say that 80% of the people who work do not have their dream job. Which means that people are not really happy at their work place. Some people have given up on the concept of being happy at work, because work is seen
Now that 2019 is here, let’s have a look at how digital marketing is going to change this year. Digital Marketing is one of the fastest evolving fields and sometimes it might be hard to catch up with latest trends. That’s why it is important to predict the
2017 was the first year where I transitioned from a full time job to being an entrepreneur. It has been a pretty intense ride so far (though not an easy one). In this blog post, I want to share my journey of going from an employee to an entrepreneur and
Sometimes, it may look like the opportunity with digital marketing is limited. Sometimes we might lose hope that the future doesn’t look so bright. Every one of us goes through such situations from time to time. That’s when I like learning from other’s successes. That’s why
Recently I announced on my Facebook page that I am going to start a digital marketing agency. Some of my friends were not sure why I am doing it because I make a LOT of revenue from the sales of my courses already. Not everyone wants to start a digital
I had started a hosting service as an experiment a few months back. Though I knew that it wasn’t an easy business to run, I just wanted to do it because I wondered how the business worked and wanted to learn more about it. Hosting services are in high
Last weekend I conducted a digital marketing workshop at IISC Bangalore. This was the first time I conducted a workshop and met my readers and followers in person. It was a mind blowing experience. The workshop had 82 attendees and many people had travelled from far off places to come
Today I am excited to announce the launch of my eBook – How To Sell Real Estate Using Digital Marketing. If you have ever wondered how you can market real estate properties online, then you should grab this ebook. It also comes with 4 video tutorials which explains the various processes
If you are wondering how to accept credit card payments online in India for your business or even personal needs, your search ends here. Until Instamojo, accepting online payments in India was cumbersome. There were no good PayPal alternatives and the only method that we used to transfer payments was
24ADP, Pune’s first digital marketing conference is happening on June 6th & 7th. This conference is organized by Pune Digital Marketers. The conference will have speakers who are prominent digital marketers. This includes people from LinkedIn, Sokrati and Zomato. According to 24ADP, here’s what they are offering: The
Search Engine Journal recently published a list of top 10 marketing blogs in India. It was exciting to see DigitalDeepak.com ranked among them! Other well known blogs which which were featured include Digital Vidya, Sorav Jain’s Blog and Social Samosa. Apart from listing the top 10 blogs, Albert
You may have noticed that Housing.com has bought an online real estate forum for INR 8 Crores. I have used this forum a while back to discuss about my real estate purchases. It is a great forum called the Indian Real Estate Forum but usually referred to as IREF.
Choosing a great brandable domain name for business is just as important as selecting the business name itself. Domain names have become so important that, many companies look for available domain names even before deciding a name for their company. For some business-owners, domain name selection may seem like the
Ergonomics mean a lot to me. Working is not an easy thing. It takes mental focus, concentration and will power to get work done. There is no reason to make it even more difficult with bad ergonomics and a dull working space. The height of tables has always been 30″
Google analytics and Webmaster tools are two great tools by Google which helps webmasters get insights about their website. However, they perform slightly different functions in how they gather and report data. Google analytics is more about what happens in your website once visitors enter your website. Webmaster tools is
Unless your website gets thousands of visitors a day and is very popular, your new blog post or page takes time (sometimes a few hours to a few days) to get indexed in the Google search engine. Here, I will show you a method to get your page indexed almost
Yesware.com is a great email addon which has tons of features, but the one I like most is the mail merge feature. With mail merge, I can send customized emails to a lot of people and they are going to be the same as sending an email to each
After Google AdWords launched their enhanced campaigns, targeting only mobile devices has become tricky. The way Google has built the new Adwords interface and campaign settings hints that they want you to create universal campaigns which will run in all the devices, without much options for device targeting. However I
Google AdWords is a great tool for driving targeted traffic to e-commerce websites and other businesses. In the B2C market, the CPCs are not that high and is a great marketing channel for several businesses. But did you know that AdWords is also a great tool for generating B2B Leads?