Posted on May 4, 2008 by Waqas Ahmed
Outsourcing can be good or bad. It all depends if you gained new work because of it or if you lost your job because of it. However, my opinion on the topic is that its really something cool for the entrepreneur. The reason is simply that it allows you to tap onto a diversified set [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Waqas Ahmed
Social media sites are now everywhere and while the large ones(digg, facebook, myspace, ibibo) have huge fan following there are those that cater to niche groups of people. The key to utilizing social media websites for your benefit is to interact in these sites. Many people tend to ignore these websites in their online marketing/branding [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Waqas Ahmed
One of my favorite topics of discussion with my fellow colleagues and entrepreneurs is always about hiring the best employees. Like everyone else I have spent many hours pouring over CV’s and filtering out candidates for interviews. I have developed tips and discarded/modified those self made tips and then developed more tips to improve the [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Waqas Ahmed
One of the biggest hassles for any small entrepreneur is the planning and monitoring of projects. Small business owners do not have the option of having multiple people just for the task of project management and are generally wearing too many hats themselves. The relegation of project management as a side activity can possibly [...]
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