Dreams , Wishes , Destiny and then comes BullShit !!

    One question everybody must have come across at least once in their life time is "Where do you see yourself in 5 yrs ??"

  Rings a bell ??

      Wonder why it is quantized  to 5 yrs .. May be people think life changes every 5 yrs or may be one does live a full life in 5 years .. I would want to believe the latter !
 Yes , Live your life one full circle everyday , every week , every year and definitely every 5 yrs.
Until your 15 , you are not given a chance to do what you want to . Once you are 15  sneak in and out to live your life and when you are 20 .. probably you'll wonder how 15 to 20 was and what you would want yourself to be when you are 25 ! that's one confusing age !

      When I turned 20 ,I thought at 25 all I wanted was to be married , have a good job , a settlement and probably heading towards being a parent. 5 yrs seemed a long time to do all that .. I never raised the bar of my imagination of being 30 and see what I could ! Some how the world seemed to stop after I was 25 !

When I was 20 I had some dreams , few wishes and a destination .

  My dreams were to be an Engineer, definitely  worth being called one ! (obvious, as I was already doing my engineering ) .. I knew I was capable .. I knew I could do something . But what I could do was the unknown . My quest to know what I am capable of was just void even till date though.
My other dream was to have my parallel career in Dance. It was already 2 yrs since I had started my dance school and all I wished was to sustain !

My wishes

•  get a job worth my time 
•  have the guts and thought not to give in to the corporate lure 
•  get into something I knew I would enjoy.. Teaching !! 

     I wished I'd find the perfect guy with whom I would have the perfect wedding and be a home maker making it just the perfect place to live .

     Seems simple ?? Do-able ?? not even worth to be in the wishlist ?? Well.. Yeah I told you , I never set the bar high

     And then I had to have a destiny , my destiny was to be able to have a peaceful sleep with no more dreams to dream about and no more wishes to be fulfilled. Simple a'int it ?

Reality   ---- > BullShit !!

     Yes , That's what it is simply .. Today at 25 neither Am I married or Have a job and not even outta college yet and looking for the best corporate machine to work for . Settlement is still too far to even think off  !!!!!

          But the good part is , I am doing my post graduation(I never really thought I could) , have the love of my life(not just perfect) , have two branches of the same dance school I just wished would sustain(making up for my otherwise dull career) . And so many breath taking experiences . So what I am not what I wanted to be at 25 . I guess I got more than I planned for and that's what makes life more exciting .
     
       Dreams , wishes and Destiny is all what you set for yourself but  that's just bullshit because life has more to offer to you than what you ask for or not !!

5 Steps to start endorsing your business online for free !

      The emergence of Online facilities at your finger tips is very overwhelming . Internet is now not only about sending emails , pictures and talking to your dear once across the seas like you had a face to face conversation over a cup of coffee(skype). Its something more than just a medium of communication . It is now a medium of expression, exposure and convenience .

  I have personally experienced how the right use of website services can be made to successfully endorse your ideas without having to spend a penny more nor having exuberant publicity strategies. All you require is clarity of the target audience. If you know where you can find the audience online, there, you can arrive with your purpose !
  The big examples of simple ideas making it to the big league of businesses is Facebook , it need not be introduced anyways . But the most impressive ideas to me was Redbus  and bookMyShow. All they needed was an Idea ,some technical knowledge and clear logic. They now stand as one of the biggest examples of small ideas getting big on a greater platform .

 If you are reading this article ,its mostly cos you  have an idea and want to know where to start from . Well , if my ground work could help you provide a start .Then here it is .. !

Step 1 : Website ! if you cannot afford one ... try a blog .. !
    Every business opportunity needs to have a document of what they offer. Brochures, visiting cards have now been replaced with websites providing every detail about the company/business/service to the customer.  If you are not sure of spending so much on building a website as yet , start with a blog about your idea.

• Its free !
• Sophisticated feedback about the audience of your blog !
• Great Tools and templates to create  interesting blogs .
• Images , link facilities , audio video Embedding makes it convenient to deliver your message.
• Your blog actually could become like a synopsis for your future website !
• If your viewership has dramatic numbers  , you'll be earning money out of other websites advertising in your blog and earn money every click through your website !

             so start --> BLOGGER !

Step 2 : Labels or Tags
   Think about your business as a customer looking for a service like you provide and assume the words he/she could possibly use to search on Google . Search Words play a very key role in endorsing your business. After you are ready with your business portfolio , keep searching for your business with your labels and figure out how many relevant words would search your business faster and enhance the search accordingly

Step 3 : Just Dial and Find out !
  Again thinking as a customer ,  where would you search for your service first ?? Google  ?? if not in google , classifieds of some news paper or just pick up the phone and call JustDial and ask them to provide you with the possible options??
  It happens that if your business idea is unique enough , there is hardly any competition. All you have to do is provide the right category , right options(just like labels) and make it look simple . Even though paying such service providers would list your business on the top of search results , if there isn't much competitors in your field ,just a casual listing would do . Go ahead and list your business here first--> JustDial

Step 4 : Classifieds-Online 
   Given the customer fast access internet and some leisure time, he/she would browse more than the 2nd page of Google search result . So enroll your business in all those websites you wouldn't have known in the first place until you saw this blog ! Here are the links of classified like websites where you could post your business/service.
 1. Quikr
2. OLX
3. askLaila
4. Yalwa
5. ClickIndia
6.Sulekha 
7. Click

Step 5 : Ultimately-->Facebook
  May be the lamest but it does really work ! A Facebook Page.. ! Create a Facebook page and make it informative and then make your closest friends like it irrelevant of their interest. The popularity of Facebook pages you might have already known , as in person , you would have liked at least 1 Candid photographers page or an online shopping website's page or DEFINITELY the Freshers Jobs /Jobs Fair page  :-p One of the best examples of Facebook page working well is Siri and Hari Menon Photography

You know how you found what you wanted , its about you helping others easily find what you are providing !

So Go ahead and find success yourself !