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My career focus is e-commerce. A big part of what I do is online marketing. I spend a lot of time on Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, affiliate marketing, social media marketing, etc. The online marketing game is dynamic and challenging. It is not something you can learn from a […]

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I started this blog in 2008 soon after I learned about John Chow and his blogging success. John Chow makes over $40,000 a month from blogging by writing a blog titled “I make money by telling people how I make money”. He was banned by Google a few years ago because Google felt he was […]

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How many of you want to have multiple sources of income so that you don’t need to rely on a single source of income from your employer? There is absolutely no job security in Corporate America. Each of us needs to take our career and personal financial management in our own hands. That means you […]

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It’s pathetic. One friend hasn’t gotten any pay raise for three years. He works for a Fortune 500 company and he had no performance issues. Most people I knew got 2-5%  annual pay increase in the past couple of years. Even if you switch jobs, the pay raise is no longer the 10-25% you can […]

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Yesterday I wrote about the pressure of living in the bay area due to high cost of living. Today, I’m going to write about a fascinating story of how one family made it all worked out although their household income was less than $70K. Uncle John is a long-time family friend. On New Year eve, […]

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I had been a reader of Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog since its inception. At that time, Ramit just graduated from Stanford University. Honestly, I thought Ramit was just another one of those arrogant young graduates of top universities — how could a young college graduate with little real-world experience […]

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Yesterday, Fred Wilson had an interesting post about his reaction to Technorati’s State of Blogsphere report : "I’ve had about 150k visitors per month for several years now. My audience is stable but flat. I get about 100k visitors per month on my website and another 50k via my feed. At best, this blog brings […]

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Recently I took on a consulting project. A fast-growing flower/plant retailer was looking for someone to help figure out what’s wrong with their online selling channel — the revenue has dropped by 90% in the past 3 months. After an initial discussion, both the owner and I knew that I could help this company. We […]

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