Timing!

I'm in the middle of my GMAT prep, my job isnt going exactly the way I want it to and I'm wondering what I can do to improve my candidature, make money and i start to toss ideas around in my head. And then it hits me!! I stick to what I'm good at-- Teaching! and i do something that revolves around that. So after a little searching i figure out what I can do.

The problem is that i can get pretty obsessive with an idea. I'll think about only that to the exclusion of everything else. I've spent the last coupla days obsessing over it. I think i should be ready by next year. I've spoken to one who could have been a prospective client. She thinks its a good idea. Spoke to a coupla other people. One person asked me to focus on the GMAT. The other is neutral.

As of now, i still think its possible. It would be awesome if I could pull off something like this!! Then again, the timing is all off. I have GMAT in a few weeks time and i really need to be studying for it.

Fingers crossed!

Opposites

Last night I did two opposite things.

Tired of the way things are going at my current job, I sent in an interview request with a company that's had a lot more success doing what i originally set out to do.

Then i sent in a Executive Summary to GenPortal hoping to get selected which basically means i'll be doing something entrepreneurial then.

Nice opposites no? One a corporate job and the other an entrepreneurial venture but even here i'll still be reporting progress and fund spending to somebody or the other.

This is probably why I want an MBA. So that i never have to do two oh-so-contrasting job hunts again!

Sometimes a mistake can be good

Lots of learning in a span of 2hours today!

Learning No: 1 Clearly mention the places you will ship to.

From Company 2 i made my first sale today. so Yaayyy!!

I then had to refund it as the address was a US address and shipping there would have meant a Loss on my first sale!!

Learning No:2 : My version of Msgtag works!!! In order to initiate a refund i transferred a mail from one account to another. i use Google mail in the sense my company mail is hosted on Gmail and i didnt expect my version of msgtag to work. Atleast, that's what even the website says. But it DOES!!!

I'm going to have to re-think my original intent to purchase the more expensive version of msgtag because apparently i dont need to anymore.

I wanted to shift company 1 ka mail also to Gmail so that should happen by the end of the day :D

Good fun no?? :D

Patience!

Its now 24hours or thereabouts since i sent out the e-mail blast for site2. However analytics doesnt show any increase in numbers :-( Now i'm beginning to think i should have gotten the MSGTAG linking. Atleast I would know what's happening to my mails. DAMN!! this is so frustrating!!

Pricing Pricing Pricing and of course Marketing

Last night I decided to forsake profits for market share. I slashed prices(well actually, inspired by the MSGTAG people i put up a discount coupon)by 40%. This should hopefully start bringing in the people. With the discount offering, the price is really really low and with a price-conscious Indian market its the only thing i could do. I also sat and mailed nearly 50addresses that I had collected over a few weeks. Analytics hasn't started to show anything but its early days. I actually wanted to upgrade my MSGTAG product and then send out the mails, but decided to wait till i bring in some money. I know you need to spend money to make money but i've spent enough already.

I've also activated adwords for the other site. Currently I have 2 ads running which while getting a lot of impressions havent generated any clicks. I'm targetting a niche category so i suppose that plays a part.

Waiting with fingers crossed.