By Ankit Bansal Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1 comment

The whole real estate market is a complex one, including the home selling process. Even if you have been through the experience before, things are always changing. That is why it is helpful for you to be given important home selling tips, which is what the following article is going to offer.

The material a driveway is covered with can be an important factor in real estate. If it's covered with something like asphalt that needs to be resurfaced in a year or two, the new owner may not buy the property.

If you are in the real estate business, it is important that you have your own website. If you do not advertise on the internet, then you are missing out on a wide range of customers who look on the internet first, to find the properties that they are interested in.

Do not be afraid to speak up for yourself when you feel that your real estate agent is not giving your home enough attention. The agent is like your employee and should be receptive to your needs. In order to get your house sold quickly, the agent should give proper attention to it and the value of your property should not make a difference.

Red and yellow colors can draw a person's eye to an object. Use them in your favor during all showings. Place a vase of yellow flowers on your brand new granite counter tops or highlight that gorgeous fireplace with a red painting hung above it. The best parts of your home will be quickly noticed by all of your potential buyers.

If you are considering listing your home in the off-season, think about whether or not it is possible for you to wait. If you can put off listing the house until the spring, you may get a better offer on your property. Buyers are specifically searching for deals during the off-season and they are much more likely to put in a low offer, in an attempt to negotiate a deal.

When trying to decide whether you should lower your price or renovate your property, keep in mind that the buyers are out to get the lowest price possible. So even if your property is priced to adjust for renovations the future buyer will have to make, the potential buyer will still try to negotiate that into the price. By keeping this in mind, it will help you through the negotiation process.

To get the most money when you sell real estate, you should price it right from the beginning. A property will get the most attention from other agents and potential buyers when it first goes on the market. If they feel like it is priced too high they will just ignore it and move on.

If anyone has ever used any type of tobacco in your home, or if you have a pet, you will need to deodorize your home to neutralize the odors. Get carpets and ugs professionally cleaned. People want to come into a home that smells fresh and clean. No matter how clean your home is, if it smells bad it will not sell.

Do not let your guard down. No matter how long it has been since your last showing, be sure to keep your house clean and tidy all the time because you never know when someone will call to have a look at your place. It is too easy to let things go when nothing has happened in a while.

When you are preparing your home to be sold you need to clear out any personal items so that your house will look anonymous to all that go to see it. Buyers want to imagine themselves in the home and having too much of your things there will not give them that opportunity.

Do not get too emotional about the sale of your house. If you can detach yourself from your house during the process, it will help you think more clearly and approach the sale as a business transaction instead of it being the sale of your home. This way, it will help you get a better deal.

When you are trying to sell your home, consider removing old wallpaper. Outdated wallpaper won't appeal to many buyers. It will make your house look old and in need of work. This might make someone cross it off their list, or at least make you a lower offer. Replace wallpaper with neutral paint for the best results.

When showing your home, open the windows if weather permits but not if there is too much noise outside. If it is cold enough to require a sweater then turn on the heat. Make sure that the home is comfortable inside so that the buyer will spend more time looking at the home.

When house hunting during the autumn months, prospective buyers should always watch for telltale signs of neglect that could easily be missed during warmer weather. As an example, perhaps the home's gutters are stuffed with fallen leaves, or the downspouts do not appear to function due to excessive seasonal debris. A seller who has allowed this type of situation to develop may also have permitted other problems within the house to go unaddressed. Buyers should beware in cases such as this.

All aspects of the real estate market, including home selling, encompass a complex process. However, gaining knowledge about home selling can help your process go quicker and smoother. Take the information given to you in this article, and use it help you efficiently sell your home.

By Ankit Bansal Friday, January 27, 2012 5 comments

Please follow step by step instruction to know your IRCTC PNR status using mypnrstatus.com.

Screenshot from www.mypnrstatus.com

Mypnrstatus.com offers online SMS alert service, so Indian Railway Travellers easily know their status whenever they want with comfort. No need of going online very often to get the details of PNR status or Train Timings. All you need to do is, register through mobile or Internet in Mypnrstatus.com and utilize their free services. Presently they are providing two types of services like PNR status and Train Timings alert. You get SMS whenever there is a change in current status, so one can easily know if they are in waiting list or confirmed list. They also send you SMS if there is delay in train timings.

Register using Internet

Go to www.mypnrstatus.com and enter 10 digits PNR number that is mentioned on your ticket and enter your mobile number and press “submit” button which is on right hand side. Make sure you enter PNR number accurately as it is very important for traveler. Once the registration part is done, immediately you start getting PNR status and updates.

Register through Mobile

People who don’t have time for Internet can also register through their mobiles. To register from your mobile just type “"MYPNR" and send it to 9220092200

Presently 137064 members have already used www.mypnrstatus.com to know their PNR status to track their tickets. The site is reliable and can be used free of cost. So don’t wait to know your irctc PNR status, register today.

By Ankit Bansal Tuesday, January 24, 2012 0 comments

In today’s competition’s world, it is impossible to hold up a business without a proper marketing strategy. If you are not marketing your business effectively online, that means, you are allowing your competitors to grab your customers from your hand.

Although, marketing is believed to be an expensive affair, there are many complimentary key tools that are available online to promote products/services. Majority of buyers and sellers use internet, keeping up the speed with massive progress provided by Internet.

Following tools are the key tools for marketing online:

Classifieds sites

Classified site are free and one of the best way to promote products/services. It is showed in a survey that traffic to classified sites has been increased 46 million unique visitors in a month. Free online classified sites help advertisers immensely to reach targeted buyers/clients. Since there are many classified sites available for free, it would cost nothing for advertisers to promote their products/services.

Owning own website

It is must in today’s modern world to have a website for every business. Almost 33% of total world’s population is using internet and it is increasing daily. So, website with simple words (single line web address) will really help entrepreneur to get new customers. Although owning a website is not free, but since most of the people search online for relevant sites, a business must have a website to improve their business. So, your website may be the first website for relevant customer who wants to place an order for product/service. Optimizing your website to search engines enhance the availability of your site online and there are free tools available to search engine optimization.

Social Media

Social Media has tremendously increased from a decade. Almost 75% of internet users are available in social media sites. With the help of Social Media, one can create profiles on their personal or commercial names. Once the profile is created, information like new product, offers, changes of products, services and other things can be made available to relevant customers.

This helps customers to discuss about the product /service openly, so customers will be happy to participate in discussions. Your business also can get feedback from clients, which was a difficult task before as one had to approach to survey companies for feedback.

Blogs and Forum sites

Blogs and forums sites are other tools that can be used to advertise products/services. There are many sites that offer free blogging services. Site like blogger.com, wordpress, are the services that are very effective ways to reach customers. Also participating in Forum sites can be useful for promotional purpose. Many services providers have established their businesses with the help of these tools. So if you are not promoting your product/service from above tools, start today.

By Ankit Bansal Friday, January 20, 2012 2 comments

Small business owners always face problems when the broader economy is not in favor. Sometime managing small business debt is same as personal loans. By following few financial restraints on daily basis, one you’ll be able to come out of clutches of financial debts. There are many programs available in the market to eliminate the debts from business. Some of them are debt consolidation, credit counseling, and debt management. By involving in those programs, people can reduce the business debts that they owed to their creditors. A few years ago, in this kind of situation, bankruptcy was the only option that was available for people. Bankruptcy is a complicated legal process which ends up long term damage to the people’s credit scores. Above all, the bankruptcy will cause a problem to obtain new credits.

Put the debts in order

If you really want to come out of your business debts, the first thing that you need to do is, organize the business debts that you owe to your creditors. In following step, you need to identify the different creditors, overall outstanding, minimum payment and due date. This is often indeed noticeably useful to strategize on the way to to come out of the business debts.

Reduce Business Expenses

Another important step to eliminate your business debts is to reduce expenses. However, to cut down unnecessary business expenses, one has to have a realistic budget place. Budget place really help people to reduce unnecessary expenses. Try to save electricity with cautious usage of air conditioners, computers, and other electrical appliances. You can also use reconditioned business tools and furniture if possible. These types of reductions in expenses will make big difference at the end.
Review the interest rate on your debts
In this step, it is counseled to list down all your business debts that you need to clear along with the corresponding rate of interest. Once it is done, you can decide to make a request with lender to cut back the rate of interest. This absolutely helps to carry on the exercise of debt elimination in smooth way.

Discuss with your suppliers and creditors

You must resort to an analytical approach to eliminate your business debts. Don’t be hesitant. Try to negotiate with your creditors and suppliers by discussing the situations that you have. Appeal with your suppliers to abate the prices of the materials that you usually purchase from your suppliers. In the same way discuss with your financial state with your creditors and appeal them to make reductions in the rate of interest on the loans. You can as well request with your creditors for refinancing facility. This might sometimes make the process easy to carry on.

If you feel extremely complex to deal with your business debts, you may resort to proper debt removal strategy, depending upon necessity. The popular debt abolition strategies are business debt settlement and business debt consolidation. Through one of these strategies, you can get rid of your business debts.

By Ankit Bansal Wednesday, January 18, 2012 0 comments

Today location-based marketing is very important to pop-up your business from the crowd. Mobile marketing would be the first choice which delivers text messages to the consumers on their cell phones which not only gives information about your business but also help them to locate your business. And if they are nearer to your business location in a mindset to make a purchase, then that would be “icing on the cake”. Mobile marketing is the perfect for consumers but it depends on what service you might be offering to your consumers.

By Ankit Bansal Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2 comments

There are lots of peoples who cannot start their own business due to the lack of cash for start-up. What if I can share some of the great ways to raise funds for your start-up?

Before share the top ideas of fund raising, I like to make you sure you need to fulfill following criteria:

Make sure that the business you are starting should be long-term not like today you will start something and tomorrow you will shut down it and go for another one.

You should have confident on yourself – no matter what happens.

Never think about any corp. career as you have already decided you career on your own business.

You will make a decision but will make a correction immediately when you know who have taken wrong decision and done something wrong.

Now, let’s discuss about how we can raise funds for our start-up easily,

Sell Your Useless Stuffs: It is an easy way to raise funds. You have lot of things that now you don’t require, like old books, cloths, old furniture, etc. If you could not found much for yourself, just put calls thought your neighbors , friends, relatives and offer to sell their unwanted stuffs on websites like, eBay, OLX, etc.

Get some offline and online Jobs: You can increase your funds by doing job online as well as offline. You can do any funny stuff and sell some innovative services or any things for just $5 on Fiverr.com and raise 1000s of dollars to fund you start-up easily. Make sure while working on fiverr.com all your ideas should be unique.

Savings: Savings have worked more most of the new age entrepreneurs. If you are doing job for some company obliviously you could do some saving and if the company is repudiated their would be some Provident Funds too. Ask for these savings when you resign- these saving could be good amount depending on your performance as well as how long you had worked there.

Raise Funds from your own Business: Now this point would make you confuse but, don’t get confused. You don’t have money but you have skills. You skills and competence will help you to start raising funds for your business. Each and every penny you’ve earned from your business will be invested on your own business which will later on help to grow it.

Never beg for loans: You are starting-up the business by your own, you don’t have to beg for loans, borrow money from friends or parents. You can do it by yourself. Do what ever you can do by your own, you’ve already grown up and you should now stand on your own feet. Set this point on your mind, “You will not Borrow” – now you are called real entrepreneur.

By Ankit Bansal Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2 comments

After the grand launch of mobile ticketing site, IRCTC have decided to launch a mobile app to make rail ticket booking easier through mobile ticketing. According to the IRCTC, the app is probably to be launched within a month and it will be available across the major mobile operating systems like, iOS, Android, Symbian etc.

The mobile app of IRCTC will enable users to access all the features available on website of the IRCTC, and the people will be able to book ticket using the IRCTC mobile app and for payment they can use their credit card, debit card or any cash cards.

There are already some app which enables mobile ticketing like, Paymate, Ngpay and Atom. These apps are used currently to book railway tickets through mobile and these apps are available across all the platforms. These apps accept payments through credit cards, debit cards or mobile cash cards accounts maintained by the service provider.

Recently, Indian Railway also allowed passengers the option to carry their railway ticket in the phone itself instead of having to print e-ticket. Passengers will, however, still need to carry a valid identity proof. Now IRCTC is also accepting ‘ADHAAR’ card as an identification proof.

How to book railway ticket from IRCTC Mobile Site?

IRCTC recently launched mobile site to let the traveler freedom of booking their railway ticket through mobile phone available GPRS enabled handset called, Mobile Ticketing. Here are the steps to book railway ticket from IRCTC Mobile Site:

1. Goto Website : https://www.irctc.co.in/mobile
2. Login to the website with your existing IRCTC user id and password
3. Fill details on, “Plan My Travel” section.
4. Select the train and click on continue booking.
5. Use existing passenger list on “Add Passengers”.
6. You will see booking details, if everything is OK, confirm booking details and pay through credit or debit card to get your ticket booked.

Now this facility have made the passengers to book their railway tickets conveniently via phone now just sit back and wait for the new surprise from IRCTC , Mobile App for railway ticket booking.

By Ankit Bansal Wednesday, December 28, 2011 2 comments

Wedding Planning Business specially works in Indian Territory. There is an emerging trend of wedding planning business, most of the Indian families want to take such services from wedding planners and the trend of hiring such services are rising day by day. Ultimately, it is found that, Wedding Planning Business in Indian is a complete structural business with a huge scope.

As we all know that the Indian is the land of various cultures and traditions and here wedding is the very biggest ceremony on everyone’s life. The Indian wedding ceremony is very time consuming with lot of expenses and proper management of everything is in very high priority. Wedding planner play a vital role on total management of the wedding ceremony. They ease up every thing and take the entire task of organizing and management of this event on their hands. If the whole contract of management is given to wedding planners, the whole family members can sit and enjoy the wedding ceremony just like any other guests.

Wedding Planner role involves every activities done on wedding management from designing invitation cards , wedding ceremony venue, decorating couples, hiring DJ, Bands or Dancers, Mehndi , Catering , etc.

Today wedding planning have not only taken as a profession but also it have become a trend on corporate world, in coming day it may become a full-fledge profession. These industries have been growing up day by day. Today people have money to spend and they don’t want to compromise with the biggest ceremony, the special day for their own.

Requirement to start a Wedding Planning Business

A person interested to become a wedding planner has to have good organizing skills an interest on handling such events. Wedding Planner should have good ability to plan the ceremonies, organize them as considered, beautify the venue, organize event and should have better hospitality services. Wedding planning should provide good option of venue to their clients, arranging lodging and providing transportation facility for the guests, arranging photographers and videographers and sometimes even the priest. Today, as people have become more and more choosy, they may ask for a theme based wedding, in this case the wedding planner has to plan out a particular theme the venue and accordingly organize all other ceremonies based on the theme. The main part is, the wedding planner if once can impress everyone with their quality service automatically there is a huge chance of business growth.

Wedding planner should be very creative and come up with innovative ideas, instead of just going for the tried and tested ones. Before starting the contract one need to provide 3D presentation of the event to the client should that every thing is properly understood between both the vendor as well as client.

Returns from Wedding Planning Business

Every thing depends on the client’s budget, you can expect good return if you are able to do tie-ups with the services you are hiring from like, DJ, Bands, Singers, Catering, Decorators, Cards Designing, Venue, etc. The contract can start from 2-3 Lakhs to any level; there is a good earning scope.

Investment to start a Wedding Planning Business

Investment is not the biggest term in wedding planning start-up. The initial investment for starting a wedding planning business can be very minimum (small office space, desktop/laptop, etc), later on you can increase you investment according to the requirement. Today people follow showoff, satisfying returns can be obtained once you build adequate infrastructure (Designer furniture, staffs, advertising and marketing, etc).

Finally, Wedding planning is gradually growing up business trend in country. Wedding is one of the most important events for every Indian family. One can take possible advantage of it and can build their business in this field.

By Ankit Bansal Friday, December 23, 2011 0 comments

If there is a possibility to reach anybody you want, how would you feel? Data mining business have become a biggest trend in the market to provide you direct email ids and mobile numbers of those you have always wanted to connect with. Services from Data Mining are far better than the local directories and yellow pages whose collection is limited to only addresses and phone numbers.

Startup Cost: Rs. 2, 00,000/- ($4000) (PC, Printer, Staff, Marketing, Advertising, etc)

Potential Earning: Rs. 3, 00,000/- ($6000) to Rs. 20, 00,000+ ($40000+)

Equipment Needed: Computer (Full set including computer table and UPS with Antivirus), Speed Internet Access, Landline Connection, Database Software, and Word Processing Software, One Company Website

Scope of Data Mining Service

The scope of data mining business covers very wide fields like Banking Sector, Production House, Marketing Firms, FMGC, Financial Publications, etc. Ultimately, almost all businesses thrive on contacts, so the more the better and what could be easier than getting these precocious data readymade in CDs.

Retail Point

The ready data can be sold online as well as on order, even it can be sold through shops.

Competition Overview

Today there are lots of competitions so one has to be very innovative to stay in business. So, here the question arises that how to get the best deal? One must, before comparing the prices and quality from other data providers should compare the following:

• Quantity of data
• Data Accuracy Level
• Updated year (because with each year the data becomes outdated)
• Discounts offered
• Other Facilities, like COD, Direct Deposit in Bank, Accepts Credit Cards, etc
• Whether provider is offering bulk mailing software for inbox delivery or not.

How to Operate?

The best way of collecting data is from the office or the business/person directly. In some circumstances, you can get data from PR agencies (which may be little difficult, depends on your own skills). In case the data are on net, you should analyze the data by checking its last updated date. You need to thoroughly analyze each and every data to control the accuracy level and bypass the outdated data.

How to Promote?

You can promote your business through sms, websites, online and offline marketing and even words of mouth works very well.

The idea of starting this business is very interesting and innovative, if you are interested to start this business than put everything in the right place as discussed and you will be one of the entrepreneur to get on on a new innovative business.

By Ankit Bansal Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7 comments

BSNL India, the supreme of the telecom world after taking a burden of Rs.6000 crores of loss on account of 3G and BWA spectrum scam, have started a very brilliant and innovative business idea!

I was just thinking about getting a new BSNL GSM SIM for my new firm, I always thought of getting a BSNL number of my choice which was really difficult but now BSNL have launched a new scheme, “Choose your mobile number” scheme for GSM customers in the prepaid mobile category, on a PAN India basis. This is the scheme I was waiting from a long time.

BSNL’s new scheme allows subscribers to choose one GSM mobile number of their choice. To choose the number for your new prepaid GSM SIM – BSNL Website (Click Here) and you can choose you number from there. After you select your desired number from the available list, you will be notified a 7-digit PIN number by SMS which will be valid for 72 hours only.

Later, you need to feed this PIN number back into the site to confirm the acceptance and selection of the new connection number, to be received by your nearest customer service center or distributor on submission of the requested documents for release of new connection on your favor. BSNL is offering this scheme in all the states.

See the figure below which I have illustrated to show how to choose or search your desired BSNL GSM number:

Step 1: Choose Your State From the Map

Figure 2: List of the Available Numbers in Your State

Figure 3 and Figure 4: Searching Your Desired BSNL GSM Number

......and finally you may find your desired BSNL GSM number.

I feel very proud to become a new BSNL customer having a freedom to choose my desired GSM number. Where as, in other companies bidding formula is applied to get the desired number and the higher bidder get the number. In the virtual world there is no need to such numbers but for offline purpose this scheme will do a blast.

So, get your own new desired BSNL GSM number and share it with friend!!

Happy Talking!!

By Ankit Bansal Wednesday, December 14, 2011 0 comments

We are living in a digital age where everything is going digitalized including business cards what we usually call visiting cards. However, with the advanced technology people are confused whether to go for regular business cards or not. Business cards can really reach the place where the internet cannot go. Advantages of business cards are, portability, customized look, and with latest printing technologies people can even have water proof business cards.

Spreading business with business cards is one of the best ways to improve the business. Also inexpensive of advertising, and compare to online advertisement business cards have more advantages because of its nature. Unlike an online contact which is impersonal compare to regular business cards, one can personally meet the customers with his or her personal face with business cards.

Business cards are inexpensive than webpage.

Printing business cards with professional printing is cheaper method of spreading business than a website. For instance, a website requires continuous update where client has to meet web-designer for that. Also website requires hosting cost and client has to pay for hosting services every year according to his or her usage.

On other hand a professional printing service can produce bulk number of printings of business cards for certain price and cards can be used for many years because of its nature without additional expenses.

Advertising online with social networks, email services or from websites is restricted to computers and mobile phones. Only people who have computer and mobile phones with internet services can have a look at the ads where as business cards don’t require any such requirements and can be carried with us anywhere we want to.

People now-a-days using blogs and social network sites to advertise, but they are temporary as they require constant updating and getting visitors to the site requires lot of work. Only sites which have high ranks in search engine can survive in digital world of advertising.

Business cards are long lasting and permanently relevant

Business cards carry a good impression so that customers will not easily forget them and also the people who presented them.

An internet post or webpage is only associated with computer and an unknown writer, so business cards are more memorable compare to webpage or social network advertisement.

Using social network or other internet way to advertise also may lead to problems. Since webpage or social network is depended on script, even a small mistake in script may bring negative impression in customers. Moreover, social network or any other internet advertising way mixes the ads with others relevant clients who also wanted to advertise the same service or business. So, there are chances that customer may choose others where you paid for your advertising.

However, business cards are more professional way of advertising. At any time anywhere business cards can reach where as internet have restrictions. Business cards always carry good impression with personal association. Having a website or blog or utilizing social network is not a bad idea and use them as optional, but always it is better to go with personal business cards to meet customers to have good relation.

By Ankit Bansal Wednesday, December 7, 2011 0 comments

As we all know, today is the world of technology; people have a great need to walk with the today’s technology. Small business entrepreneur have to handle lot of things compared to large scale businesses, many times they are out of office and in this case they always have a need to access their office from outside, this includes, responding to their business emails rapidly, updating data and information, interacting with their office staffs, project control and many other tasks. Here the big question comes, that how they can access every thing when they are traveling or when they are at home. Traditionally, entrepreneur or business people used to carry around their main computer or laptop with them when they are on travel. Thanks to the Cloud computing, this embarrassing traditional method have become the things of past.

Cloud computing gives businesses employees the ability to access information of their company from more than one device globally. There are endless benefits of cloud computing for the businesses. Google Apps for Business platform is one of the brilliant examples of cloud computing which provides small as well as large business to access supreme services in cloud-based alliance.

Using cloud computing services like Google Apps for Business, user can even access mobile access with 99.9% up-time and high storage capacity which even doesn’t require any additional hardware and software. Business employees can access emails, contacts, documents and much more information at any location and on any device and even anytime they like. Even they can conduct group discussion or meeting in real-time from anywhere.

Businesses that have already implemented cloud computing technology can not only get mobile access facility but they can also experience increased sharing capabilities. Using Google Apps features like Google Sites and Google Groups, they can store their specific documents, presentations and group agenda along with other documents in a well indexed manner and even they can assign access privileges according to the employee designations. Such great features provided on cloud computing not only improves business productivity but also ensures that every one is working on the same.

For security issues some businesses may get worried about their private information but they should not worry about it because Google Apps platform offers full security feature, verified in third-party SAS70 Type II audit.

Businesses not only appreciate the mobile accessibility feature that allows them to work easily from any where, they also appreciated the user-friendly features of Google Apps for Business which helps to handle everyday tasks in a simple manner. Google Apps have brought a great hi-tech functionality feature for businesses who really want to stay ahead on the path of technology.