Business & Networking: Interview With Deepak

This is Part 2 of the interview with Deepak, another young successful blogger. In the second part of his interview to Polimer TV Channel, he shares his views on Business and Networking. If you are interested in watching the first part, you can visit Blogging: Interview With Deepak Part 1.

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Blogging: Interview with Deepak, Part 1

Just thought of sharing this video with you. Unfortunately, the video is in TAMIL language. So, please view the video if you know Tamil. This is an interview by Deepak that was telecast on Dec 24, 2009 in TV (Polimer Channel, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India). What is his interview all about? ...

Deepak is an young entrepreneur, who is in his early 20s. He rejected a well-paying full-time job to venture into internet marketing and blogging. Interestingly, he started on his own immediately after leaving the University. He shares his blogging experience in this first episode of the interview. I could not embed the youtube video; it seems it was disabled. So, I had given the link to the Youtube video.

You can view the video here: Interview with Deepak, Part 1: Introduction & Blogging

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Blogger, the best blogging platform

I like Blogger, most of you should know by now. It is free, but it is not of low quality. Other bloggers used to compare Wordpress against Blogger and many of them had given thumbs-up for Wordpress. I am not against Wordpress. But ...

Yes, I am not against Wordpress. But, I personally feel that Blogger is much simpler, easy to use and comparatively powerful too. Add to it that Blogger is from the Google family; probably you are getting a little edge over other blogging platforms on Google's search results (This is just my guess and I have no proof to show you. So, don't ask me how and why did I say that?)

Initially, I started with Blogger close to about 4 or 5 years ago. That time Blogger did not have any great functionality. It was simple and easy to use. For me, as a beginner, it made sense. As time went by, I read comparisons that said Wordpress is better by a long distance. So, I wanted to give it a try.

I did work on a Wordpress blog for some time. No offence, I did not like it. May be I was already used to Blogger. So, I did not bother to work on Wordpress any more. So, I concentrated on Blogger. All my blogs today were on Blogger platform. I like it and love it.

Recently, Blogger started to add some powerful functionalities to its interface. Initially, I did not notice it. But, recently, I started to realize the additional features and I am pleasantly surprised. Well done Blogger team! Keep it up!

Just to have a feel of the new features, I have listed them below:

(1) Comments tab in the dashboard that shows all your comments, including spam detection
(2) Very useful Statistics
(3) Adsense reports
(4) Template designer, that makes life so easy to create good looking layouts without a sweat (sorry to those people who were creating customized Blogger templates, you may have to close shop soon or look at other niche to continue your business)
(5) Ability to create pages

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Tips to keep Entrecard account alive

Its been a very long gap again. But, I am still around. Though, I won't start posting at a reasonable frequency anytime soon. I would like to clear my PMP (Project Management Professional) exam in the next two or three months.

Anyway, I received few useful comments to my earlier post on Warning from Entrecard. I thought it would be useful if I can share some of them with you all.

1. Eric from Blog De Manila said "Just write an article if you have time and Schedule it for posting...or invite some Guest Poster in your blog!". This is a good suggestion. If you can get some one to post for you, commonly known as guest posting, it would keep your blog alive. For this to happen, of course, your blog should be either popular or at least have a good PageRank. This will encourage people to post on your blog, in return they will be getting some good traffic or some benefits by riding on your Google PR.

2. Angeltraveler from PaulinesRants said "When I don't have a lot of time I can add some videos or favorite photos and that will keep your account active. Doesn't take long." Once again, this is a good suggestion to keep your blog alive. But, be careful, to keep the photos or videos related to your main content of the blog. For personal blogs, it does not matter what content you post. But, for blogs with specific niche, you need to spend time in filtering the right content for your blog.

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