Mailchimp Snap - Easiest Way to Send Photo-based Newsletter from Phone

Mailchimp Snap – Easiest Way to Send Photo-based Newsletter from Phone

Mailchimp has smartly combined two latest trends of Social Media – Image Content and Mobile Access to create this simple but really powerful mobile app Mailchimp Snap. With the rising popularity of mobile platforms and availability of highly efficient mobile devices, now a days you can do virtually everything from mobile. As a small business owner / Startup / Entrepreneur / blogger / Online Marketer / Social Media manager , may be you are already using mobile devices more for writing and sharing blog posts, managing your Social Media presence. But to send a Newsletter (atleast using Mailchimp – one of the best newsletter services where you can start for free) you had to get back to PC. Not anymore.

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Hootsuite Grade Your Social - Measure Twitter Performance

Hootsuite Grade Your Social – Measure Twitter Performance for Free

Using Twitter can be fun, but measuring Twitter performance can be real pain in you-know-where. Here is a real cool tool to measure your Twitter performance and get actionable insights to improve it. Hootsuite Grade Your Social – a free tool from the awesome team behind my favorite Social Media Management tool Hootsuite. I am using Twitter from April 2009, though started taking it seriously much later. At the time of writing this article I have 11.1 K followers on Twitter, not a single 1 acquired from any mass twitter buying schemes. But still the big number “11.1K” doesn’t matter, if I am not using it effectively. Over the years I kept learning and implementing, hence improved a lot. But after using this Hootsuite Grade Your Social tool, I found out many more areas of improvement. Let me show you.

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Entrepreneurs Vs Businessmen - What is the DIfference

Entrepreneurs Vs Businessmen – What is the Difference?

From inception of my thoughts about business, marketing , commerce and all related terms I always lived with a dream of having my own business, handling employees and becoming a world class leader. But always had a theoretical doubt, which later turned out to be a practical one.

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Ramanuj Mukherjee #IconsAround Interview

#IconsAround Interview: Ramanuj Mukherjee – Bengali Entrepreneur Spreading Legal Education

I’m back with another very inspiring interview in your favorite #IconsAround series. And this is very special for me. Because I met this person during a Kolkata Tweetup in 2010 when I first started using Social Media. Since then I am blessed to have this person as a friend. Though I couldn’t meet this person face-to-face in all these years, but following him online daily. I’ve observed closely over the years how that law student I had met over coffee, has grown into an inspiring Entrepreneur spreading legal education among masses. Beyond legal education, his posts inspire people to do what they love. But above all, if you get to talk to this person, you’ll learn what humility is all about. Keep reading.

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Evernote - How It Saved My Neck ( & blog) and Can Save Yours Too!

Evernote – How It Saved My Neck ( & blog) and Can Save Yours Too!

Imagine that you are a blogger and one fine morning you wake up and find that one of your most popular blog posts isn’t showing its images. You search for the images in your server, your hard disk … but you can’t find the images there! And as the images are related to the content of the blog post, you can’t replace those with new images either. What would you do?

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Valuable Insights You Can Get After Checking Twitter Analytics

Though I am using and teaching Social Media for years, but I must admit that I was not a big fan of analytics. But trust me that was due to my immaturity. For quite some time I started understanding that it’s absolutely essential to analyze the performance of our online content to make it more effective and get best ROI. Though I made it a habit to start checking Google Analytics and Facebook Page Insights, but I ignored Twitter Analytics until now (and that was real foolish step from me as I have 10,000+ followers on Twitter).

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Lessons Learned from Movies I watched - Kick, Nayak and Mirchi

Lessons Learned from Movies I Watched – Kick, Nayak & Mirchi

I guess you know how much I love movies! While most people watch movies for Entertainment and others think that movies are waste of time, I watch movies to learn life lessons too. Infact I’ve learned many valuable lessons from different movies I watched. Wish I could share all those lessons with you (may be I will someday). But today let me share lessons from 3 South Indian movies I watched recently – Kick, Nayak and Mirchi. Keep reading, I am sure you’d love it.

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#IconsAround Interview: Sandeep Kedia – Dealing with Success & Failure With a Smile

#IconsAround Interview: Sandeep Kedia – Dealing with Success & Failure with a Smile

Why most people are afraid to dream big? Because they are scared – ‘what if I dream big but fail to achieve that?’. Why most people are settling for a life less than what they deserve? Because they are afraid to encounter the inevitable failures that actually are the stepping-stones towards their best lives – their success. Let me introduce a person to you today, who’ll not only inspire you to dream big, but also will give you the courage to handle failure with a smile. Sandeep Kedia – the guy who started as an Entrepreneur at the tender age of 17, inspired millions (including me), touched pinnacle of success; but most importantly he handled failure with equal grace. I met this guy more than 5 years back. We worked in the same mission. I learned a lot from him. I don’t know exactly when he became a great friend of mine. Long wanted to share his story. Luckily he agreed to share his experience with you today. So let me just hand over it to him.

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