All you need to know about the best Cash on Delivery services in Pakistan to fuel your business.
Cash on Delivery (COD) is one of the most popular product delivery systems available in Pakistan and the single most successful medium through with small and big business send their product packages.
People in Pakistan prefer COD services while purchasing products online on popular e-commerce websites. Cash on Delivery offers the buyers an opportunity to checkout the product in its real sense and gives them flexibility to pay once the product reaches their homes, instead of processing payment via credit/debit cards.
This post goes through best cash on delivery (COD) services in Pakistan for everyone who is looking forward to setup their business and send products to their clients.
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The post not only goes through the service, its rates, but also I'll share what the community has to say about them, so that you could do a better judgement for your business and provide the best service to your customers.
Though the post is not in any particular order, I have shared them in an order of their services. Note that services really could vary from city to city, but I'm sharing the experience of all these from Islamabad, i.e our place of dispatch.
#1 CallCourier
CallCourier is a fairly new Cash-on-Delivery service in Pakistan of young enthusiastic minds, my personal experience with them has been great Alhumdulilah. The folks are quick in setting up your account, and offer the most quick service.
Clients have reported that they receive packages all around Pakistan, even in small scale cities/towns with in 2 days, which is pretty neat. Main cities often take a single day.
Later, the payment is also processed as cheque with in 2-3 days, and you receive an SMS once the payment is sent.
I personally don't really care about tracking the packages, though the company offers them all. After all, who would really track every individual product if the service its self is great. Not a single package got late in my experience.
#2 Leopards
Leopards is another pretty decent cash on delivery service in Pakistan that are known to be one of the cheapest and delivery packages with in time. It's easier to open an account with them and all you need is to take few documents at their local office and they process it fast.
Leopards have earned a name for them self and is the only company that I saw a lot of fan following on Facebook and a lot of people had to say really positive about them compared to TCS and other services. Their rates are nominal and delivery is great.
#3 TCS
TCS is one of the biggest courier services in Pakistan and offers a widely known and probably one of the oldest COD services in the country. The company works great when it comes to COD services, though it seems not many people have a positive view point about their COD services.
Delayed packages and difficulty in opening the account are one of the reasons, small business aren't lured in to choose them as their COD business partners.
Though I personally believe that their service would highly depend upon the cities they are tested upon. Still some say that their services in main cities like Islambad, Lahore has degraded in the recent times too compared to leopard.
Still, you can give them a try, you might have a different experience altogether. If you do, don't forget to share yours in the comment section below.
#4 Blue-Ex
Blue-Ex another one of the new ones out there. You'll feel the difference of their modernism when you visit their website. The company as being fairly new works on their toes to make sure that they offer pure quality.
Their charges are minimal and also offer pretty decent delivery times. Blue-Ex is in fact the second company on my Facebook profile that I saw people being pleased with in comparison to TCS.
#5 Kangaroo Logistics
Kangaroo is comparatively small scale COD service. The company that started back in 2012 offers one of the best rates out there and offers online tracking service just like other services discussed above.
Though it seems that it currently only offer services in Karachi and Lahore. You can checkout their site for more information.
Wrap Up
Those were few of the most active Cash On Delivery options available currently in Pakistan. I've heard about Pakistan Post offering pretty decent service, though I would add more about it here once I have solid experience shares about it.
If you have previously experienced any of these services, do share your views about them in the comment section down below. Your review would really help everyone who is willing to get started with their business and have no idea about the leading COD services in the country.
Forums could help you learn years of information with in days!
Many of us are well aware of the points that are considered in building up your blog. A successful blogger should be social and active at forums. This goes for the ones whose blogs are still young. Forums provide us with many advantages. We can build high quality back links, gain traffic and many more friends.
So looking forward to this I compiled a list of best forums out there, for bloggers so that they gain gain exposure while hanging out with experienced bloggers and promote their blogs.
And at the same time, learn about various aspects of blogging which otherwise would take quite some time for them to get grasp of.
Lets get started with our list of best blogging forums :)
AskHassam Forum | Newly Launched - Bonus
We recently launched an AskHassam forum which is in fact a better version of the already existing Facebook group that we have. The forum runs on the most popular forums technologies called Discourse and is ready to take over all the Blogging forums out there.
Why? The love and aspect of family is the key here. Everyone runs after helping each other and to make sure that they are served in the best way possible. :)
I haven't seen that any where around other online communities.
Digital Point
It is one of the best forums out there. This forums is ranked pretty high and has a lot traffic. There are many active users all the time who are ready to make new friends. Unlike other dead forums, you would get a reply most of the time here. Its a worth joining forums.
Just don't forget to set your signature. The signature with your blog's link would give you back-links each time you write a new reply.
ShoutMeLoud was founded by an amazing Blogger who has been an inspiration for millions started his blog's forum. The forum has currently over 4.1k members with over 700 active and has been helping everyone around.
Bloggeries
Bloggeries have many great topics to discuss and learn. It is also one of the best forums for your blog promotion at present. There is also a section where you can submit your blog links and get targeted traffic. A must join forum.
Site point has a great Alexa rank and have tons of traffic. You active participation in this forum can make a difference in your blogging career. The more you would write in this forum with your signatures posted as your blog links, you would strengthen your blogs backbone.
The purpose of this list isnt that you should join all of the above forums. I would recommend to join any one of them that you like the most and then stick to it. There is no use of making gathering at different spots. Those are of no use. Try to expose your blog in one, or maximum two of the forums you like.
I personally joined many of them but now i try to be active at few. Forums can really help in building back links but still keep in mind that the real strengthen of your blog is your quality content. If you don't have content then there is no need to join these forums literally.
Leave you favorite forums among these in comment section and tell which you look forward to join in future.
All of you out there might agree to this fact that making something or creating something is really easy, or rather just a process in through which your mental innovation and creation comes into existence.
But after the creation, to maintain that very particular thing becomes a really tough job and sometimes a headache. But if you don't maintain it, it would definitely come to an end which i guess nobody would want to folks!
Now, there is only one thing that can be done in order to avoid such a situation, and that is either maintain that thing regularly, or try to remove every small sort of the cause and reason of destruction of that thing. The second option looks a bit feasible and easy.
If I focus on the Internet community and the area which involves the online earning, same situation is present here too. Now the first thing that comes to my mind every time i think about the online earning topic, is the Google AdSense.
One of the most popular source of earnings online for many bloggers and web masters.
But a large number of publishers get banned from Google due to very minute mistakes at their end. By this they then suffer a lot as their source of earning is almost gone.
Keeping these little yet very important mistakes in my mind, my today's post highlights some of them so that you guys out there can avoid them and continue earning great deals at google AdSense.
Once you're done reading the AdSense common mistakes, then you can go ahead and apply for Google AdSense. Hope these two AdSense episodes will help InshaAllah.
Google AdSense Application Process - 2016
Blunders to avoid!
So guys here are some of the blunders which should be implemented upon practically in order to save yourself from getting banned by the google AdSense.
1) AdSense Code
Many of the Bloggers and webmasters often try to implement custom CSS to the AdSense ads, which is not allowed explicitly. The only design changes that can be implemented to the AdSense ads is via the AdSense Dashboard/Control panel.
2) Confidential Information
Never disclose your confidential information like CTR, CPM and income derived via individual ad units or any other type of confidential information in any case or under any circumstances.
However, you can disclose the total income you earn per ad as it may not cause any problem but greater than this would certainly be violation of rules and regulations that would ultimately cause you a loss.
3) Own Clicks - The Biggest Blunder
This is the most common blunder and should be avoided no matter what happens. You should never try to increase the number of clicks on your ads by unfair means such as asking your friends and family to do so in order to increase your income.
Google is pretty much smart and fast on detecting these type of fraud clicks and you do get detected pretty easily at their end. So avoid this kind of activity as trying to increase your income through such means would ultimately result in you account getting closed.
4) AdSense Ad and Link Limit
Always take care of the limit that is given to you by them and try to stay within the designated limit as trying to exceed limit for the sake of your income increment would not only make your ads visible but would result in the closure for your account. SO, in any case always try to stay within the gives limit. The limit they give is units and 3 ad links or 2 AdSense search boxes on any web page.
5) Text and Tools
Never try to add text or links that are powered by google search engines or ads that resemble the AdSense context and AdSense style as it can be greatly at you loss. Although google does allow you with some of the search engines like yahoo etc but still the main condition prevails of not being similar to the AdSense ad.
6) Launching Page
It is very important that AdSense ads should open on the same page and there shouldn't be anymore pages opening at every click on the ad. If this is the case then surely you may be using a base target tag to open all links in a new window or frame by default. So, its better to correct it as they don't want opening of pages at every new click. This could too become a source of closure of your account.
7) Headings
Only label your ads by the headings "sponsored links" or "advertisements" as any other headings or labels other then these are strictly unacceptable by google. There are people who have other labels and headings other then these. If you are one of them then correct it now and try not to become a target as become one can result in your account being closed.
8) Ads By Email
Never try to send your AdSense ads through emails. Though sending ads through emails seems a much easier and an interesting option as HTML formatted emails look good and allow placement of these javascript ads.
But this activity is against the Terms of Service rules. So never try to practise such an exercise and avoid it to every extent as they are watching you.
9) Placing Ads
Placement of ads is a really important and a sensitive issue as advertisers only pay for the content based ads. The rest is of little or no use. Although you may be able to manage some clicks from useless sort of pages such as thank you pages, pop ups etc. But these will eventually result in the dismal of you account. So better avoid such type of activity and provide some useful content based ads.
10) Multiple Accounts
There is no need to create and manage multiple or more than one account to counter the fear that if they'll close one account then you can use others to continue and carry on. This is wrong approach folks, if they find this thing out they will definitely go for closing your other accounts too.
No doubt they are the boss! Instead of approaching for this wrong approach you can keep track of clicks by using channels with real time statistics. They will automatically detect the new site and display relevant ads.
11) Ad Blending
In your AdSense account you are provided with a very large and an exclusive collection of borders and colours which can be used for stylizing purposes and they can surely serve the purpose really well.
But in this styling process take care of one thing that is really important that components of the ad should never be covered as hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc. So take pretty good care of this thing.
12) Content Management
Do take extra care of the content of your ads as google does close accounts if your content isn't appropriate or suitable. Try not to add it on web pages with mp3, video, news groups, and image results. Also take care and exclude any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content. Acting on these will surely keep you safe.
13) Supported Language
Always take extra care of the language you are using that whether is it supported by the AdSense. If it isnt' then application of the code should be avoided as it is of no use then.
AdSense basically supports Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish. Apart from these its search is also available in Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese. So better use these languages to avoid any sort of problem.
14) Altering Results
While working you should take extra care of one thing that through your ads or work on them, site should not be altered in any case or through any type. Don't in any case frame, minimize, remove, redirect or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any advertiser page or search results page after the user clicks on any ad or search results as such an activity can make you cost a lot.
15) Excessive Advertising
Always try to avoid over and extra advertising and keyword addition as a much specific and appropriate content which is well managed will attract more traffic then the one which is over crowded. So better avoid doing such activities as these can cost you double loss.
So guys here were some of the blunders that should be avoided in any case in order to save yourself from getting banned by the google AdSense.
Just try not to get yourself in the spot light and get highlighted for such an activity, and with this try to abide by the rules and regulations at any cost. As by doing this you will definitely remain on the safe side. In the end, positive comments are appreciated.
Entrepreneurs can change the world. They have changed the way how we look at earning our livings.
The conventional way to getting through the job ladder system has been ripped off due to these amazing young talents around.
The list would tell us how a 15 year old could earning more than what his father could manage in 50 year age. Creativity has no limits. So the parents should have believe in their young minds and let them choose the field of their interest, so that they could excel in what they do and become an icon for the society.
This is my belief. Yesterday i posted Top 10 Short Inspirational Videos For Entrepreneurs. As that list was a true inspiration for every body who wants to do something iconic in their life, in the same way, these young entrepreneurs would really motivate you to set your aims higher than what you could ever think of. Build a trust within your self.
Before I would start the list, you have to note that these are the personalities that inspired me the most and I grew up watching these YouTube channels. :)
1. Christian Guzman
Age: 23 Founder: Alphalete Athletics
Christian is a famous Fitness YouTuber/Video blogger who started his YouTube channel back in 2012, almost when I personally started this very blog, BloggingeHow. Christian is among very few young lads who have inspired me so much.
I'm one of his early YouTube subscribers, and I admire him because of his pure hard work! I haven't seen many people at this age who are so clear about their vision.
Back in 2012, Christian didn't even had enough funds to buy a simple protein shake for him self. Now, the guy has a fitness apparel company named 'Alphalete', that earns over 5-6 figures monthly.
Christian was able to get his dream cars at this young age, like Lamborghini, BMW i8 and what not.
The guy is super down to earth, has a great family life. Just lately, he bought his father an amazing car, that brought his father into tears.
Total admire him! Every single young brother and sister reading this needs to follow him and get inspired from what he's up to.
2. Marc Fitt
Sharing another great inspiration for me, Marc Fitt, who started his fitness career by getting inspired from the great legend fitness model Greg Plitt.
Marc is also the founder of Rise Gym Gear company that totally changed the life of Marc. With millions of people who got inspired from Marc and his motivational videos on YouTube, he has made an amazing impact in the fitness industry.
These two guys changed my life too. The reason to share them with you is to make sure that you follow them and get inspiration from these young guys.
The are literally changing the world <3
3- Ray William Johnson
Most Subscribed YouTuber Once Founder of EqualsThreeStudios
I started watching Ray William Johnson's vlogs 'Breaking NYC' (That are not available any more, as he brought them down) back in 2009 when I was in my Alevels. He moved to NYC with only about 500$ in his pocket, that he talked about in his vlogs.
Ray had a pretty humble background, his grandfather was a carpenter, as he mentions that from one of his early BreakingNYC episodes.
Now fast forward 6 years later, ray is doing so much that it's hard to follow it in it's entirety. He has 5-6 sub shows under his studios with different hosts for each.
There was one thing that left a mark on my memory, from one of his early videos. Once he went a head explaining how he learnt the 'secret' to become the best. Even since he came to New York City, what ever job he was at, he became the best at it, among his competitors.
Early on, he applied for a waiter job at a hotel. Soon he realized there was one guy who used to get the most tips out of the customers. He learned the skills that guy possessed and soon implemented them on him self.
Few months a head, he became the most tipped person in the hotel. Later he started a YouTube channel from his college dorm room and started studying what made a person most subscribed and viewed on YouTube platform.
He worked hard for it and finally became the most subscribed YouTuber few years back until his goals changed later.
4- Javon Alvin
Age: Early 20s Part Of Team Alphalete & a Pro Video Editor
As part of the team Alphalete, Javon takes care of the entire video editing stuff for Christian Guzman, whom I just mentioned above. The level of video editing skills he has, it's just amazing to see his work not only for his on YouTube videos, but for entire Alphalete team.
Javon's famous saying "lets get it.." is loved by his fans and subscribers and I personally love the grind he is following since years.
His videos are part of my staple YouTube diet, that I watch every single day when it comes out. :) He motivational words are always inspiring and helped me a lot on my down days, when you don' really want to do much.
Woh! Inspiring? Truly it was for me. The point that every beginners would ask him self that how the hell we could get to such a point. Lets take an example of blogging.
You want to become a pro blogger. The top tips that could take us to the level where world could appreciate us can be these few main points:
Find a topic that you are motivated to write on and gather knowledge for your life time and not get bored. Then write more and more about it (post frequency and post consistency) On the same time do follow the basic SEO techniques. And wait for the results for 1-2 years!
Who're Your Favorite YouTubers?
Let me know in the comments section about your favorite YouTuber stars that you love watching in the free time, or that have impacted your life.
Early blogging days are always hard to pass. I remember even 10 visitors seemed a fancy number.
With a thirst to move forward and build a successful blog, i started out reading blogging tips in order that i could achieve a successful blog in future.
No matter how many hours it took to find an answer to my query, i didn't mind spending it. Sometimes 4 sometimes 10! Today building out a decent base of BloggingeHow, we aim to go further with the support that you guys have always showed.
During this time period, and reading out dozens of blogging tips that proved beneficial for my self, i would like to point them out here, so that you get an idea of what to look for in your blogging career and what aims to achieve during this hard work time.
Here are top 25 blogging tips that i believe are most crucial to a successful blog launch and would earn you a bright future if you stick to them.
Approach
1-Set A Direction: Know Your Path
Once you're sure about what you want to write about (regardless if you would make any money out of it or not, but only because its your passion to do so), now its time to get technical. Carry out a research for that specific topic and find the 'most' suitable "keyword" that you would build your blog upon.
You just don't drop out and start writing upon. Notice how you find content online. You search a specific keyword or phrase and Google shows up its most relevant and high quality results. A minor changes to your keyword search would change the results likewise.
That means, that every site/blog has its own area of focus and it gets traffic through those keywords. So jump out on Google Keyword Tool and search your keywords. Finally come up with a short phrase that has highest traffic per month (that's how keyword tool shows).
Say you wish to write about making money through Internet. The most used and highly searched keyword in this aspect is say "make money online".
So choose this keyword and put it in your blog meta keywords. (i would later talk about it in SEO blogging tips).
Make sure that you find your self a specific niche (blogging topic). Blogging about Technology would consume more efforts and would be hard to rank high then simply writing about Apply products.
Just a random idea. Now days people search more specific queries in search engines and that what you need to take care of while choosing the right topic.
2-Choosing The 'Right' Domain
Once you have sought out the blogging topic for your self, its time to hunt for a relevant domain that is made up of those keywords that you want to target. Its not that easy to find out.
Top domain names would be always booked when you look for them. But hard work always pays off.
Buying a domain like : www.makingmoneyonline.com would be a dream for you. When you visit the domain registrar site (bluehost may be), you can search for domains there.
Now this may be controversial to many, but i believe it totally depends upon you. The most popular blogging platform today are WordPress.org and Blogger.com.
I go through the entire procedure of starting a professional blog on Wordpress on the post linked below.
WordPress.org (self hosted WordPress) is a paid service, where you would have to buy a hosting so that you can put your blogging files up there on the server. You cant start up with it without getting a hosting.
On the other hand, if you still want to go with WordPress but don't want to pay, then WordPress.com (Free WordPress with limited options) is available too. Like wise, Blogger.com is also quite famous (By Google) and is totally free with 100% up time reputation.
This blog is hosted upon Blogger. I just bought the domain and it was good to go. If i have to recommend a blogging platform to any beginner, i would say it depends upon you.
If you don't have financial constraints and most students like me do, then WordPress would be the right choice with a self hosted blog.
The only attraction towards WordPress over Blogger is its great looking professional free templates plus, a great amount of quality plugins that are on your disposal.
There is nothing such plugins thing in Blogger. You have to do tweaks manually. But again its totally free, so what to loose?
Early blogging days are often experimentation and for that, i would recommend Blogger. Later you may consider shifting over to WordPress.
4-Choosing The Right Hosting Company
Blogger is known for its 100% up time. But that's not achieved by any other hosting company, even the top ones.
Currently I utilize bluehost web hosting and it's been over 3 years that I'm totally satisfied with it. I have talked about that in this getting started with blogging page.
So make sure you get the best ones right in the starting. But again, don't be afraid of failures if they come later on as its the part of learning process that we all are into. Just make your decision wisely and then believe in your self.
5-Setting Up a Goal
Setting goal is extremely important for your success in any field that you hop into. That's the only force that makes you work harder to achieve that target. Look how top entrepreneurs and a legendary body builder, 'Arnold', made out their way to the top.
Its like branding 'Yourself' too! Make yourself unique and that would only happen if you stay what 'You Are' and not trying to be like the top probloggers or who ever you admire. Note their best qualities and indeed apply to them to your life style, but in your own way.
People often like the informal way i write my posts and that's what they like about articles here at BloggingeHow. Be confident in what ever you do and people would start following you likewise.
Thank you for all of this :)
7- Enjoy Your Writing Career
Take blogging as a discussion with your readers. Pretend that they all are listening to your right away when you write your content. This way you would enjoy what you write. Also as mentioned before, passion for a particular topic is vital in this regard too.
Design
8- Make Sure You Brand Your Blog
Its all about giving a unique look to your blog so that people know it my its design. Every top website/blog that you know has its own unique look. You could get a free template and then customize it according to your liking. Its called branding.
Giving out a unique look to your blog so that people know you by design too.
You could buy professionals template, that are already fit to go on with in most cases. But still you would be needing a branding phase. Or you could either simply hire a programmer and build out one from scratch.
Ever read about how About Us page can make or break impression? People often visit About Us pages to get involved in what ever they would read later on. They like to get connected virtually with the mind behind the content they read.
So make sure you give out your best picture on about us page, a video would be even better. Write out about your self in a friendly way as if you would narrate your story.
Design it well. Tell them what reader can expect from your blog and finally at the end, give them a call to action. Mention out your best posts etc to tell them what to do next.
It can be a good idea to have a separate Contact Us page on your blog. People often like to get connected with you for seeking inspiration and sharing their views about your blog. Or they may like to get any advice.
Post frequency matters a lot to a blogs success. Posting content frequently on your blog, may be daily, would attract your visitors and your blog would become a part of their lives. I wrote a post yesterday about choosing the right post frequency for your blog. Once you decide it for your self, simply stick to it.
Search engine optimization is most crucial and is backbone to driving traffic to your blog. You would aim to get major traffic from search engines, and for that your content should attract them. Your blog should too in general!
SEO is majorly depended upon few vital aspects that i have talked about in the post below. There are couple of Search engine plugins that i compiled too, in one of the posts below.
The more comprehensive quality content that you give out to readers that solve their problems, the more they would be loyal towards your blog. They may subscribe to your feeds and social network (Facebook, Twitter etc) at the end of the post.
Readers would come back to your blog and would recommend it to their friends too. So as a whole due to word of mouth and social media interaction, you would start seeing increase in your blog traffic. And remember, its exponential!
It may be difficult to build those first 100 visitors. After that its becomes much more easy. So look forward to that time and motivate your self to workout hard in those early days. Simply follow these tips consistently and you would feel the rewards coming.
14-Choose Perfect Post Titles- A Gateway Of Traffic
Understand that optimized post titles are Gate Way of search engine traffic. The more search engine optimized content you write, the more doors are you building for people to access your blog through different search keywords and phrase.
Posting timings matter a lot too. Though you wont feel the difference in early days, but when people start following your content on daily basis, you should make sure that you give them content when "They" want it to come.
Look towards the statistics of your blog and know the demographics. Like most of our traffic comes from United States. So i would make sure that i post out an article when people are in their offices (they often like to read something of their interest in morning).
Posting Timings becomes crucial in manipulating Alexa rank later on when your blog is highly ranked. I would keep you updated over this as i am experimenting upon this now days too.
16-Monitor Blog Statistics Regularly
Though it might not be a good idea to waste too much of your time in looking to stats, as you cant do much about it in early days.
At then the only thing you should concentrate on is creating content. Later on when you start getting decent traffic, you can make use of statistics and plan out your approach and posting timings likewise.
17- Make Use Of Blog Feeds
Many readers like to read content through their emails. Its called your blog feeds.
Your daily content is emailed to your blog feed subscribers and thus make them satisfy.
Many people also limit their blog feeds to 'jump break'. That is a limited snippet of your daily article is mailed to them and thus they reach out to your blog post page to read the remaining content, and thus increasing traffic.
Top Lists are always attractive to the eyes and drive traffic through search engines to a great extent. People often like to share them in their social circles to thereby increasing your traffic. Sometimes if you're lucky, they might get viral bringing in thousands of visitors.
Connecting With Fans
19- Socialize With Your Fans
When you get a decent following on social media (Facebook, Twitter etc), socializing really benefits your blog. Its doesn't mean that you should always share a post with them. You could share you views on a particular topic, take their views, or just post out a quote of your liking.
Got the idea?
Make sure that they remain connected with you and your blog brand.
Do you have a custom Facebook Fan page URL? If not, read the post below:
This works best in early days of blogging. It helps to increase your back links (through blog commenting) and brings in few of those first valuable visitors, that keep you going in blogging career.
Leave out comments (with a link to your blog) on blogs with in your niche. Its even better if the blog is do-follow. That would earn you a respectable Google Page Rank due to quality back links.
Guest Posting is another great way to put out your voice and name in blogging world. Popular blogs have massive following and by leaving out a quality guest post their would bring traffic towards your blog. These visitors often subscribe your blog too as they look forward to get connected with you, if you leave a lasting impression over them.
That's where first impression counts.
21- Encourage Comments On Your Blog
Building out a community is a dream of every blogger. The more informal and friendly you are towards your readers, it is more likely for them to leave out a comment. Always replay to them in an encouraging way, and help them out in a professional manner.
You would see those commentators becoming loyal fans of your blog in no time!.
22- Handle Negative Comments Wisely!
Its too important and makes an impression over other readers too. Negative comments are always their and you just cant make every body happy in the world. But you ultimate success is to convert those haters into loyal fans.
And that would only happen if you would appreciate those commentators and say like :
" I appreciate your comment though i would like to clarify this or that..."
Something in this fashion so that the hater gets the room to become a fan and change his words later on. Don't corner him and force him to be even bitter. Blogger are kind of psychiatrist too :)
23- Promote 'Easy Following'
Place Facebook like boxes, Twitter follow button in most suitable places on your blog. Above the post, below the posts, above the fold on homepages etc.
Make sure your readers get the chance the share your content easily. Sometimes you need to ask them to do so as they get distracted in other things on your blog. AND that's what ill be doing at the end of this post :)
So don't forget to share this post too! That would mean a lot =)
Formatting
24- Always Edit Content Before Publishing
Make sure, and make it your utmost priority that you go through your post and edit it in the end. Read out these productivity tips that i wrote few days back that talk about editing content.
Minor typing errors leave a bad impression on your readers and they start taking your content less seriously.
25- Paragraphing Is Too Important
Notice how this post is divided into eye catching format. It becomes much easy for the reader to hover over the content if its divided into small paragraphs of few lines (3-4).
You just have few seconds to convince the visitors to become a reader!. Formatting makes him to be that.
Thanks a Lot!
This was one of my greatest posts of all time. Hope these blogging tips were productive for you and would make a difference in your life.
DON'T forget to share the post with your fellow mates. It would mean a lot to us. :)
Astalavista!
If you yet haven't started a blog, you can learn and get started from scratch from this getting started video!
We all want to be productive. Don't we? But being a productive personality needs a true level of commitment.
We may set our goals high enough but only a productive day would make us achieve those goals with the least amount of energy to put in. The more productive we make our self as a writer, the more targeted articles we could complete in a given set of time.
Productivity is the name of killing out distractions. And that's it. If you don't get disturbed with the environment around, i would say, congratulations!
The follow productivity tips would make you spend less time and achieve more in a given set of time. Every tip below is easily achievable, but the only thing that we need is a positive mind with aim to succeed. Once you're sincere with your self, no one can stop you touching the skies! Believe in your self.
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. Jack Dann
Lets start-
Productivity Tips 1# Set Out An Aim For The Day
Easy. Just think over the amount of articles that you aim to write in a given day. This depends on every individual and the level of commitment in his daily life for other responsibilities to work on with. Say you're a student like me, who goes out to university from 8am to 4 pm.
In my case, i plan to write 1-2 articles daily. To make my day productive, i utilized the breaks between my lectures. By the end of the day, when i head towards home, i have already completed one of the articles.
The next one comes out later in the night, when i feel peaceful. The routine may change but the aim to achieve a set goal doesn't.
Productivity Tips 2# Start Research Instantly
The first thing that i start over with is by a research work on a particular topic that i wish to write upon. I often visit blogs (my hobby) and i get ideas for my daily writing material. Read out what others have to say about the given topic.
Combine those thoughts with your own experience and give it out a nice flow in your own style. The emphasis of this point is to carry out research before you start writing on.
Once you know what you need to talk about and what points you should be considering in the post, the rest gets extremely easy and becomes the matter of typing skills that you have.
Productivity Tips 3# Learn Typing!- Crucial For Writers
Not many people talk about this but to me, its one of the most crucial elements in making out your day productive.
I still remember the time when it use to take an entire hour for me to type in just a couple of sentences. I used to come to a point where i could even swear that a particular alphabet is not in the entire keyboard! Then finally it was like, "There you are!"
For this matter, i would recommend Typing Test. They really help me out in achieving a decent typing speed that i have today. Once you get the feel of the characters placement and your fingers start accessing the right points, then after that, its just about practice. Always write, even a smallest user name in the proper fingers placement fashion.
That helped me a lot!
Productivity Tips 4# Destroy All The Distractions
The worst distractions that i have to face while typing in my thoughts, or even while research time, are other 'attractive' articles around. I love reading articles. Greatly worked out blog post titles attract me like anything, and i often tend to start reading them.
Focusing on what we do is the most important part. The moment you feel like you're getting out of the track, pull your self back! Apart from that, restrict your self from using any social media sites, or simply anything online that distracts you away from the writing goal.
Productivity Tips 5# Find Your Self a Peace full Place
Its too important! Make sure you don't lie in a place where you even forget your last sentence that you thought of to write. Many people face this problem due to childrens around. Get into a separate room where you can concentrate on your writing task.
Think of it as a meditation time. Maintain no connection with the world.
Productivity Tips 6# Put Your Cellphone On Silent
Cheap messaging rates have their draw backs! What more could you expect with a SMS package that gives you 700 free messages with 8 Rs/- or 0.05$ !
Friends wont let you live a life of peace. So i make sure that my cellphone is on silent mode and i wont reply to any before my writing aim is complete.
Productivity Tips 7# Standing Table Desk Are Preferred
While we think of choosing a peaceful place, with the comforts of life, you would often find your self in a situation something similar to this. So for this purpose, many people recommend working out with a standing computer stand where you feel like you're at the mission, the entire time.
Productivity Tips 8# Take Short Breaks
Taking short breaks in between what i do, works the best for me. Say i complete researching out the material that i have to write upon, i would often take a round at my house, eat things around and come back with in 5 minutes or so.
You don't want to linger it on too much as that would disturb your work flow. The more work you do, the more breaks you would be needing. It depends on every individual. Many people feel more productive in working out in a single go, with the first break coming up once they have completed their major task. Like after the first article completion.
Find out what works for you best.
Productivity Tips 9# Write First-Edit Later
This is one of mistakes that many beginners do, is that they aim to write the perfect material in the first go. That would not happen or it would take years to do so. An interesting article would maintain its flow and rhythm and you cant afford to break that.
Its the matter of word revelation that takes place once you are in momentum for typing. Keep the words flowing and write in your natural style. Minor spelling mistakes, or even structure enhancements can be done once you have the content written out.
Editing must be done at the end.
Productivity Tips 10# Be Clear About The Time To Be Spent
Time management is another philosophy that many of us fail to implement in our daily lives. Evey single successful personalities we know today had a respect for time. Make sure you know the rough amount of time that you need to spend on a particular task.
When i start researching out for my articles, i aim to complete it with in 30 minutes or so. That helps me start out with my actual typing after the deadline. Things floating in air without aims wont take us any where. We would find our self packed in an ever ending loop.
Productivity Tips 11# Commitment- The Tool Of Leaders
Nothing can be achieved without commitment. You may write 10 articles today, but then loose hope after that. Stay committed to your daily goals. Make sure you don't get up or get distracted before you complete your article.
Anything that seems fancy in between is just the devil- Spit over it!
Productivity Tips 12# Reading Out Success Stories
Reading out success stories and the way leaders make their life productive would help you out being committed to what you do. We all need that extra bit of pull and that is motivation.
So that's all my friends. All we could do is to think positively and find solutions of our problems. You know your problems, that is the lack of productivity. And you were hear to find a solution for it. You have the motivation with you.
Just need to implement it now. Good luck in utilizing your time in the best of your skills.
