Adding PhPList to My Website: www.singhaniachildrensclinic.com

I was able to add PhPList to another website that I was doing – and sent my first message to about 1200 email ids! Feel great about it.
I remember when I first loaded PhPlist on www.cosmetics-hair.com – just the mental time and energy required to install it was enough for me and I took a [...]

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Changing the format of the index page

My Internet marketing guru’s told me to have a sales letter as the index page and the email ID box as the key to entering my site.
I launched www.cosmetics-hair.com in June 2007 with the sales letter as the landing page. So far I have had more than 2000 unique visitors, but no buyer. So I [...]

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RSS feeds

By using RSS in WordPress, I discovered that I can get a RSS feed collector installed on to my OsCommerce website! For AUD 100. Cool!
Waiting to understand how to put it into another website that uses MS FrontPage. Any one know how?

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Restoring My Web Site – www.cosmetics-hair.com

2 weeks ago I deleted Joomla – my CMS from my www.cosmetics-hair.com website by mistake. [I know you may be wondering how anyone could do that by mistake, but there it is!].
 My fabulous hosting company – www.hostgator.comrestored the website completely and also reset my password! Thank you Hostgator.
I wonder what lesson I learnt from all this. [...]

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Going Back Into The Womb!

Do you ever feel like going back into the womb? I do.
Someone will look after me. I wont have to worry about food, money, housing, children’s education or their marriage.
Sometimes I want to go back and live in India for that reason. The rest of my life here in Dubai is great. But I don’t [...]

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6 Tips on starting a new business

People say many things and give lots of advice. Here is my experience from starting, running, and closing several businesses in 4 countries over 25 years:
1. Know at least one aspect of the business you are starting.
The manufacturing or operations, the sales and marketing, the people or have the money. If you know one of [...]

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Bloopers along the way

Last week, while editing this site, I deleted part of my cosmetics-hair.com site.
Horror and dismay followed. Frantic activity was my natural reaction and my brain shut down.
I am here to say that my hosting company – hostgator.com had a backup and restored the site. My CMS password is not working, but I am sure there [...]

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Learning a new ‘language’

When I started, the language of internet business was so alien!
Domains, hosting, FrontPage, Links, Payment Gateways, Elance.com, pages, content, web design… The list went on. To learn what they meant I had to do – make mistakes, do again, make mistakes, rest, do again, learn more, and keep following this cycle. Let me tell you, [...]

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Happy birthday, India

The world’s largest democracy turns 60, having written an epic success story
Friday, August 10, 2007
By Shashi Tharoor
At midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, a new nation was born on a subcontinent ripped apart by a bloody partition. Independent India came into being as flames blazed across the land, corpse-laden trains crossed the new frontier with Pakistan [...]

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Products for oily skin

Q: I viewed the product line and personally I have no idea which would be best for me. I have normal to (not very) oily skin (T-zone).  I need something with a sunblockthat can keep my skin matte.  Also, can you recommend other products for marksand what I will need for my skin type. Meena
A: Click [...]

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