Krishnan's Blog

Email is a major means of communication today. Everyone has an email address. Every communication today be it professional or personal happens through email.  With all possible communication taking through email we might at times feel overwhelmed by the amount of email coming into our inbox. This greatly affects our ability to reply or act based on an email and decreases our productivity. Most of has have tons of email in our inbox and no time to read. Important emails are buried deep inside the pile of unwanted emails. Do we work that hard, that we do not have time to check, respond to our emails? I don't think so. So what really happens? The problem lies on the fact that we only use our mailbox to send and receive emails. Yes I'm serious. To be efficient and productive we first need to have the best tools of the trade. You cannot create a green revolution by using ploughing your field using bulls. I use Gmail for personal use and Google Apps for official us...

Job loss is relatively a new terminology unknown to our parents and our ancestors. Since the liberalization of the Indian economy, this term has come into a common usage (ask the current generation of Indians) . Everyday we read in the newspapers that people loose the job and the company sites various reasons for the same. People working in MNCs also often encounter someone or the other being fired right in front of their eyes. The reason behind being fired or loosing the job might be numerous, but the consequence is the person being fired undergoes severe trauma and his finance goes for a toss. In a capitalist economy loosing a job or getting fired and finding a new one is very common but the previous generation of Indians have experienced only a socialist economy and hence they could not and cannot teach us how to survive in a capitalist economy. The experience learned by living in socialist economy is useless to survive in a capitalist economy. Got this tweet minutes after I s...

Blogs are one of the revolutionary inventions in the digital world. Since the introduction of blogs there has been lots of blogging tools like Blogger and Wordpress, which enable user to publish their contents easily. These blogging tools have given the power of blogging to an average individual. Since then the number of blogs have increased. Almost everyone has a blog or had a blog in the past. Even companies have a blog these days, as it has become a basic necessity in today's digital world. However, an average reader spends very little time on a blog. A novice might ask, if an average reader spends very little time on a blog, what is the use of banging our head and writing articles for our blog. Well to answer in a single sentence, one can say making a visitor of your blog, turn into a reader is an art. This art cannot be mastered or acquired over night. It is a slow and a steady process and if somethings are done in the right way, your blog will slowly get a long list of loyal ...

You have a business plan ready with you and now is the time to choose a name for your business. One might think on why am I writing a blog post on choosing a name for the company. Choosing a name for your company is indeed not an easy job and is very important in building the foundation for your dream company. While choosing a name a lot of factors has to be considered. I have mentioned some of the important factors below. The name of the company should be relevant to the operations of the company. short and catchy and easy to remember. should reflect the culture of the company. not used by any other company. (will help you during the incorporation of your company) Entrepreneurs should have quite a few brain storming sessions before forming a company. Choosing the name is usually an art and can only be derived by trial and error. Also you need to consider that the domain name for the chosen company name is available. For eg.: You have chosen FoodPunch as yo...