What Makes You Business Person in Pakistan?

1- "I don't get time, life is sooooo busy .." -- when he actually doesn't have anything to do but to say.."I 'm so busy":P

2- This one is similar to the first one but it has its own sweet impact :P , you make a phone call & the other person right after listening to your introduction, "Hey! I ' m in middle of something really important..." -- when he is at the crucial level of harvesting his crops at Farmville...

3- He will always talk about Motivation, Leadership, Teamwork, Respect -- when his subordinates/peers speak shit about him :P

4- He is so comfortable in speaking English lingo ALWAYS!-- even when ".com" is "daatt kaaam" for him :P

5- He carries coffee mug with him while driving the car :P

6- "I am fond of '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' by Stephen Covey.." -- when "Alice in Wonderland" doesn't make him smile even once.. :P

7- "Who impressed you??"

"Of course, Steve Jobs.." 

"Why Steve Jobs?"

"Ummm! he is the CEO of Apple.. he invented iPad..he invented the mouse.."

But actually -- "I don't know everybody is posting about him after his death on Social Media.." :P

8- He will always ask his colleague/friend/acquaintance .."Would it be possible for you to provide me free entry for the upcoming Conference at PC?"

Friend : "Yeah! How do you see this conference contributing in your success?"

He: "Business Networking, you know. Aur phir PC ka lunch woh bhi freeeeeee " :P

9- He, as your boss, "We need to get 'zero' while using two digits, I need the team work on it"..

Team: "Sir, how about 0 x 1 =0 ?"

He: "Ummm! it's good but...."

Team:"0 x 2 =0 ?"

He: " Yes..but...OK! Please, take your time and come with some effective solutions, I know you can do it"

Team after few days later : "Sir, we have found the solution..how about 0 x 0 = 0?"

He: "Umm..You are right but....we need to change the target, lets find out how to get 2 using 2 digits?" :P

& the story goes onnnnnn & onnnn !!! :D

10- You make a call , you say you deal in ABC services, would you like to purchase?He takes all the information & then:

He: "Please, call me tomorrow"

You make a call tomorrow

He:"Hey ! I'm busy somewhere, can you call me in the middle of the month?"

You call him again

He:"Yeah, who is this..?"

You: :S - You again introduce yourself..

He:"O yeah yeah!!Hey, I'm sorry we don't need your services.." 

You: !@!#$@%$#^$#  

hehe...

11- He is going to Gloria Jeans :P

PS: The list is created after spending 1 year and few months with the professionals. Please, if you have something similar to this , share it :D. I know i will keep adding in this list ...:P

See ya!!

If Today was Your Last Day?

Today I was just surfing my linkedin profile and then I reached to a contact whom I really didn’t know personally , never talked to him, never even saw him in person but I used to know that he exists in this world.

I used to get messages from him regarding his business..sometimes used to read his status updates regarding his business..didn't know him much more than this. And one day, I read  statuses of his colleagues that he is fighting with death and couple of days later ..he died…really he died..his profile is still added in my linkedin and facebook account too. KhurrumBukhari!

Today he isn’t this world anymore..but I would really like to dedicate this blog to him and all human beings who keep on fighting for things, that we call "Priorities", in this world. Job, money, education, happiness, grieves, love, hate, facebook, business, chocolates, mobile phone (in my case iPhone) blah blah …we keep on focusing on all such things. Everybody of us keep on striving and struggling to achieve something PERFECT in our lives.

I several times thought to delete his profile  but some unknown forces stop me for doing so…I just think, one day somebody will also be saying same words for my profiles too..maybe a friend of mine will not be able to delete my profile too…

I don’t know much about khurrrum’s life..but I know I m not doing anything that'd stay behind in this world even if I die..Something much bigger than a PROFILE, something too-hard-to-delete. Do you have something to leave behind with proud??Please, share!

How many times we just don’t do so many things that we really should be doing for some pre-defined fears??

I want all of you to listen this song…I didn’t plan to upload this song with this blog but coincidentally it popped-up in my mind & I just thought to share this too =)

“If today was your last day..tomorrow was too late!!!! =)

Live in the MOMENT..

We live in the "Moments"..

How many times you feel that you just can't get rid of your worst habit ? How many times you feel that you just can't achieve the BIIIIIGGG goal given to you by your boss? How many times you feel that you just CAN NOT do SOMETHING, you lose your hopes and break down into pieces...? There is a looooooong list of similar situations..and the solution to all of them is just to realize that we LIVE IN THE MOMENTS..

It happens a lot of time when you just start doing things that you really should not be doing for instance; negative thoughts, but you keep on doing them and spend hours on the same thing. If we just realize that, we have to fight just that MOMENT when that very thought hits your mind and you start following it unintentionally..only that MOMENT you have to be strong and fight with that thought & after that MOMENT you will realize that you have won the war that was apparently insurmountable but you just did that..Because, we believe or not,  we live in the MOMENTS!

Sometimes it happens that we become a real victim of one little moment..When you have a great day at workplace, everything goes just like you planned and one rude client on the telephone turns you off all of sudden..WHY? it is because you just lose yourself to that very MOMENT when the rude client was yelling at you or said something disrespectful..

It 'd be a Great triumph if we learn to live the moments..if we learn to left all the outputs of the moment in that particular moment.. This is not something IMPRACTICAL..this is something that needs a real good practice!

There are a lot of ways to do so, having a bad thought? Just get up and get yourself busy somewhere else. Initial few seconds, that thought will keep coming back to you but if you stand firm against it..you will win the moment :-)! 

You just need to find out your way of fighting with them and I'm sure there will be lot of ways..just find 'em :-)!

I say, "Right now" is the very first "Moment" of your Day :-)!

A little bit of "Automation" & a little bit of "Real Time Conversation" - My SM Strategy :-)

Finally..my life on Social Media has become much easier.

The very initial days of my professional life when I started to do Social Media Marketing for my employer, life was bit hectic. I kept on "WASTING" my time , thinking what to post, what to not. But for getting the answer I spend a lot of time on CLICKING ,CLICKING on various websites and social media pages that what like-minded people are doing on their social media networks and in doing so, I found lots of interesting blogs, tutorials on Social Media Marketing. I must say, this research has proven to be so effective. Gradually, I have started to find out the ways and tools that can help me to be more productive on Social Media and I'm still digging more and more.

One such strategy is to bring "Automation" in your social media activities. Well, YES, I surely know that Social media is more about ENGAGING people rather than keep on posting things that might not be of their interest. But the model I find effective to my nature of business is "little bit of Automation and little bit of real time Conversation"..

www.ping.fm, is a platform through which you can post your status updates at one time to your all social media networks. You can synchronize your Linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, stumbleupon, wordpress to name a few,  accounts and post your status one time on ping.fm and it will be posted everywhere. Time saving, no?:-)

I am personally fond of www.Hootsuite.com. A place that has made my life soooooo easy:-). Similar to ping.fm, you can synchronize your all accounts at one place. Not only that, you can schedule your future posts and keep an eye on analytic too. Because Hootsuite.com will automatically update your posts to your network at the selected time. What a life! :-)

So, for social media networks like twitter and facebook, I am using these 2 tools but for linkedin majority of the time I have to be in real time conversation with the leads and clients. I would like to mentioned Amy Portfield here, her free video training sessions have really helped me out and still they are helping. Thanks to a very good friend of mine, Muadassir Malik, who created base of my Social Media Skills. I'm still in process of learning more and more and I make sure to share my learning with my friends. Because Social Media is all about SHARING :-)

Contest, Contest and Contest!

Whenever I login to my Facebook account , my notifications list is full of requests to “like my post on blah blah Fan-page in order to let me win blah blah contest..”! Couple of my friends are so much into this “Contests” thingie that the only purpose for them to login to facebook is winning the contest.

It’s a human nature to “Win” and today’s marketers are making the best out of this instinct. Bringing more “likes” to their fan-pages, shifting this responsibility to people by giving them a chance to win something, isn’t it a great idea? :-) I have seen the “likes” increasing exponentially, in a matter of a day, on pages just because of these contests.

Initially, the facebook applications were so addictive that kept the people extra ordinarily involved. Now, these contests have penetrated in our daily lives. Couple of days back, I went to “Stylo Shoes” and I observed how smartly they have increased their sales by giving 500 PKR vouchers to their fans through a contest on their fan-page on this 14th August. I personally, liked the strategy. The 500 PKR voucher will be valid only when you do a purchase equivalent of 1000 PKR. Smart, no? :-) The results were pretty obvious if any of you have visited the outlets lately.

But what results these strategies are putting in an individual life? Let me quote some of the examples. A friend of mine is so much involved in these contests that her husband says that she has lost her appetite, she doesn’t care for her health anymore, she wakes up in the nights in order to see how many likes her post has achieved till now. In short she has become a complete victim of this social networking disease, “like my post and help me win..!”

Even my own sister, she is fighting with me right now because I am showing a little reluctance for liking her post in order to win her a contest. I showed reluctance deliberately, wanted to see her reaction. A mild “No” really blazed her up and she started telling me that she has done a lot for me during the times when I required her help and now I am becoming selfish and not liking her post.

Ooops! It seems like the strategy that is producing awesome results for brands is somehow ruining the individual’s life and relationships too.

Do you know, she again looked askew at me for not liking her post,lol.

Finally..My 'Thoughts' are being heard by 'Me' :-)

"Blogging" is the most twinkling part of my "Wish-list" from the day I got to know about the concept of Blogging. Several times, I created profiles on different blogging sites but for some unknown reasons I never posted a single blog on any of them. Sometimes, I feel those "unknown reasons" are fear, lack of time, procrastination or may be something else. On daily basis there are several things that wander over my mind in search of some words and an opportunity to be converted into digital format but.. they were never lucky enough.


Today I didn't think much of anything and switched on my laptop, opened www.blogger.com and created my new profile. Right now, I dare to say, that I don't have anything particular in my mind, I'm just typing whatever comes into my mind. I believe, today "things in my mind" are having four-leaf clovers all around them :-).


I believe, sometimes we waste so much time in thinking and analyzing the things we want to do. We just become too busy to find out the "unknown reasons" for not doing something. In reality, these "unknown reasons" don't exist. We just , sometimes, don't have to think a lot instead start working immediately and follow  the "things in our minds".


If I dig more into my interest of blogging, I realize that I always love to share the things I know, with the people around. Sometimes, it becomes hard to shortlist those who are interested in grabbing the information and knowledge you have and those who are not.. So, the best option I could ever have for bypassing this shortlisting process is "Blogging". I will write whatever I feel is needed to be shared with people. Now it is up-to them whether they want to grab it or not. At least, I'm done with my part.


Don't forget to listen your "thoughts"... :-)