I am done with Engineering. For once and for all. I passed all courses in first attempt with decent grades. But the last two months of the semester were crazy. Faced everything from serious shortage of time  to impossible people. The list of things to do was so long that, I didn’t know where to start ( Hence, I chose to go for nap instead). Eventually, the things got done and I made it through.

To be honest, balancing multiple things while studying is very difficult. You’ll tend to screw up at least something. In my case, I was balancing internship, my sites and college together. I even managed to get few design clients during the later half of the last 2 months. Yes, I have a track record of biting way more than I can chew. But as a collateral, my online business suffered. Panda and Penguin updates ruined a good portion of the business.

Talking about the internship, I have been interning at the SEM department at Rocket Internet. They are a new startup and operate the E-Commerce Store Namshi and Mizado. They are taking the whole GCC region by storm. Its a very promising start up. The time spent while balancing internship with college has been worth it because I have learned a lot of new stuff. Plus, I also have a semiformal Job offer from these people.

Now coming to the next point, my online income is down by 60-70%. My major earners have lost their positions in search engines. What used to work before doesn’t work now. To be honest, I haven’t been able to give much time because of internship and college. I’ll be looking into each of my properties again and figure out how to revive them. If I could do it once, I am sure I can do it again.

Lastly, I am in India at the moment. To be precise, in Mumbai. I’ll be heading to Goa soon. Come on, I deserve to have some fun after so much bullshit. Take care, yo !

Things don’t really go as you plan do they ? The whole 200 % efficiency thing blew up into bits. I did cover substantial ground on the first day and then the graph went down. Partly due to my serious condition of  ‘GAS’ , I know its a little funny but it can really make you feel uncomfortable.  Which really affected my productivity.

I actually found out that 3 of my site had broken posts due to some problem with ‘.htaccess’ ( if you not into websites then just ignore ) .  It seems like i am reigning on a such a big empire that i am losing control and cant over look every details. This could be avoided if i just periodically visited my sites.

I bite off more than I could chew but that is a cost , I am ready to pay for my rapid expansion. But I know I am just one person and cant be everywhere. That is where priorities come in. Major sites get more attentions others get bits. But due to lots going on and pure lack in efficiency its all going hay wire.

Just because I failed for the first time doesn’t mean , I am gonna stop trying. I am gonna try and make a system until it works. I am not gonna stop.

One of the thing i have been truly struggling is with getting my focus right. I tend to get distracted easily and have very short attention span for some apparent reason. This leads to some serious loss in productivity. .

I have midterms starting from next week and I just realized I have tons to finish off. The best and the most horrifying part is I am not panicking. When I panic i tend to finish off the stuffs i am out to do. But hopefully , I ll do good.

Second , I tend to get a lot of free time which i tend to not make use of. I could do a lot of my website stuff in the free time i get in college and every evening after coming back. Just if i could get my ass to work rather than logging into msn and catching up with old buddies. I could have been rich 🙁

Lets just say , life is beautiful and some day i’ll make it happen.

Its 3 AM and i just got done with the movie ‘ the social network ‘ which all of us know is about facebook. The guy knew exactly what he wanted rite from the start and used all his associates to reach there. He was focused and hard working and at the end he got exactly what he wanted , all at a cost of something. ( like i discussed in the last post… )

There was a very good example in the movie , you can catch a lot of small fish or you can catch one big fish. This got me thinking. Like you people Know I deal with sites my self. I think , I will go with catching a lot of small fishes. That will keep me off the lime light. I’ll still have plenty to eat and I still have fishes left if some one steals something. Just minimizing risk.

I’ll be short listing sites tomorrow and see where i want them to be. I’ve gotta make this big and all my efforts count for something. It might mean excess leveraging and excess out sourcing.  I’ve gotta be somewhere far from here in the coming year.

To be honest , i need some people i can work with . Some one who loves this stuff as much as i do and sees prospects as much as i do.  But , For now i am stuck here.

Ok well I completed my site free psp games site which i bought for 150$ . It took close 4-5 man hours to finish the whole thing up. I think it should start making some money now. ( It better do….. )

I also started work on my company site its going to be called ‘Soul Web Works‘ and wrote a blog post. I’ll be working more on it this summer and create a brand out of it. I want to be a big player in the internet marketing industry in dubai. Hopefully, I will.

I have to work on a friends site in the night , I ll keep you updated on how it goes. 🙂