Money Vidya is an awesome new startup in the Indian social stock picking market.  Once you sign up for the service, you start picking stocks and build your virtual portfolio (No real money is involved). You can pick stocks based on the stock trend and also factor in member ratings and sentiment. Based on how your portfolio performs and how many top performing stocks you picked, you earn karma points – or a member rating. [...]

Word of Mouth – You don’t need to spend billions in drumming about your products, if you can get your own customers to talk about it. The age-old Marketing mantra of customer referral ‘by word-of-mouth’ holds good even today. Word of Mouth marketing is just about the cheapest thing you can do to boost your business. But this works on the premise that a satisfied customer would bring in another fellow customer. so the bottom-line is, keep your customer [...]

To be a good business leader, one needs to develop an articulated vision. Do not imbibe a rigid, ‘one size -fits all’ approach to leadership. Learn the leadership principles, adopt them, modify and re-modify them with your one-of-a-kind style, unique values and individual strengths. The following are some pointers to effective Business Leadership: – One should treat people with respect and concern. – The leader should create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the [...]