I was struck by a brilliant presentation by Simon Sinek on how leadership is about who you are more than what and how you create your product. View this brilliant presentation here – http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html So here goes – What We Believe, A Web Designer’s Manifesto We believe that every business deserves a brilliant website that [...]
Archive for February, 2011
India’s 2nd Email Marketing Roundtable by Netcore and IAMAI
Posted by Ron on February 27th, 2011
Attended the 2nd Email Marketing Roundtable held jointly by Netcore and IAMAI. Panelists included Ratish Nair- Co-founder at Ad Magent, Gulshan Verma, Country head – Komli Media, Sankarson Banerjee, Chief Information Officer – India Infoline, Sandip Tarkas, President (Customer Strategy) – Future Group and Atul Phadnis, CEO – What’s on India. The discussion through up some [...]
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy, Web Technology 
Tags: email marketing, email marketing roundtable 
1 Comment »New website review – www.su-kam.com
Posted by Ron on February 25th, 2011
I got a little SMS late yesterday night. Su-kam maker of the inverters have just launched their new website. As a customer and a web designer I was curious to see how it had turned out. The earlier site was quite sad. Happy to say they’ve done a good job although nothing outstanding. They have [...]
Blogs are a good alternative for those who cannot afford professional websites
Posted by Ron on February 22nd, 2011
A part of being a professional design firm is turning down prospects who do not have sufficient budgets for professional web design. For those people we recommend a quick and easy way to get online using Blogs. Many blogging platforms are easy to setup and use and come with tons of plugins (add on programs [...]
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy Tags: blogs, budget websites, low cost websites, websites No Comments »Tata Communications, what the hell are they selling anyways?
Posted by Ron on February 18th, 2011
The something for everyone approach doesn’t work Here we go again, another telecom company wanting to be the anything and everything of the small business community (SMBs). They are not doing through the organic development but rather through a third party vendors route, reselling established services. And you can see that they are covering every base [...]
Super Launch – The very new and improved www.mytoday.com
Posted by Ron on February 17th, 2011
A great opportunity for us was to get a chance to help redesign the user interface for one of India’s largest SMS content providers – www.mytoday.com Check out the new features with over 200 SMS channels ranging from Cricket to Sex and more. www.mytoday.com
Solve Duplicate Content Issues by Using a Canonical Web Address
Posted by shashank on February 16th, 2011
Duplicate content is having identical content on two or more pages on your site and it can harm your website rankings; here I will discuss how you can cope up with this to boost your ranking in Google. The most common problem – www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com/index.html These two pages are having same content but are [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing Tags: HTML, PageRank, Search engine optimization, Web search engine No Comments »Blog Sourcing – Getting your customers/users to write your blog.
Posted by Ron on February 14th, 2011
A service I subscribe to with hundreds of book lovers sent me a lovely mail very nicely asking me to contribute to their blog. Of course this was sent to all their customers. They requested for any kind of contribution – like book reviews, your favorite books and your experiences as a reader. As a [...]
How to convey your ideas and not confuse your web designer
Posted by Ron on February 11th, 2011
You’ve finalized the deliverables and fixed the costs. Now its time to get cracking. You will want your web designer to translate your vision into a website. You start out with a verbal brief, conveying your ideas and vision. The designer comes back after a few days but the designs are just not upto the [...]
Websites at the bottom of the pyramid – Low cost web design in India, an opportunity?
Posted by Ron on February 7th, 2011
Everyday we read these ads in the paper offering web design services at extremely low rates and I wonder how they survive on such margins and who do they serve. But as it happens there is a huge opportunity for ‘entry level’ web design firms at the bottom of the pyramid. Its a prolific Industry [...]
Ron Billimoria, is a web industry professional with over 15 years experience. Ron is the CEO of MiracleworX, a premier web design and development firm in India. 
