I’ve been using scriptlance since itz inception and I’ve evolved as scriptlance evolved. I’ve known Rene of scriptlance & I’ve good association with him. I was his official installer for his site Smarterscripts.com which was selling Perl/CGI scripts. Coming back to topic I’ll be sharing some of my experience which made me a success in scriptlance… Here are some tips…

Under Bid during early days: If you are new to scriptlance underbid and try to win more project until you reach some 100 reviews. Reaching 100 reviews effectively means you have 50-60 unique clients & also credibility to win bigger projects. Remember clients who offer bigger projects expect credibility for which you need more review… Also you need someone to create a relationship. If you have 50 clients you effectively have 50 new relationships to develop. This will help you in cross selling & pitching more projects from these clients…

Bid mostly on small projects: During early days bid on small projects because you can show volumes and get more clients sooner. So, under bid on small projects and overbid on bigger project so that you can stay active…

Stay Active: Be active even after winning sufficient projects. Just try to overbid during these times. It would be a bonus when you get over paid for a project. Always webmasters will be happy to choose programmers who are active. This would be helpful when you come back to take projects seriously.

Constantly follow-up: Never wait after placing the bid. Use Personal Message Board and follow up with the client regularly. This will creates an image that you are committed with your work.

Don’t Cross sell: Never cross sell all your service in one shot. This will confuse the customer & you might loose because of this. Cross selling should be done only after successfully completing a project. So when you post message be specific to the project.

Update Scriptlance Profile: Regularly update your scriptlance profile and portfolio. Some customers will be checking our progress regularly & when they have similar requirement similar to what we did, they automatically invite you.

Work with Webmasters with high review: Try to win projects of webmasters who have more reviews. They have proved their credentials by working with more programmers and will be trust worthy to work. Also they are capable of giving more projects. So, you can make compromise to win the trust of these webmasters.

Break high value projects: Remember you also need high value projects in your reviews. But this article is for starters in scriptlance. So, if you are lucky winning a project worth $1200, convince the client to break the project into 6-7 and post it for you. This will help to get more reviews… Don’t do this with new clients. Try this with clients with whom you have previously worked.

Get Exclusive Projects: Convince clients with whom you have already worked to post project “For Your-Scriptlance-Username”. This impress other webmasters…

Insist only Escow payments: During days never insist for direct payments or upfront advance. Till you gain some credibility be contented with Escow.

Accept only Positive reviews: Scriptlance has come with a new feature where you get reviews only when you give back review. If you are not clear if a customer is happy with your work, never accept the review. Don’t worry about loosing the project or money. Because credibility will only help you in long term…

Never miss reviews: Many webmaster’s forget to post reviews. Constantly follow-up with customers to get those reviews.

Read project descriptions fully: Many webmasters are smart. In order to check the commitment of the programmer they would have place a line which says “Pls post the word “READ” in your bid/PMB in order to know you have read fully”. So never bid by reading first two lines for projects which has big description. Also personally it is not safe for you to place bids on projects which you have not read fully…

Google Friend Connect

Just signed up for Google Friend Connect and added itz member gadget in my site… GFC helps non social media sites to become social media enabled. It has a simple signup process and step by step instruction which can be easily followed…

I’d like to add more friend connects… Here is by Member Gadget & join as my friend…

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India claims to be the biggest democracy in the world which is divided by caste, religion, language etc etc. we are proud of this. Democracy says “By the People for the People” but in reality there is no respite for people of this land. Infact I sometimes feel we could have been better under a monarchy than under these shameless politicians. They have shattered this nation for greed.

This entire Mumbai crisis has given lots of lessons, answers, questions, puzzles et more. Let us take one by one. Let us go out of way and talk about our so called Raj Thackeray chief of MNS, who brought unnecessary issues to divide people of our country. Where were you when this entire crisis happened? Hiding under your bed?? You B@$%@$d imagine no. of people who sacrificed their life to save Mumbai on the day of crisis, they were north Indian, south Indians who fought like Indians & didn’t differentiate. They didn’t hide like you like a coward. You have lost face in this entire episode, if you had at least walked out on the roads of taj/trident on the time of crisis I’d have saluted you and would have fought with your for your so called marata pride. Understand on thin be it marata or malayali we are Indians, if you don’t understand this now you are not fit to be a human being…

Then coming back what are the politicians doing? What was the intelligence doing? Home minister Shivraj Patil still do you want to be greedy for power?? The entire way our ruling or opposition politicians handled terror is intolerable. You go on a Z class security and we the people have to wait on hot sun & rain for you to travel. In last six months alone there were bombings in almost every major city in India you have never come open on any of it.

Politicians get paid by our tax money; get all perks from our tax money. Why can’t you cut your pay, perks etc and spend more on security & infrastructure??

What worries more is politicians are not committed & not taking responsibility too. Already mudslinging started to grab the opportunity. In the end it is people who are the ultimate sufferers.

Finally coming back to people we call it Spirit of Mumbai, people get back to normal etc. but it is this attitude that keeps politicians running. Our memories are short.

Look at the condition of all the fighters who fought for the nation, I saw the bus they travelled to reach the spot. It is no way comparable to the luxury busses used by cricketers. What shame cricketers are paid for winning as well as loosing matches. Shouldn’t we feel ashamed of ourselves? Enough is enough we have to think and must act responsible and high time we take some steps.

Now this leads to lots of questions which we expect from politicians,

Why we there were you unable to stop terrorism?
What commitment you will take from now on?
What is it you are going to do to people who have lost their life?
Will we get transparency in investigation?
Will there be transparency in handling terrorism?

I’ve many more questions but I know even the questions I listed will go unanswered. But let me open the Pandora box, when every I read this post I keep remaining that I must do something to all this and when politicians come to campaign might be I can shoot all these questions to them…

I take this opportunity to salute all the martyrs who have laid down their life to save lots of life and made the nation proud. Also to people who fell prey to this cowardly act of terrorism. May their soul rest in peace…

Operator : ‘Thank you for calling Pizza Hut . May I have your…’

Customer: ‘Helloo, can I order..’

Operator : ‘Can I have your multi purpose card number first, Sir?’

Customer: ‘It’s eh…, hold……….on……889861356102049998-45-54610’

Operator : ‘OK… you’re… Mr Singh and you’re calling from 17 Jalan Kayu. Your home number is 4094! 2366, your office 76452302 and your mobile is 0142662566. Which number are you calling from now Sir?’

Customer: ‘Home! How did you get all my phone numbers?

Operator : ‘We are connected to the system Sir’

Customer: ‘May I order your Seafood Pizza…’

Operator : ‘That’s not a good idea Sir’

Customer: ‘How come?’

Operator : ‘According to your medical records, you have high blood pressure and even higher cholesterol level Sir’

Customer: ‘What?… What do you recommend then?’

Operator : ‘Try our Low Fat Hokkien Mee Pizza. You’ll like it’

Customer: ‘How do you know for sure?’

Operator : ‘You borrowed a book entitled ‘Popular Hokkien Dishes’ from the National Library last week Sir’

Customer: ‘OK I give up… Give me three family size ones then, how much will that cost?’

Operator : ‘That should be enough for your family of 10, Sir. The total is $49.99’

Customer: ‘Can I pay by! credit card?’

Operator : ‘I’m afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your credit card is over the limit and you owe your bank $3,720.55 since October last year. That’s not including the late payment charges on your housing loan, Sir.’

Customer: ‘I guess I have to run to the neighbourhood ATM and withdraw some cash before your guy arrives’

Operator : ‘You can’t Sir. Based on the records, you’ve reached your daily limit on machine withdrawal today’

Customer: ‘Never mind just send the pizzas, I’ll have the cash ready. How long is it gonna take anyway?’

Operator : ‘About 45 minutes Sir, but if you can’t wait you can always come and collect it on your motorcycle…’

Customer: ‘ What!’

Operator : ‘According to the details in system ,you own a Scooter,…registration number 1123…’

Customer: ‘ ????’

Operator : ‘Is there anything else Sir?’

Customer: ‘Nothing… by the way… aren’t you giving me that 3 free bottles of cola as advertised?’

Operator : ‘We normally would Sir, but based on your records you’re also diabetic……. ‘

Customer: #$$^%&$@$% ^

Operator : ‘Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 15th July 1987 you were convicted of using abusive language on a policeman…?’

Customer: [Faints]

Thanks to Vivekananthan Sivashanmugam…

Disclaimer: This article is a mail forward and I’m in no way responsible for any damages or claims. If you want I can help is catching the person who has forwarded me the mail, sorry bala ;)…

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen….

This is your captain PATEL welcoming both seated & standing passengers on board of Air Deccan.

We apologize 4 d 4-day delay in taking off; it was due to bad weather and partly due to the search for a missing tyre.

This is flight 717 to Mumbai. Landing there is not guaranteed, but we will end up somewhere in India. And, if luck is in our favor, we may even be landing on your village!

Air Deccan has an excellent safety-record. In fact, our safety standards are so high, that even terrorists are afraid to fly with us! It is with pleasure; I announce that, starting this year, over 30% of our Passengers have reached their destination.

If our engines are too noisy for u, on passenger request, we can arrange to turn them off. To make your free fall to earth pleasant and memorable, we serve Complimentary Daru and Vada Pav. For our not-so-religious passengers, we are the only airline who can help you find out if there really is a God!

We regret to inform you, that today’s in-flight movie will not be shown as we forgot to record it from the television.

However, for our movie buffs, we will be flying right next to Kingfisher Airline, where their movie will be visible from the right side of the cabin window.

There is no smoking allowed in this airplane. Any smoke you see in the Cabin is only the early warning system on the engines telling us to slow down!

In order to catch important landmarks, we try to fly as close as possible. 4 d best view, if however, we go a little too close, do let us know. Our enthusiastic co-pilot sometimes flies right through the landmark!

Kindly be seated, keep your seat in an upright position 4 take-off & fasten your seat-belt. 4 those of you who can’t find a seat-belt, kindly fasten your own belt 2 d arm of your seat. And, for those who can’t find a seat, do not hesitate to get in touch with a stewardess who will explain how to fasten yourself to your suitcase.

What is Affiliate marketing?

Affiliate program is nothing but you hearten other webmasters to sign up and advertise your services and products on their sites, in exchange you pay them based on their performance. An affiliate program is an excellent way to gain additional sales. There are options for all budgets, but you generally get what you pay for.

There are various way that affiliates are paid:

1.Per Impression: The affiliate is paid a set amount for every time that your ad is shown. The downside is that affiliates have no incentive to send you traffic, or to put your ad in a attention-grabbing location.

2.Per Click: You pay a set amount for each unique person that clicks on your ad. This is similar to a PPC engine. The downside is that you must pay even if the traffic is of a low quality.

3.Per Lead: You pay your affiliates based on the number of unique people that click on your ad, and then proceed to complete a particular action (for example, a “lead” might be when someone downloads a trial, or signs up for a mailing list). This is very similar to Per Sale, but is more common on sites promoting free services.

4.Per Sale: The affiliates are remunerated either a percentage or a set amount for each sale generated by a user that originated from the affiliate’s site(for example I came across a template selling site named templatemuseum.com which offers a high rate of Per sale commission). Affiliates generally prefer receiving commissions on a Per Impression or Per Click basis, but site owners have a preference of the inevitability of Per Lead and Per Sale. There are three ways to start an affiliate program: Your own script, install a script, or use a third-party service. Your Own script If your website’s order system has been custom-made, then one option may be to ask your programmer to add an affiliate program to the system. The programmer would add some code to the payment script, and then develop a simple interface for affiliates to see how they’re doing, and for you to check on your affiliates. This is an cost-effective choice for sites based on custom scripting, but site owners may be somnolent to trust your reporting (after all, it would be in your best interest to fudge the numbers). Established sites can get away with this, but new websites may have difficulty here. Also, if you roll your own then it will be entirely up to you to promote it. Installing a Script If you don’t have a custom-made order script, or if the required modifications would be too pricey, then a similar alternative would be to install a ready-made script. The CGI Resource Index has a list of such scripts. Free scripts are out there, but are generally difficult to find if you’re interested in the script’s quality (which is important for an affiliate program). Expect to pay $20 to $60 for a good affiliate script.

Like rolling your own, this presents the problem of finding affiliates. Also, affiliates may be just as apprehensive of using a script controlled by you as they would be of a custom-built affiliate system. Using a Third-Party Service The final alternative, and the one chosen by the largest number of sites, is to use a third-party service. Here, you let another company control your affiliate program. They will take care of managing it, and to some extent finding affiliates, but at a price. For example templatemuseum.com can be viewed as a destination place for retrieval of information regarding the best affiliate program in the market today.

S.Anand Nataraj

116, 1st Cross Street, Lakshmi Nagar Extn, Porur, E-mail: anand@anandnataraj.com Chennai, TN, 600 116

Professional Objective:  Objective of my life is to be an successful entrepreneur. Make my company a conglomerate. I love to bootstrap startups and see them growing big.

Education:  B.Sc Computer Science 1997 – 2000 D.B.Jain College. eMBA 2006 – 2008 Great Lakes Institute Of Management.

Experience: Agriya Infoway Pvt. Ltd. 2000 – 2008 Founder & CEO Was instrumental in creating a Entity called Agriya, develop it from ground zero to what it is now. Cogzidel Groups Cgozidel Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. Cogzidel Technologies 2008 – till date Founder & CEO It is time whic has to tell if i can create another successful entity.

References: Available upon request.

It was Friday evening around 7 o clock. Finished all my work and just booked my tickets to Chennai and the departure was around 8.30 PM. So thought I can spend some time by adding friends in my Social Networking site, scrap them, write on the wall and what not. Also updating photos and twitting in twitter. Suddenly got a thought to Google my name “Anand Nataraj”.

I was browsing thru the results on 3 pages or so I got to see this result http://anandnataraj.faithweb.com. It immediately took me 9 years back, that site was hardly updated for last 9 years. But still it has the remains of my last work. That site was designed by me. I spent sleepless nights to design and upload that site and collect information/content it has now. Those days internet usage was expensive and was dial-up ones. So, had to overcome lots of challenges like slow speed, frequent disconnects, nagging from parents to stop browsing.

In spite of all those challenges was able to launch the site and infact I remember making Rs.2000 as affiliate commission from some website :); funny days :). Some of the recipies I typed from books and uploaded it, I even got a email from a lady in US for putting those recipies.

Also when I look into those photos it took me back to those college days which were the most memorable days I’ve had in my days. They have become history but the moments still stay alive and as fresh as ever. Can image how I look then and now. I’ve put two photos to compare :).

One wearing White Coke Sweater is me. This is 9 years back

This is my current picture. Huge difference??

Those were the days where there was no money in the pocket, but had lots of happiness. I can never thing of a day where I was stressed. I failed in all the papers when I was in 2nd year, still I played cricket and went home as if nothing happened. Buying one plate of bhel puri and sharing it with 10 folks.

Oops I can talk loads about those days. But time to have dinner and catch bus and cherish those days when I travel. In the bus I got a Plug point to charge, USB lamp & Internet data card. Happy to blog while travelling in the bus.

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A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York.

Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog.

He runs over and starts fighting with the dog. He succeeds in killing the dog and saving the girl’s life.

A policeman who was watching the scene! walks over and says: “You are a hero, tomorrow you can read it in all the newspapers: “Brave New Yorker saves the life of little girl”.

The man says: “But I am not a New Yorker!”

Oh then it will say in newspapers in the morning: “Brave American saves life of little girl” the policeman answers.

“But I am not an American!” – says the man.

“Oh, what are you then?”

The man says: “I am a Pakistani!”

The next day the newspapers say: “A Terrorist Kills Innocent American Dog!”.