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New Year Resolution


Wish you all a Happy New Year (2010). As everyone i want to star this new year with a list of Resolutions and let me list it;

  • Make my first Abroad Travel this year.
  • Start my Book on “Hardships of First Generation Actors” and publish it this year itself.
  • Workout & Have a good physique.
  • Getting a Pretty wife or a Girl Friend ;).
  • Start Collecting Expensive Gadgets & Buying expensive merchandise.
  • Become a Golfer.
  • Become a Good Photographer.
  • Mentoring Budding Entrepreneurs.
  • Starting 2 more entities under Cogzidel Group.
  • Creating a residual income other than my mainstream income.
  • Learn swimming.
  • Start Open Terrace Networking to help startups & SME to network with professional and fellow entrepreneurs.
  • Join Chennai Tracking Club & go for more tracking.
  • Long drives to Pondy, Madurai, Bangalore, Mysore & GOA.

Will post the result by the end of this year.

Wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Recollecting 2009 resolutions


We are approaching the end of 2009 and this last day i want to recollect all the resolutions i had for 2009 and how successful am i in full filling those resolutions. Let me list the resolutions;

Resolution 1: Lead a simple life.

As per this resolution i wanted to lead a simple life where in i didn’t to board Auto-rickshaws, Flights, Taxi’s. So i travel through cheapest traveling option. To my satisfaction I can say I full filled this resolution as an individual. I think my CFO Mr.Bala Murugan is the best person to endorse this :).

Then not to purchase Gadgets, expensive dresses etc. Again you can endorse my success in this by seeing my Mobile phone which i was forced to buy because my old one was dead. Yes i got a mobile for Rs.1800/- only.

Resolution 2: To Blog Regularly.

Again you readers can endorse me by seeing my Blog Logs. I’m happy to full fill this resolution too.

Resolution 3: To have more Vagabond trips.

Starting this year i had lot of Vagabond trips to places like KanniyaKumaru, Munnar, Coimbatore, Kodaikanal, Thirunelveli & Theni. Then after May i wanted to take a break for 3 months because of summer. Sadly this year it was a long summer as heat waves lasted till October. So i can say i was 50% successful in full filling this resolution too.

Resolution 4: Workout and have a good physique.

Let me confess i failed miserably in this :(. I worked out promptly till May then after that i went back to dogs.

Resolution 5: Build my Networks.

  • With the help of Mr.Bala Murugan i got hold of lots of friends & acquaintance in business.
  • I went to Madurai without any friends and today i can say i’ve atleast 100+ friends at madurai and thanks to Sathish & Maverick Fitness Center.
  • Then with the help of my friend Roshan & Inshape Fitness Studio i got linked with lots of Celebrities.
  • Lots of friends through Twitter, Linkedin, Peerpower & Facebook.

So i can give a pass mark for this resolution too.

Resolution 6: To get a groove into CCS as it is a new zone for me.

  • After bootstrapping in a shared office, we have moved in to our own office.
  • With clients in all the services (other than franchise) we offer.
  • Breaking-even for last 3 months.
  • Increasing the team count for CCS.

I must say I’m happy with this resolution too.

To conclude this is the first year where in i’ve a pass mark to my resolutions and also this is the first year where in i’ve a list of resolutions too. Now it is time to sit and rework on another set of resolutions and wish i blog the experience of coming years resolution same day same time.

Until then wish to be successful in accommpolishing next year resolutions too.

Wish you all a happy 2010.

Free Cogzidel T-Shirt


We are planning to post the services of Cogzidel Consultancy Services Press Release with a list of Bloggers to get prominence. We are also experimenting lot of things with this initiative. So, we are looking for help from Bloggers who can post our Press Release in their Blog.

We are offering a free Cogzidel t-shirt for this gesture. So how can you avail this T-Shirt?

It is simple. You have to shoot an email to anand@cogzidel.com and get the PR content and must post it in your blog. Again email the link to anand@cogzidel.com with your address. You will get the t-shirt within a week.

Terms & Conditions

  • Bloggers from Chennai & Bangalore are alone eligible.

New Sales Initiative for CCS


Last couple of weeks has been aggressive in creating a Strategy for improving the Sales for CCS. So what are we doing for last couple of days? 

  • Revamping Cogzidel.In Layout & a Slight change in Design
  • Rewriting content for Cogzidel.In
  • Moving from our own framework to Joomla
  • Aggressively addling links in Directories
  • Aggressively posting press release about CCS.
  • Aggressively increasing networks in Linkedin, Twitter, PeerPower & Facebook 

All the above things are online initiatives. These are some offline initiatives; 

  • Distributing Broachers to companies is Complex’s.
  • Visiting companies directly after getting lead / link from friends.
  • Planning to buy corporate gifts and planning to meet new prospective clients, client who have given good business & client who have not turned after enquiry.
  • Planning to take telephone yellow pages and call all the companies and ask them if they have any need. 

We do all these with the help of two folks Senthil Kumar & Suresh who are in our incubation labs. They spare a quality time for CCS Sales other than working on their new startup. 

Now it is my responsibility to think more innovatively and document things that click so that it can be passed to my successor.

Wired Frames Saves Time & Money


Normally we create wired frames before we start working on a website design so that a client can foresee the skeleton view of his Web site layout.

What is a Wired Frame? 

A wired frame is a pictorial representation of a WebSite Design in a skeleton format. 

What tools are used to create a Wired Frame? 

Axure RP, Justinmind Prototyper, OverSite, ProtoShare, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash Catalyst and iRise. 

So, what we do at Cogzidel is we develop a wireframe design collecting information from the client and client can change the layout if it is not up to his expectation. 

Once the Wired frame is approved we will then continue with the site design.

Today morning I placed a request for a change in CCS site design & the design team approached me and collected my inputs and they have sent me wired frame for index page & inner page.

This is the wired frame for index page.

home_page 

I was happy with the layout other than the Solutions block and I’ve asked to remove the solutions block. Now we know how the Index page layout looks like;

This is the wired frame for inside page.

wireframe_inner copy 

I was not happy with the way inner page layout looks. It looks as a mimic of index page and I’ve requested for a complete rework. Asking my designers to put some thought and show some difference.

Now since this is a wire frame we didn’t loose much time. If we had shown a designed sample then the time wastage would have been much higher.

CCS has opened its wings on Incubation Services


Yes officially we about to Incubate 2 companies which are yet to be named. Businesses of those two companies are; 

  • Newsletter Management Services
  • HR Recruitment Consultancy Firm 

Both the companies are founded a team of two young & energetic entrepreneurs each. Both of them are confident on the opportunity their respective model offers. 

Now CCS will help these companies to Bootstrap where in we are; 

  • Offering space in our office.
  • Managing Support functions.
  • Enlightening them on business functions.
  • Sharing then resource likes Internet, Job Portal Account etc.
  • Sharing their services with our clients where in we help then to develop synergies.
  • Exposing them to our Vendors as they can exploit the benefit we gain and from economies of scale. Eg: Both companies together needs 4 notebooks and they can expect discounts as they are buying 4 in one shot. 

These are our first two companies from our Incubation Labs which is operating under my direct supervision and will document all the learning’s from this initial experience. 

Hope these two companies will have an identity (Company Name) in a day or two and will keep you all posted once they are out with their Name, Logo & Tag Line. I wish this small beginning goes a long way and creates history.

CCS folks use unusual methods to crack solutions for problems


One of the touch / challenging thing in Business in facing uncertainities. But that becomes cherishing opportunity for aggressive people.

An entrepreneur would love to work with such aggressive people. Today i’m proud to be associate with such people.

I want to quote a particular challenging case where we signed a contract with a client for managing their monthly Accounting.

We signed the deal assuming, that client will be using Tally as their accounting tool. To our surprise client was using QuickBook. My peers didn’t have any clue about this new tool.

Instantly my CFO Mr.Bala Murugan and his associate Ms.Vimala had a meet to work out a solution and their unusual way of thinking startled me.

They used Youtube to see if there is any tutorial and it clicked. With the help of this video tutorial we finished the task with ease.

Above case points how they applied their mind and how they extracted the power of social mediums which is available for free.

I always admire such people. And my peers made me proud to say that I’m a part of their team.

Rivers that crosses rough and steep rock will generate electricity.

This is what i learned from my peers.

Google Maps Business Directory Listing Helps CCS


I was exploring thought Google Maps a couple of days back where I was plotting Cogzidel Consultancy Services office address with Google Maps. There I came across this link Add Business Listing and I added Cogzidel immediately. 

In recent times I got a series of leads from Google. Then I got puzzled as we have a low page rank and i was not getting many results for many core keywords. 

Then one day I happened to search “Accounting Services” where in I came across this result in Google search.

accounting-services 

I was hacking with Google Maps long time back and it showed results (You can see Cogzidel Consultancy Services under maps results). Immediately I optimized for many keywords and it immediately showed in result.

Now I can see another option to get to the top page other than SEO & Adwords route. I recommend everyone to mark your business with Google Maps.

Today I marked my company with Yahoo Local Listing too.

SaleSamachar.Com – Best place to strike better deals


Last month we thought or purchasing our own furniture’s and Air-Conditioners for CCS as we are paying heavily on rentals. We thought Diwali would be the right time to do this because of better discounts we might get.

We were looking for some site like deals2buy to compare different discounts offers available with different vendors / retailers. While Googling I came across SaleSamachar.Com. It looks like a brand new site with lots of information on discounts available for this Diwali.

I think it must be Chennai based because all information is pertained to Chennai. I’m happy that India has got such a site after a long time. I’ve got lot of ideas for the site and I’ve shot an email to the webmaster with all my thoughts.

If they respond I might meet them and would be glad to contribute my thoughts to make SaleSamachar.Com a success.