A few days ago, I was called by someone who found out I was in the web business. She’s an offline graphic artist - A painter for those who speak english :). Clearly, she was excited about having a website and told me she wanted to have a website to display her paintings online.

In this blog post, you’ll find how I figured out what she really wanted … and a screenshot of the final site.

Saturday was a very interesting day - I was judging business plans at Startup @ Singapore 2008. S@S is a business plan competition that allows young entrepreneurs to put their bright ideas into a plan, and if its good - earn about $30,000 in prize money to get it started.

In this article, you’ll find overviews of all the business plans I judged, and my own tips for what makes a competition-winning business plan (Hint - the criteria is quite different from a successful business).

Breaking News!

After spending three whole weeks building other people’s websites, it was finally time to upgrade my own site. I wasn’t able to upgrade it in most of May because of my ongoing website sale (there were hosted videos that I didn’t want to touch). But now that the sale is over, I can finally deploy the brand new site!

There are a lot more changes - and this allows me to add more stuff to the site - I’ve been dying to add all my free white papers, some free tools and some other goodies on the site. And this wide structure finally allows me to do that!

This weekend, I’ll be judging Startup@Singapore Business Plan competition - So expect to hear about that. Moreover, I’m just finishing designing 3 sites (and starting on 3 more) … so plenty of web design and wordpress tips coming up. Finally, all my old white papers on Web Design, Google AdWords and Usability are coming back online next week.

If you wanna learn about selling with pure substance & ZERO HYPE, then you must know about Perry Marshall. Let me just cut things short and include 4 of his recent emails.
All Internet Marketers should be reading these emails - it’s an awesome lesson in selling without hype and storytelling (by the way, none of [...]

Hey ho.
Yet another month coming to an end, yet another template for my dear blog. But this time, it’s much more than a cosmetic template change (new name, new brand, new look, new experiments … more about that a little later).
Before that, here’re some updates from my life …
Life Updates (in no particular order)

I’m still [...]

Just a quick note to congratulate my friend (and coach), Kloudiia - on her first book launch! I heard it went awesome dear … and I’m the whole world will soon be knocking on your door for love advice
Please check out Kloudiia’s very popular love blog - www.kloudiia.com

Last week, something interesting happened.
Usually, I read a lot of blogs, I’m on a chosen few email lists and rarely personally email other bloggers & marketers.
But I do leave comments whenever I have interesting thoughts …
And recently two celebrities - Jeff Walker and Avinash Kaushik actually replied to my emails!
Avinash Kaushik of Occam’s Razor
First, I [...]

Go on … ask the question … “Rachit, why should I stop coming to your blog?”
I’ll tell you in a second, be patient little one!
Until then, here a little story.
Last week, Calvin dropped me a message saying my website looks weird in IE6 … that the whole side navigation actually appears at the bottom (!!!).
My [...]

Hahaha … OK, I just HAVE to blog about this (bad karma notwithstanding).
A few minutes ago, I was reading Andrew’s post about the “Borat of Internet Marketing” - a new youtube video featuring a dude who talked in strange english and gave lessons in marketing to his video viewers. The guy’s actual name was PV [...]

Today is E27.
In case you don’t know what that means, let me explain things a little bit to you. E27 stands for Entrepreneur 27, it’s an informal organization of enterprising young people who promise to change the world before 27.

Well, 27 is close to it anyway … we’re flexible enough to accept people around that [...]

Hello and welcome to the brand new RachitDayal.com! If this is the only post you are seeing, then … Congratulations for being one of the first ones here!
I haven’t marketed the launch of the new website ANYWHERE (not even on my other sites) … so, you must’ve stumbled here just because you love me [...]

Was surfing the web and just found this great looking website. It looks pretty gorgeous. It gives out the details for a great party. Very enterprising - helping young fashion designers and mixing it up with a dating event.
The only problem? In all the graphics and prettiness they planned … they forgot to think about [...]

Last night (before an evening of pool, cards & beer with the boys), I saw a movie.
An Inconvenient Truth … is a movie by Al Gore (the guy who was supposed to be America’s next President in 2000, remember?). Unlike all the recent politi-documentaries … this one was about something different.

This was a movie about [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been trying out different blog templates over the past month. I got kinda bored with the original theme that comes with wordpress and was hoping to find something better.
So, after 8 different templates I’ve settled on one that I like. (Even though some of my friends don’t like it [...]

(And no, I wasn’t in it)
I just got an email in my inbox from Yanik Silver. Now, Yanik’s one of the most successful Internet Marketing gurus out there. And he deserves all the $$$ & family success he has.
What I didn’t know was that he was best bums with so many other famous people! He [...]

It’s been an interesting week. Sometimes I feel excited & encouraged. Sometimes, I feel tense and stressed. But it’s been enriching.
Has it really been a week? … My dear …
Sobriety!
Yes, this last week I decided to get rid of my addiction … to the Internet.
Haven’t read a blog in a week.
Haven’t visited a forum in [...]

OK, this is the 2nd post about what’s been in my head this week. The first one was about my love life … this one is about my business life …
This week in my business
Again, this week had its ups and downs in this area.
First, I had several great meetings this week. Took a few [...]

Ever heard of anyone using porn to sell clothes? Well, someone figured out a way to do that … check out www.sexpacking.com
The site has three explicit hardcore videos (gay sex, straight sex & lesbian sex). The sex vidz are very professionally edited (if you pay careful attention, even the song in the background contains the [...]

Note To Reader - This was the absolute first post on my original blog (rachit.org) sometime in 2006. For nostalgia, I pulled it up from my old blog when I was banishing the blog … hope you read it and chuckle - My writing skills have come a long way
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Why are you here?
Seriously, [...]