Okay, time to congratulate me – I just got another certification from Google! (Okay, if you’re not my biggest fan – the first one was the AdWords Qualification back in 2005)
I’m now a Qualified Analytics Individual, which basically means I’ve gone through a pretty rigorous training to set up, understand and analyze Google Analytics for [...]

Here’s a long-delayed update on the Google Marketing Boot Camp we wrapped up 10 days ago. It was an intense 2 day event (25th & 26th Feb 09) where we had 8 very smart marketers sitting down and working on their biggest online marketing challenges.

We had every kind of business in there – from affiliate [...]

January 2009 was an anniversary for two important things – the 5th anniversary of my entry into Online Marketing – and the 3rd anniversary of setting up my consulting & services business.

This is a special post to recount my journey from 2004 till today – and thank my clients – the people whose trust made it possible for me to come so far and continue loving what I do.

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Last month, I got interviewed by India Se magazine on a feature on Young Entrepreneurs. It’s not terribly enlightening on the marketing side of things, but it was a fun interview.

You can download the PDF “India Se” of the article by clicking here, or click here to view the Flash version of the interview on this site.

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.

After many months of laziness on both my blogs (RachitDayal.com and Rachit.org) … I’ve finally decided to do something about it. So, I made the painful decision to shut down Rachit.org and focus all my blogging energies on RachitDayal.com
Actually, it wasn’t all that painful. Both my blogs have been dead for several months now. So, [...]

Yep, the website went down. I’m not sure what happened, but it had either something to do with

The wordpress database. Somewhere between the upgrade from 2.01 to 2.10 … and then 2.10 to 2.12 … my database screwed up all the posts
3 Column K2 theme. This is definitely not the main template … [...]

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 [...]

Honey, I’m home!
Yep, I know I’m been away for a long long time … I missed you too.
The reason I’m away is that I’ve taken a new job. Well, technically I’m a consultant and it’s a consulting relationship … but the client prefers me to work 9 to 7 … so it feels [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over the last two months, I’ve been very confused.
Not over my real-life identity … oooh no … Over the past few months, I’ve been more at peace with my identities and life than ever!
I’ve been happy no matter what … it hasn’t mattered if I was sick or healthy … if I was single or [...]

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 [...]

Yes sweetheart …. I know you’re pissed.
I haven’t been writing for two weeks. My blog went down for such a long time. But I still love you
I have tonnes of updates … and will be doing a lot of writing over the next two weeks, so please keep coming back !

Today, we finally put up a sign on our office with the company name. Oooh, it feels like a real office now!
By the end of the week, I should have some paintings put up … and make it all seem like a typical consultant’s office.
On another note, I took a personality test … I love [...]