Kumar Gauraw

VACATION ANNOUNCEMENT

I am on a vacation to India until first week of January. During this period, although I plan to publish my blog posts as per my normal schedule, my responses to your comments may get a bit delayed.

Please know that I am still getting your comments and I respect the fact that you take time to share your thoughts and add value to my blog posts through your comments. If you get my responses a bit slow, it's because I may be in transit or I have trouble accessing the Internet.

Thank you for your friendship and continued support.

Posted by Kumar Gauraw onDecember 4, 2013 In Miscellaneous Announcement

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12 Powerful And Easy Ways To Speed Up Your WordPress Website

Kumar Gauraw

To speed up your website, is to have happy visitors and happy Google, isn't that true? A website that loads fast for its visitors gains credibility and traffic much faster than those that do not. So, how do we do that?

Maintaining your WordPress blog itself is a task that needs regular attention. On top of that, publishing fresh content on a regular basis is a task enough to easily keep you busy for a few hours.

But what is the point of writing fresh, well written and exciting content if your visitors aren’t happy about the way your website loads? What is the point of putting so much hard work into design and content if Google is not happy because your website loads too slow?

Updated On January 27, 2014 In Blogging Easy Ways, Loading Speed, Managing WordPress, Page Speed, Powerful Steps, Website Speed, Website Traffic, WordPress Blog, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Website

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

Mark Twain

Posted by Kumar Gauraw Updated On November 30, 2013 In Quotes Mark Twain, Mark Twain Quotes

18 Powerful Gratitude Quotes To Brighten Up Your Thanksgiving

Kumar Gauraw

I wondered what should I post today on my blog. Should I write about WordPress? Should I write about business development? Or, shall I publish something about social media marketing today?

Quotes on Gratitude - Be Thanksful on Thanksgiving - Snowman with Thank you Card

By the way, I have plenty of pre-written blog posts. But I decided to clear the calendar because I realized, today, is Thanksgiving in the United States and I must do something special.

So, the idea of this post spawned with the thought that I should express my gratitude for many things I have been blessed with this entire year. I should express gratitude to my family and friends, associates, customers and many more people – and especially you!

Updated On March 5, 2014 In Miscellaneous Being Thankful, Great Quotes, Inspiring Quotations, Motivational Quotes, Thankful, Thanksgiving

WordPress Is Not A Ping Spammer And You Don’t Need Any Ping Optimizer

Kumar Gauraw

Did you know your WordPress pings a few services each time you publish something new on your website? Essentially, it is a good thing that WordPress does it automatically so you don’t have to worry about notifying the search engines and all other services that there is something new at your website.

This is a great news and this is one of the reasons WordPress is the #1 blogging platform in the world!

About Ping Services

Basically, a ping is a notification sent to search engines that new content has been added to your website. This is a kind of an invitation you send to the search engine bots to visit your blog.

Updated On January 27, 2014 In Blogging Search Engines, WordPress, WordPress Blog, WordPress Website

5 Principles Of Ultimate Influence From Bob Burg

Kumar Gauraw

The secret to success, in almost every aspect of life, lies in our ability to influence the other people to help us achieve our goals. We know it, everybody knows it and that is why leaders are always hungry for knowledge in people skills.

Turning Adversaries Into Allies By Bob Burg -Principles of Ultimate Influence Book Website: http://www.adversariesintoallies.com/

In my quest to be able to develop my ability to get the results I want from other people while still making them feel genuinely good about themselves, I picked up the latest book from the bestselling author, Bob Burg, Adversaries Into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion.

I always enjoy learning from Bob since I got my hands for the first time on his book “Winning Without Intimidation”. Since then, I have read his other incredible books such as Endless Referrals and the Go Givers Sell More etc.

Updated On January 27, 2014 In Book Reviews Bob Burg, Book Review, Books, Influence, Leadership Principles, Success Principles, Ultimate

Leadership Lessons From The Life Of The Legendary Little Master

Kumar Gauraw

Early in my childhood, I saw my Dad and the elders in my family stuck to the radio listening to the live commentary of the game for hours. Every time there was a cricket match, the old little radio in our home was the most important gadget in our home.

Legendary-Batsman-Little-Master-Sachin-Tendulkar-Retires-From-All-Forms-Of-Cricket

So, I learnt a lot about cricket and the players early on. But I didn’t appreciate the game because whenever it happened, I would be deprived of the radio set for as long as the Cricket match was played, and to my dismay, it would usually go for 5 days.

My Affinity With Cricket Started With Sachin’s Entry

However, my interest in Cricket rose in 1989 when I was still in school. I read a newspaper article about a 16 year old boy who was selected for the upcoming India-Pakistan cricket match and how everybody was excited about this new player, Sachin Tendulkar. I was impressed. I have been hooked to cricket since then!

Sachin, since then, began a journey of setting new standards in cricket. He practically dominated every bowler in the world and, in fact, he became a standard that every bowler was to be measured against. It was so much fun to watch him play when he was in his swing and the way other teams feared the little master on the field.

Updated On November 13, 2019 In Leadership Cricket, Dreams And Goals, Extraordinary, Integrity, Leadership Lessons, Leadership Principles, Little Master, Records, Retirement, Sachin

5 Ways To Inspire Your Team Members And Keep It That Way

Kumar Gauraw

Every business leader wants to have an inspired team. Every team members joins the team with an intention to be self-motivated to add value to the organization. But, something happens on the way and most business teams are no more inspired.

Inspired Team Members Happy At Work - Doing Their Jobs With Positive Mental Attitude

Why does that happen?

It also happens that the places of service where we expect people to be the least enthusiastic, we get an excellent service by an enthusiastic individual and where we expect people to be at their best (even in the private sector), we experience the worst.

Why does that happen?

Updated On January 9, 2014 In Leadership Customer Service, Inspiration, Inspire Action, Motivated, Motivation, Relationships, Team Building, Team Collaboration, Team Spirit, Vision

The Rise Of Smartphones – Amazing Statistics [Infographic]

Kumar Gauraw

The term smartphone wasn’t known until 1997, when Ericsson introduced the term describing the concept according to Wikipedia.

Mobile phones (prior to this smartphone era) themselves had transformed the way we communicated with one another already. Writing letters, having home phones with long wires all around our houses began to become a thing of past quickly.

But smartphones completely revolutionized our lives in every aspect of human interaction. Today, the primary mode of communication is now the handheld smartphone (not just any mobile phone). It is the way we live or day-to-day lives. In fact, it has become almost very inconvenient to do without them.

From text messaging to booking appointments, to shopping, to purchasing airline tickets, to manage social media, to blog, to record a special moment of your life conveniently, to send a video message, to talk to somebody halfway across the globe for free on video and on and on and on. The list is so long and it only indicates how ingrained smart phones have become in our lives.

This is an absolutely amazing phenomena and it only indicates how much progress we have made in terms of technology and how easy our lives have become with smartphones!

Statistics indicate that the number of smartphones around the world has grown to about 4 and this number is only expected to grow to match the number of literate people on the planet. Isn’t that just amazing to even think?

An Infographic On Smartphones Usage

Updated On April 24, 2014 In Resources Communication, Industry, Productivity, Smartphone Industry, Smartphones

5 Proven Ways to Decrease The Bounce Rate Of Your Blog

Kumar Gauraw

[note background=”#F0F0F0″]This is a guest post by Ness Garcia from MakeAWebsite. You can circle her on Google+. [/note]

Letting high bounce rates on your website to continue could be one of the worst things to allow for your websites. The bounce rate means that there is a reason that people keep coming to your site but then leaving too soon.

Bounce Rate and Page Views Relationship

That means you have some serious work to do. If you want to keep your viewers on your site longer, you have to give them a reason to stay. They need to stay on your website for a little longer to lower down the bounce rates. So, let's take a look 5 ways that will definitely help you keep your visitors.

Updated On January 9, 2014 In Blogging Bounce Rate, Engage, Internal Links, SEO, SEO Optimization, Website Design

About Ping Services

My Affinity With Cricket Started With Sachin’s Entry

An Infographic On Smartphones Usage

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