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Ravi’s Rants

Welcome to Techiiies.TV

April 19, 2009

I started Techiiies.tv as a fun project, and I’m pretty confident that YouTube would run out of storage space before I run out of ideas for creating techiiie videos. Oh, and by the way, if you’re wondering about the weird spelling of Techiiies, it was of course because the name “Techies” (with the single “i”) [...]

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Case Of The Disappearing Blog?

March 21, 2009

You probably know about my book, “No Business Like E-Business”, that sells on Amazon. I have also developed this really powerful Membership Software, whose primary “Claim to Fame” is that it can “drip” content little by little on a list, much like an email autoresponder drips emails. So, I had this rather brilliant idea and [...]

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What Happens When You Get Too Good At Marketing

March 20, 2009

WARNING: SHOCKING LANGUAGE FROM CUSTOMER BELOW Ok, so maybe the title was a little dramatic, but still, I didn’t know I was *this* awesome at marketing Over the weekend, when I thought of giving away my best-selling book on Amazon for free on the book’s blog, I never imagined that my copy writing style & [...]

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‘Curiosity’ starring Seth Godin

March 16, 2009

This is turning into a “Seth Godin Week” at RavisRants.com. But if you’re like me, you can’t get enough of what Seth has to say. So enjoy… ‘curiosity’ from Nic Askew on Vimeo.

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Seth Godin’s take on Social Networking

March 16, 2009

What does Seth think about the Facebooks and Twitters?

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Special Invitation: FaceBook Group

March 11, 2009

The first web page I ever designed was in 1995, for a buddy who wanted to impress his girlfriend on her birthday. So, I ended up publishing a (what was then popular) “Java Applet” thingamajig, on a free site called Geocities (Y! bought it later). It created this rotating cube that had a different picture [...]

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My Book on Amazon

March 3, 2009

Amazon currently has 17,338,442 books available for sale. Of those 17 million, my book is currently ranked at 20,969. Which means my book is ranked at 0.1% of all books on Amazon. 0.1% means high up among the top 1% of all books. These numbers mean not much more than a pat on the back. [...]

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Frames Rock!

March 1, 2009

No, I did not just time-travel back to 1995. Frames have always been considered a bad idea… Bad for SEO. Bad if you’re using JavaScript. Bad if want to use DHTML. Bad for bookmarking. Bad for passing around links. But here’s probably one of the few (or only?) remaining uses for frames (this is where [...]

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Digital Access Pass v2.0 is here!

February 23, 2009

DAP v2.0 is out now. Very excited. Stuffed with really cool features. We now have a new WordPress plugin with a pretty slick name (at least I think so , called “LiveLinks“. It makes your blog appear “alive” – as in, show different content to different folks (members, non-members, those who just joined, those who [...]

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Oops, I Sold A Subscription By Mistake

February 22, 2009

Something amazing happened today: A customer paid money and purchased a ‘monthly’ subscription to one of my sites. Ok, so maybe nothing spectacular about that. But now get this… I haven’t even launched that web site yet! Tons of spelling and grammatical errors on the page. I hadn’t even done a spell-check. Can’t remember publishing [...]

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Typing Test: Wow, am I good or what?

December 14, 2008

Ok, I promise not to brag too much… Here is a really cool typing test. I’m averaging a speed of about 104 words per minute (in 3 tries  – proof below UPDATE: My latest score as of September 2, 2010 WooHoo! 119.12 words per minute! Take the test yourself by clicking on the link below, [...]

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To Follow Or Not To Follow

October 27, 2008

If you wish to follow me on Twitter, then I’ll be honored that you chose to do so. I’ll even send you a personal “thank you” note But if you follow me expecting me to follow you back, that’s probably not going to happen. Many high-profile Twits (or Twitter’ers) do the Follow-Me-And-I’ll-Follow-You bit. That’s as [...]

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Why Launch On The Saturday Of A Long Weekend?

October 12, 2008

I launched my newest product (DAP) last night. So why did I decide to launch it on a Saturday evening, right in the middle of a long weekend (at least for most folks here in the US)? My first motivation for this was one of Seth’s posts about launches. “it doesn’t matter much how many [...]

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Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen

September 28, 2008

Uncanny! I got “Presentation Zen” delivered in the mail last night from Amazon. And someone tweeted this Garr Reynolds video of “Authors at Google”…

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Do We Really Need Yet Another Search Engine?

September 2, 2008

We all know what turned out to be the answer to that question. So, here we go again: Do We Really Need Yet Another Browser? If it’s coming from Google, then it’s definitely worth checking out. It sends my brain tingling when I read this: Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously [...]

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Seth Godin’s Scalp Is On Fire

August 18, 2008

I’ve always talked to folks about having a sense of urgency in life. Because that’s how I operate. I look at the young & successful, and I feel like I’m 10 years behind. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing either. If you don’t have nowhere to go and nothing to achieve, then you [...]

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Are You Keeping A Tab On Your Competitors – and Yourself?

August 4, 2008

Quite frequently, I am reminded of how we take certain things for granted, while it could be something completely new/interesting/educating/shocking for someone else. Using Google Alerts for competitive research is one such “thing”. During a chat with a friend the other day, I casually mentioned how I use Google Alerts to keep an eye on [...]

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My Father, My Hero

June 5, 2008

Legendary Kannada film writer and director R.N. Jayagopal – my beloved father – passed away on May 19th, 2008 in Chennai. He was 72 years old. He was perfectly healthy – until two months ago. He went from being 100% to 0% – all in a matter of two months. Dad: All I wanted was [...]

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Low Cost Online e-Faxing: MaxEmail.com

April 1, 2008

I was recently in the market for an “e” fax solution. I looked at quite a few services. My basic requirements were these: Reliable Low cost (not necessarily free – because I wanted the service to be reliable and accountable) Didn’t need a local area code – anywhere was fine, as I don’t receive too [...]

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If I Had To Pick Just One Blog To Read…

January 19, 2008

If I had to pick just one blog, and could read only one blog for the rest of my life – including my own blog (the one you’re reading right now) – I would pick Seth Godin’s blog. Seth’s blog is (hyperbole alert) amazing, educational, informative, remarkable, mind-blowing, extraordinary, purple, eye-opening and goose-pimple-raising good. Seth’s [...]

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