About BloggerKhan

My profession is Management and Marketing and it revolves around outsourcing, ecommerce and marketing on the internet. Wise men say identify what you are passionate about and then see if you can build a financial model around it. Well my passion is marketing and ever since the commercialization of the internet, I have been fascinated by the way the internet enables a small business extend its reach and do business with customers across the globe. It’s incredible how a guy in Dallas Texas can do business with a client in Johannesburg South Africa and guy in Peshawar Pakistan can do business with a client in Melbourne Australia. Think about it. Just a few decades ago it was impossible unless you were a multi billion dollar multi national.

While the internet has opened up new avenues previously unimaginable, it also opened up your previously protected local markets to competition from foreign lands. You got to be sharp, you got to be up to par and you got to figure out where your advantage lies.

Over the last few years, my focus has been leveraging lower cost I.T. resources in Asia and Africa for the benefit of small businesses in North America, Europe and Australia. There is a large pool of well educated and trained workforce in Asia and also growing in Africa. They need jobs and the local markets are not big enough to sustain them. In the developed countries, a very large number of people have given up corporate jobs to open up their own small businesses. A significant percentage of these small businesses cannot afford to build websites and even when they do, it’s hard for them to keep updating them to keep pace with changing technologies. That puts them at a disadvantage and they keep losing local market share without having the ability to reach over and grab some long distance market share. That’s where outsourcing can come to their rescue.

Outsourcing has been around for more than 30 years but it has been primarily the domain of large and mid sized companies. The small guy does not have the know how or the volume of business to take advantage of outsourcing. That’s where I thought our opportunity was, that is, in being the bridge between resources in Asia and Africa and small businesses in North America, Europe and other developed countries.

As I have a foot in both worlds, I like to write about subjects that I go through on a daily basis from the client’s perspective and from the outsourcer’s / freelancer’s perspective. If we can help you in some way with software and web related services, feel free to contact our Outsourcing Unit.

In my writings, I cover subjects such as ecommerce, business strategy & methods, technology, reviews and comparisons of products and services.

I hope you find the material useful and wherever you feel you can contribute your knowledge, enter your comments and let others benefit from your experience. This is how we all grow collectively.

Thank You for visiting.

Najeeullah K. Babar

Author Archive | BloggerKhan

June 28, 2015 / 0 Comments

Outsourcing Tips for Clients- Respect your Freelancer!

Why respecting your freelancer gets you better results. Outsourcing tips for clients.

June 25, 2015 / 0 Comments

Outsourcing tips for Clients- Give Target Dates!

How important is giving target dates to freelancers? Does it affect delivery of work?

How to check if my website is responsive

June 22, 2015 / 0 Comments

Should I have a Responsive website?

Why should my website be mobile friendly? Is it necessary? What shall I do – Google says my website is not mobile friendly. Read more…

June 19, 2015 / 0 Comments

Outsourcing tips for Clients – Don’t terminate your Freelancer too quickly!

Tips and suggestions for a better relationship with your freelancer. Should you fire him or should you work with him and help him understand you better. Work with your freelancer to establish a good working relationship. That will be the best for both of you.

May 5, 2015 / 0 Comments

Odesk Re-brands as Upwork

Odesk changes its name to Upwork in a very suspicious manner. Why not take your user base into confidence beforehand? Why the secrecy? Why the name change? Is the merger with Elance in trouble?

April 16, 2015 / 1 Comment

Fix mobile usability issues found on website

Did you get an email from Google Webmaster Tools stating “Fix mobile usability issues found on website'”. Did it scare you? Wondering what it means? What to do about it.

February 25, 2015 / 0 Comments

List of Theme and Template Publishers

A short list of major publishers of Themes and Templates. This list includes ecommerce themes, WordPress themes, Joomla, Drupal, OpenCart, Shopify and almost all major CMS platforms.

October 1, 2014 / 0 Comments

Is Odesk in trouble?

Talk about a falling star – Odesk, once the hard charging outsourcing portal seems to have fallen into decay. Is it safe to do business on Odesk anymore? Critical article.

March 30, 2013 / 0 Comments

Small Business Ideas: How to Increase Sales – III

Do you ship products to your customers? Do you include promotional flyers in your boxes? This short video talks about including flyers in your shipping boxes. (More …)

March 24, 2013 / 0 Comments

Are you a Sales Rep or an order taker?

If customers call you to place orders, does that make you a sales rep? Should you be given a commission on that sale? Many an outfit puts people on the phone desk and calls them sales reps. Customers call in and place orders. All these so called sales reps. do is take orders. That should […]