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

Running a business in a recession and gardening

September 3, 2011 / 0 Comments

Of gardening and running a business in a recession

There are many things over which us humans have no control just like droughts and abundance of rain or a recession and periods of strong growth. We have to be flexible enough and sensible enough to change our plans and our approach when extraneous circumstances demand it.

August 20, 2011 / 1 Comment

How to compete against Chinese sellers

You cannot compete on price against a competitor who has deeper pockets. You also cannot compete against a person/company who also happens to be your supplier or the manufacturer. His cost will always be less than yours.

August 13, 2011 / 0 Comments

The fallacy of supply & demand

Here is another topic that I want to share with you from the book ‘Predictably Irrational‘ by Dan Ariely. Some of the examples are mine and the errors if any are all mine. The fallacy of supply & demand: Conventional economics would like us to believe that human beings are rational and where supply and […]

August 5, 2011 / 0 Comments

Relativity of price as explained in Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

I thoroughly enjoyed Dan Ariely’s behavioral economics book ‘Predictably Irrational‘ and would like to share some points with you. What I liked was the experiments he conducted in collaboration with other researchers to arrive at empirical results, rather than just hunch and intuition. At times, all an experiment proves is what you already know but […]

July 24, 2011 / 4 Comments

Never Host with WebHostingPad.com

Never host a website with Webhostingpad.com . They offer an incredibly low price with unlimited hosting space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains etc. What they don’t tell you is if your website becomes popular and you start getting traffic, they shut you down for taking too many resources. How disingenuous – What good is unlimited storage and […]

July 13, 2011 / 1 Comment

The adaptable human beings

When the airlines started charging for checked-in baggage, there was a lot of hue and cry. Their (the airlines) excuse was and remains, that fuel has become very expensive. Because the economy is down, people want cheap tickets, so lugging your heavy bags is costing us fuel/money. You want to carry bags – you pay. […]

June 14, 2011 / 0 Comments

If at first you fail, try try again

The Dallas Mavericks are a great example of perseverance and hard work. From the depths of despair of loosing to the Miami Heat in 2006, to being knocked out in the first round by the 8th seed the following season to being called soft and one and done boys, they finally climbed the mountain and […]

June 1, 2011 / 0 Comments

How goofy can article spinners be

In case you don’t know, Article Spinners are software services that take an original article and rewrite it or at least pretend to and create a second article. What they do is use synonyms wherever possible so to a computer / search engine, the article looks unique and thus avoid getting penalized as duplicate content. […]

May 24, 2011 / 0 Comments

Oh the joys of testing golf clubs

Around this time of year, we test golf clubs and then post the reviews on our website. Being an e-commerce company, our customers don’t get to physically hold and feel the clubs so we try to do a good job of explaining the clubs. Doing a comparative analysis also helps customers understand which club performs […]

May 23, 2011 / 0 Comments

The amazing reach of the internet

We have been strictly an e-commerce company since 1996 but it never ceases to amaze me how far and wide the reach of the internet is. Look at the graph below. It only lists the top 10 traffic originating countries but they are spread over four continents. Think about all the opportunities we have today. […]