How to buy mobile Phones cheap?

If you are in Chennai, this info could be of little help to you. It may work for other cities too, because the mobile market competition is at the peak, that the store doesn’t want to loose a single referral customer.

So here is the trick. You need to do a ground work before you target a store to buy your mobile phone of your choice.

Ground work – check the prices of your favorite model of your mobile at some of the well known stores, If you are in chennai you can inquire at

1. Saravana Stores
2. Vasaavi
3. Universal
4. Mobile Store
5. Nokia Priority dealers
6. Sony Ericsson  dealer
7. and some more small mobile stores.

Tip: Now do the bargain. All you need is to tell the salesman at the mobile store that the other mobile store is offering the mobile at the lowest rates in town. Believe me this tip works.

Kindly Note: Not all stores come down on the prices.

Some Stores which have multiple stores at different parts of the country may not be able to reduce the price as those who run the store locally, It is because of their billing system, they will not be able to change the price of the product. Stores which are owned by a single owner who runs the showroom will be able to take cuts on their profits.

Why?
Because the single showroom owner gets better or the best referrals.
Won’t you refer you friends saying that this store gives the mobile for lowest price.

Technorati Tags: mobile, mobile phone, bargain, gadgets, gizmos, friends, companies, chennai, India, Advertising

Develop Widget with Clicky – web analytics 2.0

I have tried few web analytics tools like google analytics, statcounter, good old WordPress stat, and finally clicky.

Clicky dashboard gives me a complete feeling, almost like the dashboard was customized right for me, the right info at the finger tip.

Finally interms of rating I would rate clicky the best. check their website for comparison under this section “Clicky -VS- The Other Guys” right on the home page.

The Good News: Clicky now offers API to create a custom widget so that you can display them on different websites.

Currently there is a contest happening, and they are giving away few hundred dollars for developers for making widgets

Care to digg clicky

Ban Crezendo Condom in India

Well sounds like I am completely insane, just by the title of the post. OK here is the story of vibrating ring Crezendo condom, which is product of HLL – Hindustan Latex Limited and this product has been there for the past 6 months.

If you want to know what made people think that vibrating ring Crezendo condom is a sex toy, here is the info which is mentioned in sify shopping site

Crezendo condoms with vibrating Ring for ultimate pleasure — The pack has a vibrating ring and three premium condoms. With Crezendo Vibrating Ring you can take your lovemaking to places it hasn’t been before. Crezendo Vibrating ring is designed to take you for a 20 minute joyride through the realms of vibrating pleasure. It provides the ultimate stimulation for you and your partner. It is safe , reliable and comes with an instruction leaflet. It is truly your passport to “The Republic of Pleasure”

There has been protest in certain parts of Madhya Pradesh and all it started by few good men, that the product sounds like a sex toy, just because the ring acted as pleasure enhancer.

HLL says they are ready to withdraw from M.P if there is a written statement from the state Government.

My first look on the Vibrating Crezendo condom cover was not that sexy nor it portrayed women too vulgar, It was just right for condom. There are enough bad things happening in the country and all they could site is a population controlling instrument called – condom. There are enough reactions happening on Vibrating Crezendo condom and the whole is world watching us (India) trying to ban a condom.

What a shame?

BTW HLL is minting money now, the ROI for Crezendo Vibrating Ring condom marketing team would not have even dreamed about the recent success, and that is all ensured by our few good members of our society. Their job is ban colas, TV channels (AXN, FTV), and help ban online sites like orkut, blogger.

Sify shopping online NOW sited selling condoms because they have learned that there are currently no stocks available in M.P and there is huge demand for the product in that state.

I guess M.P will try to ban Sify in their state, just because it is selling them online.

Here are few articles which may be of interest to you

1. http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1104953
2. http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/will-the-sex-toy-condom-be-banned-in-india/

Technorati Tags: condom, crezendo, Madhya Pradesh, M.P, India, Politics, ban, vibrating, ring, sex, sex toy, toy

Mp3 Player for Bloggers

Do you want to have your own mp3 player on your blogs?
I have created a small project using Adobe Flash, there are different files available, one with mp3 file embedded and other supports with external mp3 and both support streaming.

If you are interested you can download the source files here.
Currently there is no support available. And use it at your own risk.

If you are novice to Adobe Flash
Will make a detailed post of how to configure them and change skins etc.
Just post in my comments and will send you mail when detailed post is ready

Technorati Tags: mp3, mp3 player, blogger, blogging, streaming, source, download

New way to make your users read the content of your website

1. Run a Contest on your website, say you will provide them with some fancy gadget for the chosen one among the correctly answered.
2. Send a mailer to your list of clients and ask them to refer more.
3. Ask them some related questions?
   Provide a hint button and link to your website content.
   The hint button leads to the content of your website (it could articles, white paper, or just plain news)

here is a link to one such contest.

Technorati Tags: marketing, mailers, contest, gadgets, website, ROI, clients, internet marketing

Let the Game continue – NSFW

NSFW – Not safe for work.
The content isn’t that vulgar, depends on your boss “it could be your wife too . “
I would say the site should atleast score 5 stars for its execution. (hey sarathy uv are you listening, he is a budding director)  Good story boarding and ultimate use of technology (flash flv video).

Very less interactivity, all you need is little bit of extra time and you would enjoy the “AXE Product presentation” with lots of chases and wild sexy girls haunting this guy. Unilever parent company of HLL (Hindustan Lever Limited) has hosted this site.

Click Here for the site.

Technorati Tags: axe, product, presentation, video, story board, unilever, HLL, flash, flv, NSFW

What it takes to float a SMS based advertiser company?

We have mGinger coming the big way and after few days of waiting period, the entry of SMS2India, and now comes adMAD or I would say there are more services be made available with the help of a small gadget.

Here is what it takes to make a SMS advertising company

1. a SIM card from any Mobile operator (you could get fancy numbers like 5555)
   
2. a GSM modem
3. a software to send SMS to multiple user list.
4. a software integrated with user list to calculate the money to be given to each user.

That is the reason it takes only few days to float a SMS based Mobile advertiser company.

As far as I have known mGinger is the only company which has done some effort to explain the user about its advantage in different media (TV or internet ads). While companies like SMS2India and others have been using mGinger’s advertising spends and have been penetrating in to mGinger’s market share.

PS: kindly note all these companies are trying for a very small market which is not yet tried tested or proven. Atleast in India, it is because of the easy business model setup (like making HTML templates and not flash based sites) people have been floating these companies. I have no hope, that none will survive and make pure loses. I don’t want to say mGinger, SMS2India, adMAD is fake, because they believed that there is market. Let their belief come true.

ManageEngine Opmanger has a addon SMS toolkit which allows users to receive SMS  as notification when their server or router in their network gets in to trouble. SMS toolkit users a GSM modem, so that is how I knew that it take few days and little money to buy these hardware and software to float a company the only thing they need to develop is the billing system.

Technorati Tags: mginger, sms2India, adMAD, fake, SMS advertising, advertising, mobile

Create StoryBoard/ presentation with toonDoo or Fix8

What is ToonDoo?
ToonDoo let you to create your own storyboard or presentation. Comic characters come to life with respect to your creativity. Well something like you don’t need a graphic artist or designer to create a cartoon character to tell the story of what you have in your mind.

So What is Fix8?
Well you can start expressing yourselves on your current mood or even tell stories with a live video. That is right, they have almost the similar type of avatars as ToonDoo.

So how does Fix8 work?
All you need is a web cam plugged in to your PC and with the help of their proprietary software installed on your PC.
The best part with Fix8, is that it comes with audio and 3D characters who can animate along with you, and you could record the animation and store it as digital video format. You could share it on youtube or myspace.

All you need is creativity and little bit of story boarding prior to creating still pictures or digital video.

With ToonDoo, you can express with still images
With Fix8 you can express through live videos and share it on youtube or myspace

Technorati Tags: toondoo, fix8, expression, creativity, presentation, storyboard, video, animation, pictures, photos

Tempo traveller look alike – Japanese Mods

Most of us haven’t realized the ultimate use of our Tempo Traveller. As far as I have seen the ulitimate use of tempo traveller was in Tamil Movie Basha where our Super Star “Rajini” travels in a luxuries van where interiors have been modified, and one other movie was in malayalam (don’t remember the movie name) where “Mohalal” is a don and rocks the kerala cities.

Here are few mods from Japan which are look alike of “Tempo Traveller” – I am not sure about the company which is manufacturing these vans.

Courtesy: pink tentacle, I have placed my favorites right here, please check out for more van mods from pink tentacle, they are Ultra cool.

Well looks like Tempo travellers are worth buying for a family use or Porsche people in India.

Technorati Tags: tempo traveller, van, automobiles, malayalam, tamil, cinemas, basha, rajini, mohanlal, kerala, chennai, India, Japan, Japanese