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Wizardies.com was started back in November 2008 as a blog that offers updates, news, views on technology and entrepreneurship. This blog had got idle due to lack of time and assessment of a particular niche. But now that I have got a new niche, this blog will hit the blogosphere soon. That niche is going to be stuff for webmasters, web entrepreneurship.

So hold on until I come back with a new post in a while, and I am sure this time I am not gonna step back. And again if you forgot why I chose this name Wizardies.com, thats because I believe technology is the only magic!

Small & Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA), in collaboration with Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) and Australian Institute of Entrepreneurship (AIE) is pleased to announce a One-Day Training Program on “Entrepreneurship Development”, at LCCI-Lahore.
The program aim is sharing and imparting knowledge on Entrepreneurial Skills, Organizational Life Cycle and Management of SMEs.

Course Contents

* Entrepreneur’s Tacit Knowledge
* Innovation and Risk Taking
* Opportunist and Change Management
* Entrepreneur’s Business Skills and Experience Analysis
* Strategy Development
* Business Plan Activities
* Growth of Small Business

Methodology

Lectures, Presentations, Discussions etc.

Date: February 19, 2009
Time: From 9:30 A.M to 4:30 P.M
Venue: Auditorium, Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI), , Lahore

Who Should Attend

SME CEOs, Directors, Commercial Managers, Account Managers & Executives, Business Executives, Women Entrepreneurs, Students, Entrepreneurs(Emerging and Existing), Financial & Commercial Institutions, and all those willing to enhance their skills and capabilities.

Course Fee: Rs. 1500.00 (Fifteen Hundred Only) Per Participant inclusive of Course Material, Lunch and Tea. Payment to be made in Cash only. Refundable if vacancies are filled.

for students: Rs.1000(One Thousand only)

Information/Registration

Mr. Mutee-ur-Rehman
Regional Business Coordinator – SMEDA

Tel: 042-6305538-40
UAN: 042-111-222-499
Fax: 042-6368854

Email: mutee.rehman@smeda.org.pk,
asadh@smeda.org.pk

Hello Dear readers, as you all know, Wizardies.com aims to teach you the various entrepreneurial techniques. Thus, we publish diverse opinions from entrepreneurs around the world. Tonight, I am going to publish an interview of an American Entrepreneur Jun Loayza. Jun Loayza is the Co-Founder and CMO of Future Delivery. His goal is to be as productive as possible in every aspect of his life. He says that live your life like a hardcore gamer, and join Jun on his quest to self actualization. Here is a brief video introduction of him:

Hello Jun, Thanks for taking time for the interview. Please answer the following questions:

Q:1) What does entrepreneurship mean to you?

Wow, what a simple question with a loaded answer. Read the rest of this entry »

An Exhibition entitled “IDEAS 09″ was held by University of Central Punjab on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 31 Main Gulberg, Lahore, for young entrepreneurs, under the auspices of the Faculty of Management Studies. The event started at 9.00 a.m. till 6.00 p.m. during which over 70 Business Projects were displayed, followed with presentations by the Students of the University. All the Faculty Members and students of the University  participated.

Chief Guests were:

Mian Muzaffar Ali, President Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Brian Hunt, American Consulate

Below are some exclusive photos of the event.

Posted by: Iftikhar Hussain, Director Events Coverage, Wizardies.com

How many times you have heard that you can earn extra income through blogging? Or you can become rich through blogging. Especially in the recent bloggers meetups in Pakistan, you must have been impressed with young bloggers earning a decent amount of money through blogging. After those meetups, we have witnessed many new blogs coming up; some productive and few unproductive, hoping to earn extra revenue from it.

How many times did you think to start a blog in order to earn money? or to make it a profession; that is to make it your fulltime job/business? You might have done the research work also. Such as what blogging is, how to blog, eligibility to become a blogger etc. You might have come across with various opinions like not just any other person can become a blogger, or everybody can not earn through it, passion is required, skills are required, you gotta be intelligent and blah blah.

But wait a moment, Aren’t we forgetting the basic principle/objective of business/entrepreneurship? the sole objective is to “earn profit”. I mean what if a person has good and competent entrepreneurial skills but he is not good at writing? or as they say, he doesn’t have “passion” to write. To hell with that, let me solve your mystery. You are not good at writing, leave it, don’t write. Yes you can still become an owner of a blog without writing yourself.

Yes! don’t write, you can still take blogging as a business by hiring professional writers. They will blog for you on the topic of your choice. You earn through ads and pay your writers. And of course your entrepreneurial skills will be applied there at leading the team of writers. All you can do with a little investment.

Now below are the few FAQs you may like to consider.

1) What the initial investment is required for?

Ans: For having a blog up, i.e. hosting/domain, Search Engine Optimization etc. Also you may need to pay your writers from your own pocket until your business starts earning.

2) Will I have to have an office for me and my writers?

Ans: That’s absolutely not necessary, you can take the start from your home and your writers can also work from home.

3) Is there any risk involved? What’s the guarantee that I will start earning through Ads?

Ans: Yes! The Risk is involved, an entrepreneur should always ready for risk taking : ). And about the guarantee, it depends on the quality of the content you generate.

4) Where can I find the writers?

There are many job boards for bloggers/home based employees, out there. You can post your ads for FREE. Few of them are listed below:

a) AarpixJobs.Com

b) ProBlogger Jobs

c) BloggerJobs.biz

Saad Hamid is a 20 years old talented blogger and entrepreneur from Islamabad, Pakistan. He has already achieved milestones by having a perfect start of his career. Nonetheless, he is quite famous in Pakistani blogosphere. Obviously our readers will like to hear from Saad. So taking this opportunity, I have invited Saad today. I tried to trap him with the controversial questions, but he managed to escape by giving diplomatic answers ; )

Salam-o-Alaikum(Greetings) Saad! And thanks for taking time for the interview. Read the rest of this entry »

Rumors were correct! ony has recently unveiled Sony Walkman NWZ-X1000 with touchable AMOLED Display. Have a look at it:

It is the NWZ-X1000 Walkman with a touchable 3 inch AMOLED Display.

This mp4 player comes in 16GB and 32GB flavors with internet/web and WiFi support.

Against Apples Ipod the display is half an inch smaller! But it’s an AMOLED so you can expect brighter colors and better contrast

Source

Missing someone who is no longer in this world? Ever thought of creating a memorial, dedicating website of someone who has passed away? Well I expect it would be indeed a nice idea to present a tribute or to pay respect to someone who has passed away. This memorial could be for the loved ones etc. We have seen memorials like a hospital, an education institute, an NGO, or social welfare organizations etc. But now, there is something else we can present as a tribute; i.e. a memorial website.

Last-Memories.com is an innovative free web service that allows to create a free momorial website in memory of your loved ones.

Last-Memories.Com provides you with the necessary tools to create an e-sanctuary with your most precious personal memories of the departed as well as the memories of family and friends so that his or her life and the influence they had on other people will always be remembered. It also provides comprehensive tools for posting Photos, Videos, Audios. I found it a nice idea, creating a memorial website as a tribute to someone. Perhaps you should also try this:

The detailed features are listed here.

Ever wondered where you could find a list of google doodles to date? Official or unofficial? Want to share a doodle you created? or just want to see a doodle again that you liked so much? Well! here it is. While searcing something, I entered a nice blog that has a collection of official and unofficial Google logos.

The name of the blog is Google-Logos.com

This blog is created by two serious fans of Google and this blog shows a collection of official google logos, google holiday logos, google art, logos by google fans etc. The year archive lists logos from the year 1998 to 2008 and is in very organized way and easy to navigate.

In their Top Official Logos page, they show a precise collection of the top official logos designed by the Google designers. So I recommend to those; who are either Google fans or just interested in checking out their logos or to submit your own, Google-Logos is a nice place to do so.