Millions of blogs – one alone matters

Ajita Pattanaik and I worked together in India in the early 90s and then went our ways. He emigrated to the US in 1994 and I in 1996. During this time, Ajita started a software company (www.abvtech.com) and I…well you know me. Neither of us knew where or how to reach the other.

That is until yesterday. Out of the blue, Ajita called me. He had found me thru my blog and my Linked In profile. Because I have been diligently writing blogs for over two years, commenting on other blogs and have been active on LinkedIn, my name pops to the top on Google, Yahoo and Cuil. While this may seem coincidental, it has been a lot of hard work and patience. “Ram Iyer” is a fairly common name in India. There are pages and pages of “Ram Iyer”s on any of the search engine results. So it is quite an honor to be among the top. It took me two years - I asked a lot of people for help, read a number of books on networking, personal development and marketing (among them David Meerman Scotts's The New Rules of Marketing and PR) and discovered techniques from other bloggers.

I intend to publish these tips and tricks on this blog – so keep following. Additionally, I intend to start a mailing list soon. If you are interested, leave me a comment.

Ram.