A Pakistani Hits Forbes Billionaire List, for the First Time

By Aamir Attaa · Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 24 Comments

A Pakistani Hits Forbes Billionaire List, for the First Time

Forbes today released a list of the top billionaires in the world, where Bill Gates lost his crown to Mexican telecom tycoon, Carlos Slim. There is a good news that Business Tycoon Mian Mohammad Mansha has made his slot in Forbes billionaire list, first Pakistani to achieve the glory. Mansha’s Nishat Group is Pakistan’s largest exporter of cotton...

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This Taxi Driver wants you to Search Him on Google

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Mar 8, 2010 11 Comments

This Taxi Driver wants you to Search Him on Google

Search Engines are vital for any business. This is valid not only for the online businesses and entrepreneurs but a Taxi Driver from Rawalpindi is also well known to the benefits a search engine can bring to him. Asif Ali Shah running a full fledge PR, branding, online marketing and lead generation campaign for his book “For Hire” with...

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Hosting Business in Pakistan – Still a Dilemma

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010 52 Comments

Websites in Pakistan are doubling up, no doubt about it. More websites mean more opportunity for hosting companies. But when I look around, at my friends, friends of friends I don’t see them trusting much on local hosting companies. As a matter of fact, ProPakistani would love to do business with a local company, for instance our servers are locally...

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Setting Up Call Center for Large Sized Businesses

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Jan 11, 2010 10 Comments

Continued from Setting Up Call Center for small Business Setting Up Call Center for Midsized Business We earlier briefed some tactics about setting up call center solutions for small and then midsized businesses. Today, we will continue our discussion to find out service providers (vendors), which can help us set up large scaled call center solution,...

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"Website Designing and Development" and Mid Sized Businesses in Pakistan

By admin · Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009 0 Comments

I remember well that in 1999/2000, I had engaged more than 300 companies in Karachi asking them to get their websites designed for their companies. But, this campaign ended up without a single converted sale. This was maybe due to my poor selling capabilities or none of these companies were actually aware of what difference a website could make for...

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UPS Market Review and Buying Guide

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Oct 27, 2008 0 Comments

UPS Market Review and Buying Guide

We had covered this Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) market review few months ago, however, changes take place in days now. As the energy crisis continue in Pakistan, in fact it has gone worse, people are again rushing towards UPS markets to get themselves electricity backups. Thanks to winter, general people may not require UPS units as they did in...

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Enterprise SMS Packages by Warid

By Zeeshan Shafquat · Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 4 Comments

Enterprise SMS Packages by Warid

Post by Bites85 of Newz On Fire We are familiar with the strength of an SMS message, and how effectively it can be used by the businesses to keep their customers updated about very little happenings. Though here we need some regulations in order to send SMS to customers, nevertheless it is widely used for not only marketing purposes but also to communicate...

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UAN Numbers Presented by PTA for Auction

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008 0 Comments

As discussed before, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had increased the annual fee of Universal Access Numbers (UAN) from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 500,000…PTA has published an advertisement (also given below) asking bidders to register themselves for the auction of UAN numbers in 3 categories Platinum Diamond Gold Numbers are given below in PTA’s...

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Telecom Sector Worst Hit by Budget 2008-09

By Aamir Attaa · Friday, Jun 13, 2008 0 Comments

It seems that Government of Pakistan has tried to cover their deficits from telecom sector, by applying new taxes on many telecom services. Some opine that it was a good move in current economic scenario to regain the momentum by benefiting from Telecom sector that is main contributor of Foreign Direct Investment and GST/CED since 2003/04. Excise on...

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