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Despicable me – lighten up your weekend

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Jawwad

Superbad, superdad. For all those superbad dads out there, if there is one movie you watch this weekend, make sure its Dispicable me.. After going through Tangled (nice), Megamind (not worth it) and Despicable me over the last three weekends, there is only one clear winner… Steve Carrel and the team do a phenomenal job…

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Despicable me – lighten up your weekend

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Jawwad

Superbad, superdad. For all those superbad dads out there, if there is one movie you watch this weekend, make sure its Dispicable me.. After going through Tangled (nice), Megamind (not worth it) and Despicable me over the last three weekends, there is only one clear winner… Steve Carrel and the team do a phenomenal job…

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Finance Training Course – Traffic Update

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Jawwad

Traffic finally picks up at Finance Training Courses and gets over the pre-Christmas slump levels. It looks as if we will finally break 20,000 page views and about 8,000 visitors again this month in January. Weekly numbers are now running at 1,800 visitors and 5,000 pageviews per week. [To answer Jay’s question, the graph below…

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Finance Training Courses – Exotics Financial Topics, Exotic Tropical Locations

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Jawwad

And now for something truly off the beaten track. Exotic Financial Courses run in exotic tropical locations with trainers dressed in even more exotic Batik and Hawaiian shirts. The first in this series is the ALM and Liquidity Risk workshop in Subang, Malaysia in January, quickly followed by the ALM for ICAAP and Interest Rate…

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ALM and Liquidity Management Workshop, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, January 2011

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Jawwad

ALM and Liquidity Management Training Workshop This advanced level ALM and Liquidity Training workshop serves as a refresher to liquidity management, with an emphasis on traditional models including gap analysis and earnings at risk, stress testing, scenario planning, policy making and simulations. Our first joint venture finance training workshop in Kula Lumpur with our Malaysian…

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Finance Training Course case study – Daily SEO Task list and Content Focus

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Jawwad

This is the second post in building an online content based business series. For the first post, please see building an online content business While Finance Training Courses started attracting traffic from day one (23rd February 2010), it only started generating revenues when we had a psuedo business model of sorts. Once we figured who…

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Building an online content business – Case Study – Finance Training Course

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Jawwad

I had always wondered about these instant blogging millionaire case studies. Guy meets blog, blog meets Google Adsense, bank account meets dollars and every one lives happily ever after. These happy stories with all the twists and turns of a good mission impossible episode were only supplemented and surpassed by publishing and bestselling author case…

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Career Advice and Guidance

Posted on January 14, 2011December 17, 2014 by Jawwad

Career advice Sitting down this afternoon with a widely traveled friend I realized that there is a lot that we now know and take for granted that we didn’t know as fresh graduates. Simple things like the specialized courses we should take, the career focus we should build and the jobs that we should turn…

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Travel Advisory: Why Emirates will rule the travel world?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Jawwad

Sometimes you have to travel by other airlines to realize that despite all the complaints we share about Emirates, the Dubai based airline, is still one unbeatable show in the air.

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Readers club and the first online used books market place in Karachi

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jawwad

Here is a guest post by Usman Siddiqui about Readers Club and Kitabain (The one and only online old bookstore in Karachi). I still remember the day when Usman first walked into our offices bursting with the zeal to do something, anything that was different and life changing in Karachi. This is his and Jawad’s…

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