What #TheLifesWay Meant to Me in the Last 9 Years? #9YearsofTheLifesWay

Hi Friends, 

The Life's Way name came to me, not by a random thought but took me around a week to finalize various names that got struck from the list of names possible and the ideas given to me by the Universe. I kept going through the list and kept asking myself what my blog is going to represent and what I want it to achieve? 

It all started with an idea to be a part of the Bloggers network named Indiblogger in India and to attend the launch events from various brands from time to time. I was ready to spend the extra time to go and attend all the events I was invited to. It was my curiosity to see and feel what it's like to listen to new technology and products and services and to experience them too. It allowed me to meet people who were not accessible in my day to day living. I can now see and meet the film stars, marketing and PR specialists and various other executives working for the brands. I get to travel to destinations my salary didn't allow me to. I get to eat at the hotels I could only see from outside. That is what The Life's Way started to bring me within the initial months of launching my blog. 

The first event I attended was of Microsoft Office 365 where I also won the cash prize of Rs. 1500 which enabled me to buy the domain as it would cost only around Rs. 600 (USD 10) for a year. My fellow bloggers told me that you should buy a domain and after that, you should print your visiting cards so that it all looks professional and to showcase that you are in this business for a very very long time. 

My second event was for HP Connected Music which was really great as I won the notebook in an after-event post based on my favourite songs. The same came as we shifted to our new home which was my first one in Gurgaon and bought mainly from the dad's contribution to the same. I took a loan and the EMI started soon thereafter leaving me with very less amount of money to take care of my expenses. I had to find some new opportunities for some onsite trips and work there to get more salary as compared to working in India. 

In the months to come when I was in between getting the visa and interviews for the onsite work, I focussed hard on marketing my brand - TheLife'sWay and travelled wide and far to each and every brand event trying to find contacts. I did cover a lot of ground from April-2013 to Oct-2013 and then on 2nd November 2013, I travelled to South Africa. When I came to Johannesburg, I didn't have any mobile number or data for a certain time before I was back on the network. For that month of November, I didn't go any blog posts. Only posts came in December 2013 as I travelled back to India to meet my brother who visited from the USA during the mandatory holidays in South Africa.

I had to start afresh in South Africa as I was very new here and didn't have a following too specific to the South Africa market. I followed a lot of influencers and brands and retweeted their tweets. I kept sending my blog pitching to a lot of brands but only after the initial struggle, Sony Pictures/Movies SA give me an opportunity to start reviewing their movies via the Sterkinekor Media Reviews platform. Along with that a new bloggers challenge caught my attention from Samsung South Africa which really gave me a dream which I always wanted to achieve. Winning the Samsung Bloggers Challenge coming from a different country with not knowing anyone to be on the national TV was an awesome dream that became reality. It opened so many windows and doors for me. 

For the last 9 Years as will complete on 27-Dec-2021, The Life's Way has given me numerous media invites, numerous goodies bags, numerous gadgets, numerous lunches, dinners and travel experiences and I am so grateful to each and every individual who has interacted with me over the last few years to make me who I am today. The future looks bright for TheLife'sWay as we venture into the Youtube world also and slowly find a way there too. Thanks from the bottom of my heart to TheLife'sWay who has helped me get whatever I wanted, needed or wished and didn't have the might to get it on my own - It's all made possible by TheLife'sWay. THANK YOU!

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3 Million Pageviews on www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay

Hi Friends, 

3 Million Pageviews

8.5 Years of Blogging

300+ Brands and Companies

770 Posts Self-written content

The Life's Way started on 27-December-2012

1 Million achieved on 21-July-2016

2 Million achieved on 8-August-2018

3 Million achieved on 16-May-2021

2281 Total Blog posts on Lifestyle and Technology

www.thelifesway.com

It all started with a dream to take care of my free time and to get involved in some kind of creative pursuit so that I can find my mojo and also get into something which can take me places around the city as well as the world. I have been able to enjoy my life in the truest sense of The Life's Way and also thankful to all the brands, companies, PR agencies, People involved in all these creative industries to give me a chance to perform and be myself and promote their products from time to time. I am sure some of them I have failed, some of them are indifferent and some of them must be happy too. Over the years, I have met some people who were really happy to meet me in person and it used to astonish me as to what special I have done in their lives. I also got the opportunity to eat in certain restaurants where I would not have normally gone and also maybe won't be able to afford a meal or two but because of TheLife'sWay I was invited and enjoyed some vegetarian delicacies. I might have not drunk alcohol but if it was gifted to me some of my friends must be happy for that day when he drank that wine or champagne or whiskey. 

The power of social media platform I understood in my first year of participating in the Facebook contests and then migrating to the Twitter contests soon thereafter. With a strong presence in both these platforms, I was set to achieve something big when I started my blog inspired by the journey my friends took in their collaboration with the Indiblogger platform. I wanted to win some Soul by Ludacris headphones and that was the whole purpose of starting in the blogging industry but I could not win them since today. Though I got to win a lot of prizes on the Indbiblogger platform from earphones to headphones to laptops to cash to gift vouchers and build up my creative instincts as well as knowhows of blogging and in the process meet the biggest celebrities and eat at the 5-star restaurants in India. 

When I came here just before the first anniversary of TheLife'sWay, I came upon a different kind of struggle. The internet data was too expensive and I had no social media following locally as I created another Twitter handle @thelifesway to be using especially in South Africa only. I didn't know any PR companies and any brand and even when contacting those brands they were saying you only have 62 followers. Then slowly and steadily I built up my following and after more than 6 months (Nov-2013 to Apr-2014) of struggle, I got my first chance from Sony South Africa who was instrumental in putting me with Primedia to review each and every movie released in their theatres. Throughout my next many years, I continued to watch each and every movie twice a week non-stop unless it's some kind of load-shedding happening in the area. 

The second thing that happened around the same time was the Mission Samsung's Blogger Challenge Campaign for all the residents of South Africa and it was my dream to be winning one or at least be a part of the challenge. It came in newspapers and on Twitter handles and on their website - I read through the Terms and conditions as I wanted to win the same and put in a lot of effort to get to know about the challenge. It was their collaboration with Webfluential as well as SA Bloggers by Sandy. This contest really gave me a boost as it became my passion because I had missed the opportunity to become Samsung Blogger in India as I started my channel a little late and the contest was over by then where they chose certain bloggers who will get their products and will be getting invited to all their launch events. It was a really big dream for me to get involved with all the technology brands. 

I don't remember now when 1 Million and 2 Million pageviews were achieved but I will dig deeper maybe to check on the same. So after a lot of digging, I got the answer to the 2nd Million was done on 8 Aug 2018 after 5.5 years of blogging so it took me around 3 years to reach the 3 million mark. That's a lot of effort guys. The first million I was subscribed to a service where I paid the money annually to do the tweets which used to bring me a lot of traffic on the website and I used the service for 2 years. But I had to disconnect as many of the users blocked me as it was never-ending tweets about the same content again and again. The first million was achieved on 21 July 2016 as I used to tweet the daily progress of my blog those days. Such a time waste if I think about it. I think when I stopped posting that number for many years, people who used to follow me kept asking me how's your blog doing? I never understood the reason for their ask but now I am getting it as to why they used to ask me this question. 

So the fastest growth seems to be between the first and the second million pageviews as after the same, I started rejecting many brands who were just making use of my time and efforts and not giving anything in return at all. I have considerably reduced my time to be spent on my blog since the birth of my second child in January 2018 and focussed more on other social media platforms once again. My still belief is that I have got much more goodies from my social media presence on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as compared to the blog which means that I have won several contests giving me much bigger prizes as compared to the goodies gifted by PR companies and Brands at their launch events. But this post is to celebrate the overall crossing of three million page views on The Life's Way and what it means to me? 

3 Million is just a number and I hope to reach 5 Million soon in some next years and I will continue to write the new articles and blog posts. I will also focus on shooting video blogs that will go on my Youtube Channel. If you have not followed me on the channel, kindly do so as I am still far from the first 1000 subscribers and just need around 228 new subscribers to reach that landmark. This can be done in a single day by my readers around the world. Kindly follow the link and subscribe to the TheLife'sWay Youtube channel, please. Your help will be greatly appreciated in this regard. 

I would also like to mention what I have received in terms of goodies or media gift pack during all these years from all the brands I have supported on my blog posts - 

1. Samsung South Africa - 139 Posts - Samsung Galaxy Note 20 (Won), Samsung Galaxy Buds Live (Gift), Samsung Powerbank 8700mAh (Gift), Samsung Launch Event trip to Cape Town for Note4, Samsung Launch Goodies - Snacks Packs (Gift), Samsung NX300 (Community Challenge Winner) Won, Samsung 65'' Curved UHD TV (Mission Samsung Grand Finale Winner) Won, Cape Town Trip for Grand Finale Mission Samsung

2. Huawei South Africa - 136 Posts - Huawei FreeBuds3 (Gift), Huawei Watch GT2e (Gift), Huawei FreeLace (Gift), Huawei Watch GT (Sponsored), Huawei Bands (Gift), Huawei Wifi Dongle (Gift), Huawei Gift pack and accessories, Huawei Tshirt and Shorts (Gift), Huawei Hoodie (Gift)

3. Montecasino, Johannesburg, South Africa - 85 Posts - I have shared so many posts for Montecasino and most of them are for the event tickets and never got any stay at any of their hotels or properties. I was recently again invited for their movie launch event where I won Tomato Watches and also some Coca-Cola goodies which I have made YouTube videos about. 

4. Indiblogger - 83 Posts - I have participated in a lot of their contest where sometimes I won Flipkart vouchers, sometimes goodies were sent to us, some of the posts were for cash also and overall it was a joyous collaboration with this blogger network in India. I have bought a lot of stuff using those Flipkart vouchers for sure. 

5. Disney South Africa - 68 Posts - Other than their annual showcase goodies along with movie tickets from time to time the gift packs includes generally some books, notepads, Mickey Mouse Volkano Bluetooth speaker and recently in 2021 time National Geographic Astrum Bluetooth Speakers which you can watch on Youtube channel. 

6. Acer South Africa - 67 Posts - R500 gift voucher to buy stuff from Shop.acer.com (used thrice), Acer Launch goodies like Pen drive 8GB, Paper stand, Typo calculator, pens and diaries. 

I have stopped sharing for Acer South Africa as I didn't get anything worthwhile sharing all their press releases and doing product reviews though I used to get invited to their local launch events and also some products to review. 

7. Sony South Africa - 53 Posts - Sony MDR-XP450AP Extra-Bass Wired Earphones (Gift), Diary, Pen, Sony Xperia XA Ultra, Sony Xperia XZ Premium

My love for Sony products is such that I bought so many products in London along with my earlier collection of products that when I came back to India, the Indian Country Manager of the Sony Headphones division wanted to visit my home and gift me with a new product but that couldn't happen as I travelled to South Africa before he could plan a visit. Anyhow, it remains my favourite company as I have kept hold of my old portable e-Reader, old noise cancellation headphones along with various other Sony products from Cassette player to MP3 Players to Portable CD player. I will start showcasing them on my Youtube channel soon. 

8. Silverstar Casino, Johannesburg, South Africa - 48 Posts - Silverstar Casino Marketing team provided me with a lot of staycations which I won during their several events and got to stay in their Presidential Suite also twice or thrice. I have got pen drives, Champagnes, Pens, Diaries, Casino vouchers, hotel stays, free movie tickets, Picnic sets, beach mats, Cheese cutter, Coffee maker and so many fun activities to be part of in terms of their event tickets. I am not getting invited anymore to their launch events but I have had a great run with the brand and I am so grateful to them. 

9. SterKinekor South Africa - 39 Posts - Movie tickets mainly and some launch events. 

Sterkinekor was the first company if I remember correctly to invite me to a movie night and gave my first goodies bag in South Africa which was a Diary and a Pen. I still have not used any of the items and kept them safe. 

10. rAge Expo South Africa - 36 Posts - rAge Expo Tickets, rAge Expo media goodies like Lego blocks or some kind of other goodies like caps, t-shirts, carry bags from their sponsor like MSI Gaming etc. 

It's always a pleasure to receive an invite to their expo which is a mad mad time to enjoy the best of the best games, memorabilia, gadgets and other technology-related products and goodies. I have been part of most of them since I came to South Africa and over the years the thing that remains with me is MSI  Lucky Dragon Bag which is a perfect fit to carry all the groceries and vegetables from the car to the home. All my 3 bags collected over the years are now at the end of the road and I need some new ones to carry on showcasing them in my shopping trolley. 

11. ZEE South Africa - 28 Posts - No benefits at all other than 1 invite to go to Zee launch event in a Chauffer driven limousine which was an experience in itself. That's my only experience in life to sit inside a limousine. 

12. LG South Africa - 25 Posts - Macaroons, Mobile Stand, Pendrive, LG X Screen, Mobile Photography Class at Vega 

13. Lenovo South Africa - 24 Posts - Lenovo Pen drives, Diary, Pen, Customised Laptop Sleeve, Yoga mats, Tshirts full sleeves, Lenovo Wireless Mouse

14. Microsoft South Africa - 23 Posts - Pen drives, Poncho, Scarf, Brainstorm magazine, Pens, Invite to their CIO-CTO Event, Cap

15. Uber South Africa - 21 Posts - Tshirt, Discount voucher (never used), Mobile Stand

So these are the top 15 brands in terms of the number of posts done and some of them I have also marked as brands that just wanted free promotion and vanished once I asked for something in return so there are around 60+ posts belonging to those brands. So this is the current number of posts for all these brands and maybe or not there will be more for them or not depends on the respect I get in return for my time and efforts. Here I have not talked about the thousands of tweets, Facebook posts and Instagram posts for all these brands which come along with attending the event, or sharing blog posts or receiving the goodies. Overall, it's has been a great journey so far and I generally do publish the yearly posts too which you can read and enjoy too. Thanks to each and every pageviews reader to make it happen! Thank You! 

Cheers!!!

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#SayYesToTheWorld by Venturing #TheBlindList Areas Within Your City @Lufthansa_India

Hi Friends, 

As the world is growing in population the far stretched areas earlier are more closer than it seems. Now we all have families living around the globe and we all want to celebrate the festive season with all of them. The technology advancement and air travel has brought all of us together to talk and meet at any time of the year. I too have a long list of travel destinations which I want and wish to go. These destinations will remain there and will become more beautiful as more and more tourists gets attracted towards them. But with increased population, some of the hot destinations like Paris, London, New Delhi, Tokyo and New York are already crowded with tourists around the year. This leaves with us with plenty of thoughts to find alternate destinations which are still not on people's radar. Travelers and Instagrammers around the world keep looking for these small towns and places to enjoy the untouched beauty of those destinations and have a relaxed time there. 

I too want to go to destinations like these but to reach that country, I do need to fly with Lufthansa at their value for money travel packages. But my ideal trip is not to the country outside my home. I have been raised in a protected environment where I was told not to go to certain places as it's not safe there. Parents and family members have their own preconceived notions which are not always wrong but we need to break away from them and make our own now. You must be having such dilemmas and mentality for some of the places in your respective cities and vicinity.

In this age of technology, it's very easy to make a collaborative approach to travel and see those areas which you have never visited in your own city. I too have a long list of places where I have never set my foot even it's just 5 kms from my home. I want to go checkout those places and technology allows me to be there. For example, I can have an Instagram meet and can ask my fellow members to come on a lazy Sunday morning for a stroll down those areas together. We can have some people belonging to that area which can guide us and show us the important junctions of those areas. 

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and I can say every city do have some areas like those where you must have not visited. Though the Instagrammers are trying to do it but we need to support them in the same by going in large numbers and making that area trend on social media channels. That's my idea of a Blind Date and venturing into the unknown and I am continuously trying my best to see those kind of place around the globe. I have lived in various cities in UK, South Africa, Singapore and India and have always seen the unseen. Earlier I didn't have camera to showcase what my eyes are seeing but a lot has been shared on Instagram after it's invention. For me, unless you say Yes to the World you will stay in your own comfort zone and will miss out on so many opportunities trying you make you a better person. 

There are many other ways to achieve the same as there are many social media platforms to do so, like Facebook live, Snapchat and many such apps. Even there can be a day where all the people can come together to showcase their respective City's Blind Zones and share them all on a single platform. I am looking forward to such times where all world becomes one and there is no racial discrimination on the account of city and country. Till that time...Cheers!!!

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Capture #Selfies Which Are Once In A Lifetime Moment #Mobiistar @MobiistarIndia

Hi Friends, 

The camera is the invention which brought the world to capture the memories and keep them forever. Around the world museums, memorials and government buildings are flooded with photographs of world leaders and things alike. With the invention of the camera in a smartphone, the world came real close as the photographs were shared on online channels instantly. Rear camera smartphones were the trend but then the whole of the action moved to the front camera giving us what we call as a Selfie Experience. 

Selfie Camera gained wide acceptance and grew from VGA to now more than rear cameras megapixels or to dual cameras as seen in most of the smartphones these days. Vietnamese Smartphone brand, Mobiistar is one of those brands which beliefs in the principle of ENJOY MORE! They have come up with their smartphones in India which are launched in collaboration with Flipkart where you can check out its amazing 120-degree wide angle dual selfie camera capabilities.

I had an Enjoy More moment some months back at the birth of my second child after a gap of more than eight and half years since I became a father. My elder daughter was very eager to have one of her own brothers or sisters as she felt alone while we both go the office and in the day to day struggles or the rat race to meet your goals. The gap became wider and wider because of working locations and other commitments like not able to take maternity holidays in the first year of your job with the new organization.

Check out this selfie right from the hospital as my wife came out of the operation theatre and icing on the cake was that my parents too reached our city on the same day just hours before the birth of our child whom we named Reyansh - meaning a Ray of Light. Playing with him is just like playing with a toy and I really could relive the moments which I could not with my elder one. I was sent to London for a project assignment whereas my wife and daughter stayed back in India when she was just 11 months old. My wife got the opportunity to work again when she was 6 months old after a gap of two and half years. And I only came back after she celebrated her 2nd birthday too without me. It was a huge sacrifice for which I have no reasons or arguments to justify the same.

With Reyansh in my hands, I thank Almighty Lord that I was there for him from the time he was conceived to the caesarean birth time and out of the hospital. I take time to spend with him every morning and in the evenings to enjoy the parenthood which I missed earlier though I was with Keisha for around 11 months. Little kids are like a flower for which you smile as you look at them every once in a while. I always make it a selfie moment every weekend so that we can remember how it was to do his first things. I still remember when Keisha went to see her first movie, we met Amitabh Bachchan just randomly without any expectations. He came right into the PVR Gold Class lounge at Ambience Mall, Gurugram and sat just behind where I was sitting and later came Ritesh Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandez.

Such moments in life can only be captured if you had a selfie camera which clearly I didn't have at that time but now I am sure, I will definitely go for Mobiistar #StarSelfieSeries Dual-selfie camera smartphone to capture both my family as well as the locations where we take Reyansh on his first tours around the world! Till that time....keep clicking on your smartphone and keep making memories with you in them too!!!

Cheers!!!

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30 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Hope

Hi Friends,

#Hope

It all started when we visited one of my wife’s friend and she told that she had won a Kindle from a contest from writing a blog post. After some days, she visited our house and I asked her how and where she won the same?

Before that time I used to participate in Facebook contests and used to win 1 or 2 every week or month and was happy with the goodies received from the same. Then I tried participating in twitter contests and my winning rate multiplied significantly by 7 to 15 per week. It was awesome where I need to track which contests I won on which date and then whether the goodies/prizes have been received or not? It was awesome and then there were times when I didn’t win even a single contest for 3 months at one go despite more efforts and it was really devastating. So I thought about the same later and connected the dots and the results was that you need to be grateful for every small as well as big wins and you have to stay in the attitude of winner. It’s something that take time to come but can be mastered with practice. I really loved learning new things as social media channels grew and worked on many different social media channels.

One of the dreams came true to visit Wimbledon and see all the Tennis Stars live

As she hesitated but finally introduced me to the website after several requests on the same, I only focussed on remembering the website she logged on my laptop and this way I came to know about Indiblogger. Indiblogger is the biggest bloggers community with their unique and advanced platforms in India and they used to organize several bloggers events collaborating with brands. As I was good with my tweets and continued to win several contests, I blogged about all the goodies received from several brands.

The first year of blogging was slow till March, when I just launched the online blogpost page and did some posts to get into the Indiblogger community. After I got some posts done and I got chance to be on the Blogadda bloggers platform too where they has these fastest blogger wins sure shot gift vouchers. I participated in the same and got some gift vouchers from the branded posts. My biggest break came in my first Indiblogger meet for Microsoft where I met some of local bloggers and they gave me some good ideas to advance my blogging skills. I won several gifts at the event and at the second meet, I won my first big prize of HP Sleekbook for one of my posts on HP Connected Music. 

Blogadda and Indiblogger became my family networks as I continued to win several prizes in many of their contests. With Blogadda I even got their esteemed Notable Newbie Blogger award and many books and products to review on their platforms. 

I will continue my journey during these 30 days to the 5th Birthday of The Life’s Way on 27th Dec 2017 and write more about my experience with the social media channels. 

Any brand or company wants to sponsor any of  my social media channels or to do sponsored posts are welcome to contact me on email - thelifesway@gmail.com

29 Days

Cheers!!!

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A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Apr 2016 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay

Hi Guys,

April 2016 is one of the craziest months I saw last year as it was the time to fool myself and post more than 60 posts on my blog for some of the brands which has given me no benefits so far. I even invested some money in my blog thinking I will earn it back but that's somehow fine as it needs some capital to run a business so this year also, I have reinvested more money for the same.

1. @IndiBlogger Launches IndiPR.com #AITE #IndiPR #Bloggers - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/04/indiblogger-launches-indiprcom-aite.html - The best thing that could happen to me last year was the launch of IndiPR as it gave me the opportunity to earn enough money in 2016 to buy myself a new Nikon 35mm lens. Though now I am not getting any success in 2017 for any of the campaigns I have nothing on my wish list as such for this year. A wish list is the most important part of human life, if you ain't got it then there is no goal or dream to achieve it too and there won't be any roads made by the universe to achieve it too! 

2. The Perfect Mate (#HuaweiMate8) For The Elegant Professional @HuaweiZA - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/04/the-perfect-mate-huaweimate8-for.html - Huawei has been successful in creating a great market for itself around the world with its quality and value for money products. I always loved the Mate series and loved Mate 7 when I took it on my trip to the Drakensberg. I loved Mate 8 also when I reviewed it. After that, I have not received any review units (P9, Mate9) from the brand but I wish them all the success as I have posted so many photographs on my Instagram channel for Huawei for free.

3. @AcerAfrica Expands #Predator #Gaming Line with #VR-Ready #Desktops #NextAtACER - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/04/acerafrica-expands-predator-gaming-line.html - Acer Africa has been a top-notch brand in the laptop and gaming segment which brings all the latest to the country asap. I loved being a part of the recent launch where they showcased several products in a regular home in Monaghan Farm. I took an amazing photo with an Acer tablet which I had to take off my Instagram channel because there was some issue as told by the PR company the next day. They wanted to shoot the same picture again with me but I could not provide time for the same. 

4. TONE Platinum @LGSouthAfrica brings @HarmonKardon #Bluetooth #Audio #Experience (700th Post) - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/04/tone-platinum-lgsouthafrica-brings.html - One product I love the most from LG South Africa is this Harman Kardon Tone Platinum Bluetooth earphones. I didn't have them with me but this will be the topmost item on my wish list if LG is listening. They are offering Tone Platinum headsets with the brand new LG G6 if you pre-order the same in April 2017 from what I saw in the tweets from fellow bloggers/media who were invited to the launch. 

5. @SamsungSA Brings #TheNextGalaxy Smartphones #GalaxyS7 #GalaxyS7Edge - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/04/samsungsa-brings-thenextgalaxy.html - Last year they brought S7 and this year it's time for the S8 and S8+ to bring to the South African markets. This year I was not part of the launch event but I loved the Samsung smartphone for its camera capabilities. People around the world love this smartphone as the Galaxy Note series could not pick up last year. Samsung S8 is something I am also looking forward to checking out really soon for myself if not sponsored by any other mobile brands as my HTC ONE M8 is almost dead now. 

As the whole country united on Friday 7th April 2017 to change the face of the government so do I have to change my attitude and bring in a change in myself to create a unique space for myself with my content and sharing my life with my readers. Till that time keep exploring the #NextGalaxies!!!

Cheers!!!

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A Memoir - Year 2016 for www.TheLifesWay.com #Blog #AashishRai (1000 Post)

Hi Guys,

2016 has been the year when life changed so dramatically that it was hard to find time to do blogging as there was always some run around the mill kind of job happening all the time. There was also a change of job description which consumes most of my time leaving no energy to even switch on my personal laptop at the end of the day. But it's only in adversities like these your real passion comes out and blogging have given me everything I have since the last four years. 

The Life's Way in its fourth year of going live way back on 27th December 2012 achieved it's One Million Pageviews in 2016 on my birthday 22 July. The Life's Way achieved 518917 pageviews to take the total count to 1.26 Million pageviews with 396 blogposts shared in 2016. The Life's Way achieved many more features crossing 3200 followers on instagram.com/araijain and first 100 followers on www.facebook.com/TheLifesWay page along with twitter.com/TheLifesWay crossing 8900 followers. 

Though I didn't got sponsored by any brand for any of the products in 2016 but there was a lot of great events which gave some great goodie bags this year along with many which only gave a USB stick. The best being the Fanta Fun movie invite of Trolls which really was my top most dream come true where I won the Samsung's A5 (2016) smartphone which I am going to gift to my mom. Smartphone win has been eluded to me from so many years and this was a dream come true when finally I got a packaged one in my hands. Thanks to Fanta and their PR team for the same.

Secondly, I loved attending my first Logitech launch event of UE Roll2 and to my surprise I got one personalized at the end of the launch. It was so great to receive the launched product on the same day of the launch to keep. I am grateful to the brand and the PR company who invited me to that event. 

Thirdly, I am eternally grateful to Huawei for calling me to their smartphone launches where I have always got some nice goodies from Hugo Boss Sunglasses to Huawei Band and selfie-sticks this year. I gifted my Huawei band to my father and sunglasses to my mother when they visited South Africa for the first time this year. Though my wish is to get a Huawei Mate 9 or P9 Plus smartphone as my day to day phone but it has not happened in 2016. Fingers crossed for 2017!

I am so grateful to Tsogo Sun's Montecasino and Silverstar Casino PR teams for always making me a part of all their events. I have always received something or the other from Silverstar Casino as a gift and this year again I got one night stay in their Presidential suite. 

Thanks to Indiblogger for their IndiOne press releases launch where you get paid if chosen by the brand to post their content on your blog. I got chosen by some of the brands but it was not enough to cover the costs I spent on my blog in 2016 and no major assignments came from other brands too so making it extremely difficult year for The Life's Way.

2016 also saw my first visit on the MSC Cruises Ship from Durban to Mozambique on a 4-nights-5 days trip which was really an exciting experience of a lifetime. It was also my first trip to Durban and Balito. I travelled to Richards Bay, St. Lucia and Kruger also in some of the subsequent trips in 2016. I had so much fun showing my parents in and around Johannesburg and loved visiting some of the great places in Pretoria for the first time myself. Thanks to Flight Centre and Protea Hotels @ Paul Kruger Gate for making MSC cruise trip and Kruger trip possible respectively.

This completes my 1000th  post on www.thelifesway.com and I hope to see some 250+ posts this year and achieve 2 million pageviews by the end of 2017. But this year I want to get fully sponsored by the brand who can invest in me and in return I give them my content and a share of my day to day life. Looking forward to an awesome 2017 in The Life's Way!

Cheers!!!

Contact me at thelifesway@gmail.com if you want me to attend your launch events, blog and share on all my #socialmedia channels #TheLifesWay or to be a #Ambassador for your products and services!

A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Dec 2015 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay

Hi Guys, 

December being the last month of every year, it's time to reflect on all the lessons learned during the year and make yourself aware about what not to do in the coming year. I really loved the feeling to make new dreams and tick off some of the stuff you always wanted to do as you enter into the new year. 

1. A Memoir - Year 2015 for www.TheLifesWay.com #Blog #AashishRai (600 Post) - http://www.thelifesway.com/2015/12/a-memoir-year-2015-for.html - It was a total of 219 posts in 2015 and there are so many dreams and goals which I shared with my readers in this post. I was at my best in 2015 as I now can connect the dots looking backwards. 

2. @HuaweiZA - A #Brand To Watchout For In 2016 #Smartphones - http://www.thelifesway.com/2015/12/huaweiza-brand-to-watchout-for-in-2016.html - Huawei was indeed a brand which has taken the global markets by storm. They have went even further by creating dual camera phone P9 which crossed million shipments in no time. Though I am not the brand's and their PR's favorite but I still love the brand till the time I get my own Huawei one day. 

3. Checklist To Give Your Guests A #Knockout #Experience As An #Airbnb host - http://www.thelifesway.com/2015/12/checklist-to-give-your-guests-knockout.html - This post is the top most blogpost on my blog in terms of pageviews and continues to find readers across the globe. Though I have never used Airbnb till now but I think 2017 for me will only be #Airbnb accommodations. 

4. I also did some photo walks last December as I continue to explore the beautiful South Africa. Here are some of the posts -
Photo Walk - Pied Kingfisher in #Pilanesburg National Park #SouthAfrica
Photo Walk - Macaw @MontecasinoZA #BirdGardens @TsogoSun #Jozi
Photo Walk - Santa Rosa @SpurRestaurant Jean Village #Centurion #SouthAfrica
Photo Walk - Radhey Shyam Mandir #Marlboro #Jozi #Indian #Temple

5. #AwakenYourForce with HP #StarWars Special Edition Notebook @Indiblogger - http://www.thelifesway.com/2015/12/awakenyourforce-with-hp-starwars.html - This was the last Indiblogger contest I participated in 2015 and 2016 and one of my friends won this contest to win himself the Star Wars special edition notebook. It's been a while I have won any blogging contest in India but I am looking forward to do so in 2017.

Wishing you all a very great and lovely Happy New Year 2017! I hope this year will bring you closer to your dreams and you will fulfill all your goals via your commitment and dedication to your causes.

Cheers!!!

Contact me at thelifesway@gmail.com if you want me to attend your launch events, blog and share on all my #socialmedia channels #TheLifesWay or to be a #Ambassador for your products and services!

Western Digital @WD_IN @HGSTStorage TOURO Mobile #HGSTStorage #LongLiveData #IndiPR

Hi Guys, 

We all need storage whether it's for our assets at home or for the digital assets including photographs or documents which we produce each and every day of our life. We constantly need to expand our capacities to accommodate ever increasing file sizes in the digital world. I bought one of Western Digital and that post is one of the top 10 posts on my blog. Check it out.

Helping the world harness the power of data, Western Digital Corporation announced that it is expanding its family of external storage and backup solutions with its new HGST Touro Mobile external hard drives with up to 3TB portable storage.

HGST Touro Mobile is a fast, USB 3.0 portable drive in a slim and compact enclosure that’s easy to use and features both local and cloud backup. Two levels of data protection means customers are now able to keep their photos, movies, music and documents not only safe but available anytime, anywhere, from any smartphone or computer web browser when using the 3GB of cloud storage. In addition, customers can even share their online content with others by simply sending a web link.

HGST Touro Mobile external hard drives are Windows® ready and easily reformatted for Mac®. The 3TB HGST Touro drive has a manufacturer’s suggested retail pricing (MSRP) of Rs. 14,200. The 2TB HGST Touro drive is Rs.9,200. Follow HGST on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and #HGSTStorage, #LongLiveData

About Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading developer and manufacturer of storage solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with effective technology deployment, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products are marketed under the HGST and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com and www.wd.com.

About HGST

HGST (@HGSTStorage) branded storage solutions power the markets and companies that shape our lives—enabling possibilities for the cloud, enterprise and sophisticated infrastructures everywhere. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com.

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@IndiBlogger Launches IndiPR.com #AITE #IndiPR #Bloggers

Hi Guys, 

Indiblogger is the biggest and the best blogger's network in India and the brand for which I came into the blogging world. It was my biggest dream to get listed in their big family and attend all the launch events and blogging contests they did for several of their clients and brands. I have seen the Indiblogger network grow since 2012 and new services they have launched on their website from time to time. 

Thousands of businesses, products and services are launched everyday across the world. When these products go live, a Press Release is usually the first order of business. Unless you are in contact with the PR company, you don't get to see them firsthand which big online and print businesses see. Businesses of various sizes, including start-ups, can now have their Press Releases published by relevant influencers in less than 72 hours and that's what we are talking about in this here.

IndiPR.com was built to make it extremely simple for a business to get their Press Releases published by top bloggers. All a business has to do is upload their Press Release and the ‘Automated Influencer Targeting Engine’, or ‘AITE’ for short, proceeds to accept applications and automatically shortlists bloggers based on various factors including internal ratings and rankings. Once shortlisted, the influencers do their research and publish their articles. 

Anoop Johnson, Co-founder and Director of Marketing at IndiBlogger, adds, “With a starting budget of just USD 150, a business of any size will be able to get their press releases published by influential bloggers with a few clicks.”

IndiPR.com assists digital marketers with a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, SEO, content marketing, generating awareness and gaining much needed conversations around the product, driven by internet users on influencer platforms like blogs.

One of the main issues that most marketers face when working with influencers is the cumbersome process associated with identifying and targeting each Influencer. Karthik DR, Co-founder and Business Head at IndiBlogger says, “The amount of time that people spend in trying to identify and contact influencers is huge. With IndiPR.com, you don't have to worry about any of this as the system just needs your Press Release. The rest is history!”

In the future, IndiPR.com will carry more than just Press Releases. Influencers will be able to get creative assignments, get invitations to attend the trendiest launch events and be privy to the latest news on the planet before the world wakes up to it. 

Renie Ravin, the Founder and CEO of IndiBlogger, says, “We believe that this system will help Influencers with fresh and new content on their site every day. In a way, you could be writing about the next Google without even realising its immense potential.”

Personally, for #thelifesway this is a huge opportunity to reach brands and markets which I was not aware of and have no contacts with. This will definitely help me take to 1 million pageviews on www.thelifesway.com mark in the next 3 months if I continue to participate in this activity which I definitely will. Kudos! once again to the Indiblogger Family of Entrepreneurs and I wish I will get selected from time to time to publish several Press Releases on my blog. Check out more at www.IndiPR.com

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India’s Fastest Growing Web Company - BinaryCaves.com #DigitalIndia

Hi Guys,

The dawn of the digital era has positively impacted India the most, out of all developing nations. By 2020, it is estimated that five billion people will be online, representing two-thirds the population of the planet. India is expected to be the biggest contributor to those numbers, for over a billion people in India still aren’t connected to the Internet! A plethora of start-ups, web companies and digital marketers have emerged through this decade of metamorphosis from India to Digital India. The redundancy of methodology adopted by 85% of these web companies has rendered a hideous display of design, development and content on the Internet. Those antiquated methods are conspicuous in legions of projects fabricated by the conventional, insipid ‘Infotech’ companies in India. Experience is a major strand of their sales. They sure are experienced, yes, but not in what it takes to craft the modernistic. Consider this- The manufacturer of the first ever mobile phone that came with a long antenna might be the most experienced man in that niche, but that doesn’t mean you will buy it now, does it?

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that great web design exhibits the seamless blend of purpose, navigation, responsiveness, clarity and effects, all of which are deficient in most projects. Binary Caves, is a web, app development, social media and graphic designing firm constituted by accomplished professionals in Mumbai, that deliver a la mode and modernistic products. Check out http://binarycaves.com/

Here are 5 factors that set Binary Caves apart from the rest and contribute to them becoming the fastest growing web company in India-

1. Content

An often overlooked yet considerable element that must invariably be taken into account is content. Content is to a website what an artist’s palette is to a canvas. The last thing you want to do is hire someone linguistically challenged penning what your consumer may read! Especially in India, the number of agrammatic websites lounging about the Internet is frightening. Binary Caves has a separate team that overlooks the content of a project with painstaking precision, simplicity, clarity and elegance.

2. Responsive Design (“Mobile Friendly”)

Have you ever opened a website on your phone to a miniscule desktop version and you had to zoom in to click on the buttons? The solution to that has long been found, even if it eludes some of our veterans. Responsive design basically means that the layout of the website will adjust itself to any device, be it a mobile or smart television, in order to provide optimal viewing by using fluid, proportion based grids, CSS3 media queries and flexible images. Binary Caves fabricates websites commensurate with the modern standards of responsive design, giving your viewers a great experience on all devices, be it phones, tablets or televisions.

3. Elements of Modern Web Design

Times have evolved since HTML was invented and you thought it was an achievement to know how to send an email. The elements of modern web design when incorporated thoughtfully render a spellbinding spectacle, accentuating the beauty of the Internet and improving the potential visitor’s experience. Binary Caves makes full use of these – from parallax scrolling, j-query effects to large typographic elements. The image above provides a small look into their arsenal.

4. Custom Featured Images

Although it is commonplace to relate graphic design with print media, it is an essential aspect of effective web design. Products don’t sell, good images of products sell. Content is an intrinsic part of web design, but it can easily be brushed aside for a beautifully shot and edited photograph. Pictures induce emotion, which is worth its weight in gold. Binary Caves believes in effectively explaining the innovation you bring with tantalising pictures.

5. Free SEO and SMO for 30 Days

Fabricating a website doesn’t really solidify your business online, marketing it does! Binary Caves treats every project they undertake as their own and build an entire online presence of your business. From submitting your sitemap to search engines, to integrating all professional social media handles into your website, Binary Caves does everything to construct an online marketing foundation.

This post is a testament to Binary Caves’ unparalleled service, and we request you to share this on your social media accounts for it is a step forward in making India Digital. You are also entitled to a 30% discount (Valid before 31st April) should you choose Binary Caves as your online partner! This discount can be availed by scanning this QR code. 

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