Mohamed Bhimji

How would you like to win a Flip Video Digital Camera?

No we’re not running the contest, but John Chow and Bic Promo Pens are!

Simply visit John Chows using this link Promotional Pens (that gets you directly to the post at Johns’ site).

You get one entry by commenting on the post (which I did already) and another 5 entries if you blog about the contest and link to the post and to the Bic Promo Pens website using one of the following keywords:

• Promotional Pens
• Bic Pens
• Pens

I figured it’s about time I entered these contests - I mean, you won’t win if you don’t even try.  Right?  So I’m done all entries in!  Here’s hoping that we win!

Mohamed Bhimji

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What do I do?  Oddly, I’ve had a few comments and e-mails left asking what it is that I do.  Well, I will tell ya… I am a Director of Customer Support and Operations for a medium-sized company.  You’re thinking… customer support, ewwww!  Actually the salaries for Customer Support Managers can get into 6-figures.  No, I’m not making that much.  I won’t tell. 

So I manage a team of 26 people, in Customer Support, Field Service Technicians, Production & Assembly, and Shipping & Receiving.

The team I work with is great!  They know their stuff, which makes my job that much easier.  I’m responsible for virtually everything as we don’t have an HR department.  So I’m taking care of all the human resource issues.  I also prepare monthly schedules for the customer service agents on my team, plus work on developing training initiatives.  I do a lot of mentoring with the team and do my best to show them that I am one of them, while letting them know that I am also responsible for ensuring our team is producing.

We also generate some revenue for the company, not a lot but processes that I’ve put in place have ensured that we’re not loosing money on things like parts replacement or shipping.  I wouldn’t say it was a free-for-all previously, but somethings were getting overlooked.

I enjoy what I do - but would love to be making $$$$$ blogging instead.  If it happens - great!  If not, no worries.

Am I looking for work?  No, not really.  I live only minutes away from home and the flexability that is given here is great.  However if someone has an offer I could not refuse… well, send me a note!  I live in beautiful BC so it would have to be GREAT enough that I’d want to move… otherwise I’m quite happy where I am working and living!

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So I’m sitting at home, all alone and just bored silly and decide to check out my stats… told you I was bored.  I came across the term “dubai uae” - which I mentioned in yesterdays post.  Amazingly it was already index in Googles blog search engine.

Out of 480,097 entries for Dubai UAE, I am ranked third.  That’s just silly!!!

Most of the other sites are job sites for Dubai, UAE Jobs, and there are dozens of Dubai, UAE Travel Guide, and even more Dubai, UAE Career websites!!

Now mind you, I don’t expect to have a HUGE influx of visitors based on this term.  I can only imagine how many people are looking for… Dubai, UAE Jobs, Dubai, UAE Travel Guide, or Dubai, UAE Careers.

Some other interesting ways people are finding me:

• dot com mogul  - apparently for this search term, I am in the top 10 in Google SG that is!!  Bawhahahahaaaaaa!
• Mohamed Bhimji  - in the top spot in Google CA, and on Google COM the first page is all about me! I love it!
• Mohamed cartoon - I can only guess people are searching for with that term… I’m not gonna even go there.

So I keep referring back to the infamous checklist that Stephen Fung has (you can find it here  -  http://www.stephenfung.net/dot-com-mogul-checklist/):

1. Your income must come about as a result of the money you make from the Internet - NOPE.
2. The minimum internet income level is $10,000 a month (you cannot add income from other sources to hit this $10K level) - FCUK, I WISH!
3. You have no jobs outside of the internet - FCUK, I WISH!
4. You have a personal blog with your name as the domain name - WOO HOO! CHECK!
5. Your blog must be updated at least once per week - Hmmm… well if I stick to my most recent posting schedule, then CHECK!
6. A Google search of your name must be at the #1 spot - OH YAH BABY! CHECK!
7. You must be willing to help dot com mogul wannabes - I am an ASPIRING DOT COM MOGUL, this doesn’t apply to me…YET!

So unfortunately I’m not quite DOT COM MOGUL status.  But that’s OK.  I’m having fun getting there!

Mohamed

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Wow - time sure flies when you’re having fun!  So here I am, working on a project for my son.  I’m taking all his DVD’s (that he scratches up oh so nicely) and putting them onto a hard drive so that he can watch directly from his computer.  Then along came a friend at work, and suggested that I find an old XBOX and hook-up the hard drive to that so he can watch on the regular TV instead of on his computer!  Cool idea.

So I’m off looking for an older XBOX that I can get for reaaaaaal cheap.  So this is a surprise for my son… along with (probably) a new laptop.

I’m looking into HP, I like their laptops.  I bought one for my brother-in-law and played with it before I had to hand it over - it was sweet!

I saw the Apple Macbook Air over at a local electronics store.  That is one sweet machine!  My phone book is thicker AND heavier that this puppy!  But at $1800 + taxes, it’s definately NOT going to happen.  I’m actually looking for a 15.4″ HP laptop.  The newer ones are nice - 320gb HD 3 or 4gb  RAM etc.,  Why 15.4″ instead of 17″ - well I already have a 19″ ViewSonic LCD and normally run the monitor to extend my desktop so don’t really need a 17″.  Besides the 17″ is a little bit heavier and I can save myself about $200 - $300 by sticking with 15.4″.

But both projects are in no rush to get completed, my wife and son have gone to Tanzania to visit family.  They’ll be gone for almost 3 months!  So this aspiring dot com mogul will be playing bachelor for a few months. 

So how far is Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from Vancouver, Canada you ask?  Well…

• 15,017 Km
• 9,332 Miles

My wife went from Vancouver, BC to London, England.  From there they flew to Dubai, UAE and will have an 11 hour wait at the airport.  From Dubai, UAE they fly to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.  They left on May 31, 2008 and will get there on June 2, 2008 — talk about a LOOOOOONG flight!  I get uppity when I have to drive into downtown Vancouver (which is only 45 minutes from where I live) — can you imagine 9,332 miles with a 6-year old in tow who is missing his dad tremendously?!?!  Aaaaaaack!!!

This is worse than my trip to Tokyo, Japan years ago.  At least in that case we went from Vancouver, BC direct and it was business class all the way baby!  Thanks to the company I worked for at the time, and the contract that we had with NTT.  I racked up enough points on that flight (we went at a time when business class was eligible for 3x the milage) that my wife and I went on a trip to Europe, and the Middle East a few years later — all the airplane tickets were bought and paid for by points!  How sweet is that!

I am planning to meet up with the family in August in Dubai.  My wife and I were there years ago, and absolutely loved it there.  Although I’ve heard it’s more expensive now than years ago — it’s only money, right?

So other challenges I’ll have is keeping the place clean.  It’s not huge, but big enough for 2-3 people and cleaning isn’t one of the best things that I do.  I’m seriously considering hiring Molly Maid or someone similar to come and clean a week before my wife gets here.

Cooking is also a challenge.  I’m really lazy and as I’m vegetarian, eating out is not really an option.  So I headed down to a local farm market and picked up like $30.00 worth of fruit and veggies.  Hopefully eating healthy will help me lose weight and feel great!

So other than that, I spent a busy day today.  Cleaned up the garage, washed my car and my wifes and took an afternoon nap after taking some Robaxacet for my poor aching back.  That stuff works wonders, but I’ve noticed that lately it really knocks me out… so better not take it at work OR while driving.

For someone that posts every now and then, I sure had a lot to say today!

Take care, friends!

Mo

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As the title reads - it’s May 1, 2008, would you look at that!

Over at my MMO + IM = HYBRID blog - Internet Business Opportunities I spoke about the Great Google Update (or as my son likes to say “Great Gooogly Wooglies!” — it’s from a cartoon, you won’t get it unless you watch cartoons).

So I went across the many sites that I have, and you know what - they ALL have rank.  Yah, I know page rank alone does not make a site make but the friggin update was great to my site.

One of my personal weight loss sites is sitting at Page Rank of 3.

The original Online Internet Business Opportunity site is at Page Rank of 2 — and it’s not done ANYTHING for months. 

OIBO - my main site is at Page Rank of 4 - woohoo!!!

One of my static weight loss sites is at Page Rank of 4 after having lingered at Page Rank 3 for ages…

Of of my childrends static sites is at Page Rank 3.

How are your sites doing?

Mo

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Hi,

It seems like ages since I posted here.  Oh wait, it has been ages.  Incredibly A LOT of people have found me here.  It’s even great that I’ve got subscribers to my RSS feed (although I don’t have any posts - YET).

As you can see, the blog is still VERY generic.  Sorry!  My other site, http://www.oibo.org is keeping me very busy - but Robert is helping me there, so that should free up some time for me to work on this site.

I’m waiting to get some uber cool images of me, before I post them… though I’m not sure how much the graphic artist will be able to do with an ugly mug of me.

Much like all the other dot com moguls out there, I’ll be posting my random madness here.

I’m not much into stuff like fine dining though, as I am a vegetarian and don’t eat out much (remember, I’m an ASPIRING dot com mogul) you may get the occasional shot of my wifes cooking!!

Anyway… onto making this blog feel more like home!

Take care,

Mo

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Hi,

Welcome to Mohamed Bhimji dot com - the website of an aspiring dot com mogul.

I am slowly building this site up.  Stay tuned for more!

Thanks,

Mohamed

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