We moving. Present server lot money. New server less money. Present server less features. New server more features.
I technical No. Friend helping. If move easy – website up in 2 hours. If wrong take more time.
Next 3-4 days, DiamondBhai.com fail message – assume I and friend work.
Available facebook/twitter/email/cell
Be happy. Don’t worry. I also be happy and don’t worry.
Today is DiamondBhai’s 1st birthday. This is a happy occasion. Thank you to all friends and associates who believed in project. DiamondBhai.com was founded to give members of Indian Diamond and Jewelry market tools to engage and help the world around them. I am glad and humbled that so many people have started using DiamondBhai in this way.
DiamondBhai is product of the people who use it. Without you and the connections you make to others, DiamondBhai wouldn’t have much meaning. So we feel fortunate to have all of you with us.
To express our appreciation we have created “Thank you” Gift – a Silver Coin. I will be giving this to members who have given interview and shared their life experiences for others to learn and get inspired.
1) jobs.diamondbhai.com was launched 2 weeks back and we are approaching companies to post their recruitment ad on the page.
jobs.diamondbhai.com is new place and any new place takes some time before people get use to it. Our market is full of companies who do not mind to join new initiatives and act as a change agent.
2) added calculator inside our facebook page. Now calculate Less2, Less1 and net inside facebook page. check here www.facebook.com/diamondbhai
We also have same calculator on webpage
calculator.diamondbhai.com
3) Market (coming soon)- on 9th August we are launching market inside DiamondBhai website. Market will be platform for businesses inside Indian Diamond and Jewelry market to buy and sell – products and service. I need help! If you can spend 15-20 minutes anytime before August 9th, please let me know. I want you to try market and give me feedback. write me a line chetan@diamomdnbhai.com or call 9869663539
links mentioned in above post
jobs.diamondbhai.com
facebook.com/diamondbhai
calculator.diamondbhai.com
Yes! we just completed 9 months of building this online community. Internet is both powerful and humbling.
Powerful – because it allows you to reach enterprising people from each and every corner of the world
Humbling – because more and more people you meet, you realise there are no short cuts in life. Everyone who is successful has gone through tough times.
Thanking once again to all members who gave interviews and shared their stories. I can go back to each and every interviews and find some important lesson, which members have shared out of their personal experience.
Interviews - Indian Diamond Market (click to enlarge picture)
In first few months of DiamondBhai.com it was really difficult to get new member for interview. However now I feel interview resistance has gone down, but still there is long way to go.
Earlier this week DiamondBhai SMS service was launched – this will will enable broadcasting of ‘Breaking News’ to thousands of people instantly inside Diamond markets all over India. This service uses simple SMS messages, there is rocket-science. However if lot of people join the service it will bring a small revolution in our market. Please check this youtube video to know more.
I met lot of people in last 9 months and got several good advice. One advice which hit me very hard was “While making small or big decision, always think DiamondBhai.com will keep growing for next 25 years. Hence never compromise on relations or quality of work”
In next 3 – 4 months you will see one more new module getting added to DiamondBhai.com, which will help members to find new opportunities.
I invite all businesses and individuals to consider this website as a community platform and use it to share interesting things with whole Diamond market. Please call me to find out how you can write guest posts.
Once again I want to thank everyone for support and faith. With zero rupee marketing budget and Zero-spamming the only way this website can survive is by word-of-mouth. Visit our facebook page and hit ‘Like’ If you see our link on facebook please hit ‘Share’. Please help me pass the word about this website.
Thank you,
Chetan Parmar,
founder – DiamondBhai.com
One respected Business leader once said that people are more likely to be satisfied with their salary if they earn more then their wife’s sister’s husband.(in Gujarati wife’s sister’s husband is know as Sadu-Bhai)
salary-diamond-industry
Let me share one similar situation of a person who started working in Mumbai Diamond Market 3 years back. As a fresher, he started working for 7 thousand per month. Back then he said that in 3 years of career growth, he will be very happy if he started earning more then 30 thousand per month.
Today he is earning about 50 thousand per month but still complaining about his employer. Go out with him for a cup of Tea, all you will hear is cribbing about how low is his Salary.
On further asking he told me that people who work with him are not as skilled as he is but they make more money then him. “How can people sitting next to you make more money then you?” “Isn’t the world so unfair?”
Some of the wise people I know tell me that there is no guaranty that if you earn lot of money you will be happy. Our mind always looks for relativity. Knowingly or Unknowingly our mind has set up a figure and we believe the only way I can feel happy is if I cross that figure.
Between at this point of time I will feel very happy if you subscribe for DiamondBhai SMS service. Common now! This is a free community project and only way it can become successful – if you take part in it. Watch below YouTube video to know more.
We could explain endlessly about what DiamondBhai SMS service is, but we rather keep our mouth shut and let below video do all talking.
Last week we shared some early details of the service and requested members to participate in concept testing. Many of the members from different parts of country saw demo video and I spoke personally to get some early feedback.
DiamondBhai SMS service is now open publicly – to subscribe just send SMS to 9869663539 with your name inside message.
DiamondBhai.com is working on a new service for Indian Diamond Industry. This service will use SMS on mobile network. Our Idea is dead simple – even a kid would understand it. However one thing which will make this service a powerful element of our market is ‘Community Effect’
If you want to help me by participating in early beta testing prior to launch – please send me text message with your name on ‘98696 63539‘
DiamondBhai.com SMS Service
Is this ‘Diamondbhai SMS Service’ some latest cutting edge technology?
No it isn’t! It uses simple SMS messages as the main channel of communication. Technology is very basic but when a big number of people will participate, the whole idea becomes very interesting and useful.
What do you mean by community Effect?
‘Community Effect’ means people coming together and contributing for selfless reason.
When are you disclosing details of SMS service?
In next 10 days we will disclose all details and make it open for everyone. Till then it is limited to few people for testing purpose.
Will this service be a Paid service?
It is free! My Initial cost calculations tell me that I can easily bear the cost out of my pocket. However in future, if cost exceeds my comfort level, I might request and start accepting tips or donations from those willing to help.
I don’t want to help you with pre-launch testing but would like to know more about this new service?
Absolutely! Keep watching this website. Visit DiamondBhai facebook page – hit like button – this is easiest way to keep track of what goes on at DiamondBhai.com .
Do you think people will like and use this new service?
I will not know unless I give a try. I will let community inside our market accept or reject the idea.
What kind of help are you looking for pre-launch testing?
I would probably need 10-15 minutes of your time over next 2 weeks before I launch service. Mainly I want few people to try using service and give their feedback before I make service open for everyone in Diamond Market.
How else I can help?
We are launching this service with a marketing budget of zero rupees. The only way this service can succeed is by word of mouth. Pass this post/link to people you know inside diamond market.
Members who want to help me with initial testing here’s my cell number is ‘98696 63539‘, send me a text message with your Name now.
Who doesn’t love videos? Youtube is one of my favourite website. Recently I got hold of cousin’s JVC Camcorder for a week. I left camera at different corners of the market for hours to let it capture raw video.
A raw video over two day period is crunched into less then 3 minutes.
Have fun!
Recently research was done with two groups of college students. Both the groups were given a tough puzzle to solve. Maximum time to solve puzzle was 20 minutes.
Keeping-mouth-shut
First group was told that they can talk to everyone in class room about how they plan to solve the puzzle.
Second group was told to keep their mouth shut.
After experiment was over it was found that first group which shared their intentions with everyone – tried to solve puzzle for 10 – 15 minutes and then gave up.
Second group which kept their mouth shut – kept working one puzzle beyond 20 minutes.
None of them solved the puzzle, but on interesting point was revealed.
If you share your intentions in advance to others your efforts towards the goal might go down.
Our brain has our self-image. Once I announce my plans about what new features are going to come up on diamondbhai.com, it will give me partial satisfaction of things. I have not started working on new feature yet but by just announcing, I will start feeling good about it.
So if you come across friend who tells you that he bought a running shoes and has decided to go jogging every morning, chances are he could have done much better by just not disclosing it.
1) Share sufficient information: On your personal profile share enough content to build new relationship and cherish one which are already in the friend list. Social Networking is all about building relations. If you do not share any interesting information (personal and general) how would some one register your presence.
How To Use Facebook to Grow your Business
2) Do not share too much personal stuff: people use facebook without paying attention to what goes public and what stays private inside profile. Sharing photos from a business trip, exhibition, office meeting or work-place-evening-Chai time are excellent thing to show that your business is full of sincerity and fun. Sharing information about what books you read or what new thing you are trying to do, is cool too. But sharing some personal pictures with whole world is not great idea. Share your personal stuff only with friends and family. Keep business and personal stuff separate. Spend a good 30 minutes today inside your facebook profile to find out what part you are OK to share with strangers, rest of the stuff should be shared privately only with close ones.
3) Avoid being pushy: I see lot of Jewelry and Diamond business talking about nothing but their business. There are many profile who talk about one thing – that is – what product they are sellign today. Problem is everyone in their friend list is doing same. Everyone around you is just talking about some Diamonds or Jewelry they want to sell. After a while no one really cares about what other guy talks about.
4) Bring Balance: Keep balance of organic stuff and sales-pitch. Organic stuff is something cool or informative which everyone will like. Some cool picture or interesting information or some though provoking idea. Once in a while a silly joke. Mix all this with your product-pitching.
5) Think like a school kid (sometimes): Get your camera or just use cell phone camera and click something cool in diamond market today. Put your business name tag at the bottom of picture and share it on facebook.
6) “Do not beat the dead horse” I have no idea how that phrase originated, but it sounds cool to use. What it really means is “an action being done over and over when it simply won’t work” – use this phrase couple of times on facebook in next few months when your friend repeats same-thing again and again. If you heard this phrase for the first time today – Congratulations! You have learned a new phrase today – “Don’t beat a dead horse” . And with that I just did some organic sharing – I shared something where you have learned something new today or you revisited something cool you already knew.
7) Are you paying attention?: Title of this post says “5 things to do” and we are right now on point number ‘7’. Chances are you didn’t notice it. Internet is very helpful but very dangerous place. People’s attention is not of high quality because there are so many things to see. Next time you write some status message or share something – make it cool enough for people to pay a good quality attention.
Diamond Bhai 
