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Bloggers Community Conference 2017 - [Event Highlights]

Bloggers Community Conference 2017 - Karachi Arts CouncilBloggers Community Conference 2017 was organized on 16th April 2017, at Karachi Arts Council by a Former sub-editor of GEO NEWS, Mohsin Zia and his fellow friend Engr Usama Masood . Several professionals from various walks of life participated which included journalists, intellectuals, bloggers, freelancers, pranksters and online business experts, all on a single platform.

The event was immensely advertised through print and electronic media as a result of which it succeeded to grab the attention of people from all across the city and beyond. Arts Council community hall was so filled with people that even the air conditioning system stopped working.

I had the pleasure of attending this seminar as a guest speaker along with Abdul Wali, Umer Iftikhar, Nadir Ali, Zahid Shahid and Shujain Ali. 

Event Objective

Bloggers Community Conference gathered some leading entrepreneurs, pro bloggers, YouTubers web enthusiasts, affiliate marketers and social media marketers from across the province i.e. Sindh.

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The Mentor Club: Kick Start Your Online Business In 2017!

The Mentor Club ConferenceI just got free from a busy schedule to share stories of some of the recent seminars we conducted in past few months. The first in the list is "The Conference Connect" event organized by "The Mentor Club" team which took place on Saturday, July 23 and it was exceptional in many ways.  It was a long 3 hours conference with a total of 7 guest speakers out of which most were TV anchors, social activists, entrepreneurs or Journalists. I was invited as a guest speaker on behalf of STCnetwork to present online earning strategies and share startup business ideas for people interested to start their online business in 2017.

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Eureka Pakistan: Our Longest Seminar Ever On Entrepreneurship!

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on EntrepreneurshipOn 13th August, STCnetwork was invited for a motivational session at Eureka Institute which is a renown institute that offers certificates in English Learning and IT programs. I was invited by Abrar Khan who is the operations manager at Eureka. I had to speak on the topic: "I chose Plan B and became an Entrepreneur".  I am not sure whether it was the excitement of independence month or something else, but this seminar turned out to be the most longest and yet memorable event of my life ever! I spoke for over 3.5 hours and this post will share important highlights of the event. This seminar also had one unexpected visitor that I will disclose later :)

Few days before the event I received a surprise visit of a very close friend, named Hussain Kango who works at Mobilink Telecom firm. Hussain is an IBA graduate and has great experience of working in a corporate firm so I requested him to accompany me in this seminar to present his take on whether one should go for jobs or setup their own business. He was kind enough to say: "Sure lets do it!".

Seminar Venue and Timings

Standee For Seminar

Seminar Certificate

Eureka certificate of participation

Important Highlights Of The Seminar

This seminar was not conducted inside a large hall or auditorium nor was it attended by a crowd of hundreds unlike our previous events because it was not meant for general crowd. Our aim was to motivate developers and youngsters who need proper direction to launch an online business. It was organized inside a small class with no more than 50 participants. Most of these attendees were students enrolled in web development courses at Eureka. But there was something different about it, that made me speak for hours and yet not feel tired at all. This happened thanks to a passionate and actively responding crowd. The crowd kept on asking questions during the seminar and I loved responding them. This is how a formal presentation transformed into a friendly discussion.

This time I shared things on more practical and technical grounds. Following is a bird view:

  • Shared some of my ecommerce projects that I am working on,
  • Shared marketing strategy of a product that I aim to launch inshAllah, (koti.pk)
  • Discussed the basic difference between Assets and Liabilities
  • Discussed the difference between victims of PlanA and PlanB.
  • Shared example of a French Fries seller to emphasize on "Uniqueness In Business"
  • Explained importance of old friends and mentors - Social Interaction
  • Shared story of a Blind PHP developer who visited us - "If he can do it then why can't you?"
  • Shared basics of setting up an Ecommerce business by sharing examples of sites I optimized.
  • Shared how I earned up to $2000 Alhamdulillah within a month by writing just 3 reviews.
  • Explained "Search Engine Optimization" in layman terms.
  • Shared how to do SEO auditing of any website - Taking Eureka's site as test case.
  • Played the SEO Game!

Hussain shared his corporate experience and how to build your own empire through startup businesses. His presentation was really unique and yet engaging. Unfortunately he just had an hour to speak because I had already swallowed much of the time! ;)

I picked Hussain from Central Jail Karachi and it was my first experience going inside the city's most highly secured jail full of top-notch criminals. This is where he actually lives along with his family. His father is a senior Govt. officer, can't disclose the designation for security reasons.

Hussain Kango and Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Hussian is also a talented Photographer and Short film maker, so I shared one of his videos with the crowd that you can watch below:

Mud Volcanoes near Kund Malir Beach Balochistan

The seminar was attended by several outsiders which included Mohammad Abid (ACupOfBlog), Mohammad Ibrahim and Abdul Samad Essani (BornBlogger). Meeting Abdul Samad was surely a proud moment to see someone who waited for 4 years just to meet a small man like me. I honestly have no proper words to thank him for his love and respect. Therefore as a thanksgiving I wont share in detail the A-Z of what discussion took place that day and instead I will share Samad's blog post to give you a complete experience of the seminar from an attendee's point of view.

Eureka Seminar Photos

Some random photos from the seminar.

Hussain Kango

Hussain Kango

Mohammad Mustafa and Hussain Kango

We are professional bloggers!

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Hussain Kango at Eureka

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Mohammad and Hussain Kango

Questioning audience at Eureka

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Eureka Feedback Form

Eureka Pakistan Institute Feedback Form

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Eureka Seminar Refreshments

Abrar Khan Eureka Pakistan

Hussain Kango at Eureka Learning Center

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

What is your aim in life?

My Online Earning Strategy

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Muhammad Abbas Naqvi at Eureka Seminar

Distributing Gift Hampers!

I asked three questions and distributed three gift hampers.

The first gift was given to a participant for describing the difference between Assets and Liabilities. I don't have his clear photo unfortunately.

The second gift was given to Abdul Samad for correctly pin-pointing up to four SEO mistakes live within 5 minutes in Eureka's official website. Three Contestants tried but only he could spot the knot correctly.

Abdul Samad receiving gift hamper

The third gift was given to Mohammad Abid for describing the key marketing strategy for bringing more sales to one of our ecommerce site. He received the most precious gift ever as shown in the video below:

Mohammad Abid at Eureka Pakistan

Best Gift Ever - National Flag of Pakistan

An Unexpected Visitor!

During the presentation, I saw someone sitting at the back row. Upon a close look I happen to discover that it was my childhood friend and best classmate buddy, Muhammad Abbas Naqvi. I was really shocked to see him and yet amazed with this pleasant surprise. I called him on stage, introduced him and hugged him for such a beautiful gift. He works at Habib Bank and is ACCA certified but he came all the way to attend the seminar because he sincerely wanted to hear this little man's success story.

Than you buddy for taking out time and attending the seminar. This surprise will be glorified forever!

M Abbas Naqvi at Eureka Pakistan

He did not choose to sit at front but rather choose to sit quietly at back row. Such is Abbas's humbleness. Love you bro!

Eureka Pakistan Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

M Abbas Naqvi

Shields & Certificates Distribution

Every attendee was given a certificate of participation by Eureka management. Speakers were given shields and were served with hospitality not once but thrice something that I loved the most.

Hussain Kango receiving Shield

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Abrar khan giving certificates at Eureka

Special Thanks

Thank you Abrar Khan for inviting us and for the wonderful hospitality. Thank you for the refreshments, perfect arrangements, that beautiful standee gift and that punjabi Palao. It was surely not possible without you.

Follow him at @Abrar Khan

Abrar khan Eureka Pakistan

Your Feedback

I will share our experience of the Country Inn conference in my next post where I happen to meet several TV news anchors, journalists and social activists.

Do share your feedback about this recent seminar that took place at Eureka. I wish the best of luck to all of you. You guys have a brilliant future and abundance of natural skills. It is time to just start using them without fearing failure as I said several times in the seminar: "In business there is either success or experience but never failure!"

If you have any queries, please feel free to post them below. I would love to answer them all. God bless you all buddies! =)

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Our Visit To IEEE NCS Orientation Session 2016

Be the first You!

On 8th Feb, 2016 NEDuet university which is amongst the most popular engineering Institutes of the country, invited us for a motivational talk on Entrepreneurship and Corporate Slavery. This orientation ceremony was organized by the IEEE NED Computer Society with an intention to welcome the new batches with positive energy and offer them productive counseling on how to make best possible use of their four years bachelor's journey. This was my second most memorable visit to Civil Audio Visual Hall of NED after "BluePrint to PlanB" seminar. Last time I presented there as a student and this time I was honored to present as an Alumnus. I am extremely grateful to NED administration especially Dr Muhammad Khurram for all their love and respect. Today's blog post will discuss all important highlights of the event that took place and some untold stories which followed afterwards.

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STCnetwork's Exclusive Interview by NED Entrepreneurship Society

STCnetwork Exclusive Interview
It is not very often that we get to learn the secrets of success from successful people. Many are very secretive about what they do and how they achieve success. But it has always been our understanding that if you limit knowledge, knowledge will in turn limit you. It is our aim here at STCnetwork to spread our knowledge and to provide guidance to aspiring people looking to make a name for themselves online. To that end, I'd like to share with all our readers some words of wisdom passed on by our Mohammad Mustafa, who was cordially invited by the NED Entrepreneurship Society (NES) to an interview as an alumni where he shared some insights about his professional life and online business secrets, and how he started STCnetwork and reshaped it into what it is today. The interview took place at STCnetwork's head office in karachi.
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Our Visit To "Beacon Light Academy" - Meeting The Angels

Beacon Light Academy SeminarAfter having conducted several seminars and conferences across the country in different universities and delivering the message of Online entrepreneurship through Content Marketing across the globe, it was now time to meet those little Angels face to face who needed a slight push to transform their dreams into reality. After the deadliest attack on "Army Public School (APS)" in Peshawar, the terror did not stop unless it tried to frightened the students in Karachi.  Beacon Light Academy became the first target of terrorism when some unidentified men threw two grenades early morning at this school on February 3, 2015. Fortunately none was injured [Source]. On February 7 the principal of this effected school invited us i.e. STCnetwork and my best friend Rafay baloch from RHA Info Sec for a seminar on "Victims of Slave Mentality". The Seminar aimed at promoting the true sense of Online entrepreneurship amongst students through Web Development, Content Marketing, Security research & Penetration testing. The Seminar was later delayed due to security concerns and was conducted instead on February 14, 2015, where more than 150+ Angels (Students from secondary grades) actively participated without any fear! Lets share some important highlights of the event.

victims of slave mentality seminar

Event Venue & Speakers

All Details on the Facebook event Page - Victims of Slave Mentality

Mohammad Mustafa and Rafay Baloch

What Was The Event all about?

Education without application is like buying cents for dollars. A map without key. As a fresh graduate myself, throughout my academic life, I have always kept a close look on the unequal distribution of wealth amongst society. Sometimes I would blame the nature for the imbalance of living standards but with time as I gained more experience about the social cash flow system, human Psychology and the Rise and Fall of poor and rich communities, I started understanding why despite the same God gifted potentials, some humans live a far better life whilst others struggle all life to fulfill their dreams but they end up in despair. Those who succeed in life are either by luck, resources or by one basic rule of life and that is Dreaming With Open Eyes. I term such people as followers of PLAN B and the rest as Victims of Slave mentality i.e. PLAN A

Note: Those who choose to be free of worldly desires by choice are Holy people and they are not part of our discussion ever for they are people of wisdom and great intellect and deserve full respect at all times. The above classification between two different standards of life is meant to educate students and make it easy for them to explore their inner strengths and the gift of true knowledge.

We gave a basic definition of both these classes of people first time on our Seminar at NED University on BluePrint To PlanB back in 2103 which I am quoting below for reference:

 Plan A

A Plan oriented individual is always led by society norms and rules, he is always the follower and never an initiator. This spoon fed life which starts from school level and continues till graduation leads him to his ultimate goal and that is "The hunt for Job". He is always afraid to invest his energies into a more productive form of work. Take an example of a school nerd, whose ultimate aim is scoring high in class. He may be good in studies but poor in extra curricular activities, poor in communication skills and social interaction. Most of Plan A oriented students often fell prey to depression and frustration. Upon completion of their graduation they are left with nothing but fixed salary jobs where they spend rest of their lives, dreaming of getting a sustainable Income one day but they die as ordinary citizens and never as distinguished names that could be remembered for decades.

 

 Plan B

Self Fed, financially stable, always hungry and thirsty to innovate and create something new and unique. That's what that defines a Plan B oriented mind. Can a Plan A student pause his university studies in middle just because he needs more time to turn his innovation into reality? Of course he wont, but people like bill gates, Abraham Lincoln, zukerberg, Steve Jobs, John Mackey, Ted Turner,  were amongst those who taught they will better apply knowledge and never worship it blindly. PlanB believers look for opportunities and the moment they find a loop hole, they give their best to utilize it properly.They are always students with dexterous minds always looking to learn and apply. They are practical thinkers and better planners. They are normal students but they don't keep one goal in life, they keep multiple parallel goals in life. They never follow social trends. They try to develop college skills during school life and university skills during college life. They are always ahead of time and never bond their potentials to social restrictions set by the dead slow walking society. They dream of empires and never getting enslaved by big giants. They never dream of joining Microsoft or Google but they dream of inventing one of their own. They are indeed Plan executors and day dreamers!

We shared with them real life stories of successful young entrepreneurs around the globe, internet's proper use, Ways of building a lucrative income online, Earning Secrets of Social Media Giants and of course not forgetting our Self-applied Online earning strategies.

We motivated them that Excellence is not dependent on Age or Time, they can attain it before time just like Arfa Karim Randhawa did, who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine in 2004! Or Babar Iqbal who started computer programming at the age of 5 or Akrit Pran Jaswal who performed his first surgery at the age of seven!

We also shared the story of Nick D' Aloisio  who was an average school going guy but his summly App that he created during his 10th grade got sold out for over $30 Million US Dollars to Yahoo!

We also discussed how whatsapp emerged and was soled for $19 billion dollars to Facebook which ones rejected giving job to the same developer

We then concluded that all these legendary figures achieved all this because they believed in a PLAN B setup of life! They did not swim with normal flow of academic trends, they did not restrict themselves to home or social bounds, they instead invested time and energy to explore their hidden powers.

The Most Unusual Thing!

We were approached for Autographs!

We kept wondering why would they take our autographs for I personally consider myself not worthy of it but later as we realized that it was a gesture of thanksgiving by these little angels who were extremely excited to discover their hidden talents and capabilities. Casual seminars often aim at product or idea promotion and they rarely touch the hearts of the attendees but Alhamdulillah these paper autographs were enough a proof to let us know that we delivered the message with full sincerity. We thanked God for all this honor and also prayed for these kids to live up their dreams in true spirit.

Certificates and Gifts Distribution

Slave Mentality Certificate

Certificates were distributed amongst students after the seminar by the school administration.

We distributed three gift hampers amongst students during the Q&A session. Unfortunately the photographers missed capturing those memorable moments.

STCnetwork certificatesSTCnetwork certificatesMohammad's signatureOrganizers certificate contentMy nephew Ammar Munir AhmedMy Niece Sana Aimal

Received Shields!

We express our gratitude to the principal of Beacon Light Academy Madam Azra for her hospitality and token of appreciation in the form of a memorable Shield.

Shield Given To Speakers

Event Photos

We are sorry for not sharing professional set of photos today because we had avoided taking our Personal Photographer "Saad" with us because the organizers suggested that they had around four cameras and they could easily cover the entire event. But they missed many precious shots and most importantly failed to capture Rafay's pics. =<

So these are the only pictures we received.

Beacon light academy Seminar

Beacon light academy Seminar

Mohammad Mustafa in Beacon light academy Seminar

Mohammad Mustafa in Beacon light academy Seminar

Beacon light academy Seminar

Beacon light academy Seminar

Mohammad Mustafa in Beacon light academy Seminar

Questions in Beacon light academy Seminar

Mohammad with Rafay Baloch

Audience at beacon light academy

Audience at beacon light academy

Mohammad with sisters from beacon light academy

presentation at beacon light academy

presentation at beacon light academy

presentation at beacon light academy

 

Special Thanks

We would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to Madam Azra, the honorable principle of Beacon light academy for inviting us to the school and giving us a chance to share our online earning strategies with the students.

Madam Azra - Principal Beacon Light Academy

Sameer Rehmani the genius who made it possible. Design Credits of Certificates, Shields and Event Pamphlets goes to him.  

Sameer Rehmani from beacon light academy

And all the Organizers!

Organizers and speakers at beacon light academy

Where Will We Go Next?

God knows best, we have no perfect plans. From the past 3 years we conducted several seminars across the country in different universities but from this year onwards we will narrow down our approach to Schools and colleges. We will try our best to encourage students across the country to kick start their Online Business dreams.

Thank you for always being a great source of motivation. You keep us alive as long as you keep on reading us! Thank you to Beacon Light School for honoring us with an opportunity to share our Online business ideas with the students. We wish you a successful future, full of opportunities and creativity. You guys deserve the best of life!

Peace and blessings be upon you all! =>

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