About Syed Balkhi

Balkhis is a blog maintained under the supervision of Syed Balkhi. Syed Balkhi was born in a small town of Karachi, Pakistan. Karachi was not known for technology at that time. Prices of imported electrical appliances were inflated. He was gifted with the talent of knowledge with which he earned a computer (35,000 Rupees) as a reward based on his good grades. Like every kid, Syed was into gaming. Playing games all day didn’t help much other than the pleasure of winning. Winning was everything. But soon due to overuse of keyboards and mouse while playing games (such as King of Fighters, Street Fighters, Commandoes, and Sims), he was left with no choice but to learn the process of these hardwares in order to understand the their functions. One day while his parents were not home, Syed opened the case of his CPU, took it apart, and then tried putting it back in. For two days he struggled, and could not get everything right. On the night of the third day, Syed finally was able to fix the computer – which until that time was kept hidden from his parents.

Soon after this hardware adventure, Syed started to take more interest in computers. His uncle bought the first version of Macromedia Kit which included Flash, Dreamweaver and such. Syed had always been a good artist; seeing his uncle develop animated graphics with Flash, Syed got interested in it. His uncle didn’t make good use of Flash as it was only for a personal website, but Syed used it as a step forward. Working on Flash, and making various distinct animated images, he was getting tired until he was introduced to what he calls the Greatest Designing Software of all time: Adobe. Syed didn’t understand the purpose of it in the beginning other than taking screenshots and saving them as images.

In the meantime, his family emigrated to United States of America (USA) where Syed faced the biggest difficulties of his lifetime. Learning another language. Due to the language obstacles, Syed needed a hobby to overcome the fact of “No Friends in New Land” he turned toward a silly old game site Neopets. Yes, Neopets was the start of the mind of a businessman. While he was enjoying time at neopets, He started playing other games which resulted in Syed building websites for his guilds and clans. Buying and Trading virtual objects on neopets was so addictive, that Syed fell into the addiction without even knowing it until his cousin pointed out to him the fact that: There is real money in the market where you would have to do the same thing but just with Domains.

Syed entered the domaining industry through two major forums. DNF and Namepros. The majority of his time he spent on Namepros, while he improved on his skills with Photoshop. Thereafter, Syed started using free hosts to run proxy sites. While on the path of coming of age, Syed learned to advance and he moved on toward directories. Making multiple free directories until he reached a point where he knew that he could run a paid directory successfully. Then he launched Genuine Web Directory, which led him more into the industry where he learned major SEO tactics. The website was running well with a PR 5 and Alexa rank of 30k until he had to sell it to continue his education and and focus more on his schooling.

Syed moved to Gainesville, Florida to attend the University of Florida (“Gators!”), where he met few other students who shared the same interest as him. They put their knowledge together and now are working as a team at Uzzz Productions. Uzzz is improving each and every day.

Syed’s Beliefs:

• What is the wait for, Go for it: Syed believes if you are on ten minutes early you are on time, and if you are merely on time then you are late. That philosophy works well with the online ideas as well. You cannot wait and hold your ideas inside for a later time because the internet network is vast, and many other people can be thinking the same thing as you are, so it all comes down to be who is first. Rather than wasting your time, Start Something.
• Make your websites for users not just search engines: While it is good to have the website SEO Optimized, but what good is a site is if it does not attract the users. Syed believes in quality and the smooth functioning of a website where the website contains a user-friendly interface and has a SEO-friendly layout.
• Always keep upgrading: Often, it is going to be the case that there are too many competitors in the industry. Well all that you have to do is maximize the possibilities. Expand your brand all around the industry. Upgrade and add new features. Take Lays Chips as an example. They had regular lays, and they divided them into flavors, then they introduced a special kind Baked, then they added a complete new style called Stax.
• Drops of water make an ocean: Many beginners who enter this industry enters to make quick bucks because they heard someone else made alot of money doing something online. While you have to understand that yes they made alot of money, but they put alot of time and experience in it. So Syed’s main motto is you cannot turn down small income as it is better than 0, and these little drops of money will become an ocean. You have nothing to loose because all you loose can’t be worst then before because you were not making any.

This Biography is edited by Sandy Schuman, teacher of Syed Balkhi from Palm Beach Lakes High School.

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