The reason is simple: I love writing; I am a self-employed businessman; and I am a member of Helium!

Once you are a writer, it goes without saying that you have the capacity to express through written words your thoughts, ideas, experiences and imagination in a way that could inform, entertain and educate the readers.

As a middle aged person, I have worked in Industrial organizations as an engineer, executive and a manager for about 13 years and as a self-employed small-office-home-office proprietor for 16 years (till now). With these 3 decades of experience, I have done my share of work, made my share of mistakes tasted my share of successes and have gone through my share of journey through ups and downs.

"As long as I live, so long do I learn" says Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Life is a teacher and we learn right through our life. Our experiences, if we learn from them sincerely, bring us wisdom. With wisdom in our possession, we too become qualified to become teachers! What better way is there than writing the bits and pieces of wisdom we have gained through our business when an avenue is available to us through a prestigious web-site like Helium?

Writing on generic subjects can be classified into two: (1) Research based writing and (2) Experienced based writing. In Helium, we get plenty of opportunities to write on both the categories. I have also personally seen that where our writing stems from the strength of authentic personal experience, it gets appreciated by readers - an indirect indication of this appreciation can be gaged by the upper rating we get in the articles that we write.

As I write this (last week of March 2008), I am 3-months old in Helium; of the 100 articles I have written in Helium, about 21 (near about 20%, the biggest share) are under the BUSINESS category and most of them are related to Entrepreneurship and Home business. Practically, I have written all of them based on my personal experiences, observations, convictions and principles. On average, these articles are currently occupying top quarter in ranking.

IT MAKES BUSINESS SENSE TOO TO WRITE ON "BUSINESS" AT HELIUM.

From the point of view of attracting viewer-ship, 4 major categories of subjects - namely Technology, Health, BUSINESS and Finance are said to be the top ones in Helium. The more viewers you get for your articles, the more pennies you can earn at Helium and over a period of time, these pennies add up to dollars.

In my own case, I have received a continuous trickle of my pennies on my 21 articles which, as on date, add up to about one-and-a-half dollars. One may say, this is peanuts, but I believe, if the same viewer-interest on these titles continue, the amount will grow to a respectable figure over a couple of years.

I also believe that some of my ideas, some of my hard-gained experiences and some of my anecdotes which I have conveyed through my writings are of interest to some people and perhaps are found to be useful to them in their business life in some way. This by itself is another intangible benefit I can feel contended about.

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