Author: Dax Nair

  • Social Influence: You Should Stand Up and Be Counted

    One way or the other most of us have come across rating agencies. The hoopla around Standard & Poor’s downgrading of US credit rating last August is still fresh in our minds. We are also familiar with our own anxieties dealing with credit agencies and banks when we apply for a mortgage or a line…

  • Nine spectacular squash venues around the world!

    Over the past few months, there have been numerous write-ups and debates about squash not being included in the Summer Olympics, scheduled to be hosted in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Considering that all the other major racquet sports such as tennis, table tennis, and badminton are already included, this would appear discriminatory to most…

  • Six Tips For New Twitter Users

    I have been on Twitter since the March of 2012. I do not actively try to grow my following or try to game it. When I originally wrote this post, I had approximately 200 followers; and I followed roughly about the same number of people. So, in the Twitter scheme of things, I was no…

  • Squash vs Tennis – The interesting debate continues

    Earlier this year, I wrote a piece titled “Overheard at Club Meadowvale,” which captured the essence of some passionate discussions among members regarding the superiority of squash vs tennis. As a follow-up, I have added a few more one-liners to the original list. Give it a read. Squash is played with tins, boxes, and lines.…

  • Online dating through an airline using social media!

    If you are single and have been exploring the web or Social Media to find your soulmate, you may want to fly KLM! Early this year KLM introduced a ”Meet & Seat” program that allows passengers to view the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles of fellow passengers and pick one of them as their seatmate. As…

  • Dr. Deji gets it right!

    This is an impromptu blog post. Over the past two weeks, there have been many speculations on who will win Wimbledon.  While tennis pundits debated between Djokovic and Nadal, Deji, a squash player friend, predicted that Murray would start off well, choke, and lose in four to Federer in the finals. I hate to admit…

  • I was wrong to bet against Roger Federer!

    In a blog that I wrote the day before the start of Wimbledon, I suggested that Federer appeared to have lost his mojo while Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal were clearly emerging as the two dominant players. After all, they had split nine of the last ten grand slam titles between them. After Nadal made…

  • Beer, the original social network?

    Last updated on August 11th, 2021 Is beer really the original social network? Sure, the claim was originally made by Anheuser-Busch InBev, but it sort of makes sense. Like Social Media networks, beer is a good medium to connect, shoot the breeze, and share inane aspects of your personal and professional life. And, like Social Media, beer…

  • Money can buy you likes, but it can’t buy you love

    “Likes” and “Followers” are for sale So, when did it become socially acceptable for you to ask someone to like you or follow you? In the real world, if you did that, you would be perceived as rather strange. If you did decide to constantly follow someone, you would probably end up with a restraining…

  • Trust-based economy – The shift towards transparency

    The Marketing world suddenly seems to have stumbled upon the currency of honesty! Businesses are being advised to gear up for a trust-based economy where being perceived as trustworthy takes precedence over other traditional main stays like brand recognition and lineage. Gone are the days of waiting for the customer to find out about the…