Mouthshut.com is quite popular website and I was familiar with it since 2005 to be precise. I shifted my career to Search Engine Optimization(SEO) domain by this time. I used to search extensively on the web and I came to know about this website while I was digging on Google for some products review in the market.
Honestly, I liked the website at the very beginning and mainly liked its Indian look and feel. 10 years ago, Internet scenario was a bit different with lots of UK or US based sites dominating the https:// So, at that time, MS gave me a totally Indian taste and flavour. I remember that I sent the link of this site to some of my clients overseas, just to show case our exposure to Internet. This portal was a live example of a cool Indian site. I just wanted to show them that Internet in India did not only mean outsourcing where work is available at cheap rates. Some of my clients were quite impressed and compared it to other consumer review portals in their country.
Now, 10 years later, things are totally different. Now, we Indians can take pride in lots of independent portals having desi flavour, desi taste and desi stuffs only. We are the powerhouse in the world of Internet now. And, we are expanding and booming day by day in numbers and acitivities. Netizens in India are surely topping the chart globally.
So, personally, I was familiar with Mouthshut and occasionally read reviews of products on MS. It helped me immensely on several occasions to take some good purchasing decisions, mainly when I got settled after marriage.
On personal level, amidst my busy working schedule( I run a small web developement firm in south kolkata), I wanted to do something just for my own. I enjoy my present work in this service industry but somewhere I need something extra beyond this project work, deadline, client communication etc.May be, I am caught with boredom after 10 years long on line working pattern, so I decided to do something extra with out hampering my present work and lifestyle.
I was planning to launch my own blog for sure in 2015, but I could not make it due to work pressure even after 4 months of this year passed on. I was just leading a professional life.
Being a SEO person, I have this odd habit to search on Google at odd hours just to check the SERP and ranking of sites. I did not remember the exact key phrase I wrote that particular day, but I landed up on mouthshut.com. I read some reviews and some blogs, as usual I liked them.Some of them were written in professional manner where as some of them were written in simple conversational style.
It was extremely hot and humid that night and I was sweating even if I turn off the AC for 10 minutes. I took a shower at 1 am and applied Navratna prickly heat powder on my body and just whimsically decided to write a review on this product as I really like to use this powder in summer. This is the beginning. Once done, I was looking at my room as I wanted to write another review. I was on Herbalife diet for couple of months and it worked good for me. So, I searched it on MS and found it. Then wrote the second review. I did not even notice while signing up that there was a contest going on.Just after writing 2 reviews, I checked it on the home page and accordingly I shared my reviews on Facebook. Next day, when I logged on mouthshut in lunch break, I got notification that I have won Rs. 100 for my 2 reviews written last night. It really felt great though I could not share the good news instantly! I had to lead some people here at my office so need to be a bit strict and reserved! But, I messaged it to 4-5 close people as really I was happy. Not only for the money won, but it is like a recognition of my writings. Mouthshut has given me this recognition and I am grateful to them and feel proud of myself too!
At the same time, I want to say a big thanks to Mouthshut for this amazing contest which is a brilliant concept indeed!
With in short period, I was introduced virtually to several senior members of this site. I need to mention name of a single person, else it would be really unjustified. He is Mr. Jitendra Mathur. Mathurji has really been very kind to me and really inspired me in this process. I also like to thank Mr.Nishant(sydbarett), Maaz-Nawaz, Desigal for their significant comments and encouragements. I am grateful to all of them.
I have completed 100 reviews with in just 20 days, I feel now I have so many things to write and share! I am given a platform to share my opinion as a citizen of a democratic country. So, it is my right to pen down my opinion. Not that I did not knew it earlier, but I could not think deeply about it and hence just read reviews and did my purchase. I never wrote my experience and shared with other. Now, I have decided to carry on with this site and I earnestly hope that blessing and wishes of all the members will be with me. I have noticed a fellow feeling between the members and that really amazed me where members address each other by name, not by username, so it is great. It is such a wonderful community!
I have gone through several blog posts written by senior members and most of these pieces are informative, significant and relevant. I will continue reading them in my spare time as there are so many things to learn from them!
I have got great comments, compliments from some of the members in this short time. All of these small remarks are my inspiration. My 2 reviews have been chosen as Review of the Day(ROD) and I was really glad!
With in short time span, MS has been becoming a part of my life which is quite amazing! So, I do not want to stop here, a long way to go with you Mouthshut.com.
