Expat Guides from Chillibreeze – how it all began

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Vilasini Kumar | 2 Comments

Why Expat Guides from Chillibreeze?

Chillibreeze is new to Shopify but not to eCommerce and ePublishing! Since 2006 we have been Publishing niche eBooks covering topics including survival guides to help Expats settle in and work from India, Writing Courses and  Writing Guides, and Assessments.

Let me share a piece of interesting trivia from our records. The first Expat guide that we published was on Bangalore and had taken over a year to compile. Within the first 12 hours of going live on the web,  our cash register rang and we saw the first sale! You can imagine the excitement that we felt!  The  virtual team  that had put the eBook together was ecstatic but the best ‘prize’ was the feedback we got from actual users.

Why Expat-related material, you ask? I need to dig into our archives a bit more and bring out another interesting titbit. Our founder directors Ralph and Joanna Budelman had learnt a lot about living in India as first-time expats when they came to Bangalore in the year 1998. Joanna shared her first-hand experience in an article that she wrote  titled ‘Expat Mom in Bangalore’, which was published on our website in the year 2005. Very soon this article had become a veritable magnet and we saw it pulling in a lot of traffic.  Joanna was flooded with questions about survival tips and so on from many people who were looking to relocate to Bangalore. Voila! We knew other expats were looking for a guide and thus the Bangalore Expat Guide idea took shape.

We now have close to 9 Expat Guides – see the list below – but a special one that needs mentioning is ‘Mini Namaskar Mumbai for Expats Planning to Move to Mumbai ‘ by Elizabeth Wilder. The author is a member of an Expat Club in Mumbai called Mumbai Connexions and the Mini Namaskar eBook was a labour of love. The author donates the money she makes from the sale to charity!

Do you have any interesting tips for expats relocating to India? Share them with the other readers. Add a comment below!

BTW, on a totally different subject – have you heard of ‘Plain English’?  Maybe you know enough about it and want to share your thoughts? Email us...we would love to hear from you!  Or, if you are curious about it then take a peek at our free eGuide to Plain English. 

Ciao!

Vilasini

Vilasini  Kumar is a part owner and an Executive Director of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd.   A lover of nature, she works from Bangalore. Her hidden passion for writing was the reasons she discovered Chillibreeze and later joined it! But, all she ends up writing these days are tons of emails! She hopes to rediscover the joy of writing by blogging for the websites under the Chillibreeze umbrella!  You can reach her on vilasini@chillibreeze.com 

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