Back after a while & 3 announcements

Hello awesome folks. It has been a while since I posted on Chandoo.org. And there is a reason for that. As you may know, recently (on October 12^th) a category 3 cyclone (hurricane) passed thru our city devastating trees, power lines, cellular towers, old houses & roads on its way. This means our family was left without power, water, telephone and internet for almost 10 days. Early last week we got power & water. Then slowly the internet started working too. (more on this here)

I am swimming thru heaps of email & backlog work. Thanks to everyone who emailed me with kind thoughts, prayers and love. I can’t tell you how thankful I am for having you in my life.

I am really glad to be back online, sharing my stories, knowledge & tips with you all.

As it has been a while, I want to share a few quick announcements first.

#1 – The VLOOKUP Book Anniversary

Around this time last year, I published my first book – The VLOOKUP Book. As the name suggests, it’s a comprehensive guide to Excel lookup formulas. We sold more than 1300 copies of this book in first year. And the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with many 5* ratings on Amazon.

To celebrate the first anniversary of this book, I am running a VLOOKUP Sale on 30^th & 31^st of this month (Thursday & Friday). In this 2 day sale:

• You get 50% discount on The VLOOKUP Book
• You get 25% discount on The VLOOKUP Book + Video combo pack.
• Remember, the sale starts on 30^th October morning (Japan time) and ends on 31^st October midnight (Pacific time)

To avail this sale, just go to The VLOOKUP Book page.

#2 – Introducing ready to use Dashboard Templates from Chandoo.org

This is the top most request from our customers & readers. A ready to use dashboard template that is easy, intuitive & awesome. So during the cyclone inflicted downtime, I created a set of ready to use dashboard templates. I am still polishing the product. This will launched on 13^th of November (Thursday).

This is how our templates can help you:

• Type your data and generate beautiful dashboards. That simple.
• Generate 9 different dashboards from one set of data. Click & choose what you want.
• Customize with ease. Change currency codes, financial year starts etc.
• Build your own calculations and the template displays them just as beautifully.
• Ready to show, ready to print, ready to publish – All in one awesome bundle.
• Save time & worry about things that matter.

Here is a sneak-peek (click on it to enlarge):

#3 – 50 Ways to Analyze Data – Coming in Jan 2015

Last month I asked you to tell me the challenges you face when analyzing data. Based on all your feedback, I am designing an analytics course to help you most. It is 15% done. I will be completing rest of the course development during November & December.

So the 50 ways to analyze your data course will be launched on 21^st of January 2015 (Wednesday).

Click here to sign up for the waiting list of this course.

I will email you details about the course as they get ready.

So that is all for now. Tomorrow, I will come back with an awesome Excel tip. Until then…