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Hi! I’m Akash Anand, founder and CEO of Highonsales.com, where I equip ambitious people scale extraordinary companies.

I’ve built 3 businesses (Service, Digital Product & Consulting) and have learned a lot about entrepreneurship, human psychology and sales.

I built this profile with one intention… to give people real business clarity without hidden fees, filters, or fluffy theory.

I’ve always felt that knowledge should not be limited to who can afford it or who comes from the “right” background.

Everyone deserves access.

And honestly, if anything I share here can help you skip even 10 percent of the struggle I went through to reach where I am today… then this platform is already worth it.

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Akash Anand

I'm excited to share, I just hit my biggest revenue month ever! 🎉

₹14 lakhs in January (services + consulting combined).

New business at an all-time high.

I was waiting for 2 more payments to clear before posting this.

But let me take you back...

My first income ever: ₹150
My first salary: ₹12,000/month

From ₹12k/month → ₹14 lakhs/month.
Next target: ₹30 lakhs/month.

I always knew this was possible. I just never gave up.

The reality?
> I tried
> I failed
> I tried again
> I failed again  
> I tried and failed 10 more times
> Finally hit my 2025 goal... in January 2026

Was 1 month late? Yes.
But did I succeed and build momentum? Absolutely.

What I Learned:

Success doesn't follow your timeline, it follows your persistence.

The only real failure is quitting.

Every "no" is practice for the "yes" that changes everything.

Your breakthrough is coming. 

Just don't stop before it does. 🚀

What was YOUR first income? Love to know ...

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Husband. Father. Founder. Leader.

Last week I had to be all four at once. 🎬 

My 3 month old wakes up at 1am.

I had to travel to another city by 5am.

I ate once a day, slept 3 hours, and ran 3 big shoots in 7 days.

And I've never felt more alive.

Last week was chaos on paper.

Multiple client shoots back to back.

Scripts to finalise. Questions to prep. Concepts to align.

2 days before every shoot, sitting with the team for hours making sure everything is in place.

After every meeting, sitting alone to make sure everything is in place.

Then at home.

To a 3 month old who wakes up any time of the night.

To a wife who needs my presence during her journey.

Work till 2am.
Wake up at 5am.
Travel to another city for the shoot.
Set everything up before the first client arrives.

First shoot done.

Drive back. Review. Prepare for the next one.

Second shoot done.

Same energy. Same standards. Same care.

Third shoot.

By now most people would be running on empty.

I was running on something else entirely.

I wanted to finish everything before Holi.

So my team could celebrate without carrying work on their shoulders.

That's what leaders do.

But here's what surprised me most.

I didn't feel tired.

Not once.

I ate once a day. Slept 3 hours. 

Carried the weight of every shoot, every client, every deliverable.

And I felt more alive with every passing day.

That's when I understood something deep about purpose. 💫 

When you're truly living it, it doesn't drain you.

It fuels you.

Being a founder. A leader. A husband. A father.

These aren't roles that exhaust me.

They're the reason I wake up at 5am without an alarm and feel grateful doing it.

Most people think success requires sacrifice.

I think it requires alignment.

When what you do matches who you are...

Even the hardest days feel like a blessing.

These are the days I'll look back on one day.

And smile.

Akash Anand

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I turned down a ₹500,000 offer.

You might say I'm stupid to do this.

The offer looked perfect on paper.

Big number. Reputable name. 

The kind of thing you screenshot and send to your family.

But something felt off.

Not logically. Energetically.

You know that feeling when everything looks right but something inside you is quietly saying, this isn't it.

I've learned two things about opportunities like this:

One: not every dollar is meant for you. 

Some money comes with a cost nobody puts in the contract. 

Your time. Your energy. Your direction.

Two: when you say yes to the wrong thing, you block the right thing from finding you. 

You're too busy, too distracted, too drained to even see it when it arrives.

This deal would have pulled me away from the work I actually care about.

I only work with purpose-driven people who build something real.

That's not something I'm willing to trade.

So I said no.

No negotiation. No "let me think about it."
Just no.

The moment I did: 
No anxiety. 
No second guessing. 
No lying awake at 2am.

Just peace.

And peace, I've learned, is the clearest sign you're moving in the right direction.

Not every opportunity is your opportunity.

The right ones don't cost you your purpose.


Akash Anand

The worst advice I ever got.

I followed it.

For years.

"Do free work. Build credibility first."👀

And here's what I didn't understand back then...

The universe gives you exactly what you believe you deserve.

I was putting out "free" energy.

So I kept attracting free clients.

Broke clients. Slow clients. "Can you do it for exposure?" clients.

I thought it was a strategy problem.

It wasn't.

It was an energy problem.

What you look for, you find. 

What you believe you're worth, the world reflects back.

I was searching for free.

So free kept showing up.

The day everything changed wasn't when I updated my offer.

It wasn't when I changed my LinkedIn bio.

It was when I raised my standards internally, before anything changed externally.

I stopped accepting what I didn't want. 
I stopped working with people who drained me. 
I stopped pricing from fear.

And the moment I shifted that energy?

Better clients. 
Bigger numbers. 
Conversations that felt easy instead of exhausting.

The universe didn't change.

I did.

Your pricing isn't just a business decision.

It's a declaration of what you believe you're worth.

Charge accordingly.

How to find clients who pay more money.

I spent 3 years fixing the wrong thing.

Nobody told me the real reason.

For the longest time I thought I had a leads problem.

Wrong niche. Wrong platform. Wrong offer.

I kept tweaking everything on the outside.

Nothing changed.

Here's what nobody says out loud:

You don't have a leads problem.

You have a belief problem.

When I was undercharging, I wasn't just picking a low number.

I was telling the universe exactly what I thought I was worth.

And the universe agreed.

Broke clients. Slow clients. "Can we do a payment plan clients.?"

I thought it was my strategy.

It wasn't.

It was my energy.

Clients can't explain it but they feel it.

They feel your relationship with money.
They feel your certainty or lack of it.
They feel whether you actually believe in what you're charging.

When what you say doesn't match what you feel they ghost your proposal.

Every time.

So here's the real answer to finding better clients:

When you believe in yourself you believe in your work.

When you believe in your work clients believe in your work.

When clients believe in your work they pay what it's worth.

You don't need better clients.

You need a better relationship with yourself first.

The pipeline doesn't change until you do.

Akash Anand

It's been 9 years since I left my home.

I remember the evening before I left.

Sitting in a room full of familiar things...
- Familiar smells
- Familiar sounds

and wondering if I was making the biggest mistake of my life.

I wasn't scared of failing.

I was scared of arriving at 60, still wondering what would have happened if I'd just gone.

So I went.

Not because I had a plan. 

Not because I was ready. 

But because the version of me I wanted to become couldn't be built in the place I was standing.

I learned something that took me years to fully accept..

Purpose is worth more than comfort.

9 years, I followed it.

And it led me exactly where I was supposed to be.


Akash Anand

A tech founder with 25+ years of experience,

running a $100M company,

walked up to me after I spoke at a startup event.

“Loved your insights.”

Then he got straight to the point:

“Share your LinkedIn.”

Not your card. Not your website. Not your email.

Your LinkedIn.

This was someone who had seen it all.

Built companies. Scaled teams. Sat across from investors.

And he didn't want a piece of paper with my name on it.

He wanted to see who I was before he decided if I was worth his time.

Your LinkedIn is open 24 hours.
Your business card is in a drawer somewhere.

Your LinkedIn tells your story.
Your business card tells your job title.

Your LinkedIn builds trust before you even meet.
Your business card builds nothing.

That founder didn't Google me.

He didn't ask for my website.

He went straight to LinkedIn because that's where real credibility lives now.

Every day you ignore your LinkedIn is a day someone chose someone else.


Akash Anand


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I closed 7 clients in a week and made $18k.

i.e ₹16 Lakhs

For months I wrote posts that got 200+ likes.

Zero clients.

Everyone was saying 'Do Storytelling'

I did. I wrote.

People loved the content.

Commented "this is so relatable."
Saved it.
Shared it.

But nobody booked a call.

I felt seen. But broke.

The post was beautiful. Human. Emotional.

It made people feel something.

It didn't make them do something.

Then I wrote one post differently.

Same story. Same vulnerability. Same voice.

But this time, the story pointed somewhere.

It didn't end with a lesson.

It ended with a mirror.

"Here's what this means for you and here's what to do next."

7 clients in one week.

Same writing. Same audience. Different intention.

Secret is: Storyselling not Storytelling.

Here's the simplest way to understand the difference:

Storytelling says: "Let me bring you closer."

It warms the room.

Storyselling says: "Let me help you decide."

It closes it.

The mistake I made for years?

I only did one.

Either beautiful stories with no direction.

Or pitching the offer with no emotional context.

Both fail.

The magic is knowing when to use which.

Storytelling: I left a $30k job to build my own thing. Scariest decision of my life.

People think: I feel this.

Storyselling: I left a $30k job to build my own thing. Scariest decision of my life. Now I help professionals do the same without the 3 years of trial and error I went through.

People think: I need this.

Same story energy. Different ending.

Another Example: This post you are reading :)

Btw mistakes I made cost me years and clients.

I don't want the same for you.

So I put together a list of my highest converting storyselling hooks, the exact ones I use to turn stories into clients.

Comment "stories" and I'll send them to you. 👇


Akash Anand

Why great entrepreneurs have more problems.

Not fewer.

For years I thought the goal was to reach a point where everything was under control.

No chaos. No fires. No uncertainty.

Just a clean, smooth, predictable business.

So I tried to control everything.

Every decision went through me.
Every process needed my approval.
Every problem had to be solved before I could sleep.

You know what happened?

The business didn't get smoother.

It got smaller.

Because I was so busy managing everything, I stopped building anything.

And the problems didn't disappear.

They just got louder.

That's when I understood something that changed how I run everything:

The goal was never zero problems.

The goal is becoming someone who can handle bigger ones.

Client issues. Cash flow. Team drama. Failed launches.

These aren't signs your business is broken.

They're signs it's alive.

The entrepreneurs I respect most aren't the ones with the cleanest operations.

They're the ones who stay calm when everything is on fire.

Who move forward with 3 unresolved problems sitting in the background.

Who've made peace with uncertainty, not because they're careless, but because they understand:

Stability isn't the absence of problems.

It's the ability to not let them own you.

The moment I stopped trying to control everything.

I finally had the energy to build something worth having.

Problems are the price of growth.

Pay it with gratitude.


Akash Anand

Avoid poor people.

Yes, at any cost.

Not because they are bad.
Not because they are evil.

But because I've seen this pattern repeat for years.

And it never changes.

Person A:

When they invest, they invest to win.

They show up prepared.
They trust the process.
They move fast.
They get results.

Because to them, the money was never the point.

The outcome was.

Person B: thinks differently.

When they invest, they invest to not lose.

And here's why that gap exists:

Person A and Person B both have $100,000 in the bank.

Same money. Same opportunity. 

Person A pays you $5,000.

They sign. They commit. They move.

That's winning energy.

Person B pays you $500 only.

They carry that money in their chest.

They wake up at 3am staring at the ceiling.

Talking to the universe:

"Please. At least let me break even. I don't even need to scale. Just let me not lose."

That's poor people: when the fear of losing never leaves, no matter how much you have.

Same bank balance.
Completely different energy.

And that fear energy doesn't disappear after they pay.

It follows them into every conversation, every revision, every deadline.

They don't ask questions to get clarity.
They ask questions to find a reason to exit.

They stretch the scope.
They feel like a landlord.
They move goalposts.
They squeeze every drop because that money hurt to release.

So you work harder.
Earn less.
Carry more stress.

And here's the part nobody talks about:

It's not their fault.

They builds fear and breakeven energy over years.

You cannot shift someone out of it in a single project.

What you can do is choose who you work with.

I learned this the hard way.

The day I started filtering for abundance energy not budget, not industry, not title....

Everything changed.

Better work.
Better results.
Better energy.

The right client doesn't just pay you well.

They make you better at what you do.

Choose accordingly.

Akash Anand

P.S. If you want to attract the right clients for your services and have the abundance mindset to scale - DM me 'Abundance.'

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Sr. Project Lead

Beesolver Technology Pvt Ltd

Working for an international product as a Project Lead in the fitness domain called ClubOS.

Project Lead

Basware

More focused on Cloud-native development. Contributed to the development of the PEPPOL project along with enhancements in many other important company products.

Senior Cloud Developer

Contributing in the development of PEPPOL project along with enhancements in many other important company products.

Lead Software Engineer

Nissan Motor Corporation

I worked at Nissan Motor Corporation, Japan to build software solution for one of their analytics project.

Technical Lead

Tech Mahindra

Built Secure IoT PaaS from scratch using Java and Big Data Technologies. Worked for many Leading International Telco Operators in building their software solutions like Bell Canada.

Tech Lead

Did development for many Java based company products. PEPPOL is one of the major project of Europe Government in which I contributed.

Senior Software Engineer (Java)

NVISH Solutions

Developed many web based java applications for one of the international client SCEA (SONY Computer Entertainment America) and their franchises. Also created many core-java based utilities to automate  manual processes.

Senior Software Developer (Java)

Developed many java based web applications/portal for the very renowned client Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Software Developer (J2EE)

Pal Infocom Technologies

Developed Java based applications. Developed POS (point of sale) system for a mobile chain store in USA.

Software Engineer

As a Senior IT Project Manager with 18 years of experience, I enable organizations in delivering enterprise-grade, secure, and scalable platforms across the BFSI, NBFC, Telecom, E-Invoicing, IoT, and AI domains. My focus is always on connecting technology to business outcomes—from roadmap to execution, from proof of concept to production.

🔹 "Leadership & Delivery Highlights"

    - Delivered "Jumpp", an AI-powered finance super app projected to serve 2+ lakh users by 2025, from concept to go-live in 1.5 years.

    - Achieved 30% improvement in team productivity and system performance by reengineering delivery processes.

    - Led global Agile teams of 25+ professionals; hired & mentored 13 engineers (50% of core team), resulting in 20% internal promotions.

    - Delivered ClubOS, a fitness SaaS platform used by 1,900+ facilities across 3,000+ locations in North America, Canada, and India.

    - Reduced system response times by 30%, strengthened reliability, and introduced internal upskilling challenges to boost delivery confidence.

🔹 "Strategic Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement"

    - Worked closely with CXOs and business heads to define IT roadmaps, delivery timelines, feature costs, and vendor strategies.

    - Conducted DAR evaluations, led vendor negotiations, and ensured technology alignment with business goals.

🔹 "Financial Ownership & Cost Savings"

    - Managed budgets in crores; delivered multiple Crores of annual savings by building in-house capability and eliminating vendor dependency.

    - Optimized AWS usage and infrastructure costs, contributing significantly to O&M efficiency.

🔹 "Compliance & Global Delivery"

    - Delivered projects under PCI DSS, ISO 27001, AppSec, and SAR audit frameworks.

    - Led cross-border compliance implementations for PEPPOL across Europe, Australia, and Singapore.

    - Collaborated with stakeholders from the U.S., Canada, Finland, Europe, and India.

If you're looking for a strategic, results-driven project leader to own delivery and drive outcomes — I'm open to new challenges where technology and business transformation intersect.


Top Skills:

• IT Project Management 
• Agile & Scrum Leadership 
• CXO Stakeholder Engagement 
• Budget Ownership 
• Vendor Negotiation 
• Cost Optimization 
• Global Delivery 
• DAR Evaluation 
• Team Building & Mentoring 
• Digital Transformation 
• BFSI & NBFC Solutions 
• Cloud-Native Architecture 
• E-Invoicing 
• PEPPOL Compliance 
• PCI DSS 
• ISO 27001 
• SAR Audits 
• AWS 
• Java Spring Boot 
• Enterprise Software 
• Microservices 
• SaaS Platforms

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