Email Subscriptions – How often you read them?

Email subscriptions are like daily or periodic email dosages of news, updates or reports of a product or service you use or interested for. If you’re internet savvy then you must have known about email subscriptions. Most of the sites on the web do have the options for email subscriptions as the people behind each site do want the people to get news about what happens at their site. Most of us do subscribe to feeds from various news sites, companies or organizations. But what really the question is: how many subscriptions we should go for and how often we read the subscription emails.

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Most of us have the habit to subscribe to news feeds if we find the site interesting. But where we lack is: to optimize the subscription. Optimizing in the sense is:

• how often I check mails; 
• how many sites I should subscribe for;
• how often I should get mails (daily/weekly/monthly)
• at what time of the day I should get the mail;
• Or when is the time I’m mostly active on the web.

This seems a lot of tasks for a simple email subscription, but it’s actually easy if you’ll do it with one stroke while opting for subscription. Else when you sit back on a weekend to check your inbox, you’ll find a pile of subscribed emails from XXXX.com, YYYY.com or ZZZZ.com. Recently I was dictating my friend with an email and came to see more than 300 unread subscribed emails. Even when I joined Linkedin, I started joining many groups and subscribed to their group activities. But I never cared to optimize the email subscriptions. During those days I used to get 40-50 emails per day from Linkedin itself and apart from that I also get emails from other sites, summing around 100 plus emails per day. This makes difficult for us to check every subscribed mail and then we either go for unsubscribe or being lazy enough we left those mails unread.

It’s never an easy task to check each subscription email on a daily basis. Another disastrous thing happens when you subscribe to many feeds is that important mails from your friends, family or colleagues get lost in that mess. So what we think or we should suggest to our readers is to follow these steps before subscribing to feeds:

• See what topics interests you most and choose wisely among them
• Choose subscription options or plans as per your requirements
• Subscribe to daily emails from maximum 2 to 3 sites and choose other sites for weekly or monthly updates
• Use the email id where you’re mostly active
• Don’t get blindly into groups
• Find one best news site and subscribe to it for daily news
• and never forget to check back your emails

As we’re discussing about emails, we’d also like to thank Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email to help us reach mails into our pockets.

GDP slips to 5.3% in Jul-Sept from 6.7%

The economic growth rate (GDP - gross domestic product) has been declined to 5.3 per cent in July- September quarter.

In the last quarter, the GDP growth rate was 5.5 per cent and 6.7 per cent in the same quarter in 2011.

The manufacturing and agriculture sectors have registered a slow growth rate in this quarter at 0.8 per cent and 1.2 per cent, respectively.

However, the mining sector has witness some good growth rate of 1.9 per cent in the second quarter of this year.

The figures of GDP growth rate were disappointing and lower than the expected rate of growth.

BS Yeddyurappa exits BJP

Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa, popularly known as B. S. Yeddyurappa , is all set to resign from the primary members ship of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the former Chief Minister of Karnatka.

The 70-year-old Lingayat leader, Yeddyurappa once was the strongest leader of BJP, who worked for the party now declared his exit from Bharatiya Janata Party.

This will be a big blow for the BJP in the south India. It has been speculated for last couple of months about Yeddyurappa leaving the BJP.

Yeddyurappa will resign from the BJP as well as from MLAship on Friday, 30 Nov 2012, media reported that he would send his resignation to Speaker KG Bopaiah.

Yeddyurappa told media that he would formally join the Karnataka Janatha Paksha in December. 

Advisory Review on Business and Management Ethics

Management and Business Ethics

Managers play an important role in establishing a company’s ethical tone. A company's leaders are responsible for setting standards for employee behavior.

It's important for managers to play an active and positive role in creating a working environment, where employees are encouraged and rewarded for acting in an ethical manner.

Managers should show in action by following ethics themselves, so that in turn employees may emulate and follow them.

They should remember the fact that leading by example is the first step in fostering a culture of ethical behavior in their companies.

Importance of Ethics

Ethical behavior improves the atmosphere at work and motivates the employees. Following ethics evokes a sense of pride for the company and improves its image in the eyes of the employees.

From the outer point of view, ethical behavior improves the public image of the company, and sets an example for others to follow.

Companies and business persons, who wish to have long term business, must adopt sound ethical decision-making practices.

Knowing the difference between right and wrong and choosing the right is the foundation for ethical decision making.

In many cases, doing the right thing is what leads to the greatest financial, social, and personal rewards in the long term.

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Management ethics are the ethical treatment of employees, stockholders, owners, and the public by a company.

While a company needs to make a profit, it should have good ethics also.

Employees should be treated well. By being respectful of the environment in the community a company shows good ethics.

Ethics and ethical behavior are important parts of healthy management. From the point of view of management, behaving ethically is an integral part of long - term career success.

Organizational ethics

• The company should care for the consequences of its actions on the society.
• The company should expand its activities apart from required legal obligations or formalities.
• The company should adjust its policies according to the social conditions, demands and pressures.
• The company decides to concentrate on its long-term goals for the benefit of society in general.

Ethical decision-making  

When taking a decision the management should following criteria of ethical decision-making:

• Legality – what will be the legal consequences of the decision?
• Fairness – What effect does the decision have on those involved in decision making and those involved?
• Effectiveness – Decision once implemented and takes the form of action will it be able to achieve the goals and results?

Any decision that is illegal, not fair and not effective should not be taken. If a business or a company is built on strong foundation of business and management ethics, no one and nothing can stop it prosperity and progress.

Sensex touches psychological 19,000 mark

Business News: BSE Sensex and NSE gained higher points on Thursday following positive sentiments and speculation over further economic reforms by the Goverment of India.

The rating agency Goldman Sachs has raised the rating to "overweight" from "market-weight", which sent positive sentiment in the market and build confidence among investors over the recovering economy from the clutches of global slowdown.

In the intraday trading, the BSE Sensex has touched 52 week high by reaching to the  19,137.29 points. At 14:52 pm, the BSE Sensex was at 19,110.57 points with 268.49 ( +1.42% ) points up. 

The the up gradation of rating by the agency Goldman Sachs has pushed the markets up. Nifty was at 5,802.15 with 74.70 (1.30%)  up points at 14:52 pm on Thursday. The speculation about continuation of reforms by the UPA government has zoomed the stock markets in India. 

The markets have gained consecutive for last two days following the positive sentiments.

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to debate, vote on FDI

Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have accepted the demand for debate that entail voting on FDI in multi-brand retail on Thursday.

The debate and voting will be held on Monday and voting may be held on Tuesday or Wednesday, according to media reports.

Following announcement over discussion followed by a voting, the deadlock of both the houses in Parliament came to end on Thursday.

Considering the rule 184, the speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar considered for debate and voting on the issue of FDI in retail, while the Chairman of Rajya Sabha Hamid Ansari allowed the debate under Rule 168.

The leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj welcomed the debate and vote on FDI in retail.

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Necessity and Process of Counseling at Workplace

Reasons or necessity for Counseling in an Organization:

Given below is a list of situations that call for counseling from a superior to his subordinate, but these are not necessarily the only situations, there may be other situations also as per the necessity:

• When an employee violates the organizations standards.
• When an employee consistently comes late or is absent.
• When an employee’s productivity has come down, or the quality of work is not up to the mark.
• When an employee’s behavior affects the productivity of others employees in a negative way.
• When an employee has conflict with the other employee, or employees and the issue is public and has its affect on productivity and the company.
• When you want to compliment an individual employee.
• When you want to assign a new task to an employee.

How to prepare for a Counseling Interview?

• You need to choose an appropriate, quiet and private location.
• Before proceeding for counseling, make sure that you are not disturbed during the counseling session.
• As a counselor it is your duty to give sufficient time to the person you are counseling and that he is not being rushed into it.

Objectives of the Counseling Interview:

• Counselor should help the person being counseled to:
• Open up and discuss his problem.
• Look out for new perspectives.
• Clarify the issues.
• Identify areas that require change.
• Set goals.
• Develop action plan to reach the goals.
• Review progress as to how far he is able to achieve his goals.

Counselor should extend complete support during the interview and also after the interview to implement the action plan and to review the progress.

Counseling Skills

• Counselor should listen carefully.
• Counselor should demonstrate empathy.
• Counselor should not make judgments.
• Counselor should understand emotions/feelings of the person being counseled.
• Counselor should question with care.
• Counselor should ask open ended questions.
• Counselor should reflect back, summarize and paraphrase so that understanding becomes easy.
• Counselor should use appropriate body language.
• Counselor should not show superiority.

Techniques of Counseling: (Based on Rogers, Carkheff and Patterson's model)

• Structure
• Listen (active and empathic)
• Be silent (when required)
• Respond
• Reflect
• Question
• Interpret

Limitations in Counseling:

• Person being counseled may not trust in his counselor (usually, his superior) or other person from the organization.
• Usually the person being counseled has suspicion, on the level of confidentiality.
• There is a possibility of constraints, from organizations side, on using its resources, time and efforts.
• It is also possible that the counselor is unskilled.

Benefits of Counseling:

• The process of counseling helps the person being counseled to understand himself.
• The process of counseling allows the individual to help himself.
• The process of counseling helps in understanding the situations more objectively.
• The process of counseling facilitates to look at the situations from a new perspective.
• The process of counseling develops positive outlook.
• The process of counseling paves way to look for alternate solutions to problems.
• The process of counseling helps in better decision making.
• The process of counseling gives scope to the person to cope with the situation and the concerned stresses.

If one follows this approach for counseling, the results will be great, and the objective of counseling would be achieved.

Is Workplace Counseling Effective

Counseling is a process of interviewing the person, being counseled and helping him solve his problems, through sharing and guidance. With reference to work place counseling is having an open discussion, in private, (in office or organization this place is usually a cabin, where there is privacy, for both persons to open up and talk). Counseling is held at various times as per the situation and the necessity. Sometimes it may be just to compliment the employee for his work or for his good gesture or behavior. Sometimes it is regarding the issues that are affecting the productivity/quality of work of the employee. At other times it may be needed in case if the behavior of the employee is not as per the rules and regulations of the company and needs corrective action on part of the company.

Counseling is a two way process where in both the people participate and communicate. Counseling gives the other person a scope to talk about himself and express his feelings so that, he has a clear understanding of the situation and the problem, and a solution can be designed. The counselor’s most important responsibility is to listen to the other person, and be a good listener first. Some organizations have a separate counselor who is qualified and experienced to handle employee issues. It depends on the company policy or the organizations policy, if they want to have a separate counselor or they want a team leader, supervisor, or manager to handle the issues. Or in extreme case or when necessity arises they may use the services of a professional external counselor.

So, counseling has a broad meaning and scope and plays a very important role in the growth of an organization. Counseling, if given properly, helps improve the productivity of the employees.

International Digital Tech - Tuesday Round-up

In technology this week, we’re going to feature some tech news which is old somehow but yet need to be crying out loud. So let’s start:

Firefox OS launched
Launched around a week before Firefox OS is the new OS for your mobiles devices. If you’re a Firefox user and recently visited the site, then you must have seen the announcement about the new Firefox OS. Till now Firefox is considered as one of the competitive mobile browsers for both desktops and mobile phones. And now this new OS from Mozilla is expected to be a challenger to Apple, Symbian and Windows platforms in the future. Firefox OS is not limited to a single mobile manufacturer or carrier and thus proves to be beneficial for users & developers. There is also market place where users can find unlimited number of Firefox OS supporting apps.

Google Plus integrated into Google Play Store

Yes, you can provide app reviews through on Google Play store and your Google+ icon will show up beside your review with your photo and name. This is a new strategy from Google to improve review quality and also promote their brand Google Plus. Earlier Google also has made the Youtube video comments to be put through Google Plus profile.

Galaxy Note II crossed 5 millions sales figures
Within less than a month Samsung Galaxy Note II sales figures are touching 5 million from 3 million. Less than two weeks before we wrote an article on Mass Gadget Heist , where we wrote about theft of 1400 units of Galaxy Note II. We really don’t know what the actual reason behind such boost in sales is. If these heists are more of a publicity stunt than actual theft then as per the figures these stunts are working.

Android updates for the new Jelly Bean
Google android has been releasing new updates to its Jelly Bean update and some of the carriers in Australia, Europe and China are already releasing these updates into their devices. Vodafone Australia will begin the delivery of Samsung Galaxy S III with the new Jelly Bean update and in China Android 4.2 is ready to hit the market.

Critical Thinking - Required Skills and their Importance

Critical thinking is an important element of all professional fields and academic disciplines. The process of critical thinking involves the careful acquisition and interpretation of information and use of it to reach a well-justified conclusion. The concepts and principles of critical thinking can be applied to any context or case but only by reflecting upon the nature of that application.

Critical thinking forms, therefore, a system of related, and overlapping, modes of thought such as anthropological thinking, sociological thinking, historical thinking, political thinking, psychological thinking, philosophical thinking, mathematical thinking, chemical thinking, biological thinking, ecological thinking, legal thinking, ethical thinking, musical thinking, thinking like a painter, sculptor, engineer, business person, etc. In other words, though critical thinking principles are universal, their application to disciplines requires a process of reflective contextualization.

Critical thinking is considered important in the academic fields because it enables one to analyze, evaluate, explain, and restructure their thinking, thereby decreasing the risk of adopting, acting on, or thinking with, a false belief. Critical thinking includes identification of prejudice, bias, propaganda, self-deception, distortion, misinformation, etc.

Check List of Skills for Critical Thinking Competency:

1. Accessing and Collecting Information: One needs to locate and collect relevant data, facts and figures also information and knowledge.

2. Observing: One needs to gain information by training and using various senses.

3. Taking Effective Notes: One needs to record significant information in written form.

4. Managing Attention: One needs to focus on multiple observations. And needs to retain and recall.

5. Attributing: One needs to recognize characteristics or properties of any idea, object or situation.

6. Evaluating Evidence: One needs to check, if the data/information is valid or correct.

7. Organizing in Advance: One needs to create a framework in which information can be arranged, learnt, remembered and used.

8. Classifying: One needs to group the entities based on common characteristics or properties.

9. Comparing/Contrasting: One needs to examine two or more ideas, objects or situations to uncover or discover similarities or differences between them.

10. Determining Cause(s) and Effect Connection: One needs to recognizing and determining relationships between two or more events.

11. Recognizing Patterns: One needs to Recognize and understand the patterns of events from data, information and knowledge.

12. Sequencing: One needs to arrange events, items, relationships or objects in a predetermined order.

13. Remembering: One needs to retain and recall information and knowledge when needed.

14. Prioritizing: One needs to establish an effective order of preference.

15. Developing Ideas/Concepts: One needs to work out idea(s) or concept(s) by using investigation/study and analysis.

16. Elaborating: One needs to enrich an idea/concept or process to make it better, meaningful and useful.

17. Check List of Skills for Critical Thinking Competency: One needs to formulate a proposition, test its effectiveness and analyze results.

18. Paraphrasing: One needs to reword accurately the written or spoken information.

19. Critically or Strategically Questioning: one need to intensify quantity and quality of collected information through enquiry and open dialogue.

20. Inferring: One needs to deduce conclusions from the collection and analysis of information.

21. Thinking Flexibly: One needs to generate variety of thinking categories, shift categories and detour in the direction of thought.

22. Thinking Fluently: One needs to generate free flow of ideas quickly resulting in multiple ideas.

23. Thinking Originally: One needs to think originally or uniquely to produce non-obvious and unusual thoughts/ideas.

24. Thinking Systematically: One needs to accommodate all the factors that influence an event or a situation and all its effects, impacts or results in an orderly manner.

25. Decision Making: One needs to work out the alternatives and decide which one to choose among them.

26. Predicting: One needs to think what will happen in the future.

Now enjoy free incoming calls on Airtel mobile while travelling to United States

New Delhi, November 27, 2012: Bharti Airtel a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa today announced the launch of three new International Roaming Packs for post-paid mobile customers travelling to United States of America. Customers can get upto 5 hours of free incoming calls while travelling in USA, and also make outgoing calls to local USA numbers as well as outgoing calls back to India at just Rs.20/min.

Available in three different tariff packs of INR 1000/-, INR 3500/-, and INR 8500/- with a validity of 30 days each, the tariff plan allows customers to easily stay in touch with family and friends back home at affordable rates on their airtel India postpaid number. Also their family and friends in India can call them at local India rates. Customers can activate the pack by messaging the respective activation keyword to 121 for the selected pack and enjoy the discounted rates. Standard roaming rates would apply for all other outgoing international calls, messaging and data usage.

This Week in Business Skills - Critical Thinking

Critical thinking does not mean "disapproval" or "negative." There are many positive aspects of critical thinking, for example formulating a workable solution to a complex personal problem, working out as a group about what course of action to take. Using strong critical thinking we might evaluate an argument. Critical thinking may occur whenever one judges, decides, or solves a problem; in general, whenever one must figure out what to believe or what not and what to do and what not? Reading, writing, speaking, and listening can all be done critically or uncritically. Critical thinking is "a way of taking up the problems of life.

Critical thinking skills include observation, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and meta-cognition. Critical thinking gives space not only to logic, but also to intellectual criteria, such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance, and fairness. For critical thinking we need the ability to recognize problems, to find workable means for meeting those problems. We need to understand the importance of prioritization and order of precedence in problem solving. We need to gather relevant information. We need to recognize unstated assumptions and values. We need to comprehend and use language with accuracy, clarity, and discernment. We also need to interpret data, to appraise evidence and evaluate arguments.

In critical thinking we need to recognize the existence or non-existence of logical relationships between propositions. We are also required to put to test the conclusions and generalizations at which one arrives. In critical thinking we need to re construct our patterns of beliefs on the basis of wider experience and render accurate judgments about specific things and qualities in everyday life. In short critical thinking is "A persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends."

Start minding your words on Facebook

 Yes! This is the message we want to convey to our readers to avoid unnecessary trouble into their lives. Making hate or harassing statements on an individual or organization is never unnoticed by the concerns and can bring you into trouble. In recent past, two alarming incidents related to Facebook are more of warnings to the users to watch what they write on their Facebook wall.

After the demise of legendry Balasaheb Thackrey, Mumbai was shutdown observing ‘Bandh’ to pay the respects to the leader. On the same day, couple of the Maharastra girls put posts against this ‘Bandh’ on their Facebook wall for which a police man arrested both the girls. After the arrest the outrage is still going on over social networks where some favor the girls and some favor the arrest. Even India is a democratic country and we’ve the right for Freedom of Speech, but would it be wise to think that you will not be into trouble by doing this. Yes, our constitutional rights say otherwise, but if that be followed till now India would not be counted among corruption. In this case late Balasaheb Thckrey was a legend and there will be rage if you cry out loud.

If you read Facebook terms then you may come across that what type of posts you shouldn’t make on Facebook. Here what is written on Facebook:

We remove content from Facebook when it violates the Facebook Terms. Types of content that are prohibited from Facebook include, but are not restricted to the following:

• Nudity or other sexually suggestive content
• Hate speech, credible threats, or direct attacks on an individual or group
• Content that contains self-harm or excessive violence
• Fake or impostor timelines
• Spam

One of such similar incident has also happened with Massachusetts, USA resident Lindsey Stone. She posed for a photo giving the middle finger and miming a loud yell in front of the sign at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C., next to a sign asking for “silence and respect”. The photo speeded over Facebook like fire with likes, comments and a Facebook fan page. But for this Lindsey, who is an employee at LIFE (Living Independently Forever) has been given unpaid leave. Lindsey has apologized for the photo to Boston Herald. Well, this is not the first case of such incidents in USA. Before this an USA marine was arrested for posting controversial song lyrics on Facebook. Also California resident Denise Helms lost her job after using the n-word for President Obama.

Such arrests do prove that you don’t have to go the streets anymore. Just post on Facebook and Police will be on your doorstep. And if you want to avoid such unnecessary trouble then we suggest that you start minding your words on Facebook.

This Week in Business Skills - Preparation for Selling

Selling is a Skill (which one acquires skills in any thing by doing it repeatedly). Before approaching a client for sale, if we do some homework then it becomes easy to close the sale and have the result in our favor. Let’s have a look at some points on how to prepare for selling:

• Try to acquire knowledge about the client like from a website, history or from people related to the Client.
• Apart from gathering professional information, if possible try to gather some personal information like interests, hobbies, etc.
• Gather information about the client such as if he is a member of any club or organization or any voluntary organization or some society. This will help you to know the person and help you build a positive relation with him, which in turn will help you to close the sale.
• Work out on client’s needs; try to find out the reason as to why he can buy from you and work out in that direction.
• It is not just enough to make your sale somehow and come back with your commission. Before going to the client, you should know the good will that the client and his company have in the market. And what position or rating they hold in the market. This will give you idea if you can rely on the company and the client for the payment, you are supposed to get once you make the sale.
• You need to know if the person or the client you are approaching is the person with the authority to close the sale and to make the choice. If not who else is involved in the decision making process and in closing the sale. If that is the case you need to do homework regarding the other person also.
• The most important thing you need to find out, about the client is that, what kind of relationship does the client maintain and keep up with his vendors? Is he and his company only interested in money or are they interested in maintaining long term relations and good will. What is their prime concern only money or quality.

Do this home work before approaching a client for sale and you can be sure to give your best 100%.

What is Discipline and why we need it

The common misconception about discipline is that it is only applied for defense personnel or students. What we need to know is that discipline is not something we need to be afraid of. Discipline is what we all follow knowingly or unknowingly, to achieve what we want to achieve. An athlete follows a routine doe’s exercise; takes qualitative diet; leads a disciplined life style which helps him to achieve his goal and that’s what discipline is. Discipline is the pathway to our dreams and goals.

When we walk on the road we need to walk on the footpath to avoid accidents and for our safety. When driving we are supposed to wear helmet and that is again an example of discipline for our own safety. Discipline allows us to be safe and makes sure the right thing is achieved in the right way. Discipline is a part & parcel of life and as earlier as we understand this fact, the life will be much easier. We all need discipline in every stage of our life and every aspect of our lives. If we want to be healthy, we need to have disciplined food habits and lifestyle. If we want to be financially well, we need to be disciplined financially by planning budgeting, personal finance and other money issues accordingly.

There will not be one area of our life where there is no need for us to be disciplined. Discipline is a path we intentionally or non-intentionally choose, so that we can reach our destination, our goals and dreams in life. It allows us to have control over our life, situations, consequences and even happiness. It is a precaution we need to take so that our life goes in a smooth and safe way. So when we make discipline a part of our lives, we make life better and easy to live.

Scripwise Weightages of Indian FMCG Companies as on 22 November

We’ve summarized the scripwise weightages of Indian FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) companies until 22 November 2012.

From this data you can come to know the share values, share status and market capitalization hold of each company listed below.

If you’ve little knowledge about Finance or stock terms, you can also find the meaning of these terms below.

 Scrip: The shares listed in the stock exchange
 Closed Price: The price of a company’s share when market closes
 Full Market Capitalization (Full Mkt. Cap): The total value of issue shares of a company

Now here are the FMCG companies listed in descending order of scripwise weightages:

ITC Ltd 
BSE: 500875
ITC Limited or ITC is an Indian public conglomerate company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Its diversified business includes four segments: Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Hotels, Paperboards, Paper & Packaging and Agri Business.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 227204.53
Weight in Index (%): 54.67
Close Price: 288.95  

Hindustan Unilever
BSE: 500696
It is India's largest consumer goods company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is owned by the British-Dutch company Unilever which controls 52% majority stake in HUL. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 113294.54
Weight in Index (%): 19.47
Close Price: 524.2

Nestle India 
BSE: 500790
Nestlé is the world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 44503.57
Weight in Index (%): 6.12
Close Price: 4615.8

United Spirits
BSE: 532432
United Spirits Limited (USL) is the largest spirits company in the world by volume, selling 122.75 million cases for the fiscal ending March 31st, 2012. The Company is known to be an innovator in the industry and has several firsts to its credit like the first pre-mixed gin, the first Tetrapack in the spirits industry in India, first single malt manufactured in Asia and the first diet versions of whisky and vodka in India.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 23924.36
Weight in Index (%): 5.76
Close Price: 1829.15

Colgate Palmolive 
BSE: 500830
The small soap and candle business that William Colgate began in New York City early in the 19th century is now, more than 200 years later, a truly global company serving hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Our over 200- year history reflects the strength and innovation that Colgate people have used to constantly transform our Company and identify new opportunities.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 18096.56
Weight in Index (%): 3.11
Close Price: 1330.7

Godrej Cons
BSE: 532424
It is an Indian consumer goods company based in Mumbai, India. GCPL’s product range includes soaps, hair colorants, toiletries and liquid detergents.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 22800.14
Weight in Index (%): 2.74
Close Price: 669.95

Dabur India 
BSE: 500096
Dabur (Dabur India Ltd.) is India's largest Ayurvedic medicine manufacturer. The Dabur began with a small, but visionary endeavor by Dr. S. K. Burman, a physician tucked away in Bengal. He has set up Dabur in 1884 to produce and dispense Ayurvedic medicines.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 21411.79
Weight in Index (%): 2.58
Close Price: 122.85

TATAGLOBAL
BSE: 500800
Tata Global Beverages Limited (formerly Tata Tea Limited) is an Indian multinational non-alcoholic Beverages Company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. It is the world's second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea and a major producer of coffee.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 9900.56
Weight in Index (%): 2.21
Close Price: 160.1

United Brew-$ 
BSE: 532478
United Breweries is an Indian conglomerate company based in Bangalore, India. The company has annual sales of over US$4 billion and a market capitalization of approximately US$12 billion. Its core business includes beverages, aviation, electrical and chemicals.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 19793.37
Weight in Index (%): 2.04
Close Price: 748.6

Jubilant FoodWorks 
BSE: 533155
Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd is an Indian company based in Noida which holds the master franchise for Domino's Pizza in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and since 2011 also for Dunkin' Donuts in India. The company is a part of the Jubilant Bhartia Group.

Full Mkt. Cap. (Rs. Crore): 8343.49
Weight in Index (%): 1.29
Close Price: 1279.65

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This Week in Business Skills – Facing the Situation

We all face different kinds of problems each day. Right from childhood till we take the last breath, we all face various situations in life where we feel totally helpless. How do we need to face such problems? Well, it all depends on the nature of the problem and how much confidence do you have on yourself.

There are mainly three kinds of problems that we commonly encounter in day-to-day life. Those are problems relating to health; finance; and relationships. To arrive at a solution for any kind of problem we need to go to the root of the problem or the cause. We need to assess the situation and the causes that lead us to the present state of affairs and then we need to think of a solution to the problem we need to work out on the alternatives.

But the wise thing to do is to prepare you for a better tomorrow. If you want to lead a healthy life (free of health complications), then you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle right from the beginning. You must have heard that education comes from Home. So your home is your playground. Here are some tips

• Keep calm during stressful situations
• Take limited yet healthy diet which will boost up your spirit to stand against even bigger problems.
• Keep yourself away from habits that degrade your physical and psychological health.
• Keep your mind occupied with positive thoughts and engage yourself in positive actions.

To avoid financial problems you need to plan. Which direction you want to go and what suits your skills or talents? Which is the best profession that suits you, where you want to make it to the top? Then work out on the best possible way to follow your dream and always plan for alternatives, backups and analyze what problems you face. Planning and budgeting are important aspects of finance. Regarding the financial aspects it will always be better to take the advice of the experienced and skilled person in the field before planning or investing.

Relations are the foundation of our life. These are the basis on which our whole life goes. Invest your time in relations; work out on improving relations and this is the best way to make it to the top in any sphere of life.

Today’s Actions determine Tomorrow

Today, in this moment what you are experiencing in life is the result of your past thoughts and actions. And what you do and think right now will determine your tomorrow. Knowingly and unknowingly we have so many thoughts throughout a day and intentionally or unintentionally we do so many things that become habit and determine our future. So, in every moment we have to be careful about what we are thinking or doing and how this is going to shape our tomorrow.

Every thought that we hold and every action that we do, leave impressions on our mind. When we repeat them over time, our mind and body gets habituated to them and thus we form habits. If for example a student wants to see himself as a topper, he has to form habits and do things that allow him to achieve this dream. He has to stick to a routine, lead a disciplined life and resist himself from temptations. There are so many things that determine his success and lead him to his goal, unless-until he takes that particular path from the beginning else he cannot achieve his goal.

What path of action he undertakes today will determine what result he will have tomorrow. The same holds true for every one of us. We have so many ambitions and dreams in life and we do want to achieve them. But are we disciplining our life in the way which will help us achieve our goals? You can take the example of Technology Innovator Steve Jobs. It’s said that he thought of creating smartphones, virtual maps and streets before even starting Apple. He dedicated himself to the technology world so deeply that Apple is now among the biggest smartphone innovators in the world. If you want to reach a destination you have to take a particular route to reach the airport and then you have to board the particular flight to reach where you want to go. Right from the house, each and every step you take will determine where you will go.

Goals and dreams are the same, every step you take, every action you do, every thought you hold, will either take you closer to your dreams or away from them. So, every action matters and every thought counts. Make your today, a pathway to future and you are sure to reach your goals.

Pepsi becomes IPL Sponsor for next Five Years

From now on you’ll see Pepsi’s name on the upcoming IPL logo as Pepsi has won the rights of IPL sponsorship for the next 5 years. As per reports Pepsi has paid an amount of Rs 396.8 Crore to win this title rights. Earlier this year the previous sponsor DLF has withheld its sponsorship from this format of Cricket and never renewed or applied for bids. BCCI also held bid events which have ended in August and the result is disclosed today. DLF personnel has said to the press that they will be supporting other formats and association related to Cricket but now will not sponsor for IPL.

The sponsorship price paid by Pepsi for IPL is almost double what DLF has paid five years ago. The Pepsi sponsorship will end in 2017. Next year’s IPL will commence in April and you will see a new logo with Pepsi IPL written on it. In the first season of IPL, Rajasthan Royals won the championship and this last season it’s Kolkata Knight Riders.

If you’ve little knowledge on IPL, then here it’s small summary from Wikipedia:

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket championship in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner. It is currently contested by nine teams, consisting of players from around the cricketing world.

Top 15 tips to do great in life [Part 3]

Take care of your physical health and psychological health: First and foremost thing to achieve anything in life, we must be healthy both ways psychological as well as physical. What most of us do is that we neglect taking care of our health when we can do so. We should start taking care of it when it is out of our hands. Psychological health and physical health are both required for a person to be complete and lead a healthy life. And if we are serious about our life then we need to take care of our health first.

Do what you love: As far as possible try making that your profession what you love to do, because it is the love for work and the passion that brings out the best in you. You may do anything to earn money, but when you do that which you love and are passionate about then one day or the other, you are bound to taste success.

Never compare: It is the difference that adds beauty to life as all are not unique and all are not blessed with same talent. So always look for what is good about you and what is your uniqueness that makes you different from others. Never try to compare your talents with those of others and be your own unique self. Only then no one can duplicate your ideas or creativity or skill. So work out in that aspect and progress.

Troubles and Obstacles: If there are no troubles and no obstacles in life then there will be no development or progress in life. These are part and parcel of the life and when you start accepting them with a positive stride, you will cross obstacles with smile. These will be the very things that will lead you on the path of the progress and success by unleashing your real potential.

Show Appreciation: Always try to appreciate the good things in life. Try and show appreciation for those people who care for you and also appreciate those whom you care. It is easy to criticize and to look for the negatives in others, but hardly one can appreciate well in others. If you want to make it big in life cultivate to appreciate good things and good people, in spite of their position and status. Never ever leave a chance to appreciate people when you have a chance to do so.

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” – John F Kennedy 

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Terrorist Ajmal Kasab hanged

 Ajmal Kasab, the only caught alive terrorist after Mumbai attack on 26/11 in 2008, was hanged today morning at around 7:30 am, at the Yerawada Jail in Pune, according to media reports. The mercy petition of Kasab was rejected by the President of India on November 5.

Mumbai terror attack has been the one of the biggest terror strikes against India in which 166 people were killed in 2008. The Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist has been in jail facing trials for waging war against India.

A Comprehensive Guide for Singapore Business Formation

While considering the relocation and registration of a company in Singapore, it is of the utmost importance to keep in mind that many of the companies, which are based in that area are registered as private limited companies that are called by the name of the Private Limited Liability Companies in that region. Such a company is an individual legal entity, the shareholders of which are not liable for the debts of the company beyond the share capital’s amount, which they have contributed. Hence, it is called limited liability. As per the Singapore Companies Act, any and every person, who belongs to the age group of 18 years and above are eligible for registering a Singapore company. It does not matter whether the business entrepreneur is a local person or a foreigner.

A private limited company based in Singapore, which is quite properly structured is a corporate body that is quite tax efficient as well and thus, this form is considered to be amongst the most common kind of business entity, which is registered in the place of Singapore.

However, for Singapore business formation, one needs to have a detailed overview about the different requirements of registering a company. Apart from this, the concerned person even needs to know the procedure as well as the timeline, which it necessitates. Just like the majority of jurisdictions, Singapore has got a set of ongoing as well as the initial requirements for regulatory compliance so as to start and operate a company in Singapore. Hence, both foreign as well as local entrepreneurs are suggested to engage the various services of any and every professional firm to serve the purpose.

Now, before going for a Singapore business formation, following are some of the key facts, which one needs to know:

• Company Name: It is very crucial to get an approval for the name of the company before incorporating the company in Singapore.

• Directors: It is mandatory to have at least one residential director in the company, which one is trying to set up in Singapore. The number of extra local and foreign directors that a company in Singapore can appoint does not have any upper limit. And one of the most important things is that the director needs to be within the age group of 18 years and above and neither is bankrupt nor convicted for any kind of malpractice. It is not at all necessary for a director to be a shareholder of the company though. So, non-shareholders can even be appointed as directors of the company in concern.

• Shareholders: Any and every private limited company in Singapore can have minimum 1 and maximum 50 shareholders. However, a shareholder and a director can both be the same as well as different people. A shareholder can be an individual or a different legal entity like a different trust or company as well. Singapore allows 100 % foreign as well as local shareholding. In fact, be it issuing new shares or transferring the existing ones to a different person anytime post the entire process of Singapore business formation has been completed.

This article provides some important information about Singapore business formation.

Author Bio:

Lorrie Catherine is a freelance copywriter specializing in the business start-up industry, currently writing on Singapore business formation from Contactoneps.com.sg. Contactoneps is a Singapore based company that provides company incorporation, corporate secretarial, human resource management for start-ups and small to medium enterprises.

Hootsuite or Tweetdeck – What is a best Social Media Management tool

Sometimes around October end, one of my fellow Linkedin connections posted a question about what is a best tool to see and manage Facebook and Twitter posts at a time. We can summarize it as what is the best social media management tool. The question got more than 2000 comments and 400 plus likes from Linkedin professionals and if you look at the responses you’ll find Hootsuite, Tweetdeck and Seesmic’s names are much repeated in those responses. As Seesmic is been acquired by Hootsuite, so now the main competition lies between HootSuite and Tweetdeck. We’re going to point out some features of both these social media management tools and let you decide what is best for you.

Starting with Hootsuite,

• Add nearly 10 social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin into Hootsuite and manage each with ease.
• Add social network feeds like Twitter mentions, messages, interactions and Facebook timeline feeds, wall posts, etc.
• More than 50 languages support with translation service and Geo-tagging services
• Access popular social networks like Foursquare, Google Pages and Mixx
• Add contacts, assign tasks in your team, schedule posts, check content click-through reports and explore apps directory with Hootsuite  Install multimedia apps from Youtube, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr and many others to upload photos, videos and content into your social media profile
• Hootsuite is available for smartphones and tablets from Apple, Google, Samsung and Blackberry and also for browsers like Firefox and Chrome.

Now let’s see what’s there in Tweetdeck,

• Popular for social media management in Facebook and Twitter.
• Easily post messages, status updates, and tweets into your Facebook and Twitter profiles.
• Schedule posts, status messages and manage fan page posts through Tweetdeck
• Amazing interface with easy to create feeds for your Facebook timeline, Twitter interactions, messages, lists and direct tweets. Improved search and list editing features with few keyboard shortcuts.
• Available for iPhone, Android and for browsers like Google Chrome.

Hootsuite is clearly a winner with so many features, but if your social profiles are limited to Facebook and Twitter, then you need to have a look on Tweetdeck. While Hootsuite is a not much a competitor to Tweetdeck in interface and as a desktop application, but Hootsuite can be a good social media tool for tablets and smartphones. So you only can decide what to use depending upon what features you want and how many social profiles you have. You can also see the Linkedin post here and check out the responses. Apart from these tools there are also some other tools named SproutSocial, Yonoo and MarketMeSuite.

Top 15 tips to do great in life [Part 2]

Watch out your company: There is a saying that goes like this “show me your friends and I will tell you who you are”. This is not just a saying but golden words from someone who has studied life. Always try to keep the company of those people who are more experienced than you in work and life. People who are successful, motivational; who lead life like leaders by helping others and adding value to their life. When you keep the company of such people you have their influence on you and you start to learn from them life’s important lessons.

Never give up: If we compare the lives of people who are successful in their life and are leading an exemplary life with the lives of those who are experiencing failure, there is only one single difference and that is successful people pursue their dreams till they become reality. And people who are experiencing failure in either personal or professional life are those who gave up working for their dreams. Reasons may be any but the end result is same those who work till their dreams become true become successful. So you should never give up as whatever the situation may be and shouldn’t stop until you achieve your dream.

Vision: People who are successful are those who have dreams and vision in life. If we lead life without any motive or purpose then life becomes meaningless. A person with vision is the one who has control over his future as he knows how he wants his future to be and goes in that direction. Vision gives motivation and it helps us becoming better every day to lead life with purpose.

Have faith in yourself: Faith is everything in life whether it is towards God or any other person or ultimately yourself. It is faith that leads people. There is a saying that goes like this “what others say about you is their opinion about you not your worth”. So having faith that there is a purpose in your life and you have all the capabilities to accomplish it is the core aspect.

As every day progresses improve: Some great person has said that if you lead the life the same way as you did yesterday without any improvement or progress in any sphere that is no life. With every passing second and with every passing day, just think what values you’ve added to your life and to the life of those around you. Try to improvise yourself by improving your capabilities in every possible area, because life is meant to improve and to progress.

“Live each day like it’s your last” – Steve Jobs

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Top 15 tips to do great in life [Part 1]

Life is great and we should live it to the fullest doing great things. We’ve composed around 15 tips on how to do great in life and we’ve divided the whole post into three.

Contemplate on thoughts and choices: Thought process has no end and we have so many thoughts through-out the day. Every time we have a thought it is not possible for us to check them and to correct them, instead we can put our efforts to think positive and to make positive choices in life. Positive choices are the ones that help us to become better and help us keep our calm and do well to ourselves and others as well.

Look for sources of motivation: Each person gets inspired by different thing, for someone it’s money, for someone it may be a person, memories, name or fame. It differs from person to person. So you need to find out what is it that drives you towards success and achievement. Every day make sure that you are connected with your motivational factor. The more you are connected with your M-factor, the better you will perform.

Do what you have to, to get what you want: The common mistake that most people make is, they do ordinary things and expect extraordinary results from life. This is a very common behavior. So if you expect great from life then you need to think great and do great. When you are doing the job of a sales person and you dream of becoming CEO, it’s actually great. But you need to work for it and need to develop the mindset like that of a CEO and you need to increase your capabilities to that level.

Master Time: When you have control over the time you are spending, you have control over activities and when you have control over your activities then you have control over your life. So mastering time is a key factor that determines the life of a person. One should know where to spend time and to what extent and if someone knows this then he is sure to handle his life the better way.

Attitude and situations in life: Always let your attitude determine the life’s situations and never allow the situation to take charge of your attitude. Hardly there will be times in someone’s life, when he feels happy about the situation and when everything is in his favor. So instead if we correct our attitude towards the situations we will be able to lead a peaceful life.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life” - Charles Darwin

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Salute to Bala Saheb Thackery, the great hero of Maharastra

By Jyoti Parida

On 17th November 2012 at 4.55 pm the announcement of the death of the great hero Bala Saheb Thackery brought Mumbaikers came to a halt. Mumbai the city that never sleeps has given a break to mourn for the king. All the shops, vehicles, malls, offices were closed after hearing the sad news. This is very sad news for all the Indians because we have lost a great cartoonist and politician.

He was born on January 23, 1926, and the second of four children of Kesav Sitaram Thackery, a writer. The 86 year old Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackery started his journey as a cartoonist at the English daily Free Press Journal in the late 1950s. His cartoons also published in the Japanese daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun and in the Sunday edition of The New York Times. In the 1960s he began to involve into politics and in 1966 he founded the Shiv Sena.

In the early 1990s he led a successful campaign to drop the name Bombay- a Portuguese derivation of “beautiful bay”- and replace it with Mumbai for the goddess Mumbadevi- the name by which the city is known in the Marathi language. He was said to be the Mascot and the God father of the Marathi pride and the Hindutva. With many ups and downs he still maintained to hold his fame. No matters either he is alive or dead the lesson he taught will be always remembered in the minds of everybody.

Today his body will be taken from his residence Matoshree at Bandra to Shivaji Park (where he gave his first speech on 1966). He will end his journey today there from where he first started. He gave more than what Maharashtra and also the Nation required. His last rituals will be at 6 pm and more than 20 lakh people are expected to come to pay their honour to the great hero of Maharashtra.

3rd International Conference on Information Security and Artificial Intelligence - ISAI 2012, 17 & 18th November

ISAI is the main annual Information Security and Artificial Intelligence conference, and the 3rd conference- a two day event is right now going on in Pune, Maharastra, India. While 17th November is only for Registration and today 18th November is the conference day of ISAI 2012. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. This conference will be a platform for entrepreneurs and delegates to come up with innovative ideas, exchange information, establish business relations and find future collaborators for their research.

ISAI 2012 papers will be available in the IPCSIT (ISSN: 2010-460X) as a single volume in the onset of the conference, and will also be indexed by established internet libraries like WorldCat, Google Scholar, Engineering & Technology Digital Library and CNKI. The keynote speakers at the conference are Dr.Basavaraja Banakara (Professor & HOD EEE, Gitam University), Dr.S.Arumuga Perumal (M.Sc.M.S.-Software Systems,M.Phil, Ph.D., SMIEEE, FIE, FIETE Head,Department of Computer Science S.T.Hindu college,Nagercoil-2) and many others will also give their speech on the current research in ISAI.

Delegates from all around the world are attending the conference and also playing important roles in the conference. Some of the important research personalities attending the conference and also as committee chairs are Prof. Wang Jun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Prof. Jemal Antidze (Director of the Scientific Institute of Mathematics and Information Technology, Georgia, USA), Prof. Kyoung Hoon Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea), Dr. Chunlei Xia (University of Southern California (USC), USA), Prof. Santoso Wibowo (CQUniversity, Australia) and many more.

Key Topics to be discussed at ISAI 2012

• Evaluation of response time using gang scheduling algorithm for B2C Electronic Commerce architecture implemented in Cloud Computing Environment by Queuing Models
• Data Mining Approach in Security Information and Event Management
• Network Transform – A Tool Based Approach
• The Image Watermarking Scheme Using Edge Information in YCbCr Color Space
• Performance of Mobile Adhoc Networks in Presence of Attacks
• Security Toolbox for Authentication, Character Recognition and Language Coder
• Mathematical Modeling of Hidden Layer Architecture in Artificial Neural Networks
• A Multi-step On-Off Blade Vertical Rotor for Harnessing Wind Energy
• Energy Optimization in Cooking Devices
• Development and performance characteristics of a Low-Cost Parabolic Solar Collector
• An Overview on Current Control Techniques for Grid Connected Renewable Energy Systems

The Best Ways to Relax during Working Hours

Most of us believe that the best way to get out of the stressful routine and come back to normal relaxed state is a week-through vacation. Though it is also true to a great extent, but stress is a daily matter or concern, at least in the existing times, whether it is personal life or professional. Stress has become an unavoidable factor and to come out of the day-to-day existing stress, which is the better way? Yearly once vacation for a week or to look out for alternatives ways through which we can relax us on a daily basis.

It will be always better to look for alternatives for relaxation on a daily basis. Because every time you are stressed it is not possible to go for a vacation. There are several ways of relaxation depending upon people types, geographical area, working environment, people or assets around you and many others. Some people prefer listening to music; some opt to dance; or exercise. Well it all depends on the person as to find his own personal relaxation source. But there are times when you feel burnt out of energy and no more in a way to concentrate on work. Especially in today’s time, whether it’s corporate job or otherwise, working hours are extremely long and people get squeezed into their desks.

So the best ways we think to relax during working hours are:

• Take a break for ten minutes every hour.
• Sit down with closed eyes and concentrate on breathing for a period of ten minutes
• You can go for small walk in the office which loosens your mind and body pressure.
• Talk to someone who can make you laugh or with whom you open up
• Take a sip lemon soda drink with colleagues and get energized 
• Play something you find cool like a Puzzle, board game or even cycle a bit. 

      Caution: You may want to avoid computer games if you were on a desk job or computer job,  though some people also find these games relaxing

And the greatest advantage of doing these is, at the end of the day you don’t come out totally burnt out of physical and psychological energies and you can take charge of your personal life.

Live Healthy and Live Long!!

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This Week in Business Skills - Viral Marketing

The now so called Viral marketing or internet marketing, is not a new concept but though a strong concept for both small and large businesses. This is what we used to call word of mouth publicity or marketing. Now it has expanded its form in a way that instead of simply doing word of mouth publicity we’re also using social networks to increase brand awareness and product sale through self-replicating viral processes, which otherwise called social media marketing . Here the person promotes products or shares information with his friends, family, colleagues and contacts. They in turn, if feel that the information or knowledge regarding products or anything is worth sharing with others, they share with their friends, family and contacts.

Effectiveness
This is what builds a chain of communication and marketing spreading like a worthy informational virus among people. This way the information passes on or the product promotion goes up. When people are convinced of the quality of the product, they prefer buying it and which increases sales. After using the product if they are satisfied with it then they refer to others which in turn increase the sales of the product and brand value in the market. Viral marketing yields fast and effective results and if used more effectively it can increase awareness among people regarding a particular product or sharing particular information within a short span.

Limitations

Like everything else there are some limitations in viral marketing too. Viral marketing will be beneficial only when the general public, have an idea about the concept of promotion or the product. Because people don’t usually believe, what they see over net. Where as if they have heard about it outside on air or on TV, they will be at ease in some aspect and believe what they have been referred to.

Viral marketing will be beneficial or reap results fast when there is awareness about the product among the people. If the product is available only on viral marketing, and people have to rely on the reference then it becomes a difficult task. So the retailer also has to open free stores initially for testing the product among people and get their feedback. If we rely on viral marketing as an addition to existing other types of marketing strategies then it will be good and beneficial. But to simply rely on viral marketing is never a good idea.

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Wikipedia’s new Fundraising Ad to Continue its Uninterrupted Service

If you visited the Wikipedia today, then you must have seen a yellow message bar on the top with mentioning what Wikipedia is and how it’s been a non-profit organization running without advertisements. The message reads like this:

“Wikipedia is non-profit, but it’s the #5 website in the world. With 450 million monthly users, we have costs like any top site: servers, power, rent, programs, staff and legal help. To protect our independence, we’ll never run ads. We take no government funds. We run on donations: 100 rupees is the most common, the world average is about 1500 rupees. If everyone reading this gave 100 rupees, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Wikipedia."

Well, all we can say is that if you need to find unbiased information from anywhere then its Wikipedia and we should donate some amount for its smooth existence and future operations. Previously also Wikipedia founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger had made request to Wiki users to donate for the Wikimedia foundation. Wikipedia has been serving us as the uniformed informational resource for everything and everything genuine.

Please donate and help Wikipedia to help ourselves in getting good information all the way round.

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Black money and its impacts

In our country Black Money refers to money that is earned on the black market on which income and other taxes have not been paid to the Indian government. It is the kind of money which is unaccounted and is circulated around people involved with Black marketing. India leads the list with $1500 Billion black money in Swiss banks and is closely followed by Russia and UK with $470 and $390 billion in Swiss treasury. And, with no shock we know that the people involved are top Indian industrialists, politicians, and IPS & IRS officials.

How do these people earn so much of money which is not accounted under Government watch and lands in Swiss banks? It’s definitely not by the right means and following the rules and regulations. Simple ways from where black money comes:

• Tax: When you don’t notify government about your earnings and don’t pay Tax for it 
• Bribe: When you take Public’s hard earned money to do a job blinding government radar. 
• Political Corruption: When politicians put most of government sanctioned money into their pockets instead of using it for people. Sell government’s properties without noticing government

The ways and means of earning black money are numerous and in-ending as we see each day in front of our eyes. There isn’t a single field or profession where the people are not earning black money. Means may be many and professions or ways are different each time. But all have the same base, immorality and cheating to the other person or people. There are many direct and indirect effects of black money on the citizens of a country. People who are accumulating money are getting richer and government funds decrease day-by-day. Government has to increase the prices of products and services for which normal mid-class earners are put into trouble. They can’t afford such price hikes and on the other side can’t demand more salary or payout instantly.

Sometimes we people are responsible for this financial situation. If people are not paying taxes then where from the govt. will get money to undertake development works, increase employment or encourage entrepreneurs. We should not pay bribes to corrupt officials or politicians and should go in the right way. We know it will be a long run path, but there will be success at the end. We should find ways to aware people about the impacts of black money on them. It will be good for us to look for ways to come out of this and make India as pure white nation where ideas will not be ignored and our money will be used for our development and Nation’s development. There are many movies on Black money and from them south superstar Rajnikant’s Sibaji has explored the issue deeply in such a commercial and fun oriented film.

So from now on try to be a white-note earner and also encourage others about earning in white.

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