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Should I Ever Barter Away My Stained Glass Art Or Should I Hold Out For Cash?
In the past, we've, of course, had many occasions to make cash deals on our stained glass art and occasionally we've had a chance to barter our stained glass art for goods and services. Over the course of years, we've had some barters and trades that worked out well, but many trades seemed to go sour.Most started out with each party having the best of intentions to do right by the other, but our experience's were that each time the trade or barter was made, our stained glass went right out at the start of the trade and then we usually got our part of the trade after the fact. As a result, the folks we traded with were always sure of what they were getting, but we never seemed to know exactly what we would get, so we ended up getting disappointed most times.As we've entered into these non-cash deals, we've developed three simple rules or guidelines to help us avoid the bad deals, while leaving the door open for the good ones.Rule 1 : What To Trade ForWe've learned that if we're not careful, we could end up trading away all the work we could possibly do and leave ourselves with no more materials to make more glass pieces. So this first rule helps us to avoid trading away more than we can afford. As stained glass artists, we know that 10 to 20% of the retail price of a window is the cost of the materials that go into the window and the

evices and screens. However portals in India have still time to catch up with this new trend. One reason being that worldwide leading corporations are still working to trying figure out the details pertaining to the demand patterns of these new multiscreen consumers.

This move toward any time, any screen content will also push portal players and other creators to post their wares on third-party sites like Yahoo, Google, and iTunes.

Trend 3: Personalize It

Amazon.com uses purchase and pageview histories to create a unique Web page that includes recommendations tuned to your taste. Netflix looks at past DVD rentals and suggests future choices. Apple’s iTunes and Google Video are prodding radio and television out of the broadcast era and into the dawning age of individualized media.

Today whether it is buying Jeans, shoes, cosmetics or booking an online travel service for that matter, the era of consumer products tailored to personal tastes is fast catching up. P

Mobile Car Wash Sales at Office Buildings
When attempting to secure new clients for a mobile car wash business you will have to pound the pavement and do so on-site sales. There is no substitute for this, you cannot send a brochure, do not waste you money. You cannot call them or fax them, don’t waste your time. So then you ask; “Who's the best person from the building management to contact to set up a contract or agreement to provide car washing services at their location?If you are trying to secure a large office complex or office building it behooves you to contact the largest company in the building first and talk with their human resource department. The building folks or property management company wants to keep them happy. Another possible contact first and I hate to say this because all lawyers should be killed, but often a law firm which requests services is somehow more respected by the building management to get a request in. If this does not work then you should contact the property managers directly and perhaps drop some names and indicate you did discuss things with their tenants and that they suggested you come see them at the property management company. You should do you homework and know everything in advance about the company and their requirements for insurance and those who do work on the property in advance. Think on this.

Trend 1: People Power and Web 2.0:

The web has entered its second-generation. As a manifestation of this second-generation Web today we are witnessing the spawning of user-generated, user controlled, and user-validated content on Web. The tools of production of content, from blogging to video sharing, are fully democratized, and the engine for growth is the talent, and capacity of regular folks, who are, in aggregate, creating a distributed labor force of unprecedented scale. Each of us has knowledge that’s valuable to someone, somewhere.

What does this all mean for Portals and Corporations?

The most successful Web companies today are building business models around or based on user-generated content. From Amazon.com to MySpace.com to Craiglist to Wikipedia to Flickr, the most successful of the companies on Web today belongs to the second-generation Web.

Even for the regular veterans like Amazon.com and even for companies like NetFlix.com much of the Value comes from their tens of millions of customer reviews. Users click trail on Amazon is used to create better recommendations for those who follow. A query on Google and the pages that one find relevant give feedback that fine-tunes the search algorithms. These companies have found ways to harness the wisdom of the crowd, extracting information that was there all along, just latent and lost.

Indian portals have started realizing and noticing this trend but they still have to figure out the full potential of harnessing the second-generation Web on their portals. The pace of adoption at these portals is quite slow currently. Successful verticals like travel, jobs and matrimony in India are also slow movers in this context.

Successful market portals will have an edge in this regard. But a majority of the portals are still trying to figure out the issue of second-generation Web and how to gain full steam from this latest trend of user-generated content.

They can’t ignore it and are quite sure of it, but how fast they adapt to this trend is still to be seen in the Indian context.

Trend 2: Any Time, Any Place, Any Format, Any Screen-A show is always on

In 2004, viewers tuned in to 2.9 billion music videos streamed from the Yahoo Music site. In 2005, close to 25 million unique viewers visited Yahoo Music and watched 4 billion clips. But it wasn’t until 2006, when music labels started looking to Yahoo as an indispensable part of their marketing strategy.

This multiscreen video trend is fast catching up across the nations of the world and India is no exception to this trend. All major telecom and Internet players in India have seen a promising growth in the mobile downloads and Internet downloads market in the last 2 to 3 years. The demand for content has fueled portals like Yahoo to come up with content tailored for all kinds of different screens: first run television shows, original content such as online webisodes of the soap opera and time-sensitive news and sports segments. Once posted such content take on a viral life of their own. Recently STAR India has launched India’s first webisode for “Pyaar Ke Do Naam”. March 31, 2006 saw STAR’s official website, Indya.com, premiering the channel’s forthcoming show, ‘Pyaar Ke Do Naam…Ek Radha, Ek Shyaam’ on Indya Tube.

As content companies scramble, hardware makers are also responding to the multiscreen demand with offerings of their own. Apple’s video iPod and Samsung’s video-enabled cell phones are just the start.

Portals like Indiatimes.com in India are well positioned to gain from this trend. They have the early movers advantage in this category of business model and they are expecting a spike in their short code 8888 based download services in the coming few months.

Many other portals in the new segments and travel segments have been quick to adopt this latest trend. Recently irctc.co.in launched a mobile-based railway ticket booking facility to facilitate booking through tailored for all kinds of access devices and screens. However portals in India have still time to catch up with this new trend. One reason being that worldwide leading corporations are still working to trying figure out the details pertaining to the demand patterns of these new multiscreen consumers.

This move toward any time, any screen content will also push portal players and other creators to post their wares on third-party sites like Yahoo, Google, and iTunes.

Trend 3: Personalize It

Today whether it is buying Jeans, shoes, cosmetics or booking an online travel service for that matter, the era of consumer products tailored to personal tastes is fast catching up. Pe

How to Advertise in a Magazine
So you would like the public to know of your company and services and/or products? A magazine advertisement is an excellent way to get noticed, but it is not so easy. This marketing strategy takes some effort and planning on your part in order to fully take advantage of the medium.Which Magazine?Magazines can be an excellent source of advertising, but you have to know which one. Besides choosing a magazine with readers that will be intrigued by your products and/or services, you most likely want to choose a magazine with a large readership. Determining the level of readership for the magazine should be one of the first aspects looked into, but sometimes the reports of readership can be misleading.A magazine may tell you that over 100,000 people will be exposed to your ad. That sounds great but the magazine only prints about 60,000 copies. You have to consider that a decent proportion of the magazines they produce are going to dealers and newsstands meaning that a good number of magazines may never be opened at all. Also, publishers may conduct surveys to gain a sense of readership that could be misleading to the advertiser. For instance, a publisher may ask an office subscriber how many people work in the office, so the publisher will count all of the people working in that office as readers (though they may not be so). Publishers

om their tens of millions of customer reviews. Users click trail on Amazon is used to create better recommendations for those who follow. A query on Google and the pages that one find relevant give feedback that fine-tunes the search algorithms. These companies have found ways to harness the wisdom of the crowd, extracting information that was there all along, just latent and lost.

They can’t ignore it and are quite sure of it, but how fast they adapt to this trend is still to be seen in the Indian context.

Trend 2: Any Time, Any Place, Any Format, Any Screen-A show is always on

This move toward any time, any screen content will also push portal players and other creators to post their wares on third-party sites like Yahoo, Google, and iTunes.

Trend 3: Personalize It

Today whether it is buying Jeans, shoes, cosmetics or booking an online travel service for that matter, the era of consumer products tailored to personal tastes is fast catching up. P

Team Building - Your Beliefs Can Create Success or Failure!
Before Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, people believed it was an impossible feat which would kill the person who attempted it. Bannister achieved it, though, because he was one of the few people who believed it was possible. Once he had achieved that goal, other people started to break the four-minute mile too!So our own personal belief can help us achieve something or prevent us achieving something – that is very clear to most of us. There is unfortunately another truth that is more difficult to grasp. This is that our beliefs about other people can prevent them from reaching their full potential.According to James Rhem, of the online National Teaching and Learning Forum (www.ntlf.com), "When teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways."So take a minute to review your team members. Are they all equally capable in your eyes or do you have a few favourites – are the ones that do well, the ones you have a positive belief about? Do you have the same positive feeling toward the other people, whom you may not feel to be as gifted?Give your team the best possible chance to succeed. Make a point of believing in them. After all, a belief is merely a certaint

how fast they adapt to this trend is still to be seen in the Indian context.

Trend 2: Any Time, Any Place, Any Format, Any Screen-A show is always on

This move toward any time, any screen content will also push portal players and other creators to post their wares on third-party sites like Yahoo, Google, and iTunes.

Trend 3: Personalize It

Today whether it is buying Jeans, shoes, cosmetics or booking an online travel service for that matter, the era of consumer products tailored to personal tastes is fast catching up. P

Business Grants
One of the best places to research the availability of business grants and loans is the Small Business Administration, an agency of the federal government with a mandate to help business, especially small business succeed. Despite what many people tell you, the idea that the government is just sitting around with a pile of money waiting to give out to you or any other small business is just plain wrong. The idea of obtaining a small business grant, for many small business owners, is great.Your chances of obtaining grants for your business dramatically increase if you have a non-profit organization. This isn't to say that assistance isn't available at all, just that grants are probably a long process when and if you happen to find one where your small business fits. While the Small Business Administration does not have any monies to provide directly for business grants and loans they can direct businesses to a number of government agencies and departments that do provide this type of assistance.Even though the category of Business and Commerce may be what appears to have the largest selection of resources for business grants for women, consider the other categories as well, according to where your business falls. There are many types of grants offered by the Governments and other financial institutions that include individual grants for person

gments. Once posted such content take on a viral life of their own. Recently STAR India has launched India’s first webisode for “Pyaar Ke Do Naam”. March 31, 2006 saw STAR’s official website, Indya.com, premiering the channel’s forthcoming show, ‘Pyaar Ke Do Naam…Ek Radha, Ek Shyaam’ on Indya Tube.

This move toward any time, any screen content will also push portal players and other creators to post their wares on third-party sites like Yahoo, Google, and iTunes.

Trend 3: Personalize It

Today whether it is buying Jeans, shoes, cosmetics or booking an online travel service for that matter, the era of consumer products tailored to personal tastes is fast catching up. P

The Key To Buying A Business - Getting Good Deals!
I’m sure, at some point, some of us have that itching desire to “be your own boss”. We imagine all the wonderful benefits of calling the shots, deciding the direction of the business, and having heaps of money because of successful businesses.Some of us then decided to take the natural step and “just do it”. We would then proceed to dip into our savings, borrow money from friends and financial institutions, or perhaps sell some equities we are holding on to. And we merrily register a company and start working! The scenario sounds really familiar!That was me! I sold off my home to raise capital for my ventures into fund management, music production and education. I registered the company and began working to build something I can call my own.The thought never occurred to me that one can buy a business, instead of starting from the ground up. But coming to think of it, even if the thought did occur to me, my pride (and cash position?) would not allow me to do so. I want something to call my own!And that is precisely why many of us will never consider buying a business. A matter of pride. Of course, there are other reasons.Staff Problems: We are inheriting staff that has never worked with us, that has been answering to someone else. Of course, those of us who are newly employed by a company or are posted to a new divisio

This move toward any time, any screen content will also push portal players and other creators to post their wares on third-party sites like Yahoo, Google, and iTunes.

Trend 3: Personalize It

Today whether it is buying Jeans, shoes, cosmetics or booking an online travel service for that matter, the era of consumer products tailored to personal tastes is fast catching up. Personalization remains the exception in hard goods but has become a rule online.

This trend has fuelled the adoption of various types of personalization techniques on portals. Techniques like collaborative filtering, choice matrix and fuzzy sets matching have become a necessity rather than just fads on portals.

With increasing pressure on content creation, portals are differentiating their content more and more on the basis of various tools and techniques to personalize the content.

Trend 4: Buy It Now: Acquisition is the new end game

The old school approach is to build a big R&D department and to put smart minds on control and let them come up with something innovative. But today more and more corporation across the world has realized that blue-sky research is fast becoming a drag on the bottom line. They are increasingly taking an alternative route that saves them money, saves extra pains and they get someone else to do the sweaty work for them.

And as a solution more and more corporation worldwide has started buying out small firms that are already succeeding in a new market.

Cisco long ago adopted this approach-acquiring 107 companies over a 12-year period ending in 2005-and along the way became one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. The network equipment manufacturer continues to deal its way into new markets. To expand its presence in the digital living room, Cisco spent $6.9 billion last year-nearly twice its entire R&D budget-to buy cable-box maker Scientific-Atlanta. This is R&D by M&A.

This trend is now evident across the world across the industries especially so in the online world. In 2005, News Corporation entered the social networking fray with a $580 million buyout of MySpace’s parent company. In May of this year it bought online karaoke player kSolo.com and news aggregator Newroo. eBay last year dropped $2.6 billion on voice-over-IP player Skype. Owing to booming ad revenue, Google and Yahoo have a combined $4.3 billion in cash and equivalents, and they’re not afraid to spend big. In the last 18 months, Google gobbled up Dodgeball, Urchin Software, and Upstartle, gaining entry into mobile social networking, Web analytics tools, and Web-based word processing. Yahoo went on to its way swallowing Konfabulator, Webjay, Upcoming.org, Flickr, and del.icio.us. Now the company offers interface widgets, online playlists, an event-tracking service, and photo and bookmark sharing. Microsoft on the other hand extended its domain by acquiring a staggering 24 companies in the last year or so, including bookmarking startup Onfolio.

Small Internet firms meanwhile, are eager to step up to the auction block. In Indian Internet space one this trend will also gain momentum in the months to come. Consolidation will soon start happening in verticals like online travel. This space is already getting crowded, with almost all new players offering the same service model. Soon the big players will gobble up the small new startups and the market travel space will mature further in the coming few months in India.

The market for IPOs has weakened since the bubble burst, and new regulations have made an exit strategy a costly and cumbersome affair for new players. So the new endgame is acquisition all the way and it will indeed be a win-win situation for all.

Trend 5: Open Standards and Open Access Technology is the order of the day

Today openness has become a fundamental business principle, but its value hasn’t always been so obvious. In the 1970s and 80s, front-runners were companies like Oracle and Microsoft. They tried to make their proprietary technologies into de facto standards. Owning the standard made a company dominant, allowing it to dictate how customers used its products. With each new product cycle, customers had to tear out the old apps and install the new, and companies selling accessories had to scramble to update their wares.

Then came along the Internet-the apotheosis of open standards. Now, apps

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Real Estate postcards are used as an effective marketing tool for advertising business and consistently generating new clients. Though word of mouth contributes to increase sales and marketing, it is restricted by the number of people with whom the businessman interacts, and also depends on the time the person devotes in networking. By using real estate postcards the networking opportunity is made easier and twice as effective, more so when it is used through email or direct mail.

When a city decides to put in a River Walk like San Antonio Texas did they often must spend significant redevelopment dollars in advance and the city has to also believe this is the best for all concerned. Recently on a whirl-wind tour across America; I had stopped at several cities wishing to put in a River Walks with water features to attract people and tourists.

You need to consider yourself as being an IT small business. You can join a recruitment agency that supplies contractors to clients, but you can't expect them to do your selling and promotion for you.

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