Archive for April, 2007
Baidu.com released its 2007 Q1 financial report on Thursday.
* Baidu’s total revenue increased to 275.6 million yuan, representing a year-on-year increase of 103.3%.
* Baidu generated 85,5 million yuan in net income, which is a 142.6% year-on-year increase.
* Baidu had over 112,000 active advertising customers in the first quarter of 2007, which is a 3.7% increase from Q4 of 2006. Revenue per advertising customer was about 2,500 yuan.
* Baidu’s expenses in the first quarter mainly went to human resources and management, traffic acquisition, web hosting and bandwidth, research, and expansion to Japan.
* Baidu is expected to generate at least 378 million yuan in total revenue in Q2.
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I’ve come across this interesting movie clip called The Google Master Plan in Youtube quite from Sapianbrain’s blog. It’s a movie directed and produced by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer for their Bachelors’s Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany.
The movie basically talks about how Google can use their free services like Google Search and Gmail with their gigantic database for some known, and possibly unknown, purposes. Well, it talks about our privacy as users of Google free services as well. Needless to say, it got me ponder how powerful Google is today.
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Every year thousands of men and women across America sign on with direct selling firm-Tupperware, Amway, or a cosmeticcompany-hoping to make money enough for new draperies, a new davenport, or some new clothes. They sell a little merchandise to a few relatives and close friends. Then they are through. They quit before they give themselves a chance to learn the basics of success in sales. “I am simply not a born salesperson,” they often say.
No one is born a salesperson, any more than one is born a doctor or born a lawyer. Sales is a profession. To be successful in any profession one must learn not only the basic techniques, but also how to apply those techniques. Success in sales makes use of all the abilities one is born with, plus all those acquired through education and experience.
If you are looking for a career opportunity or “extra income” to help with the family budget, direct selling offers you dream-fulfilling possibilities. However, you must give yourself time to learn the techniques of sales. Ask yourself. “How long does a doctor to be study? A lawyer to be study?”
WHAT IS DIRECT SELLING?
Direct selling is marketing a product directly to the consumer with no middleman involved. Most reliable firms are members of
the National Association of Direct Selling Companies. They bring to the public fine products that are modestly priced in order to insure mass consumption.
Most direct selling companies furnish their representatives with a starter kit and essential supplies below-cost prices. In many
instances the investment is under $100.
There is an old adage which says “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Many of them were able to change their lives for the better. They took their families on nice vacations. They purchased a piano or an organ and provided music lessons for their children. They saved money for college education. They redecorated their homes,
bought needed furniture. One highly successful saleslady built a new home.
The rewards of direct selling are many
1. You can be your own boss.
2. You can set your own hours.
3. You can own your own businesses with little or no investment.
4. You can pay yourself more than any boss would ever pay you.
5. You can give yourself regular raises as your business grows.
It is only fair to tell you that there are failures, too. There are people who will not work for themselves. When working for a boss, they rise early, are well-groomed, and get to the office on time. However, when they are their own boss, they are still in a bathrobe, drinking one more cup of coffee at 11:00 A.M.
If you can be your own boss and discipline yourself to do what has to be done when it has to be done, direct selling offers a
most unusual earning opportunity.
THE TEN STEPS
Here are ten steps that will assure your success:
1. BE A GOAL SETTER. What do you want to accomplish? Do you want to save for college education for your children? A new car? A
new home? You can have whatever you want, but you must want it enough to do the things that have to be done to get it. Whatever your goal, write it down and set a target date for reaching it.
Divide the time period into blocks of achievement that are reachable. Work consistently toward accomplishing each day, each
week, each month what you set out to do. Goal-setting is a must in every area of life. Little is ever accomplished without definite goals.
2. BE A LIST MAKER. Each evening list all the things you want to get done the following day. That gives you an organized approach
to each day. As each task is finished, mark it off your list. It is amazing how much gets done when one works with a
“things-to-do” list. Also, have a notebook listing appointments, potential clients, repeat clients, and referrals, and keep it
with you at all times. You will be adding to it constantly.