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Monginis plans 50 outlets pan-India by 2010-end; seeks franchisees

4th February, 2010: After a recent store launch in Indore, Mumbai-based leading bakery chain, Monginis is now planning to open 50 more outlets across the country by the end of 2010. The company also plans to double its retail distribution from the current retail network of 15,000 stores across the country. The company is scouting four suitable franchise partners in cities like Kanpur, Lucknow, Raipur, Chennai and Bangalore. For opening new stores, on an average, Monginis is looking at the locations with the minimum carpet area of 200 sq ft, ImagesFood has reported.

Starting Small and Personal: Vernon Grows Her Company
The Lillian Vernon Corporation was now in business. Vernon took the names and addresses of her first 50 customers and recorded them on 3” x 5” index cards, along with their purchase history. As her company grew, she kept updating these cards and tried to eliminate any duplication.

On The Job: The Launch Of Apple

While the 26-year-old Wozniak was content with his computer hobbyist group, the 21-year-old Jobs had a greater vision for the future. After seeing a computer that Wozniak had designed for himself, Jobs began to think about the marketability of such products. He convinced Wozniak to leave his job at Hewlett Packard and together the two began working on constructing a personal computer. Jobs’ passion and Wozniak’s engineering talent would soon combine to become a revolutionizing force in the computer industry.

The Courageous Captain: Turner Takes Television By Storm

Wary of the increasing popularity of television and radio, Turner decided to purchase the struggling Atlanta-based television station WJRJ in 1969. He renamed Turner Advertising to Turner Communications Group and began plans for realizing his grander vision. Just six months later, Turner purchased WRET, a similarly weak station based in North Carolina and in four years managed to make a profit of $1 million. Turner had bought the rights to classic black and white films, and by airing these he was able to increase his number of viewers dramatically. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had also changed their rules to allow cable providers to import signals from far-away stations, which Turner would soon begin to take advantage of.

It’s a Rap: How Sean Combs Achieved Success

“I have learned to enjoy the ups for what they are, because those are the moments that feel like they go by the quickest,” says Combs. As one of the highest grossing hip-hop stars in history, Combs has been enjoying his current ‘up’ for quite some time now. From the crime-filled streets of Harlem to the lavish luxuries of Hollywood, Combs has shot to international stardom. What were his factors of success?

In His Father’s Shoes: Watson Jr. Takes Over IBM
When Watson Jr. took on the top position at his father’s company, he did so at a time when it was devoted to electromechanical punch card systems. Watson Sr. had always rejected electronic computers believing they were expensive and unreliable. Watson Jr. wanted to change all of that.

Lesson #1: Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously

Newman once pictured his own epitaph as reading: “Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.” He may be one of the most successful on screen actors of our time, but to hear Newman speak you would never know it. Indeed, despite his iconic status, Newman credits his ability to laugh at himself and his reluctance to take himself too seriously as the single largest factor behind his success today.

Lesson #5: Give Back
"I couldn't imagine," Carnegie said upon his retirement, "what I could ever do with so much money."

Coco Chanel Perfume

In 1924, legendary fashion icon Coco Chanel remarked, “I want to give women an artificial perfume. Yes, I really do mean artificial, like a dress, something that has been made. I don’t want any rose or lily of the valley; I want a perfume that is a composition.” Today, eighty-three years after the first launch of Chanel No. 5, Coco Chanel perfume remains as popular as ever and indeed, one of the best known brands in the world.

Donald Trump Apprentice
In 2004, Donald Trump proved that he could not only conquer the world of real estate, but also television. With the launch of The Apprentice, Donald Trump had created the number one new show on TV for adults aged 18-4 in its first season. Indeed, an average 20.7 million people were tuning in each week to hear Donald Trump proclaim, “You’re fired!”

Lesson #5: Do Not Lose the Core Essence of Your Product

Harry Potter is no longer just a character who comes to life in Rowling’s seven-book series. Instead, it has become a merchandising and marketing machine all on its own, pushing ahead at full throttle. And while Rowling remains in awe of the success that has been spawned by her stories, so too does she remain wary of the many attempts to capitalize on and commercialize her story of a young wizard.

Lesson #4: Tread Carefully Into New Waters
Today, the popularity of Pokemon throughout the world has led some to dub the phenomenon “Pokemania.” From Japan to the U.S., children are fascinated by anything and everything Pokemon: the cards, the toys, the websites, the candy, and the list goes on. But when Tajiri first thought about expanding his brand, he was not quite sure what to expect.

Lesson #4: Stop Chasing a Lost Cause

If one thing above all else could be said about Luce it is that he was an ambitious man. No matter what the task at hand, Luce hated to lose. Indeed, his parish priest described Luce as “a man of unlimited imagination who reveled in hard facts; one who could be gruff with the mighty and relaxed with little children; a thinker who could see all sides of a question and yet make a quick and implacable decision. To talk with him was to shift the mind into high gear, for his was never in neutral.”

Leaving the Sheep Behind: Marriott Hits It Big

In 1937, Marriott’s Hot Shoppe No. 8 became the home of his next innovation. Since it was located near an airport, Marriott noticed that airline passengers would often stop off to his store and buy lunch to eat on board. With that came Marriott’s idea to sell pre-boxed meals directly to airlines. It was the launch of an entire new industry, and Marriott was soon selling lunches to more than 20 flights a day from that one airport.

Make something happen
If I had to pick one piece of marketing advice to give you, that would be it.

Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding
I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs.

Peter Bernstein on Amaranth: Better to be Wrong Than Too Right
Peter "Against the Gods" Bernstein has delivered the most choice quote so far on the Amaranth hedge fund meltdown:

My Daughters Are So Pissed
Here's how it all started. Hey girls, "I just signed up for a Facebook account."

Embracing Ignorance as Advantage—a Case Study
1:30am Bratislava, Slovakia, this past September 31 One cappuccino, two cappuccino, three cappuccino, four. Neurons humming but still no dice. It was time to get nervous.

How Quickly We Forget
I started using Dragon Naturally Speaking products about a year ago. I actually bought the software some three years ago but had a few false starts and finally gave up on the idea of dictating to my computer. It wasn't that the products were hard to use or didn't work - they are easy and do work.

Sweating the Wrong Stuff
Whatever it is - if we choose to focus on something that is known, comfortable and in our control, even as other things are crying for our attention - well, we're sweating the wrong stuff. And that's a great big Gravity No No.

Dream Big but Start Small: A Recipe for More Business Success with Less Stress
Lots of mindset gurus say you shouldn’t even consider failure as an option. But not everything you do, or launch, in your business is going to be wildly successful. So how do you play big without taking big chances…

New Tools Make it Easier to Book Sales Meetings

Tools are becoming a more important part of the sales infrastructure and there is no shortage of them. With so many sales tools available and such a big percentage of them being new, how do you know which ones to use and whether they are any good? Today I'll share two tools with you. One is brand new - the launch is today - and the other is fairly new - I found it a month ago. Both tools will help you get into new opportunities more quickly, more easily and with more fun!

One of Silicon Valley’s Founding Fathers: How Wozniak Became a Household Name
“Now computers are a big business,” says Wozniak. “Sometimes I wonder, ‘Am I the master of the computer?’ When we talked in our club, computers were going to be so simple to use that everyone was going to be a master and be able to create whatever they wanted to. Now I feel like a slave sometimes. I have to do it their way. It wasn’t the feeling we were after in the first days.”

Lite Bite intends to become Rs 500 crore brand by 2015
Feb 15, 2010: Lite Bite Foods, promoted by Amit Burman, vice chairman of FMCG major Dabur India, in his individual capacity, is aiming to become a Rs 500-crore food company by 2015. The company operates a bunch of eatery brands including Subway, Fresco, Asia 7, Punjab Grill, Baker Street and Pino's Pasta Pizza.

Is It Time To Call Your Own Baby Ugly?
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is take a good look in the mirror!

PrimalQuest Sufferfest
Through hardship and suffering an adventurer was able to find clarity and strength

Work at home Secrets Reveal Best Home Based Business Tips
Mastery is just solid business practices that have been dependable over years of hard work and education. Affiliate marketing programs are affordable, easy to join and implement. The economic uncertainty has people looking at ways to earn income. Being in a home based business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable.

Are There Any Legitimate Work from Home Jobs?
Many people are looking for legitimate work from home jobs. Are there any? What are your options? What alternatives do you have if you want to work from home? Here are some guidelines to help you with your search.

Is Your Timing Keeping You From Being Successful In Your Business? Part 1
After being in business for as long as I have, there's one thing that never fails to amaze me -- the capacity entrepreneurs have to sabotage their own success. (Not to mention how creative those ways can be.) While there's about a million ways this manifests itself, here's one way I see popping up over and over again.

The Importance of Taking Your Business Green ... NOW!
We are running out of time: 2015 is the go / no-go year before we hit the point of no return according to climatologists worldwide. China knows this and are quickly taking the lead on green technology in many areas. Small businesses outside of China must ramp up ASAP to catch up.

How Powerful are your Press Releases?

A Press Release is an important element of your promotional campaign. It helps in driving traffic to your website but also in generating lots of back links and thus kicking your Google Page rank higher. As a direct result your website is selected easily by other major search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, etc.). This article will go into the fine details of creating a successful Press Release and what it means for your business as a whole.

Remedy #2 for product launches & start ups -- "Plan."
A strong, well-thought-out plan is essential for three reasons: 1. It's necessary to convince management/investors they should buy into the idea 2. It helps collaborators know what's needed to accomplish the mission 3. It forces you to think through all the potential pitfalls that may arise

Money and Marketing: 5 Simple Ways to Increase Your Cash Flow Right Now
It’s surprisingly simple to take control of your cash flow right now. The trick is to take an active role in how you create the income you want, as opposed to sitting back and passively waiting for your luck to change.

Boost Your Sales And Enjoy More Free Time With Webinars
If you are looking to generate more sales, a webinar training can help you do that. The conversation ratio on this type of training is incredible. You might be used to getting only a 3% conversation using other strategies. When you use webinars you can expect anywhere from a 10% to 30% conversion rate. Imagine this. You host a webinar, one hundred people get on the line and 10% become customers.

Knowing When To Say YES Or NO
With so many invitations and opportunities to grow your business, make money, enhance the quality of your life, knowing when to say yes or no can be confusing and overwhelming. Learn how to make wiser choices.

Press Releases: The Secret Weapon To Internet Marketing Promotion

PR should definitely be a part of your marketing mix. Unlike an article, which is typically your opinion or a story, a press release marks an occasion. It should be news worthy and you’ll get rejected if you make it “salesy.” It’s also a great way to position yourself as a leader and own your brand. This article will walk you step-by-step how to create a press release and how to optimize it for maximimum internet marketing promotion.

Palm releases kit to software developers

After a long wait and much anticipation, software developers can finally gain widespread access to the Palm Mojo Software Development Kit to create apps for the Palm Pre. On Thursday, the Mojo SDK was made available on the company’s webOS developer page, which also offers guidelines, a forum for developers and other documentation intended to assist in the process. But will the release of the kit help alleviate the lack of applications available on the company’s new smartphone, a factor viewed by some as a potential roadblock to its success?

Launching a New Product or Service – Things Two Types of Women Business Owners Should Consider
In the journey of a business, launching a product is a key step. It provides many new opportunities for expansion, growth and excitement. But it’s not a step to be taken lightly. Business owners of all types should consider several things to ensure this step is carefully mapped out.

The Risks And Rewards of Being Self Employed
Some people think of being self employed when they can’t find a job. Others become entrepreneurs out of passion. Regardless, you have to consider both the risk and the reward. The potential benefits are unlimited, yet there’s a 50/50 chance or greater that you’ll fail.

Going For The Big Finish
A quick story... on a green and blue planet called Earth, there once was a human who really, really, really wanted to get something amazing in life. There was lots of excitement in the dreaming, and then in the planning and preparing, and then the launch of the whole thing...

How to Keep Your PR Clients Happy in a Tough Economy
As potential clients struggle with dwindling budgets, PR practitioners must deliver more bang for the buck. This requires walking a fine line to create value for clients without falling into the trap of over-servicing the squeaky wheels.

Head of the Class
The SBA Emerging 200 program gives entrepreneurs an MBA-like experience without the high price tag.

Survivor Innovation Island
Small businesses that want to have a chance at surviving the recession have to make innovation an integral part of their business strategies.

The Instruction Manual for the Entrepreneur’s Mind
What are the secrets of the world's most successful entrepreneurs? Open the instruction manual for the entrepreneur's mind to find out what are the mental strategies enable to do what others only dream of.

Branding in an Online World
Nowadays business competition is intense. Regardless of the product or service an organization is trying to sell, similar products or services are available. To become the first choice in this cluttered marketplace, branding online and offline is a must.

Does Your Title Box You In?
Too many people, when introducing themselves to new contacts, are allowing potential prospects to box them into a preconceived belief about what they do based on their title. Learn how to use a vague title to solicit deeper interest and a highjacking of your brand.

Stop Blaming Sales!

If sales isn't responding - then marketing is responsible. Marketing's role is to give sales the tools and training they need to sell the company's solutions. It's also marketing's role to get them excited about the newest offerings. So the next time someone starts to blame sales for lack of product acceptance in your customer base or for discounting deals that don't generate the margin or results you expected - think again. It's most likely sales is doing the best they can with what they've been given.

GordonMax, Creators of the World's Finest Diamond Simulants, expand their India Operations in 2011
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) GordonMax & Co. Pvt. Ltd., creators of the world's finest diamond simul jewelry ants, will be aggressively expanding their franchise and company-owned operations across India this year.

Don't Just Publish your Blog Posts - Launch Them!
There are some ways you can maximize the effect of each blog post, ensuring that you receive the maximum number of visitors to your blog, and where hopefully you’ll convert them into long time loyal readers.

What is a Widget, Anyway?
Does your website have a widget? If you're scratching your head because you don't know what it is, you're not alone.

Products Ready Now What
One of the most common mistakes high tech entrepreneurs make is not being prepared in advance for going to market. Learn how you should prepare.

Discover the Power of E-Book Marketing for your Website
E-book marketing is powerful in itself. Discover the power of words and realize the potential increase of profits by using e-book marketing to promote your website. You will be amazed at the results!

Positioning Basics

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to strategy and positioning. Anyone who says there's a one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn't get it. Strategic positioning is more art than science. And each and every client is a new canvas. Great positioning is as unique as every situation. You have to be flexible, nimble. My ‘methodology' is more a way of thinking about things. I don't really have a checklist or set of step-by-step instructions.

Home Based Business Overnight Success

Home based business owners have longed for overnight success for as long as business has existed. You might think it is greed or laziness that allows the human imagination to run wild with concepts that could make us rich. Living life in the fast lane has become a way of life in our society. Instant gratification permeates every area of our daily activities. Cell phones, microwave ovens, fast foods, jets and the internet are just a few examples of areas where we have come to expect quick access to what we want. The Internet is the most amazing medium for technology.The fact is, though, even highly motivated people can get caught up in the promise of riches without effort. This dream is highly promoted for internet home based business.

Public Relations 101 For Small Business
The practices of public relations boost a company's profile more than advertising does.

Pricing, Branding and Communications – Key Elements of Excellent Marketing
Inadequate attention to price and inappropriate pricing strategies based on poor understanding of customer need and value are eating away at companies' bottom-lines.

Launching a Successful PR campaign for Your Grand Opening
If launched correctly, an effective public relations campaign for your grand opening can pay off in a big way.

5 Things Your Sales Force Can Do to Thrive in this Economy
One of my clients recently completed a transformation. I helped them transform their salespeople from account managers to hunters and closers, from order takers to consultative salespeople and from selling on price to selling at their price - all while selling into one of the markets most devastated by the recession.

Got A Few Domain Names And Don’t Know What To Do With Them?
OK so you’ve been buying interesting domain names and you don’t really know what to do with them now. Here’s a few suggestions:

Increase Spider Activity for More Visibility
The more frequently the spiders visit your site, the higher authority you may be given by the search engines. This is a list of creative ways to get more search spider activity at your website, and hopefully, improve your rankings.

Online Marketers Making a Beeline for Package Promotional Services

When the Internet first began to be perceived as a channel of marketing and business, entrepreneurs started choosing various methods of promoting their products. However, most of the methods that prevailed in the 1990s were single point agendas. People who marketed through emails focused only on email marketing and people who marketed through articles focused only on article marketing. Rarely would an entrepreneur go ahead and make a mix of various Internet marketing methods. The reason for this was the difficulty involved in focusing on various operations at the same time. This would eat into the prospects of the business website, but implementing a whole range of marketing services meant a lot of expenses.

SELLING WITH A POSITIVE MINDSET
Successful people have a positive attitude about their abilities, about the products or services they offer and about their clients. They have a positive attitude about their work environment and about their colleagues.

Rich Jerk Marketing - A Different Approach to Marketing
Internet marketers try to promote a respectable image. All across the World Wide Web are messages telling you to be friendly and courteous and you'll be an internet success. But what if being a complete jerk got you a greater level of success? What if the respect of your clients didn't matter?

Smart Women Get It Off The Ground
This article is about making the right plans from the very beginning to get your Big Idea off the ground. Many times we can take some early steps to start a business and we become frustrated when it does not grow quickly. The beginning is such an important part of a new venture. It’s essential to realize that proper planning and gaining the support system you need is key to be successful.

Nyakio Kamoche Launches Safi Fragrance

By now, you are probably familiar with Nyakio Kamoche. The first generation American with Kenyan heritage who launched Nyakio, a sucessful skin care line based on family recipes and ingredients from Kenya. Nyakio's skin care line is sold online and in over a hundred and eighty nine boutiques around the country. Just recently, the fierce entrepreneur diversified her portfolio to launch a fragrance line, Safi Fragrance. Of course Ladybrille had to catch up with the very Ladybrille woman to see how she does it.

Franchising - Great Expectations
It is vitally important to seek advice when purchasing a franchised business. Do not try and go it alone. The cost associated with seeking advice will potentially save you money in the long term. Seek advice from experienced franchise advisers. Do not be nervous to ask about their experience in franchising.

Super Guru Mega Launches Are They All Just Scams
This morning sees the launch of another high-priced mega launch by another Internet Marketing Guru. As usual, one of my list members wrote me asking if they should purchase the product. Since these Guru mega launches occur like clockwork sometimes two and three times a week, I get this question a lot, and this is my answer.

Defeat Procrastination and Make More Cash!
In order for any business to grow, they have to TAKE ACTION! This can be really difficult for some. Procrastination is the #1 reason small businesses stall and do not grow as quickly as they would like. Let's put an end of that today! Here are some great techniques to defeat your procrastination.

Marketing Strategy 101
Marketing strategy observations

Useful PR tips for start-ups

For most start-up businesses the outlay of external costs need to be kept to a minimum to safeguard the finances of the company during this embryonic stage, but it is also crucial that externally promoting a business should not be forgotten even if budget isn’t available. With this in mind, below is a step-by-step guide of PR tips businesses can utilise internally to promote their brand or company launch.

7 Internet Marketing Secrets That Will Curl Your Toes

Unlike other forms of marketing, online marketing allows you to determine your results almost immediately. Because of this, many marketers have shifted their marketing efforts to the web. However, just because you now have a means to determine which campaigns are producing results and which one are not does not mean that you will become a guru at internet marketing, not unless you learn these internet marketing secrets.

Do You Have The Courage To Follow Your Dreams
Learn how Jen Groover, the innovative genius behind "The Butler Bag" turned a million dollar idea into gold.

Planning for Web Site Disaster
Do you have a corporate site where the content is written by various in-house staff members, the pages are managed by your freelance web designer and your SEO campaigns are outsourced? Read on to put in place plans to prevent web site disaster.

Client relationships start with honesty
Selling your widget to a faceless public may deliver a (faceless) data base, but what if you want more than money from your business experience? More than money? Did you hear me correctly? After all, what is the purpose of doing business?

The Death Grip Method

I was going through Mass Control over the weekend, nerd that I am, and I came across something Frank Kern called the Death Grip Method. Frank Kern says that this is the most valuable thing you can learn from Mass Control. In that $2,000 course, this is the million dollar formula. It is specifically applied to the last 4 or 5 days of any launch process, and immediately after this you usher in the "Buy Now" button. The Death Grip Method is to be used in the last 5 days building up towards the launch.

Are You Maximizing Your Genius?

Most people go to bed thinking about the things they could improve or do better in and very few think about the things that they did well that day. Living your natural genius is all about capitalizing on your strengths and exceptional talents and delegating your areas of weaknesses. Ask yourself: How much more could you accomplish in your business if you were an expert in your strengths and knew how to delegate your weaknesses effectively?

Storytelling as a Key Leadership Tool
Whether you are leading an organization of five people or 50,000, enveloping important business lessons within the framework of a story helps effective leaders do more than just pass on knowledge and know-how.

Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch $12.9m Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)

The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country. The new fund is the result of a 2006 study conducted by the DTI’s Gender and Women Empowerment Unit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and FinMark. The study found that although women are more responsible managers of credit than men, they only receive 30 percent of loans, with black women receiving the least funding.

From envelope stuffing to Tweeting – the ever-changing face of the PR industry
When I began my career in PR, fresh out of University in 2002, my main duty in between manually cutting and pasting press coverage, was to print out press releases and stuff them into envelopes in time for that evening’s post – timings and embargoes were a lot less relaxed when compared with the industry in 2011.

Marketing your business? You gotta grow your database!
Learn some do's and don't to market online that can build or sabotage growing your database.

Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch USD 12.9M Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa (previously reported) has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country.

Exports and parliamentary laziness
There are few moments at which business executives may safely weep and earn nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant.

The Six Essential Steps to Having Your Business Achieve Its Goals

It has become stale at this point to discuss goals and achieving goals. Everyone knows what it takes to set and achieve goals, and there is no shortage of acronyms (e.g. GOALPOST) to help managers remember that goals are time bound, measurable, significant, etc. This begs the question of why – if everyone knows how to set and keep goals – so many businesses fail to achieve their objectives. Goal setting is sort of like New Year’s resolutions: easy to make, hard to achieve. A business coach and advisor can help ensure that you and your leadership team set appropriately aggressive goals and achieve them. There are six steps to the process.

Africa at DEMO ‘08

I’ve been sitting on this little nugget of information for the last month, but am happy to finally announce that I’ll be going to the DEMO ‘08 conference in January. DEMO is the leading conference for new technologies to launch. It’s generally packed with a ton of VC’s, startups and some really interesting people. DEMO is one of the very best conferences in the tech space and one that I’ve always wanted to attend.

Cheetah Index to Premiere Soon!

As part of our mission to fill the void left by conventional media in covering African issues, African Path will take an active role in supporting and empowering the continent’s young and progressive decision makers. Today, African Path announces the launch of a dedicated business section under the African Path network which will be branded as the Cheetah Index. Currently the site will run on a Beta version.

Why Home Online Business Pre-Launches are Dangerous
Why are home online business pre-launches dangerous? Well, first off, how many pre-launches have you seen that never even make it to the launch date? I tracked a few for this article and out of the 5 I watched, only 1 got off of the ground...

Good SEO vs. Bad SEO "how do you test to know"?

When considering investing for the long run in Search Engine Optimization on your sites, you will encounter many people who claim to have the "secrete formula" for SEO. We all encountered good versus bad professionals in every industry. Every professional group including Real Estate, Attorneys, Car Sales, Insurance Sales, Contractors, and even Doctors, all have the good ones and bad ones. We all require certain demands from professionals, unfortunately through trial and error, or simply wasting time and money, you search until you find the good ones that can provide you with a quality product or service.

JPMorgan Launches Social Sector Finance Unit to Bring Financial Services to Microfinance and Social Enterprises
JPMorgan, a US-based global financial services firm with assets of USD 1.5 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries, has announced the launch of a Social Sector Finance (SSF) unit within its Investment Bank.

Funnels and Levels of Access
Is your business "all over the map"? Three elements can make all the difference in the marketing of your business and your success!

Successfully Launching a Consumer Product or Business
Over the past decade I have been lucky enough, in my career, to experience a broad range of product launches and business openings all with different budgets, timeframes and objectives, that have helped shaped the way that I now operate as a PR consultant.

III. C. Commercial Policies: THE ROLE OF CHINA’S PUBLIC SECTOR
Market access and trade policy are important in fostering China-Africa trade. The Chinese government in January 2005 implemented the Special Preferential Tariff Treatment (SPTT), which removes the tariff from some 190 items exported to China from 25 of the least developed countries in Africa.

The Personality In Pacing Your Brand

The pacing of your brand can show different personality traits for your business as well. Here’s what I mean: You know how some people are speed-along, action-oriented, getting-it-done people? And others are more thoughtful, methodical, and take their time with things? You can show which type you are in a couple of ways in your brand. Here are the opportunities you have to show your pace in your brand:

Keeping Your Best Clients In The Loop When You Launch a New Brand

You’ve decided that you need to rebrand your business. You draw up a launch plan, design your logo, marketing pieces and website, write your copy, and get all of your business paperwork filed. You work on it in secret for months, so that you can roll everything out at once and make a big splash.Finally, it’s launch day! You send out some emails and start forwarding your old website to the new one. And then the emails and phone calls start coming in… but not all of them are congratulatory…

Northwoods Alchemy IV - Africa is looking up

After years of being fed a constant diet of bad news about the continent, most Americans are all too ready to assume nothing but the worst stories come out of Africa. Sometimes it seems that CNN has a special slot reserved just for a weekly feature on pestilence, war and famine. At least in the US media, you really have to look hard to find anything approaching good news about Africa, anything you might think of “looking up” to.

Top 7 reasons to hire a small business marketing consultant
When should your small business hire a small business marketing consultant? Here are the Top 10 conditions for hiring this all important member of your small business team.

Microfinance 2015: Panel Focuses on the Future and Outlook of Microfinance
Where will microfinance be in 2015? What is the future and challenges of microfinance? The first discussion held at the launch of the International Year of Microcredit 2005 focused on these key questions.

SEM Industry Training: What are the Options?
The growth of the Search Engine Marketing industry has underscored the need for faster, more flexible training options.

The Efficiency and Labour Market Impact Have Varied Across Sectors
In the competitive manufacturing and tradable services sectors, efficiency gains, defined as improved performance of the company, have been generally achieved with wide variations in performance across firms and countries.

Don’t Wait for Perfect…..
One of the beauties of today’s workplace is that we can just get in the game and then refine our business as we go. The unfinished and imperfect business, book, website, house, job, garden, or fashion design is a starting point. Releasing a trial version can be an act of transparency – and an invitation to customers and friends to help complete and improve it.

How to successfully launch a new product or service
Companies decide to launch new products for a variety of reasons. If you have already decided to launch a new product or complimentary service, this article will guide you through the steps to guarantee its success. We will also explore reasons for launching a new product in the first place. The best group of people or companies to test a new product with is, your existing customers!

Keep Your Eye on the Revenue
Regardless of how you choose to create your go-to-market strategy, how you execute your launch, how you drive momentum - there's one key to a great launch. Keep your eye on the revenue. That's your true measure of success.

MLM Pre-Launch -- Great Marketing or Just Another MLM Scam
If you have been around the MLM industry very long, you have seen all of the hype that is generated when a new "pre-launch" MLM opportunity is announced. The "pre-launch" announcement supposedly gives people the chance to get in to the new opportunity before everybody else. The question is -- who IS everybody else?

Online Best Seller EBook - The Dos and Don’ts of Launching
When you are ready to launch your eBook make sure to keep these dos and don'ts in mind during the launch to help you make the most out of the process.

Videocon to launch mobile services in Mumbai, Chennai next month
Consumer electronics giant Videocon Group will launch its mobile services in Mumbai and Chennai by March, according to a senior official. Earlier, there were reports that the company would launch its GSM mobile services in Mumbai by 20th February.

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