Gmail & Me
Prelude: My initial thought "Jus' b'cos it offers more space it does not have to be good". It was jus' another mail account, the only difference "1GB"! [the marketing team of google has got my attention :-)]. I Started using gmail with some initial reluctance, as the loading time was much similar to yahoo. The user interface :-( was not catchy enough, to get the attention of first time usres.The "speed" was something that caught my attention first. These guys seemed to offer the service over a scalable grid. I did not see anything new there!. Then the labels feature was something hmmm hmm... it kind of aroused my interest. Still I was apprehensive whether it would scale with 10,000 mails.After this, I started to play with it, enabled the stars, applied the labels etc. The user interface response was very good! The threading of mails as tabs was also good! Now,these guys seem to be serious about what they are doing. The archiving of mails was quite Ok! but I was not completely impressed. The provision to revert back from archive was very thoughtful.Here is a list of features, I felt was useful:* Automatic additions to contacts.* Auto storing of sent mails was good. ( In yahoo you need to check a dumb checkbox!)* Messages when no mails are there, are amusing "Hooray, no spam here!" etc...* Automatic search results when we create filte

Online Entreprenuer
How many ways are there to make money online?Geez, where can I start ? Lets see, Google Adsense comes to mind, get a website, write a ton of good content, do search engine optimization to drive traffic to your site. But there is so much more to it. The ads need to blend into the site, be placed in the correct area, the goal here is to get a good click thru rate. How many websites? My goal is to get as many websites out there on the net to start making additional revenue streams.E-Books, I will eventually write an E-book about the Pay Per Click industry with tips and tricks or possibly a home computer security book. All that is need is some software, a domain name, some great web design and graphic design for the book. I don’t want to publish a boring and non-informative book. I want my clients to get solid information for a great price. Maybe Ill will write about software to keep kids from viewing websites, they shouldn’t and how parents can monitor their activities without their knowledge. Because most kids nowadays know more about technology than their parents.Amazon, I use Amazon currently to sell books. I do well. I would make more if I put more time into it, but that's the problem time. Amazon is simple to use, but I do make frequent trips to the post office. The solution? http://www.stamps.com.E-bay, I have hundred of beanie babies

Is The Customer Always Right?
Is the customer always right? How far should a company go to satisfy their clientele or customer base? Is there a point when satisfying the customer is actually harmful to the enterprise or as the saying goes, is the customer always right? In today’s blog post I’ll share my opinion as to the validity of this statement and where to draw the line…So, who originally coined the phrase “The customer is always right”? There is a century old dispute about who should actually get the credit. The American’s believe it is Marshall Field of Marshall Field’s department stores and the British believe the phrase was coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge the founder of London’s Selfridges store. The dispute centers around the fact that Selfridge was actually born in Wisconsin and worked for Field for nearly 11 years prior to opening his store in London. Regardless of which man coined the phrase many have adopted its use over the years as the premise for their philosophy on customer service and satisfaction.I believe that all businesses should use great care and concern when determining how their customers are treated. The time, energy and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial and likewise the benefits of retaining customers are considerable. That being said, I also believe there is a point where customers can begin to abuse the good will of the merchants and service provider

Relocation Issues...Who Will Pay?
In light of recent unemployment figures, and a continual downturn in the labor market, many unemployed professionals are finding themselves in a bind when their benefits or severance packages are depleted. It is not easy to compete with 300-600 resumes for one job. Those seeking jobs through postings on the web or through a professional recruitment service must consider a new place to live as well as a new employment situation -- if they are serious about the jobs they are applying for.For 14 years, Steve Hall has made a career in connecting great companies with great people in the IT industry, which is famous for turnover. Job seekers and companies in the post-911, post-dot.com and post-Enron business environment rely upon Hall and Find Great People (FGP) International, for worldwide recruitment services. Find Great People relocates to a new office in late October with complete with state-of-the-art equipment at 150 Executive Center Drive, B-82, Greenville, South Carolina in October.Steve Hall has been a recruiter with the same company since 1989. He counseled and placed job seekers in positions through the downturn of the early Nineties, when another war was raging in Iraq. Despite the fact that politicians and business leaders may not be calling this downturn a recession, from a recruiter’s standpoint, these are definitely tough times. “In April 2001, the severity of

Values in Globalization - Nu Leadership Series
“ Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.” Napoleon HillWith fierce global competition, organizations need to change. Global values (GV) may be the key term for the millennium. Building on similar values will be crucial for multi-national organizations. Let’s explore this thought closer. Twenty-first century organizations can no longer create values independent of others without any market input. Why should today’s leaders be concerned with organizational values? Conflicts in values between leaders and followers can have a dramatic impact on the bottom-line of an organization. Hamel, author of ,i>Leading the Revolution, maintains that these turbulent times are forcing organizations to adapt.Creating shared valued with the customer is a remarkable concept in today’s competitive climate. Prahalad and Ramaswamy (2004) argue that an individual-centered co-creation of value between the customer and company is being generated. Clearly, a check and balance system is needed because powerful people don’t always do what is right. Thieme explains, “The future is a social construction of reality.…Those possibilities will be defined by our horizons and our horizons are in turn defined by the breadth of our understanding of complex so

Socialism; Market Socialism
From the economical angle this article studies socialism as the regulated market system, not as political system or ideology. The enterprises are represented as workers’ and are democratically controlled by all who work for them, and among the issues to be decided are the distribution of income within the cooperative. Let us look a little more closely at what the ground rules of such an economy might be. Enterprises borrow capital from an investment agency at a fixed rate of interest and subject to certain restrictions. They have rights of use in the capital they borrow but not full rights of ownership.This means that the value of their fixed assets must be maintained: Capital cannot be treated as income nor loaned to other enterprises. There must also be bankruptcy rules: Enterprises that cannot provide their members with at least subsistence income must eventually be wound up, with the workers transferring to other cooperatives. Each enterprise must maintain its democratic form. If it wishes to expand, it must take in additional workers as full members with equal voting rights. Subject to that condition, however, it can adopt whatever internal management structure it chooses.Small cooperatives might want to decide most issues by general meeting, larger ones might want to have a more elaborate system of decision making, with executive committees, and so on. Perhaps more imp