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Answer Upon - Advice for Missionaries
Offsite Backups
The moment it happens, the primary concern for the user is to get the data back so that the work continues uninterrupted. Sensing this need, a multi-million-dollar data-recovery industry has cropped up that specialises in recovering lost data from a damaged storage device. All this can be avoided by a simple solution – take regular backups of data that can restore your files immediately.Computer backup involves making a copy of your data on another storage device for use in an emergency when the original data becomes inaccessible due to some damage. With a backup, the lost data is quickly replaced and the user continues working as usual. The importance of taking a regular backup of all your data is self-evident.Backup MethodsHere, the question that arises is, where does one take the data backup? Obviously it cannot be on the hard disk because if that fails then both the original data as well as the backup, will be lost. A decade ago, the most common backup device was a floppy disk that had a capacity of just 1.4 MB. It is however obsolete and a floppy disk drive is no longer available on most new computers.Today, the place of the floppy disk has been taken over by CD-ROMs and, increasingly, by DVD-ROMs. But these have a size limitation of 800 MB and 4.7 GB, respectively. Same is true with other devices like portable hard drives. Their capacities are not good enough when a huge amount of data has to be backed up as a matter of routine, especially by organisations like banks and insurance companies whose data storage requirements are phenomenal. Offsite data backup is a great solution to this problem.Offsite BackupIn offsite backup, also called remote backup, the user data is sent long distance via the Internet or some other network to remote servers for storage. In the last few years, broadband
“We’re not disturbing you, are we?” they politely, but firmly began. Then they proceeded to berate me about the disastrous mistake I was makinThe moment it happens, the primary concern for the user is to get the data back so that the work continues uninterrupted. Sensing this need, a multi-million-dollar data-recovery industry has cropped up that specialises in recovering lost data from a damaged storage device. All this can be avoided by a simple solution – take regular backups of data that can restore your files immediately.Computer backup involves making a copy of your data on another storage device for use in an emergency when the original data becomes inaccessible due to some damage. With a backup, the lost data is quickly replaced and the user continues working as usual. The importance of taking a regular backup of all your data is self-evident.Backup MethodsHere, the question that arises is, where does one take the data backup? Obviously it cannot be on the hard disk because if that fails then both the original data as well as the backup, will be lost. A decade ago, the most common backup device was a floppy disk that had a capacity of just 1.4 MB. It is however obsolete and a floppy disk drive is no longer available on most new computers.Today, the place of the floppy disk has been taken over by CD-ROMs and, increasingly, by DVD-ROMs. But these have a size limitation of 800 MB and 4.7 GB, respectively. Same is true with other devices like portable hard drives. Their capacities are not good enough when a huge amount of data has to be backed up as a matter of routine, especially by organisations like banks and insurance companies whose data storage requirements are phenomenal. Offsite data backup is a great solution to this problem.Offsite BackupIn offsite backup, also called remote backup, the user data is sent long distance via the Internet or some other network to remote servers for storage. In the last few years, broadband
Creating Daily Success With Your Sales Staff
We’ve all had the superstar sales rep, who hits their quota every month and doesn’t need any hand holding, and we’ve all experienced the less experienced type that isn’t sure how to fill out a call report, much less make a cold call. Both can bring good results to the table if they are used effectively. Managing these staff members well is critical to the success of any sales team. By asking the right questions it will allow you to address the problems they are encountering on an everyday basis.First, ask yourself, “who has the problem?” Most staff fall into one of two categories. They are either over or under achievers. Most good sales teams, the majority of reps are making their quota and have a good understanding of basic sales skills. However, staff that are in the underachiever group need a large amount of your time to see any type of improvement. Some will get better and others will not.Second, “is this problem real?” You, as a Sales Manager, need to ask yourself if you are looking at the situation objectively and if it is serving as a distraction to your team. Sometimes the things that may bother you are personal and are not impacting the sales team. In other words, is it a behavior or a personal issue?Third, “Where is the most work needed?” When dealing with underachievers, there may be a variety of behaviors that need to change, don’t try to change all of them at once. Focus on one new behavior/skill at a time, you may be surprised that once they achieve that skill some of the others may come along more easily.Fourth, “What would you like them to be doing?” Have the rep focus on how to incorporate the new behavior instead of how to get rid of the old behavior. By simply replacing the bad behavior with a positive one the change will take place more easily.Fifth, “How can you get your staff to
I had recently ordained as Theravada Buddhist monk at Wat Pah Nanachat, a monastery in Northeast Thailand. One afternoon, as I was half asleep and resting in the shade underneath my hut after meditating all night, I thought I heard someone approaching through the jungle. This was unusual because the villagers usually respected this time of day when the monks typically rested, but it wasn’t villagers at all; I was surprised to be confronted by three aggressive Christian missionaries, two men and a woman that had somehow wandered into the monk’s living area.We’ve all had the superstar sales rep, who hits their quota every month and doesn’t need any hand holding, and we’ve all experienced the less experienced type that isn’t sure how to fill out a call report, much less make a cold call. Both can bring good results to the table if they are used effectively. Managing these staff members well is critical to the success of any sales team. By asking the right questions it will allow you to address the problems they are encountering on an everyday basis.First, ask yourself, “who has the problem?” Most staff fall into one of two categories. They are either over or under achievers. Most good sales teams, the majority of reps are making their quota and have a good understanding of basic sales skills. However, staff that are in the underachiever group need a large amount of your time to see any type of improvement. Some will get better and others will not.Second, “is this problem real?” You, as a Sales Manager, need to ask yourself if you are looking at the situation objectively and if it is serving as a distraction to your team. Sometimes the things that may bother you are personal and are not impacting the sales team. In other words, is it a behavior or a personal issue?Third, “Where is the most work needed?” When dealing with underachievers, there may be a variety of behaviors that need to change, don’t try to change all of them at once. Focus on one new behavior/skill at a time, you may be surprised that once they achieve that skill some of the others may come along more easily.Fourth, “What would you like them to be doing?” Have the rep focus on how to incorporate the new behavior instead of how to get rid of the old behavior. By simply replacing the bad behavior with a positive one the change will take place more easily.Fifth, “How can you get your staff to
“We’re not disturbing you, are we?” they politely, but firmly began. Then they proceeded to berate me about the disastrous mistake I was making
Viral Marketing - The Future of Advertising
To understand viral marketing you need to be familiar with social memetics – the idea of viral marketing is to create a product or advert that encourages the end user and potential customer to also become your promoter.Like an epidemic, a clever viral advert is passed on from one user to another and so on and so forth. The advert/product is distributed exponentially to an ever-increasing mass audience.A most notable and unfortunate example of this viral effect happened over two centuries ago with a wave of suicides that swept across Europe – just like an infectious disease.Interestingly though, the catalyst is strongly suspected to be German author Johann Van Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther”; a tragic tale in which unlucky in love hero Werther commits suicide; the resultant actual suicides had many similarities to Werther’s. The thesis is known as social contagion and suggests that opinion can spread like the plague; almost inhibiting the recipients choice on the matter.This is the potential goldmine that we as marketers sit on; now remove the romantic novel and introduce the internet…More recently and possibly easier for us to relate to is the “star wars kid” – a short video clip of a student pretending to be a Jedi knight; which has to date had nearly 900 million views – if ever there was need for validation that Google’s $1.6bn spurge on YouTube was no waste of money.Now the problem is that viral marketing is hard to track, a thus hard to determine what works and what doesn’t. Even 900m views doesn’t necessarily mean a huge boost in sales; it would have been nice if the video maker were selling something.A commercial example is John Wests Salmon advert – the one where the fisherman fights the bear – You would buy the salmon in the supermarket so there is yet again no way of directly relating
and resting in the shade underneath my hut after meditating all night, I thought I heard someone approaching through the jungle. This was unusual because the villagers usually respected this time of day when the monks typically rested, but it wasn’t villagers at all; I was surprised to be confronted by three aggressive Christian missionaries, two men and a woman that had somehow wandered into the monk’s living area.To understand viral marketing you need to be familiar with social memetics – the idea of viral marketing is to create a product or advert that encourages the end user and potential customer to also become your promoter.Like an epidemic, a clever viral advert is passed on from one user to another and so on and so forth. The advert/product is distributed exponentially to an ever-increasing mass audience.A most notable and unfortunate example of this viral effect happened over two centuries ago with a wave of suicides that swept across Europe – just like an infectious disease.Interestingly though, the catalyst is strongly suspected to be German author Johann Van Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther”; a tragic tale in which unlucky in love hero Werther commits suicide; the resultant actual suicides had many similarities to Werther’s. The thesis is known as social contagion and suggests that opinion can spread like the plague; almost inhibiting the recipients choice on the matter.This is the potential goldmine that we as marketers sit on; now remove the romantic novel and introduce the internet…More recently and possibly easier for us to relate to is the “star wars kid” – a short video clip of a student pretending to be a Jedi knight; which has to date had nearly 900 million views – if ever there was need for validation that Google’s $1.6bn spurge on YouTube was no waste of money.Now the problem is that viral marketing is hard to track, a thus hard to determine what works and what doesn’t. Even 900m views doesn’t necessarily mean a huge boost in sales; it would have been nice if the video maker were selling something.A commercial example is John Wests Salmon advert – the one where the fisherman fights the bear – You would buy the salmon in the supermarket so there is yet again no way of directly relating
“We’re not disturbing you, are we?” they politely, but firmly began. Then they proceeded to berate me about the disastrous mistake I was makin
Download Free Audio Books
There is a great number of websites offering to download free audio books, e-books about different topics, also free software. Somebody may wonder why are they offering that, is there any hidden reason to do it or they are simply generous and like to give away free stuff.At first, one would think they are losing money, why giving away for example a free audio book when they can charge for it. However, lots of people query the search engines with the word free, trying to find free stuff, maybe because they don't want to spend money on the web, maybe in certain countries they are afraid to use their credit card online. Offering free content, is a great way to receive a great number of visitors in your web site. But, if they are looking for free things, you may think its useless to have them as a visitor. That's not right ! Maybe they won't buy now, but if they sign-up to the site or a newsletter in the site, the owner of the website will have the possibility to sell him things in the future, perhaps offering some great opportunities such as a discounted items only for people in that list.On the other hand, visitors to the site may click in some of the ads or banners the website has, perhaps also offering to download free audio books, and that would also make the website owner earn money.From the customers point of view, what should be done ? Maybe say: "They are cheating me, I won't download nothing, they only want me to buy" That would be useless, it would be a better idea to visit the site that offers free audio books, and check if they like any of the free titles offered. Also if the website has ads, visit other sites which may also offer to download free audio books.And who knows, maybe some time after, there is a great offer, and you will finish buying
sual because the villagers usually respected this time of day when the monks typically rested, but it wasn’t villagers at all; I was surprised to be confronted by three aggressive Christian missionaries, two men and a woman that had somehow wandered into the monk’s living area.There is a great number of websites offering to download free audio books, e-books about different topics, also free software. Somebody may wonder why are they offering that, is there any hidden reason to do it or they are simply generous and like to give away free stuff.At first, one would think they are losing money, why giving away for example a free audio book when they can charge for it. However, lots of people query the search engines with the word free, trying to find free stuff, maybe because they don't want to spend money on the web, maybe in certain countries they are afraid to use their credit card online. Offering free content, is a great way to receive a great number of visitors in your web site. But, if they are looking for free things, you may think its useless to have them as a visitor. That's not right ! Maybe they won't buy now, but if they sign-up to the site or a newsletter in the site, the owner of the website will have the possibility to sell him things in the future, perhaps offering some great opportunities such as a discounted items only for people in that list.On the other hand, visitors to the site may click in some of the ads or banners the website has, perhaps also offering to download free audio books, and that would also make the website owner earn money.From the customers point of view, what should be done ? Maybe say: "They are cheating me, I won't download nothing, they only want me to buy" That would be useless, it would be a better idea to visit the site that offers free audio books, and check if they like any of the free titles offered. Also if the website has ads, visit other sites which may also offer to download free audio books.And who knows, maybe some time after, there is a great offer, and you will finish buying
“We’re not disturbing you, are we?” they politely, but firmly began. Then they proceeded to berate me about the disastrous mistake I was makin
Cool Hand Luke - Cool is Not Enough
Every entrepreneur should watch this movie at least three times.I watched Cool Hand Luke on TV the other night. It is an old movie (1967) staring Paul Newman in the lead role along with George Kennedy. There is an assortment of other actors who I recognized more by their voices than their very young faces – including Wayne Rogers from the MASH TV series, and Dennis Hopper.The story is set in 1948 at a Southern US chain-gang prison. It lives up to the label of a classic movie – enjoyable to watch and full of powerful messages.Luke the Teenager IconI remembered first watching and revering this movie as an impressionable teenager. There is a lot about this movie to appeal to teenagers – non-conformity, rebellion, standing up to the man….This time I viewed this movie as an entrepreneur and noticed some important lessons. Paul Newman as Luke demonstrates some critical elements of an entrepreneur. He also demonstrates the common mistakes that some entrepreneurs make.Luke the EntrepreneurLuke, like an entrepreneur, is an independent thinker, anti-authority, bold and positive minded. Luke, who earns the nickname “Cool Hand” after he wins a poker game entirely on bluffing, emanates confidence even when he holds a losing hand. Unshakable confidence is the most important ingredient in an entrepreneur’s success. Luke appears unafraid even when he is unfairly sentenced to severe punishment in the box.Luke demonstrates the unstoppable persistence of entrepreneurs in his boxing match with the prison yard bully (George Kennedy). Luke is clearly out-matched and is knocked repeatedly to the ground, yet he persistently gets up only to be knocked down again. George Kennedy firsts warns then begs Luke to “Stay down”. Luke replies, “You’re gonna hafta kill me.” Perhaps the movie “Rocky” got its genesis from this sc
to be confronted by three aggressive Christian missionaries, two men and a woman that had somehow wandered into the monk’s living area.Every entrepreneur should watch this movie at least three times.I watched Cool Hand Luke on TV the other night. It is an old movie (1967) staring Paul Newman in the lead role along with George Kennedy. There is an assortment of other actors who I recognized more by their voices than their very young faces – including Wayne Rogers from the MASH TV series, and Dennis Hopper.The story is set in 1948 at a Southern US chain-gang prison. It lives up to the label of a classic movie – enjoyable to watch and full of powerful messages.Luke the Teenager IconI remembered first watching and revering this movie as an impressionable teenager. There is a lot about this movie to appeal to teenagers – non-conformity, rebellion, standing up to the man….This time I viewed this movie as an entrepreneur and noticed some important lessons. Paul Newman as Luke demonstrates some critical elements of an entrepreneur. He also demonstrates the common mistakes that some entrepreneurs make.Luke the EntrepreneurLuke, like an entrepreneur, is an independent thinker, anti-authority, bold and positive minded. Luke, who earns the nickname “Cool Hand” after he wins a poker game entirely on bluffing, emanates confidence even when he holds a losing hand. Unshakable confidence is the most important ingredient in an entrepreneur’s success. Luke appears unafraid even when he is unfairly sentenced to severe punishment in the box.Luke demonstrates the unstoppable persistence of entrepreneurs in his boxing match with the prison yard bully (George Kennedy). Luke is clearly out-matched and is knocked repeatedly to the ground, yet he persistently gets up only to be knocked down again. George Kennedy firsts warns then begs Luke to “Stay down”. Luke replies, “You’re gonna hafta kill me.” Perhaps the movie “Rocky” got its genesis from this sc
“We’re not disturbing you, are we?” they politely, but firmly began. Then they proceeded to berate me about the disastrous mistake I was makin
Do You Make These Affiliate Mistakes?
You’ve just come across a fantastic product and you’re thinking of signing up as Affiliate but before you get carried away, here are a few pointers that can save you both time and money!1.Is the sales letter any good, read the headline first it’s been shown that a good headline makes a big difference (it’s been proven that 75% of people make up their minds of purchasing a product just from reading the headline alone.) Is the rest of the sales letter any good, do you find yourself reading being drawn through the sales letter? Would you buy the product yourself? If you would, others probably would as well.2.Are there any “leaks” on the sales page? By leaks I mean are there any thing on the webpage to distract your visitor from making a purchase or a way for you could lose out a commission.For example… •Phone numbers that the buyer could order and deal directly with the seller, letting you lose out on a commission, •E-mail addresses for the same reason as above. •Excessive pop ups or slow loading webpage’s that can frustrate your prospect. (People on the internet want everything in an instant so don’t expect them to hang around!)3.Are there any testimonials on the sales page, the more testimonials the better especially showing how the person has benefited from using the product.4.What kind of guarantee is being offered with the product, is it 30,60 day risk free guarantee. Don’t worry about a longer guarantee costing you money and people asking for their money back as its been shown that the longer the guarantee the less refunds you’ll get.5.If you can, buy the product so you know yourself if it’s any good. There’s no point sending traffic to a website, making some commissions and then finding out the products poor quality and everyone wants their money back.These tips s
“We’re not disturbing you, are we?” they politely, but firmly began. Then they proceeded to berate me about the disastrous mistake I was making, claiming that Buddhists are negative, that Buddhists believe that the world is a bad place, a place of suffering for human beings, that Buddhists have no hope and no belief in God, and going on and on about salvation and saving my soul. Instead of sitting in the jungle meditating, I should be out helping feed the poor Thais and Cambodians as they were.You’ve just come across a fantastic product and you’re thinking of signing up as Affiliate but before you get carried away, here are a few pointers that can save you both time and money!1.Is the sales letter any good, read the headline first it’s been shown that a good headline makes a big difference (it’s been proven that 75% of people make up their minds of purchasing a product just from reading the headline alone.) Is the rest of the sales letter any good, do you find yourself reading being drawn through the sales letter? Would you buy the product yourself? If you would, others probably would as well.2.Are there any “leaks” on the sales page? By leaks I mean are there any thing on the webpage to distract your visitor from making a purchase or a way for you could lose out a commission.For example… •Phone numbers that the buyer could order and deal directly with the seller, letting you lose out on a commission, •E-mail addresses for the same reason as above. •Excessive pop ups or slow loading webpage’s that can frustrate your prospect. (People on the internet want everything in an instant so don’t expect them to hang around!)3.Are there any testimonials on the sales page, the more testimonials the better especially showing how the person has benefited from using the product.4.What kind of guarantee is being offered with the product, is it 30,60 day risk free guarantee. Don’t worry about a longer guarantee costing you money and people asking for their money back as its been shown that the longer the guarantee the less refunds you’ll get.5.If you can, buy the product so you know yourself if it’s any good. There’s no point sending traffic to a website, making some commissions and then finding out the products poor quality and everyone wants their money back.These tips s
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