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2. How many hours a week do you work?

3. What does your job entail? (For example, do you often travel for business, work at home, performs dangerous tasks?)

4. What is your dream job?

5. Have you ever been called a workaholic?

6. What is your retirement plan? What do you plan to do when you stop working?

7. Have you ever been fired?

8. Have you ever quit a job suddenly? Have you changed jobs a lot?

9. Do you consider your work a career or just a job?

10. Has your work ever been a factor in the breakup of a relationship?

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Five Low-Cost, Work-at-Home Business Opportunities for Women

Small Business Ideas With Small Start-Up Costs

With today’s economy heading towards a recession, the best business opportunities for women who want to work from home involve little to no startup capital, and minimal risk. Industries that remain strong even during tough time include: services that can save other companies money, and child- and pet-care related products and services.

1. eBay Entrepreneurs

With the right marketing tools, you can sell anything on eBay. The giant of online auction services, eBay continues to be an inexpensive, lucrative selling tool for everything from broken tools to real estate. Best eBay business tip: Search for retail stores going out of business or discontinuing product lines. Buy as many items as you can at a discounted price and sell them on eBay. Devoting 20-30 hours per week to serious eBay sales, you can easily make a $1,000 - $2,000 a month.

 

2. Are You a Peacemaker? Think About Becoming a Mediator

Mediators are neutral, disinterested persons who try to reconcile differences between parties in an effort to avoid arbitration or costly litigation. Unlike arbitrators, they do not make decisions favoring one party or the other. In most of the U.S., there is no special licensing or certification required to become a mediator, but you will have to be good at networking among lawyers. Mediators charge $80-$100 per hour for their services. Start by contacting the American Arbitration Association.

3. Telephone Answering Service

If you have a pleasant speaking voice, excellent communication skills, and are attentive to details, consider starting a home-based telephone answering service. Depending on the range of services you offer (weekend, weekday, or after-hours) phone services typically charge each client about $200 per month for handling after-hours calls. Startup costs include: telephone service, business licensing and advertising.

4. Are You a Social "Mompreneur?"

With 222 franchised units operating from home-based franchise, “Stroller Strides” is the 17th fastest-growing franchise in the country. Stroller Strides offers in-home, prenatal and postnatal fitness sessions, weight loss programs, and retail products. Franchise Startup costs: $3,300-$5,500. Contact Kim Maske at 866-348-4666.

5. Start a First-Aid Kit Supply Business

This is not one of those “assemble products at home” schemes. In 2003, the USPS awarded a $10 million contract to a one-man business for customized first-aid kits. Medical and first-aid kits are popular among fund raisers because they sell. Specialized, pre-assembled first-aid kits are in high demand by schools, corporations, and industries that are required by law to have first-aid kits on site. You will need to purchase parts wholesale, assemble customized kits, and find a market. Customized kits can be sold for $5.00 to $150 depending on your market.

 

6 Sure Ways to Increase Sales

Want to increase sales dramatically? Then shift your sales focus from attracting new customers to enticing your proven customers to buy again. The best sales prospect is a prospect that's already converted - in other words, one of your current customers.
Think of it this way; if your business is located in a small town with a population of 1000 people and you sell a sprocket to everyone in that town, man, woman, and child, you've sold 1000 sprockets – and saturated your market. Your sprocket selling days are over. Is it time to pack up and move on?
No! If you start focusing your sales efforts on your proven customers, you’ll be able to increase your sprocket sales dramatically. And these sure ways to increase sales will help build customer loyalty, too. Try some or all of these ideas to increase your sales:
1. Set up a sales incentive program.
Give your sales staff a reason to get out there and sell, sell, sell. Why do so many businesses that rely on their sales staff to drive sales have incentive programs in place? Because offering their sales staff the trips and/or TVs for x amount of sales works. See Paul Shearstone’s Creating Sales Incentive Programs That Work for how to make your sales incentive program “sweet and simple and attainable”.
2. Encourage your sales staff to upsell.
Essentially, upselling involves adding related products and/or services to your line and making it convenient and necessary for customer to buy them. Just placing more products near your usual products isn’t going to increase your sales much. To upsell successfully, the customer has to be persuaded of the benefit. For instance, when I last had my carpets cleaned, the cleaner noticed a pet stain. Instead of just cleaning it up, he drew my attention to it, and showed me how easily and effectively the spot cleaning solution removed all trace of the stain. Did I buy the spot cleaning solution? You bet. He persuaded me that buying it was beneficial to me and made it convenient to purchase it. Result: increased sales for the carpet cleaning company.
3. Give your customers the inside scoop.
Recently I was shopping at a retail housewares store. I had picked out an item and was mulling over whether to buy it or not when a salesperson came up to me and said, “I see you’re interested in that blender. We’re having a sale next week and all our blenders will be 20 percent off. You might want to come back then.” Guess what? I did – and bought two other items as well. Lesson: if you have a promotion or sale coming up, tell your customers about it. They’ll come back – and probably bring some friends with them too. (And don't forget - you can give your customers the inside scoop by emailing or calling them, too.)
4. Tier your customers.
There should be a clear and obvious difference between regular customers and other customers – a difference that your regular customers perceive as showing that you value them. How can you expect customer loyalty if all customers are treated as “someone off the street”? There are all kinds of ways that you can show your regular customers that you value them, from small things such as greeting them by name through larger benefits such as giving regulars extended credit or discounts.
5. Set up a customer rewards program.
We're all familiar with the customer rewards programs that so many large businesses have in place. But there’s no reason that a small business can’t have a customer rewards program, too. It can be as simple as a discount on a customer’s birthday or as complex as a points system that earns various rewards such as discounts on merchandise. Done right, rewards programs can really help build customer loyalty and increase sales.
6. Distribute free samples to customers.
Why do so many businesses include free samples of other products when you buy something from them? Because it can increase sales in so many ways. As the customer who bought the original product, I might try and like the sample of the new product and buy some of it, too. Or I might pass on the sample to someone else, who might try the product, like it, and buy that and other products from the company. At the very least, the original customer will be thinking warm thoughts about your company, and hopefully telling other people about your products.
Attracting new customers is a good thing. But attracting new customers is not the only way to increase your sales, and is, in fact, the hard way of going about it. Shifting your sales focus to enticing your current customers can make increasing your sales easier – and best of all, build the customer loyalty that results in repeat sales.

8 Rules For Good Customer Service

Good customer service is the lifeblood of any business. You can offer promotions and slash prices to bring in as many new customers as you want, but unless you can get some of those customers to come back, your business won't be profitable for long.
Good customer service is all about bringing customers back. And about sending them away happy - happy enough to pass positive feedback about your business along to others, who may then try the product or service you offer for themselves and in their turn become repeat customers.
If you're a good salesperson, you can sell anything to anyone once. But it will be your approach to customer service that determines whether or not you’ll ever be able to sell that person anything else. The essence of good customer service is forming a relationship with customers – a relationship that that individual customer feels that he would like to pursue.
How do you go about forming such a relationship? By remembering the one true secret of good customer service and acting accordingly; "You will be judged by what you do, not what you say."
I know this verges on the kind of statement that's often seen on a sampler, but providing good customer service IS a simple thing. If you truly want to have good customer service, all you have to do is ensure that your business consistently does these things:
1) Answer your phone.
Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business. (Notice I say "someone". People who call want to talk to a live person, not a fake "recorded robot".) For more on answering the phone, see How to Answer the Phone Properly.
2) Don't make promises unless you will keep them.
Not plan to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception. If you say, “Your new bedroom furniture will be delivered on Tuesday”, make sure it is delivered on Tuesday. Otherwise, don't say it. The same rule applies to client appointments, deadlines, etc.. Think before you give any promise - because nothing annoys customers more than a broken one.
3) Listen to your customers.
Is there anything more exasperating than telling someone what you want or what your problem is and then discovering that that person hasn't been paying attention and needs to have it explained again? From a customer's point of view, I doubt it. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that you are listening by making the appropriate responses, such as suggesting how to solve the problem.
4) Deal with complaints.
No one likes hearing complaints, and many of us have developed a reflex shrug, saying, "You can't please all the people all the time". Maybe not, but if you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.
5) Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it.
The other day I popped into a local watch shop because I had lost the small piece that clips the pieces of my watch band together. When I explained the problem, the proprietor said that he thought he might have one lying around. He found it, attached it to my watch band – and charged me nothing! Where do you think I'll go when I need a new watch band or even a new watch? And how many people do you think I've told this story to?
6) Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable.
Do it yourself or hire someone to train them. Talk to them about good customer service and what it is (and isn't) regularly. (Good Customer Service: How to Help a Customer explains the basics of ensuring positive staff-customer interactions.) Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."
7) Take the extra step.
For instance, if someone walks into your store and asks you to help them find something, don't just say, "It's in Aisle 3". Lead the customer to the item. Better yet, wait and see if he has questions about it, or further needs. Whatever the extra step may be, if you want to provide good customer service, take it. They may not say so to you, but people notice when people make an extra effort and will tell other people.
8) Throw in something extra.
Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a genuine smile, people love to get more than they thought they were getting. And don’t think that a gesture has to be large to be effective. The local art framer that we use attaches a package of picture hangers to every picture he frames. A small thing, but so appreciated.

20 Ways Never To Run Your Business

Have you heard the saying ‘businesses come, and businesses go, but those that last are those who will learn the ropes of running their business wisely’? If you are on the mission to achieve failure in business, then these great steps will be of tremendous help.
Just like steps to success is habitual with practice, so is failure. Learning the ropes of success or failure isn’t as hard as you think. All that is required of you is to determine you are ready to take the necessary steps towards it and in a matter of time you would have achieved it.
Here are 20 ways you must never run your business.
 1. Skip Going to the Office Every Day
Being away from the office because of trivial reasons, and not keeping to a schedule to be in your work place every day is one way never to run your business. Handling every new day, opportunity and your business with levity is a killer too.
2. Never Create Deadlines or Stick With Them
Failure to create and follow deadlines will leave you working with nothing in view. When you do not create deadlines for your tasks or projects you give room for work to drag.
3. Allow Distraction
Entertaining what keeps you from being productive is a fast way to kill a business. Allowing things that eat into the major chunk of your time like, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter and the TV. This definite concentration killer can work best for you if your mission is to fold up too soon.
4. Never Do Research
Never engaging in a research exercise           to get ways to be better at what you do will keep you redundant. Lack of research makes you to be left behind, even when the trends are changing in your industry.
5. Hire Loafers
If success isn’t uttermost on your mind, hire incapable hands to help you run your business. Let those who have had the track records of failing at more projects help drive your brand. Hiring loafers will definitely help you reach rock bottom.
6. Never Invest In Your Employees
Do not give room for your team to be developed. Cancel the ideas to send them on trainings as well as seminars that could develop them personally and otherwise.
7. Do Not Advertise
Make no effort to promote your brand   and what you do. Leave your brand to the chance that someone someday might bump into it and then begin to patronize. Banners, posters, flyers and other potent means of selling your brand should never be adopted.
8. Lack of Vision
The entrepreneur on the path to doom is the one that will never think of tomorrow. If you cannot literally see yourself and your business far into the future beyond today, then you are on the path to destruction.
9. Be Extravagant and Wasteful
Have no regard for money and how you spend it. Waste a lot of money and allocate funds unnecessarily even when there isn’t need for it. Plus pay workers even when they have done nothing to earn a salary.
10. Owe Your Employees
Never be prompt with paying salaries. Decide to withhold your employees’ salaries to your satisfaction. Also deciding to pay yours in part, instead of in full will put you in their bad book.
9. Do Not Be Proud Your Brand
Being unsure with your brand and all that you stand for is one sure way to cause the natural death of your business. When you aren’t confident about your brand, you must not expect for it to grow and improve.
10. No Reward System
Everyone likes it when they are rewarded. So to scare customers away, you must never have a reward system. Do not appreciate customers as well as your team for the good patronage and job they are doing.
11. Be Negative Minded
Positivity is what business is all about. To lose your business, allow negativity creep into all that you do. Never be optimistic that only the best results can happen to you.
12. Quit At Slightest Opportunities
As you trudge along the road of business success you will hit obstacles. Quitting at the slightest opportunity when challenges come your way will boost failure faster than you could ever imagine.
13. Have an Unorganized Environment
Leave the work environment dirty, cluttered with trash. Allowing a foul odour into the office and allowing customers inhale the odour is a big business killer.
14. Be Wicked and Inhuman
Treat your team very harshly by calling them terrible names at all times. Never allow them a moment of rest. Bombard them with work like a slave driver and see how you lose them.
15. Hire and Fire Always
Give them the impression that you call the shots and can fire or hire whomever you want to. Terminate all contracts with your employees every three months and you will see the poor results that would be achieved in your business.
16. Fail at Your Promises
Never stick to the promises you make to your customers and employees. At any slightest opportunity, be willing to make excuses over why you must never keep to your fidelity as an entrepreneur.
17. Tie the Success of Your business with your own strength
Believe that the best way for success is a hard day’s job. Therefore decide to over work yourself without delegating duties so that you alone can take all the credit. Rely on your strength to succeed. Decide that if your effort is not available, your business can’t be up and running.
18. Neglect to set goals and plans for yourself and Business
Despite much being said and written about goals and plans being necessary for success as an entrepreneur, neglect it. Avoid being goal driven and goal oriented. Neither visualize your goals nor write them down to the achievement of the goals.
19. Think of business as a way to survive without adding value
Make your primary motivation for being in business to acquire wealth rather than to create add value. Doing this means you have started on a wrong foot. Allow your drive for money supersede the drive to create innovative products/services that will add value to your target market.
20. Be A Jack Of All Trade And Master Of None
Be all out to pursue the hot moving businesses in town, just in other to make quick bucks. If you want your venture to hit rock bottom, you must never be ready to master your business. Deal with your business as if all that matters to you is making cash and not the interest of the customers.
Finally, having seen the above steps of how never to run your business, don’t you think it would be a disaster never to do it rightly? Take a look at great brands all around the world, you will find that they are never caught napping when the issue of effective business running comes to play.
Make plans to work at being the very best and before long, you will be the focus of all eyes.
 

20 Data-Backed Ways to Improve Your Social Media Marketing

20 Data-Backed Ways to Improve Your Social Media Marketing 

1) Tell Us Why We Should Follow You

Twitter accounts that used words like "founder," "speaker," "expert," "guru," and "author" in their bios had more followers than the average account. Tweet This

2) Use Contra-Competitive Timing

Posts made to Facebook timelines on Saturdays and Sundays tend to get more Likes than posts made during the business week. Tweet This

3) Use Tall Images on Pinterest

As image height in pixels increased for images posted to Pinterest, so did the average number of times they were repinned. Tweet This

4) Put Links 25% of the Way Through Tweets

Links placed just before the halfway point (in characters) of tweets tended to have higher clickthrough rates than links placed elsewhere. Tweet This

5) Use Questions on Facebook

Simple yes/no questions like "should" and "would," as well as multiple choice questions like "which" tend to get more comments than average Facebook posts. Tweet This

6) Use Links to Get Retweets

While fewer than 25% of all tweets contain a link, more than half of retweets contain a URL. Tweet This

7) Stop Talking About Yourself

As the amount of self-referential content posted by Twitter accounts increases, follower numbers decrease. Tweet This

8) Say Something New

Retweeted tweets tend to contain fewer commonly used words than a random selection of non-retweeted tweets. Tweet This

9) Stay Positive

As the amount of negativity posted by Twitter accounts increases, follower numbers decrease. Tweet This

10) Use Calls-to-Action on Facebook

Facebook posts that included the word "like" tended to get more Likes than the average post. Tweet This

11) Stay Away From Buzzwords

Facebook Pages that used industry buzzwords tended to have fewer Likes than pages that did not. Tweet This

12) Share Links to Interesting Content

Accounts in which between 60% and 80% of tweets contain links tend to get more retweets than accounts that tweet fewer links. Tweet This

13) Use Photos on Facebook

Facebook posts that use photos tend to get more Likes than text, video, or link-based posts. Tweet This

14) Use Hashtags on Instagram

Photos that included hashtags in their descriptions on Instagram tend to get more Likes than photos that do not. Tweet This

15) Talk About Food on Facebook

Facebook Pages that mention food tend to have more Likes than the average Facebook Page. Tweet This

16) Tweet Around 4 p.m.

Tweets posted around 4 p.m. Eastern time tend to get more retweets than those posted at other times. Tweet This

17) Don't Be Neutral on Facebook

Posts with positive sentiment get more Likes than posts with negative sentiment, but both positive and negative perform better than neutral. Tweet This

18) Write Longer Tweets for More Clicks

Clickthrough rate of links in tweets increases as the overall length of those tweets also increases. Tweet This

19) Go Short or Long on Facebook

Posts that either contained very little text (such as photos) or upwards of 700 characters tend to get the most Likes. Tweet This

20) Ask for the Retweet

Tweets that contain the call-to-action (CTA) "please retweet" are four times more likely to get retweeted at least once, compared to those that do not include the CTA. Tweet This

Have you tried any of these social media marketing tactics? Does your own data support their effectiveness?

Ways to Use Your Day Job to Move Toward Your Dream Job

Picture it: you had an idea for a business. You researched, you scrimped and you saved for your prototype. Your significant other gave it a wink and your grandmother cannot wait to see you on the Forbes list!

You get to wake up each day and make your own rules. Your time is your own. Gone are those endless meetings, your annoying supervisor and the unrealistic deadlines. You can finally burn that useless employee manual.

Oh, but wait. What’s that piercing sound? Your alarm clock?

Off to your day job you go…

There’s plenty of great advice on day jobs and dream jobs. And  the truth is, you can use your day job to make progress on your dream business. Here are four ways to do that:

1. Change your perspective

Your day job is the gift that keeps on giving; it is an investment. With your steady paycheck, you’re able to finance your dream. Set aside a specific amount of your paycheck for your business venture, and remind yourself not to resent your 9-to-5—it’s helping you move toward that big goal.

2. Take your financial temperature

Knowing how to manage your money is the first step to being a successful entrepreneur. The moment you decide to make the leap to being your own boss, you need to take a candid assessment of your financial picture: your credit score, your savings, your debt. If your personal finances are in shambles, you should address those issues while you still have a steady paycheck coming in before throwing yourself into your business full-time.

3. Learn everything you can from everyone you can

One day you’ll be glad you did. That self-righteous coworker who knows Excel as if he created the program? He’s the one you want to ask how to create master spreadsheets. The assistant with the ever-annoying attention to detail? Follow her example to learn how you can stay on top of your game.

This is the time to seek out mentors and others who can teach you specific skills so you don’t have to spend thousands on post-college courses. Your workplace likely has built-in teachers, so suck as much knowledge out of them as you can.

4. Stop wasting time

Some days, you’ll be impatient and anxious to start your business. Don’t these folks know you have other things to do?

That mindset—though natural—is a waste of time. It often can end up a waste of money, too; you’ll eat through your budget while rushing your business off the ground.

Instead, focus on what you can accomplish during commutes, lunch, evenings and weekends. Then create realistic a timetable for your exit strategy and new focus: your business.

Ways to Network in the Real World

Online social networking may capture the lion’s share of attention nowadays, but the strongest bonds among people are still based on relationships established in the offline, physical world. How many friends on Facebook are your legitimate “friends”? When was the last time you contacted someone you met offline, instead of online? I guarantee you keep in touch with your offline contacts more because you have a physical connection with them instead of an electronic one!
And when it comes to garnering the attention of corporate recruiters, you’re far more likely to score an interview if the hiring manager has previously met with you in person rather than through a Facebook request or a LinkedIn referral.
You may feel anxious putting yourself out there, but taking the leap is crucial to your job search and overall career success. The more competitive the job market, the more aggressively you must expand your professional network – and the less you should rely on LinkedIn and Facebook to do the heavy lifting for you. Remember that executive recruiters receive hundreds of LinkedIn invitations from people looking for jobs. One of the best ways to stand out in a cluttered online world is to get offline and meet face to face with the people in your online social network. This way, instead of being one of hundreds (or thousands) of online invitations, you become a name and face.
Here are five steps to forging a real-world connection with those who can help you:
1. Reconnect with your current network
The easiest way to meet new people is to leverage your current network. We all have networks, including our friends, family and acquaintances. Get up from your computer and start going to lunches and professional or social events in your industry. Attend these events with friends so you can be introduced to people with whom you wouldn’t normally be in contact. This is especially useful when your friends have the same networking goals in mind and want to pool their efforts with you.
2. Take online contacts offline
If you already have an online following — on your blog, Facebook, Twitter or an online discussion forum — then you can tap into those communities to start meeting people offline. This is especially useful if you’re introverted and you’re looking to meet with peers you know already online. By meeting people offline, you’ll build a stronger network online and vice versa.

 

3. Volunteer with a nonprofit organization
There are so many nonprofit organizations out there, and if you’re passionate about getting involved in one, all it takes is an e-mail or a phone call. It’s important that you join the right organization so that you stay involved and meet the right people. For instance, if you’re looking to promote new education and workforce strategies to low-income youth and adults, you might want to join Jobs for the Future (jff.org). If you’re looking to help raise money to stop poverty, then perhaps you’d join Kiva (kiva.org). There is at least one nonprofit organization that aligns to your underlying values and career aspirations. Volunteering your time opens your mind, and your network, to new possibilities.
4. Create remarkable business cards, and use them
If your business cards are thin and boring, consider investing in new ones. Business cards can be cut into many shapes and sizes. A lot of companies offer different materials and formats as well. If your business cards include your own picture, people will remember your face after they meet you. It will also make you appear more personable in a networking situation. Don’t put too much contact information on your cards because people will typically just Google your name. Stick with your preferred method of contact, a Web site or blog URL, a fancy design and cut, and your picture.
5. Start a networking group
If you want to expand your network, start your own group, name it, and invite other people who would be interested in participating. By being the group organizer, you’re immediately positioned as a leader people will want to speak with and get to know. It not only looks good on your resume that you’re involved in a special-interest group, but it will give you the opportunity to meet “the right people” online and offline.

25 small businesses ideas to make money in 2013

The crisis, say the optimists, we will leave in 2013. But nothing will be as before, mainly due to the digital revolution that is sweeping business models. The trends of the year just begun? BusinessNewsDaily , magazine for startups and small businesses, has asked 25 experts. Their reports suggest a profound change in the business world. The point of view is American and that is why it is more useful to understand how the business is changing. 1) The job search online . Job-seekers, who offers increasingly used social networks. But the focus now is on the search engines.Google has 11 billion queries per month and 226 million work-related.
 2) Never run out of electronic signature . Now something is useful, it will soon be necessary for professionals as for small and large businesses. Reduces costs and accelerates business.
 3) Less luxury, more everyday. spirit of the times is changing, the exaltation of the luxury to focus on average families. The most effective marketing of the brand will be based on the daily lives of those who work hard. Less glamor and glitter, more attention to quality, value and durability.
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 4) The importance of being “special” . Being unique has never been more important for companies. This is what creates the emotional connection with consumers and encourages them to choose their own products
 5) What is BYOD! Bring your own device : use in the office on your smartphone, tablet or personal. Many corporations follow this trend and are gearing up to “cure” the equipment and ensure the safety of employees.
 6) The brands become publishers. In 2013, the brand will begin to create content seriously to enhance their credibility, continue the “conversation” with their “clients” and remain at the center of their attention. Will be different forms: blog, newsletter, sms. The content will be the tool to make social marketing.
 7) The search becomes social. Google + diventanto is important to optimize your presence on the search engine. The people there but does not use it. The social network will become more and more social searching and social media will create search options
 8) Investments in crowdfunding grow . Small businesses produce 50% of the work but have access to 1% of the capital. The data is American and it’s easy to think that in Italy it is even “worse.”For family businesses are crucial to new sources of funding that are opening up with the widespread collection of money, crowfunding. Not just for startups
 9) Here comes the generation of “social.” They are going to enter the labor market young people born in 1991 and grew up with the online exchanges (peer-to-peer) and social networks.Preriranno course the companies most committed to the “social” as well as candidates for a job and as consumers. From 2015 this will be an element of difference and development.
 10) The mobile video will explode . Exceed 50% of mobile traffic: smartphones are increasingly the tool to have access to products and services anytime, anywhere. And the video will be the accelerator of this market. It ‘persuasive, engaging and direct. Who does not have a mobile video strategy risk losing market share.
 11) The year of the employee. companies in a long time are asked to do more with less, stressing on the results, and the pressure is crushing everyone. Even the top managers recognize that the model is not sustainable and are looking for new ways to engage all employees and not just those with higher performance. On the other hand, even the employees would feel innovative ways to fulfill their potential. They include unusual forms of collaboration.
 12) will grow the use of sensors . Microchip inside the pills do not remember to take them, sensors in sweaters, chip in the packaging of biscuits. From health to marketing will increase the presence and aggressiveness of the “checks” at a distance
 13) The importance of an internship . With the difficulties that new graduates to find a job, the internship will be more and more opportunity to enter the market. And for companies with a tool to select talents.
 14) The real impact of social media. In 2013, no longer suffice speak through Facebook & Co.Companies must learn to listen before you answer, using conversational tone and non-institutional.Key is figuring out what kind of conversation you want to open with their “clients”
 15) The frontier of content marketing is no longer enough some pictures or un’infografica. We move into dell’intrattentimento and content useful, even for companies and their brands. That invest in video and alliances with authors and writers to communicate and bring attention to their digital activities.
 16) The small business goes global . Travel the world and you will find the opportunity to sell anything anywhere. Even if you’re a small business. It ‘s the turn of 2013: the ecommerce remove all limits
 17) Beware of the “shop” is always open. purchases on the move in 2012 more than doubled, and the growth stops. It will be a need for small companies propose systems that are easier to buy at any time through the smartphone.
 18) A shopping assistant for all. smartphone that will help you discover new products, to decide where and how to buy them. And how to pay them.
 19) The choices of Generation Y green. Companies will have to deal with the attention of new consumers to the sustainability and recycled products. Even on social media.
 20) If the high-tech talent becomes precious.  In the technology sector there is almost no unemployment. And companies will have to compete to conquer the best. Deciding quickly and offering something more.
 21) The emphasis on health will continue. welfare is no longer a good idea will be the most sought after luxury product in the coming years, almost a status symbol. To be awarded will be the companies and products that help you get it.
 22) To each his own product . Technologies become more economical, fast and convergent pushing for extreme customization of products, from cases mobile candy. Which will become an expression of personality
 23) And even better if you … mobile . Internet as we know it may not be necessary. From the desk behind the car we will be taking the same thing, as long as there is guaranteed to stay connected.
 24) Social media will show their convenience. It ‘s time to measure the social business. There will not be enough if there is not an adequate ROI (return on investment).
 25) Data containing the future. Big Data will not only serve to help sales. The management of information internal to a company, through the intersection with external data, should allow to predict how they will move markets and consumers.

Benefit and Uses of 99name of Allah.

The 99 Names of Allah, are the Names of God which are described in the Qur'an, and Sunnah, amongst other places. Here are the list of 99 names of Allah with definition and benefits.

S.No.	ALLAH'S NAME in Urdu	ALLAH'S NAME	MEANING	BENEFIT
		Allah	The Greatest Name	Who repeats this name at least 1000 times his heart will be free from doubts and suspicions. If any body suffering from some incurable disease repeats this Name many times, then prays to Allah for recovery, he will recover from the disease, by the Grace of Allah.
1		Ar-Rahman	The All-Merciful	Who repeart this name 100 times after each fard (Obligatory) prayer will have good memory, a keen awareness, and be free of a heavy heart.
2		Ar-Rahim	The All-Beneficient	He who repeat this name 100 times after each Fajr (Early Morning) prayer will find everyone to be friendly towards him and he will be safe from all worldly calamities.
3		Al-Malik	The Absolute Ruler	He who repeats this name many times every day after the morning prayer. Will become rich by the grace of Allah.
4		Al-Quddus	The Pure One	The heart of those who repeat this name 100 times each day will be free from anxiety.
5		As-Salam	The Source of Peace	He who repeats this name 160 time to a sick person, will help him to regain health. He who repeats this name frequently will be safe from all calamities.
6		Al-Mumin	The Inspirer of Faith	He who repeats this name 631 times will be safe from harm.
7		Al-Muhaymin	The Guardian	He who takes bath and offers two rak'ats of prayer and repeats this Name 100 times with sincere concentration, Allah will purify his external as well as internal condition.
8		Al-Aziz	The Victorious	He who repeats this Name 41 times after each Fazar prayer will be independent of need from others and gain honour after disgrace.
9		Al-Jabbar	The Compeller	He who repeats this Name will not be compelled to do anything against his wishes, and will not be exposed to voilence, severity or hardness.
10		Al-Mutakabbir	The Greatest	He who repeats this Name frequently will be granted status and respect. If He repeats this Name frequently at the commencement of every act, He will achieve success by the grace of Allah.
11		Al-Khaliq	The Creator	He who repeats this Name 100 times for seven days without break, Allah will create an angel whose duty will be to act righteously for this person until the Day of Judgement. The reward for angel's actions will be given to that person. See also under Al-Musawwir.
12		Al-Bari	The Maker of Order	He who creates all things in proportion. See also the suggestions under Al-Musawwir.
13		Al-Musawwir	The Shaper of Beauty	If a woman who desires to give a birth, but cannot, fasts seven days, and each day at the breaking of the fast (iftaar) she repeats these three Names twenty-one times, breathes into a glass of water, and then breaks the fast with this water, Allah will bless her with a child.
14		Al-Ghaffar	The Forgiving	He who repeats this Name will be forgiven his sins.
15		Al-Qahhar	The Subduer	The soul of him who repeats this Name Will conquer the desires of the flesh, and his heart will be made free from the attractions of the world and gain inner peace. this Name also frees one from being wronged.
16		Al-Wahhab	The Giver of All	If a man suffering from poverty and starvation repeats this Name frequently or keeps it with him written on a piece of paper or repeats this Name 40 times in the last Sajda if the Chasht prayer, Allah will relieve him of his poverty, want and starvation in a wonderful way.
17		Ar-Razzaq	The Sustainer	He who repeats this Name will be provided with sustenance by Allah.
18		Al-Fattah	The Opener	The heart of him who repeats this Name will be open, and he will be given victory.
19		Al-Alim	The Knower of All	He who repeats this Name, his heart will become luminous, revealing divine light(Nur).
20		Al-Qabid	The Constrictor	He who writhes this name on 4 pieces of food (fruit, bread,etc.) and eats them for 40 days will be free from hunger.
21		Al-Basit	The Reliever	He who repeats this Name 10 times after Chasht prayer with open hands (palms up), then rubs his face with his hands, will be free of need from others.
22		Al-Khafid	The Abaser	Those who fast three days, and on the fourth day repeat this Name 70 times in a gathering, Allah will free them from harm by their enemy. Allah will fulfill the need of one who repeats this Name 500 times daily.
23		Ar-Rafi	The Exalter	He who repeats this Name 101 times day and night, Allah will make him higher, as far as honour, richness and merit are concerned.
24		Al-Muizz	The Bestower of Honors	He who repeats this name 140 times after Maghrib prayer on Monday or Friday nights, Allah will make him dignified in the eyes of others. That person will fear no one but Allah.
25		Al-Mudhill	The Humiliator	He who repeats this Name 75 times will be free from harm by those who are jealous of him and wish to harm him. Allah will protect him.
26		As-Sami	The Hearer of All	He who repeats this Name 500, 100 or 50 times without speaking to anyone on thursday after the chasht prayer, Allah will bestow on him anything he desires.
27		Al-Basir	The Seer of All	He who repeats this Names 100 times after Friday afternoon prayer, Allah will give this person light in his sight and enlighten his heart.
28		Al-Hakam	The Judge	He who repeats this Name many times at night, many secrets (sirr) will be revealed to him.
29		Al-Adl	The Just	On Friday night or day, if you write this Name on a piece of bread and eat it people will obey you.
30		Al-Latif	The Subtle One	He who repeats this Name 133 times daily will have increase in his sustenance and all his affairs will be settled to his satisfaction.
31		Al-Khabir	The All-Aware	If a mam is a victim of selfish desires and bad habits he will be relieved of these if he repeats this Name regularly.
32		Al-Halim	The Forebearing	He who write this Name on a piece of paper, washes it with water and sprinkles that water on anything that thing will become safe from loss and calamities.
33		Al-Azim	The Magnificent	Those who repeat this Name many times will be respected.
34		Al-Ghafur	The Forgiver and Hider of Faults	He who has a headache, fever and despondent, and continuously repeats this Name will be relieved of his ailment and will have Allah's forgiveness.
35		Ash-Shakur	The Rewarder of Thankfulness	He who is afflicted with monitory troubles or with any other calamity and suffering, if he repeats this Name 41 tmes daily.
36		Al-Ali	The Highest	He who repeats this Name regularly and keep it with him after writing it on a piece of paper will attain high rank, affluence and success in his (lawful) desires.
37		Al-Kabir	The Greatest	He who repeats this Name 100 times each day will have esteem.
38		Al-Hafiz	The Preserver	He who repeats this Name frequently and keeps it with him will be protected against calamities.
39		Al-Muqit	The Nourisher	If someone with a bad mannered child repeats this Name into a glass of water, and gives this water to the child to drink, the child will have good manners.
40		Al-Hasib	The Accounter	He who faces any problem should repeat this Name many times.
41		Al-Jalil	The Mighty	He who writes this Name on a piece of paper with musk and saffron and keeps it with him and repeats this Name frequently will attain honour and status.
42		Al-Karim	The Generous	He who repeats this Name many times at bedtime will have esteem in this world (and the Hereafter among the learned and righteous people).
43		Ar-Raqib	The Watchful One	He who repeats this Name seven times on himself, his family and property, all will be under Allah's protection.
44		Al-Mujib	The Responder to Prayer	The appeal of him who repeats this Name will be answered.
45		Al-Wasi	The All-Comprehending	If one who has difficulty in earning, repeats this Name frequently, will have good earnings.
46		Al-Hakim	The Perfectly Wise	He who repeats this Name continuously (from time to time) will not have difficulties in his work, and Allah will open to him the door of wisdom.
47		Al-Wadud	The Loving One	If there is a quarrel between two people (e.g. wife and husband) and one of them repeats this Name 1000 times over some food and has the other person to eat the food, there will be no disagreement between them.
48		Al-Majíd	The Majestic One	He who repeats this Name gains glory.
49		Al-Baith	The Resurrector	He who repeats this Name gains the fear of Allah.
50		Ash-Shahid	The Witness	He who has disobedient children or wife and repeats this Name in the morning over them 21 times daily with his hand placed on his/her forhead he/she will become obedient.
51		Al-Haqq	The Truth	If one has something and repeats this Name, he will find what is lost.
52		Al-Wakil	The Trustee	He who is afraid of drowining, being burnt in a fire, or any similar danger, and repeats this Name continuously (from time to time), will be under the protection of Allah.
53		Al-Qawi	The Possessor of All Strength	He who cannot defeat his enemy, and repeats this Name with the intention of not being harmed, will be free from his enemy's harm.
54		Al-Matin	The Forceful One	If one has troubles and repeats this Name, his troubles will disappear.
55		Al-Wali	The Governor	He who repeats this Name is likely to be a walyullah, the friend of Allah.
56		Al-Hamid	The Praised One	He who repeats this Name will be loved and praised.
57		Al-Muhsi	The Appraiser	He who is afraid of being questioned on the Judgement Day, and repeats this Name 100 times daily, will have ease and clementy.
58		Al-Mubdi	The Originator	If This Name is repeated and breathed towards a pregnant woman who is afaid of aborting, she will be free of danger.
59		Al-Muid	The Restorer	If this Name is repeated 70 times for someone who is away from his family, that person will return safely in seven days.
60		Al-Muhyi	The Giver of Life	If a person has a heavy burden and repeats this Name seven times each day, his burden will be taken away.
61		Al-Mumit	The Taker of Life	This Name is repeated to destroy one's enmy.
62		Al-Hayy	The Ever Living One	He who repeats this Name will have a long life.
63		Al-Qayyum	The Self-Existing One	He who repeats this Name will not fall into inadvertency.
64		Al-Wajid	The Finder	He who repeats this Name will have richness of heart.
65		Al-Majid	The Glorious	He who repeats this Name in privacy and sincerely, his heart will be enlightened.
66		Al-Wahid	The Only One	He who repeats this Name 1000 times in privacy and in a quiet place will be free from fear and delusion.
67		Al-Ahad	The One	He who repeats this Name 1000 times will have certain secrets opened to him.
68		As-Samad	The Satisfier of All Needs	He who repeats this Name many times, Allah will provide his need, and as result he will not need others, but they will need him.
69		Al-Qadir	The All Powerful	He who repeats this Name, all his Desires will be fulfilled.
70		Al-Muqtadir	The Creator of All Power	He who repeats this Name will be aware of the truth.
71		Al-Muqaddim	The Expediter	He who repeats this Name on the battlefield, or who has fear of being alone in an aweinspiring place, no harm will come to him and will become obedient to Allah.
72		Al-Muakhkhir	The Delayer	He who repeats this Name in the heart 100 times each day, only love of Allah will remain. No other love can enter.
73		Al-Awwal	The First	A childless person will be blessed with a child if he repeats this name 40 times daily for 40 days. If a traveler repeats it 1000 times on a Friday he will reach home safe and sound.
74		Al-Akhir	The Last	He who repeats this Name many times will lead a good life and at the end of this life will have a good death.
75		Az-Zahir	The Manifest One	He who recites this Name 15 times after Friday (jumm'a prayer) divine light (Noor) will enter his heart.
76		Al-Batin	The Hidden One	He who repeats this Name three times each day will be able to see the truth in things.
77		Al-Walí	The Protecting Friend	He who repeats this Name and breathes it into his house, his house will be free from danger.
78		Al-Mutaali	The Supreme One	He who repeats this Name many times will gain the benevolence of Allah.
79		Al-Barr	The Doer of Good	He who repeats this Name to his child, this child will be free from misfortune.
80		At-Tawwab	The Guide to Repentance	He who repeats this Name many times, his repentance will be accepted.
81		Al-Muntaqim	The Avenger	He who repeats this Names for 3 Fridays many times will be victorious against his enemies.
82		Al-Afu	The Forgiver	He who repeats this Name many times, all his sins will be forgiven.
83		Ar-Rauf	The Clement	He who repeats this Name many times will be blessed by Allah.
84		Malik al-Mulk	The Owner of All	He who repeats this Name will have esteem among people.
85		Dhul-Jalali Wal-Ikram	The Lord of Majesty and Bounty	He who repeats this Name many times, will be rich.
86		Al-Muqsit	The Equitable One	He who repeat this Name will be free from the harm of the devil.
87		Al-Jami	The Gatherer	He who repeats this Name will find the things that he lost.
88		Al-Ghani	The Rich One	He who repeats this Name 70 times will be contented and not convetous and will not be needy.
89		Al-Mughni	The Enricher	He who repeats this Name 1000 times daily for ten Fridays will becom self-sufficient.
90		Al-Mani	The Preventer of Harm	One should repeat this Name 20 times at bedtimes for a peaceful and happy family life.
91		Ad-Darr	The Creator of The Harmful	He who does not enjoy peace and tranquility in life should repeat this Name 100 times in Friday nights.He will find peace and tranquility by the grace of Allah.
92		An-Nafi	The Creator of Good	He who repeats this Name 41 times at the begnning of every act, will be successful in all his good acts.
93		An-Nur	The Light	Those who repeat this Name will have inner light.
94		Al-Hadi	The Guide	Ho who repeats 1100 times the sacred Names "yahadi ihdinas-siratal-mustaqim" after the 'Isha prayer will be free from all needs.
95		Al-Badi	The Originator	He who is confronted by any distress or difficulty should repeat this Name 70,000 times for relief from the distress.
96		Al-Baqi	The Everlasting One	He who repeats this Name every Friday night 100 times all his good deeds will be accepted, by the grace of Allah.
97		Al-Warith	The Inheritor of All	He who repeats this Name after sunrise 100 times, will be safe from all sorrows, by the grace of Allah.
98		Ar-Rashid	The Righteous Teacher	He who does not have the know-how about a particular task or unable to work out plans for a certain task should repeat this Name 1000 times between Maghrib and 'Isha.
99		As-Sabur	The Patient One	He who is in any trouble, difficulty or sorrow and repeat this Name 3000 times, will be rescued from his difficulty.