Power Ideaz

Okay, now for some laugh… here are some common office phrases compiled by us, with what these phrases mean. Whether you agree is up to you. Cheers!

1.”We will do it” means “You will do it.”

2.”You have done a great job” means “More work to be given to you.”

3.”We are working on it” means “We have not yet started working on the same.”

4.”Tomorrow first thing in the morning” means “Its not getting done “At least not tomorrow!”

5.”After discussion we will decide-I am very open to views” means “I have already decided, I will tell you what to do.”

6.”There was a slight miscommunication” means “We had actually lied.”

7.”Lets call a meeting and discuss” means “I have no time now, will talk later.”

8.”We can always do it” means “We actually cannot do the same on time.”

9.”We are on the right track but there needs to be a slight extension of the deadline” means “The project is screwed up, we cannot deliver on time.”

10.”We had slight differences of opinion “means “We had actually fought.”

11.”Make a list of the work that you do and let’s see how I can help you” means “Anyway you have to find a way out… no help from me.”

12.”You should have told me earlier” means “Well even if you told me earlier that would have made hardly any difference!”

13.”We need to find out the real reason” means “Well I will tell you where your fault is.”

14.”Well Family is important; your leave is always granted. Just ensure that the work is not affected,” means, “Well you know…”

15.”We are a team,” means, “I am not the only one to be blamed.”

16.”That’s actually a good question” means “I do not know anything about it.”

17.”All the Best” means “You are in trouble”

By Pinaki Ghosh

If you are planning to start up with your own ecommerce site or already own one, you must get your updates and facts revised. Here are 7 main strategies which would help you instantly to gain profits. These policies are tested and confirmed.
1. Solid product description
While advertising your product online you must be able to make some good descriptions about the product which can create an interest among your customers. The products (in case of 50 plus articles) must be described in around 125 -150 words in length. For quality sake, getting the articles done from a professional person is imperative.  In case you are on the look out for professionals or freelancers, you may log on to sites like Writer4me (www.writer4me.com), 123writer (www.123writer.com), Guru (www.guru.com) and Elance (www.elance.com) to hire copywriters/content-writers who will work on your descriptions and give an amazing outcome or even help sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo.  In the case that you are selling an e-book or some course through your site, you can get the sales copy made, which may comprise of 3000-5000 words in length. Also, you can add in the feedbacks from your clients.
2. Accompanied by picture
Sometimes pictures provide the best explanations ever. Until and unless you put pictures on the products for the net, you really would not be able to create the interest on the customers. People like to see the products that they would want to buy, as said by Mark Luetke the marketing guru. But messy images are not really appealing. In case of really small products you can give them the satin background or maybe give it a cropped look and can even replace it with maybe a plain background. When the products such as car and bikes are promoted, you may get the shots outdoors. The cover pages of the e-books must be of high quality, cost of which is $30 upwards. You can visit the sites such as Writer4me (www.writer4me.com), if your budget is around $50, to get the best and the most professional e-book covers in the market.
3. Cross selling
Chain your other items just below the description of the products of each item so that people who want to purchase the product can also look out for other related products.  This way you can increase your sales upto 30%.
4. Free gifts to visitors to get their email address
Give out free gifts like ebooks from your squeeze page to any visitor who gives his/her email address. This way you can create your own database of your visitors whom you can keep updated with your newsletters.
5. Newsletters
Spam mails differ from newsletters. I would be surprised if anyone says he/she likes spam mails. They are advertisement-mails that go directly to the folder that has been assigned in your email account for ‘spam’. But newsletters give some really useful information to the customers and thus, most people mark the mails as ‘not spam’. This may be one of the powerful tools in keeping the update on the new products and schemes. Newsletters are far better than spam mails as promotional tools.
6. Discount
Giving various discounts throughout the year such as ‘winter bonanza: 25% off’ or maybe the ‘Spring Festival-up to 50% discount’ can boost up your sales. Keeping a track of your old customers and the ones that rely on you and then complementing them by giving some additional benefits can help.
7. Show professionalism with your affiliates
In case you are heading an affiliate program, you must act professionally. Clearing off the payment of your affiliates on time, and giving them codes for your banners can help in keeping good relations with them. Do not keep the affiliates hanging for a lot of time to get their commission.
Also, you can work on increasing your sources of getting some extra income by tying with the other service providers as an affiliate (and get commission) and also Google YPN (contextual pay per click). You can earn several hundred or even thousands of dollars every month from this.

By Pinaki Ghosh

So, are you all set to put your best foot ahead in the internet business field? Greetings to the internet marketing field of the world! The success stories such as those like Yahoo and Google are true, especially with the internet based business, it’s also true that a website which does not have any marketing plan is more or less like a store about which one would not know, and thus would not see a bad happening. Merely setting up your site is not important but how to gain the popularity is what is important. What would actually make your website popular and work is what one should be stressing on. Ultimately your site is your own money minting factory in just 6 months?
1. Writing articles
Content is often crowned as the king. Your site visitors are often attracted to the content more than anything. A good-looking site without good content is like food that looks yummy but does not have any taste, and hence finds no takers. Not many master the art of writing good articles.
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A good-looking site without good content
is like food that looks yummy but does not have any taste, and hence finds no takers.
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The articles should be keyword rich (repeated use of the keywords), so that they are found quickly during keyword search. Informative articles are extremely helpful and thus these articles must be posted in the various blogs and article banks, directories and ezines. And they should in turn be linked to your site. If you are very busy, hiring a copy writer is a good idea.
2. Pay per Click Marketing
One of the most expensive but the best ways of drawing the traffic is pay-par-click marketing. If you do not lie in the lower budgets but are keen on the profits, you should without hesitation try PPC. Mostly, success comes guaranteed.
Some of the popular Pay per Click schemes is:

•   Google Ad Words
•   Yahoo Search Marketing
•   Microsoft AdCenter

When you go for PPC advertisements, you must pay beforehand. Every time someone clicks on your ad, your pre-paid balance instantly gets debited. The advertisements also appear in the websites which have similar content such as your own site; as well as Google, Yahoo and MSN search engine listings. Sponsored results appear over natural search results. There have been however reports of click fraud, which may result in your loss of money.
3. Traffic purchase
Some of the sites offer visitor packages for fixed prices. The ultimate decision maker is you, who can make your decision and choose from the various packages that are available. Example: you can choose from a package of 1000 guaranteed visitors per month for a payment of $50 or 5000 visitors for $180 so on. You can choose the one that fits in your pocket and can get the traffic diverted to your site according to your requirement. But you must also keep away from the frauds.
4. Buying expired domains
Supposing someone hands over the keys of a new car which has been purchased by someone else, and then says, “Have fun! It’s for you!”  Would you instantly take it? Most possibly you would take it. Well, most of us would in such cases. In the world of internet too, sometimes websites that are owned by one, are often handled by people who get to manage it. To talk in clear terms, if I have my own website, I work hard to build up a traffic that can be beneficial to me, but gradually, maybe my other commitments and busy schedule and forgetfulness or maybe my carelessness to renew the website adds up, and after a time, the website expires. People are on constant vigil. As soon as the site expires they start up their own with the same domain name, and thus get a ready made traffic flow.
5. Viral marketing
One of the cheapest and the affordable ways of internet marketing is Viral Marketing. It works on the concept of chain mails, just the way hotmail used it for its popularity. Pictures, videos and e-books which are free are mostly loved by people. Especially when these items are placed on your site, people love to use them and forward them to their loved ones. Thus, by personalizing them and giving your name somewhere on the items, you end up marketing your site. Also, in case your product is liked by people they would end up forwarding it and thus, the number of viewers of your site goes only higher. The popularity of your site increases.

By Pinaki Ghosh

Keeping a track of your emails isn’t a big problem when you’re receiving a mere ten or less than ten mails a day. As your business grows the picture will change. As you end up sending approximately hundred mails a day, you too will receive as many mails. Thus, planning out a mail management system is advisable than to find yourself in a pretty nasty soup. The following tips may prove to be of great help:
1. Do not open your mails every time they arrive
One of the worst time killers, which often goes unrealized are incoming emails. Most of the email programs, have the email notifications like, when one receives a mail, you have little pop ups or some beeps and some shiny icons which act like mail alerts. But immediate reactions can end up as a distraction for those who work. While working, you must continue to work and not react to these mails. Time yourself to read the mails too. Set aside 2 or 3 fixed time in the day when you will read and answer mails…rather than reading them the moment they arrive. This is one of the most accepted and the best remedy overall.
2. Managing storage space 
Nowadays, one can see a lot many email programs which have a highly large space to offer. For example, Yahoo Mail got its Yahoo Mail Beta into market and offered a total 1 GB storage email space which was in turn a huge up gradation factor. Thus, the end result is such that if one is a light user of the emails, he would never have to delete mails. The same was the case when Microsoft launched its Windows Live Mail and the storage space was twice the space that Yahoo offered.

2 GB mail storage space was astonishing! This also meant that one would never have to delete mails and can also keep the attachments!
For those who have opted for the other programs or sites, they should keep in mind the 2 basic principles: (a) you must try and shift or go in for some mail program which would offer you a better space to store your mails (b) you may erase most of the mails as you receive them especially those which aren’t necessary. Once the attachment has been downloaded, you could delete the mails or just if you want to save them, you can do so in one of your separate folders. Adding any of the advertisements and the junk mails could be named as ‘spam’ and eventually you spam folder can be cleaned after a period of time.
3. Sending heavy attachments with your mails
Winzip can condense attachments of your mail to some extent. Most of the people who excel in this field know that this is not really sufficient, mainly when one has to send in the mails with heavy attachments and content with large graphics. Leave aside the others, MS Word documents which have graphs and graphics are not really lucky enough to be delivered as attachments if they are heavy files exceeding 10 MB. Thus, people have to find a solution for the same. Programs like http://rapidshare.com, http://megaupload.com, or http://4shared.com to upload the most important and heavy files are helpful. Once you are done with the uploading, you would receive a downloading link. All you have to do is mail the link to solve the entire problem. The main receiver must click on the link to download.

4. Keep a copy of sent items
Saving the mails that have been sent is another good option. To keep the sent items folder enabled always would help you keep a record and not lose any important information ever.
5. Spell Checking
It’s really sad that most of the email sites and programs do not offer the spell check facility like Microsoft Windows Live Mail. Thus, it’s advisable that you are a little cautious about your spellings when one is sending the mails to the big companies. A lot of the typos may change their attitude about you.
6. Use filters for better email management
One must make proper use of filters or even better known as folders. If you receive a lot of mails from many organizations, you may sort them according to your preferences in different folders. Naming the folders by different names would help you locate faster. When all the mails accumulate in one place it gives your inbox a messy look.
7. How to find email addresses
It gets annoying when you cannot find the email addresses of the person you are wanting to mail while sending an email. A Gmail or the Yahoo Mail Beta user would find that easy as the contacts appear when you happen to type in the first or the first two letters of the person you intend to mail, which is extremely convenient. Even Windows Live Mail happens to give you the freedom to check the email address of the person from the icons given next to compose and send column. If the email program that you are using does not help you out here, you may use the sites such as www.four11.com, www.switchboard.com and www.whowhere.com.
Once you follow these seven simple steps, it will help you in the management of your emails which is otherwise a nightmare, especially when have your business at the peak.

 “A few years ago Rick and I realized that something needed to be done to increase the love and harmony in our home! We were tired of listening to constant complaining whining, arguing, and yelling amongst our children. We were sick of having to ask our children five times to do something and we were tired of nagging , cajoling , bribing , yelling and giving time-outs”.!

These were the exact words of my friends a few years back. I understood his pain and frustration and tried to give him same important advices. What follows below are a few essential tips of ideal parenting .

(1) Wishes of a Child should Always be granted  
Every week , it should be made sure, that a minimum of ten hours should be taken out by the parents – to do exactly what your child desires, without interruptions or distractions – even if , he/she wants to play a game with you which you hate or build block towers and then knock them all down.

(2) “I love you .”- should be the way to start and end each day
Generally, we parents, have the notion that we show our love for our children through our actions, but kids want and need to be told that they are loved.

(3) Safety measures should be thought beforehand
When a child gradually grows, we, as parents should anticipate what are his/ her next steps would be and act accordingly. If your nine-month old is about to stand then it’s time to put up the gate cover, smoothen the sharp corners of the tables and keep pot handles turned away from the edge of the gas-burner.

(4) Don’t punish
Every child has a cup that needs to be filled- and refilled with love, affection, attention and respect. A rough day, a big frustration, at times, induces us to use harsh words that empties the cup. If your child is acting up, give him a hug, listen to him and spend time together. He will be more cooperative and you’ll both feel closer to him/her.

(5) Look the other way
Once in a week, you should ignore your child’s transgressions like table manners, forgetting to clean up, right away – and remind yourself you are not perfect either.

(6) You should be your baby’s favorite toy
Apart from offering playthings to your child always, amuse him yourself. After all, you make sounds, you move, you can take turns with him and respond to what he does, and you’re warm, soft and safe with him/her.

(7) Photo albums should be made and preserved
As a parent you should take at least two hours a month to create lasting, organized family memories. While you gather the photos or souvenirs, you will have the opportunity to reflect on the precious moments of your life.

(8) Coin a nick-name
We as a parent, should call our child b a special moniker that will reflect the unique connection to him/her. You should always remember that a child with many names is a child loved many times.

(9) Making sacred of family rituals is necessary
At least, once a week, you should do an activity together, such as taking a stroll along with your family, reading a book aloud, driving to the woods or having Sunday breakfast at the same restaurant or coffee shop. These memories will be treasured the most by your kids.

(10) Amendments should be made on the parents part also
“I am sorry. I messed up.” This is the most important thing, that you, as a parent should tell your child. Admitting you’re wrong, also gives your child some kind of trust, lovingness and his/her right to make mistakes sometimes.

(11) Don’t be over –protective
Shielding your child from all disappointments, failures or stressful situation should not be the order of the day. You should make your kids learn how to handle difficult situations in order to cope with life’s challenges.

(12) Love should be unconditional
You should love your child just because he /she was born to you and not because he plays the piano or aces math tests. Tell him often that you would love him no matter what grades he got and that your love for him grows bigger with each passing day.

Parenting is all about patience, observation, common sense and above all, love.

Plus for added fun it’s a guessing game as well! It doesn’t matter how much planning

You’ve done how you’ve decided that your baby’s first year should go. The fact is, your baby is the one who is going to decide many things because he/she is an our individual with his /her own likes, dislike and personality.

 By Soumitra Chakraborty

History says that men have carried out their roles well enough to increase and maintain the number of members in their groups or clans. Hence they have been bigamous or polygamous according to the needs of the society. Their children learnt to live like adults by copying the actions of adults. Their personalities shaped up accordingly.

In the 21st century, the society has become much more complex and everyone plays multifarious roles with perfection. Here comes the need of perfect parenting. It’s the gardener who tends the buds in his garden to see them bloom into beautiful flowers with the perfect color, shape, size and fragrance. Fathers are such gardeners who tend their kids to grow up to be successful human beings. Fathers have a special role in the children’s lives. It is their active participation in the rearing of their children that helps to steer their kids to a better adjusted and successful life in the future. Here are some tips that every dad must know and practice to become a successful father.

1. Spend time with your children every day
Spend time with your children each and every day. Even when you are out of town on a business trip you need to pick up the phone and talk to them. When you talk to your children try not to ask them questions that are answered with “yes” and “no”. Instead, try asking them questions that require detailed answers. Whether it’s in the morning, before you head to work, or in the evening after your workday is over you must spend time with them. Doing something that they want to do is a great way of letting them know you care about what’s important to them. Reading them a book, or playing a board game together is good to start with.

2. Continue to remain attached
Your child is unique. If you have more than one child you understand how different each one of them is from the other. As they grow older they begin to develop different interest in the world around them. As a father we sometimes get so distracted by our own world that we overlook the detailed world of our children. Avoid this. If you start to move away from your child, being unaware of the small details of his/her world that is the beginning of a gap.

3. Communicate with care
Sometimes we fathers get too caught up in our own busy lives. We don’t pay enough attention to our kids when we talk to them. When you engage your children in a conversation try looking directly at your children when they respond back to you. Let them know that what they have to say is important. You can gain your children’s trust by listening to their problem and your guidance will be welcome to them. Be honest with your children; admit your mistakes and teach your children the importance of taking responsibility and making amends. When they see you acting on your own advice they will adhere to your wishes.

4. Tell your kids your story
A young child often feels the world began at his/her birth. Tell your story and that of your parents and your own family as it can be interesting to your child. By reflecting on your past, you provide your child with the intriguing sense of history and of past generations .You need not tell all the details of your history, but only those which leave your child with the feeling that you too were once a child and you grew up and became an involved father. All of your life experiences are only useful if your kids know that you are being open and honest with them. Make your life an open book.

5. Educate your kids through involvement
You are your child’s role model. Your kids are looking to you to learn how a responsible and mature adult acts. Do chores around the house with your children, make them feel good about helping you and teach them that men also share household duties. Encourage your children to think for themselves. Guide and help them with their decision making process and then stand back and watch them do it themselves. Do all of this while they are young and you can still make an impression on their minds. Don’t wait until they get older. Each day is a new opportunity to teach your child. Don’t let time rob you of the moment and don’t let someone else steal that privilege from you.

6. Give priority to parenting and use your time wisely
As a father your priority must go towards your child, before your job, other relations, or enjoyment. I know this is a bit tough to follow in a world with so many competing demands and attractions. To be a great father you must consciously plan and devote time to being with your children making it your top priority. Plan how you can weave your children into your social life and knit yourself into their lives. Instead of leaving them at home take them with you to the supermarket. Observe how they interact with you in different settings. Most fathers rarely experience the full potential range of emotions with their children because they seldom see them anywhere but at home or at an athletic event.

7. Reduce anger by understanding your own trigger points
Anger is very real and very normal. As a father if you are able to identify the cause of your anger triggered of by your children you will be able to extinguish the flames before you ignite. I know for example that one of my trigger points is when I feel out of control.
There are a number of things that I could do to prevent the chaos but none of them really solve the problem. The real problem is my expectation of the situation. I feel out of control and frustrated. Frustration turns to anger and anger to hurt feelings.
However, you can find ways to express your anger that doesn’t hurt, belittle, or insult your children. Anger in its destructive form can make a child’s misbehavior worse. If you control your reaction to something your child does, the behavior will stop sooner, won’t last as long, or be as severe. Children need to understand why you are upset.

8. New fathers should take time off for your new baby
If you are a first time or new father you should plan on taking time off from work before your new baby arrives. Your baby will only be a newborn for a month. Nearly anything can be put on hold for a couple of weeks. If the blessed event has already occurred and you haven’t already done so plan to take a week off from work to spend with your newborn child.

The best advice for new dads is to get your hands on your baby as soon as, and as often as, possible. Through the process of directly caring for your infant you will learn what your baby needs, how he or she communicates, and what comforting techniques work best. Do not leave this responsibility to the child’s mother. You are a dad now. Try to spend time alone with your baby. Create opportunities where you are the sole care giver. Invite your wife to spend time doing something with her friends or simply offer her some time alone. This will allow you and baby to get to know each other. It will also help you learn the “language” your baby uses to communicate his or her basic needs.

The bond you are developing with your child through your interactions, touch, and care giving is the foundation upon which your father-child relationship will be built. The time you spend with your baby now, will make you a more effective parent in the future.

9. Show respect for the mother
If you are living with your wife definitely show love and respect to your wife in front of your child. This is very important for the healthy development of the child.

10. Learn to hug, kiss and touch your children
As a father if you want to communicate love and acceptance to your kids so that they will know they are loved then you’ve got to be willing to pull them close and hug them. If you were never touched (in an appropriate, compassionate way) by your own father it may be difficult for you to touch your own children.

It gets even more difficult when, for example, our young daughters become adolescents. So, the best time to lay groundwork for good touch is from our child’s birth all the way through her childhood. We fathers should change diapers and clothes, burp, rock and tickle our babies and young children; there are thousands of opportunities to lovingly touch our children.

As your children grow, these activities can be as simple as starting a pillow fight; grooming the dog or building something together; lying side by side in a hammock to look at the stars; or taking dad-and-daughter dance lessons.

Our kids need our fatherly affection, no matter what their ages. Good touch is physical affection that:
• comforts them
• affirms them as a person
• supports them
• respects and is sensitive to their person and their boundaries
• is given with their permission
• is given freely, with nothing expected in exchange
• helps them feel strong, lovable and able to delight in themselves
• and, it is not sexual.

By Soumitra Chakraborty

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” - Elizabeth Stone. Such is the intense and delicate relationship that a parent bears with the child. A new-born child of today, is the future of tomorrow. Therefore a good up-bringing of the child is absolutely necessary. Parents must put their hearts-out in seeing that a child gets enriched mentally, physically, and also gets proper moral and ethical values of life.

Valuable Tips For Ideal Parenting

1) Physical Presence : Children want and need the parents to be physically present in front of their eyes, right from infancy. In fact, when a child is in his/her mother’s womb, he or she, happens to hear the voices of the parents and starts distinguishing between the world on one side and parents on the other. It is absolutely necessary, from that time onwards, that parents do maintain a warm relationship amongst themselves.

2) Listening to and Understanding your child : Just being physically present doesn’t always serve the purpose. You have to listen to almost everything what your child wants you to understand, and interact with the infant as much as possible. This develops a proper bonding and communication between you and your child.

3) Being Supportive Towards Your Partner : Whether you are living together with your partner or not, should be the secondary issue for an ideal parent. The Parents should work together for the welfare of the child. Differences of opinion are a normal feature of parenthood. The most important thing is how the parents resolve or settle the differences that matter. In any case, exchange of respective ideas between the parents should he done in private and no confrontation whatsoever should take place in front of the child. This is just to preserve a feeling of emotional stability and security in the child.

4) Interact With the Child as much as Possible: One of the best ways of developing a good bonding with your child is to play with him/her. In other words, at times, parents do need to behave like children to maintain a close and proper interaction with them. Parents have to enter the child’s world in order to understand and exchange ideas and this in turn makes the child feel secure as well as it gives a sense of comfort and enjoyment to him/her.

5) Teach By Actions : Parents must keep in mind that children are hard core followers of their actions. They observe and follow each individual action of the parent and imitate them. So, it is very essential for a parent to act, behave and socialize properly, so that the child can pick up the best from them.

6) Love : The Best Tool To discipline The Child - To discipline is to guide and bring the best out of your child. Parents should be caring and loving enough, so that the child is inclined to listen to what they say. Talking in a harsh tone, or in a commanding attitude or forcible implications to certain aspects may have and adverse effect on the child’s all-round development.

Parenthood is never smooth and easy as becoming a parent is. It should always be remembered that if one can survive parenthood, one can survive anything.