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Benefits of Financial and Accountancy Seminars
By Richard J Kaplan
Financial and accountancy seminars are the best ways in which you can train and inspire yourself to apply effective practices to enhance your basic skills. It is very important to keep yourself updated with the latest happenings in the industry. This will make you an expert in the finance field. Remember that trends, laws and objectives change consistently in the field of finance and accounting. You would require continuation with your education on various current topics depending on your job requirements.
There are several benefits that you can enjoy via attending various accounting and financial information from time to time. Here are some of the benefits you enjoy:
Financial and accountancy seminars are the best ways in which you can train and inspire yourself to apply effective practices to enhance your basic skills. It is very important to keep yourself updated with the latest happenings in the industry. This will make you an expert in the finance field. Remember that trends, laws and objectives change consistently in the field of finance and accounting. You would require continuation with your education on various current topics depending on your job requirements.There are several benefits that you can enjoy via attending various accounting and financial information from time to time. Here are some of the benefits you enjoy:
- These seminars work towards broadening your knowledge and experience in the field of finance and accountancy.
- You can encounter with some successful and famous personalities at these seminars. This will help you share all your experiences with famous personalities and professionals in this field.
- You would get excellent tips on what works in the industry and what does not.
Facebook Users Reaches 500 Million People
Founder and executive director of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg says it reached the number of historic sites this Wednesday.
Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Social network Facebook announced that it has to have 500 million users worldwide.
Founder and executive director of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg says it reached the number of historic sites this Wednesday. This network is so great that the number of users larger than the population of any country in the world except China and India.
Zuckerberg told television network ABC News that Facebook and other Internet sites allow people to interact and express their opinions with an efficiency that is not available to previous generations. He also said that Facebook launched a new application called Facebook Stories, where users can share stories about how Facebook has affected their lives.
Meanwhile, the social network Twitter says it will open a new data operations center in Salt Lake City, the state of Utah to provide greater capacity for the rapidly growing user base.
Engineering program manager for the company, Jean-Paul Cozzatti, said in a message posted on Twitter that more than 300,000 people signed up on the site every day.
source page: Pengguna Facebook Capai 500 Juta Orang | Berita | Bahasa Indonesia http://www1.voanews.com/indonesian/news/Pengguna-Facebook-Capai-500-Juta-Orang-99062589.html edisi : Kamis, 22 Juli 2010
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Social network Facebook announced that it has to have 500 million users worldwide.
Founder and executive director of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg says it reached the number of historic sites this Wednesday. This network is so great that the number of users larger than the population of any country in the world except China and India.
Zuckerberg told television network ABC News that Facebook and other Internet sites allow people to interact and express their opinions with an efficiency that is not available to previous generations. He also said that Facebook launched a new application called Facebook Stories, where users can share stories about how Facebook has affected their lives.
Meanwhile, the social network Twitter says it will open a new data operations center in Salt Lake City, the state of Utah to provide greater capacity for the rapidly growing user base.
Engineering program manager for the company, Jean-Paul Cozzatti, said in a message posted on Twitter that more than 300,000 people signed up on the site every day.
source page: Pengguna Facebook Capai 500 Juta Orang | Berita | Bahasa Indonesia http://www1.voanews.com/indonesian/news/Pengguna-Facebook-Capai-500-Juta-Orang-99062589.html edisi : Kamis, 22 Juli 2010
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Live At The Troubadour [CD / DVD Combo]
P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program - 13 DVDs, Nutrition Guide, Exercise Planner
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Rush - Beyond the Lighted Stage [2 DVD]
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In information retrieval a few strong words. They really descriptive and get right to the point of what people are looking for. Other words have little value does not exist. The reason the concept of stop words appear is that you really can not say much about the documents that include words such as, an, and, that, etc.. The other side of stop words are words that have a high discrimination values. Recently I was looking to see if there are FedEx office in the town where my mother lived, and although no one, Google still returned a few pages (home pages and page store locator) from FedEx.com web site in search results. That's great search results, and Google is smart to place more weight on core concepts in a search word (FedEx), while placing less weight on the location. Words that have a low discrimination value may have a higher discriminatory value when combined with neighboring words. Heat and dogs may have different meanings when they are adjacent. As described in this Wired article: Take, for example, how to learn engine Google is synonymous words. "We found it very good beginning," said Singhal. "People change the words in their request. So, someone will say, 'photographs of dogs,' and then they'll say, 'photographs of a puppy." So who said that maybe' dog 'and' dog 'which interchangeable. We also learned that when you boil water, the water was hot. We learned back semantics of human beings, and that's a big improvement. " But there are obstacles. Google is synonymous system is understood that a similar dog with the dog and the boiling hot water. But it also concluded that the hot dog with puppies boil. The problem was fixed in late 2002 by a breakthrough that is based on the theories of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein about how words are defined by the context. As Google crawls and billions of archived documents and Web pages, analyze what those words close to each other. "Hot dog" would be found in a search that also contains the "bread" and "mustard" and the game of baseball "" - not boiled pooches. Algorithm that helps to understand what is "hot dog" - and millions of other terms - is intended. "Today, if you type in 'Gandhi's bio,' we know that bio biography means," said Singhal. "And if you type bio war ',' means biological." The concept of discrimination also has a value outside the search. If you get feedback from an anonymous person in a third-party sites because it got so much weight (maybe none). If you get feedback from someone who is not anonymous it will be more severe. If you get feedback from customers will pay far more severe. One of the most powerful level of discrimination was the payment. If someone pays you (usually) you know who they are and they have expressed interest in significantly exceed what most people would do. I think the online business model to demand payment of regular users are not hyped and is not considered sexy because those models are often slow due to the gap cent growth and the need for greater trust to convert. While a marketer programming can be heard from the new network (say Pippers) and create 40 000 fake accounts in one hour. Pippers owner can then talk about their explosive growth in the media, those who get media coverage. In turn this will enhance their ability to raise capital and to continue "their growth." But a lot of social networks end up being a bag of smoke that will fade as they aim for the bucket as a creature in a very broad database and to have little discrimination value. I have read Are You Not Gadget and he compared the depersonalization of an extensive social network for the beauty of a forum he is a member of the oud. Many such as charging for entry, obscurity is a filter that increases the level of discourse. Compare the comments on the * site * niche topics to what you find on Youtube. If you can show that the site is consistently worse than Youtube (outside sites like 4Chan that specialize in making the campaign to try to make orang memiliki epileptic seizures), I'll buy you a beer kemudian next time we met. : D My wife FaceBook account deleted because she was upset at the behavior of some people on it. Part of the problem with social networks is that they are so broad and so the friction that your activities on them are not really important. As a marketer there are several ways to play such a network Largely ignored Make friends with everyone Use the bot As marketers the first of those options means that you save your time to pay the higher regions, and the second of those options means more people see more of what the distribution of content that you create. But a lot of help is the best tool dubious short-term opportunistic ploys. The third option means you are one person who will go out of their way to make the web even worse, but it will be a lot. ;) Generally given every month I have not been on Facebook for more than five minutes outside writing & ad targeting, or approve some real "friends" and hundreds to thousands of others who claimed to be my friend. But if you message me on FaceBook exactly 0% chance to get answers. :) When Facebook launched Beacon several years ago they wanted to sell the peer pressure as the ad unit. If the brand can show that your friends do something then maybe that can help lead to a kind of cumulative environmental benefits that you follow along. Beacon is a conspicuous violation of the privacy of users as it quickly shot down by the market. But with the new FaceBook such as buttons, they tried to use as click a button to enter your name in the ad: "Marketers have always known that the best way to sell something to get your friends to sell it," said Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer. "That's what people do all day on Facebook We enable effective advertising word of mouth on the scale for the first time .." In the short term may work, but in the longrun i do not like the concept. Many reasons. You can agree with a certain thing and people say that while almost contrary to their general philosophy on life. For example, when we released that "How Google Works one" last week's infographic from journalists who wrote about it also mentioned how dirty and nasty SEO industry, but he is willing to promote the SEO efforts because it was published on a blog by the acronym in the younger domain name . : D ... Of the 3000 + people who chose us may be less than half of them knew anything about me, or even my relationship with the site. You may like one product from the company, but unlike their other products. I have been working with Godaddy as registrar for many years. And I have no complaints on that front. But they also sell some search engines delivery service that I would be horrified to see my name promotes. You click the button once on one page. Many years later the business is trading you liked in other areas ... they moved from the remaining inventory for spyware, and you recommend them. ;) An individual can have many lines of work. You may want to Thom Yorke of Radiohead role, but you may not like the political views or solo work. Imagine when someone buys a car that you have recommended passive factory defects. One of their loved ones were killed, and you eat blame. As with any business, people change from time to time. This is particularly true in business, in which a former spouse or a friend out of their way to betray your trust and screw you. How do I love working with the 301 redirect? How does it work when the content of the pages actually shifted from useful to peddle garbage to the hyped up sales letters? Such a discrimination does not have much value. And it should not last long. Why do you like anything? When do you prefer? Who knows. Would you like a Toyota right up to the brake does not work? Once you get out of the hospital, how do you feel when your friend asks you why you are still promoting their products? Do you work for a digital sharecropper like Jason Calacanas host that requires you to drive their garbage to other places? How do you feel when your friend asks you why you are promoting your trash after she canned with a notice of weeks while bragging how they have approached the break-even and has more than eight years of cash in the bank? Once people experience will they become tired and stop recommending things? And if there isn'ta reaction to the button and then given a sufficient time from your friends will like almost anything. No matter the product / service / offer ... if the pool you "friend" large enough then one of them is to receive affiliate commissions to encourage something, one of them owes assistance to the traders, and one of them like to traders because they take the tab at the bar last month. Waves old girls blonde haired 18-year 100 million who are lonely have joined FaceBook Friending up in despair and then promoting goods scammy to them through such automatic key clicks. And of course there will be services such as SpikeTheVote. Sure fad may work in the short term, but with enough time and there will be a recommendation of a friend to almost anything. After wearing the new man to do so important? In the database records at any time can be ad targeting mechanism. Am I going to promote some of my products are thousands of "friends" to create or support with a click of the mouse that changed the purpose after the fact? At first a strong online petition because they seem to have mobilized people plot. But then people realized that the voices represent no more than sending automatic form and clicking send. Two mouse clicks. Not a lot of discrimination.
How To Price SEO Book.com
Ever wondered how to price your SEO services? Your products? Have you set your prices at a point where you can get the best possible returns?
Pricing seems simple, but there's a bit of an art to getting it right.
In this article we'll take a look at different ways to price, a few strategies to use, and why you might want to avoid charging everyone the same price.
Why Pricing Strategy Matters
Obviously, if we get our pricing wrong, we'll miss out on business.
In order to increase profits, we could devise new services and products. However, by adjusting our existing pricing strategy on goods or services we already provide, we can squeeze out extra revenue with little effort.
To get greater returns from pricing, companies typically find ways to charge different prices to different customers.
Cost Plus Pricing
Cost-plus pricing is a common pricing method. Pricing of a good or service is determined by working out the total production cost, then add a profit margin. There's nothing wrong with this method - cost-plus pricing is widely used - however it does present a few problems.
One problem is that cost-plus pricing doesn't take into account the role of competitors. If we offer a SEO service at $15,000, arrived at by the cost-plus method, but our competitors offer the same service for $10,000 then our pricing clearly won't work. We must price in accordance with the market.
Cost-plus pricing doesn't take into account fluctuating demand. If demand for your products/services suddenly goes through the roof - say because you've been interviewed on nationwide television - they become scarce, and price should rise to reflect this scarcity.
Another problem is that it doesn't take value, as perceived by the customer, into account.
Imagine that you've created a widget that enables a machine to work at twice the output it did before. The value to the customer is considerable, as they can now double their output with little extra investment. The total cost of building the widget may be low. Cost-plus pricing would typically underprice such a widget. Value based pricing would charge in line with the total value it creates for the customer i.e. the increased value of their output.
In terms of SEO, are you charging enough for your services if you charge a few thousand dollars, whilst your clients make millions? Thinking of pricing in terms of value provided to your customer is a key to increasing profits.
Let's look at a method to accurately calculate a price for your goods or services.
Pricing Calculator
In the The Art Of Pricing, you can find the following method for setting prices.
Step One: Price & Availability Of Substitutes
Are there any substitutes for your product?
If so, how are they priced?
Step 2: Characteristics Relative to Competitors
What features do you offer that your competitors do not, and vice versa?
Do you customers value these features enough to pay extra for them?
Do customers value other characteristics, such as brand, established service levels, reputation, locality etc?
Step 3: Income
Can your customers afford your prices?
Are they less able to afford your prices than they once were?
Are there times of the year they can afford it, and other times where their purchasing power is constrained?
Step 4. Price/Strength Of Demand For Related Products
What are the associated overheads of owning your product? For example, if you sold cars, there are other costs involved that make up the total cost of ownership, including running costs, insurance and maintenance.
Step 5 - Market Environment
Has your product suddenly become high profile?
Has demand increased/decreased considerably in a short period of time?
This type of approach takes into account a number of variables when setting price, namely affordability, value, market conditions, and competition.
For example, say there is a natural disaster where people lose their homes. A hotel may jack up the rates to ridiculous levels because it knows demand will surge, however the long-term value of the brand may be damaged if the hotel gets a reputation for price gouging.
Some companies may want to price at a level that gains them clients, but not revenue. For example, in order to build a reputation in the market, new SEO agencies sometimes provide services at a discount, or free, in order to get a few big name clients on their books.
The Law Of Three: If you go into a shop to buy a washing machine, you'll likely be faced with a range of models. Nothing odd about this, of course. The shop is trying to cover all bases.
However, there is often something more subtle going on. Most people will buy middle of the range. The middle of the range feels "safest". So, a shop will often have a ludicrously expensive model, and a very cheap model. The actual model they want to sell you is the priced in the middle of those two extremes. If the shop didn't offer a ridiculously expensive model as a basis for comparison, the middle option becomes the expensive option, and you're more likely to set your sights lower.
When you offer SEO services, try doing the same. Offer a bells and whilstles version that is highly priced, a mid option, and a cheap option. Typically, your customers will select the middle option. If you only offer two options, people typically choose the cheapest.
Auctions: Perhaps not applicable to SEO, but if you're selling products, the auction system can be a great way to achieve better prices. Entire books have been written about the psychological effects of auctions, but it all boils down to the fact that people place different values on products based on their own needs. Those who want the product the most, pay the most.
Versioning - Offer slightly different versions of the same thing. See Apple and their iPad pricing. The cost of production of each model is probably near identical across the range, but by offering different versions, they can figure out who is prepared to pay more.
Versioning can often be more extreme when setting a wide price range. Conferences tend to offer coupons off retail price for early attendees, but so long as the full price has been seen publicly by some folks, this lends a perception of value that can be used in subsequent marketing & packaging. Some companies might run an in-person conference which charges thousands of dollars, and then afterwards, sell you a download version of it for a few hundred dollars, all the while anchoring on the "fact" that you just saved $1,000+ with your purchase. The "crucial" networking & intimacy benefits which were used to promote the in-person event soon disappear and the concepts of value and convenience (instant download, no travel required, etc.) are brought to the fore.
Segmented Pricing - Perhaps your buyers can't pay the entire cost up front, but they can buy using other arrangements, like a monthly fee. Some clients might prefer bundle offers where everything is done for them, whilst others want to mix and match parts of your service. Offer different options so your client can fit their budget to your offering.
Differential Pricing - Offering coupons can grab those buyers who are very price sensitive, or looking to buy only if they perceive a genuine bargain. Your other customers won't bother with coupons, so you can successfully run two different pricing strategies, one discount and one full price, by using coupons.
Markdowns - Obvious, but powerful. You advertise the usual price, but a line through it, and offer it at a reduced price. What's not so obvious is when markdowns should be used. Markdowns don't work so well on luxury items, as this can compromise their exclusivity value. Not much point owning a high-end garment is everyone has one.
Notice that luxury items either don't display their price, or, if they do, its typically stated in rounded figures i.e. $1500. Budget items price in dollars and cents i.e. $39.95 or slightly under the next increment i.e. $99 as opposed to $100. The format of the price signals exclusivity, or lack thereof.
However, keep in mind that if the differing price points reflect different levels of value, then the customer is deciding what they value most. If they want the full service, they should expect to pay full-service prices. If they want the lowest price, they may be prepared to wait or sacrifice some features. The customer decides what they value, and votes with their cash.
And they can always say "no" :)
Pricing seems simple, but there's a bit of an art to getting it right.
In this article we'll take a look at different ways to price, a few strategies to use, and why you might want to avoid charging everyone the same price.
Why Pricing Strategy Matters
Obviously, if we get our pricing wrong, we'll miss out on business.
In order to increase profits, we could devise new services and products. However, by adjusting our existing pricing strategy on goods or services we already provide, we can squeeze out extra revenue with little effort.
To get greater returns from pricing, companies typically find ways to charge different prices to different customers.
Cost Plus Pricing
Cost-plus pricing is a common pricing method. Pricing of a good or service is determined by working out the total production cost, then add a profit margin. There's nothing wrong with this method - cost-plus pricing is widely used - however it does present a few problems.
One problem is that cost-plus pricing doesn't take into account the role of competitors. If we offer a SEO service at $15,000, arrived at by the cost-plus method, but our competitors offer the same service for $10,000 then our pricing clearly won't work. We must price in accordance with the market.
Cost-plus pricing doesn't take into account fluctuating demand. If demand for your products/services suddenly goes through the roof - say because you've been interviewed on nationwide television - they become scarce, and price should rise to reflect this scarcity.
Another problem is that it doesn't take value, as perceived by the customer, into account.
Imagine that you've created a widget that enables a machine to work at twice the output it did before. The value to the customer is considerable, as they can now double their output with little extra investment. The total cost of building the widget may be low. Cost-plus pricing would typically underprice such a widget. Value based pricing would charge in line with the total value it creates for the customer i.e. the increased value of their output.
In terms of SEO, are you charging enough for your services if you charge a few thousand dollars, whilst your clients make millions? Thinking of pricing in terms of value provided to your customer is a key to increasing profits.
Let's look at a method to accurately calculate a price for your goods or services.
Pricing Calculator
In the The Art Of Pricing, you can find the following method for setting prices.
Step One: Price & Availability Of Substitutes
Are there any substitutes for your product?
If so, how are they priced?
Step 2: Characteristics Relative to Competitors
What features do you offer that your competitors do not, and vice versa?
Do you customers value these features enough to pay extra for them?
Do customers value other characteristics, such as brand, established service levels, reputation, locality etc?
Step 3: Income
Can your customers afford your prices?
Are they less able to afford your prices than they once were?
Are there times of the year they can afford it, and other times where their purchasing power is constrained?
Step 4. Price/Strength Of Demand For Related Products
What are the associated overheads of owning your product? For example, if you sold cars, there are other costs involved that make up the total cost of ownership, including running costs, insurance and maintenance.
Step 5 - Market Environment
Has your product suddenly become high profile?
Has demand increased/decreased considerably in a short period of time?
This type of approach takes into account a number of variables when setting price, namely affordability, value, market conditions, and competition.
Some Issues With Value Pricing
Pricing, without taking into account overall business strategy, is a mistake.For example, say there is a natural disaster where people lose their homes. A hotel may jack up the rates to ridiculous levels because it knows demand will surge, however the long-term value of the brand may be damaged if the hotel gets a reputation for price gouging.
Some companies may want to price at a level that gains them clients, but not revenue. For example, in order to build a reputation in the market, new SEO agencies sometimes provide services at a discount, or free, in order to get a few big name clients on their books.
Pricing Tricks
Let's take a look at a few common pricing methods in practical terms.The Law Of Three: If you go into a shop to buy a washing machine, you'll likely be faced with a range of models. Nothing odd about this, of course. The shop is trying to cover all bases.
However, there is often something more subtle going on. Most people will buy middle of the range. The middle of the range feels "safest". So, a shop will often have a ludicrously expensive model, and a very cheap model. The actual model they want to sell you is the priced in the middle of those two extremes. If the shop didn't offer a ridiculously expensive model as a basis for comparison, the middle option becomes the expensive option, and you're more likely to set your sights lower.
When you offer SEO services, try doing the same. Offer a bells and whilstles version that is highly priced, a mid option, and a cheap option. Typically, your customers will select the middle option. If you only offer two options, people typically choose the cheapest.
Auctions: Perhaps not applicable to SEO, but if you're selling products, the auction system can be a great way to achieve better prices. Entire books have been written about the psychological effects of auctions, but it all boils down to the fact that people place different values on products based on their own needs. Those who want the product the most, pay the most.
Versioning - Offer slightly different versions of the same thing. See Apple and their iPad pricing. The cost of production of each model is probably near identical across the range, but by offering different versions, they can figure out who is prepared to pay more.
Versioning can often be more extreme when setting a wide price range. Conferences tend to offer coupons off retail price for early attendees, but so long as the full price has been seen publicly by some folks, this lends a perception of value that can be used in subsequent marketing & packaging. Some companies might run an in-person conference which charges thousands of dollars, and then afterwards, sell you a download version of it for a few hundred dollars, all the while anchoring on the "fact" that you just saved $1,000+ with your purchase. The "crucial" networking & intimacy benefits which were used to promote the in-person event soon disappear and the concepts of value and convenience (instant download, no travel required, etc.) are brought to the fore.
Segmented Pricing - Perhaps your buyers can't pay the entire cost up front, but they can buy using other arrangements, like a monthly fee. Some clients might prefer bundle offers where everything is done for them, whilst others want to mix and match parts of your service. Offer different options so your client can fit their budget to your offering.
Differential Pricing - Offering coupons can grab those buyers who are very price sensitive, or looking to buy only if they perceive a genuine bargain. Your other customers won't bother with coupons, so you can successfully run two different pricing strategies, one discount and one full price, by using coupons.
Markdowns - Obvious, but powerful. You advertise the usual price, but a line through it, and offer it at a reduced price. What's not so obvious is when markdowns should be used. Markdowns don't work so well on luxury items, as this can compromise their exclusivity value. Not much point owning a high-end garment is everyone has one.
Notice that luxury items either don't display their price, or, if they do, its typically stated in rounded figures i.e. $1500. Budget items price in dollars and cents i.e. $39.95 or slightly under the next increment i.e. $99 as opposed to $100. The format of the price signals exclusivity, or lack thereof.
But Is This Fair?
Offering one price to one group, and another price to others may seem unfair. This is something you'll need to weigh up for yourself.However, keep in mind that if the differing price points reflect different levels of value, then the customer is deciding what they value most. If they want the full service, they should expect to pay full-service prices. If they want the lowest price, they may be prepared to wait or sacrifice some features. The customer decides what they value, and votes with their cash.
And they can always say "no" :)