Banker to organic farming

“Farming is fascinating. The only thing is that it requires continuous hard-work and devotion without any distraction” says Mr. Barun Singh, a government bank manager-turned-farmer.Mr. Barun Singh maintains

failure is the steeping stone for sucess

Long before the iPhone made him the god of gadgets, Steve Jobs launched his tech career by hacking land lines to make free long-distance calls.

Bob Dylan’s band, the Golden Chords, lost a high-school talent competition to a tap dancing act.

MBA sabjiwala

A son of farmer from the Ahmadnagar village of Nalanda district of Bihar taking an education loan of Rs 5 lakh to complete a degree and topping the elite Indian Institute

Dhoom 3 box office collection till date

Despite the arrival of two new films, "Dhoom 3" keeps on dominating the Indian box office. The Aamir Khan starrer is selling strong even in its third week at the ticket windows.

The action-thriller minted around ₹3.5 crore on its third Saturday from Hindi, Tamil and Telugu versions, as per early estimates. The overall total of the film now stands at ₹263.95 crore.

"Dhoom 3- All Languages 3rd Friday Hindi Rs 3.03 Cr Tamil & Telugu Rs 0.11 Cr Total Rs 3.14 Cr Grand Total:- Rs 260.45 Cr.

The film is continuing its record-breaking run at theaters in India, as well as the international markets. In two weeks, the film has made a business of about ₹149.47 crore from overseas box offices.

"#Dhoom3 *Overseas total* till yesterday [3rd week Friday]: $ 24.01 million [₹ 149.47 cr].

The worldwide total of the film, after 15 days, now stands at ₹413.42 crore.

The collections would go down eventually when "Dhoom 3" will enter its fourth week box office run. Next week two films - Madhuri Dixit-Nene's "Dedh Ishqiya" and "Yaariyan" - are set to release and will affect the business of "Dhoom 3" in India.

It's very unlikely that the film would create a ₹300 crore club in India, as its collections have already slowed down. However, at the worldwide box office, the film is entering the ₹500 crore club.

The film, which is the third installment in the Dhoom franchise, is produced under the Yash Raj banner. Directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, the film also features Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra and Katrina Kaif in important roles.

Secret of sucessful china

The U.S. is in denial. Alarmed by China’s relentless economic rise and its own relative decline, the U.S. has convinced itself that China is cheating (through low wages, currency manipulation, technology theft, and “state-capitalism”) and that only a get-tough policy will arrest its rise and put the U.S. back on top. As U.S. President Barack Obama warned while visiting China’s Vice-President Xi Jinping last week, China has to start playing by the economic rules. The reality that China is simply more competitive than the U.S. – that there’s a mathematical inevitability about 1.3 billion educated, disciplined, hard-working Chinese overtaking the U.S., and that China’s economic ascendency cannot be stopped – has yet to dawn on a political establishment that cannot imagine a world in which the U.S. is not on top.
Consider productivity. According to the U.S. Conference Board, China’s productivity growth was the world’s highest last year at 8.7 per cent – a position it’s held since the mid-1990s. In comparison, productivity grew by just three per cent in rich countries in 2010, and will likely come in at 1.6 per cent in 2011. A recent New York Times article describes how, when Apple needed to quickly re-engineer its iPhone screens, it inevitably turned to Chinese factories because none in the U.S. could meet the necessary turn-around time:

New screens began arriving at the plant at midnight. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into bevelled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
A similar story could be told about almost any company outsourcing manufacturing to China.

The U.S. still tops the productivity league table. But it’s competing against Chinese workers who are paid a fraction of what American workers are paid but whose productivity is getting closer and closer to U.S. levels – and, in some cases, exceeding them. The average Chinese manufacturing wage is $3.10 per hour – one-seventh of the $22.50-per-hour average in the United States. A Chinese engineer costs one-third his American counterpart. These basic competitive advantages explain why China was the second-biggest recipient of foreign investment last year – not just in labour-intensive sectors, but also increasingly in high-tech industries and services. The main competition for the U.S. comes not from China’s “state-capitalism,” but from American multinationals – Apple, GE, AT&T, General Motors, Merck, Coca Cola, P&G – that increasingly chase global growth by “outsourcing” production to China, and which, by building factories, transferring technology, and linking China to foreign markets, are further boosting Chinese productivity. The biggest “exporter” to the U.S., for example, is Wal-Mart and its suppliers. Caterpillar, a relative latecomer to the Chinese market, now has three of its four global research facilities in China, and its highest-quality equipment is no longer “Made in the U.S.A.” or even “Made in Japan,” but “Made in China.”
Consider education. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest Programme for International Student Assessment results, a comparison of worldwide education standards, placed Chinese high-school students on top in every category, while the U.S. ranked 17th out of 43 countries in reading, 23rd in science, and lower still in math. None of this would surprise anyone who’s spent time in China, where family and state alike place huge emphasis on education, and where schools and universities are teeming with bright, competitive, and exceptionally hard-working students. Nor would the OECD results surprise anyone familiar with the state of the education system in the U.S., where decaying urban public schools – with their drug tests, metal detectors, dispirited teachers, and near-50-per-cent drop-out rates – can resemble penitentiaries more than places of learning. The Obama administration has quietly dropped the goal, under the “No Child Left Behind” initiative, that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014, because tens of thousands can’t meet it. The U.S. Education Department recently offered the shocking statistic that 32 million Americans – one in seven adults – are illiterate.
The U.S. finds consolation in the fact that its elite universities are still the world’s best, and that it continues to lead in technological innovation. But for how long? Two-thirds of the 8,000 PhD engineers who graduated from U.S. universities last year were foreigners (mostly Chinese and Indian), the majority of whom were denied the opportunity to work in the U.S. – and thus “repay” the U.S.’s investment in their education – because of protectionist U.S. immigration laws. Meanwhile, Chinese universities graduated half a million engineers, scientists, and technologists last year – a figure that, even if officially exaggerated, easily dwarfs numbers in the U.S., where engineering and science enrolment has declined steadily since the mid-1980s, as more and more top students pursue business studies and the riches of banking or consulting careers. Almost half of Harvard’s 2007 graduating class, for example, ended up on Wall Street. Not surprisingly, U.S. international patent filings dropped from 51,000 to 45,000 between 2006 and 2010, while China’s filings tripled from 4,000 to over 12,000.

Consider scale. Although the U.S. has faced fierce competition from “newly industrializing” economies before – think Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan – what’s different this time is the sheer scale of the Chinese colossus and the speed of its transformation. China’s economy has grown at a rate of 10 per cent a year – without interruption – for the past three decades, a scale of industrialization that has never been seen before, and that will never be seen again. Giants India, Indonesia, and Brazil are not far behind. But while China’s per-capita income has grown an astonishing 12-fold since 1980, it’s still only a tenth of U.S. levels – roughly where the U.S. was a century ago – illustrating the enormous potential for catch-up. China is already the world’s second-biggest economy, and its biggest exporter, car market, and consumer of grain, meat, coal, copper, and steel. And its “great leap forward” is just beginning. A fitting symbol of China’s vast industrial machine is the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen – aptly named “Foxconn City” – within whose walls almost half a million people work, and a quarter of a million live.

Does China cheat? No question. As does almost every other country – whether it’s promoting “strategic technologies,” “safe domestic banks,” “cultural industries,” “family farms,” or “buy American” products. But cheating is not the main reason China is succeeding so spectacularly. Any visitor to China cannot help but be struck (and even shocked) by the extraordinary work ethic, raw competition, and single-minded drive for material advancement, and not come away with a clear picture of why the country is booming. Just as unsettling is the mirror China holds up to us. The world was once in awe of the West for the same reasons we are now in awe of China – and many of the same values that underpin China’s current success also made the West great (Max Weber labelled it the Protestant work ethic). But today, the rest of the world is more likely to view the U.S. and Europe as geriatric economies destined to fade. When European officials approached China last year to contribute to the euro’s bailout, the chairman of the China Investment Corporation dismissed European workers as “indolent” and “slothful,” more concerned with “languishing on beaches,” and refused to consider rescuing Europe until it reformed its “worn out” labour laws and welfare state.

The good news is that – if history is any guide – China’s competitive edge cannot last forever. Its single-minded focus on making existing products more cheaply – at low-wages, with borrowed technology, in mass factories – is ideally suited to the catch-up phase of economic development. It’s less clear that China is well placed to innovate on its own, to invent the next iPhone or Adele. Besides, Chinese wages are gradually rising, inflation is eating away at its currency edge, and workers are beginning to demand a greater share of the fruits of their labour. One day, China may well resemble France – with a 35-hour work week, two-hour lunch breaks, and month-long congés d’étè on the Riviera. Until then, however, the West should get used to being in second place.

Guru of the digital age

Marketing Guru for the Digital Age
Michael Mothner was on the last round of interviews for a coveted job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York. The managing director looked over his résumé and noticed a company called Wpromote, which Mothner said he had started and had some success with as a sophomore at Dartmouth in 2001. "To call my bluff, he asked why I would want to work for Goldman if my company had been successful," says Mothner, now 29. "That was a defining moment for me. I stood up and said, 'You know what? You're right. I don't think this job is right for me.'"

After recovering from the shock, he began building Wpromote a search engine marketing company that then offered a cheap platform for submitting websites to multiple search engines. This was 2004, and Google was just coming on--but Mothner foresaw its dominance. "I was having a lot of success using Google's pay-per-click services to drive traffic to my company," he says. "So I came to the conclusion that there was a market for helping consult and manage these PPC campaigns for other people."

Wpromote did just that, launching a tiered service that helped people create PPC campaigns, choose keywords and manage bids. In the process, Mothner and his team were learning a lot about what elements helped websites get better Google rankings, so Wpromote offered a search engine optimization service too.

The strategy paid off: Wpromote rocketed from $500,000 in sales in '04 to $2.8 million in '05 and $6.2 million by 2007. Then the economy went south, but Mothner barreled ahead anyway.

Today Wpromote, based in El Segundo, Calif., has 62 employees providing PPC, SEO, web development and social media advertising to 2,300 clients, including Hewlett-Packard. It had $8.5 million in sales for 2009 and expects to book at least $12 million to $13 million this year. Plus, Mothner plans to run Wpromote as if he will own it forever: "I think it is dangerous when people build companies with the sole intention of selling them.

Success in network marketing

You probably have an image firmly planted in your mind of what network marketing (also known as direct sales or multilevel marketing) is all about--housewives buying and selling Tupperware while gossiping and eating finger sandwiches, or a high-pressure salesperson trying to convince you how easily you can become a millionaire if only you and your friends and their friends and so on would buy and sell vitamins with him.

Both of these images couldn't be further from the reality of network marketing. It's neither a hobby nor a get-rich-scheme but an opportunity for you to earn money running your own part- or full-time business.

Choose wisely. There are six key elements you should be looking for [when selecting an opportunity]. Number one: stability. How old is the company? Number two is excellent products or services that consumers will use and need more of.

Number three is the pay plan--how even and fair and generous overall is the distribution? This is really crucial as the pay plan represents exactly how you'll get paid--or not get paid. There are really only two questions to ask [regarding this]: How many pennies out of each sales dollar get paid back to the distributors each month, and how fair is the distribution of these pennies between the old members and the new members?

Number four is the integrity of the company and the management. As much as possible, [investigate] the experience of the CEO, [their] experience in the network marketing industry, and their background. [Have] they been successful in other companies in the industry? Do they have a good reputation?

Number five is momentum and timing. Look at where the company's at, what's going on with the company, and if it's growing.

Number six is support, training and business systems. You may have [chosen] a great company with excellent management, products that make a difference, a pay plan that's uniquely fair and very generous, and momentum and stability, but if you don't have a system in place that works, all of that [doesn't matter]. Most companies will have a transferable training system that they use, and that's where mentorship comes in.

Practice what they teach. [To succeed,] you need to be willing to listen and learn from mentors. The way this industry is structured, it's in the best interests of the [MLM veterans in your company] to help you succeed, so they're willing to teach you the system. Whatever [your mentor] did to become successful, it's very duplicatible, but you have to be willing to listen and be taught and follow those systems.

The higher-ups. It can be called various things, but the general term is the "upline," meaning the people above you. How supportive are they? Do they call you? Do they help you put a plan in place? Are they as committed to your success as they are to their own? You should be able to relate to [the people in your upline] and be able to call them at any time to say "I need some help." How much support there is from the people above you in the company is very important.

Take up the lead with your downline. There's a term in the network marketing industry called "orphans"--when somebody is brought in and then the person who brought them in is just so busy bringing in other people that they don't spend the time to teach and train [the new person]. You should be prepared to spend at least 30 days helping a new person come into the industry--training them, supporting them and holding their hand until they feel confident to be able to go off on their own. You really need to ask yourself, are you willing to do that? Are you able to do that? This is really about long-term relationship building. It's not about just bringing people into the business and just moving forward. It's about working with these people and helping them to develop relationships.

On the net. People are utilizing [the internet] as their main marketing tool. [You can set up your site] with autoresponders so when you capture leads, the autoresponder can follow up with that person. One of the greatest keys to success in this industry is follow-up. Many people will have someone call them who's interested or they'll call the person and say they're interested, but then they don't follow up with it. Automation on the internet has allowed a much more consistent method of following up.

The only drawback with the internet is people who utilize it to spam. If there was one thing I could put forward to say, "Do not do" when utilizing the internet as a marketing tool, it's spamming because that can give a very bad reputation not only to you but also to the company you're working with.

Taking care of business. This is a business, and just like if you were running a franchise or a storefront, you [should have an] accountant. You have all the same write-offs tax-wise that you have with running a [full-time] business, so it's very important to [do your research] prior to getting involved, before you start making money from it. How is that going to affect you tax-wise? What are your write-offs?

It's important to set up a [support] team around you. I'd suggest seeking out lawyers who deal in network marketing, so they're very versed in all the laws and how that affects [your business.]. There are also accountants who specialize in dealing with homebased businesses specifically in the direct-selling industry.

Don't quit your day job...yet. Never leave your full-time position unless you're absolutely certain that the income that's coming in with this company is going to be there. [Be sure that] you've been with the company [for awhile] and that you know it's a stable company, and the income that you're earning is equal to or greater than the income you're earning from your job before quitting.

Dhoom 3 review

Star cast: Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Uday chopra, Katrina kaif, Jackie Shroof.

Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya

What’s Good: The raw high octane action sequences, the pitch perfect bike thrills and mostly a great writing which lacked in both the previous editions.

What’s Bad: 

Top 10 should watch best Hollywood movies 2013

 

2013 is a great year for film buffs. There are many great hollywood movies 2013 which are slated to be shown this year. Most of them, especially the action movies, stars most of the biggest

Top 10 best hollywood upcoming movie 2014

013 is still a great year for Hollywood action movies as many action movies are released in this year. Some movies did a good business and became popular while some met failures. Every year lots of action movies are released and fortunately the release dates of upcoming 2014 Hollywood action movies are also published by some magazines. Popularity of these movies is based upon their cast and story. Directors and producers of action movies try to make them as interesting as possible and in the end it is all the audience that decides which movie is the best. Some details about top ten Hollywood action movies are as follows:

10. Robocop

This movie contains lots of action and that is why it is included in the top 10 list of upcoming Hollywood action movies. The director of this movie is Jose Padilha and it is produced by Marc Abraham and Eric Newman. Basically, this movie is based on science fiction and technology. Its cast includes some popular names like Gary Oldman, Samuel l. Jackson and Michael Keaton. The trailer of this movie is already released from where viewers can get an idea about it.

9. Captain America: The Winter Solider

After the success of Captain America’s first part, now the date of its second part Captain America: The winter Solider is released. The cast of this movie is still a bit same as lead actor is again Chris Evans and other actors are Samuel l. Jackson, Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson. This movie is a blend of action, science fiction and adventure, which are the main causes of its popularity.

8. Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise is coming up with another action film “Edge of Tomorrow” in 2014. This movie is completely based on technology and science fiction. As Tom is already known for best actions all around the world so this movie has got something very special to deliver. Besides Tom, the leading actress role is performed by Emily Blunt and they have tried together to present the best action of the world.

7. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1

This is another upcoming action movie of 2014. It is directed by Francis Lawrence and its leading actors are Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth. This movie offers adventure and action both at the same time and that is why it is included in the top 10 list of action movies.

6. Harker

Harker is going to be released in April 2014 and the reason for its popularity is the leading actor Russell Crowe. Apart from action, this movie also offers fantasy which makes it popular for adults as well as teenagers.

5. Hercules

The leading actor of this action movie is Dwayne Johnson and it is directed by Brett Ratner. It is produced by Roger Birnbaum and Peter Berg and it is a complete action and adventure movie. Its trailer is already famous in Box office and most of the viewers think that this movie will do a great business.

4. Dawn of the planet of the Apes

With the success of its first version, now its second part is going to be released. It is directed by Matt Reeves and it is a complete drama, action and science fiction movie. Entire cast of this movie is amazing and includes big names of film industry like Gary Oldman, Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke and Keri Russell.

3. 300: Rise of an Empire

This movie is also the second version of “300 movie” which came in 2012 and did a good business. Like first one, the second version is also full of action and drama. Its cast includes Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro and Sullivan Stapleton.

2. The Amazing Spiderman 2

Spiderman has always been a popular movie among children and adults for years and now the second version of “The Amazing Spiderman” is going to be released in the start of 2014. This movie is about action and romance and its main cast is Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Dane DeHanne.

1. Transformers 4

All three parts of transformers were super hit and now its fourth part is ready to be released. Technology and great machine work is shown in this movie. It is related to action and science fiction and leading actor in this movie is Mark Wahlberg.