Saturday, 22 November 2008

7 Steps to Achieve Whatever You Want in Your Life

1. Know exactly what you want to achieve in your life. You first find out what you want, if you do not know what you want, you will never achieve it. How can you hit if there is no target for you? This is also one of the most common problems with most people, they do not know what they want to achieve in their life, which is why most people live a mediocre life.

2. Once you knew what you want to achieve in your life, create strong and powerful belief system towards it. You must believe that you can achieve it before you actually achieve it. Your belief system is what going to determine what decision you make and how you live your life. Some people believe that they can be a millionaire, and that is why they can achieve it.

3. Set clear and specific goal. You must write down your goals about what you want to achieve in your life. Be as specific as possible. If your goals are not specific enough, you will be sending blurry message to your mind, as a result, it is hard for your mind to come up with strategies on how to achieve your goals.

4. After setting your goals, it is time for you to develop strategies on how you can achieve your goals. Your goals will determine the strategies that you set. If your goal is to earn $1,000, the strategies you develop are different from the goal of earning $100,000. Write down every strategies and action step you can think of in a piece of paper and start to organize them.

5. Organize your action plan and strategies. What you need to do is after you have written down all the goals and strategies, you must prioritize them and set deadline for each of them. Getting the most important task done first will greatly impact your life. Many people fail to achieve their goals because they are doing something unimportant. Successful people do the most important task that will give them the most results in their life first before they do others.

6. Take massive action according to your strategies. Nothing is going to happen without taking action. It is not like one day you wake up and you will achieve your goals. Action is the only factor that produces results. So if you are not taking any action, you will never achieve what you want in your life.

7. Take consistent and continuous action. You have to keep on improve on your strategies and review your goals all the time. Take consistent action all the time if you truly desire to achieve great success in your life. It is going to be a waste if you did everything but do not take the necessary action.

Thursday, 25 September 2008

Inspirational Quotes

"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Joe Sabah

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it". - Michael Jordan

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it" Charles Buxton

Monday, 8 September 2008

What is eMarketing?

eMarketing by its very nature is one aspect of an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. As such an aspect, eMarketing has its own approaches and tools that contribute to the achievement of marketing goals and objectives.

This also helps us to differentiate between eMarketing and E-commerce, since E-Commerce is simply buying and selling online.

What is the difference between eMarketing and Internet Marketing?

There is no real difference between eMarketing and Internet Marketing. However, with the arrival of mobile technologies such as PDA's and 3G mobile phones, as well as Interactive Television, both terms tend to be stretched to include these new media technologies. On the other hand, others would see eMarketing and Internet marketing a subtly different, for example Chaffey (below):

Internet marketing is achieving marketing objectives through applying digital technologies. (Chaffey 2006)

eMarketing is achieving marketing objectives through use of electronic communications technology. (Chaffey 2006)

Whilst this distinction is wholly acceptable, it is difficult to see where the distinction lies between digital technologies and electronic communications technologies, especially with the convergence of technologies such as mobile devices.

What are the eMarketing tools?

The Internet has a number of tools to offer to the marketer.

* A company can distribute via the Internet e.g. Amazon.com.
* A company can use the Internet as a way of building and maintaining a customer relationship e.g. Dell.com.
* The money collection part of a transaction could be done online e.g. electricity and telephone bills.
* Leads can be generated by attracting potential customers to sign-up for short periods of time, before signing up for the long-term e.g. which.co.uk.
* The Internet could be used for advertising e.g. Google Adwords.
* Finally, the web can be used as a way of collecting direct responses e.g. as part of a voting system for a game show.

What is Marketing?

Marketing is the management process that identifies, anticipates and satisfies customer requirements profitably -

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).