I Shouldn't Have Been Said That!

There are lots of controversy issue raises now and then, because of harsh and sometime derogatory statements passed by the celebrities hurting someone sentiments/emotions.  Here are few statements made by the people(in 2011) and came into limelight because of wrong reason, which they shouldn't have made. Check out few statements,

	Statement made:
	Anna Hazare: Ek hi maara? (Just One Slap) In Reference to: asked his opinion on Harvinder Singh(Delhi youth) slapping Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar.
	Rahul Gandhi: How long will you continue to beg for your livelihood in Maharastra or Punjab.
	Fresh president Nicholas Sarkozy: I cannot bear Netanyahu. He is a Liar.
	Shirish Kunder tweeted: The super hero in Ra.1 has all the powers in the world, but to entertain.  I just heard a Rs.150 crore firework fizzle.
	Gulam Nabi Azaad: Homosexuality is unnatural and not good for India.. I disease which has come from other countries.
	Poonam Pandey: The Model claimed to strip naked if that helped Team India win the Cricket World Cup.
	Chetan Bhagat: "It is ironic when someone who runs a body shopping company and calls it hi-tech makes sweeping comments on the quality of IIT students." Refernce: When Narayana Murthy said : "Quality of students deteriorating at IITs "

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Top 5 Most Over-Hyped Flopped in 2011.

There are many instances where things are claimed to be BEST, but turned to be WORSE than imagined. Here are Top 5 list of products which the company/seller claimed to revolutionize the world with their product but turned to be dud. 

Starting the list with,

RIM PLAYBOOK

This was expected to give the sliding fortunes of RIM a fillip.  Instead, it sold far fewer that apple I-pad because it needed to be paired with a blackberry to access most features.  So, If you don’t have a BB, which most people don’t own one, because already have an iphone or android, then your playbook is just a browsing device.  And it had a few thousand apps when the ipad more than a lakh.

MARUTI KIZASHI

When maruti gave out full page ads before the launch of this car, it seemed to be the next blockbuster in waiting.  It was in march, and went downhill from there.  The debacle was perhaps a sign of worse times ahead. Soon its manesar plant was crippled by union strikes. kizashi is now clocking the lowest sales, it at all, in its category.

COLOR

A Real-Time Social Picture Sharing Service Application, with an investment of $41million poured, hardly anybody used it.

THE BEAVER

The movie was supposed to make millions, ultimately dint worked out.

GOOGLE PLUS

With 30million users and counting, it must be doing well.  Not so, when compared with facebook’s 800 million.  Google+ was built to take on Facebook, but its growth seems to have slowed.  For that reason, it’s a flop because it was so over hyped.  But there is still hope yet. 

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Top 5 Trending Websites in 2012

There are hundreds of website created daily offering a wide variety of service, but how many of them are having a promising future is the real question? Listed down the top 5 websites which are offering some different products and services and growing very rapidly and expected to become very popular website in 2012.

Druva.com: If you know what Dropbox is, then you’ll have no trouble understanding what Druva is.  Just like Dropbox created online file sharing and syncing that ‘just works’, Druva does that to backing up corporate laptops.  Its products perform some nifty data reduplication behind the scenes within a company to ensure that only one copy of every file is backed up, regardless of how many different laptops it resides in.  By doing this, it claims to save over 90% of unnecessary bandwidth and storage use.  The 4-year-old company already has over 750 customer across the world and is growing rapidly.

Motoexchange.com

This 2 year old business acts as a purely b2b online exchange for used vehicles.  Businesses use the site to auction their used, inspected and certified vehicles to hundreds of dealers and buyers instead of just a handful they were used to earlier.  Started by Vinay Sanghi, the erstwhile head of Mahindra First Choice, India’s largest used car dealer, Motorexchange aims to nearly double its sales to 1lakh cars per year in 2012.

Letsbuy.com

While everybody talks about Flipkart or Amazon, 2 yr old letsbuy has been doing rip-roaring business.. By focusing on the high value(low margin) electronics category, letsbuy has quietly emerged as one of the top three e-commerce players in the country currently based on revenue.  2012 will see It launching its own delivery team, increasing focus on higher value white goods and on becoming the go-to place for gadgets and stuff.

Zomato.com

Arguably the most comprehensive listing of restaurants across India today, zomato claims to cover nearly 20K restaurants across 10 cities currently.  It not only offers reviews but also menu listings, and shortly, the ability to book tables and meals directly without human intervention.  It claims to have around 1.5 million monthly visitors to its website over 2lakh users of its various mobile apps.  2012 will see it expanding into events and ticketing as well.

Zovi.com

One of the best sings that ecommerce is here to stays in India, zovi retails its own range of apparel and accessories purely through its own website.  It has no third party brands and no physical stores.  The savings it makes from being purely online van then be passed on to consumers, while sourcing its own products allow it to respond to consumer trends and preference faster.  Zovi already claims to be doing 700-800 orders per day.

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Go for A Unique New Year Plan !!

Are you still thinking what to do this year end? Don't want to go for a same routing plans and looking for a new and unique plans to do this year end and next year beginning? Well, plan your eve according to your tastes and preferences and make the best of it, enjoy to the core.

Here are few plans will help you to figure out what to do on 31st December Night or on 1st January (New Year).

Usually you can
Book tickets for a DJ party and Booze up!
Hit the Road on your Bikes and Roam, Roam and Roam till you exhaust!
Cut a Cake In front of a Police Station and feed them too!

Apart from it, one can do some simple things like by Staying at Home: Oh yeah! I said that. Stay at home, and you can do lot of things which can make you enjoy too.

The best option is, if you want to spend time with friends, call on all friends, arrange yourself on terrace for
1) Good Movie + Pizza + Coke + Friends.

2) Read a Book: Get a interesting book the day before and read the book whole night. I prefer to read some motivating novels which drive me all long the year. (It hardly takes 2 hours to complete the book, I recommend you to read: Who Moved My Cheese)


3) Read your Personal Diary:  Do you have an habit of writing diary? Hit the book, and read what all have you done this year, and keep laughing.  Accept you mistakes, and don't repeat in coming year. If you don't have habit of writing diary, just take a piece of paper and list down 10 major things and goof ups you did this year. and Get a New Diary for the Coming Year 2012.

4) Spend Time Online: Anyhow, now a days we live a Virtual Life rather the Real World.  So continue with your FaceBook wishing all and treating with virtual chocolates etc, and keep chatting whole night sharing your experiences with your Near and Dear one's. And please do check your Orkut and MySpace accounts, whether they are still alive or not!

Well , Want to Spend Time Out, this should help?
5) My Friend's favorite one: Going to Church. Go to Church and sort your up's and down's, which can help you in clear the things for 2012 and lead a awesome year ahead.  Get Peace of Mind.

6) Find a Restaurant: Do you want to spend Quality time with Friends/ Family? Come on, treat them! You are working all long the year without much needed breaks, take your family out. Find a Good Restaurant according to your taste and have a Tasty Food.

7) Go to Orphanage Homes: Search for a nearby orphanage/ old age home and spend some time with them.  You would have the best feeling all long the year. I personally recommend this.

Still No plans as of now, Hit The Bed - SLEEP.

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Interview Questions for Marketing Profile?

Are you wondering what should you ask an interview for the question "Do you have any questions?". These are the best questions for Marketing and Sales job interviews, especially question on Pay or Salary.

• Can I know the performance of the present sales team?
• What is the commission structure the company follow, and what is my earning potential in 3-5 years?
• How many salespeople achieve their target/objectives?
• What percentage of the current people are above and below their set goals?
• What is the major challenge for this position, how you are handling?

Questions to the HeadHunters.

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Send SMS At Cheaper Rate on New Year!

Good News for all those who send New Year Wishes/Greeting to there near and dear one's on 31 December or 2nd of January, now you can wish them on the day you want to wish without no extra cost. Yes, now you can wish on 1st of January hopefully.  Madras High court has ordered the operators not to charge any extra cost from the customers on the Blackout days( ie., New year, Diwali and other festival days)


But the operators are allowing to send Unlimited SMS on these days, charging Premium rates as TRAI's recent move, only 200 SMS's/day from each sim one can send, but operators are charging Rs.0.60-Rs.1.50/sms on Blackout days, in spite of having SMS offers etc. 


Let's Hope the Best this Year. Happy New year in Advance.!! :)

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25 Best Questions for Head Hunters, Recruiters and Staffing Agency.

Ask a Good Question in an Interview, that should be different which will depends on,who is recruiting you?Here are the set of best interview questions  one can ask Headhunters, Recruiters or and Staffing personal.

These questions can't be asked with Hiring Manager and Human Resource(HR) Manager, limit yourself with headhunters.

• How did you find me?
• Is this a retainer or contingency assignment?
• Are you dealing with the client's HR people, or do you have direct contact with the hiring manager?
• How long has the client been with you?
• How many candidates have you personally placed with this client?
• Tell me about your career choice. How did you get into recruiting?
• When will I find out the name of the client company?
• May I have a written job description?
• Where is the position located?
• Where is the company headquartered?
• To whom does the position report?
• Can you tell me about this executive's management style?
• Why is the position open?
• What happened to the person who previously held this position? 
• Is this a new position?
• How long has the position been open?
• How long have you been working on the assignment?
• What does the position pay?
• Are there any pay or compensation constraints that I should take into consideration?
• What can you tell me about the person who will be interviewing me?
• What is his or her position, title, management style?
• Who will make the final hiring decision?
• After you present my resume, when can I expect to hear from you regarding the status of this position?
• Can you describe, specifically, how the company navigates/balances work-personal life issues?
• What might I do that would violate the culture of the company during my interview?

Bad/Wrong Question:
These below questions were actually asked to the recruiters in real.

• Can I switch jobs with the hiring managers?
• Does the company provide snacks?
• Will they fire me for not wearing any underwear? My last boss was very upset when he found out, and I want to get the issue out of the way early. (asked to Susan Trainer, Senior Information Systems Recruiter)
• I need to leave the interview for a minute. Do you have a match?
• What would you do if the coffeepot were empty?

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Should I Ask Questions in Interview? Why? What?

Almost every Interview has a very common question asking, "DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?"

Some candidates think that when this question is asked, the interview is about to wrap up. You may be wrong, the question really signals the start of the main course, earlier question can turn to be just a starter/appetizer.  Every Interviewer would like the Job seeker to ask few intelligent questions, and if you don't ask questions, you leave these impressions:

• You think the job is unimportant.
• You are uncomfortable asserting yourself.
• You are not intelligent.
• You are easily intimidated.
• You are boring.

The very common question arises, Why Should I ask question in an Interview? or What questions should I ask in a Interview?
Remember, you have to stand out of the herd, who are almost very much similar with talent. "Do Something Different."  Asking just the right questions is your chance to demonstrate that you are the best candidate for the job by communicating the different impressions.

Interest: You have taken the trouble to investigate the job.
Intelligence: You really understand the requirements of the job.
Confidence: You have everything it takes to do the job.
Personal appeal: You are the type of person who will fit in well.
Assertiveness: You ask for the job.

Always remember, "The question you ask, and how you ask them, do as much to differentiate you from the competition." 
* Browse this blog and find different question you can ask in an interview to stand out.

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