Some Inspiring Quotes - Go for it!

Take whatever u can from your life. 

Because when life starts taking from you, it takes even ur last breath

“Hope” is the little voice you hear whisper “May Be” when it seems the entire world is saying “No”

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, all I am saying is that it will be worth it.

Don’t ever compare yourself with anyone in this world, no one else can do a better job of being you than you.

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing” - Abraham Lincoln

“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed” - Emily Dickinson

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing” - Dale Carnage

“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value” - Albert Einstein

“I owe my success to having listned respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite” - G. K. Chestorton

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible by going beyond them into the impossible” - Arthur Clarke

“Encouragement is a necessary part of supervision” - Thomas J Watson

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit” - Aristole

“If you can do a half-assed job in anything, you are a one-eyed man in the kingdom of blind” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“Take calculated risk. That is quite different from being rash” - George S Patton

“If you do not hope, you will never find whats beyond your hopes” - St. Clement of Alexandra

“Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds” - Albert Einstein

So if you think you have failed, it was never you, it was always your idea. Join the forum where we would love to analyze any idea or business that you had which failed - Ideas That Failed

How much money does Facebook make?

We all know Facebook is the biggest social network having almost equivalent number of users that would be the world's 4th largest country.


Recently, I saw a post on FB that was viraling that mentioned about Facebook no longer remaining free.


That compelled me to do a surface study on the kind of revenues that Facebook makes.


Facebook clocked revenues of $2 Billion in 2010 and will close 2011 at approx $4.27 Billion recording a CAGR of approx 103%


Below is split of their revenues:

If Facebook decided to start charging $10 per month per user to access the network, what do you think will happen?

Your first reaction is absolutely correct, the revenues from advertising and FB credits will go down by 40% making it approx $2.5 Billion (which is still a healthy growth as compared to last year).

Now the other part of the story.

$10 per month will make it $120 annually.

Facebook has 800 million active users. Now let's say 20% of the people decide to pay for it and use it.

That makes 160 million users pay $120 for using Facebook per year.

That will give a new revenue stream to Facebook making its revenue case look something like below.

A whooping $21 Billion, an annual growth in 4 figures.

This is hypothetical and Facebook is still free:

But it is always worth a thought ;)

Cheers!
Neelesh R Pednekar

Business Consultant - IdeasThatFailed

Build the personality of a CEO - 30 Steps

If you think being an entrepreneur is easy and glorious, think again!

It may so look to the world, but an entrepreneur has to go through a lot of ups and downs specially during the early phases of the venture.

These come in all shape and sizes, right from mental to monitory.

To be the entrepreneur, you need to think and behave like one.

I just thought of listing down 30 simple thoughts that can keep you focused, doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or not

Personality

1) Don't Compare

Don't compare yourself with others. You have no idea what their journey was all about.

2) Keep Negative thoughts away

Don't have negative thoughts of things you can't control. Infact, invest your energy in the positive present moment.

3) Don't Overdo, Keep your limits

4) Don't take yourself so seriously

No on else does

5) No Gossip

Don't waste dear energy on gossip

6) Dream more

while you are awake

7) Don't Envy

You may not have everything you want, but you have everything you need

8) Forget and forgive quickly

Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of the issues that happened in the past. They can ruin your present and your companies future

9) Don't Hate

Life is too short to hate anyone, don't waste the time

10) Make Peace

with your past so that it does not spoil your present

11) Be Happy

No one is charge of it but you

12) Life is a school

and you are here to learn. Problems are like that part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra  but the lessons you learn will last for a lifetime

13) Smile and Laugh more

14) Winning 

every argument is not necessary. Sometimes agree to disagree!

Community

15) Family and Friends

Speak to them more often

16) Give something good

to others each day 

17) Forgive

everyone for everything

18) Spend time

with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6

19) Target

3 new people you need to make smile everyday

20) What others think about you

is none of your business

21) Your job is not

to take care of yourself when you are sick, your family and friends will.

22) Believe in God

and put him in front of everything you think, say or do.

23) The Almighty

will head everything

24) Do

the right things

25) No matter how good or bad the situation is

it will always change

26) No matter how you feel

get up, dress up and show up

27) The Best

is yet to come

28) Get rid

of everything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful

29) When you awake

alive in the morning, thank God for it.

30) If you know God

you will always be happy, so be happy!

Some Freaky Graphs

Are all graphs only meant for business?

Think again.

Is Digital Advertising only for big companies?

Let’s take a deeper look into digital advertising.

With the evolving internet era, digital advertising has taken the driving seat as a revenue generator. Wish spends on digital advertising being close to $ 15 billion by 2014, it is a very niche yet growing market.

While the trend has been shifting from the primitive CPM model to the lead based advertising model to yield better ROI, most advertisers have not yet completely eradicated their sweet old CPMs. Today leading portals offer sponsorship based or leads based advertising which yields better ROI to the clients making it more effective.

However, if you still insist for branding they will provide CPM advertising at throw away costs like $2 CPM and even lower is most cases.

Broadly, advertising has always been a tool for the companies to showcase their portfolios or brands all across the web, getting listed on Google, etc.

My friend introduced me the other day to a young MBA right out of college, who wanted to do something in the space of advertising. I advised him not getting into the field since advertising as a professional service in India belonged to only a couple of big players in the market like Komli Media, Google Adsense and Ad Magnet and the others.

It was his pursuance on this subject that made me think reverse. I decided to consult him to take digital advertising to the next level.

How?

Like companies, individuals also have to market themselves. We all do, sometimes to the clients, sometimes at home, sometimes at interviews. But there is no platform yet that can help market an individual globally and give him all the benefits that the company gets and to get him listed on the search engines.

That’s how Rs100.net was conceived.

We decided to provide individuals and SMEs with an equal chance to compete with companies in the bigger segment. Rs100, as the name suggests, charges Rs100 (INR) as annual maintenance fees to keep the website running. It provides with a 960x360px banner to the advertiser on the homepage that will keep rotating itself every 4 seconds.

To avoid advertisement clutter, the website also has two instances of the server which keep rotating the ads randomly giving a fair chance to each advertiser.

You may check out the website at http://www.rs100.net or visit their blog http://rs100net.blogspot.com