Mobile phones - what you really should know

Mobile phones - what you really should know
Mobile phones are now the latest technology in the
communication media and the wireless invention of the
existing phone. Online mobile phone retailers offer
attractive deals on all latest handsets like LG mobile
phones, Samsung mobile phones, Nokia mobile phones and even
3 Mobile phone.

Latest Mobile Phone Technology 3 Mobile Phone is the latest
mobile phone network that has hit the markets of the United
Kingdom. The mobile network operators like Orange, Virgin,
Vodafone and T-mobile are some of the reputed names known
for their most attractive mobile phone deals. While it
features some of the latest technology.

Users must also know that the 3 Mobile Phone is:

UMTS-based network,

More complicated to handle,

High capacity for coverage,

Bill charges are more costly.

Mobile Phone Personalization. Mobile phone users in the UK
are able to enjoy the sophisticated features and advanced
functions of innovative mobile phone handsets at affordable
costs. However, they are not fully satisfied, until and
unless they add an individual touch to their handsets.

This desire for personalization of mobiles can be easily
fulfilled by:

Downloading of mobile phone ring tones,

Download mobile phone screensavers and logos,

Adding mobile themes,

Purchase mobile phone accessories such as face plates,
covers and etc.

How To Get The Best Mobile Phone Deals. Mobile phone users
in today's world may sometimes come face to face with a
unique problem of choosing a specific mobile phone deal
from a multitude of attractive offers. There is a host of
network providers, each claiming to have the best deal on
offer. Finding the best deals can sometimes become a trifle
complicated. In the UK, there are two major mobile phone
deals available: Contract Mobile Phone and Pay As You Go.

Contract Mobile Phone. Contract mobile phone necessitates a
contract to sign. In return, you will be given the
authority to use the payable features of the phone as much
as you want. Every month you will be given a bill carrying
the record of the use of payable features of the phone. You
have to pay off the bill within a stipulated period.

Pay As You Go. This is a prepaid mobile phone deal in which
you buy the talk time you need. Pay as you go mobile phone
deal proves to be a favorable option for students,
unemployed and those parents who bear the expenditure of
their children's mobile phone.

Online Mobile Phone Shops. The online mobile phone shops,
more often than not, feature the best deals. Shopping via
online mobile phone shops enable mobile phone users to
search and compare packages and prices. Mobile phone users
can get a bird's eye view of the different trends in the
industry and choose a specific handset, deal or rental
plan, weighing all the pros and cons. It can be said that
in many ways, the online mobile phone shops are a safer bet
as compared to the local mobile phone shops.

Hence, the best way to get the best mobile phone deals is
to shop online while knowing the basic features and various
mobile phone contracts or perks. One must also identify
his/her needs prior to the purchase.

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The Coup de Grâce for Sustainable Long-Term Success

The Coup de Grâce for Sustainable Long-Term Success
Goals. We've all set them. We all know the sting of defeat
when we don't reach them. So why do we sometimes fail to
reach our most cherished goals? Are we missing something
here?

Yes, we are. The number one reason goals fail is because we
start out by identifying our goals. You heard me.
Determining what our goals are is actually the second step
we should take. The second, not the first step. There is an
all-important "step number one" that we often leave out.
Because of this, our goals start off on shaky ground with
no foundation for success upon which to build.

What is this all-important first step?

Five Steps to Align Yourself with Success

1. Know who you are and what your purpose is.

Who hasn't wondered who they really are and why they are
here? Behind every story of sustained long-term success is
someone who knows the answers to these two questions:

* Who are you?
* What is your purpose?

Success is generated from the inner place of knowing that
what you want will manifest. For that to happen, you must
know who you are and what your purpose is. If you don't,
then you may reach your goal and not be able to sustain it.

2. Determine your goal.

This step is the first one in most manuals about how to set
goals. That's been the problem: the cart has been placed
before the horse. Set your goals only after you know the
answers to step one, and you will be in a much better place
to determine what goals you want. Not what other people
want for you. What you want.

* Struggle = Setting goals without knowing who you are and
what your purpose is.

3. Affirm it as a done deal.

Affirmations keep you mentally aligned with what you want
and who you are. Say your affirmations in the present
tense, and say them as if you know they will come to pass.
This is the key to saying affirmations correctly.

* Delusion = Affirmation without aligned action.

4. Take aligned action.

Actions keep you moving forward. In order for you to be
successful, you will need to take actions that are directly
aligned with your goal. If you don't, you will experience
frustration; the number one reason people throw in the
towel and give up.

* Frustration = Action without alignment.

5. Expect and allow it to come to you.

If step one is the step most often bypassed, then step five
is the step most often ignored. However, don't ignore this
step! It is not an active action step; it is a state of
being. Expecting and allowing something to occur is the
opposite of going out and getting it. Being in a state of
expectancy and allowing means you actually know your goal
will manifest.

* Stuck = Not taking aligned action because you don't
believe it's possible.

Coup de Grâce

How many times have you said to yourself, "I'm setting this
as my goal, but I have no idea how I'll ever reach it"?
Most of us have. The problem is that inherent in this
statement is the belief that you can't manifest your goal,
and that, even if you do, you won't be able to sustain it.
With this kind of belief system in place, you will fail.
This is why it's nice to know you have a coup de grâce
in your back pocket that you can wield at a moment's notice.

"Coup de grâce" is an expression that means: a
deathblow intended to end suffering. Sound rather extreme
for the topic of success? Not if you've repeatedly failed
at reaching and sustaining your goals. In order for
successful goal manifestation to occur, you will need to
deliver a firm and decisive deathblow to the dreaded
"but... how" statements you're telling yourself. Whenever
you hear yourself say or think a "but... how" statement, do
these two things:

* Immediately stop what you are saying.
* Counter by taking an aligned action toward your goal.

We've all struggled with how to manifest and sustain
long-term success. Well, struggle no more. Know who you are
and what your purpose is. Only then will you be able to
move past the fear and desperation that thwarts long-term
success and into a place of inner strength and confidence
that sustains it. And by diligently applying the coup de
grâce, you will be able to manifest your goals
successfully, each and every time.

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Email Management: Don't Let Email Run Your Life

Email Management: Don't Let Email Run Your Life
If you are anything like me, you are bombarded with email.
In Particular, you get messages from clients, spammers,
friends, family and associations or groups of which you are
a member. Without proper preparation for such a massive
amount of email, you might find yourself swimming in email.
Email was created to be a tool to save you time, but if
you can't find an effective way to organize it, you will
most definitely be losing time to it instead of gaining
time from it. The following are some ideas that will help
you use your email program to save time:

* If your email's spam filter isn't doing a good job
catching unwanted emails, check its settings. Usually in
your email options, there will be junk email settings. Set
the protection to a higher level. This should take care of
at least a little more of the unwanted spam. If you have
your email set to a high level already and are still
receiving lots of spam, consider getting spam blocking
software. Googling "stop spam" or "spam blocker" will give
you a large list of options from which to choose.

* Consider setting up an autoresponder. An autoresponder
can handle a great deal of general questions that you get
on a regular basis. All you have to do is set it up once
and your message(s) can go out hundreds or even thousands
of times. Autoresponders are also great at sales, so to
speak. They do all the work for you. When someone opts in
to your list, you can set up your autoresponder to send a
series of messages in a specific order at set intervals.

* Save commonly sent email messages as signatures.
Signatures don't only have to be actual signatures. You
can save whole email messages as signatures and name them
accordingly. For example, if you commonly follow-up with
individuals you have met at your local Chamber of Commerce
meetings, you could title your signature "follow-up" and
save a message such as:

"Dear Mr. X,

It was such a pleasure to meet you at the last Chamber
meeting. I hope that we have a chance to speak again at..."

Of course you would have to change details such as the name
the email is addressed to, along with other more specific
information, but the template will be ready within a few
clicks of your mouse.

* Read and respond to email at set intervals throughout the
day. Checking your email as messages come in is most
definitely a common mistake that people make. Stopping the
work you are doing to check email is extremely inefficient.
Your tasks will take much longer to complete if they are
subject to constant interruptions. Set a recurring
reminder on your email calendar to check email 4 times per
day. Only check and respond when you are scheduled to do
so.

* Separate your email into folders. Just as you organize
your documents into folders on your computer, so should you
with your email. A good organizational system will make it
much easier to find what you need when you need it. You
can also set up rules in some programs so that your email
gets automatically sorted as it arrives.

* Color code your email. Some email programs such as MS
Outlook allow you to color code your email based on certain
criteria, such as who it's from or the subject of the
message. This will allow you to more easily differentiate
between important and insignificant emails. For example,
if you color code all of your client emails in red, then
you will easily be able to see them within a sea of email.

Email is a great tool if it is used properly. When it's
not, it can have a very negative effect on your time
management. By learning to implement even a few of these
simple steps, you can become a more efficient email user
and stop losing time to a technology that was meant to help
you save it.

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Growth Strategies for Businesses

Growth Strategies for Businesses
Growing your business can be a difficult and often
frustrating process. No matter how talented, experienced,
or proficient you are as a leader, business development may
be draining your energy, funds, and desire to achieve the
original plans you had for your company. Yet growing your
business is a critical step in maximizing your company's
potential and in revenue enhancement. So how do you achieve
success? You need a growth strategy.

Business type may dictate growth strategies. Service
businesses are certainly different from product businesses
in terms of strategies. And obviously globalization
strategies are different than local strategies. Yet,
devising the correct strategy is important for the
expansion of any business.

Here are a few ideas that would cross over any business
type, industry or size.

* LEVERAGING. Every business should be looking for ways
to leverage every thing they do in multiple ways. The
question to ask yourself before beginning anything - be it
a new service, a product offering, or an innovative idea -
is how else you might be able to leverage it. If you are
creating a new service, what else can you do to utilize
this new service? Can you offer to speak at conferences or
write an article about the service? Does it offer
opportunities for joint ventures with others? Can you
productize the service in some way? Everything you do or
create has the opportunity to be leveraged in multiple ways
if you think creatively.

* RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING. Relationships are key to growth.
You must build high trust relationships with everyone -
clients, vendors, colleagues, alliances - absolutely
everyone who deals with your business in any way, shape or
form. The more people who know you, who understand your
ethics and values, how you work and what they can expect
from you, the greater your chances of these people
referring business. Your ability to ask for referrals and
get them is also increased. Often we think of those high
trust relationships as being with clients or perhaps staff.
Yet the truth is that relationship-building crosses over
into all facets of your business.

* CLARITY. You need clear job descriptions and
understandable metrics for all staff. Sounds silly right -
how can this grow the business? But the clearer these
pieces are the greater productivity you will have.
Increased performance leads to growth.

* INFRASTRUCTURE. Building an infrastructure is often
discussed yet rarely handled. Your infrastructure will
includes budgets, planning and other piece of business
involved with creating and maintaining the foundational
parts of your company. Many business owners and leaders
overlook this critically important aspect of doing
business. How do you know where you are going if you don't
plan for it? And if you are off track how do you figure
out where you've gone wrong if you don't plan?

* LEARNING. Become a learning organization. You want to
find the lesson in everything. Every success and also each
action or move that didn't work out quite as anticipated.
Just because your marketing initiative was successful this
time doesn't mean it will be the next time. Take the time
to analyze what made something work well, or not so well.
If everyone in the company is taught how to analyze and
learn from what they are doing, success and growth are the
outcome.

Growth strategies are essential to a company's success.
But only those companies that produce products and services
that sell in the market will succeed. And only those
products and services that are marketed and put into action
skillfully will sell in the market. They sell because you
have covered your groundwork. You've built strong
relationships. Effective communication is essential within
your company. You've put a well-built infrastructure in
place. You've leveraged everything you do. You know the
answers to the basic questions that determine the success
of any business. You know who you are, what you are doing,
which is your market, who is the potential client, and you
know the challenges that keep your clients up at night.
All that remains is to provide your clients with solutions
that will work for them. That is, after all, what a growth
strategy is.

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Linda Finkle, CEO of INCEDO GROUP, works with innovative
leaders around the world who understand that business needs
a new organizational growth style. These innovative leaders
know that powerful cross-functional communication is the
highest priority and the strongest strategy for building
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Technology Management For Nonprofits is Always a Challenging Venture

Technology Management For Nonprofits is Always a Challenging Venture
Working in a Nonprofit organization has it challenges I
think you would agree. Ever worked unjamming a printer and
of course the printer breaks when you need it the most? How
about the copier, you are down there in the paper draw
trying to fix something and wishing the person who always
fixes it did not go home already.

If that gives you stage fright, now imaging you are hired
as the office assistant or the Executive Director of your
Nonprofit organization. You still have the same issues
working with your office equipment but I bet you are
thinking that somehow, all of your organizations technology
resources have become your responsibility! This happens a
lot in non profit organizations when funding is low or non
existent. Sometimes you are a one person organization so
the technology support is your business. When this occurs
to you, you need to step back and get an idea of what you
need to do in order to survive. You don't have to tackle
all your office technology projects all at once or in any
particular order. Dive in where it makes sense for you. In
other cases you need to get someone to help you. As a
business system analyst from the corporate world, I
recommend that you get out of this no win situation by
following this step-by-step outline to creating an
effective system.

You first need to get a comprehensive review of your
operating environment. So first conduct a technology
inventory of your working environment. Second, look around
and review your support staff, if you have a staff that is.
Next determine how you currently use and buy technology.
Then start thinking about how your organization is
protecting itself from disasters and data loss. Finally do
some reflection and define how are you managing your
technology support role? Have you decide if what you do is
effective or is it beyond providing real help anymore.

Next we move on to another piece of building yourself, a
get out of technology jail card. You then need to build
management support for your technology support work. If the
nonprofit equals you, then evaluate how much your time is
worth. Are you spending time doing things that hamper your
true mission? If you have a board then as the accidental
techie, you face the challenge of influencing major
organizational policies and procedures without the
forethought or real authority to do so. Your board probably
does not understand the need for technology support or the
board believes you can do it just like the last person in
your role. You need to find a way to make them understand
what is at risk if you stay in the role.

Once you complete this process you will know your overall
needs. At this point you will have progressed to where you
will need funding and it could be a small request to fix an
immediate problem. If your nonprofit is growing or your
group is a larger organization then you may need to develop
a formal request to your non profit board.

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