India in top 5, Want to know where?

Every single person wants to look good. The desire and wish to attract people and look good is not only the habits observed in western countries but also on the shores of India too. According to a global survey released on Tuesday, India ranks among the top five nations for cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures. The statistics, released by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, shows that cosmetic surgery is becoming popular in countries with emerging economies, such as India and China because these emerging economies are generating a lot of wealth and as that wealth is passed around, people are choosing to spend their discretionary income on aesthetic procedures.

While rhinoplasty or a nose job was the favourite surgical procedure in India, it is no longer the case. In fact, like with the US, the most popular procedure is liposuction or surgical removal of fat tissues.In India, too, the demand for liposuction has increased, along with hair transplant and breast augmentation. All the techniques are easily available in metro cities and towns, people have more disposable income than before to spend. 

International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's Top 10 Countries - US, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Turkey & Spain.

So now we can rightly say, you can buy beauty with money, with no guarantee how long it will last. 

Source: TOI

Permission Marketing

Its been quite sometimes that I have updated my blog. So I thought its better I do it soon. Of late, I have been following the blog of Seth Godin, an American author, public speaker and entrepreneur. While going through all his work, I came to know that he was the sole person behind coining and popularizing the term 'Permission Marketing'. It is more specifically used for e - Marketing. Marketers obtain permission before advancing to the next step in the purchasing process. For example, they ask permission to send email newsletters to prospective customers. It is mostly used by online marketers, notably email marketers and search marketers, as well as certain direct marketers who send a catalog in response to a request.

This form of marketing requires that the prospective customer have either given explicit permission for the marketer to send all the necessary promotional message (e.g. an email or catalog request) or implicit permission (e.g. querying a search engine). This can be either via an online email opt-in form or by using search engines, which implies a request for information. Most marketers feel that this is a more efficient use of their resources because the offers are only sent to people that are actually interested in the product. This is one technique used by marketers that have a personal marketing orientation. They feel that marketing should be done on a one-to-one basis rather than using broad aggregated concepts. 

As Seth Godin says, permission marketing is one which turns strangers into friends and then eventually, friends into customers. 

Source: Wiki

Refreshing Quotes...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Life itself is a quotation.

By George Luis Borges

No Google in China!!!

Google says that its 99.9% sure. Now what is Google so sure about? Its sure about closing down the Chinese search engine. A detailed plan has been chalked out to stop operations of Chinese search engine. China warned Google against flouting the country's laws, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security. Google shocked business and political circles in January when it threatened to pull out of China if it could not offer an unfiltered Chinese search engine. The threat came after cyber attacks originating from China on it and about 30 other firms.

"If you don't respect Chinese laws, you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and the consequences will be on you," China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, told reporters in answer to a question on what China would do if Google.cn simply stopped filtering search results. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shares oversight of the Chinese Internet with a number of other bodies. Still more bureaucracies are involved in matters of foreign investment, complicating the Chinese government's response to Google's challenge.

Source: TOI

Save Tigers, Save the Planet!!!

Intensified efforts have been made this year, 2010 to save tigers around the world with the species being named as one among the endangered of WWF's top 10 animals. Biologists have placed Panthera tigris at the top of a list of 10 key animals facing extinction, which should become the focus for major conservation efforts in 2010. This year has been designated the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations and so they have created a list of 10 critically important endangered animals that they believe will need special monitoring over the next 12 months.

The world's population of tigers has been reduced by 95 percent as a result of hunting and poaching for their body parts, which are used in traditional Asian medicine. There are only around 3,200 tigers left on the planet. Of its nine main sub-species, three - the Bali, Caspian and Java tigers - are now extinct, while there has been no reliable siting of a fourth, the South China tiger, for 25 years. This leaves the Bengal, Amur, Indochinese, Sumatran and Malayan tigers, the numbers of which, with the exception of the Bengal and Indochinese, have been reduced to a few hundred per species.

Tiger is an umbrella species. It’s conservation automatically ensures the conversation of a large number of flora and fauna and entire ecosystems. Thus, a properly planned tiger conservation programme is actually a programme to protect and save large number of species. However, a dwindeling tiger population and news of declining number of tigers only implies an immediate threat to what is remaining of our natural ecosystems. A healthy tiger population thus also protects all that remains of our natural ecosystems.

The combination of grace, strength, agility and enormous power has earned the tiger its pride of place as the national animal of India. Thus, save tigers in order to save our National Pride.

Algorithmic Trading

Algorithmic Trading - a trading system that utilizes very advanced mathematical models for making transaction decisions in the financial markets. The strict rules built into the model attempt to determine the optimal time for an order to be placed that will cause the least amount of impact on a stock's price. Large blocks of shares are usually purchased by dividing the large share block into smaller lots and allowing the complex algorithms to decide when the smaller blocks are to be purchased.

The use of algorithmic trading is most commonly used by large institutional investors due to the large amount of shares they purchase everyday. Complex algorithms allow these investors to obtain the best possible price without significantly affecting the stock's price and increasing purchasing costs.

It is also referred to as algo trading, black box trading or robo trading, is the use of computer programs for entering trading orders with the computer algorithm deciding on aspects of the order such as the timing, price, or quantity of the order, or in many cases initiating the order without human intervention. Algorithmic Trading is widely used by pension funds, mutual funds and other buy side (investor driven) institutional traders, to divide large trades into several smaller trades in order to manage market impacts and risk.

Source: Wikipedia

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