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		<title>Attractive Investment Opportunity in Sri Lanka</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 08:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of investing either in a businesses or shares compared to investing in a fixed deposit, saving deposit etc is the ground work that is involved. To be precise when we have funds which we want to invest and make use of it, it is obvious that we get involved in an extensive ground [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=787&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The beauty of investing either in a businesses or shares compared to investing in a fixed deposit, saving deposit etc is the ground work that is involved. To be precise when we have funds which we want to invest and make use of it, it is obvious that we get involved in an extensive ground work when it’s come to investing in a business or shares. When we decide to have a fixed or savings deposit etc we never go for a ground work and simply we choose a bank / finance company and deposit the money. According to the basic principle of finance “higher the risk higher the return” it is evident that though investigating in a business is riskier the return that an investor going to earn is relatively very high.</p>
<p>As I have already mentioned if the ground work to evaluate the financial feasibility of an investment in a business is perfectly done and the analysis ensures that it is a viable investment opportunity then the investor can invest in the given opportunity without any fear of loosing his / her money.</p>
<p>There is an investment opportunity available with all the required ground works done. The financial plus market feasibility of the project has been comprehensively done and it ensures the potential of earning high return by the investment. This particular project belongs to an online consumer service category which is high in demand in the contemporary Sri Lankan society.</p>
<p>If you are an investor who would like to take invest and  where high return is ensured please contact Mr. Kapila Wimalaratne email kapilaww at gmail.com  or call 0015622340843 .</p>
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		<title>Wake-up the Entrepreneur Sleeping Inside You…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragulan</dc:creator>
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<p>There are youngsters who have dreams of becoming their own masters and proving themselves as successful entrepreneurs. However most of them just keep quiet and take no steps forward towards their dreams due to several reasons. The main reasons are of course either the lack of financial recourses to start initiating their dream or the financial uncertainty at the initial stage of the business until it creates a momentum and starts earning profits.</p>
<p>However, if it becomes easier to start a business and take it towards success with no cost or with very low cost, I’m sure that our country would see many young entrepreneurs with massive talents and big dreams. Normally it is very difficult to get the momentum unless you have a big marketing budget and a strong strategy. That is why I am sharing some general tips and zero cost marketing tips to market your dream and create the necessary momentum to enter the safer zone of a sustainable bottom-line.</p>
<p>Some of the tips are from my own experiences. As a young entrepreneur with big dreams, I feel it’s my responsibility to share what I know and what I have experienced with my fellow entrepreneurs. Some of the tips are from my 2 years of entrepreneurship experience in the business of consultancy and some of the tips are from what I have learnt throughout my marketing profession.</p>
<p><strong>Managing Funds</strong></p>
<p>1-      The starting and running of a business should be supported by enough funds. But make sure that you do not enter into loans with high interest rates. If you are starter and if you have a good business plan I would recommend approaching public banks. They would probably consider your proposal. In contrast if you approach any private financial institutions you might have to answer many questions and finally you might not end up with a positive answer. In general private banks are good for established businesses rather than for start-up entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>2-      Managing the funds is again an important aspect to have a grip on your business finances. Whenever you spend an amount, it may be for an office purpose or sometimes it may be for a personal reason, no matter, just note it down. Always have a small pocket diary with you. Most of us tend to think “I don’t need any records / pocket diary, I can remember all my expenses”. But literally this is not the case, in a few days many small expenses vanish from our memories. Finally when we run short of money and start trying to find out what we spent on, we go crazy as we cannot remember. It is always good to maintain a record of expenses, even incomes too and at the end of month prepare a summary. Accordingly you will have an idea of the amount of funds available for you to make plans, give commitments etc. Also this helps to monitor your monetary progress.</p>
<p>3-      If you have various sources of income make sure to evaluate which are performing well, and what is not. Especially when you get loans and buy an asset for the business which is not productive even to earn the interest that is being paid for the capital tied up in that particular asset; simply it resembles a poor fund management. There are plenty of options available in the market but it the responsibility of the entrepreneur to evaluate them and choose the best which is apt for his / her financial situation / business nature / capabilities etc.</p>
<p>4- Below given are the “don’t” that I would suggest for starters. Generally entrepreneurs do the following mistakes at the very beginning of their businesses;</p>
<ul>
<li>They tend to manage a large employee force. They try to show the success of their decision to start a business by the number of employees which will gradually eat up the liquidity of the business. Recruit people if necessary only. Another smart way of reducing the staff cost is getting freelancers to work for you. You have to pay them for the work done only which is very cost effective. In general the under graduates / school leavers etc would be the ideal freelancers. These people will be highly interested in learning new things and very energetic. Also payment wise you do not need to pay big amounts since they might not have enough work experience to demand more.</li>
<li>They tend to rent a large office space with expensive furniture and set-up very nice cubicles for themselves which are not essential at the very beginning of the business. Do not spend unnecessarily and instead spend it in income generating options. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t spend money on these things. What we spend on should make sense. For example if you are going to start a salon / beauty parlor it is a must to spend some money on furniture as that would definitely generate business. However, if you are going to start an online business where a physical office is not that important it is wiser to spend some money on SEO activities, Social media campaigns etc rather than spending money on renting out an expensive office space etc.</li>
<li>They always try to purchase more assets which reduce the liquidity of the business.</li>
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<p>What I would like to emphasize is do not spend money unnecessarily on items which you want to show others to convey that you are successful in the business and that you have enough money. This would ultimately ruin the success of your business. Here I would like to share an interesting image which I came across in facebook recently.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://ragulan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/523668_10150642540146185_734516184_9358197_743917099_n.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-781 aligncenter" title="business consultancy in sri lanka" src="http://ragulan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/523668_10150642540146185_734516184_9358197_743917099_n.jpg?w=560" alt=""   /></a></p>
<p>Your success doesn’t depend in managing unwanted employees and assets, but in how you effectively manage your funds and saving it for future growth.</p>
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<p><strong>Marketing Your Business</strong></p>
<p>Use simple marketing to boost your business. At the initial stage of your business you can use the below given tips to market your business / product.<strong></strong></p>
<p>1-    Always be in touch with your customers, do not forget them. Try to please them as much as possible. Gift them in a small manner. Talk nicely, get inside their shoes to really understand them and think of what they actually need from you. The word of mouth is an important promotional tool for any small business. Send greetings during special events, time to time come up with some sales promotions to reward your loyal customers. Coupon cards, loyalty programmes, theme selling, discounts, free gifts etc are a few examples for sales promotions. Always remember there are many competitors waiting outside to grab your customer so do not give a chance to your competitor.</p>
<p>2-    Occasionally try to have some competitions for your clients and others. It should be interesting and on the other hand it shouldn’t eat your money. For example if you are in a service related business the gift for the winner can be a few of your service hours free of charge. This type of promotion raises curiosity about your business, people will start to research about you which would create good brand awareness and helps you to stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>3-    Use free emailer tools which are available online. These tools have message delivery rates, open tracking rate etc. This brings me at least a certain lead each time I send out newsletters. Keep building your email base and send out interesting newsletters.</p>
<p>4-    Regularly tweet and update your fanpage to get some improved search engine rankings. Having a strong online presence like social media interaction (facebook, twitter, linkedin, youtube, foursquare etc), search engine friendly contents etc would benefit your business.</p>
<p>5-    Create a blog and update it regularly. I would suggest wordpress (www.wordpress.com) for blog writing for your business. It’s very user friendly, professional and attractive. Here are some examples to start writing your blogs; something interesting about your business, some general content which is relevant to your business, some of your customers’ feedback or their experience with you (ask them to share the experience and you can publish it as a blog), some local as well as economic and social facts affecting the business etc. This blog would gradually help to increase your search engine optimization. Especially google has its own personalization tactics. When your customers start interacting with you through mails, automatically you will understand google’s contribution for your SEO. I always get many leads through my blog. Just try typing the keywords like “Small business ideas in Sri Lanka” and “Business consultancy in Sri Lanka”, &#8220;business ideas in Sri Lanka&#8221; . See the search engine results.</p>
<p>6-    Use your business card as a promotional tool. Try maximum networking. Attend external events, talking points, seminars, workshops etc. Build your network. Tell them what you do but in a different way. Create your own brand awareness to your network. Leads automatically come. Make sure you are creating an interesting business card which grabs the attention of people. Recently I got a card from my friend which looks like below, really an interesting and innovative card (Courtesy &#8211; Shehan Kumar).</p>
<p><a href="http://ragulan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/photo-101.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-780 alignleft" title="good visiting card" src="http://ragulan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/photo-101.jpg?w=210&#038;h=157" alt="" width="210" height="157" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://ragulan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/23.jpg"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-782" title="good visiting card" src="http://ragulan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/23.jpg?w=210&#038;h=157" alt="" width="210" height="157" /></a></p>
<p>7-    First impressions matter a lot. If you are service provider make sure you are not dissatisfying the client. Always give a service which is above the excepted level. I have seen people who never answer the calls of their clients. If a task is given to you finish it on time. You should call the client instead don’t expect the client to call you. These are small things but matter a lot.</p>
<p>8-    Business is always about making money I agree, but if your client is in a struggle in terms of its monetary situation, help out. Try to give them cost effective solutions. You might waste your time, but treat it as an investment for your future growth. You never know who will become what. If the same client later becomes successful, if he / she remembers that he / she received a great service from you that would definitely help you to get better business, good contacts and strong word of mouth etc.</p>
<p>9-    Always try to get free publicity; it’s just a call away. Contact the media in Sri Lanka (newspapers in all three languages), build a rapport with them and request them to publish free PR article for you. The initial relationship I built with the media gives me certain exposure and publicity to my brand.</p>
<p>10-  Try to approach business magazine and write about current business trends. There are lots of magazines in Sri Lanka expecting these types of writers. Call them; give them your sample write ups. Continuously write for the magazines. This creates good brand awareness for your business.</p>
<p>11-  Do not make unnecessary promises to the client. But if you promise something try to make it happen.</p>
<p>12-  Make partnerships with other brands. If your business is not offering a part service which is offered by someone else create a partnership. If you give the lead you will get a lead back from them.</p>
<p>13-  Always do satisfaction surveys with your customers to judge your product or service level. They are the best people who give valuable advice. Filter those and implement the same.</p>
<p>14-  Plan the future from now onwards. Your future customers would be the current students. Do events or any other promotions to position your brand now itself.</p>
<p>15-  Get endorsements / testimonials from your existing customers. When I posted one of my client statements about my brand, I got one new referral who viewed the comment. Have a separate section for testimonials in your site. If it’s a product, get some experience testimonial from the users. Publish and distribute it everywhere.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add it in the site</li>
<li>Use it in the marketing communication materials</li>
<li>Distribute it in the social media / tweet it.</li>
</ul>
<p>16-  Make sure your brand is everywhere in all external materials.</p>
<ul>
<li>Make sure your email signature carries your brand logo and other social media sites and your web URL. If you are writing to a potential client, this would help you to build credibility. The potential client might visit your site / social media channels and would get to know about you more. When I met one of my clients last week, he mentioned that they got to know more about our consultancy services through clicking the email signature links to our site and Facebook Fanpage.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>If you give any proposals to your prospectors make sure your branding is in the paper (either as a header or footer) and in the file cover. This won’t cost you much.</li>
</ul>
<p>17-  Always reply to the communication mails quickly. Set a standard time for reply. I have got several appreciations from my clients for a timely and quick reply. Use your phone as a marketing tool. Set up your email there.</p>
<p>18-  Differentiate your brand from others. As part of a portfolio my company does corporate trainings too. There are a lot of other companies in the same business. When I branded my training series with a character the response was superb (<a href="http://www.workshop.epitom.org/">www.workshop.epitom.org</a>). Try to differentiate your brand in many ways; it could be via what is offered, marketing communication etc.</p>
<p>I hope you might have found some interesting / worthy tips from this post. Feel free to contact me if you need any further information.</p>
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		<title>Marketing as a Vehicle???</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you define marketing in an organization? I would simply define it as a vehicle… Marketing takes the organization from where it is conceptualized or situated to the target audience. Since I think it’s apt to define marketing as a vehicle. Here I have referred a set of organizations as “conceptualized” because of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=773&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you define marketing in an organization? I would simply define it as a vehicle…</p>
<p>Marketing takes the organization from where it is conceptualized or situated to the target audience. Since I think it’s apt to define marketing as a vehicle. Here I have referred a set of organizations as “conceptualized” because of the recent development of the virtual organizations which don’t have any physical existence. Importantly for this type of organizations marketing carries an extra burden of developing credibility over the organization.</p>
<p>The marketing vehicle which apparently carries the message from the organization can result in a good conditioned, smooth and speed travelling. On the other hand if poorly executed the same vehicle might result in a detrimental travelling. Ultimately the good or poor travelling impacts the bottom line of the organization. Hence it is vital to maintain the vehicle in good condition.</p>
<p>Maintaining a good conditioned marketing vehicle and safe journey is not that simple. There is always some inherent risks for which a vehicle and the journey are exposed to. This involves;</p>
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<li>Correctly identifying your target market which is your final destination</li>
<li>Fixing the marketing budget which is your funding arrangement for the journey</li>
<li>Developing the correct marketing mix which is prearrangements done before a journey</li>
<li>Creating the marketing message which is the travelling done on the road</li>
<li>Preparing with contingency plans in case of any competitor counter attracts which is something similar to the precautionary actions taken against in a vehicle accidents etc</li>
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<p>It is always obvious that depending on the destination the vehicle should be conditioned and repaired if necessary. Likewise the depending on the target market, their needs, their behaviors and their social status the marketing message should be designed.  Additionally it is important to confirm whether your marketing mix is strong enough to take the vehicle to the intended destination. For example the promotion pat can be executed very well. However if there is something seriously wrong with the product it is obvious that your organization wouldn’t enjoy repeat purchase and positive word of mouth. Finally the contingency plans in order to safeguard the vehicle. When you take a vehicle it may face unexpected accidents, road redirections, bad conditioned roads etc. Likewise the marketing vehicle too exposed to such adverse aspects. Hence it is always recommended to have plans and moves to face the counter actions taken by the competitors, governmental interferences, and unfavorable market conditions.</p>
<p>Once all of the above are ensured and looked after very well the marketing vehicle would definitely take you for a safe and successful journey.</p>
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		<title>Good to Great</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought the “Good to Great” book two months back, but didn’t get enough time to read it. It was actually suggested by one of my friend along with “Blue Ocean Strategy”. Today I managed to read the first chapter of the book and found some very interesting thoughts and insights proven by researches. Still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=764&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I bought the “Good to Great” book two months back, but didn’t get enough time to read it. It was actually suggested by one of my friend along with “Blue Ocean Strategy”. Today I managed to read the first chapter of the book and found some very interesting thoughts and insights proven by researches. Still there are 8 more chapters to go, but the first chapter is the summary version of the book outlining the methods of analysis and data gathered for the research. I was amazed to see that this book was the outcome of a team of 21 people, including Jim Collins.</p>
<p>It’s obvious we never worry about becoming great, if we think we are good. Because good is the enemy of great. The reading of this first chapter had given me some great insights for my works and consultancy stuffs. But still eager to read the rest soon if the time permits. One interesting thing about this book is the companies which were considered for the analysis. These companies are quite unknown in the Sri Lankan context and the author had done a perfect study by collecting 50 years of articles (around 6,000), over 2000 pages of interview scripts, and 384 million bytes of computer data.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Study Summary </strong></p>
<p>So what is good to great? We know some companies perform well in the market, despite of unattractive industries. So what is the black box secret to become the great? I’m also interested to know the black box soon.</p>
<p>Generally if a company is well performing and well known its obvious the  CEO is also known. They give interviews, they talk about themselves, and their image will be used to strengthen the company since they act as the brand ambassadors. But in this good to great case the circumstance seems to be different. The great companies had a type of leadership totally different to well known personalities. They are self effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy and similar to Lincoln and Socrates and most importantly they had grown inside from the company and not recruited from outside. Please find the summary below</p>
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<p>The strategy did not separate the great companies to good. Both set had well defined strategies, and these companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great, but instead focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing. Seems they focused the indirect factor more and more. Even in terms of technology used, it didn’t become significant for these companies. They used it to accelerate the transformation but it s not a cause for transformation.</p>
<p>It is also common sometimes companies grow bigger and bigger and become great when the industry is performing well. But according to this book the companies considered for the study are exceptional. Their tremendous progress wasn’t because of the industry. All were not operated in healthy industries and some were operated in terrible industries too.</p>
<p>The total analysis of the book was depended on six phenomena, starting from</p>
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<p>1-      Level 5 leadership</p>
<p>2-      First who, then what,</p>
<p>3-      Confront the brutal fact,</p>
<p>4-      Hedgehog concept</p>
<p>5-      A culture of discipline</p>
<p>6-      Technology accelerators</p>
<p>When looking at these points, it is obvious to see having great strategy, having personality leaders, having technology won’t make sense if the black box factors are not there. Let me read the remaining chapters and share the black box secret with you all <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p>Also mergers and acquisitions didn’t play a major role on these companies. In Sri Lankan context there are instances where companies merged together and did not reveal the expected output. While reading this book I thought to do the same analysis in the Sri Lankan context to see, whether these principles work in Sri Lanka as well or whether the findings are only relevant to the foreign context.</p>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragulan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=761&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about <strong>22,000</strong> times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.</p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of different types of people. Some are hard workers, some were born with silver spoon, some are lucky, some are lazy, some just give a try and see whether things are happening and so on and so forth. That’s why the world is highly diversified with numerous type of human beings. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=755&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The world is full of different types of people. Some are hard workers, some were born with silver spoon, some are lucky, some are lazy, some just give a try and see whether things are happening and so on and so forth. That’s why the world is highly diversified with numerous type of human beings.</p>
<p>I have heard people saying “I tried it but didn’t work out”, “I couldn’t do it”, “I am going to give up” etc etc. As human beings in most of the circumstances we find barriers after a certain limit. Some try to break those barriers and move forward. Some fail in doing that. This post is totally dedicated to people those who fought back to achieve their goals, people still defend their destiny with problems and struggles in life.  I wanted to combine some stories and thoughts here which inspired me the most.</p>
<p>Just wanted to recall a great personality who was my inspiration at this time, a person struggled for his daily meals, once in a week he gets food from a Hindu temple, and to get that good food he walked for over an hour. A great personality I admired the most. The thoughts, his inventions will still remain in the world until the end of this universe. He is an example person for never giving up.  Steve Job…  With all struggle in his life he had beaten every problems in life.</p>
<p>So what you think as the most important thing for never giving up thought? Is it your ability, behavior, perception? Nothing, it’s your attitude. No matter how you feel, you should get up, dress up and show up. It’s your attitude. It’s all about the “Positive Attitude”.</p>
<p>Whenever you start something which you think as correct, you should not have any second thoughts. Make sure you will win, win in style. Do not think “Will I win?” “Am I in a position to do it?”. Don’t think either in negatives or questions. It will always be your attitude at the beginning of any difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. If you see the below picture, what will be your answer?</p>
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<p>Half <strong>empty</strong> glass? or Half <strong>filled</strong> glass? The answer shows your attitude. Positive mind set people would say it is a glass filled half. People with negative attitude would says it’s half empty. Never think negatively&#8230;.It prevents you from achieving your dreams&#8230;. Always Dream more while you are awake…… Determine whom you want to be….Work towards it. Achieve what you like.</p>
<p>I wanted to share a story here. A story of an athlete. A person who didn’t gave up. Generally in races the athlete who comes first only will be noted and appreciated. Last person will never get noted. But the story here something different.  Derek Redmond in the 1992 Olympics despite of an injury which haunted him and made him to finish the race last. However his attitude made the world to look at him, made him to get standing ovation from the crowd over 65,000. Though his dream was interrupted he didn’t give up. He set out to dominate and win his dream. He continued his dream though injured the injury with his father and finished the race.</p>
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<p>If you want to be successful, you can start at anytime. But you must start. Don&#8217;t make the mistake of not doing anything because you can only do a little. Do what you can do. It could be studies, it could be work, it could be your business. No matter whether its small or big but, think big and achieve big. To be aware of what you want and not go after it, to spend years wondering if something could have materialized, and never knowing if it could have been, is a tragic waste of your life. The worst thing you can do is not to try.</p>
<p>Assume a port is your dream, and you are in the middle of a sea on a boat. If you want to reach the port you must sail. You must sail towards the port. Do not lie at anchor. You must sail off in the direction of your dreams, not drift. A journey of a thousand miles, begins with one step. While your journey you may face failures, disappointments, frustrations, and many…But NEVER GIVE UP until you achieve your dreams… You might be having problem with your loved ones, with the business partners, with the family, with you wealth. But nothing should stop your journey towards your goals. God invented problems to fine tune humans, if you worry about your early struggle in life, you may not have a good and fruitful journey in later life. The problems you face will become a norm for you once you win. When you look back after you win, you will laugh at the problems.  Watch this video:</p>
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<p>Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, Not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life……     A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.  It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.</p>
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Let’s change to make a change!!! </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>“The Optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty, whereas the pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity” </strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its interesting to see that Google always changes the way it operates. Time to time search engine results vary and recently I observed another change (possibly I might be late).  I’m also not sure how to name it, but seems like “Personalized SEO”. I would say this would bring more and more benefits to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=750&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its interesting to see that Google always changes the way it operates. Time to time search engine results vary and recently I observed another change (possibly I might be late).  I’m also not sure how to name it, but seems like “Personalized SEO”. I would say this would bring more and more benefits to the firm if handled and used carefully.</p>
<p>My blog is always ranked high in Google Search Engine for important keywords, drives me several visitors per day. Whenever I update my blog the post quickly get scrolled and showed in the top position in the Google ranking. For some keywords I wondered how it got ranked up. Later I identified Google has linked the Gmail and SEO together. If the person in your Gmail contact searches for a keyword which is relating to your post / site then the respective post / site comes up in the ranking. Lets try an example and see.</p>
<p><strong>Step one</strong> – I logged in to my Gmail from other account, which has already my main Gmail contacts saved.</p>
<p><strong>Step Two –</strong> I had written a post about invest in Sri Lanka in this blog, and searched for the keyword “Invest in Sri Lanka”, where my blog appeared in the first page as 8<sup>th</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup> result. Please see the screen shot:</p>
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<p>Then I logged out from Gmail and again searched for the relevant keyword, where I couldn’t see the same results. So I’m not sure about my guess on these, however I can see that Google tempting people to use Gmail more and giving more personalized search results.</p>
<p>When I see this I got an idea, it’s good for Sri Lankan firms in the following ways:</p>
<p>1-    Use Gmail for communication with customers (Specially travel firms)</p>
<p>2-    When they reply it will be saved as contact</p>
<p>3-    At the same time they should share their online presence such as website, blogs etc etc. Both should be killer content.</p>
<p>4-    Now when they search for relevant keywords since the firms are in the contact list with shared content the relevant content will appear in the first page, which might surprise them and create credibility.</p>
<p>(But using Gmail for customer contact may not represent professionalism since people may worry about the trust).</p>
<p>These are just my observation and the ideas are totally with predictions. If I’m wrong please correct me. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Recapping My Facebook status updates during 2011 Jan to Dec</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<li>Good is the Enemy of Great&#8230;&#8230;&amp; that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great&#8230;..
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<li>I got this when I read the &#8220;Good to Great &#8220;Book written by Jim Collins.  It is 100% true that people stop their process once they believe they are doing good. Then they fail to take the next step to be great.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Not words win arguments… only action&#8230;..
<ul>
<li>It is obvious that everyday we spend our valuable time in arguing and justifying.  But it’s always simple to finish any arguments. If anyone argues with you, and if you don’t agree with them, keep quiet, save your time, show it in your action.</li>
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<li>A humble visionary, leader, teacher and inspiration. He will be sadly missed but his legacy will live on to inspire countless others as he has inspired me. Thank you Steve Jobs and rest in peace
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<li>Loss of my admired personality, Steve Job. I have used him as an example in several places, several training programmes. He is not in the world today, but his legendary marks will always remain until the death of this universe.</li>
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<li>&#8220;When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn&#8217;t Follow You.
<ul>
<li>In life when you have money, you can see a lot of people around you. Though you have negatives they never speak about it when you have wealth. They do what you say, they agree what you say. But when you are alone without anything no one will be there for you, to care , to cry or even to help.</li>
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<li>Coin Always Makes Sound, But The Currency Notes Are Always Silent. So When Your Value Increases Keep Yourself Calm and Silent&#8221;</li>
<li>You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
<ul>
<li>Without taking risks you can’t lead a perfect live. If you want to realize the real rhythm of life take risks. Higher the risk bigger the return.</li>
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<li>There are no perfect fathers, but a father will always love perfectly. Remember to Care for those who care for you&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Watch this video&#8230;..
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<li>An amazing video which made me cry.</li>
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<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='345' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/nBobmn_u98w?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></li>
<li>The best students are those who never quite believe their professors &#8230;..
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<li>Obviously.</li>
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<li>LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT RECOGNITION IS A SKILL!If anyone ever tells you that your work is unprofessional, remember:amateurs built the Ark and professionals built the Titanic.DON&#8217;T LOOK TO BECOME A PERSON OF SUCCESS, LOOK INSTEAD TO BECOME A<br />
PERSON OF VALUE!</li>
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<p>10. Take the first step in faith, you don&#8217;t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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<li>Simply thousand miles of journey begins with the single step, if we actually worry about the 100 steps we won’t make the first step.</li>
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<p>11. If you win, you need not have to explain&#8230;If you lose, you should not be there to explain..</p>
<p>12. In a day, when you don&#8217;t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path&#8230;</p>
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<li>If the life is so smooth the life won’t be interesting.  Simply a smooth sea won’t make good sailors. When you face problems only you will be polished up to face the future challenges.</li>
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<p>13. When it rains, most birds head for shelter; the eagle is the only bird that, in order to avoid the rain, starts flying above the cloud. &#8230;<br />
Winners win by pushing their limits until their limits become the norm.</p>
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<li>One of my famous saying. Absolutely amazing. A story which impressed me. The story of an Eagle.</li>
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<span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='345' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/xUO7TV3dqzE?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span>
<p>14. Strength is a matter of a made up mind</p>
<p>15. Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever- Lace Armstrong</p>
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<li>Whenever you start something, if you fail giving up is not the solution for everything.  Take the pain, try your level best, win the war, be a mercenary.</li>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes when on holiday you desire for culture, history, nature and a profusion of places to go sightseeing without investing so much money. Sometimes you just wanted to lie down and enjoy the sounds and smells of the nature without the disturbance of civilization noises. Sometimes you wanted to enjoy food which is nourishes with spices of eastern culture and garnish in western style.  Other times you just wish for a stunning beach and plenty of fine dining along with peaceful and safety dives. If this is what your heart desires then welcome to Sri Lanka, Pearl of the Indian Ocean as it is more commonly called by the keepers of the sea.</p>
<p>Sri Lanka is the most natural sightseeing friendly island in the Indian Ocean and the popularity and number of tourists coming to the island keep on and still continues to grow and grow. One of the reasons for Sri Lanka to be most attractive tourist destination in Indian region is because it boasts the finest beaches in the world which enable tourist to do diving, swimming and coral sightseeing. Crystal clear waters which come and conquer the sands of srilankan shores will make our feet feel like silk cloth between the toes.</p>
<p>Not only is the ocean there is also another secret behind the success story of srilankan tourism. The secret is none other than the heritage historical places of Sri Lanka which illustrates the nation’s history and the importance of such an island in the middle of Indian Ocean. Anuradhapura, Polannaruwa and Kandy are growing as most popular tourist spot which resides in Sri Lanka. The historical importance of these places keeps on attracting tourist who is more interested in learning the culture of Sri Lanka.</p>
<p>Other than the beaches and historical importance, Sri Lanka is also an island which defines convention. According to island bio-geographic theory, small islands don’t have large mammals. Regrettably for theory Sri Lanka is an exemption, as the largest terrestrial mammal in Asia, the Asian Elephant, is found on the island. Sri Lanka is beyond hesitation that the best place in Asia to see the Asian Elephant. Uda Walawe National Park, to the south of the central mountain massif, and the tourists are assured to see elephants. During September and October an annual concentration of elephants, called ‘The Gathering’, takes place on the receding shores of the Minneriya Lake in Minneriya National Park.  ‘The Gathering’ is surely one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on the planet.</p>
<p>The tourism merchandise in Sri Lanka is growing and so too does the infrastructure of Sri Lankan transportation and accommodation facilities. There are mountains to tramp and hills to trek. These hiking spots are improved so that the tourists can enjoy the trekking of mountain with the worry about the safety of the lives. Sri Lanka is not only about the beach and what lies beneath the brilliant blue waters. It’s the culture which prevails in Sri Lanka which makes it special. Ever smiling, generous and always obliging people of Sri Lanka make the tourist feels they are welcomed to this wonderful island- A promise like no other.</p>
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		<title>Holiday Bungalow in Sri Lanka – The village home for investment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited Kandy last month for training and stayed in a nice holiday bungalow. It’s a very traditional and eco free place. It was only ten days ago in early Dec, that I sat out with my collogue in the verandah in that home after a heavy dinner. It was  pitched dark and so  silent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ragulan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5337527&amp;post=740&amp;subd=ragulan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>I visited Kandy last month for training and stayed in a nice holiday bungalow. It’s a very traditional and eco free place. It was only ten days ago in early Dec, that I sat out with my collogue in the verandah in that home after a heavy dinner. It was  pitched dark and so  silent, calm and quite. It was like the world was absolutely still. After years, I too could hear the frogs making such a noise with the evening showers. They sound so happy and continued till I fell asleep.</p>
<p>Suddenly my mobile rang, it was a thundering noise. It would have been heard   by   any person, even 500 yards away. In Colombo it is not even heard within the home. That was the silence that I am talking of.</p>
<p>Thereafter, it was just one sleep and I was up  only with the many  serene voices of the     birds led  by the cock a doodle do as he wakes the whole village. Thank god, it was not by a screaming bus or a three wheeler that is so common in the city.</p>
<p>I was up in a flash and as I opened the front door, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I have never seen two huge eagles on any lawn the noise and the sound they created, as they  flew was never heard before   and still it lingers in my ears.</p>
<p>I have enjoyed the evening and the morning at that home and I thought just had a chat with the owner and I got to know he is planning to sell the house to the investors. It’s lovely place for a travel holiday bungalow. People those who buys it will definitely earn great profit in future and many more. I have got some snap shot of the place, see those below &#8211; contact me if you are interested ragulfun at gmail.com</p>
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