What Makes a Successful Business?

What Makes a Successful Business?
Posing a question like "what makes a successful business" can be like the parable of the four blind men describing the elephant - all the perceptions are accurate, but they aren't the full picture, and none really stands up on its own. The fact is that the elements that go into making a successful business are many, varied, and often industry/niche specific. Therefore, in order to deliver a small treatise on what it is that makes for a successful business, it is crucial to focus on the underlying structures rather than the detailed specifics. Whether or not to use a particular accounting method is not what this paper will cover, but whether or not to actually have an accounting method is within the scope of this paper. What follows is a structural guideline for helping to make a business successful. There are many advantages and disadvantages when owning your own business. When you own your own business, it’s known as a sole proprietorship.

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Why costumers service is importan?

Why costumers service is importan? First images clients make of a company come from the people who interact with them, the customer service personnel. This way, if the shop assistant is poorly trained and not motivated, the entire company may feel the result of such an employee behavior. The first impression that customers experience is very important. During this very first experience the customer decides (although sometimes without even noticing it) whether he or she will be a return-client of a particular store or not. Thus, if an untrained and skilled, indifferent employee exhibits no care and customer value, the first impression would be negative, and the company would lose a prospective client. The most interesting and controversial fact to note is that maybe this particular store was the one that customer needs (offers the exact product the client needs at the most suitable price), however this is no longer important, since the client had not felt important or valued. Therefore, the supervisors of customer service representatives should put effort to train their subordinates and motivate them. Otherwise, company’s public relations and overall success would deteriorate.

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The new headquarters of the "Apple"

Rules for safety, especially in construction, has not saved a prestigious company as "Apple", which will build its new base.

So here is nothing special, but everything changes when they find that the cost for the implementation of headquarters "bitten apple" ranges from 3 to 5 billion dollars.

The figure in question has impressed even the company founded by Steve Jobs and of course its shareholders.

New costs, communicated by some "spies" for Bloomberg intelligence network, make new home "Apple" most precious in the United States.

Furthermore, its cost exceeds that of the new headquarters of the World Trade Center, currently under construction in New York on the foundations of the old towers, at a cost of $ 3.9 billion.

The project was presented for the first time by the Steve Jobs, the late spring of 2011, a few months before his death, described as a spaceship.

Ring shaped structure, which will be implemented mainly in dark glasses, reminiscent of the 2001 ship Odissea in space and is designed in the service of the environment.

Power supply will be done with solar panels located on the entire surface of the roof, 65 thousand square meters able to generate 8 megawatt power, equivalent to the need for 4 thousand houses and farms screw to be placed across campus.

The structure will be immersed in 71 acres jeshillëk, area equivalent to 130 football fields, and will mobilohet with about 6 thousand new trees of vehicles to be used by employees and will disappear on the roads leading through the parking .

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Apple, almost iTV

After the revolution that started in the mobile phone market in 2007 with the launch of the first iPhone, Apple aims to conquer another tech sector ... the production of televisions.

U.S. company is expected to launch this year iTV, TV's first "Apple", where once again (understand here the battle between iPhone and Galaxy S) would deal with Samsung, already affirmed in this market.

Apple TV will be 50, 55 and 60-inch high definition "high definition" and all other functional options that includes a mini iPad.

But innovation is the remote, or to define more precisely unazo-command. Say "ring" because iTV will be commanded by a "magic ring". Ring is equipped with a chip that sets based television use hand movements.

Throwing iTV was provided for in the first months of 2014, but rumors of the company, cited by technological forums on the internet, say it is likely Apple's new creation will be placed on the market in recent months of this year in the hope the harvest of the same success as it iPhone. Price: 1500 euro.

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Surprising NASA scientist

NASA scientist  in the position of one of its employees has openly declared that in March there is! Studies conducted on the surface of Mars, for two consecutive decades of Viking Lander and collected data show that there may be life on the red planet. News is konfrimaur and presented himself leisurely Joseph Miller Ph. D, which is already working for more than 30 years in missions and expeditions organized of NASA s.Miller, recently did an analysis of data collected by the Viking probes Linders and concluded from these data that the land March metabolic nutritional substances exists a unique biological rhythm, as he says, that can only be found in a living cell! In 1975, the Viking spacecraft reached Mars's atmosphere and its surface was installed. They pull off a series of experiments, including one where a robot arm, scooped, took soil sample and added a nutritional substance points enriched with radioactive carbon. "We believe that in combination with powerful facts coming from Mars and images say to us that there once the water has leaked in the past. There are many ingredients which are vital and characteristic of the evolution of life. I believe that in 1976, Viking researchers had a strong reason to believe that will reveal. So, I would say that they were 75% sure it will reveal be there! ", Says Miller, followed by more daring statement made ​​by NASA scientist:" Now I'm 95% sure, after the discovery that there is no life. "

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Scientists claim new glasses-free 3D for cellphone (w/ video)

Fancy watching a movie on your mobile phone, where figures leap out from the screen in 3D, rather as Princess Leia did in that scene from "Star Wars"? That's the claim made by US researchers, who on Wednesday reported they had made a display which gives a three-dimensional image that can be viewed without special glasses and is intended for cellphones, tablets and watches.

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Could this yellow blinking eye be Zuckerberg's first Web site?

With no one ever truly knowing how real they might be.
I therefore bare my skepticism with moves not dissimilar to those in a Haka dance on hearing that Mark Zuckerbergs first  Web site might have been unearthed.
My inconsistent reading of Motherboard today offered the startling information that Zuckerberg's first site might have included a blinking yellow dinosaur eye.
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It's headlined: "Hello and welcome to my page!"
Could it be that even in 1999, Zuckerberg oozed friendship?
I am not so sure, as the words beneath the greeting read: "The only site where a yellow eye blinks at you."
When I think of a lone eye blinking at me, I think of words like "beady," "creepy" and "cyclops." But perhaps, in those days, this might have seemed charming.
Motherboard does a delightful exposition of the forensics as to whether this site might be real. It traces the e-mail address very persuasively to the Zuckerberg family. It discovers the 15-year-old protagonist as trying to pretend, briefly, that his name is Slim Shady.
The Verge even speculates that this fledgling effort might contain the essence of what became -- at least in Zuckerberg's head -- the social graph.
If this, indeed, was the boy himself, he must have known even then that he would not be just "Mark." Not at all. He was TheMarke -- pronounced, perhaps, "The Markie", as in "Marky Mark?
I have, naturally, contacted Facebook to see if the Mark will admit to being Themarke51@aol.com.
If this site is really his first effort, will the Smithsonian wish to lay claim? Will it be preserved somewhere terribly special, perhaps even on Facebook? Will it spend a little time in the Louvre?

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Samsung within 1,400 Best Buy stores

 Best Buy and Samsung have reached a new agreement for the creation of some specific angles Samsung stores within large network of stores Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile.

Samsung new stores, which will call the Korean company - Experience Shop, will offer consumers an opportunity to discover the Samsung products and latest mobile devices company.

Rather, more than 1,400 stores Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile will be equipped with the Samsung Experience Shop - while the first 900 is expected to be promoted during the month of May. The rest will be completed during the summer of this year, according to the official announcement said the company.

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Warner Bros. launches streaming service for classic movies and TV

 

Netflix, Hulu and their rivals are locked in a constant battle to score new content. But classic movies and TV can get lost in the fray -- and Warner Bros. is launching a streaming service aimed at that niche.

For $10 per month, Warner Archive Instant allows users to stream content from the 1920s through the 1990s. The catalog includes what the company says are "rare, hard-to-find" TV shows and movies from Warner Bros., MGM, RKO and Allied Artists. Offerings include a 1921 adaptation of "The Scarlet Letter" and 1991's "Until the End of the World" with William Hurt.

The monthly price tag is $2 more than both Netflix (NFLX) and Hulu Plus. But Warner Bros., which is owned by CNNMoney parent company Time Warner (TWX, Fortune 500), is promoting the rarity of its catalog as its selling point. Warner Archive Instant's FAQ page refers many times to "other streaming services" lacking its classic titles.
Archive Instant features only 122 titles at launch, but Warner Bros. says new content will be "regularly added." The service also lacks compatibility with most devices at launch. Archive Instant users can stream via the website, but the service works with only one connected-TV device: Roku.
Only Roku users will be able to stream the high-definition versions of the handful of titles with that option. The Web version of Archive Instant won't stream in HD.
Archive Instant will also feature monthly streaming movie or TV marathons built around a common theme or interest.

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Opinion: A Facebook phone doesn't make sense

Facebook is holding an Android-related press event next week and already the Internet is in a tizzy. Could this be the rumored, mythical, magical Facebook phone?

The truth is, I don't know. For nearly 18 months, rumors of a Facebook phone — developed by HTC and running a customized version of Android — have continued to persist. And for nearly 18 months, Facebook has publicly denied its interest in building its own phone.

Last September at TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on at length about why a Facebook phone wasn't right for the company.

He said:

"Let's say we build a phone. We're not, but if we did, we could maybe get 10 to 20 million people to use it ... It doesn't move the needle for us."

"The strategy we have is different from every other tech company [like Apple] that's building their own hardware system — we're going in the opposite direction.."

Of course, if a Facebook phone is coming, this wouldn't be the first time that a CEO has said one thing publicly while planning on doing exactly the opposite. At Apple, Steve Jobs was famous for denouncing a product (iPod video) or industry (mobile phones), only to enter that same industry or create that same product later.

So let's assume that a Facebook phone is coming and that it will run some sort of highly-customized version of Android. Does a Facebook phone even make sense anymore, especially given the current market realities and competition in the mobile space?

I say no.

The timing for a phone is no longer right

When the rumors of a Facebook phone first started to spread, the idea made sense — at least from a business perspective. Facebook was not yet a public company and it was desperately trying to transition into being a mobile-first company.

A phone made sense, in part, because the native mobile app experience was so poor. Not only were the old versions of Facebook for Android and iOS slow and lacking in feature parity with the website, the company hadn't started to figure out a way to monetize the apps themselves and offer mobile ad units to buyers.

At the same time, while Android was dominating the mobile landscape from a global perspective, Samsung hadn't solidified its role as the defacto face of the platform. Plus, most phones running Android in 2011 and into 2012 were running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. A customized version of Android built around Facebook was appealing, because Android itself was still lacking in polish and with some core functionality.

That's no longer the case. With every release, Android gets better looking and better performing. Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is its best yet and we're expecting to see an even newer version at Google I/O in May.

Moreover, the face of Android is no longer Google, it's Samsung. The Galaxy brand is tremendously powerful, with the Galaxy S III alone selling over 50 million units since June.

Plus, Facebook is improving on the mobile front. Its mobile apps are native now and the company has mobile ad units and is making changes to its core products — such as the News Feed — to be mobile first and properly monetized.

The market for third place Is crowded

Facebook has over a billion users on the desktop, but its phone ecosystem won't pop up over night.

Even if it uses Android as a base, one has to assume that if Facebook makes a phone, it will want to have more control than allowed as part of Google's Open Handset Alliance. For better or worse, that would mean that it would need to be its own platform.

Apple and Android proper make up the vast majority of the smartphone space. The battle for third place isn't just being fought by Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10; it's also facing competition from the smaller mobile OS's such as Tizen, Ubuntu and Firefox OS.

Those companies are already making inroads in emerging markets, where it's easier to disrupt the iOS/Android duopoly. Facebook wouldn't just be competing with iOS and Google's version of Android — it would also be competing with carriers to actually give the phone a chance.

Microsoft — a company with a much longer and stronger history in mobile — has struggled to gain traction with carriers. Only now, after more than two years of work, is the company outselling iOS in a few select markets. If Facebook thinks it can just waltz in and get carriers to agree to sell its phone, it's mistaken.

Companies such as Huawei and ZTE — companies that sell more phones than HTC, I might add — struggle to get major U.S. carriers to pick up their products, and those products run Android proper.

Facebook will have a hard time getting carriers not only to agree to carry a Facebook phone, but to promote it. Right now, when a user walks into a store, she has to choose from among a few different iPhone models, a countless array of Android devices, some Windows Phone 8 models and even the BlackBerry Z10.

Plus, even if Facebook does make its own phone, it's not as if the company can ignore other platforms. The company has to be ubiquitous and offer its apps and services to everyone. Does it really make sense for Facebook to invest the time and resources in further fragmenting the phone space, when it still has to support the two big players anyway?

What does make sense: A Facebook app store for Android

While I'm not convinced that a phone in any sense makes sense for Facebook, it's clear that Facebook does need to get its hooks deeper into mobile.

For a Facebook phone to be worthwhile — Zuckerberg is right — it can't be just 10 or 20 million, it has to have massive scale. Facebook will have a hard time achieving that scale with its own phone and OS. But that doesn't mean the company couldn't still achieve that sort of scale by going another route.

Rather than building a phone and customizing its own version of Android to fit its needs, Facebook should take some cues from Amazon and consider building its own Facebook app store that runs on Android devices.

By app store — I don't just mean a copy of Google Play or a place for developers to offer their apps on yet another store — I mean a way for Facebook to offer mobile developers a way to build apps that interact and interface with Facebook on a deeper level. These apps could interface with the native Facebook interface more fluidly — and maybe even let developers bring their traditional Facebook apps to Android in a way that doesn't require the same commitment as building a traditional Android app.

Plus, an app store would be a good market test to see if the demand for a Facebook phone actually exists. After all, it would be a lot easier to launch a phone with a slew of supported mobile apps and deep integration.

Look, at one point, a Facebook phone might have made sense. In today's climate and crowded mobile market, that's no longer the case.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 price drops precede Galaxy S4 launch

Just as expected, carriers have begun to slash prices on Samsung's Galaxy S3 handset in anticipation of stocking the bigger, fancier Samsung Galaxy S4 successor.
AT&T announced this morning that beginning today, its Galaxy S3 will sell for $99.99 with a two-year contract, an instant $100 reduction. Expect other carriers to follow suit.
Galaxy S4 preorders begin on April 16 for AT&T. The $250 in-contract Galaxy S4 cost makes the Galaxy S3 look like a bargain, a tactic that will help the carrier clear old stock to make room on the shelves for the latest model.
Bargain-hunters will still find robust smartphone features on the Galaxy S3 for a fraction of the cost, which is one compelling reason to purchase the earlier model.
Those who prefer all of the Galaxy S4's whistles and bells -- like the 13-megapixel camera, monster processor, and heaping software extras -- will have to shell out more.

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YouTube is temporarily closed!

On April 1 jokes, YouTube is prepared a few days ago released a video which is called "YouTube is ready to select the winner."

In a video released by the famous video service on the Internet, company employees have told users that by midnight they will accept video in the service, and after service will be shut down eventually, and then will not accept loads of new content.

YouTube workers call intended selection of the best video service, which will be published in 2023, when YouTube again to start its operation. And the reward for the winner will be an MP3 player and $ 500.

Although video released by YouTube is full of famous people, service users have participated in the game again YouTube hoping to gain something

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iPhone 5 and iPad Mini sales help Apple

Samsung is still the world leader in the number of deliveries smart phones, tablets, and desktop computers, but the two latest Apple products are helping its rival Apple to cover the space between them.
IDC's new report which dealt with the deliveries of "smart devices" means that Apple gets 20.3 percent of total remittances for the last quarter of 2012, after Samsung, which tops the list with 21.2 percent of the total shipments.

IDC says that Apple's growth has come as a result of the introduction of two important products, like the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, and no one should be surprised, knowing how well the equipment is sold.
However, the important question is how long Apple will be able to stand behind Samsung, given that the latter has now launched a new model of phone, the Galaxy S4, which says it will be sold up to 100 million Unit
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Samsung ende është lider botëror për nga numri i dërgesave të telefonave të mençur, tabletëve, dhe kompjuterëve desktop, mirëpo dy produktet e fundit të Apple janë duke e ndihmuar rivalin e saj Apple që të mbulojë hapësirën mes tyre.
Raporti i ri i IDC-së i cili është marrë me dërgesat e “pajisjeve të mençura” thotë se Apple merr 20.3 për qind të totalit të dërgesave për tremujorin e fundit të 2012, pas Samsung e cila kryeson listën me 21.2 për qind të totalit të dërgesave.
IDC thotë se rritja e Apple ka ardhur si pasojë e prezantimit të dy produkteve të rëndësishme, si iPhone 5 dhe iPad Mini, dhe për këtë askush nuk do të duhej të befasohej, duke e ditur se sa mirë po shiten pajisjet.
Megjithatë, pyetje e rëndësishme është se për sa gjatë Apple do të mund të qëndroj pas Samsung, duke marrë parasysh se kjo e fundit tani ka lansuar modelin e ri të telefonit, Galaxy S4, për të cilin thotë se do të shitet deri në 100 milionë njës

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Facebook Phone, on April 4?

At the beginning of next month, ie April 4, Facebook will hold a new event dedicated to the Android operating system, which the social network called "new home", and this may involve the integrationlargest mobile platform.

 

According to TechCrunch, the event can be launched new Facebook application for Android, or to make the introduction of a new model of smart phone Facebook, which believed that the company is created in collaboration with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC.

On the Internet are already published some new model concepts Facebook phone, which if you happen to be, does not seem bad

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Free calls through Facebook, arrive in Europe!

 While American users and they kandez had access to fantastic function within the official Facebook application for Apple, which enables free calls, other social network users have watched from afar the opportunity offered by Facebook.

Now, the Facebook application for Apple iOS Messenger debuted in the UK, and is expected to come in other European countries soon. However, it should be noted that this function within the Facebook application is not made ​​possible for users of the Android operating system.

The new service is not supported by Skype phone calls, but works very similar and is very easy to use. The novelty of this application is voice mail service, which can be left in the event that the person you are calling is busy.

According to Pocket-Lint, this version of the application is still in beta stage and there may be mistakes, but what is important is that, you will say "goodbye" toll calls, since the application works with the Internet phones, which you have in your phone

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BlackBerry sells 1 million BlackBerry Z10

BlackBerry Company's financial results for last year have been released, with that famous Canadian manufacturer of electronic devices has announced that it has managed to generate $ 2.7 billion.

Revenues for the latest quarter for BlackBerry have reached $ 94 million, compared with just 14 million than they were three months ago.

BlackBerry's new success has been attributed to the successful launch of the BlackBerry 10 - which has sold more than 1 million copies, out of a total of 6 million units sold during the year.

However, these results do not include sales data from the U.S. and Canada, countries which are believed to have sold more units of BlackBerry Z10.

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Apple also clever pencil?

While talking about the clock wise to Apple iWatch, the company has submitted a new application for the patent, and this time it is a mobile electronic device.

And of course it's a new innovation, or on a computer integrated into a pencil, which is equipped with an LCD screen to display e-mails, SMS and various reports.

According to CNET, says that the device will come with wireless technology, GPS, wireless technology, microphone, headphones, and charge my battery.

Along with other functions, such as the calculator and clock, pen clever Apple could also be used as electronic personal assistant and as a tool for recognition of writing, or the user's voice

While talking about the clock wise to Apple iWatch, the company faces Submitted a new application for the patent, and this time it is a mobile electronic device.

And of course it's a new innovation, or on a computer Integrated into a pencil, Which is equipped with an LCD screen to display e-mails, SMS and various reports. 

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Yahoo has launched a new format on his web page

Today during the day, Yahoo has launched a new format its web page, which is designed to enable users to have a more personal and intuitive site, in the center of which show the latest news and updates on the site.

Yahoo has said it has cleared the site from some unnecessary surplus, and that the new design has integrated a new system of access to the site, which enables users to access their Facebook account.

Yahoo Director, Marissa Mayer has given more details about the new Yahoo page, saying "we are presenting a new way to welcome visitors on the Yahoo".

Dear readers, let us know how you seem new page of one of the largest websites in the world?

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E-orders for 128GB Surface Pro to ship in 2-3 weeks -- Microsoft

Microsoft provided another update at the end of this week regarding the availability of its sold-out 128GB version of the Surface Pro.
A February 15 Surface Blog post said that those ordering through the Microsoft online store in the U.S. can place an order for the 128GB model and have it ship in two to three weeks.
The new post also provided updated information for those wanting to "reserve" the Intel-based PC/tablet hybrid Surface Pro devices. Up until now, Microsoft officials have declined comment when asked whether users would be able to pre-order Surface Pros.

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