Thursday, September 10, 2009

Product Knowledge comes in various forms

Product Knowledge

Introduction

Product Knowledge comes in various forms - a product's features for its intended purpose, what goes with what - a product's associations, and how a product works. A sales representative would be expected to know the product's features and sufficient of how it is used to convince the customer of its worth. When a sales contact is made, there is usually already understanding on the buyer's side of what the product broadly does, the sales rep only needing to fill in the holes - anticipate the customer's requirements, suggest support products and services, show how product features relate to the buyer's use of the product. Online selling cuts out the human representative, so some other means must be found to deliver the product knowledge.

Gathering Product Knowledge

Only part of product knowledge resides in printed catalogs, and almost none except a few values in a product database. Often the database will have information about each product crammed into a string. Much more knowledge about the product can be stored and delivered in the form of an XML message, but there being a human at the other end to read the message is problematic.

Product Features

Free form information about the product is often held in a description or string of keywords. This information can be "mined" to produce dimensions for the Product Map. Information that would not conflict dimensionally can be held as a string in one dimension, while information that would conflict can be teased out into separate dimensions - ride quality and rugged suspension, for example. A lexical analyzer primed with rules that relate to the particular product family can be used to automate most of the deconstruction of the free form information. The logic handling the segmentation of products into product families controls both the rules and the information the lexer sees, allowing a nominally context-free lexer using regular expressions to function in a context-aware manner.

Product Associations

If the supplier sells more than a single product range, associations with other products can be found from what customers buy. These can be stripped from transaction data and used to build links between products. For example, the customer buys some wooden wall studs. They are of a size for internal walls, so if the customer asks about cladding, we have used associative links to already identify plaster as probable, with timber sheeting as less probable. If the customer opts for plaster, we have already identified and can suggest a quantity of trumpet head woodscrews and suitable gap fillers.

Other Product Knowledge

Much product knowledge will not have been formalized before. The product objects, or classes of objects, can be linked to models of behavior, using textual or graphical or data mining means to build the logic of the models. The models can include analytic and experiential knowledge and automatically employ many forms of reasoning. Simulation or constraint models can be delivered electronically to sophisticated customers for fitting into models of their technical requirements.

Conclusion

The combination of linkable objects in a multi-dimensional container with multiple orderings allows dense and complex product knowledge about specific products and between products to be efficiently represented and deployed. The product knowledge is in a form that allows translation of much of it into an XML message which can be read and understood by a human or automated recipient. The form of the knowledge is also suitable for automatic optimisation.



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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The SHORT HISTORY of MARKETING

The SHORT HISTORY of MARKETING

Marketing at this time, became one of the important thinking in modern knowledge especially economic knowledge. If being paid attention to thoroughly, then knowledge marketing might dikata including that came most behind. During other knowledge as accountancy and the management developed the area, marketing still cut off-piece in several different studies, like advertising and the sale. Could not be ignored that the development of modern economic knowledge took part in being influenced by the development of culture of the community especially technology.

The revolution of the industry that was pioneered by James Watt dgn the discovery of his vapour machine, changed the community's order that earlier was oriented agrarian became oriented the industrialist. This was marked by the development of factories that digerakan never again by humankind, but also by the machine, the increasingly big production capacity and the increase in the requirement for the community. The revolution of the industry also brought the important influence in the development of economic knowledge generally. The economic system for example that earlier was oriented merkantilis and phisiokrasi, now changed to the capitalist under the standard of thinking of Adam Smith.

The development of thinking marketing as knowledge personally was born because of various factors: 1. The existence of economic Knowledge as part of the Social Science. Economic knowledge wanted to not want to be able to not run away from his essence as social science. As role social science of the foundation of economic knowledge was to analyse and solve social problems of the community that was connected with economics. This solution always was not able to be solved in a macro manner. The solution in a micro manner clear was needed. The person per the good person in a manner the individual or the group needed the solution on their problem in an individualized manner.

This solution of course needed the analysis yg not only was theoretical-mathematical like in economic knowledge, but needed the analysis that really in accordance with the space challenge and time as well as the context of the problem at the time. 1. The failure of basic Knowledge of Economics. Basic knowledge of economics especially Macro-economics knowledge and micro-economics was regarded failed to break and analyse problems of economics that happened. Several theories of the foundation in micro-economics like the request law, the theory of marginal satisfaction, the theory of the behaviour of the consumer et cetera, it was considered did not satisfy to explain the complexity of actual problems of economics. 2. The development of the community and patterns of the life of the time. The industrial time made the change that was significant in the life order of the community, that in the long run was mentioned as the modern time. But also must be realised that the development of the modern community no longer focusses on the community's groups, but on the life that was individualized, the matter that afterwards was known as the information era. The development marketing as knowledge to the beak the two centuries 20, took part in being affected by the thinkers futuristik that estimated the world developments direction headed this information era. 3. The collapse of the system of world communism. The communism system that had ruled over some parts of the world since to I and continued in to II. Politik in cold war time then reflected the existence of the difference of the view that was very striking between capitalism and communism, actual started from the problem of economics. More to be precise, philosophically the difference of the interpretation against Injil Matius. With the collapse of the system of world communism, the world to was open for the activity of economics.

Countries that earlier followed the system of command economics, changed to memperlajari the market economy system, and knowledge aplikatif yg most was enjoyed was marketing knowledge. Books from various experts in the Western World began to be supervised and translated in the local language. Including also marketing books, especially the book from begawan marketing the world, Philip Kotler. Apart from the background of the birth and the knowledge expansion marketing, we must know several matters to be basic in the history marketing. Marketing clear was begun from the exchange activity whether between personal privately, the group et cetera. This exchange needed a consensus together around sides that carried out this exchange. But this exchange could not be personally acknowledged as knowledge marketing. Because in fact this activity more was practical economics only. Marketing was born as starting precisely knowledge from advertising knowledge (advertising). marketing the first time being taught in the class by ED. Jones during 1906 in University of Michigan and afterwards by Simon Litman in University of California in the same year. Marketing furthermore more was gazed at as distribution knowledge (the mass distribution), and his teaching was then increasingly wide to foremost universities in the United States. Whereas being gazed at from the corner advertising, marketing has developed more previously to the last beak the 19th age, through the publication of books that be connected with advertising. In periods terkemudian, marketing was taught with three main elements, that is advertising, selling and distribution. Et cetera slow but definitely, other elements then began dimasukan in thinkings marketing. Among them, the concept of consumption, the behaviour of the market, et cetera. Three Marketing periods. Marketing grew as modern knowledge, as being known at the moment, because of urging of the experts who join in as well as contributed thinking inside.

These experts were divided into 4 main groups, that is: 1. The founding group was them who gave birth marketing since from first, that despised the foundations marketing like that has been mentioned above, where marketing had 3 elements of the main foundation. 2. The academic's group, among them was Philip Kotler, Theodore Levitt, et cetera. This period was marked by the development to the side of the modernisation of thinking marketing, and the utilisation of other knowledge that were relevant in the field marketing, like social psychology. 3. The consultant's group. Their number enough. Their thinking not only in the research that was quantitative, but rather headed in observation and observation that were subjective. Between them this was Jack Trout and Al Ries. 4. The practitioner's group, was them who earlier worked in the marketing field, had held the high-ranking position of the field marketing in a big company et cetera. Their thinking was more oriented to their experience was personal while they worked. So as their thinking was aplikatif. This separation basically was not permanent, because of having also the academic's group that became the consultant, the practitioner et cetera. This separation was meant to understand the framework thought marketing as knowledge better. New waves of technology today, join in also influenced the development of knowledge marketing. Latest thinkings like CRM (Costumer Relationship Marketing), Presicion Marketing, Marketing ounce the Internet, was proof that the development marketing was affected by the development of technology especially in the information field and communication.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

LONG LIFE EDUCATION

LONG LIFE EDUCATION

Education could be regained with various methods at first was increasingly supportive him the development of this current electronic equipment. Easily we obtained information about the development of the good time from the west hemisphere at first again from the neighbouring country. Science, skills, education was the element of the decisive foundation dexterity someone thought about himself and his environment. Someone who could change himself became better it was hoped could change his family, in the future changed his area and afterwards changed his country as well as changed the world where he lived. Like poetry of a sister who really hoped for the peacefulness creation before this earth. Someone had the existence about the important meaning himself and the life that was given by the Lord for him and really was regretted if that bore fruit.

If we glance at for a moment to countries in the west, they gave important attention to the development of science, education and skills because that for them was assets, main capital to be able to the contribution competed with that was other. For example, the USA country with new discoveries in the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY field, that could be made the "value sold" to the other country without eliminated keoriginalan the discovery of early that was carried out by them. They were not shy must dismiss berjuta dollar to bring about their discovery. We as the Indonesian citizen did not demand like that in our country because of seeing the condition for education still far needed the repairing in various educational fields. Although being like this his reality, not meant us only did nothing and watched hoped from the other country that finally in the era free trade this we could no longer go up to empower himself so that appropriate to compete and appropriate sold. We might dream but be careful should not become the dreamer.


the scope that was narrow in our Country's region personally still there is one that is backward, could not read and wrote. This was a concern that really was difficult to be combatted if we still berkutat in the primitive understanding or a little advanced but just was just technical. Gaze at left and saw openness in the world of the globalisation, made the role of education to be very vital to be the determiners because the world of education could motivate the technological creation that could be adapted, diimitasi in fact was spread by means of that was fast and was easy. That afterwards this matter could support the rate of the development of a Country.

At this time we were challenged to study and study because increasingly we knew precisely even more that we did not know. The development not the calculation of the day but has left measured with the calculation of the second. From second time to the following second has produced various powers of the creation of discoveries in various fields. Considering that, then let's made use of the opportunity that was available, not the opportunity that made use of us. Because of at this time was stated in practice that humankind was his subject and his quality was the key, not the matter of the quantity again.

Wise words from a person of nationality China that said: Give a man a fish And you Will feed him for a meal But Teach a man how to fish And you Will feed him for life Wise words that really awakened us who had the meaning "gave to someone of a fish then you gave him only very much ate but taught someone to fish then you gave him ate an age" of "his life." An expression that might be given acungan the thumb. In the expression was kept by the meaning that wanted to be sent was manusiakan humankind so that he becomes humankind, make full use of, educated, trained, gave skills so that in the future he who make full use of and was responsible to himself, his life as well as his future.

The young was the holder of the key in each area, the young man was the nation continuer. It was reality that must we acknowledged that our nation young men, before advancing competitive almost has lost competed, but did not have words late, immediately come on all we perlengkapi children, ourselves to become key humans as the step towards humankind that was ready with and had the creative power high as well as have a sale price that was appropriate in the international community. Was not easy but we well-off. Let's proved to the world that we could as the nation child create in the world depths.

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Global liquidity crisis on Indonesia


Global liquidity crisis having small impact on Indonesia

Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Friday the current global liquidity crisis has only led to a 0.1 percent drop in Indonesia`s gross domestic product (GDP)."Indonesia is one of the Asian countries recording the lowest declines in GDP," he told the press after Friday prayers at his office here.

The decline in Indonesia`s GDP to 6.3 percent from 6.4 percent previously was not sharp compared to the economic setbacks in the United States, European countries, Japan, China, India and Thailand which were all directly affected by the liquidity crisis, he said.

"As the largest exporting country, China saw a 2 percent drop in its GDP," he said.

The global liquidity crisis was having a small impact on Indonesia`s GDP because, unlike many developed nations, Indonesia had not placed capital in US financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers and AIG, he said.

He added, however, the liquidity crisis would reduce US investment in Indonesia and depress the prices of Indonesia`s exports to the US.Commenting on the fall in global crude prices, the vice president said he could as yet not say whether it would have an impact on the fuel subsidy provided for in the 2008 state budget.

"The global crude prices are still fluctuating above US$100 per barrel. Last night they fell to US$97 a barrel. Meanwhile, the assumed oil price in the state budget is based on the average crude price. In addition, the amount of oil subsidy set in the state budget is Rp150 trillion," he said.

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Monday, September 7, 2009

MLM is not MLM itself

MLM is not MLM itself

The real problem with MLM is not MLM itself, but some of the people it attracts. Network marketing is just a business model, and it really amounts to "micro-franchising". Its upside is that it has a very low cost of entry, with the potential for exceptional revenue, and there are those who achieve that.

But those same things that make it attractive make it attractive to many who are NOT really qualified or prepared to become business owners. The salient characteristics of MLM make it attractive to people who:

  • have not done well in their business or profession and have little money saved up to invest
  • have no previous experience owning or running a business
  • have no previous experience in sales
  • have little or no experience developing business relationships other than that of employer/employee/co-worker
  • are not satisfied with their current level of income
  • have unrealistic expectations of the amount of work involved compared to the revenue realized
Don't get me wrong—I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with any of these things, or that this describes even a majority of network marketers—only that it describes a disproportionate number of network marketers, and that many of them never do anything about it.

As a result, many network marketers end up:

  • over-selling the opportunity
  • inappropriately discussing business in social situations
  • coming across as desperate
  • over-focused on new recruits and neglecting existing customers as a result
  • being either inaccurate or deceptive when talking about their business
Again, I'm certainly not saying that this describes a majority of network marketers, but it does describe enough of them to tarnish the reputation of the rest. To pre-judge someone based on the basis of a small minority of people in that group is horribly unfair, but we must realize that most prejudices have some basis in reality, even if it has been distorted.
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The land of Karo

The land of Karo pphe-ri.com the Centre of the Market (Puspas) Kabanjahe indeed really semraut. This was caused by the selling traders dibadan the road so as to close the way out entered the visitor and the thing pedicab. As a result hundreds penarik the thing pedicab carried out the demonstration asked that the central manager of the Kabanjahe market controlled the very annoying traders the traffic flow especially the pedestrian and the thing pedicab on Monday early afternoon.

“Beginilah our fate the bang, the weak person dragged there dragged here in fact we were put on the quite high cost, for one time entered took the thing was put on Rp.500,- that more ironically again, we often received abuse from the person that go back and forth inside pasar”, the Aripin Perangin-wind complaint in his oration. “ Jangan Hanya could quote the fee cost entered saja”, stressed Aripin that was supported by hundreds of other pedicab brothers.


When this it was confirmed the reporter to Ka.UPTD Pusat of the Kabanjahe Pribadi Se- Bayang SH Market on Tuesday early afternoon (1/9) diruang his work said we will control the annoying traders the smoothness of the activity of the shopping even so with the thing pedicab drivers in the centre of this market.

However every few the hour afterwards the officials from UPTD like that received information about the existence seratusan the brother of the thing pedicab held the action stalled, then the official puspas descended kelokasi and immediately suggested to the traders in order to lift his merchandise that used the road body. At that time also the pedicab brothers could again undertake his activity.

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Internet knowledge of Marketing Indonesia

Internet knowledge of Marketing Indonesia

The development of Internet knowledge of Marketing Indonesia advanced fast parallel increasingly cheap him the cost of internet access in Indonesia. The fall of the cost of internet access in Indonesia pushed the perpetrators of the business, UKM and the Co-operative to market his goods and services through the internet. This pushed internet knowledge marketing in Indonesia increasingly will be needed.

The requirement for internet knowledge marketing absolute must be owned by the Managers marketing if choosing to sell the thing or the service through the internet. Because if only established the site of the online sale without applying internet knowledge marketing, same meaning that establishing a shop in the jungle. Results definitely very far from that was hoped for. The site visitor only came from the acquaintance that was informed about the existence of this site.


In principle internet knowledge marketing played a role in asking all the user of the internet in this world to visit a site. Equally his matter with in the real life, even more visitors then the sale must increase, even so in the world maya (the internet) even more visitors of a site, then the certain also sale will increase.

Then whether that was studied in internet knowledge marketing? In the internet marketing at least had two segments that must be studied. The first segment and that most important was the habit of the consumer's candidate or knew the requirement for the prospective consumer. To know the consumer's habit or the requirement for the prospective consumer certainly did survey. If survey the requirement for the prospective consumer who was done in the certain real world will be very expensive, but in the world maya (the internet) completely free. The existence of the seeker's machine like google and yahoo etc. often was used by the internet experts marketing to get the data about the requirement for the consumer.

The second segment was studied how him so that make use of the requirement data for the consumer above. At least had three categories of the data instruction that was received. The first method made the thing or the service that was needed by the consumer be based on the data that was received, the second Method if not having the thing or the service then acted as the agency or the broker. That was last was as the provider of information.

After the data was obtained and you determined the role, then that must be carried out was to make the site be based on the data that was obtained. There was the part that did not lose the importance in internet knowledge marketing, that is SEO (Search Engine Optimization). For SEO, could utilise the SEO service available.

The development of the internet marketing in Indonesia the last few years was increasingly fast. Many people who succeeded in scooping up thousands dollar perhari him only by applying the matter that was discussed above. How with you, wanted to be left behind?

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