Business Tips

The death of Michael Jackson definitely was one of the best sources to make money for many retailers. Sure enough, Amazon.com is one of them. Probably it would be one of the contact drivers in their call centers around the globe. Of course, people give more value to heroes especially when they passed away.

Amazon.com, one of the biggest online retailers displayed a brief note about Michael Jackson at the right top corner of their web site, which really attracted the minds of many customers. How much profit would they make? In other words, how much would they lose if they had not displayed it? Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com may even want to sing this song –

Mi te tana vanduaina tinreng lo thleng hi
Kei misual ber tan malsawmna

Out of my curiosity, I just checked out their music sales rank and I could not believe my eyes. Fifteen of MJ’s albums were on the top list within a single day. Amazon.com really make use of MJ's death to market his albums.

This is much more interesting. It’s not about MJ; it’s not about death either. Once, some employees from our organization raised their concern about the outrageous price of food in our cafeteria. After the management looked into the issue, one of the caters reduced the price of meals to Rs 28 from Rs 30.

However, they simply said that they don't have change and promised to return Rs 2 on the next day. This happened in most of their sales. Who on earth would think of getting back this small amount? They still earn the same amount they used to before the price of an item was reduced. Should anyone raise a complain, they'd simply point at their menu and say, "Hey! Can't you see this? It's Rs 28 not 30 idiot!"

This gives me a new idea and thought it would be helpful in future if I’d like to engage myself in business. As such, I used to get a lot of better ideas but as for me, I’m not sure of which would go in line with this kind of tricks!

I get knocked down

I'm not sure if this is due to the damn freaky hot climate but the only thing I know is I really want to get out of this shit. Gone are the days when I used to be active as someone and even blew things out of the water!



Huis..laziness took over my mind, my body and my everything. Perhaps not my mind because sometimes I used to think about doing something useful. Much to my dismay, these are only dreams because I could not take efforts to achieve what I had in my mind. This really makes me weak and leaves me in despair. I know they're quite simple for most of the people though, to me it's as hard as breaking the bones. I really wish to:-

1. Get up early in the morning, say around 6.00 am and get ready for work by 7.30 am.
2. Coming back from work, wash my clothes and clean the house promptly.
3. Come out with different ideas of cooking and prepare a nice dinner everyday.
4. Read some novels in my free time and learn good things from there.
5. Pray with full commitment and read the Bible everyday.
6. Be a man who really is worth to depend on.

Given the circumstances, I feel like I have been pushed to the innermost place of this world and being knocked down somewhere in the corner. I'm on my way getting back on the right track and hopefully this won't take much time. This is my Prayer!

Vandaloor Zoo

I'm not in a mood to write these days but to simply fill in the spaces, let me bring in a couple of pictures I've taken from Vandaloor Zoo, Chennai. After riding more than 20 kilometers from Chennai, a very hot place, burning like a hell was waiting for us with these animals in there.