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CollegeDunia For Selecting Your College

October 9, 2014 Leave a comment

wealthymatters College education is a very big investment. Not only do we often spend a large chunk of our parent’s savings during these years but these days, we rake up big student loans. College is important for the qualifications we acquire, as they,in many ways, influence our earning capacity life-long. Also the soft skills and networks we develop in our college years are vital to our overall success in life.So picking the right college to develop our skills and getting career breaks is important. Collegedunia.com is a great way to research colleges in India and shortlisting them before deciding where to apply.

Collegedunia has detailed listings of Medical, Engineering, Management, Arts, Science, Commerce and Law Colleges along with details of each college. Its a great resource for would be students and their parents to quickly, inexpensively and comfortably get to know about colleges, all at one place, rather than scouring various college websites and buying their prospectuses.

Click on the More button to locate colleges offering Agriculture, Architecture , Civil Aviation, Fashion Designing, Mass Communications etc. Also you can find all the latest college education related news on this site.

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Marketing Yourself Via Social Media

October 8, 2014 4 Comments

Do not be puzzled if you see some or other individual or brand has shot to instant fame with 1 lakh likes on Facebook. Link. Marketing firms are at play here. Individuals and firms are increasingly making use of ‘pay-for-like’ services, at costs ranging from anywhere between Rs. 999 to a couple of lakh rupees.

Though Facebook is not involved directly in such business activity, several advertising and marketing firms are offering this service online, using social media. Business houses, socialites, NGOs and celebrities who crave popularity on the social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, purchase these services. A basic Rs.999 service ensures 1,200 likes on Facebook and 50 followers on Twitter. The upper limit is a couple of lakhs for other associated services.These marketing firms use email, mobile and other online platforms to market ‘likes’.

To attract genuine likes and followers, marketing firms employ techniques like posting quality content, using vanity URL and frequent posting of hyperlinks to different content, etc. on Facebook and Twitter .

Most Facebook pages relating to celebrities, politicians, business houses and NGOs are managed by agencies or marketing firms.

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Facebook Power Users

October 8, 2014 Leave a comment

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Indians Buying Homes In The US

October 3, 2014 Leave a comment

Quite a few resident Indians are becoming global landlords by picking up inexpensive houses in the USA. For these affluent Indians, the US real estate is a security blanket. Faced with what some of them consider bubble real estate prices in major Indian cities and a sometimes jittery Bombay Stock Exchange, they are joining a wave of buyers from other countries who see the recovering US housing market as one of the best places to put their money in these days.

The most popular areas where Indians buy homes are in and around Silicon Valley, where technology firms heavily recruit from India; in the Boston and Philadelphia areas near universities that have numerous students from India; and in suburban areas of New Jersey and in Queens, where there are established Indian-American communities. Read more of this post

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Gandhiji On Economic Matters

October 2, 2014 Leave a comment

Today’s post is a way of recalling Gandhiji’s thoughts on his Birth Anniversary-Gandhi Jayanti. The UN observes it as the International Day Of Non-Violence.

Taxation
All taxation to be healthy must return tenfold to the taxpayer in the form of necessary services.

Utility
The amount of public support that an institution can command affords a true measure of its utility.

Capital
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Japan
I am convinced that the capitalist, if he follows the Samurai of Japan, has nothing really to lose and everything to gain. Read more of this post