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Go Green
on March 29, 2010
Dina Lohan, Lindsay Lohan mother has gone ahead and launched The Lohan Green Toothbrush at the Go Green Expo in New York City. This toothbrush is aimed at conserving water.
As per US EPA, an average citizen wasted around two gallons of water daily as part of their brushing needs and oral hygiene in 2006. As per an estimate currently the amount of water being wasted daily is around 600 million gallons. Also more than two billion people worldwide don't have access to sanitary water.
The Lohan Freedom brush is expected to emerge as an alternative for people who don't have access to sanitary water. With it users will be able to save two gallons of water every ay as it is water free. The Lohan Green Toothbrush is expected to be available in time for Mother's Day. With the name of Lohan family being attached the concept of Go Green will definitely get the attention it needs.
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Microfinance
on March 19, 2010
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eschipul
Once a borrower becomes a part of the Grameen system, he is encouraged to participate in social programs for promoting good health and literacy. They are also asked to learn the sixteen decisions of the bank some of which are "We shall take part in all social activities" and "We shall always be ready to help each other." Over the years, Grameen Bank has expanded and launched a number of sister organizations for offering additional services to the poor.
This is a bank which works to build a world which is not based on greed and profit.
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Microfinance
on March 12, 2010
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Seeing the poor people in misery, he gave out loans to people from his own pocket so that they could pay back in small installments. This new concept excited the villagers. He even asked banks to help out the villagers who were paying interest rates as high as 200 to 300% to village moneylenders but banks simply refused. So he went ahead and created an institution which could offer loans to poor people. This gave birth to Grameen Bank which today has become a household name. By the year 2007 it had distributed loans worth $6 billion and served more than seven million people in 78,000 villages in Bangladesh.
Today Grameen Bank is considered to be the foundation for the worldwide microcredit movement.
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Information about
on March 4, 2010
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Over the years predictive dialers have ushered a revolution for companies involved in businesses of telecalling. Predictive dialers can double your sales per agent per hour which implies that a 50% jump in sales could lead to a 100% increase in profits. Predictive dialers save lot of time of agents which would otherwise have been wasted in manually dialing the numbers and this in turn can lead to increase in productivity by 150% to 400%.
Due to the numerous benefits offered by predictive dialers a company can expect a return on investment within six to twelve months of its installation.
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Social Enterprise
on March 2, 2010
This is an unconventional path but many fear walking this path less traveled as it doesn't have the thrills and frills associated with for profit businesses but the trend seems to be changing with young entrepreneurs making an effort to bring together best of not for profit and for profit world.
The job of a social entrepreneur is to bring about a transformational change for the benefit of others. It brings together social mission along with business vision. The thought process of entrepreneurs of today is different - they intend to club together entrepreneurship and philanthropism, what they want to achieve at the end of the day is social innovation.
The youngsters of today are passionate and they intend to take their social ideas from incubation stage to a full blown social enterprise within a short span of time. This is something which I will be covering more of in my future posts.
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