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The Product and the Brand

“Initially, the brand (brand) is used to differentiate a product among other similar products. By using the brand, a product will come out of the category of commodity products, whose prices are determined by the laws of the market. Therefore, the chance to put up the price of branded products at above-average market price.

1955 in the Harvard Business Review, running an article entitled “The Product and the Brand” writing Garder Burleigh and Sidney Levy, which further clarify the differences between brands and products. The concept of the brand began to be formulated in the 1980s, including how to measure the value of a brand (brand equity). Later, the term became more popular brand in the 1990s, and became a major discussion in the field of marketing.

First, a brand with a name that is quite unique, beautiful slogan, logo design pretty or popular advertising jingles. Brand management was intended to increase brand value, with integrated marketing programs, promotional, advertising or public relations program. At that time, all the brands work hard to achieve brand value, brand strength, top of mind, brand awareness and brand loyalty, which ultimately will double the brand equity respectively.

Now, you as the owner of the brand seems to have changed the paradigm of the brand. It may be true, in today’s era of New Wave, “Brand is a Character”. Yes, it is not enough just to build the brand, but also have to build character. Merek only veil that wraps the real character of your product or business. Characters associated with who you really are, and how people see you are. Therefore, the process of building this character must be grounded in good values ​​that are universal, such as honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness, care for one another, and humanity.

One more thing, not a giant company it must fix its brand character. Every brand owner should do the same thing, even to the level of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). As of this moment I do to , a brand outlets in the meatballs, Central Java. It begins by creating a unique name, and then design an appropriate logo, including the capture community through social networking site Facebook. Because the target market more to consumers Pomegranate young age, character designed like today’s young, creative, open mind, fresh, and always the spirit. That is of course not forgetting the universal values ​​of honesty and goodness of others. “

in investing should, prioritize the things as follows:

• Financial goals, financial goals for what you invest? Whether to collect a number of reserve funds, reserve funds to prepare, prepare children’s education fund, pension fund, plans to open a business,
• Investment products are the most ideal or the most optimal for your financial circumstances, as follows: a) The term of the investment, how much time you have to realize the financial goals. Do not invest in high-risk investment products for the investment period is very short, you might lose a large amount of your investment principal, and vice versa; b) Power of your funds in investing, how much money you can or are able to set aside of cash or property from your income to be invested; c) your knowledge of investment products, how you follow on investment products offered or you are considering for purchase. Avoid buying an investment product that you do not understand; d) Your experience in investing, know much about investment products are not the same as doing it. But if you want to try sutau certain types of investments for the purpose of learning, start with small amounts and make sure the investments for other financial goals are not compromised,
• Finally, then consider the possibility of a tax relief or not, which is certainly expected to make the performance of your investment better.

If you had to choose just one of several investment products, the quality of investment products to help you achieve your desired financial goals is much more important than tax profit facilities.

You are too busy!
You work from morning till night every day, make you no longer have time to do other things when I got home. You always have a job or activity that is more important than evaluating the progress of your investment. Leave it to the financial planner, accountant, or your broker, because you do not have time for that. Are you sure that you are even too busy to take care of your own money that has been obtained with great difficulty that? Although you’re used to dealing with money or at least are used to working hard every day to earn money, but chances are you even told that the world of finance and investment is very dangerous and complicated, so you decide to not manage them yourself or just ignore it.

Surely you will never be too busy to manage your own money, learn and understand the true facts about an investment rather than a variety of fairy tale or a figment of how to manage your money and investing. Then actually implement what you have learned as well as routine and patience in conducting the evaluation will not make you lose hours of productive time to have fun or your bedtime. Instead if you do not invest your time before investing, chances are you even had trouble sleeping.

Get rich quick
It is true, in reality, many investment products or how to invest that can make people become rich quickly, unfortunately you are not a get rich quick, but certainly the seller or his company can get rich quick because many people who buy investment products it sells.

No matter how high the promised return, or if the investment is said to offer very limited so you should hurry to buy it, or issue, Rumour, market information that can you can with a little payment from someone who claims to expert investment and promised to tell you a secret-the secret of becoming a millionaire overnight, be careful! The only proven method to accumulate wealth is a powerful old way: make that money work for you, by continuing to learn, practice, and slowly and carefully those funds into investments that you understand and investment risk you can still tolerate.

After the collapse of systems of economic planning in Eastern Europe more than a decade ago, many third world countries also began to choose a new economic policy. Developing countries are increasingly frequent use of instruments such as pricing and competition, to improve the dynamics of development in their respective countries. This is caused by the sad experience of the failure of bureaucracy, which is too burdensome government and state officials in the planned economy system. Countries like the former eastern bloc, developing countries must also pay a heavy price due to the economic policy planning. This can be seen from the level of welfare of their communities. This is due to the denial of the “economic principle” inherent in the planned economy system but the principle is a fundamental requirement for healthy economic activity.
“New deal” in the economic policies of many developing countries want to end this kind of waste of resources. The new economic policy experienced by third world countries who have first use of market instruments and competition in building the nation’s economy. Today already more than 80 countries around the world who have the Business Competition Act and the Anti-Monopoly and more than 20 other countries are trying to develop rules and regulations the same. Step These countries, while the lead to one goal to lay the groundwork for a legal rule to make regulations to create a climate of healthy competition. Business competition (fair competition) is also a prerequisite for countries to manage market-oriented economies.

The essence of market economy is a decentralized decisions, relating to the “what”, “how many”, and “how” of production. This means that individuals should be given a certain latitude for decision making. A market process can only be developed in a decentralized decision-making structure means that there are independent individuals in moderation, which provides supply and demand in a market, because market processes require moments of action and reaction of the market actors can not be predicted. This is the only way to ensure that  planning by individuals is not getting accumulated and eventually stop the functioning of the market as a feedback
Tendencies and fondness countries in the world of the free market has been predicted earlier by Francis Fukuyama in the era of the 1990s. According to Fukuyama, liberal principles in economics “free market”, has spread and succeeded in producing material wealth that has never been achieved before. Both of these occur in industrialized countries and in developing countries. Whereas before World War II, these countries still a third world country is very poor. Therefore, according to Fukuyama’s a liberal revolution in economic thinking is sometimes preceded and sometimes followed the movement toward political freedom around the world. However, to ensure the implementation of free market version of Fukuyama, the signs in the form of the rule of law, still needs to be adhered to by market participants.

One of the important essence for the implementation of the free market is the competition of market participants in meeting the needs of consumers. In this case competition is a process where businesses are forced into an efficient enterprise by offering products and services  in lower prices. Competition only when there are two or more businesses that offer products and services to customers in a market. To win the hearts of consumers, business people trying to offer products and services of interest, both in terms of price, quality and service. The combination of these three factors to win the competition to win the hearts of consumers can be obtained through innovation, application of appropriate technology, and managerial skills to direct the company’s resources in winning the competition. Otherwise, businesses will naturally eliminated from the market arena.
Meanwhile, economists and competition law practitioners agree that competition is generally beneficial to society. Competition policy makers at various levels of government need to have a clear understanding about the benefits of competition, what actions can restrict or encourage competition and how they implement policies that can influence the competition process. This understanding will help policymakers to better evaluate whether a particular policy, for example, in competition law or trade create a vast benefits for the people.

So that competition can take place, then the national economic policy in developing countries should first provide a number of preconditions: the first thing needed is to create a functioning market and price mechanism. In that context, the target is the provision of market access as freely as possible and at the same time providing incentives to increase the number of national employers. Level of integration a number of local and regional markets should also be improved by increasing the country’s infrastructure (eg communications and transportation networks). Finally, a stability-oriented monetary policy is a prerequisite for the functioning of economic competition. Only in this way the distortions of competition that could potentially cripple the price mechanism can be avoided.
Can be understood why the free market should be prevented market domination by one, two, or several businesses only (monopoly and oligopoly), because the market is only controlled by a number of businesses so there are opportunities to avoid or shut down the operation of market mechanisms (market mechanism) so that the prices set unilaterally and harm consumers. Business actors are small amounts can make a deal to divide the various marketing areas, set prices, quality, and quantity of goods and services offered (cartel) to obtain the highest possible profit in a relatively short time. Competition among businesses can also happen by cheating (unfair competition) to the detriment of consumers, even countries. Therefore, the legal arrangements to ensure the fair free market is absolutely necessary.

Disagreements over money and finances top the list as far as issues that couples married or not, battle over. So it seems a wonder why couples don’t make financial convo as one of the top priorities to discuss. It’s probably a shock to most of you reading this to know that almost 50% of partners in a relationship have no idea of what their partner owes in debt, or even they even have debt period.

How would you feel if you married someone and found out two years down the road that they are $50, 000 in debt, owing everything from student loans to credit card debt to paycheck advances? When people first get together, they talk about everything under the sun, religion, personal values, feelings, dreams, having children, but somewhere along the line, the most important subject for your future gets left out like a dirty piece of laundry.

The vast majority of people, have or have had financial issues at some point in their lives, so when meeting that someone special, chances are that he/she has some kind of financial baggage that you may want to learn about. This is obviously not something that you would want to bring up on the first few dates, but as the relationship progresses and things start to get a little more serious, it may be a subject you want to broach.

Being honest and open about your finances (when the time is right, of course) could be a huge relationship saver, being financially compatible is just as important as any other area in the relationship. It would be better to find out sooner than later what the other person’s spending style and habits are like, before you get deep in the throw of things. It’s difficult to tell in the beginning, because people are usually a little more free and open, AND on their best behavior in the beginning. It could take a long time to get a good inclination of that person’s true spending nature.

Once your relationship has reached the pivotal point of all seriousness, whether that means moving in together, getting engaged, getting married or having little babies, you’ll really want to get down to the nitty gritty of things. A game plan is in order at this point, and it cannot be ignore, or bigger problems will arise. You’re going to both have to make some simple, yet serious decisions, such as; who will handle the daily or monthly major finances? Will you share bank accounts?

How much will you both contribute to savings? And do you split everything evenly, or does the one who makes the most money pay for the bigger bills? All of these things should be sorted out to avoid an unexpected conflict down the road. Some people just get right into it, without ever discussing anything to hot and heavy, and can handle their affairs quite well, however most need to have a simple of understanding of how things are going to work now that it’s the two of you. And finally, be sure to protect yourself in case the relationship was to go south. I hate to say it, but nothing is certain these days, not even marriage as we know. So take precautions and make sure to have your own savings, was something ever to happen.

The next step once we have developed our personal budget and have planned a good destination resulting balance is to simply continue as planned.

The more discipline we have to keep our budget, better results will, however, in the case of personal budgets, the fact is that very few people who made one, followed to the letter, so if we have not come to follow to the letter, at least we constantly review and keep it always as a guide or reference.

But what should follow the letter is to ensure that the balance amount corresponds to at least a certain percentage of our total revenue, and allocate all or part of it to a stock savings.

To achieve this, a council is to deposit this amount in a savings account at the bank (so we have it in a safe place and we are tempted to use it), perform this operation just have the money of our income whatever the we have to make payments (“pay us to ourselves first”) and, if possible, ensure that this operation is performed automatically (for example, ask the company where you work or where we have our bank account are responsible to allocate this amount to our account.