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Archive for January, 2015

“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.”

— Wanda Skyes

In life, marriage, politics and cricket; timing is everything.

Avoid Common Traps When Measuring Customer Turnover

Acquiring new customers is expensive, which is why you want to attract and keep the right customers. One way to measure whether you’re doing this is to calculate your customer churn rate — just make sure you avoid these common mistakes:
Don’t look at churn as simply a number or metric. Think about the behavior behind the number. Ask: What are we doing to cause customer turnover? What are our customers doing that’s contributing to their leaving? How can we better manage our customer relationships to make sure it doesn’t happen?
Don’t believe there’s a magic number. What’s acceptable varies by business model and depends on how quickly and efficiently a company can acquire customers and how profitable they are in the short and long term.
Don’t assume you have a retention problem. Often, a high churn rate is because you’re attracting the wrong kinds of customers in the first place.

Adapted from “The Value of Keeping the Right Customers” by Amy Gallo.

A proposal for a very imp constitutional amendment to include the worlds best ever human rights charter …! http://t.co/CEcKYEH6jY

Misbah ul Haq has announced that after the World Cup, he will be retiring from the ODI games and will only play Test matches.

Here, I am reminded about the statement of Mr. Zaheer Abbas many decades ago, wherein, it was informed that he (ZA) will be retiring from the ODI games; and will only play Test matches. But what happened thereafter was that the then Captain Mr. Imran Khan, didn’t select ZA for the Test team and eventually Mr. Zaheer Abbas, was forced to quit the game, altogether.

Let us see what is in store for MUQ in future.

A monumental lesson for the leadership of India and Pakistan.

“The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

—Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
Lecturer, Writer

Top 10 restaurants in Lahore: Where to eat in 2015

Link:- http://www.dawn.com/news/1156569/top-10-restaurants-in-lahore-where-to-eat-in-2015

Dear Mr. Kerry…http://t.co/RMG3rkWSvc

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Indian and US interests

By Web Desk of Express Tribune/ Reuters / AFP Published: January 13, 2015

Kindly peruse My 12 Tweets on the above news item:

1.@nayyarahmad: A new “Do More”.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Indian and US interests http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

2. @nayyarahmad: Pakistan should forget its own interests?

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, In http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

3. @nayyarahmad: Never mind India launching terrorists from Afghanistan to Pak?

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

4. @nayyarahmad: Sir, any advice to India over its genocide of Kashmiris?

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threat http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

5. @nayyarahmad: Sir, you better mind your own business.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Ind http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

6. @nayyarahmad: You should not behave like a paid employee of India & Afghanistan after all you r representing the USA.

http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

7. @nayyarahmad: Just remember Pak never created Al-Qaida & such like organisations..

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight milit http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

8. @nayyarahmad: And don’t forget today u r sole super power because of the sacrifices of Pakistan.

Kerry urges Pakistan http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via
@etribune

9. @nayyarahmad: And now if u want us to lick the Indian & Afghan boots forget it.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militan http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

10. @nayyarahmad: We will eat grass rather than accept the hegemony of the Indians.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militant http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

11. @nayyarahmad: So Sir b our friend NOT master.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Indian and http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via
@etribune

12. @nayyarahmad: And try to repay our huge debt which u as a sole power owe to Pakistan. Kerry urges Pakistan to fight m http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

Last but not the least would you like to clean anyone’s garbage? If the answer is no, then why expect from us?

Anyway, we knew from the day one that this $7.5 billion KLB bonus for democracy was a lolly pop to Pakistan for getting its cooperation for WOT and US withdrawal plans from Afghanistan.

Let us also dwell briefly on the Afghan, Indian and US interests, one by one as below:

Afghanistan : Durand line is not the border between the two countries.

India: The existence of a strong and stable State of Pakistan is not in the national interest of India.

America: A nuclear Pakistan (more so a Muslim country) is not acceptable.