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Loud Thinking January 14, 2015 at 02:51PM
January 14th, 2015 | 
Author: In life, marriage, politics and cricket; timing is everything.
Loud Thinking January 14, 2015 at 02:19PM
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.
Loud Thinking January 14, 2015 at 12:14PM
A proposal for a very imp constitutional amendment to include the worlds best ever human rights charter …! http://t.co/CEcKYEH6jY
Loud Thinking January 13, 2015 at 09:50PM
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.
Loud Thinking January 13, 2015 at 07:41PM
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
Loud Thinking January 13, 2015 at 06:52PM
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
—Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
Lecturer, Writer
Loud Thinking January 13, 2015 at 06:01PM
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…Sir,what happened to the much hyped $7.5 billion bonus for democracy to Pakistan? Hope you know that hardly $500 million came to Pakistan..! So Sir now the do more ball is in your court..!
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 $7.5 billion KLB bonus for democracy was a lolly pop to Pakistan for getting its cooperation for WOT and US withdrawal plans from Afghanistan.
Let us also dwell briefly on the Afghan, Indian and US interests, one by one as below:
Afghanistan : Durand line is not the border between the two countries.
India: The existence of a strong and stable State of Pakistan is not in the national interest of India.
America: A nuclear Pakistan (more so a Muslim country) is not acceptable.
Loud Thinking January 13, 2015 at 09:44AM
This letter was written on 16 February, 2012, after the publication of a news item by the daily “Dawn”.
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
An Urgent Humanitarian Assistance Appeal to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Worse Suffers than Sub-Saharan Africa Conditions of Flood Affected Pakistani Victims.
Dear Melinda and Bill Gates,
Greetings.
This is to profoundly thank you for your generous help extended to Pakistan in 2010 floods, for it’s 20 million suffers.
We also understand that your 50$ million assistance was the single largest aid to the flood affected people. However, you will be sad to know that even now the malnutrition in the affected areas has exceeded the Sub-Saharan Africa conditions, as reported today, by the daily “DAWN”.
In this regard, it is once again appealed to you to come forward in helping this very serious humanitarian issue in Pakistan, at your earliest, as time is the essence in this problem.
May Allah Bless you for your all the monumental services to the humanity.
Thank you.
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore – Pakistan
DAWN news reproduced below.
Malnutrition in flood victims far worse than in Sub-Saharan Africa.
At least 2.5 million people are still without food, water, shelter, sanitation and healthcare. – File Photo
ISLAMABAD: A feeble international response to Pakistan’s second major flooding crisis in two years has left millions of people at serious risk of malnutrition and disease, aid groups warned Thursday.
The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF), a network of the 41 largest international charities in the country, called on the international community and Pakistan to take urgent steps with the next monsoon season months away.
“With funds drying up, millions will find it extremely hard to make it through the next few months. Donors and the government of Pakistan must step up their response immediately,” said Oxfam’s country director Neva Khan.
At least 2.5 million people are still without food, water, shelter, sanitation and healthcare, putting them at serious risk of malnutrition, disease and deepening poverty, said the coalition of international charities.
“The floods have exposed and deepened a food crisis in Sindh that has resulted in malnutrition rates far worse than those in Sub-Saharan Africa,”said David Wright, country director for Save the Children.
Around 43 per cent of affected people are severely short of food and malnutrition levels were already well above the emergency threshold in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan before the floods struck.
Last September, the United Nations launched an appeal for $357 million, but it has been less than 50 per cent funded, the groups said.
“Six months on, the crisis seems to have been forgotten by the international community,” said Naseer Memon, chief executive of the Strengthening Participatory Organisation.
“The needs of the communities affected by the floods are still enormous with women, children, the elderly and disabled particularly vulnerable,” said Aine Fay, chair of the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum.
Tens of thousands of people are still displaced in flood-affected areas, while others have returned home to little or nothing.
The floods have devastated agriculture and hundreds of thousands of farmers are struggling to recover. A quarter of farmers missed the planting season late last year, because their land was flooded or they did not receive help in time.
