An Approach to Life » process approach http://www.lgrinberg.org Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:31:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 what is ‘process driven approach’? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-process-driven-approach http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-process-driven-approach#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:19:21 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-process-driven-approach in job discription

Know that you have to do something if it looks like it is all going wrong.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-process-driven-approach/feed 1 I want to start a new seasoning line. How do I approach a local supermarket about having it on their shelves? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/i-want-to-start-a-new-seasoning-line-how-do-i-approach-a-local-supermarket-about-having-it-on-their-shelves-3 http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/i-want-to-start-a-new-seasoning-line-how-do-i-approach-a-local-supermarket-about-having-it-on-their-shelves-3#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:12:23 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/i-want-to-start-a-new-seasoning-line-how-do-i-approach-a-local-supermarket-about-having-it-on-their-shelves-3 I always use my own seasoning and people always love the way my food tastes. The taste is all about the seasoning I use. So, I have an idea to start selling it. I know how I’ll make it and present it. But I don’t know the process. Will I need to go through department of health? Do I approach some local supermarkets to see if they would sell it? What should I do? Anyone knows the process?

The best person to talk to is Tony Tantillo.

Today Tony Tantillo has a line of products that are sold in supermarkets, Nationwide.

Tony Tantillo also appears on Television and Radio Nationwide.

Tony Tantillo started out approximately 30 years ago, as a young kid, selling Produce, at The San Jose Flea Market, in San Jose, California.

That is where I first met Tony, back in the days when I was buying things cheap, at the San Jose Flea Market because my income was not all that great back then.

I often bought produce from Tony because he had the best prices.

Tony Tantillo went from the San Jose Flea Market to Nationwide Celebrity.

If anyone knows how to do it, Tony does.

I recommend that you talk to someone who has actually done this successfully.

Tony Tantillo is one of the very few people who have done this successfully.

If you do a Google Search for Tony Tantillo you will be able to get his contact information.

If you tell Tony what you want to do, he will probably be delighted to talk to you.

Tony is a very friendly, outgoing guy. Tony likes to talk and tell you what he does to be successful.

You can tell Tony, that Mike, his old customer from 30 years ago at The San Jose Flea Market sent you to him.

EDIT:

I see that one of the other responders wants you to get involved researching the food regulations with the FDA.

DO NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE!!!!!!

Remember: That responder has never launched a product successfully!!!!!!

Do not talk to anyone who has never launched a product SUCCESSFULLY!!!!

There are many people out there who have tried and FAILED to launch a product successfully.

Those people know how to fail at the task of launching a product, however they do not have the slightest clue of what is required to launch a product successfully.

First: It will take you years of research to learn the food regulations sufficiently well so that you can actually apply them correctly yourself.

You will get bogged down in trying to understand regulations and you will never get your product established.

You need to hire people with that expertise.

Do not get bogged down yourself. You have a full time job just getting your product on the supermarket shelves.

A good source of people who will help you meet the food regulatons is the Food Science and Technology Department of any good Agricultural University.

There are students who will do this a part of their class for credit. They will cost you little or nothing and you will give them valuable real world experience that they cannot get in the classroom.

The students and their professors will do a much beter job at making certain that your product meets all of the regulations than you can.

Do not get bogged down in those regulations yourself.

You can learn food regulations or youi can launch your product, but you CANNOT do both. I cannot emphasize that enough.

What you want to do is talk to someone who has actually done this (launched a product) successfully.

There are very few people who have successfully established a product line on their own. That is done by large corporations in most cases.

Tony Tantillio is one of the few people in The United States of America and even the world who has done this successfully.

TALK TO TONY!!!!!!!!

Do not listen to or talk to the people who have failed to launch a product successfully, which is most (99%) of them.

They will just drive you down the path to failure rather than the path to success.

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I think the best way to think of it is like this.

Your marketing approach is your "Strategy".
Your marketing process is your "Tactics".

Now what does that mean?

My plan is to get more customers.

My strategies to do that are…

Direct mail
Sales reps
Newspaper ads
Radio ads
and so on.

See these are all different strategies.

My tactics for direct mail are…

Find a list of my target prospects from the age of 18-34, male, that
have purchased a similar product.

This will be a two step campaign.
Mail, response via 1-800 or Online, mail or download
second piece.

Follow up calls for 1-800
Follow up for autoresponer

Things to consider…
Copy for mail piece
What is my most wanted response?
Copy for download piece.
Copy for 1-800 voice mail
Copy for follow up calls
Copy for autoresponder
Delivery systems
Payment systems
and so on…

See these are some of the tactics to accomplish one of my strategies.

This is all abbreviated, but hopefully you get the idea.

Hope that helped.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-are-the-differences-between-marketing-approach-marketing-process/feed 2 What is the best way to become a Sr. process control engineer? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-the-best-way-to-become-a-sr-process-control-engineer http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-the-best-way-to-become-a-sr-process-control-engineer#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:20:39 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-the-best-way-to-become-a-sr-process-control-engineer I graduated three years ago and would like to know the best method to take my career to the next level. There is so much out there to cover and it’s impossable to know it all. What is a good systematic approach to become a better process control engineer

I presume that you are already working as a process control engineer and in that case, if you are doing well and a vacancy arises, you will be in reckoning. Find out what exactly are the differences in responsibilities and skill sets between that position and yours. Try to bridge that gap through Continuing Education.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-is-the-best-way-to-become-a-sr-process-control-engineer/feed 1 How can we study unconscious processes, what is the best approach? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-study-unconscious-processes-what-is-the-best-approach http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-study-unconscious-processes-what-is-the-best-approach#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:58:34 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-study-unconscious-processes-what-is-the-best-approach
Un conscience or SUB conscience?

Sure you asked that right?

I suppose if you actually meant what you asked… the best way would be to knock someone out cold and take notes?

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-study-unconscious-processes-what-is-the-best-approach/feed 2 What’s the process to remove conditions for permanent residence while in process of divorce? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/whats-the-process-to-remove-conditions-for-permanent-residence-while-in-process-of-divorce http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/whats-the-process-to-remove-conditions-for-permanent-residence-while-in-process-of-divorce#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:20:18 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/whats-the-process-to-remove-conditions-for-permanent-residence-while-in-process-of-divorce I have my conditional residence, and after 3 years of marriage my husband and I are getting a divorce. The divorce just got submitted to the courts and my deadline to remove conditions is approaching. What is the process/? The website says that I cannot file to remove conditions until the divorce is finalized but the divorce won’t be final until AFTER my residency expires.

Any help would be appreciated

Yes, you are in a difficult situation, and you must not miss the deadline for removal of conditions on residence because otherwise your conditional resident status will lapse and you will be referred for deportation.

You shall consult a knowledgeable immigration lawyer ASAP.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/whats-the-process-to-remove-conditions-for-permanent-residence-while-in-process-of-divorce/feed 1 How should i approach to the local corporate boddy to collect ad for my website? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-should-i-approach-to-the-local-corporate-boddy-to-collect-ad-for-my-website http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-should-i-approach-to-the-local-corporate-boddy-to-collect-ad-for-my-website#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:13:54 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-should-i-approach-to-the-local-corporate-boddy-to-collect-ad-for-my-website I am going to launch a website very soon.Through this site i will provide different services to the students as they are the targeted viewers. The main source of revenue of my site is those corporate bodies whose target customers are the youth generation.So i need to know how should i approach my advertisement proposal to those corporate bodies?In fact i need to know what is the process to do so?Please tell me in details.

If you are a new site, you are better off using banner ad networks that will find advertisers for your site on a commission basis. You simply login to your account and select the ads that are available — and then put the codes they give you and you can start earning from advertising.

Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

You can also participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
Yahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/
Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
Commission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com
Kanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html
Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php
Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com/
Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com/
Bidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com/

In our website, we sell advertising space – both banners via CPM, sponsored text links, and newsletter advertising. In our experience, here are what advertisers are looking for when choosing sites to use for their advertising:

1. Who are the visitors = It is important for advertisers to know whether your site’s visitors are what they are after. More than just traffic numbers, they want to know whether they can get targeted traffic from your website. They want to know whether the customers they want are visiting your site.

2. Traffic levels = Advertisers will often ask you how many visitors/pageviews/uniques you get in a month. Some will go to Alexa.com to check your traffic standing (not accurate, but many see it as a good guide). If you are selling banners through CPM rates for example, they will normally ask you how long it will take you to show the 20,000 ad impressions they ordered (or how many they ordered).

3. Your rates = how comparable your rates are with others.

4. Customer service = advertisers want QUICK support from sites they want to advertise on. You need to be quick to respond to their emails, whether inquiring for your media kit or asking your ad rates or checking the performance of their ad campaigns.The key to understand is that advertisers will always look for metrics to help them gauge the ROI they can get from advertising in your website. If they don’t think your site will not give them a good ROI, they will not advertise or renew their advertising on your site

5. Monitor campaign performance = advertisers want to see how their campaigns are doing on your site, so they can make decisions fairly quickly whether to change the creative, pause the campaign or increase the campaign. You need to be able to provide them with real time statistics. We use phpadsnew and it is just great (and FREE!).

As to what rate to charge, the amount depends on a number of factors:

- Who is your audience and how desirable is your audience to the advertisers? If your audience are techies or those who have the propensity to purchase higher-ticket items, then you can charge a higher price as compared to an audience of students.

- What is the rate of comparative websites in your niche? You don’t want to overprice yourself out of the market yet you don’t want to undercharge as well

- What is the rate advertisers are willing to pay in your site? You may charge $5 per CPM and yet for months nobody’s taking you on the rate even though you may get inquiries — this implies that advertisers think your rate is too expensive. But if you charge $0.50 per CPM and advertisers are flooding in, then you may be too cheap and can afford to increase your rate.

- What is the CPM you get from other advertising vehicles? Do you run Google Adsense, and if so, what is your effective CPM rate with them? Or if you run banner ads through ad networks like Burst Media, Valueclick or Tribal Fusion, what is the CPM you’re getting? You can use those values to help you gauge your rate.

Since you’re just starting in the game, experiment and see what rate the market will bite. You can start at $1 per CPM and see how it goes.

In terms of accepting payment, majority (99.8%) of those who will advertise will pay by credit card so make sure you have your own merchant account as well as Paypal.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-should-i-approach-to-the-local-corporate-boddy-to-collect-ad-for-my-website/feed 1 How can we engage more people in the democratic process? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-engage-more-people-in-the-democratic-process http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-engage-more-people-in-the-democratic-process#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:37:04 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-engage-more-people-in-the-democratic-process The Democratic Process is a style of government where the citizens have the right to participate in the decisions of their government. This is the foundation of democracy. A vote is often conducted to determine the will of the majority. Democratic process is designed to keep the Executive Branch of a government or other organization responsible to the legislative branch, and, likewise, to keep the legislative branch responsible to the membership at large.Much like Scientific Process, Democratic process consists of a number of rigors, including open debate, Transparency, allowing dissent, freedom of expression, and fair & accurate voting procedures. For example, an Executive branch cannot act without orders from the legislative branch, often in the form of law, or policy. Operation of an organization in this manner is referred to as the policy-driven approach, which is criticized for its responsiveness, but keeps the executive branch completely accountable. Some organizations will waive this democratic process and allow the executive to make certain decisions on its own, provided that those decisions are not in conflict with the rules set by the legislative branch. While the reduction of democratic rigors will increase responsiveness, it also allows for greater corruption.

As a scientist, rigors of procedure appeal to me. However, policy-driven civil discourse is and should be a messy process with as few rules as possible. The USA tends to proclaim the glorious democracy while so many homes, schools, and workplaces operate under autocracy. No wonder people are confused and discouraged about participation!

I am going to discuss this by way of what seems to be a non-sequitur. Please be patient and I will be short.

Examine the example of democratic parenting. American Guidance Systems, which produces parenting guides (very helpful!), indicates that passivity is a behavior of deep discouragement. It is the worst of all dysfunctional behaviors.

A behavior of the very discouraged child is passivity. In the USA, passivity is a grownup problem, also, especially by men. Sorry, ladies, I did not make that up. Public Policy Research shows men’s passivity is an alarming problem!

How can passive people be encouraged? Start at home. For one thing, by character-building words such as "You’re responsible; you’re caring." And, the famous AGS "natural and logical consequences" are very effective. For example, if someone wants attention but tries to get it inappropriately (e.g., obscenity), deny attention. Give attention later. If someone tries to exert power inappropriately, use good boundaries (see the 12-Step guides). For instance, if a person tries to deny the other sufficient money [frequently a husband-wife situation and also women are underpaid in the workplace], assertion is an option; and if that does not help, then – one of the beautiful things about America – the person can choose other options.

How can encouragement be wide-spread enough to fight the passivity and poor civil participation?

– One idea is to start at home. Financial incentives might be offered for parents that take (and practice) courses in democratic parenting.

– Another idea is to add democratic leadership communication to all school teacher training. Yes, teachers already receive training on communication and discipline. Most of this is Pavlovian reward and punishment. It is not the AGS system.

– A third idea is to add democratic interpersonal communication to every grade in school up through the college level. The type of communication that encourages civil participation can be learned, and the earlier the better.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-can-we-engage-more-people-in-the-democratic-process/feed 8 How do I market a product and approach a manufacturer to make it? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-do-i-market-a-product-and-approach-a-manufacturer-to-make-it http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-do-i-market-a-product-and-approach-a-manufacturer-to-make-it#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:47:39 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-do-i-market-a-product-and-approach-a-manufacturer-to-make-it I have a business idea/product, and a local business picked out that would be able to manufacture it. I am in the process of copyrighting what would be inscribed on it. My problem is I don’t know how to approach this company to produce what I have in mind or how to market it to gift shops across the country. I would appreciate any answers and help.

To market to gift shops, you can take a good photo and send out a sales flyer. You can also market by email. I would be willing to help you as a consultant by implementing a marketing program.

Just call the company you want to make the product. You are the customer and they want your business.

]]> http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/how-do-i-market-a-product-and-approach-a-manufacturer-to-make-it/feed 1 What should be my approach while in an interview for the armed forces? http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-should-be-my-approach-while-in-an-interview-for-the-armed-forces http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-should-be-my-approach-while-in-an-interview-for-the-armed-forces#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:27:36 +0000 admin http://www.lgrinberg.org/process-approach/what-should-be-my-approach-while-in-an-interview-for-the-armed-forces I am applying for the armed forces (army, navy, air force). As I have weak eye-sight I do not get to apply for many posts. If I am called up for the final selections which has interviews; what should be my approach, behavior and mind set? Should I act natural and like my own self. But I doubt that I’m not that kind of a guy which takes it too be there. So how shall I take it? What shall be my mentality and thought process?

Have an answer for these two questions.

1. Why do you want to join?

2. What do you want to do?

Don’t show up wearing an Alice in Chains t-shirt. Have a clean shave (loose any facial hair) and a decent haircut. Don’t worry, it will grow back if things don’t work out.

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