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Living in Paradise and having a window seat

I just got back from the Sand Bar in Camps Bay. Once again, after spending the day on the beach and playing volleyball, I ended up there with friends for a bite, a drink and a chat. After Roland and Jobst left, I stayed on, thinking, contemplating, relaxing, enjoying, …. and it dawned on me that this is paradise, and when you sit in the Sand Bar, you also got a window seat. Just when I wanted to leave, bill already paid, a woman walked in with her son…

I saw them there last week already and couldn’t but notice her extraordinary beauty and her amazing smile. But what struck me even more was the loving and caring way she was dealing and communicating with her son. WOW!, I thought and got Christo to pass her a message saying just that and thanking her for that extraordinary gift.

Tonight she spent most of the time on the phone and looked anything but happy, so voilà, there was the second note, this time with lots of smileys, for her to use at her discretion. She soon after left, but good deed for the day done. Paradise with a window seat. Sweet. 🙂

Ist die Sonne unser Schicksal?

“Die Thesen des Biophysikers Dr. Dieter Broers klingen atemberaubend. Er stellt unser Fühlen und Handeln in Zusammenhang mit der Sonnenaktivität – und sagt der Menschheit einen elementaren Bewusstseinssprung voraus

Seit drei Jahrzehnten befasst sich Dieter Broers mit elektromagnetischen Schwingungen. Und kam dabei zu bahnbrechenden Erkenntnissen. Was die Sonne und ihre Strahlung mit unserer Zukunft zu tun haben, erklärt er exklusiv in HÖRZU.”

Interessanterweise geht er aber auf den Folgeseiten mehr auf den Maya Kalendar, 2012 und die Bewusstseinsentwicklung ein, u.a. auch auf den Synchronisationsstrahl aus den Tiefen des Alls, welcher dann mit einem Stern (hier “die Sonne”) nichts mehr zu tun hat.

Ein toller Bericht, den wirklich jeder lesen sollte.

Süßstoffe machen dick

Sehr interessanter Artikel im Spiegel. Zitat: “Wer schlank sein möchte, will Kalorien einsparen. Wenn man zu Süßstoffen greift, passiert jedoch genau das Gegenteil: Der Körper wird durch die kalorienlose Süße so verwirrt, dass er sogar noch an Gewicht zulegt.

Für Kalorienbewusste und Diätiker scheinen Süßstoffe eine gute Möglichkeit zu sein, Zucker und damit Kalorien einzusparen. Wie eine US-amerikanische Studie mit Ratten nun aber ergab, bewirken Süßstoffe eine Gewichtszunahme. Die fehlenden Kalorien führten dazu, dass der Körper Essen schlechter verwertete und nach immer mehr verlangte.”

The Customer: A battered Child

“Get closer to your customer – or else”; “If we don’t take care of our customers, somebody else will”; “With us you’re number one”. Phrases, phrases, and more phrases. Not a single word in the marketing world has been more abused than the term ‘customer satisfaction’. It’s hip to deliver satisfaction; it fills conference rooms, goes down darn well at cocktail parties, and is the favourite topic in any marketing magazine.

It’s been on the international scene for quite a while – and with good reason. Locally, however, it lagged far behind. Every now and then it came up again, but never gaining momentum.

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Where does the money come from? Woher stammt eigentlich das Geld?

Brilliant video in English with German subtitles. 47min, 120MB, well worth the time. It may be another step you take in the right direction.

The Fractional Reserve system, the ability to create money out of debt can be described as the scourge of modern times, and the prime reason for the huge imbalances between rich and poor. Sure, those in poverty usually lack the thinking power, and being pretty much trapped in a cycle where the little they have is spent on food, physical or mental, that is of inferior quality, there is little way out. That said, may the publicizing of this video contribute to the abolition of this insane and eventually cannibalistic system.

Meditation of the heart

“This kind of meditation awakens especially the own ability to love and the ability to let things go. These principles are described in detail (though actually without a guide for meditation) in the German book Lola of Rene Egli. Astrologically seen this form of meditation strengthens the 2nd and the 4th quarter of the horoscope, or if we put this into clear text: It strengthens the ability to love, to love on all kind of different levels – physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually – to merge with each other (2nd quarter) and at the same time to let things go (4th quarter) – to give freedom to the object of love, to let go the object of love, not to take it into possession – only to love without possessing.”

Lack of self-respect?

Last night I was at a scene of a car accident. Nothing serious, but it obviously caused some debris. While the cars were removed, I asked the tow truck guy whether he had a broom. “No, the council comes and cleans it up”, was his reply.

This didn’t really surprise me, because hardly ever when there was a road accident, the glass keeps lying on the (side of the) road forever – probably until the council cleans up the mess. Why the people involved, the police or even the tow truck drivers can’t do that 5min job, I don’t know. However, it’s that kind of lack of self-respect that I see as the root of all evil in this country. “Somebody else will do it”. This attitude needs to change to keep South Africa from sliding deeper into the social decay. But what do you think?

Everything You Always Knew About CRM But Never Dared To Say

For some years now I have been a very close observer of the CRM market – hype and all. Yet the more I read and see, the less I believe. To me CRM is like AIDS: nobody seems to be genuinely interested in the truth anymore; lies, politics and – above all – profits drive an insane PR machine that feeds on people and their tragedies in order to survive.

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Getting the Clues

“These targeting, tracking, and personalization schemes are mechanistic answers to psychological questions. Customers are human beings, first and foremost, quirky and elusive and unpredictable. That’s why, in a lot of cases, all the data mining and click-tracking analysis in the world doesn’t work as well as simply asking customers what they want.” Wow! This is the first time ever someone told the truth about 1-1 and CRM in such length and in such detail. The sad thing, though, is that nothing is going to change.

True CRM and 1-1 marketing can only succeed in an organisation willing to change its attitude towards itself, its customers and society. But as only a minority of managers and staff have the capacity – physical, mental and spiritual – to initiate and drive such far-reaching change, never mind the authority to implement and mentor it, most organisations will continue to fall for the hype and throw lots of good money after bad.

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The Future of Database Technology in the Communications Game

“Once technology rolls over you, you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road”. These words by US marketing consultant James Rosenfield might sound quite harsh when he warns of the potential threat technology poses when neglected by today’s managers. But with an ever increasing pace of technological development, even the most hardsotten in the marketing community have to face the facts and open up to the many advantages and benefits information technology has to offer.

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