Business Success Tips

Try reminding yourself of these mantras when you’re in a bind or have a decision to make. With a little repetition, they will soon become a natural part of your thought process, keeping you on a continual path to success.

1. Get your head in the game. As the leader of your company, you need to portray a winning state of mind and exude positive energy. This is relatively easy to fake over social media, but in live interactions, meetings and events, there’s no substitute for having your game face on. A good attitude is contagious and inspires others. If you need to fake it until you make it, so be it.

2. Narrow your objectives. Constantly distracted by the newest shiny thing? Most of the entrepreneurs that I know and have worked with are. By nature, we seem to be idea people, so we’re good at identifying opportunities and finding ways to take advantage of them. That means it’s equally important to figure out which opportunities are extraneous, and to ignore them completely. Pick up every shiny thing and you’ve got a magpie’s nest, not a successful company.

3. Steady your reactions. Steady as it goes. This is always at the top of my list of essential entrepreneurial qualities. Passion, fire, and drive are at the core of many entrepreneurs. We all need those things. But it can be easy to let these attributes unduly influence your reactions to day-to-day events. Abrupt reactions and decisions that aren’t well thought-out don’t do you or your company any good. To prevent them, try to plan proactively and keep the big picture in mind.

4. Know and stick to your moral compass. It's easy to get swayed by great opportunities or quick fixes. Set yourself and your company up for success by knowing your boundaries. What are you willing to do to achieve your objectives, and where do you draw the line? This is one area where going outside of your comfort zone will do nothing but get you in hot water.

5. Perception is King. Any press is not always good press. Your reputation is here to stay. Protect your personal reputation and brand, as well as that of your company, by building an image that's meant to last. 

6. Get your fight on. If there's one thing I've learned from a lifetime of competitive athletics, it's that the best athlete doesn't always win. The one with the most fight and determination always wins out. Someone else may be bigger, faster, or temporarily ahead of the pack, but you will come out on top if you fight smart and stick it out. 

Need some more inspiration? Dream big. Be disruptive. Color outside the lines. Decide what these phrases mean to you, or create some of your own mantras that will keep your compass pointing north.

11 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Do in 2011

2011 is just around the corner! So while you prepare your hats and horns don’t forget to plan your entrepreneurial journey for the coming year. There are 365 spankin’ new days laying in front of you, ones you can mold and tweak to be whatever you please if you’re willing to put in the hard work and the determination now!

In 2011 I’m going big or going home (teaser alert: I won’t be going home) and I suggest you do the same. Maybe you’ve been sitting on the bench for years, maybe you’ve been racked with anxiety or fear in the past, whatever your reasons for not starting something amazing – for not trying to carve your life into your ideal existence – it’s time to throw all those excuses in the trash and make this coming year like none before it.

Self doubt, laziness and procrastination are sooo 2010… follow these 11 simple things every entrepreneur should do and you’ll find yourself in an amazingly different place this time next year.

1. Chase breakthroughs

The most important thing the last year has taught me is how and why I should chase breakthroughs. Breakthroughs follow the 80/20 principle to a T, they account for a small percent of your ‘working’ time but they can create monumental change in your business, your life and the world at large.

Electricity happened in one ‘breakthrough’ moment, after 13 months of repeated failures. What could you be missing by not stopping and allowing your mind time for a breakthrough?

Whenever I feel ‘stuck’, I drop everything I’m doing – no matter how seemingly important and I start chasing a breakthrough. I will go to a park, take trains – spending hours staring at the window – or even hop on a plane and go somewhere new to gain inspiration. Breakthroughs can happen on the subway, in museums or even while laying on your bed – but it’s necessary to practice being present for them to occur.

Breakthroughs may completely change the course of your business, breakthroughs may alter the state of your relationship or lead you down a completely different path that will fundamentally change your life over the next few years. I like to imagine breakthroughs like a turn in the road… on your journey to success you never want to travel a straight “easy” road, that’s the road to failure. Instead your path should be speckled with turns and twists, it shouldn’t be easy, but it will never be harder than you can bear if you really want the goal you’re going for.

2. Do. More. Video.

Listen up honey bunnies. Video is the future, people have been saying this for years and it’s growing more and more popular as we speak (read? write? whatever). All of you with even slightly presentable mugs should be integrating some sort of video into your business/brand. If you have a face only a mother can love, do videos anyhow – Steve Buscemi has built a brand around that.

I hate doing videos, they make me incredibly nervous and I still have that nerdy, shy girlmentality from years ago when I was an uber dork. But, because of this, I’m forcing myself to start lifecasting anyway. I’ll be doing 5 videos a week from my new (secret till 2011!) Youtube channel and as much as I’m scared, I also know this will be a huge learning experience and a new way to grow my personal brand.

3. Slim down.

I mean this physically (if you need to lose a few), mentally and stuff wise (yeah, couldn’t think of a clever word for that one). My friend Tammy Camp wrote a great post on her new minimalistic approach to life. She’s getting rid of a warehouse of awesome stuff and will be giving it away to her readers. What a way to clear clutter in preparation for 2011!

Getting rid of all the crap that doesn’t matter is hugely important in the coming year if you want to be successful. It means ridding yourself of clutter and getting down to the ‘meat’ of the matter, whether that’s your business, your home or your body. I find that I’m 100 times as productive when I clean my house of all distractions and most items that aren’t essential. I have less left to busy myself with and the feeling is freeing. Two great reads if you want to get uber jazzed on slimming down and being minimalistic are The Power of Less byLeo Babauta and Everett Bogue’s blog on minimalism, cyborgs and all things progressive(partially joking about the cyborg thing, partially!).

4. Think Bigger.

Don’t settle for small goals in 2011, instead focus on going big or going home. A great book to read on the topic is Purple Cow and/or The Dip (both by Seth Godin), if I could have my way you’d read both several times. The gist of these books is that there are amazing products and there are mediocre ones, there are times to quit and “pivot” and there are times to carry on with dogged determination.

Be wise enough to not stick stubbornly to a plan you can’t win and be bold enough to go for something 99% of the population wouldn’t dare attempt. Then email me when you do it.

5. Stop chasing your passion.

*Gasp* what kind of heresy is this? Don’t follow your passion – but that’s what I live for, that’s what all the self help books have said and what all the get rich easy websites preach? Can it. It’s time to get real, or get out.

I tried for months to follow my ‘passion’ alone and started a string of abysmally unimpressive online businesses when I first got started that all flopped. It wasn’t solely because I followed my passion but it was because I didn’t check to see if my passion was shared by others, if I was indeed good at my passion or a myriad of other market factors.

If you want to escape the 9 to 5 for good and truly start a business that will change your life then you’ve got to get smart and stop listening to people who make ALL of their money teaching others how to make money online. Think about the circular logic, demand proof that they’ve made money in other ways besides just by teaching you how to make money. A good example of someone who is an honest, successful and legitimate and teaches about passive income is Pat Flynn – unfortunately few internet marketers have as much integrity as Pat and I like to think that’s why he does so well

So instead, think of a business you’re interested in and then do your due diligence. Check to see what kind of market size there is (you can go crazy and check Forrester’s or go cheap-o and just read your would-be competition’s press releases). See if others are making money in your field (social media, soaps or cloud computing). Analyze the industry leaders, what they’re doing right and where they are lacking. I swear if you spend 4 hours on this you’ll be able to tell 100% if you have a viable market or not.

Passion is nice, fluffy and sounds great… but you are in this for the money, honey. So definitely love what you do, but don’t be so blind to think everyone loves underwater basket weaving as much as you do and that they’ll all be breaking down your door to buy your new, $39.99 ebook, on the topic.

6. Grow your team.

Alright, get ready for an obvious plug, but it’s a good plug – so I don’t feel bad! I think everyone should at least try building their business by hiring virtual staff members this 2011. I have used virtual assistants for years and I can honestly say they have contributed to 80% of my success, I talk/preach/nag about them all the time and the one thing I wish is that more people would try a VA out for themselves.

A virtual assistant is a person who does tasks for you, virtually, this can be webmaster, project manager, personal assistant, SEO or customer support. There are lots and lots of ways to incorporate a virtual assistant and grow your virtual team (you can read about some here) and all of them will contribute to your bottom line (if done correctly) and grow your business faster than you could ever do on your own.

If you want me & my team to find you the perfect *insert hallelujah chorus* check out my babyVirtual Zeta which matches smart entrepreneurs with virtual assistants based on their needs & price range.

?7. Change your scenery.

Even if it’s just for a week, do some traveling, move cities or switch residences. There is something so euphoric and creativity bearing about changing your scenery. Check out airbnb and book your next mini vacation today, but take your laptop with you and I’ll bet you dollars to donuts you get more, quality work done ‘away’ than you ever get at home.

*Check out this post by Dan Martell, it almost single-handedly convinced me to move from Nevada to the bay area.

8. Become a student, again.

Too many of us have forgotten our educational roots… whether you never made it past 9th grade or graduated Cum Laude, it’s important to always be a student first, while you are on the road to success. One of my top tips to any beginning entrepreneur is to just read for 6 months (or listen to audio books/podcast if that’s your thing). Study, digest, question everything you can get your hands on. My top three learning tips are picking up used books on Amazon (the one thing I like to save is books), listening to Mixergy interviews and checking out speakers at TED.

9. Visualize your future

Whether it’s having a family while living comfortably off of your successful start up or traveling Europe and eating caviar as you lounge around in nothing but a mink coat… visualize your ‘end game’ as often as possible.

I do this on a daily basis, sometimes in the morning I lay in bed and either pray about my upcoming day or I let my mind wander into the future – mentally “seeing” how the best possible outcome will look. The advantages of this practice are immense – check out more detailed descriptions in the book (written ages ago but still super potent) Psycho Cybernetics.

10. Focus, focus, focus.

The one thing I wish I could go back and shake into my younger self when I first started out is the utter importance of focus. It’s one of the least talked about, yet most important, part of success. Let me just save you years of agony and wasted time:

• Don’t do more than one project/business at the same time until you are well versed in the business process
• Even afterwards try not to do more than one business at once
• Don’t do with more what could be done with less

I use the pomodoro technique to help me focus and things like white noise when I study, your methods may be different but make sure that you have a very specific way in which you focus so your body & mind will know whenever you do that routine that it’s razor focus time.

11. Set 3 goals.

I’ve had a lot of success, in small batches, using the 3 goal mentality. Setting 3 specific goals is simple, anyone can do it, it’s easy to remember off the top of your head and there is something just plain magical about the number three. So for 2011 set justthree overarching goals for yourself, or your business. These 3 goals can have sub goals and milestones attached to them (I useBasecamp to manage mine) or they can be stand alone.

Do you want to be a winner?

Do you want to be successful?

If your answer is a yes, this is the right place for you because you will discover the top 3 success habits that you must develop in order to be successful in your life. Many people thought that success is about being lucky or talented. But it is not, being successful is all about habits. If you possess the success habits, you will live a successful life. Every decision you make and every action you take in your life is affected by your habits. If you are someone who hates to take risk, you will never make any investment. Even if you do, you will never stay calm and miss the right opportunity. Therefore, if you want to be successful today, develop these top 3 success habits now...

1. Develop the habit of goal setting. By writing down what you want to achieve in your life, you will make your dreams into a more tangible form and you will also activate the law of attraction. Your goals will keep you focus in your life and direct you into the direction of where you want to be. Successful people know exactly what they want and they set a clear goal to achieve it. Therefore, you must do the same to get what you want.

2. The second success habit you must develop is the habit of taking consistent action each and everyday. Without action, nothing is going to happen. It is useless if you read a book teaching you how to cook but you never put the knowledge into use. You need to take action to make what you want to come true. Success will not come automatically. It is by taking consistent action that you will eventually get what you want in your life.

3. Last but not least, you must develop the success habit of constant and never-ending improvement. Commit yourself to wake up 1 hour earlier and read a book in your related field. If you do this consistently for a few years, you will be able to become the top 5% in your industry. The moment you stop to learn and improve, you will stop to grow. Successful people learn all the time by reading materials related in their field. You must do the same.

These are the top 3 success habits that you must develop in order to be successful. As long as you follow through and put in commitment into doing it, you will definitely achieve what you really want in your life.

68 CEO Responsibilities

This is a great list for both taking on a new CEO position and getting up to speed, as well as to develop a proactive development and learning program for any CEO or senior executive wishing to improve their executive management skills. It lays out well all the thing you need to juggle when you have both the privilege and responsibilities of the top spot in any organization. General Operations 1. Establish primary goals of the Board -- maintenance of status quo, evaluation and recommendations or take charge through implementation of new game plan. 2. Meet all first-reports, introduce game plan and initiate implementation of action items on this list. 3. Have all first-reports complete the Agenda for the Future. 4. Discuss the dozen biggest problems and opportunities from perspective of all first-reports. 5. If survival mode is required, cut costs immediately where necessary and prudent and in accordance with the Board's short and intermediate term goals. 6. Identify and implement top six action items that could measurably increase short term revenues. 7. In addition to this action list, formulate short-term game plan for company, get board approval and communicate plan to key personnel, suppliers, lenders, etc. 8. Prioritize top ten action items for the whole company and begin implementation. 9. Identify top goals for the company for the current month, quarter and year. Financial Issues 10. Within the first week, get current detailed financial statements, itemized payroll, payables and receivables list. 11. Review budgets of all departments or divisions for reasonableness of assumptions, quality of projections and relevancy in light of recent corporate changes and goals. 12. Evaluate obvious, and not so obvious, problems and strengths revealed by the financial statements. 13. Do realistic cash forecast for the next 90 and 180 day periods. 14. Evaluate asset utilization and re-deploy if appropriate and prudent in the short term. Liabilities / Risks / Time Bombs 15. Deal with the six largest crises within the first three weeks. 16. Review banking and debt obligations for next 90, 180 and 365 day periods and ensure no technical or major defaults, if possible. If in default, develop game plan and/or negotiate workout. 17. Determine which critical suppliers have suspended support due to lack of payment, or other problems. 18. Identify and take steps to immediately defuse all visible, or suspected, ticking time bombs. Regulatory / Legal / Litigation 19. Ensure all payroll taxes are paid and properly reported. 20. Determine what, if any, problems exist with the IRS and state agencies. 21. Ensure the company is in compliance with all required regulatory and licensing agencies, etc. and if not, take action to resolve these issues. 22. Identity all outstanding legal issues and litigation risks along with probable, and possible, associated costs. 23. Ensure no securities law violations have occurred -- and if they have, take immediate steps to remedy them, or mitigate their impact. 24. Ensure any patents, trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights are properly filed and appropriate protections are in place. Product lines / Marketing / Sales / Distribution 25. Analyze product delivery schedules and takes steps to improve meeting commitment dates. 26. Evaluate product development timetables, budget forecasts and quality of project management systems, procedures and controls. 27. Evaluate sales, marketing, distribution, forecasts and trend lines for improvement opportunities in all areas, so as to generate more cash in the short-term. 28. Identify both the best customers and the most unhappy customers, as well as the company's image in the marketplace. 29. Complete competitive analysis for each product line. 30. Evaluate pricing models for each product line and adjust accordingly. 31. Identify product line strengths and weaknesses and develop short-term action plan to solve the most glaring problems. 32. Identify potential products -- 6, 12 and 24 months into the future -- and their possible impact on revenue and expenses. 33. Establish / update / expand web presence. 34. Evaluate expenditures and effectiveness of marketing and advertising for media, trade shows, market research, focus groups and public relations and adjust accordingly. 35. Evaluate sales force, sales-related incentives, sales targets, sales personnel training, special offers, dealerships, telemarketing and sales support. 36. Evaluate and optimize short-term inventory. 37. Evaluate customer / technical support, warranties, guarantees and after-sales service. Personnel Issues 38. Upon arrival, candidly communicate with all company personnel for introduction and conveyance of immediate game plan. 39. Set up suggestion boxes, and invite anonymous email, to gain insight into less obvious underlying problems. 40. Review major Human Resource department aspects of company for legal compliance, competitiveness of benefits package, diversity, clarity of policies and potential costs savings. 41. Evaluate strengths and weaknesses of all first reports. 42. Develop 30/60/90 day performance plans for all first reports. 43. Evaluate organizational structure and effectiveness -- and reorganize if appropriate, adjusting total payroll if necessary. 44. Identify best and worst five percent of employees in the company -- probably replacing worst five percent and ensuring the best five percent are motivated enough to stay. 45. Analyze employee turnover rates to identify fundamental problem areas. 46. Identify key personnel and unfilled job functions, define criteria and initiate search, within budget constraints. 47. Identify personality issues / company policies that may be creating negative impact on company morale and productivity. 48. Review / modify written delegation of authority for all first reports. 49. Review all employment contracts or agreements, oral or written, including any severance or termination compensation agreements with salaried, hourly, or collective bargaining employees. 50. Review all bonus, deferred compensation, stock option, profit sharing, retirement programs or plans covering salaried, hourly, or collective bargaining employees. IPO / Merger / Acquisition / Disposition / Dissolution 51. Identify which mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and investments make the most sense for the company. 52. Identify the growth issues regarding acquisitions, spin offs, expansion, downsizing, establishing new, and/or closing existing branches and stores. 53. If decision is to sell the company, establish price and terms, subject to Board approval, prepare sales summary and develop game plan and methodology for sale. 54. Complete three year pro forma, based on realistic assumptions, to determine future valuation potential of company and likelihood of IPO or merger/acquisition potential. 55. If Board decision is to dissolve company, develop game plan for liquidation of assets and/or follow up on bankruptcy filing. General / Administrative 56. Evaluate and control travel, entertainment and all discretionary expenditures and implement new written policies for these issues. 57. Review facilities and real estate issues, including a review of current lease requirements. 58. Review all equipment leases for cost cutting / improved technology opportunities. 59. Create / update business plan for current internal clarity and banking or capital formation needs. 60. "Manage by roaming around" -- gaining insights into attitudes and problem areas from within all levels of the organization. 61. Evaluate in-place systems and procedures and streamline where appropriate. 62. Evaluate technology implementation and optimize within budget constraints. 63. Visit all branch offices and evaluate their needs, performance, personnel and cost-effectiveness. Stockholder Status / Investor Relations 64. Evaluate investor and stockholder relations and communication status and initiate appropriate action. 65. Generate updated lists of all current shareholders and percentage ownership of each. 66. Review stock options or purchase plans and agreements, as well as lists of outstanding warrants and options, including date of grant, exercise price, number of shares subject to option, and date of exercise. The Next Steps 67. Report to the Board: the objective status, evaluation, recommended modifications to the short-term game plan and any cash needs. 68. Pick up sword again, and implement updated and approved game plan. The source of this article is unknown, as I could not find where I got it, but I believe it was provided by an , accounting firm. I will attribute credit if and when I can find this information.

Team Motivation

The greatest motivator is a feeling of being valued. When an employee believes that she is valued by her employer, the employee values the employer in return.

Additionally, you may want to find ways to incorporate these 13 tips for employee loyalty into your management practices.

1. Set a good example. Show your employees that you take work seriously. If you are out shopping or busy making plans for the weekend, your employees will follow suit.

2. Create clear boundaries. Your employees can have many friends, but only one employer. Yes, you want to be friendly but not at the cost of establishing your unique role and position. Most employees will be delighted to have a boss that can be depended upon to make difficult decisions, call the shots and resolve awkward or burdensome problems--tasks they would never present to a friend or co-worker.

3. Outline each employees' sphere of influence. Each staff member should be clear about where his/her own domain starts and stops. This kind of definition fosters a sense of pride while preventing boundary overstepping and turf wars between employees.

4. Show your employees that you are loyal to them. Never belittle or criticize an employee in public. Avoid threats or any action that might give an employee a reason to question your commitment to him/her. Instead, carefully present your criticisms and see "mistakes" as opportunities for learning.

5. Give your employees something to be proud of. Strive to make your organization the best it can be. Whether you are the CEO of a large corporation, a supervisor in a governmental organization, or running a mom-and-pop shop, you want your product and service to shine so that everyone involved has a sense of pride and accomplishment.

6. Do good deeds. Have an outreach plan that gives both you and your employees a chance to interact with, and give back to, the larger community in a positive way.

7. Reward your employees. Money cannot buy loyalty but money does serve as a metaphor--telling your employees how much you value them. Fair wages, appropriate raises and an occasional unexpected treat can go a long way in building loyal employees.

8. Cultivate peak performance. Provide your employees with training and development opportunities so that they can learn and grow. And, as they develop, challenge them to set and meet high expectations.

9. Foster a team mentality. Encourage your employees to communicate their ideas and allow them to influence company practices and policies. Likewise, share your own vision for the future and your thoughts as to how you will all get there together.

10. Recognize and respond. Everyone appreciates positive feedback. And, once it becomes clear that you are willing and able to provide it, most employees will go the extra mile in order to get it.

11. Build solid relationships. Find common ground, share life experiences, prove your trustworthiness, and be patient as strong relationships blossom over time.

12. The Platinum Rule. There is no blueprint for fostering employee loyalty. As you go about your business, remember that each employee must be seen as an individual - what works in some cases will bring disaster in another. Forget the golden rule--don't treat your employees, as you want to be treated. Instead, find out what each of them needs and wants and proceed with that in mind.

13. Be yourself. Find your own management style. Somewhere between surrogate mother, who is more caretaker then boss and the Leona Helmsley stereotype, who responds to employees with contempt and ridicule, each of us can find our own happy medium.

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Elinor Robin, "The Relationship Mediator," has more than 18 years of experience in mediation while working within the public and private sectors.

Team Motivation - Key to entrepreneurial success

Motivation is the key ingredient for success in any organization. You can have all the technical skills in the world; however, if you can’t motivate your team, you will not achieve success. As a leader, a majority of your job is tomotivate others to succeed so that everyone’s goals are accomplished.

The following are eight quick tips to motivate your team:

1. Everyone Has Motivation

Your employees are motivated on some level. It is your job to find the level of their motivation and move your employees to the next level.

2. Listen to WIIFM

I wake up every morning listening to a very important radio station, WIIFM. I hope you do too. WIIFM stands forWhat’s In It For Me? To truly be a motivator, you must always be in tune to your employees’ WIIFM. Find out why it is beneficial for your employees to do a task, etc. Once you find out the employees’ motives, you find out how to motivate them.

3. It’s about Pain or Pleasure

Motivate your employees toward pleasure or away from pain. You motivate toward the pleasure by providing recognition, incentives, and rewards for doing a good job. You motivate away from the pain of a corrective action, losing a position, or doing a poor job. The key to this motivation is to be consistent with all your employees at all times.

4. Give Me a Reason

Do it because I said so! Well, with our educated workforce these days, that doesn’t work anymore. Employees like to know why tasks are being requested of them so that they can feel involved and that the task has worth. Let your employees know why doing the task is important to you, the organization, and for them.

5. Let Me Understand You

Take time to show sincere interest in your employees as people. Understand what your employees are passionate about in their lives. What are their special passions? What are their personal needs? What brings them joy or pain? What are their short-range and long-range goals? Once you understand the answers to these questions, you can move them to a new level of motivation, because you cared enough to ask the questions and show interest in their success. Once you understand your employee’s needs and goals, they will take more interest in understanding and achieving your goals.

6. Make Me Proud

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” Give your employees the opportunity to be proud of their work. Reward team members publicly for a job well done. Give them an opportunity in a team meeting to explain how they accomplished the job. Have your organization’s Director, President, Vice President, etc., give recognition to these employees by personally sending a note, recognizing them in an organizational or team meeting, or creating a “Hall or Wall of Fame” recognition for employees that really have gone beyond the call of duty.

7. Expect the Best

Expect the best and your employees will rise to that level. How do you do this? You do it with the words you use. Are you expressing positive expectations, or are you using words (kind of, sort of, we’ll try, we have to, we haven’t done that before, and that will never work) that communicate negative expectations? What does your body language say about you? Does it say, “I’m ready to take on any challenge, and I expect you can also;” or does your body language say “Please don’t give me another problem. I can’t handle it.”

Do our recognitions and rewards move our employees to do their best? Do we consistently communicate our standards and expectations for the best? Do we coach our team to always do better?

8. Walk the Talk

Our employees model our behavior. If we are confident about a major change in the organization, our employees will follow our behavior. If we come in late and leave early, guess what will happen? Remember, even when you don’t think someone is watching…they are always watching. Set the example for others to follow.

Apply these eight simple rules of team motivation and you, too, will have the skills to motivate your team to be inspired, innovative, self-directed, and highly productive employees.

Career Launcher Allahabad Rocks !!

RECORD BREAKING CALLS BY CAREER LAUNCHER ALLAHABAD STUDENTS

Career Launcher Allahabad is proud to announce the names of the following students who have studied at its Allahabad center, appeared in CAT-2009 and received calls from the various IIMs. They are Namita Dhepe (IIMs A & C), Prateek Verma (IIMs B, K & L), Ambrish Awasthi (IIMs B & K), Saurabh Malik (IIMs B, S & K), Vibhuti Agrawal (IIM S), and Hitesh Khatpalani (IIM S). Further calls are expected from IIM Indore and IIM Ranchi. Several others have received calls from other prestigious Management Institutes across the country. Vivek Jain is the only call getter from Allahabad from FMS (Faculty of Management Studies) New Delhi. Similarly Bhavi Chanduka and Sumanta Layak both CL Allahabad students, are the only ones from the city to have got calls from XLRI (Xaviers Labour Research Institute Jamshedpur). In a similar vein Nalin Goel, Prachi Aggarwal and Harshit Verma have got calls from JMET. Harshit, the last mentioned, is the only aspirant from Allahabad who has also been called by IIFT. While SNAP saw seven of our students in the selected list namely Ishaan Wazalwar, Rit Shukla, Siddhi Agarwal, Iti Mehrotra, Supriya Rai, Ritesh Chaddha and Deepshikha Aggarwal, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai has given calls to two of our students namely Ratanpreet Kaur and Saurav Jaiswal. GIM (Goa Institute of Management) has given calls to Neha Aggarwal and Gaurav Sinha and XIMB (Xaviers Institute of Management Bhuvaneshwar) has given calls to Ishaan Wazalwar and Rit Shukla. Besides these Kriti Arora, Vibhuti Agrawal, Amit Agarwal, Prachi Agarwal, Ravi Mishra and Ankit Rajpal have cracked the prestigious NMAT exam. All these students are at present going through a rigorous ‘PDP Boot-Camp’ in the CL Allahabad campus in order to convert their calls to final selection. Career Launcher Allahabad has produced the highest number of IIM call getters in the city. Overall too, Career Launcher is the only institute to have produced 4 100%tilers namely Ayush Kedia, Kiran Kanchana, Vivek Gupta and Ankit Garg. The reason for such stupendous results is easy to understand. The high quality and extensive study material, the standardised coaching pedagogy and the personalised mentorship by the trainers combined to produce such results.

Career Launcher has carved a niche for itself in the field of MBA coaching and the results of the last few years bear testimony to this fact. It proves that last year’s performance by students from Career Launcher was no flash in the pan. Years of consistently providing top results in MBA entrance has given not only us, but also the students who enroll with us a quiet confidence to prepare not only for the written exam and subsequent GDPI but also for the larger battle in the life ahead. Mr. Sanjeev Mishra, Head of Location Career Launcher congratulated the successful students and wished them a bright future.

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