Lifeis – an Action of Comprehension from Top Indian Economic Establishment
One of the top Indian entities that are involved in economic analysis world wide – Institute of Economic Studies on August 20th, 2010 conducted a seminar “Current Economic Scenario” in Hotel Taj Krishna, Hyderabad. This meeting was honored by the presence of outstanding country personalities: Her Excellency Smt. Margaret Alva, a distinguished Indian politician, who for 30 years served in the Indian Parliament and currently is Governor of Uttarkhand and prominent politician and military leader of India His Excellency Shri. M.M. Lakhera , Governor of Mizoram. There were many issues discussed during the seminar – the issues that cover all aspects of current economic position in India, and many ideas and concepts introduced. One of the results of the Institute’s studies concerns the new, emerging companies in Indian market, their business experience and innovation approach. We are much honored to report to our readers that Lifeis, as a new entity in Indian e-commerce market was noticed, recognized by its initial achievements, and by enhancing image of India. Two important members of our Lifeis Team were presented with prestigious awards:
Mr. Santosh Thakur, Head of Training, – the Business Leadership Award in the area of Training & Development
Mr. SP Kumar, Director- Sales – Business Leadership in Sales Award
After presentation, Lifeis Team members spent sometime explaining to the distinguished guests the business concept of our company and ways we help the Indian people to improve their lives.
We warmly congratulate Messrs. Santosh Takur and SP Kumar and hope that our clients will have a good chance to valuate personally their business skills and proficiency.
LIFEIS: We Are the World… We Are the Children…
Like every respectable company, LIFEIS is committed to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs; being a new entity, we are still defining the most applicable to our business and capabilities opportunities. We Are the World… We Are the Children… – this lyrics from the popular song touches every heart – and ours too…
We have reported in our earlier post on initiation of long-standing relationship withIndira Gandhi International Academy in Bangalore. It was very tough to leave these charming children, and many of us (though we declared this officially) decided to come back. And, true to our promise, we did came back!
It was last Sunday when LIFEIS made its first official visit – the visit that was meticulously prepared and planned. It coincided with the Independence Day – and this is very momentous – Independent India makes a lot to help its less fortunate neighbors to overcome their problems. Indira Gandhi International Academy is a vivid example of this. LIFEIS is very proud of this opportunity to show its involvement in international relief effort.
Ravi Puri, LIFEIS Chief Executive Officer addressed the children: “LIFEIS, as to its nature, is the company with heart, and this heart is very sensitive to the needs and status of people. In our business, we are dealing everyday with grown-ups, but we always bear in mind that the man is always formed at his childhood – if being a child, he is confronted with the people who care, than the chances are high that all his life he will be caring, compassionate and attentive to other people. Thus, LIFEIS has a distinctive intention is not just to help once and forget them, but it is to teach and make them capable of helping others.” These words were applauded by all present, as Mr. Puri affirmed LIFEIS’ intention to frequently visit the Academy and try to help overcome its current hurdles of food. And not food only… At the time of our last visit, we noticed that many of the classrooms and halls would use some improved ventilation – so as the first commitment LIFEIS donated 32 fans, which were with gratitude accepted.
LIFEIS flags were popular as well as our theme song…
We also spent some time singing and dancing with children, watching their dance and song performances.
At the end of our visit we distributed chocolates and stationary.
We were happy to leave, for we noticed that our interaction with these deprived children brought some smiles to their faces – “keep a smile on your face, it’s so nice to be happy”
Advisory Board Members Share their Views in Lifeis BOP
Since the start of our pre-launch operation, the management and all employees of LIFEIS are actively involved in Business Opportunity Presentations (BOPs) that are, in general, conducted all over the Southern part of India. We have previously reported on some of them. While the members of our Team are doing their best in Yawatmal, Vardha andDavanagere, here we would like to report in detail on the event in Bangalore on this past Sunday.
This BOP was rather unusual; for it was the first time, we have invited some of the distinguished members of our Advisory Board: His Excellency Mr. Korn Dabbaransi, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Thailand; Shri M.V. Rajasekharan,Former Minister of Planning, Govt. of India and Dr. Anil K Khandelwal, Former Chairman, Bank of Baroda. In our view these people represent the cluster of knowledge in business and politics and well know the needs and desires of common people.
His Excellency Mr Korn Dabbaransi, is one of the most respected Politician of Thailand. Starting his political career in 1974 Mr Dabbaransi held various cabinet positions in Thai Government such as Minister of Industry, Minister of Energy, Minister of Public Health, Minister of Science and Technology and Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. During his tenure as Minister of Industry Mr. Dabbaransi signed the first Free Trade Agreement between India and Thailand.
Shri. M.V. Rajasekharan is a former Member of Parliament and former Minister of State for Planning, Government for India serving directly under the advice and guidance of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. He is currently Member of the Upper House of the Karnataka State Legislature. In this capacity as a Member of the State Legislature, he is trying to serve the people of Karnataka, specially, the poor and the disadvantaged, with dedication and commitment to find solutions to their problems.
Dr. Anil Khandelwal, currently the Chairman, Baroda Pioneer Asset Management Company Limited, (a Joint Venture promoted by Pioneer Investments, Italy and Bank of Baroda), has been the Chairman and Managing Director of two Public Sector Banks viz Dena Bank and Bank of Baroda. His pioneering and innovative efforts in turning around Bank of Baroda earned him several awards, including the Asian Banker Lifetime Achievement Award for lifetime achievement in Financial Services by Asian Banker, which is the highest Award in the Banking industry in the Asia-Pacific and Gulf Region today and he is the first Indian to receive the award.
The event commenced with a lamp-lighting ceremony by our Guests of Honors. His Excellency Mr. Korn Dabbaransi, Shri MV Rajasekharan and Dr. Anil Khandelwal shared their valuable thoughts on their association with the company and the future of this direct selling business in India. The speeches were truly inspiring for our more than 400 people who attended this event. It was followed by a detailed presentation made by the core team on the company, its product offerings and the Lifeis Hybrid DSA Compensation Plan.
We are planning more meetings of our valued customers with members of our Advisory Board – both within the scheduled BOPs and separately.
A Prominent Indian Scholar Joins Lifeis – Welcome, Professor Pandey
As we are almost near the date of launch of Lifeis, we are very proud to report that our Management did an excellent job in the pre-launch activities. Besides closely working with our customers, perfecting out It structure, we have conducted a series of interviews and discussions with prominent individuals, each having a notable experience in industry, science, arts, and most important in the fields that we feel would greatly help us in future business. In our previous posts, we reported on new members of the Advisory Board; today we are very proud to announce that one of the most outstanding Indian scholars – Professor I. M. Pandey – has agreed to join our Board of Advisers.
I. M. Pandey, a Ph. D. in Finance from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, is currently Dean, Faculty of Commerce & Business and Head, Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi. He has been Professor and Dean of School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand from 2005-2007. He also held the position of Professor of Finance at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), India, since 8 December 1980 till Dec. 2007 when he took early retirement. He has also served as Dean(1991-94), Officiating Director (Jan.-Jun. 1994), Chairman of the Doctoral Programme(1988-90) and Chairman of Finance & Accounting Area (1982-83 & 1986-88) at IIM Ahmedabad. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Universitas 21 Global, Singapore and Visiting Professor at AIT School of Management, Thailand.
Professor I. M. Pandey has been Member, Boards of Directors, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation of India and Cochin Shipyard Company in India and Indo-Rama in Thailand. He has served as Board Member, Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) for six years, Arya Finefab Company Limited; Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Limited; IDBI-PRINCIPAL Asset Management Company; Ahmedabad Stock Exchange; Member, Capital Issues Advisory Committee (CCI), Government of India; Member, Committee For Determining Prices of Wheat Products, Government of Gujarat; Member, IDBI Western Region Advisory Committee, 2000 – 2002. He has served as Board Member on Board of Governors, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, India; Member, Academic Advisory Board, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.
Indeed, I. M. Pandey is one of the most popular and queried names on the Internet. His books are outstandingly represented in Open Library, on sale at Amazon and requested by many who are learning and majoring in business research. His areas of research include international finance and business; corporate finance; strategy-finance interface; emerging financial markets; venture capital; corporate governance and excellence. He has published ten textbooks, six research monographs and about 100 articles and management cases in refereed international journals. His book titled, Financial Management (10th Edition, published by Vikas Publishing Company) is the most popular and best selling finance text in India. The book, Cases in Financial Management(published by Tata McGraw Hill) (co-authored with R. Bhat) is the first book of finance cases in India. He has conducted research in the areas of corporate finance, emerging financial markets and venture capital. His book, Venture Capital: The Indian Experience(published by Prentice Hall) is the first research-based work on venture capital in India.
Besides academician work Professor I. M. Pandey has provided consulting advice to several public and private sector organizations in India and external agencies such as Asian Development Bank, World Bank and European Union on problems of reorganization and restructuring, turnaround strategy, costing and pricing, infrastructure development, electricity pricing etc. He has conducted management development programs for senior executives of several companies including Cadbury India, Syngenta, Ansell, ABB, Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Gujarat Narmada Fertilisers Company, Zydus Pharmaceuticals, Patni Computers, Greeves, Cadila, M&M, TISCO, TELCO, IDBI etc.
We warmly welcome Professor I. M. Pandey on board – and hope that his valuable experience will help in our business.
More Quality People on Board: Mr. Cornelis M. Keur
In our previous post we discussed the importance of the Advisory board for implementing corporate strategy of the company. We are working hard getting ready for the launch, and as such, our top Management interacts with distinguished public and businesspersons. Our focus now is to roll out effective operations in India, and we are very pleased that we have a new member of our Advisory Board – Mr. Cornelis M. Keur.
It has been just some days that Mr. Keur has retired from the post of the Consul General of USA, Hyderabad. He is well known in the political world – Mr. Keur’s US Foreign Service career spans for 32 years (presently holds the Foreign Service Officer rank of Minister-Counselor). Prior to Hyderabad, he served most recently as the Senior State Department Adviser and Deputy Commandant for International Affairs of the Air Force campus of the National Defense University. Most of his years with the Department of State were spent on various assignments in Asia, having served in India, China (3 tours), Japan, Thailand, Burma as well as Suriname and Yemen. Hyderabad was Mr. Keur’s second posting as a Consul General; he previously served four years as Consul General for Southwest China posted in Chengdu. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, served in Peace Corps Thailand and worked for an NGO in Laos. He has attended Trombly Trade School, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and National Defense University. Mr. Keur was born in the Netherlands and raised in Detroit. Mr. Keur speaks Chinese, Thai, Lao, and Dutch.
As you see, Mr. Keur’s experience is of an enormous value to Lifeis, especially as it comes to getting advice on international operations; however, we all know that he has a deep understanding of India and Indian people. While being based in Hyderabad, Mr. Keur showed a keen interest in everyday life and to a great extent facilitated business of multi-national companies in this Indian state. His open manner was high appreciated – just like this photo:
Helping around Consul General of U.S. Consulate Cornelis M. Keur chats up Ali and his family at the Paradise Hotel
We at Lifeis warmly welcome Mr. Keur and are looking forward to our joint communication and collaboration.
Lifeis salutes James With
In everyday business of any company we are often faced with new tasks and ideas that sometimes are outside everyday mission and routine business. Consequently, international practice has accepted a special vehicle for this – Advisory Board. Usually this is a group of individuals who bring unique knowledge and skills which complement the know-how and skills of the formal Board of Directors members. In fact, Advisory Board, does not have formal authority to govern the organization, that is, the advisory cannot issue directives which must be followed. Instead, it makes recommendations and provides key information and materials that help to make decisions and conduct business in a better way.
We, at Lifeis, are well aware of major issues and challenges that are facing our business, so we have established an informal Advisory Board. The role of the Advisory Board is to be available to assist our management with general business and strategic planning advice upon request from time-to time. We are getting support on a wide range of issues that are relevant to Lifeis: sales, marketing, corporate partnerships, financing, technology, administration, industry trends, politics, international matters and more. The list of Board members is presented on our Web-site – most of them are well-known personalities and leaders in respective industries.
This week we have a new member – the one who is well known to many movie-lovers all over the world:
James With – an Australian actor and businessman. Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Perth, Australia, and having undertaken further studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, James has acted in many diverse parts, as he has worked his way up to stardom. He was in “The Phantom” with Billy Zane and Catherine Zeta Jones, seen playing a British Fighter Pilot trying to save mankind in “Independence Day” with Will Smith, Sylvester Stallone has blown his preacher character to bits in the latest “Rambo”, and Nicholas Cage scopes him out in “Bangkok Dangerous”. James has lived for various lengths of time in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.
Mr. With continues to put his diverse wealth of life’s experience into his work as a producer and entertainment specialist. James has worked in the fields of investment banking and finance for international banks and investment firms, having also worked as a licensed securities dealer and financial investment advisor. James has cultivated a strong interest in structuring financial products for entertainment and the arts and continues to strive to build long term structured financing opportunities for international investors in Asian and international productions and co-productions.
Mr. With is currently developing a number of feature film projects through his flagship company TRI-US ENTERTAINMENT. Production facilities and locations are predominantly in Thailand and India. Through EXPLORE MEDIA GROUP the focus is on adding content to his extensive media library of his own specialized documentary programming, delivered in HD and 3D. TRI-US ENTERTAINMENT’s new representative offices in Bangalore, India is currently focused on developing new HD and 3D content for the Indian market.
We do hope that our collaboration with Mr. James With will help us to work more productively and efficiently, considering his vast practice in business and finance.
Lifeis CSR – A Start at Indira Gandhi International Academy
An important part of business life of every respectable company is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. “As a worldwide industry existing in more than 150 countries with retail sales of $109 billion in 2006 and 58 million independent direct sellers, the direct selling industry takes its responsibility for good global citizenship very seriously. Our commitment to good citizenship is expressed in our giving back to people around the world and to the communities where we live and work. Four in five direct selling companies (82 percent) sponsor or support corporate social responsibility activities (CSR).” These are the words from “The Global Citizenship of the Direct Selling Industry” by World Federation of Direct Selling Associations. We do participate in direct selling industry, thus we consider CSR as integral part of our business strategy.
Helping less fortunate is an integral part of Lifeis’ CSR programs. Despite the pre-launch phase of our corporate development, we have already started some of them – and this Sunday we initiated a long-standing relationship with Indira Gandhi International Academy in Bangalore. We took opportunity to visit the Academy when they have celebrated 6-year old girl’s Birthday.
The Indira Gandhi International Academy was established in 1990 with the goal of provision of education to the children of Sri Lanka. Basically they stay for 10 months in a year; while many of them simply have no one to return to. Currently there are 350+ kids of various age (5 to 21), many of them are orphans or their families are misplaced with no chance to contact them.
First that surprised us was that all children are very nicely dressed in clean clothes, and the territory of Academy is well taken care of. Indeed, when I was told that we are going to
visit a ‘refugee camp’ I was anticipating seeing some sort of slums – but this is not the case. This is a great achievement of the management of Academy. Of course, kids are kids, but I was ready to see dejected and depressed – but, once again, they seem to be happy.
We went over the dormitories and classrooms, participated in a birthday party, had lunch with the children, but what was the most stirring part – informal interaction.
One of us was revealing the secrets of cricket to boys,
while the others were singing and dancing…
We also chatted with one of the best graduates – A. Muralidhasan – a boy whose family location is unknown – and now he is facing all the cruelty of adult world. Lifeis decided to look into the future and try to arrange some opportunities for this talented boy.
Some of us donated cash, and the Management decided to help improve infrastructure of the classes – as soon as we can do this.
You may look at all photos from our visit at our Flickr Page – click HERE
Jump from Empty Nest to Lifeis Friends’ Circle
July is in its full swing and the usual time for young people to look for new life. Today I noticed in the Sunday “Times of India” a brief article that tackles the popular issue of family-life Empty Nest – how do the parents feel and what they should do when their offsprings leave home for better – “It’s empty nest times as children fly out”. There is also a box with a short number of suggestions how to make patents’ life more vivid and brighter. Googling this theme shows that this problem is very acute for Indian families. So, we think that we may add a new item to these suggestions: Join Lifeis Family. Indeed, you would feel that you have found the whole bunch of friends and colleagues; and more: a respectable opportunity to make money. To make this happen, we are conducting Business Opportunity Presentations (BOPs) right near the places where you live.
On July 8 in the beautiful historic city of Pune one of the planned BOPs took place – and we may note – that was a success. In view of pre-launch activities, we received a great response from people of Pune; these were also joined by Leaders from Sangli, Kolhapur, Nashik and Mumbai. We had some quality leaders attending this session who have groups of 10,000 to 1,00,000 people in their existing network and the good news is that they all are part of us now.
The audience (and there was more than 200 people) asked a lot of questions and we were pleased to inform them in details on Lifeis’ background; day to day products with quality and pricing being the main focus; ISO certification; application to IDSA; and the volume and scope of ground work done before actual launch. It is our pleasure to note that 110 of the attendees joined our Family. In this BOP we had demonstrated actual product (two packs of shirts, T-Shirts, bed sheets and suit piece). People were invited on the stage after the event to see the products displayed. Overall, it was a great event and enough for the Puneites to know that WE HAVE ARRIVED.
The next planned BOPs are:
- Bhadravathi
Date: 11 July 2010
Venue: Hotel Padma Nilaya, BH Road, Bhadravathi
Time: 5 pm
RSVP: Mr. Danny (+919886783415) - Hubli
Date: 12 July 2010
Venue: Krishna Bhavan, Opp Corporation Office, Hubli
Time: 6 pm
RSVP: Dr Dhayasheel (+919449577730)
Welcome to join us!!!
A Valuable and Honorable New Member of Lifeis Family
Senior Kannada film director and lyricistGeetha Priya visited Lifeis Office today. Geetha Priya has directed 30 films. He started as an actor by doing theatre plays in Chennai in the mid 50′s. He then wrote the lyrics for Sri Rama Pooja in 1954. Mr. Priya is well known on Bangalore and surrounding areas. He told us about his experiences of working in movie-making industry, about shooting films with Ranbirraj “Raj” Kapoor.
Lifeis Management representatives welcomed the honorary guest, explained the essence of our business concept, toured Mr. Priya around our office. While doing this he met with a number of our customers who briefly explained why they are at the office and why they want to join Lifeis.
We were very pleased to learn that Mr. Geetha Priya and his wife had made a decision to join Lifeis family, and warmly welcome them on board!
First Customer Contacts — Business Opportunity Presentation
All companies that are involved in our business understand very well the importance of establishing a long and fertile relationship with their customers. And the decisive encounter in this is Business Opportunity Presentation (BOP). Going to the roots – what is this – here we have a definition of Business Opportunity from Businessdictionary.com :“Ongoing opportunity to generate income as an independent representative of anetwork marketing company”. So, we have to mobilize all the art of taking business knowledge, combining it with our faith in the Lifeis success, rolling it up, packaging it and presenting it to a room full of strangers as the must have business opportunity they have searched for unsuccessfully until today. And this is your right and privilege to determine whether we are successful in our effort.
Being in the pre-launch phase, it is exactly the right time for Lifeis to start BOPs. And we did. The first practical endeavor was June 31 BPO in Bangalore.
Of course, we had a meticulous preparation activity that involved attraction of such heavyweight Indian professional as Mr. Phani Bhushnan – whose personality development abilities are well known in the country.
More than 100 people assembled in the hall and they were briefed by Lifeis to management on all most important aspects of our business. And quite naturally, a number of listeners approached our managers for the Application forms – to become members of Lifeisfamily.
In our Blog and on our Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/lifeisindia) we will regularly inform the readers on scheduled BOPs and, of course report on their results.
So, our next events are:
Date : 08 Jul 2010,
Time : 5 pm to 8 pm
Venue : Ambedkar Bhavan in Pune
Date: 10th July 2010
Time : 3pm-6pm
Venue : Tilak Patrakar Bhavan Sitabuldi in Nagpur
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