Marketing and Sales Management Conference in Lahore

Peace Learning Resource has organized a conference on Marketing and Sales at Royal Palm, Golf & Country Club, Lahore on Saturday, November 14, 2009. Kamran Saeed, Director Marketing at Schazoo Lab is leading "Managing Sales in Tough Times" and Airf Ijaz, Consultant Kohinoor Maple Leaf Group and ex-CEO Adamjee Insurance will discuss "How companies can change their self from B2B to B2C".

Details: Marketing and Sales Management Conference

Ufone nominated in The Telecoms World Awards - Middle East

Ufone has been shortlisted among the top 5 Best Telecom Brands of The Year Award for the upcoming The Telecoms World Awards - Middle East. Ufone is the only company in Pakistan that is selected in any category of the Awards. Although it is a remarkable achievement for Ufone, Ufone along with other Telecoms must try to be nominated among other categories next year.

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Telecoms World Awards Middle East

Ufone nominated as Best Brand of the Year at the Telecoms World Awards Middle East

Matthew Kovacs in Lahore: From Australia to Pakistan

Matthew Kovacs is an independent photographer and traveler who travels around the world and writes interesting comments about his travelling experiences. Recently, he travelled to India and now staying in Pakistan. See, what he has to say about Pakistan in his post Welcome to Pakistan, India finished.

Mindshare Pakistan successfully runs web marketing campaign on Yahoo, MSN

A new web marketing campaign by Mindshare Pakistan on Yahoo, Hotmail and MSN has generated over 10,000 clicks and over 5000 registrations by female audience for an offer of a free facial at various beauty salons in Pakistan.

Salman Mir, Senior Media Planner at Mindshare appreciates the unexpectedly higher results and attribute those to the Urdu Logo used in the impressions. Click following links for more details:

Pond’s banner on Yahoo! attracts 10,000 Pakistani Females

Asia's Largest and Modern Food Street

Asia’s largest and most modern food street - Port Grand Food Court & Entertainment Complex - being built at a cost of Rs1 billion (around $12 million) and spread over nine acres would be inaugurated by the end of November this year in Karachi near Mereweather Tower.

Asia's Largest Food Street in Karachi

Master plan of this food court includes Baywatch Food Court, Art Lane, Festival Boulevard, Children Play Area, Grand Movie Theater and many other attractions. For pictures and details, see the following links:

Port Grand

Asia's Largest Food Street in Karachi

Modern food street to open in Karachi

Karachi Port Trust

What Alienates Top Performers

I just wanted to agree loudly with Ellie Behling for his comments on the following blog post by Steve DeMaio on harward business:

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/demaio/2009/08/how-to-alienate-a-top-performe.html#c053494

The idea is to reward top performers better than average performers and give more value to the achievements of top performers than seniority achieved through spending time at office.

Asia - World's fastest growing golf market

Yang Yong-eun, of South Korea has become the first man to win PGA Championship from Asia who overtook Tiger Woods to win the PGA Championship at Hazeltine. The Sunday's PGA Championship victory makes Asia more attractive to sponsorship of more major golf events.

‘This is a fantastic win not only for Yang but also for golf in Asia,’ said Asian Tour chief Kyi Hla Han.

While the impact on youngsters taking up the game may be limited to Yang's native country, rising Japanese talent Ryo Ishikawa said it would make a difference to how Asian players were perceived. ‘His victory has changed people's view of Asian golfers,’ the 17-year-old said.

‘I haven't suddenly thought I can win a major just because he did. But it will give us all added motivation to try to be in contention at the big tournaments.’ More...

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Retail Business at Beijing Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport has said it will soon allow interested businesses to bid for a slot at one of the airport's three terminals. Hundreds of well-known enterprises have already expressed an interest in bidding for floor space, especially in the airport's ultra-modern Terminal 3. The bidding will cover retail space in all three terminals, with a total area of 100,000 square meters.

Perhaps well known brands in Pakistan like ChenOne and Ideas should consider bidding for a retail space at the Beijing International Airport.