Archive for September, 2008

Free Medical Camp at Manav Parivar, Matar

September 27, 2008 · Filed under Charitable activity, Medical Camp, NGO, Service, Seva, Volunteer, Volunteer Management, Volunteering · Tagged , , , , ,

Good Evening friends,

Today is 4th Saturday of month. As you all aware with the fact that Shree Baldevdas Charitable Trust’s Manav Parivar organizes Free medical camp twice a month. Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of month they are organizing Free Medical Camp at Matar, Kheda, Gujarat.

 

Today a team of 20-30 volunteer already departed for matar from ahmedabad. Tomorrow they have to manage more than 9000 patients and have to provide free lunch to 18000+ people. A team of 20-30 volunteer is made of volunteer from different departments. All of them are aware what works they are suppose to do when they reach matar at Saturday morning. Another team of 20 volunteer is going to go around 10-00 pm late evening. I am going with that team to matar.  I had been told and I also seen when I visited matar medical camp before that patient comes from Saturday afternoon.

 

The last camp was on 2nd Sunday that’s 14th September, 2008. I still remember 13th September Saturday’s night. We depart from ahmedabad around 11-00 pm and it was heavy rain was raining. When we reach matar around 00-30 am on Sunday, more than 1200 patients were there at manav parivar’s camp site.

 

I am exited for tonight too as we are leaving around 10-00 pm. Let’s see how many patients are there when we reach over there and also total number of patients they will have tomorrow.

 

I am going to write on my visit to Free Medical Camp at Manav Parivar Matar in next post.

 

 

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Air Balloons as Advertising Tool

September 23, 2008 · Filed under Adertising Balloons, Marketing, Service, Volunteer, Volunteering · Tagged , , ,

We were talking marketing list in our last post. Today we talk on Advertising Balloon. Before we start our talk on advertising balloons, let’s understand what is hot air ballons?

Hot air ballooning is known as an innovative, exciting, extreme sport.  A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing hot air. Suspended beneath is the gondola or wicker basket (in certain, long distance or high altitude balloons, a capsule) which carries a source of heat capable of producing a sufficient temperature gradient between the air inside the envelope and the surrounding air mass to give enough lift to keep the balloon and its passengers aloft. Since the balloon moves with the wind, passengers feel absolutely no wind, except for brief periods during the flight when the balloon climbs or descends into air currents of different direction or speed.

 

Air Balloons are used for Advertising. Using a air balloon as marketing and communications campaign is an investment in growth, generating opportunities, positioning a brand and reaching thousands of potential clients. Advertising balloons is an incomparable marketing tool for forwarded thinking companies. Advertising balloons is a generic term which includes helium balloons and helium inflatable, cold-air balloons and inflatable and sealed-air balloons and inflatable. As a method of increasing brand awareness and targeting market segments, advertising balloons are a proven success story. Advertising balloons are unique part of the product marketing mix. Advertising blimps are a cost-effective means to convey product or brand message. Advertising blimps can be made custom by having the body one or more colors and the fins one or more different colors. Larger advertising blimps can also have hanging vertical banners attached to them. Advertising blimps can attract attention from miles away or a booth away.

 

Big Balloons work exceptionally well in either launching a new brand, or keeping an existing one visible – really visible. No other advertising support generates as much interest in the eyes of all audiences. Advertising balloons gain mass exposure for product marketing campaign. For new product launch advertising balloons are best marketing tools– when shapes speak louder than words there are no language barriers

 

Words people use when they see air balloons or advertising blimps:

 

“Amazing”

“Exciting”

“Huge”

“Wow”

“Unforgettable”

 

A successful advertising campaign brings many benefits to a brand, whether new or established when air balloon used for advertising,

1. Advertising using a air balloon communicates success and innovation.

2. Air Balloons are proven tool in the effort to maintain brand loyalty. Advertising reminds clients and former clients of brand, product and position. 

3. Air Balloons or Advertising blimps gives mass visibility, focusing attention on advertiser brand.

4. Advertising with balloons boosts morale. 

5. Air Balloons used for marketing campaigns stimulate conversation about a brand, among clients, potential clients and competing companies.

 

There are many more we can add to the above list of benefits of advertising campaign with air balloons.

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Talk on Mailing List

September 18, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized

 

Good Morning friends, I was sitting with my team of volunteers and pari ask me what is mailing list? I tell him a mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. Different types of mailing lists are available in the markets for example mortgage mailing list, mobile user mailing list, credit card user mailing list, mailing leads etc. Users can use such mailing list and send them materials. There are many companies in the market who provides quality mailing lists, marketing lists and direct marketing solutions to businesses.

Mailing list is having another important side and that’s call listwashing. Majority of people are not aware with these. Listwashing is the process through which individual entries in mailing lists are removed. People who not want to be a part of mailing list are being removed with this action. Majority of time mails receive using such mailing lists always have unsubscribed link in email. Complainants are removed via listwashing.

Email marketing is key part of online business. People sending online business newsletters or emails need to have such mailing marketing list with them. I like to say that email marketing is a paper free, so we can call it green too. Many of my volunteer friends were happy with what I explain them in minimum words.

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What is Volunteering?

September 12, 2008 · Filed under Charitable activity, NGO, Service, Seva, Society, Volunteer, Volunteer Management, Volunteering · Tagged , , , , ,

To understand volunteering, we need to understand volunteer word first. A volunteer is someone who works for a community or for the benefit of environment. Volunteer is someone who works for selfless activity. Activity can be any in physical form but his purpose to do that activity is selfless. He/She is doing that for someone other than him/her self. Volunteer choose to do his/her activity. The word comes from Latin, and can be translated as “will” (as in doing something out of ones own free will). Many serve through a non-profit organization – sometimes referred to as formal volunteering, but a significant number also serve less formally, either individually or as part of a group. A person helping a blind man to select from roman shades or cellular shades is also called volunteer. Any act done without self motive is called volunteering.

 

There is other opinion about volunteer. It says volunteer may or may not get paid.

A volunteer may or may not get paid or receive compensation for services rendered. Sometime in society, person ready to give his/her time or service and he/she be paid.

 

Volunteering comes in many forms: giving free education to illiterate people, helping government in times of natural calamity, cleaning wood blinds or faux wood blinds or vertical blinds in veteran  care house or orphan house, serving food at the local homeless shelter, providing computer technical support to a non-profit organization, acting in a leadership capacity on a charitable organization’s board of directors or coordinating the emergency response in the case of a disaster. Around the world volunteer centers exist to support the voluntary sector and make a difference in the communities that they serve.

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