Network Management

PacketTrapInc asked:

PacketTrap Perspective provides unparalleled visibility into network performance, fault management, and device availability across any size of network. The iGoogle like Dashboard is a “network management dashboard” with a summary display of key performance indicators (KPIs) like CPU load, network interface traffic, latency, packet loss and event logs, exposing troubled devices and areas of the network. With support for drag and drop, its easy to customize each dashboard by simply adding and …

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IpswitchWhatsUpGold asked:

We added a few new workspace reports to version 12.4 of WhatsUp Gold. This one, the Device Status Workspace Report, provides a snapshot of the health of a single device, including a list of all of the device groups the device belongs to.

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mark_narouz asked:


Which is better and which to choose ?
Currently I’m a PM in the electrical panel boards industry , and I think of switching to the networks field (Cisco) … any ideas ?
I’m a CCNA certified and worked for an ISP for 1 yr

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Jamie Liddell asked:


The International Association for Contract & Commercial Management is a non-profit foundation providing research and innovative learning techniques, and working with corporations, public and academic bodies to provide thought-leadership and understanding of ‘best practice’ contracting and relationship standards. SSON spoke with IACCM President and CEO Tim Cummins about how the Association is working with shared services and outsourcing organisations to establish best practice – and how old business models are simply unable to cater for today’s rapidly changing commercial requirements.

SSON: Tim, tell us a little about the work that IACCM is doing in the shared services space.

Tim Cummins: When I talk about shared services I’m really talking and thinking about the creation of shared services groups within an organisation, which is in a sense how do functions –especially some of the business support functions – interoperate into a more effective and more cohesive group. So in terms of our role, interestingly – and unusually for any association – we’ve already undertaken the amalgamation through our membership of three of those groups, being the commercial sales contracts organisation, the legal organisation, and the procurement/sourcing/supply chain organisation.

These are already well embraced within our umbrella, and of course a lot of our mission and motivation of that is to really try to help them to understand where their synergies are, from the point of view of their business contribution and of their skill-sets, and their procedures. And we’re really trying to get them to look far more holistically at how through collaboration and cooperation they can bring greater value to the organisation. In that itself I suppose we’ve got a fairly patent start point, and obviously within that we’ve been exploring a lot of ideas around what best-practice service-delivery models will look like. I was highlighting, for example, one such model – one to which my mind is one of the leading ones, being that at Procter & Gamble – you may have noticed quite extensively in my blog recently.

I think the broader point is also however that we understand that shared service activity doesn’t stop at the boundaries of our particular group; in that collaborative spirit, we as an association recognise that we really need to try to set an example to our members by our own focus on collaboration. So for example we’ve signed formal alliance agreements with the International Project Management Association (IPMA) because we clearly see project managers as another component of that overall shared services mix, so we want to work with them as a community to say “OK, what’s the cross-learning? How do we empower your people to be more effective? How do we in our area of expertise equip you and provide you with on-demand capability?” We have a similar relationship with the Institute of Business Development (IBD). For example at our last major conference we actually had six partner associations representing other different groups that would usually fit in within the overall shared service model.

SSON: Why do you think it would be appropriate for an SSO, or individuals within an SSO, to become involved with the IACCM? And would there be a certain level of maturity or of scope at which that would become appropriate?

TC: Certainly in terms of the leadership of many of the shared services groups as I’ve just outlined we represent some leading-edge thinking in how you can actually get groups that traditionally perhaps have not cooperated well, have not really seen themselves as contributing well to a common business process, to rethink a lot of that. Certainly our view of the future of organisational design is that it is likely to be driven much more by the alignment of business process than by the alignment of business functions. The stovepipe model doesn’t really work any longer, and I’ll expand on that for just a moment.

In the 20th-century business model we had the alignment of people within areas of specialism. And within a highly standardised, typically manufacturing process, where your goal was to deliver high volume and high quality, then having the rigour supplied by highly disciplined professionals and experts in a particular field was very much like the way that you would design a production line. So you saw everything as being something that passed through in a relatively unchanging process, where actually your issue was more about quality and consistency than about creativity or innovation.

That as you’ll appreciate has changed dramatically as we’ve moved to a networked world, with all the forces of competition, the forces of change, the forces of moving into new markets and having to handle them with far greater consistency – you can’t really allow any longer the levels of variation that the old country model used to create, yet at the same time you also need to be able to be creative around the differences that are really required. Businesses are having to become far more responsive yet at the same time, of course, the affordability of that old infrastructure has been proven not to be – affordable. So at the same time as organisations are facing all these new challenges, they’re having to rip their guts out by outsourcing large chunks of that activity. So we’ve now suddenly got these broken enterprise models where they’re still trying essentially to manage it through the old functional organisations.

That’s a lot of what our agenda is about really, how do you reengineer business process to manage a portfolio of trading relationships and how do you also coordinate internal resources – the retained resource – to actually ensure that the performance is not only sustained but differentiated from the competition.

SSON: It’s the internal bit obviously that’s of most interest to the shared services aspect of our network, so with what you’ve just said in mind, how do you go about establishing, for example, best practices in such a rapidly changing dynamic environment? And to what extent do you think best practice is actually being hit at all?

TC: Good question. Taking the first bit: I think the key to this of course is to understand that that same power of network technology that is causing such disruption is also something that can cause great enablement. And the organisations that are rising to the top are those that understand the capabilities – the unique capabilities – that network technologies have now produced. So to give an example, at our association we have abandoned old models of things like country-based chapters and moved instead to global communities of interest. We know that it’s going to be more relevant for somebody to be able to talk to a fellow expert in risk management, or performance management, or in service-level agreements – obviously being connected into a global network of experts in that field is going to be a lot more relevant than turning up at a local chapter meeting. So we need to adjust and adapt. And I think that’s proving very very tough for many individuals.

Many of our us are from an older generation: we’re not brought up in that world, we were brought up in a world where things were much more about personal connectivity. There are some big shifts in behaviour. At the moment we see many of our community as being victims of technology rather than beneficiaries of technology.

So who has become leading-edge? Well, I go back to companies like Procter & Gamble which clearly understood the dynamic impact that network technologies could have on their abilities to cooperate, share information, build knowledge, and therefore drive change and innovation rather than finish up spending all their time fighting internal contention, or handling crises that occur because somebody over-committed, or under-committed, or failed to meet a deadline, or whatever.

So how can you use technology to develop better early-warning systems, how can you use technology to accumulate knowledge which becomes a driver and a force for change and update so you’re actually staying ahead of the curve, rather than behind it? That’s clearly a message that a number of top corporations have understood – at people like IBM you’ll hear that sort of conversation all the time. I think there are many in the UK who’ve probably understood it at board-level but are probably struggling with what that means from an implementation point of view.

SSON: It’s almost as if the logical consequence of what you’re saying is that geography per se is getting less and less relevant, and individual national and regional idiosyncrasies are also getting less relevant – the way you’ve moved to a more global sphere-of-relevance model, rather than locality, is an example. Do you think we’re looking at a true homogenisation of business or do you think there will always be the need to cater for local differences? I’m thinking in particular of China, and the way that it’s assumed that in order to do business in China you need to cater for Chinese customs, guanxi etc – that doesn’t seem to be something that’s going to be easily overcome through any power of networking or communicative advances.

TC: I think that’s a very interesting question and it’s one of course where the answer is very mixed. The forces of globalisation and network technology on the one hand are clearly seen by many of those who are currently in power as a very real threat. And so there may be controls based on limited access to the internet through to, obviously, other forms of control. When you look at governmental actions in response to the forces of globalisation, even those who are supposedly enlightened and are going to benefit from it are in fact instituting a lot of fairly restrictive practices.

We’ve seen for example a dramatic increase in the complexity of export-import regulations, in direct response really to these forces of international trade and the wish of governments to try to protect particular industries or markets; the US – supposedly the bastion of free trade – is one of the worst. So it isn’t an unblemished field where everybody’s moving forwards on a gradual mission. In fact I’ve written quite a lot on the blog on this and we’ve had very active debate in our board about this: the question of “was globalisation inevitable?”.

And it’s very interesting because there’s a study on this we came across, a fairly large research study of that question among CEOs – which is what sparked our own debate. I think 89 per cent of CEOs said that yes, globalisation was inevitable – and I presume the other 11 per cent said “no” rather than “don’t know”! But that’s a pretty damning statistic if that’s truly what CEOs believed, in the way that they expressed it; it certainly implies that they’re not particularly proficient risk managers. Because there are many, many things that could really derail globalisation. There are very real cultural issues; there are clearly threats – you know, what is global terrorism and why and how is it being driven? There are many communities out there that feel very threatened by all this and many of the people who are currently in power – including many of our own politicians – obviously on one level embrace it where it’s bringing benefits to their countries but then fight it where it isn’t. So I think it’s far from a foregone conclusion.

On another point, we at this very moment are doing a very interesting piece of research on exactly the point you were just raising – although actually we’re doing it more generically around Asia-Pacific; we went out with a question to our Asia-Pacific members earlier this week on exactly this: how much of an effect is globalisation having on your local approaches to business relationships, trading relationships etc etc. To date we’ve had somewhere in excess of 100 replies. From those I’ve read so far the message is very loud and clear that it is having an effect, a substantial impact; that certainly the principles of contracting and the involvement of the legal elements of the contracting process has been driven up very substantially towards what we would typically think of as the western model.

So to your point about China, the Chinese input suggests that in fact there is a very real change coming round more to the model that we would be familiar with. Having said that, will there be some counterbalancing influences? I think there will be some; certainly I think the traditional strong transactional focus of many western buyers – particularly procurement organisations – is getting shifted. I think people are realising that actually relationships do have importance, and that perhaps at the global level they have even more importance than they did nationally.

We used to have a common set of values and principles that we could broadly presume, so if I was doing trade with someone in the UK I knew they were going to care about their local reputation, I knew that when I spoke to them they would understand what I was saying – so we didn’t have to put the same disciplines into communication and management of the relationship which are absolutely critical to success in the global market. So one of the things that we’re all learning from the east, in a way, is some of the importance of taking a bit more time, being a bit more precise, having more tolerance of building some degree of relationship and concern for each other that goes beyond just “OK, I’ve got a deal for you: what’s your price?”

SSON: Well, that sounds nice… But is that genuinely a shift you’re noticing? Particularly in the face of the current slowdown, is there enough time for time, as it were; is there enough space for that kind of civility?

TC: Again, some very interesting components to the answer to that. One is of course that again because of technologies and other things we can be increasingly sophisticated in our relationship segmentations. Is this a one-size-fits-all? Of course it isn’t. There are some transactions that are transactions, and there are some relationships that are relationships, and if you get the two confused you’re going to mess up.

Our research shows that cycle-times for more complex relationships have in any case been increasing, not decreasing; that the complexity – and I would put that in part down to some of these shared services issues – the inefficiencies of organisations, their inability to coordinate across the various stakeholders (particularly as many of those stakeholders are now outsource providers) is actually debilitating business from making decisions quickly. Again this is a real driver for a fundamental change in the way they organise – and we’ve seen dramatic variation in the cycle-time between best-practice organisations as they look at for example entering into complex relationships, outsource deals etc – tremendous variations in the cycle-times depending on whether they’ve really understood these dynamics or not.

To return to your question, I would say that yes, there is absolutely evidence of it occurring. We’re dealing with a number of major corporations at the moment and one of the key issues for them at the moment – buy-side and sell-side – is “how do I become easier to do business with?” We’re preparing an article right now on this, on the ease of doing business. “How do I make myself a customer of choice?” “How do I make myself a supplier of choice?” That’s one of the commonest questions I’m getting right now. And that clearly indicates to me that yes, there is executive management concern about this: does it flow down? Do they have definitive answers? Well, that’s where IACCM works, and one of the biggest research projects we’re doing at the moment through a series of interviews with best-practice organisations is an understanding of what are the components that make up best practice post-award contract and relationship management.



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ERIK GIFFORD asked:


Many people relish the prospect of having an abundance of free time. By this we mean not having to commute to work every day and enduring an eight hour day at work and coming home just to relax. Perhaps a home business is the answer? In spite of what many people would like to think, running a home business is not easy and, on top of all this, many of the home businesses which we read about in our inboxes are not worth the paper which they are written on.

High Failure Rate In Work From Home Businesses

The failure rate in the MLM industry is high- ninety per cent of recruits will not manage it. Also, the failure rate in any type of home business is just as high. Poor time management is the main reason for this. A network marketing internet business requires the same dedication as a traditional business. This type of dedication requires good time management.

A work from home business, which includes network marketing and MLM, is an excellent of spending more time with your family and working when you want to. However, you might come to the conclusion that there is no point in it when you are not making any money.You will come to the conclusion that you are better off working in a paid job or an additional job. By doing this, you will at least get a consistent income.

If you want to continue with your home business, you will have to continue to acquire a good time management strategy.

How To Apply A Good Time Management Plan

A good time management plan is an absolute requirement for any network marketing business. Here is some advice about acquiring good time management:

1. Set a time schedule for yourself. This is important when you are just starting in a home business and especially in network marketing. You can do this in any way you want to whether it 9 to 5, 8 to 12 or 10 to 3

2. Let nothing interrupt you during these hours of the day. This time schedule is responsible for the productivity of your business.

3. Avoid activities such as checking emails, internet surfing and watching television during these working hours. Preferably, you should also avoid telephone conversations during these hours unless they are business related.

4. The schedule should be set for each day. Also, a set of tasks have to be listed. However, you should avoid listing the easiest tasks first as this strategy will ruin your productivity and will also give you a false sense of accomplishment.

5. Hire a mentor who you can report to on a daily basis and who can check the progress in your business and give you encouragement. You will need to respect and fear this person and will not want to let him or her down. This is a very powerful way of building your internet network marketing business.



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ngfhorn asked:


I will have a Bachelors in Business Management in a couple of weeks. After 2 years of being a stay at home mom, occasionally performing as a musician, I have no idea where to begin in Business Management. I have a ton of experience working with others as a leader and team member but because it is in the music industry, employers do not see my experience as justified. I am a hard worker who gives 110% on the job if I can be given an unbiased consideration. I forgot to mention- I am a Marine wife which means it is likely that I will move within 3-4 years in every location. I have been a private teacher for over 14 years but to network takes at least a year in any given area. I have looked into working from home for LEGITIMATE businesses in order to maintain a career- benefits are not an issue. Just a career! Any suggestions?? Thanks!

open source network management

VeggieFootballQueen asked:


Well you aint seen nothing yet.

In our lifetime buying votes with others’ (taxpayer) money has been the monthly habit of our royal Congress. At least a third of all wage earners now pay nothing to the federal government so they have no stake in many things. We are on the edge of true socialism under the deceptive guise of “fairness” by a charming Chicago radical surrounded by angry socialists. He has no real achievement resume or management experience. He has, through white liberal guilt and repeated distortions of reality, actually conned millions into believing he understands capitalism, understands foreign dangers and understands the basic principles of America. He does not.

This sock puppet simply repeats what he is told by his sleazy socialist handlers, right or wrong. The liberal network press changes his diapers. Journalism died after he was nominated. It may never recover credibility. It’s no wonder the thugs of other countries are smiling, licking their chops and pulling for this clueless empty suit.

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Naman Jain asked:


Once you are into affiliate marketing, you will realize the difficulty one might face in managing the affiliate network program. In order to make it simple for affiliates to manage their networking unit, a new web application called the Affiliate Network Application has been introduced. The application is makes managing affiliate programs much more easy now.

Amongst the different features that the application supports some of the most interesting features of the software is that is helps the affiliate to generate critical reports. These reports primarily measure the sales and campaign performance accordingly. Apart from this, the Affiliate network Application also helps in generating a complete and comprehensive track back report of all the merchant and affiliate interaction and transaction that takes place on the network.

The Affiliate network application provides precision in planning programs and processes which in return are beneficial to the affiliates and the merchants. The application also measures the effectiveness of the marketing campaigns that the affiliate networks are conducting along with tracking the complete conversation that is done with the clients and customers.

The unique features of the new affiliate network application also include generating leads and sales creation. It also keeps a check on the fraud or duplicate leads that could be running or even competitor affiliate leads that could be a threat to the program.

Amongst other features of the network application, transmission of sales lead to the field for immediate response is an important aspect of its duties as it enables fast and effective functioning of the affiliate program and results in better responses.

Once into affiliate programs, it is important to realize that territory assignment is an important feature. Affiliate network application helps assign territory according to country, zip and product code so that it is easy to scan and track the performance of each one of them.

These applications are mainly being used by affiliate network websites that are working Online to connect merchants with affiliates.



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davo asked:


I just re-installed windows on my toshiba satellite that i’ve had for a few years (virus problem), and now i get disconnected from the wireless internet whenever i switch to battery power. there are no problems on AC power, and it was working fine before the re-install. i’ve checked the driver and made sure that it doesnt get turned off to save power under the power management tab of the intel pro/wireless network driver window. any ideas?

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Eric Mortensen asked:


Greetings Everyone,

This is the most important article I have published since I first entered the nework marketing industry 24 years ago.

 

There is a very important aspect of the TROY MANAGEMENT LTD concept that I want to make perfectly clear, right in the beginning, before I get into the 4 important P´s: Products, Performance, Payplan, and the rest:

- Your organization is build for you …

- You don´t need to recruit … (only 2 people you need to introduce to TROY and there is no time and no flushing of income).

- Together with the best netwokers in the world TROY has developed a “recruitment-machine” that nobody else on the planet can offer …

TROY Partners are required to personally recruit only TWO new Partners in order to qualify for all twelve income streams (11 of which pay weekly, the 12th pays quarterly.) FOR LIFE! Yes, just recruit two partners, and your recruiting is done, unless you want to earn the huge rewards for recruiting. TROY MANAGEMENT is very generous in thanking those that like to recruit!

 

Knowing that networkers are fed up with programs that require constant recruiting to continue to earn, or to earn at all, TROY management decided to permanently qualify Partners with just two referrals!

TROY – an innovative new concept, unlike anything out there. I’m sure you’ll see that for yourself as you read through this site. This is a serious opportunity, so please read the entire letter. It is a long letter. I´m sure you won´t regret.

Normally in networking, approx. 3% of the members of a program would earn the huge incomes promised in the ads for the program, while some earned a little and the bulk of the members didn’t earn anything, in fact paying in each month for the priveledge of trying to qualify again. These members lose out because they are unable to recruit more than two, the product sales slow way down, and the program dies. I’ve see this too many times, I’m sure you’ve seen it, experienced it, or know someone that has.

 

TROY is an innovative new binary matrix concept, which will allow everyone to earn. The SYSTEM will fill both legs of a Partners’ structure with spillover. There won’t be any Balance issues, with one leg growing way out of proportion from the other, coz the SYSTEM and all the top networker on board fills it, while you struggle to fill the other. No holes in your structure, no gaps in your commissions, a nice healthy paycheck each week, happy Partners!

 

Here are TROY´s products, with a brief explanation:

 

TROYbid – A low-bid, reverse auction, where the lowest unique bid wins! You will be able to bid on dream cars such as Lamborghini’s, Ferrari’s, & Porsche’s, electronics such as home cinema’s, flatscreen tv’s, the best laptops, & some very exciting surprises that the Company will announce from time to time. Something that you have never seen before.

I’m sure you are aware that online auctions are more popular then ever, right now, all across the globe, in all economic classes. One British auction company, that operates only in the U.K., grew an amazing 23.3% last year alone! Imagine what a world-wide auction company as TROY can do!

TROY SpamFree – TROY Management has worked hard and spent a great deal of money to acquire a world-wide patent on their excellent Anti-Spam Software. Yes there are other similar software programs available – this is SPECIAL! I haven’t tested the the product anti-spam product yet because it is not available yet, so I can’t offer an honest evaluation of this product – I’ll leave that to those who do that sort of thing for a living. I can, however reveal that our product is a great marketing tool in two ways – one, you can give it away for free! Everyone likes to get something for nothing! This benefits TROY partners because ads for all our products are circulated with the software, causing people to see it, make purchases, or become Partners themselves, or both. There is great potential for both, & their attention is focused on the TROY concept! Two, you can sell it for……PROFIT! Plus, there’s a compensation plan through TROY for the sale of this product, as well as all the others we have!

TROY SMS – Every networker knows the object is not to chase the customers, rather to have them run to you. This is the difficulty in networking, especially with a new concept, or program. Many people choose to work their family & friends, which is not a good thing! From your very sophisticated TROY-back office, you will be able to send SMS messages to their contact lists, inviting them to participate in offers they can’t refuse. For example- you send an sms offering them a chance to “win” a Ferrari if they visit TROYbid, register, & place bids for free (to begin with). Each SMS offers them FREE BIDS. Think this will bring’em to the auction portal?

This SMS System is exclusive to TROY. It is automatic, & the messages are already written. All you need to do is send them! This system will also send alerts to your cellphone, if you request it, to notify you that an auction is almost over, or that you have won the bid! TROY will generously be giving you many SMS messages (for free) to send out, to help get you off to a flying start! Use them liberally!

Troy Card Services – Partners receive a VISA CARD, onto which they can load their commissions each week. You will use the card as you would with any other credit- or debit card to pay bills, buy services and products online and in shops, buy dinners, rent cars, pay for hotels or withdraw cash.

Troy has specialty cards as well to serve the needs of the small family, as well as the large volume businesses.

The first 511 Partners in TROY will get a very special VISA CARD and become members of TROY V.I.P. CLUB with many diffrent benefits.

 

TROY Unit Market- This is a fantastic product! Only Partners of TROY can use it to buy & sell Units. During all these years I have been in our industry this is one of the most exiting, lucrative, fair and fun products.

 

Performance – TROY Investments was founded by 8 exceptional Scandinavian networkers that are highly successful, having created programs that earned them as much as 10-20 million dollars each over the past few years. They created several millionaires and a few multi-millionaires with those companies, too! They aslo have had successful traditional businesses, prior to getting into online projects. These 8 men are very experienced and well-known networkers, having earned their credibility by delivering on their promises. They are modern-thinkers, with a finger on the pulse of what is happening in networking today. They are also fantastic listeners, who aren’t afraid to listen to the headhunters they hire to bring in new ideas, as well as new members. They listen to the wants and needs of the members, finding ways to provide them those things. They understand the importance of SUPPORT, how important it is to MOTIVATE, both the members, and the customers, and have competitions planned that will do just that! They also know the importance of quality websites, cutting edge back office, info centre where you can download all kind of presentations in many languages and a “simple-to-use”-system for Partners to use to grow and track their business and earnings in real time, and to be able to collect those earnings quickly, easily, each week.

I can reveal that I have seen a demonstration of the back office. “It was breathtaking! It’s nice & clean, simple to use, with a lot of functions. Everything in real time – commissions promptly displayed, great statistics, the innovative SMS system, everything! The transfer of commissions to your card each week can´t can´t be more simple.”

PayPlan- There are 12 income sources, paid 20 levels deep, with compression.

*The valuta TROY trade via is the strong EURO. Like the dollar is now it means that people who are paid in dollars – not only Americans get 50% more in commission – because the strong EURO´s are converted to DOLLARS.

PayPlan – Commission Plan:

 

1. 5 EUR – 7.60 USD (Standard), 10 Euros / 15.20 (Pro), each member placed in your structure.

2. 5 EUR – 7.60 USD per upgrade, Standard to Pro.

3. 40 EUR – 60 USD Fast Start Bonus (Standard) for your recruits.

4. 80 EUR – 160 USD Fast Start Bonus (Pro) for your recruits.

5. 40 EUR – 60 USD Fast Start Bonus upgrade from Standard to Pro.

6. TROY License Bonus- 0.25 EUR – 0.38 USD – per Partner placed in your structure 20 levels

deep with compression.

7. TROY Low Bid Bonus – 4% of your Partners – 0.4% of all others – 20 levels deep with compression.

8. TROY Card Service paid 20 levels deep with compression.

9. TROY Stock Dividends – paid Quarterly. Based on the number of shares you own.

10. TROY SpamFreeMail paid 20 levels deep with compression.

11. Commissions on two products soon to be released!

12. TROY Stock POOL- Qualify and earn extra residual income for life.

Standard Investment Package 560 $ / 350 ¬ includes:

You become Part Owner of TROY MANAGEMENT LTD.

1. Cutting Edge Backoffice.

2. 72 USD (50 Euro) to purchase TROY-products you choose i.e. units/shares

3. Membership in Stock Exchange- buy/sell shares.

4. 200 SMS vouchers. (Each containing 5 bids. Each sms voucher has the value 5 EUR (7.60 $)

5. 6 weeks paid license fees. (Active Partners pay 7 EUR / 10 USD per week.)

Eric Mortensen Bio: http://eric-mortensen.com

Eric Mortensen Video Bio: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EUf_e9UNYtg

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