Website design is the most important part of the business to give it a kick start. Sometimes what happens is, that we usually skip the wireframing stage and roll right into what the site is going to look like, the design. Even if clients do not need to see a wireframe, I think it’s still important to create one internally so that designers and developers are all on the same page.
This kind of thinking stemmed from the notion that the client would not understand what wireframes are and that jumping into the design would get us one step closer to launch. This suggestion is a bad one.
Good Design is Good Business.
By this notion, one could say that wireframing is a crucial part of the business. For those looking to build a website of any size or shape, wireframes are the foundation on which to begin building. So, the question is what is a wireframe? Why wireframes are important in business design?
What is a Wireframe?
What is a Wireframe? Wireframe is like a skeleton of the page.
If we say in short words then a wireframe is like a skeleton of the page. Basically, it is like a pen-and-paper design that shows the whole interface with the spacing of elements on the page, how content is prioritized, what functionalities are available, and how users will interact with the site. Wireframing usually comes after the site architecture has been determined by a site map or flow chart of the web-site’s pages and before the creative design phase
Why this is important? Because no matter how rough it can go, but it plays a vital role in connecting information architecture to the visual aspects of the design by showing pathways between the various pages.
Here is an example of what a wireframe looks like:
What excatly a wireframe looks like?
Why Wireframes Are Needed in Web Design Businesses?
1. Display Site Architecture
Wireframes turn the abstract nature of a flow chart into something real and tangible without distractions. Earlier sitemap was used which can be a bit abstract when the information and design are too large. Wireframing ensures that all parties are on the same page. Wireframes allow web design teams – from UX to copywriting – to start considering visitor purposes. The architecture of the site is brought to the forefront in a wireframe.
2. Prioritize Content
Wireframes are a great way to prioritize content by helping reveal space constraints and designing the hierarchy of elements on the page. Having the opportunity early on to visualize the hierarchy of your pages and begin visually displaying the space constraints will save you a lot of time later when you begin stylizing the pages and filling them with content.
Great Design elimintaes all other unnecessary details.
3. Get To Know Your Client Better
Wireframing is a great way to get your clients to focus on it. You will start seeing patterns in behaviors and motivations the more time you spend with your client. Over time, what you gain from their feedback will impact how best to work with them in the future and how to make your time with the most productive. The possibility for clients to get distracted from thinking about the functionality and structure of the design will be something you will find greatly rewarding.
Wireframe Basic | the easy way to get started
4. Scalability And Flexibility of Wireframes
Now for someone, who purchases a content managed website, this is a kind of important one. A wireframe will immediately identify how well your site will handle content growth. Scalability and flexibility matter. Wireframes will identify these important areas of content growth. Websites need to remain effective through multiple business changes over the course of at least two years, which is the average lifespan of a website. The site needs to be scalable, flexible, and easy to update – without impacting the overall design.
5. Time-Saver
It’s just what opposite of what one might think, wireframing saves time in a multitude of ways:
Your designs are more calculated.
Your development team understands what they are building.
Content creation becomes much clearer.
You avoid hacks later on in the process.
Everyone from the web team, the agency and client team are all on the same page about what the website is supposed to do and how it is supposed to function.
At the end of the day, pen, paper, or even markers can make excellent wireframing tools. Sketching and drawing out wireframes on paper is a great way to keep the ideas flowing, to quickly illustrate those ideas to colleagues, and to get things straight in your own head.
Basic wireframing tools
What To Avoid While Making A Wireframe?
Keep Your colors to grey, white or black.
Use a generic font.
Avoid High stylized graphics and images
Avoid too much detail.
Wireframing every single page should be avoided.
After all this, it might surprise you to discover that we usually don’t produce wireframes at Orbit. We actually create what we call layouts – a more robust version of a wireframe. Layouts go beyond the traditional wireframe to include draft copy and a semblance of container structure.
Wireframing is a quick and effective way to identify usability issues early on in your design process. If you are a web designer, then for sure you are familiar with wireframing and if you are a user experience (UX) designer you probably spend a large percentage of your time creating wireframes either by hand with paper and pencil or using a digital tool.
Not many people realize they have completely transformed their lives as they grow, leaving behind the happiness of pursuing their passion. The competitive and fast-paced life leaves limited time to perform chores of routine life and spare no time and resources for your passion which was once your key task of the day. This is a common problem for most people in today’s world.
While many try to manage their time to reconnect with the long-lost passion, they don’t get motivated due to limited knowledge and failure to connect with people with a similar passion. But this is where you need a platform like MeVero which can help you discover the real you.
MeVero enables an user to effectively pursue his/her passion. It offers a host of Services, Applications & Tools which the user can use to pursue the area of passion.
MeVero is the first global digital platform to offer Social + Knowledge + Services for the pursuit of passion. The platform has been completely built out of Kolkata, India. MeVero is probably the first Social media platform to be built from India. It connects its users to people of similar passion, so that strangers across the world can discuss, collaborate, create projects, and help each other pursue their passion. Following the belief, ‘happiness follows when you do what you truly love‘, the founders conceptualized MeVero – a Happiness Tech Platform.
MeVero is India’s first AI-powered platform of applications and tools for the effective pursuit of happiness. It enables people to pursue their life purpose(s) whereby they can learn, create, network, collaborate and join constructive communities based on common goals, undertake and showcase projects and finally monetize their skills. To define it better, MeVero is:
Socially Enabled Pursuit of Passion – connect people of similar passion around the world,
Personalized Knowledge – intelligent curation and personalization of knowledge around the area of passion,
Aggregation of Services for Pursuit of Passion – various tools & services for supporting the efficient pursuit of any passion.
MeVero – Product/Services
Understanding the need of millennials, MeVero offers the following services:
Life Navigators: Certified Life Coaches on the platform whom you can consult for understanding how to effectively pursue your passion. The first of its kind in the world.
Creation Tools: Online creation tools through which you can use to create and edit video, audio, image, photos, documents, spreadsheets, presentations.
Courses: A host of courses and programs in your passion offered in association with credible global e-learning platforms.
Learning Gallery: A pool of books, case studies, audio dramas, audiobooks, motion comics all devoted to help you understand what barriers you are facing and find inspiration from people who had broken these barriers and pursued their passion successfully.
They also offers content from specific Web resources for the content types, such as:
All are curated intelligently and personalized around a user’s area of passion.
As per an estimate, globally there are 220 million English speaking people on the Internet, who are unable to follow their passion effectively leading to disgruntlement and confusion. MeVero promises a 15 Minute of Happiness in the daily life of millennials, by personalizing their journey in every step of following their passion.
Founders of MeVero and team
Founders of MeVero are Aritra Sarkar, Dipankar Ganguly, and Kaushik Banerjee.
Founders of MeVero
Kaushik Banerjee – Kaushik is the Co-founder and CEO of MeVero Inc. and an alumnus of Jadavpur University and IIM Lucknow. He spent 26 years in Marketing, Sales, Strategy and Profit Centre operations spanning across FMCG, Durables, Fashion, Telecom & Media. Kaushik was the Vice President & SBU Head of Anandabazar Patrika Group from April 2007 to September 2012. There he built the Digital Business from scratch and generated a revenue of USD 1 million in the first full year of operation.
Aritra Sarkar – Aritra is the Co-founder of MeVero Inc who spent more than ten years working in the media in both the US and India—where he handled corporate strategy, business development, and integrated marketing for two multi-media conglomerates.
Dipankar Ganguly – Co-Founder & CTO, Dipankar has over 25 years of global IT experience having served in different technology leadership roles at companies such as IBM, iGate, Tata Unisys, etc.
Both, Co-founders of MeVero, Kaushik and Aritra, had a long run in the Corporate world before commencing MeVero. Both were disillusioned with the pandemic of employee dissatisfaction rampant across all companies. They realized the potential and need for a global community of people pursuing their passion that will connect its users to people of similar passion, so that strangers across the world can discuss, collaborate, create projects and help each other pursue their individual passion.
Aritra set up his first tech venture, Wedoria Technologies in 2012, with a mission to help every human being find their purpose in life. In 2018, along with Kaushik, he started his second entrepreneurial venture, MeVero, to focus his efforts on enabling the pursuit of passions.
MeVero – Name, Tagline, and Logo
MeVero logo
MeVero’s tagline is “Find & Follow Your Passion in Life. Set Goals”.
MeVero – Business Model and Revenue Model
The business model of MeVero consists of:
Online Advertisement – Native Ads in the App via Facebook Audience Network to generate revenue through Ad impressions.
Cloud storage subscription – 500 MB Free for lifetime and plans starting $1/month after that.
Tool package subscription – Creative tool packages like Rich Text Editor, Photo Editor, Video Editor, etc. starting $1.5/month.
Commission on Life Navigation session booking – 25% commission on session booking amount (minimum $10/hour can be set as session fees by Life Coaches on MeVero).
Premium subscription – Users receive a completely Ad-Free Experience and a Daily Personalized Passion Digest Newsletter curated and delivered to their inbox, starting $1/month.
It is the first platform which tries to address the entire problem, so it has no competitors currently.
MeVero – Growth
MeVero launched its beta version product in October 2018 and today it has 100K+ Registered Users across 221 countries. The platform has recorded 200K+ App Downloads, 5K+ Content Downloads, 90K+ Veda Chats, 1K+ Firesides Created and 10K+ Goals Set. The company has lately launched MeVero 2.0 with enhanced features and a user-friendly website.
MeVero – Future Plans
Currently, MeVero Inc. is looking to raise capital to fund its technical development and user acquisition, and scale to 5 million users by June 2021.
Working-class people have experienced the biggest hit due to the Pandemic. People are getting fired from their jobs, getting under-payed, and overworked. But there are also cases of hikes in salaries and hiring of employees across the globe.
With the unprecedented situation that the world is facing, arising out of COVID-19 Pandemic, companies across the world have re-evaluated their HR practices, and while 50% organizations across industries are keeping the salary hike budgets unchanged, 36% have opted for a decline, according to a survey.
In India’s COVID-19, HR Survey Report, KPMG said around 70% of the organizations across levels have reported absolute no change in the planned impact on fixed pay at the non-management and junior management levels.
According to a survey that polled 315 organizations across 20 key industry sectors noted that 90% of the organizations have at least one initiative around the well-being of employees whereas 21% are quite proactive and have 5 or more initiatives to support employees well-being.
While 50% organizations across industries are keeping their salary increment budgets unchanged, around 36% organizations have opted for decreasing the salary increment budgets. On the contrary, most organizations and profiles in IT/ITES, life sciences/pharma and retail sector have refrained from any downwards trend in the overall promotion cycle, the survey noted.
To sustain this worldwide economic imbalance, a few organizations are implementing hiring freezes and wage freezes, while others are introducing remote working alternatives, enhancing employee engagement initiatives, and additional financial assistance. For those who were already in Medical services have their merits of service, lucrative ways delivery during this pandemic.
Indian Salary Study in 2020
Companies that are offering hikes in salaries
Even as numerous start-ups or huge organizations continue to cut off employees’ salaries, others in segments like education, real estate, and logistics have seen business growing, fuelled by a surge in demand for their products during the pandemic and are hiring across roles. For some, even salary hikes and promotions are on the cards. There have been many IT firms, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), to one of the biggest multinationals present in India, Coca Cola, who have gone against the situation.
Asian Paints decided to give its employees a price hike in the face of an ongoing economic crisis amid lockdown. Asian Paints raised the hope and boosting staffs’ morale amid the pandemic gloom.
Apart from going ahead with its annual salary increments, the company also transferred Rs 40 crore into the accounts of its contractors. Expanding its product range into sanitizers in lieu of the basic hygiene being encouraged as a part of the precautionary measures taken to combating COVID-19, the paintmaker now has a greater share of the customer wallet.
ICICI Bank
The private sector bank has decided to reward over 80% of its frontline employees with a salary hike of up to 8%. This hike has been given to the employees in appreciation of the services rendered by them during the pandemic.
These increments bring good news to the Bank’s staff at a time when most other organizations are being either forced to hold back salary hikes, impose salary cuts and even resort to layoffs as part of a cost-cutting measure.
The Board of Directors of ICICI Bank is reportedly thinking of raising funds through equity shares or equity-linked securities. The Bank has asked its employees to join back at their base locations and resume work as soon as possible.
Coca Cola
Coca Cola, that favourite punching-bag for everyone targeting the evils of capitalism, showed a humane face when it announced a salary hike.
Coke’s Indian wing, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, with 15 bottling plants across the country, gave all its 7,000 employees a 7 to 8 % salary hike. The company also made it clear that there would be no lay-off or pay cuts because of sales disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.
Brillio, a tech firm, is also optimistic in planning to add 240 new jobs to its Indian center, in addition to the 1,800 staff it already has. The reason is they have seen a 10% increase in productivity and 20% in people’s engagement since the lockdown. Hence they are moving at a faster pace to ramp up their teams.
NoBroker
NoBroker has been growing during the last one and half months despite the challenging market situations and even managed to raise $30 million in April. The number of inquiries has been increasing. A lot of people are looking to upgrade themselves to a bigger house. A majority of the fresh hiring will be for those from a technology background to support the growth as they shift to online tech.
The organizations are offering salaries at par to the employees. Nobroker.com is known as to be one of the best paymasters and the salary at entry level starts from ₹6 LPA and depending on experience can go up to ₹40-50 lakh, especially for tech skillsets.
Capgemini
Capgemini French IT firm Capgemini has announced a salary hike for 70% of its employees in India in April. It will continue to hire as per the strategy and client/Job requirements. Employees who have joined the company during the lockdown are even completing their onboarding formalities online.
BharatPe
BharatPe Digital fintech startup has also decided to give its employees a hike in their pay. BharatPe has made its annual hikes as per the original schedule. The top performers scoring 3.8/5 or higher have all been given 20% plus increment in the appraisals. Commenting about this time, CEO and Co-founder Ashneer Grover was quoted,
“We have used this unprecedented time to boost the technology and product and will be aggressively acquiring merchants. We tend to lend $100 million to small businesses from here till the end of the year.”
Hike
Hike shared its plans to continue hiring remotely as the ecosystem continues to navigate through a lockdown period. The company plans to hire for over 20 open positions across roles in product, design, marketing, AI & ML, engineering, partner functions and user research.
Hike will be taking up more people onboard as a part of its ZeroTo2 program, which is focused on onboarding young candidates from colleges.
Conclusion
There are a number of factors why an Organization tries to cut the company’s cost. COVID-19 has shown the exact picture of which businesses are in profit and making better even in this difficult time. Hikes in salaries have a direct impact on the employee’s confidence and productivity.
Managing a local business is not an easy task to do and then to attract gain new customers is like competing with larger companies. Competition with larger companies makes it almost impossible to reach the audience you want unless you invest in Digital Marketing. Strategies like Content Marketing allow companies of all sizes to compete for the same organic audience.
For this, it is important to know that what is Local SEO? With a small investment, you can use the reach of search engines, such as Google, to increase traffic to your internet channels. To achieve this goal, of course, you need to master the concept of Local SEO. But how local SEO can help you gain new customers?
Local SEO is one of the most effective ways to reach customers online and increase traffic to both your website and physical location.
What Is Local SEO?
In an era of the digital world, it has put us more in a convenient position to make a purchase, visit a new location, or hire someone. Since the internet is a source of all the information, and users look for information in search engines. Big data companies have been trying to improve the user experience to feature the most relevant results and attract customers.
What is Local SEO?
And that’s where Local SEO comes in. so, when you search “a coffee shop near me” then that near me is going to direct you to local businesses. Many users of Google and other search engines have the habit of using such tools to find local businesses. All it takes is adding something like “near me” to the search, and the results will bring together the main business options within a given range of miles.
Searches that include location activate a so-called local search algorithm, which changes the way results are displayed. Thus, in addition to standard criteria such as authority and relevance, the distance from the business to the customer’s location also makes a difference in the filtering of results.
It’s nothing new that the use of tablets and smartphones for digital experiences increases every day. These devices tend to track the user’s location in real-time. In fact, they are most important in the context of Local SEO. For instance, Google has access to your location for 24*7, it’ll definitely indicate the nearest businesses to them.
However, in order for your company to appear as a suggestion on the Internet, you must be effective in providing the algorithm with information about its address and service regions, as well as detailing what kind of service it offers.
The top tip for you to improve your Local SEO results is to use Google My Business.
Local SEO Process
Technical SEO
On-Site Optimization
Off-Site Optimization
Website Speed
Title Tags
Links
Coding
Meta Description
Content
CSS
Head Tags
Google My Business
JavaScript
Content Strategy
PR
Internal Linking
Page Hierarchy
Social Media
Mobile Friendliness
Keywords
Reviews
URL Structure
Image Optimization
Schema
Local SEO in 2020 | How To Rank #1
How Local SEO Help Achieve Your Goals Of New Customers?
1. Keep Your Information Up-To-Date
Outdated information about your products and hours of service can result in the loss of good opportunities. So be committed to constantly updating your channels and ensure the relevance of information, especially on Google My Business.
2. Invest In Organic SEO
Investing in traditional SEO remains imperative. Therefore, structure your blog posts with a focus on the visitors’ experience, optimizing URL, title tags, headers, and meta-description. Also, use high-quality videos and images to increase engagement. It’s also important to apply link building techniques to increase the authority of your domain.
Inserting local pages on your website is a way to guide the consumer to your establishment. More than the address, it should bring information such as contact phone numbers, store hours, parking information, and testimonials from other customers.
Add location pages to your website
A good idea is to use interactive content to make the experience even more enjoyable. Maps, for example, can connect with the customer’s GPS service and provide detailed directions for them to find you.
4. Be Mobile-Friendly
There’s no escape: to make a good SEO site, you need to be mobile-friendly. Mobile devices are responsible for most of the local searches, so if you don’t have responsive channels, you won’t appear in any kind of ranking.
5. Maintain Consistency With Different Channels
Business is consistent with what you pass on in your other channels. Different addresses, phone numbers, and store hours can make the user suspicious and scare them away. It’s also important to care about your visual identity. Your company’s colors and logos should be predominant on all your Internet channels.
If your company is not well evaluated on the Internet, users cannot know if the service is qualified, so they opt for other alternatives. The problem is that often low ratings happen because few customers remember to leave a review. Subway, for example, provides a link and code on their receipts so that consumers can leave their opinion and earn a free cookie.
So, create calls-to-action focused on encouraging the client to leave an evaluation. You can even create campaigns focused on that.
Essential Factors Of Local SEO
1. Proximity
The proximity creation factors refer to the distance of the business from the user. If the user does not specify a region in the search terms, Google itself calculates the distances using the location information provided by GPS technologies installed on smartphones.
This factor has to do with the level of approval of a business in its region. So, Google analyses the brand’s popularity on the web and in the offline world. Here the brand reputation I measured by criteria such as links referring to the brand.
3. Relevance
The relevance criteria consider the correspondence between the business and the term the user searched for. For this, Google analyses the company’s data available in Google My Business.
Invest in Local SEO to generate new opportunities for your business, increase your local relevance, and consolidate your brand image on the Internet. The strategy can be executed with little investment as long as you produce quality content. The listed strategies will not only help small or medium-sized businesses, but multi-location companies can grow their business and attract more customers using Local SEO.
After working on small-small areas, you can have an impressive local SEO strategy in no time!
The world is suffering from a pandemic caused by an extremely contagious virus- COVID-19. Its been almost six months, and yet things do not look to go back to “normal”. But the lives keep moving. The fast-growing changes in lifestyles have brought a drastic change in the marketing scenario and the FMCG sector has been affected the most.
Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), are basically packaged goods that we buy at retail shops at a very low cost. These are also called as consumer packaged goods. They get sold out easily and are not durable.
Some Thriving Brands of FMCG Across the World
Categories of FMCG
Processed food
Beverage
Dry foods like tea,sugar,coffee
Prepared meals
Cosmetics
Toiletries
Over the counter medicines
Candy
Fresh foods like veggies
Frozen foods
Baked foods
Consumer electronics
Office supplies like pen,papers
Cleaning products
Clothes like socks,under garments.
These are also called as consumer packaged goods. Some of the goods are highly perishable like processed meat, dairy products, etc. FMCG goods are the largest sector of consumer goods. Although half of the consumer’s spending accounts for these “fast-selling packaged goods, they tend to be low investment purchases.
Future of FMCG from a Global Point of View
E-commerce has come across a latest trend of piling of FMCGs. Following reasons can be attribute to the sudden change in the behavior of consumers all over the world.
Lack of fresh products have compelled the users to depend on packaging items.
More over package foods are easier to stock.
Development of panic buying attitude as regards to essential commodities including common medicines.
Avoiding/closer of restaurants have driven consumers to their own kitchens.
Sanitary, hygienic and over the counter medicines have been added to the buying list.
Global projections that the share of online FMCG sales would comprise 10% of the total market by 2025. It is likely to be vastly understated given the pandemic’s role as a catalyst for e-commerce growth in the FMCG and grocery space. Most FMCG companies have fogged a tie-up with delivering companies such as Zomato, Swiggy, Dominos, Big Basket and Dunzo to ensure that their products reach their customer amidst this pandemic.
But companies are claiming that even after this pandemic, this could stay as the normal trend. As people are being acquainted to online ordering. Not to mention the convenience of home delivery. It is expected the sales through e-commerce to increase from 2-3% to 4-5% post pandemic.
The FMCG sector is expected to grow since people have shifted to e-commerce post this virus outbreak. Due to WHO guidelines regarding social distancing, unnecessary bars, shopping malls, retail shops, and markets are closed. People maintaining distance socially in order to stay safe are choosing to buy their necessities online, instead of going to their near Kirana store.
People in India would normally do their grocery shopping from the retail shop near, where they would buy goods sold on loose, but now due to pandemic people are forced to shift to e-commerce. Now instead of buying wheat flour from the nearest cottage mill, one has to buy the packaged product.
In India, there has been seen a significant purchase of these packaged products in rural and semi-urban areas. Whereas the urban cities have shown a decline in the purchase of these goods. Because of severe lock-downs and restrictions on manufacturing and maintaining social distancing and store closures among others have had a severe impact on the FMCG industry.
India saw a heavy decline (about 6%) in the month of January 2020. Even with a steady increase in the consumption of dairy products and other essentials, this sector is still facing a crisis due to this pandemic.
The FMCG sector is the 4th largest sector in the Indian economy. It has basically 3 main segments under it with a consumption patter under:
Food and beverages (19%)
Healthcare (31%)
Household and personal care (50%)
chart showing consumption of different FMCG products
In India however, slashing the optimistic 5-6% FMCG growth estimate made around April of this year, it is now said to remain the same. In the worst-case scenario, to shrink 1 percent.
Of late, the FMCG sector in rural India has grown at a faster pace than its urban counterpart with FMCG products accounting for about half of total rural spending. Semi-urban and rural segments contribute over 40% of the overall revenues of the FMCG sector in India and with about 12% of the world’s population living in the villages of India, the Indian rural FMCG market is set to be a driving force for the industry at large.
The FMCG sector is trying to supply to introduce smaller packages of goods that will match the low incomes of rural areas, in order to increase in accessibility even more.
Some early shoots in the graph were seen in early June when the lock down was eased. 4.5% of the year on year value growth was seen in FMCG sales amidst this.
However a potential future is seen in the third quarter and significant growth is expected in light of the arrival of the festive season ahead.
But in long run, one can see FMCG has a potential future. This pandemic opened up the gates even to those who were skeptical before to use e-commerce before but now heavily dependent on them. This may be the next normal.
Healthcare deeply and meaningfully impacts every single person on earth. Droice Labs was started with a belief that they can make healthcare sector better, a lot better, by empowering decisions based on data, and that AI is a tool that can empower doctors to provide higher quality care.
Droice Labs’ technology leverages a combination of the latest medical research and learning algorithms to offer doctors with critical real-time data to make the right decision, enabling doctors to improve patient outcomes and streamline patient flow through health systems. Read this article to know about Droice Labs, products/services, founders & team, and achievements.
Droice Labs – Company Highlights
Startup Name
Droice Labs
Headquarter
New York
Sector
Healthcare
Founders
Mayur Saxena, Ashanideepta Bhattacharya, Tasha Nagamine, Harshit Saxena, Aleksandr Makarov, Dr. John Kahoun
Droice Labs is an AI company specializing in understanding real-world clinical data to solve problems across the healthcare system. Its solutions provide answers to the key questions that healthcare entities have, helping them to make optimal decisions and to better understand diseases and the patients they affect.
The company uses the latest advances in machine learning and analytics to build products that streamline clinical workflow and help doctors make the best decisions in the toughest of circumstances, faster. Their versatile AI pipeline can be integrated with a large range of healthcare data sources such as Electronic Medical Record systems. These products affect millions of clinical decisions every day and have touched the lives of millions of patients.
Droice Labs Logo
“We use this technology to help payers, providers, and hospital finance teams to fill documentation correctly, capture missed revenue, and fill care gaps. With our deep patient and disease understanding engine, we also help payers detect over-billing, design better plans and prioritize the right interventions to cover”, said Mayur Saxena, CEO of Droice Labs.
The company’s multidisciplinary team of doctors, data scientists, engineers, researchers, and security experts is passionate about transforming healthcare by empowering data-driven healthcare decisions. They have a very open environment where people are encouraged to share new ideas. The team is intelligent, curious, ambitious, imaginative, and passionate about technology.
Droice Labs – Target Market Size
The company’s target is the global healthcare market. Currently, it is active in the US & Europe where the total market size for the values it creates for healthcare systems is approximately $20B and growing.
The company’s offerings also cater to R&D and Medical Affairs departments within life sciences companies in the area of Real World Evidence studies and intelligence, and the total current market size for these services is over $100B globally.
Droice Labs’ flagship product, Droice Hawk is an AI-based platform that helps doctors, hospitals, life sciences, and payers make more informed decisions and improve outcomes. The core of Hawk technology is the company’s medical language understanding engineFlamingo, which is trained on billions of diverse clinical notes.
Flamingo can find meaning in free form medical text in multiple languages including English, French, German, and Russian, and can easily incorporate new languages. This technology is used alongside other states of the art machine learning methods to deliver unprecedented real-time insights and action plans at both population and individual patient levels.
Hawk can sift through both structured and free form data from disparate patient data sources like electronic medical records, lab systems, claims databases, and pharmacy systems to generate high-resolution snapshots of patients. These insights delivered by Hawk help key stakeholders in the healthcare space to make better healthcare decisions for all:
Hospitals gain revenue in risk-sharing contracts and provide better, more efficient care.
Payers can detect overbilling, design better plans, and prioritize the right interventions to cover.
Life sciences companies can identify populations and cohorts for driving real-world evidence on certain conditions and therapies, understand the market better, and conduct high-impact research.
Droice Labs was founded by Mayur Saxena, Ashanideepta Bhattacharya, Tasha Nagamine, Harshit Saxena, Aleksandr Makarov, and Dr. John Kahoun.
The team of Droice Labs is composed of people with world-level expertise in Healthcare Business, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Understanding, and Life Sciences data-driven research.
Mayur Saxena, Ph.D. | CEO: Mayur has been part of several high growth startups. He has spent the last decade in healthcare data strategy and precision medicine. He is the Cofounder of Ardent Cell Technologies, a cell therapeutics company in the diabetes space, where the technology is undergoing human clinical trials.
Mayur Saxena
Previously, Mayur worked with some of the largest management consulting firms designing a strategy for artificial intelligence-based healthcare offerings. He currently advises several companies on AI strategy and the “data play”.
Tasha Nagamine, MS | Data science: Tasha specializes in a special domain of AI — biologically inspired neural networks. As part of her Ph.D. work at Columbia University, she developed cutting-edge technologies to elucidate the reasoning behind neural network-based predictions.
Tasha Nagamine
At Droice, Tasha leads the AI team to develop state of the art technology that understands a doctor’s thought process through natural language understanding.
Harshit Saxena, MS | Engineering: Harshit manages the integration of cutting-edge AI solutions in large healthcare enterprises. Previously, he led product integration and development teams at GE and Oracle.
Harshit Saxena
He studied machine learning in his MS at Columbia University and worked alongside industry and academia on computer vision technologies for autonomous vehicles and other automatic AR, 3D mapping applications.
Ashanideepta Bhattacharya, MS | Engineering: Deep is a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Cybersecurity Master’s graduate from New York University who has prior experience in penetration testing, incident response, technical investigations, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
Deep Bhattacharya
As CISO, his mission includes creating a “risk aware” culture that places a high value on securing and protecting the information entrusted to Droice.
Alekandr Makarov, MS | Business development: He completed his masters in Data Science from Columbia University. Before joining Columbia for his Masters, Alex was the Head of Business Intelligence for FoodPanda HK, a Hong Kong-based part of a global mobile-based food delivery company.
Aleksandr Makarov
He has also been heavily involved in several projects at IBM in Moscow around big data analytics and machine learning.
Dr. John Kahoun, MD | Clinical: He is a founding partner of one of the biggest urgent care chains in the United States (CityMD, acquired by Warburg Pincus for ~600 million USD). He received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Dr. John Kahoun
He helps Droice understand hospital systems and provide clinical insights that allow for the packaging of the powerful underlying technology to a format suitable for the end-users.
Rourke M. Yeakley, MD | Head of Innovation: Dr. Rourke Yeakley is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician for over 15 years and heads innovation at Droice Labs. He is the founder of Precision EM, dedicated to the development and application of precision medicine for emergency medical care.
Dr. Yeakley is affiliated with St Luke’s Boise Medical Center where he is the Medical Director, Air since 2007, and at St Luke’s Meridian Medical Center. Dr. Yeakley is also the inventor of Avepax medical device for single-dose delivery of liquid medications, vaccines, and Nutritionals that are mixed at the point of care.
Tadd Spering | Chief Business Officer: Tadd has held senior sales, management, and product development positions at HSBC and Catamaran, in addition to founding a web design company while earning his degree in International Business and Management at Dickinson College.
Tadd’s varied skills have helped him build a world-class team at Stylinity while also serving as CEO and lead hardware engineer. Tadd has been featured in Forbes and as a panelist at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The company has participated in multiple highly selective accelerators: Arkansas Healthtech, SAP.io Foundry, Philips Healthworks, NVIDIA Inception, IE Entrepreneurship Columbia, Almaworks, HITLAB Digital health breakthrough network.
It has also won following awards: Rice Business Plan Competition, StartUp Exchange, Issue #32, Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan, GoTech GoGlobal Grand Prize, Innovation Time Awards (Best New Project in Medicine and Healthcare, Columbia Venture Competition, CVC Technology Challenge, Frenchfounders, HFMA virtual pitch, etc.
Droice Labs – Future Plans
Over the next 5 years, Droice Labs target to expand even further and be the biggest tech-enabled clinical research organisation in the world affecting hundreds of millions of patient lives every year.
Cryptocurrency is a thriving ecosystem, encroaching on conventional territory and is redefining the Finance sector. Over the last few years, Bitcoin users and transactions have averaged a growth rate of nearly 60% annually. Similarly in private and public investors have deepened the commitment to cryptocurrencies including Ethereum, Ripple, and Stellar, and several others too.
It started in 2009 with the release of bitcoin, which at that time was something new to most. But now everyone has heard of bitcoin and developed an interest in investing in cryptocurrency or starting a career as a trader has grown. Even though they do not have a long history, cryptocurrencies are attractive to many people.
Teeka Tiwari, a former Wall Street trader turned into cryptocurrency expert, recently discussed investing in cryptocurrency, explaining why now is the time to buy bitcoin. It is his expertise to talk about some exciting aspects of cryptocurrency and has some future predictions that we haven’t heard before.
Bitcoin has been the biggest player in cryptocurrencies since the beginning. We can surely say that bitcoin is going to stay in the future. However, what would be the best coins in the future is an important question to answer. According to Yahoo, there are four cryptocurrencies to invest in 2020- Bitcoin, Etherium, NEO, and EOS.
In this case, Tiwari believes that there are five coins that will be great to invest. He believes that these coins could turn $500 in to as much as $5 million. He stresses that people have a fear that prevents them from investing but that fear has to overcome.
Tiwari tries to motivate people to invest more and more in cryptocurrency to make profits. These are the last five coins he believes could turn $500 in to as much as $5 million.
Investment in Cryptocurrency
Why should You Invest in Cryptocurrencies?
If you are thinking of investing in cryptocurrencies, it may be best to treat your investment in the same way you would treat any other highly speculative investment.
Cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value. This makes it very prone to huge price swings, which in turn increases the risk of loss for an investor. Bitcoin, for example, plunged from $260 to about $130 within six hours on April 11, 2013.18.
You have to susceptible to that kind of volatility in this case. While opinion continues to be deeply debated about the merits of Bitcoin as an investment, supporters point to its limited supply and growing usage as value drivers, while detractors see it as just another speculative bubble.
How Cryptocurrencies Are Enhancing Financial Freedom
The Public opinion states that the traditional banking system often fails to address the needs of the masses during periods of political or cultural instability.
The cryptocurrency ecosystem can continue to thrive during such periods. People can not only depend on these assets for everyday payments but also use them to reinvest. Here are some ways in which cryptocurrency can be used to achieve financial freedom.
Growth of Crypto Assets
Price prediction
While risking the wealth on trading can be quite risky, price prediction stands as a significantly safer alternative.
Alluva is an app that allows users to predict crypto prices. Depending on the accuracy of the prediction, the platform rewards with a certain number of Alluva tokens (ALV). These tokens can later either be redeemed at partner websites, or traded for a different currency altogether.
Even though by no means an exhaustive list of how one can achieve financial independence with cryptocurrency, it is a good starting point for someone that is new to the technology or looking for new ways to capitalize on their existing investment.
Buying and Holding
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin have market capital in the billions. Bitcoin was trading between $1 to $2 in 2011, its current price sits around $10,000.
For people who are new to the crypto ecosystem, purchasing a small amount of these currencies and holding it for a few months is a viable strategy. Opening a new cryptocurrency wallet requires approval from a third party. If you have access to a smartphone or computer connected to the Internet, you can install and access a wallet within minutes.
Airdrops
New blockchain projects hand out a small number of free tokens to their followers and users. In the cryptocurrency industry, this marketing practice is called as an airdrop. The idea is that users are more motivated to try out a new service if they do not have to spend any money on it. Surprisingly, a large number of the tokens have real-world value, so you can simply trade them for another cryptocurrency or fiat currency instead of using them.
Day trading
Cryptocurrencies are traded on exchanges, which function similarly to those found in global equity markets. If you have a liking for technical or fundamental analysis and believe that you have good skills regarding the cryptocurrency market, this approach can be highly profitable. Day trading can be a risky endeavor given that some tokens can experience brief periods of high volatility now and then.
Initial Coin Offerings
By participating in an Initial Coin Offering, one becomes an investor in one such project at an early stage. Unlike listing, most ICOs are open to public investment.
Many major cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum, started as an ICO at some point and have delivered high returns in a few short years. However, it is very important to understand the project behind an ICO and undertake due diligence before any investment to ensure that you avoid scams.
Mining
Mining is the process of using computational power to verify transactions and create new units of cryptocurrency. Some cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin cannot be mined using consumer hardware, others like Ethereum and Zcash can. Mining can be quite profitable, it does require some amount of investment in the form of hardware. The good news is that mining generates revenue, requiring little attention on your part.
Staking
Certain cryptocurrencies have adopted the concept of staking to verify transactions instead of mining. The approach allows holders to earn interest on their tokens as a reward for securing the network. Staking typically requires you to lock up a certain number of tokens in a live wallet. The more tokens are stake, the higher the reward. Also, there is no need to purchase expensive hardware.
Conclusion
A cryptocurrency aspires to become part of the mainstream financial system. While that possibility may not difficult to happen, there is little doubt that Bitcoin’s success or failure in dealing with the challenges it faces may determine the fortunes of other cryptocurrencies in the years ahead.
LinkedIn is known as one of the most prominent social networking site for the professionals around the world. These facts and statistics based on LinkedIn will guide you to successfully use the site for your benefits. The users of this platform can create online resume, list out their current and previous job roles, and most importantly their skills and education. This site connects the LinkedIn members to the jobs available based on their criteria. The LinkedIn website also allows its users to be endorsed by other users for their individual skills.
The members can also further join professional groups that are relevant to their interests. LinkedIn also allows business to create their companies profiles and put out their current vacancies. Giving the members an opportunity to apply for these positions directly through its interface. It also provides a platform for publishing with the thought of facilitating leadership in the business world.
Demographics are further divided based on sex, age and geographical location
The LinkedIn user distribution worldwide.
Age:
37% of the users are from the age group of 30 to 49 years old, 28% of them are 18 to 29 years old and 24% of them are 50 to 64 years old while 11% of them are above 65 years old and above.
While marketers can only reach 12% of people aged 18 years or older with the help of adverts on LinkedIn.
37% of the American adults and 51% of US college graduate are on LinkedIn.
Out of the 2 billion millennial globally, 87 million millennial are on LinkedIn with 11 million in decision making positions.
Sex:
57% of the overall users are males and 43% of the overall users are female.
29%of LinkedIn users are males and 24% of the users are females in an average session.
43% the LinkedIn ads audience is female while 57% of their LinkedIn audience is male.
Geographical location:
LinkedIn is spread out to more than 200 countries while representing 30 companies from all over the world by 2019.
33% of the users come from urban areas while 30% are from suburban and 10% from the rural areas.
The countries with the greatest reach are: USA (167,000,000), India (64,000,000), China (50,000,000), Brazil (41,000,000) and UK (28,000,000).
More than 70% of LinkedIn users are from outside the USA.
LinkedIn has an overall of 675 million users from all over the world, while 310 million of them are monthly active users. 38.6% of the LinkedIn traffic comes from the countries like US with 38.6% and India with 16.8%.
Other facts based on the users of LinkedIn
Out of those 4% of them engage on a daily basis. While most user only spend 17 minutes on LinkedIn per month.
According to the study done by Pew Research Center 2018 Social Media Use study, LinkedIn is popular among youth as 50% of the college graduates in the USA are LinkedIn users.
44% of the LinkedIn users in the US take home more than $75,000 per year which about their national medium.
Although the US has most LinkedIn users at 167 million, 70% of the LinkedIn users come from outside the US.
Linked in has 2 new members every second, but their goal is to reach 3 billion users and also to be the hub for every job posting across the estimated 70 million companies worldwide.
LinkedIn profiles that have photos get 21 times more views and 36 times more messages.
LinkedIn users spend an average of 10 to 20 minutes on the site regularly; visiting 8 to 9 pages.
122 million users have been invited to an interview through LinkedIn, with 35.5% million getting a job through someone with whom they are connected.
In 2016, Microsoft acquired the company for $26.2 Billion after recognizing the value of LinkedIn. Since its acquisition, LinkedIn’s Financial have been consolidated with Microsoft’s. However, unlike other social media platform that rely on advertisements for revenue. LinkedIn services are something that users are willing to pay.
The annual revenue amounted to almost 6.8 billion U.S dollars.
In 2018, it contributed $5.3 billion in revenue. In 2019, revenue increased by 27%.
Linked generates more than $454.000 per employee.
Most of LinkedIn Revenue is generated from three of its main major services
Talent solutions:
Before the acquisition of the company in 2016, 65% of third quarter revenue, totaling $960 million which came from recruitment services called Talent solutions. This service helped companies in hiring employees and learning and development (L&D) to the existing employees of the company.
Marketing solutions:
This solution provides a platform for the companies to advertise to LinkedIn users. In 2016, it accounted for 18% of the total revenue or $109 million from the combination of advertising to the online marketers and the sale of sponsored updates posted to a target audiences within the members of the LinkedIn feed.
LinkedIn Premium:
The four tiers of LinkedIn Premium
A total of LinkedIn users pay for LinkedIn Premium which now has four price tiers:
Premium Career – meant for those looking for job opportunities in any field. It includes in mail messages per month and in demand videos, as well as the ability to see who viewed your profile. The monthly subscription fee is $29.99/month and INR 1400 per month.
Premium Business – This service gives you additional information about business and unlimited people searches. The business owners, MSME and Startups prefer this as it’s pretty much a pocket friendly option for them. The monthly subscription fee is $59.99/month and INR 1900 per month.
Sales Navigator pro – This allows the user advanced search filters, access to different sales tools and the ability to make notes on the user profiles. It is mostly chosen by the companies who lookout for some good quality leads through LinkedIn products. The subscription fee is $79.99/month and INR 3900 per month.
Recruiter Lite – This service suggests them the top recruiters especially associated with the MNC’s go for this plan. The main purpose for them is to get a good amount of job application for the opportunities they have. The subscription fee is $119.95/month and INR 5000 per month.
LinkedIn is the No. 1 B2B marketer because it distributes content at 94%. It makes up more than 50% of all social traffic to B2B websites and blogs. Only 3 million users share content on weekly basis, while 1 million users publish an article on LinkedIn.
Content marketing done by LinkedIn
97% of B2B marketers utilizes it for their content marketing efforts.
The professional content posted gets 15x more content impressions than job postings with 57% consuming content on mobile.
280 billion feed updates are viewers annually.
92% of the B2B marketers includes LinkedIn in their digital marketing mix.
If the posts are split into 5, 7 or 9 headings perform the best on the site.
The articles titles between 40 to 49 characters perform the best on LinkedIn.
The articles perform better without video than compared to the ones that contain a video in them.
45% of marketers have gained customers by using this platform, 65% of the B2B companies have LinkedIn paid ads services to acquire customers
80% of the B2B leads come from LinkedIn then compared to 13% from Twitter and 7% from Facebook.
In LinkedIn the content that gets the most shared are the long form of content.
It is an effective platform for lead generator and customer acquisition. It is even 277% more effective than Facebook in generating leads.
Last but not the least LinkedIn is the most top rated paid social media platform with 76% of B2B content marketers using it.
What if I told you that with a yearly/monthly subscription you’ll be able to successfully develop your skills and also get job offers simultaneously? Yes! It’s time to make that a reality with the help of LinkedIn Learning where you can access an entire learning library of content and learn new creative skills.
Not only that, LinkedIn Learning offers you job recommendations after you complete your courses in your LinkedIn profile. And also helps you enhance your learning experience through the means of video courses that come along with transcripts, exercises files and assessments. It then gives you feedback to your preferred course, while allowing you to view and download videos offline.
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LinkedIn Learning – About
LinkedIn Learning is an American based website that bridges the gap between the career you want and the skill you require. It mainly offers video courses taught by industry experts in creative, software and business skills. LinkedIn Learning is a subsidiary of LinkedIn which was founded by Lynda Weinman in the year of 1995. Formally known as Lynda.com, it was acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion in 2015.
LinkedIn learning helps professionals learn with their own pace from the library that contains more than 12,000 creative, technology and business courses on any given subject.
These courses can be selected by employees as well as recommended by employers or their HR managers who can then use LinkedIn’s analytics to monitor the employee’s progress.
These tips are for the beginners to want to start out with learning new skills through this platform. In LinkedIn Learning the first thing someone should do is registration followed by picking out your interests.
According to the field of your interest the platform provides you 3 options/categories to choose from these include: Business, Creative and Technology. Business for example will include customer service, accounting, etc.
Then it guides the subscriber to the trending list and to the top liked and suggested videos (to give you an insight to the video that have better quality and content).
LinkedIn Learning caters to youngsters seeking for a job while developing their skills.
There are also have 3 ways through which you can filter out the course that people want to watch:
By Subject: To gain experience with a specific skill, this is the way to go. If you can pick a topic for example business then that would be HR, Finance and pick courses based on it.
Software: No matter your occupation there’s a solid chance that you need to know your way around several types of software.
Learning paths: Instead of having to look for random courses in a given field, you can simply pick your path and get a structured learning experience. learning courses offers course such as Online marketing foundations; SEO foundation; Google Analytics; Content marketing foundation; Lead generation foundation and growth hacking.
LinkedIn learning offers different versions of premium from which you can you can buy to cater to different types of business people. All of these paid services give the professional’s unlimited access to everything in LinkedIn learning. The premium costs $29.99 per month or $2239.88 per year which is the preferred level meant for job seekers and applicants. While the professional can also cancel during the first month and not pay anything, since it is free to try for the first month. However, after the free month, people can start paying if they want to stay onboard and continue learning from these courses.
Benefits of LinkedIn Learning:
Benefits of LinkedIn Learning
The company emphasis on education and learning as it goes hand in hand with the company’s primary role where people maintain their professional profiles publicly and look for jobs. While the LinkedIn Learning is just broadened platform that offers you to build on your professional skills.
This education platform is available only for the LinkedIn Premium subscribers who look like they will get more than 50 new courses every week available in various languages.
LinkedIn learning now has 14,000 enterprise customers, 17 million enterprise users and 12,000 high fidelity courses.
Video based tutorials are produced in house in their California studios.
There also a possibility of customizing your own content by making your own or from your organization.
The analytics will also inform them of their progress with the knowledge they gained or even the level of engagement and more.
·It also provides higher education facilities by special, verified profile pages to universities and colleges. Hence encouraging youngsters to get started on building their profiles.
This platform can be further used for connecting those young students into alumni job finding networks for the recruitment business.
These materials (PDF files and other related documents) can also be downloaded to watch offline.
The videos made on this platform are understandable and the teachers are business executives and other professional from different industries. They also provide you a certificate right after you finish the course.
LinkedIn Learning is powerful even if you’re not seeking for jobs
The platform is not just a job search booster, it is also a career booster for any professional who wants to stand out and advance their career faster. It can also help a professional get a raise or promotions with the completion of their LinkedIn Learning course. Doing all these course work can also help develop ones resume by mentioning it under the “skills” section. Example: Basics of Java Programming- LinkedIn Learning course completed on April 2020. During the times of the COVID pandemic people can make use of their time by self-educating themselves on various subjects by doing online courses with the help LinkedIn Learning.
Competitors of LinkedIn Learning:
Udemy: Udemy is a platform where you can create online video course and earn money by teaching people around the world. This platform helps people learn new skills and advance their careers by sharing your knowledge. It also helps businesses up skill their employees with virtual training.
Skillshare: Skillshare provides learning for the world’s most innovative companies. This platform gives business solution to maximize the creativity, engagement and develop the entire workforce. With skillshare for teams you can empower and inspire your teams with on demand classes, in person events, customized learning paths and world class teachers. There’s on demand classes, hands-on workshops and events.
Coursera: This platforms helps build your skills with courses, certificate and degrees online from various world class universities and companies. You can learn the latest skill like business analytics, Python, Graphic design and more. It helps people who are interested for a career in fields like IT, AI and cloud engineering with the help of coursera.
LinkedIn Learning now has more 17 million users and is among the top ten vendors providing such services. It has also recently introduced LinkedIn Learning Pro which is a big competitor for other Learning Experience Platforms such as Degreed, Coursera, Skillshare, etc. It has the potential to conquer the corporate learning market because of the quality of their videos. The Learning Pro edition helps you create your own pathways or even customize combination of courses by putting in different content from their site.
Imagine a night before an important exam, when it’s all hasty, you just can’t see yourself focusing on a single task. You tend to ponder from one page to another book and what you just lost was concentration. Or, you just got some free time to read an article and wait, What! Here’s a mail from your boss. It is quite difficult to concentrate when so much is happening around, but to make something happen you need to keep your power concentrated on a single work.
“The digital generation considers constant interruptions normal and these days we expect to multitask, which spreads concentration very thin and can be counterproductive.” – Harriet Griffey, journalist, and author of The Art of Concentration
Concentration is the second name to Meditation.
Concentration refers to the mental effort you direct toward whatever you’re working on or learning at the moment. It’s sometimes confused with attention span, but attention span refers to the length of time you can concentrate on something. There are many psychological facts involving concentration and some are quite astonishing, for instance, one said that concentration helps your subconscious mind be much more powerful than you think. i mean isn’t it amazing, when you already know how much powerful your subconscious mind is.
Factors Affecting Concentration
Attention span and concentration vary for a number reason and some reasons are natural and unavoidable but when it comes to distractions, this is what can be controlled.
Factors affecting concentration
When people age, they tend to forget things more readily, and decreased concentration can accompany memory loss.
Head or Brain injuries, such as a concussion can affect concentration.
Stress, anxiety, and frustration are sort of distraction when you’re trying to concentrate on things that are more important than anything else; because that’s what makes us more anxious.
If that sounds familiar, keep reading to learn more about research-backed methods to help improve your concentration. We’ll also go over some conditions that can affect concentration and steps to take if trying to increase concentration on your own just doesn’t seem to help.
how to get your brain to focus
5 Secret Tips To Concentrate Effectively
1. Get Your Game On
Brain games may not be a type of game that can improve your concentration, but according to research, playing video games could help boost your concentration. The reason behind it is that an hour of gaming help improves your Visual Selective Attention (VSA).
VSA, basically, refers to your ability to concentrate on a specific task while ignoring distractions around you. Although the study covered small aspects, so these findings can’t be conclusive and, encouraging masses for gaming is sheer nonsense. So, study authors are still researching and exploring how video games can help increase brain activity and boost concentration.
This review had several limitations, including the fact that the studies focused on widely varying topics, including video game addiction and the possible effects of violent video games.
Although playing certain types of games can help you get better at concentrating. Try:
sudoku
crossword puzzles
chess
jigsaw puzzles
word searches or scrambles
memory games
2. Improve Sleep
Lack of sleep makes you more frustrated and can affect your concentration. Sleep deprivation can easily disrupt concentration, not to mention other cognitive functions, such as memory and attention. Although a day or two of sleepless nights can’t show you serious consequences if it’s continuing in a row, then that’s a problem.
Being too tired can even show, slowing down of your reflexes and affect your ability to drive or do other daily tasks. Getting 7 to 8 hours of sleep can be a tough job when there’s a demanding schedule, health issues, or lots of travel and, other factors sometimes make it difficult to get enough sleep.
But improving sleeping habits may show you wonders. A few quick tips:
Turn off the TV and put away screens an hour before bed.
Keep your room at a comfortable but cool temperature.
Wind down before bed with soft music, a warm bath, or a book.
Go to bed and get up around the same time each day, even on weekends.
Exercise regularly, but try to avoid a heavy workout just before bed.
3. Take A Break And Listen Music
Take a break, and have a KitKat. I don’t know how much this ad makes an impact on you, but it covers two aspects and both improves your concentration. First, the idea of taking a break might seem counterintuitive, but experts say it really works. Second, the chocolate (KitKat) also has some amount of caffeine into it, which improves your power to focus on things.
When you feel your concentration is dropping, take a short mental break, and that break doesn’t mean you’ll keep banging yourself onto the phone. But just take a small nap or lie down with your closed eyes. Refresh yourself with a cool drink or nutritious snack, take a quick walk, or go outside and get some sun. And then, after getting back to work, you’ll be surprised when you feel more focused, motivated, or even creative. Breaks can help boost these functions and more.
Turning on music while working or studying may help increase concentration. The type of music you listen to can make a difference. Experts generally agree with classical music, particularly baroque classical music or nature sounds are good choices to help increase your focus.
4. Meditate In Nature
Meditation and mindfulness practices can offer multiple benefits. Improved concentration is only one of these. If you want to boost your concentration naturally, try to get outside every day, even for just 15 to 20 minutes. Sitting in your garden or backyard can also help. Any natural environment has benefits.
meditate in nature
Succulents make great choices for low-maintenance plants if you don’t have a green thumb. Although a child doesn’t know how to meditate, children can benefit from natural environments very much. The study hoped to determine how lifelong exposure to trees and greenery at home or in the neighbourhood might affect attention in children.
5. Vary Your Diet And Try Supplements
Always be specific on the food you eat because it can affect cognitive functions like concentration and memory. Avoiding processed foods, too much sugar, and very greasy or fatty foods. To boost concentration, try eating more of the following:
fatty fish
eggs (white and yolk both)
blueberries
spinach
Milk
Oats or Porridge
vary our diet and try supplements
There’s no need to include caffeine in your diet if you prefer to avoid it, but research does suggest caffeine can benefit your attention and focus. If you feel your concentration starting to drop, consider a cup of coffee or green tea.
Staying hydrated is a catalyst for improving your concentration. Even mild dehydration can make it harder to focus or remember information. Always aim for routine breakfasts with fiber and protein-rich meals.
Some supplements may help promote better concentration and improved brain function. But always check it with your health care provider before taking any supplements, especially if you’re a person with allergies.
The following supplements may help promote increased concentration and overall brain health:
The above tips may sound less effective when it comes to exercise because increased concentration is among the many benefits of regular exercise. There are some listed exercises whose special focus is on to increase your concentration power in a day or two.
Sit in a comfortable chair and see how still you can keep. This is not as easy as it seems. You will have to center your attention on sitting still. Watch and see that you are not making any involuntary muscular movements.
Exercise 2: Fix Gaze on Fingers
Sit in a chair with your head up and your chin out, shoulders back. Raise your right arm until it is on the level with your shoulder, pointing to your right. Look around, with the head only, and fix your gaze on your fingers, and keep the arm perfectly still for one minute. Do the same exercise with your left arm.
Exercise 3: Fix Eyes on Outstretched Glass
Fill a small glass full of water, and grasp it by the fingers; put the arm directly in front of you. Now fix the eyes upon the glass and try to keep the arm so steady that no movement will be noticeable. Do this first for one moment and then increase it to five. Do the exercise with the first one arm and then the other.
Exercise 4: Concentrate on Opening and Closing Fists
Move your chair up to a table, placing your hands upon it, clenching the fists, keeping the back of the hand on the table, the thumb doubled over the fingers. Now fix your gaze upon the fist for a while, then gradually extend the thumb, keeping your whole attention fixed upon the act, just as if it was a matter of great importance.
Exercise 5: Concentration Increases the Sense of Smell
When you take a walk or drive in the country, or pass a flower garden, concentrate on the odor of flowers and plants. See how many different kinds you can detect. Then choose one particular kind and try to sense only this. You will find that this strongly intensifies the sense of smell. This differentiation requires, however, a peculiarly attentive attitude.
Exercise 6: Concentration on the Within
Lie down and thoroughly relax your muscles. Concentrate on the beating of your heart. Do not pay any attention to anything else.
Exercise 7: Concentrating on Sleep
What is known as the water method is, although very simple, very effective in inducing sleep. Put a full glass of clear water on a table in your sleeping room. Sit in a chair beside the table and gaze into the glass of water and think how calm it is. Then picture yourself getting into just as calm a state.
Exercise 8: Practice Talking Before a Mirror
Make two marks on your mirror on a level with your eyes, and think of them as two human eyes looking into yours. Your eyes will probably blink a little at first. Do not move your head, but stand erect. Concentrate all your thoughts on keeping your head perfectly still.
Exercise 9: The Eastern Way of Concentrating
Sit in a chair with a high back in an upright position. Press one finger against the right nostril. Now take a long, deep breath, drawing the breath in gently as you count to ten; then expel the breath through the right nostril as you count to ten.
Exercise 10: Controlling Desires
Desire, which is one of the hardest forces to control, will furnish you with excellent exercises in concentration. It seems natural to want to tell others what you know; but, by learning to control these desires, you can wonderfully strengthen your powers of concentration.
Mindfulness
Some ways to improve concentration may work well, while others may not seem to do much for you. Consider giving a range of approaches a try to see what helps. What’s more, these tips are unlikely to decrease concentration or cause other harm, so you know that concentration helps increase your memory
Niku Mandal
