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In the recently concluded Assembly session in Nagpur, the Leader of Opposition, Devendra Fadnavis, tried to corner the government and mock the three-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) by comparing it with a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw. This led Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to respond that he agreed that the alliance is indeed a three-wheeled auto while reminding the BJP's suit-boot agenda members that the humble auto was the preferred mode of transport for the aam aadmi of Maharashtra versus the elitist and costly "bullet train sarkaar" that was accessible only to the rich. He also reiterated that his government of three parties will work for the poor, marginalised people of the state.
It is indeed interesting that the BJP continues to attack the Maharashtra's alliance government while forgetting its own history of stitching up unlikely alliances like with the PDP and Nitish Kumar after he had won a mandate for an entirely difference mahagathdandhan with the Congress and Lalu Yadav. Ram Vilas Paswan, who once called the BJP the Bharat Jalao Party, is now an ally. Goa, Haryana, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya are also examples of the BJP's practise of gaining power at any cost. Why go that far, has Devendra Fadnavis forgotten his own two-day government? However, this isn't about the BJP but about the agenda of the government formed on a Common Minimum Program and strictly abiding by it.
For a backgrounder, the state's finances have taken a hit in the last five years with revenue receipts and Maharashtra's tax revenue falling. Most of the big ticket infra projects have been funded through international loans. The debt of the state has increased to Rs 4.71 lakh crore. While this is within the fiscal norms laid down by the centre, there is a limit to which borrowings can be hiked. Moreover, the centre has to reimburse the state its GST collection dues worth Rs 15,558 crores. Also, several investment proposals for Maharashtra never materialised because of demonetisation and the random implementation of the Goods and Services Tax.
The latest CAG report has come down heavily on the Fadnavis government saying, "Non-submission of 32750 Utilisation Certificates amounting Rs 65,921.35 crores as on March 31, 2018, indicated lack of proper monitoring by the department in utilization of grants sanctioned for specific purposes. High pendency of UCs was fraught with the risk of misappropriation of funds and fraud."
However it was the brazen arrogance of power that the BJP government wielded that cost them the people's confidence. The finest example of this was silencing the Aarey Forest protests by booking student protestors under stringent laws of IPC, which Chief Minister Thackeray withdrew as soon as he took charge. What had happened was the brazen chopping down of trees in the middle of the night combined with an absolute disinterest in even understanding the destruction unleashed in the garb of development of a car shed. The BJP has resorted to now lying by saying that important infrastructure projects have been halted, a claim that is patently untrue.
Hence this government has double the responsibility - to counter the lies and balance all sections as well as maintaining financial jurisprudence. With that in mind, the Chief Minister announced a slew of measures to help farmers, including an outreach through the decentralisation of power and taking the Chief Minister's office to all seven divisions of the state. There will be announcement of projects to boost infrastructure, spur investment and create job opportunities for the state. Apart from announcing a loan waiver of upto Rs 2 lakhs for farmers, the government has announced 50 centres initially to provide a full meal at Rs 10 for the poor. The government has also proposed setting up Krishi Samruddhi Centres across the upcoming Mumbai-Nagpur expressway for employment generation and it has committed a steel plant at Surjagad in Gadchiroli.
The results in Jharkhand showed the BJP that arrogance does not pay and one cannot try to rise at the expense of the region's aspirations. In Jharkhand, the JMM won a historic number of seats and, with a pre-poll alliance in place, will govern the state. An important lesson for the BJP in the recent elections is to trust, mutually grow and respect its alliances, especially the long-standing ones. After losing yet another state l, the BJP's footprint in the country has shrunk to 34% from 70%.
The BJP needs to realise that development cannot be an agenda for a select few, the government cannot be in the service of the privileged, it has to work for the welfare of all. The recent developments across the nation due to the bull-headedness of the centre to not engage in a dialogue with its electorate or for that matter, even elected state governments, smacks of the arrogance of power. It is a fact the Prime Minister continues to enjoy huge goodwill, however the same cannot be said of his cabinet and the BJP as a party in general. It is time that the centre addresses the urgency of the challenges that the economy faces and the unemployment crisis that is disenchanting our youth and creating further schisms in the haves and the have nots.
We were to make this country's youth our demographic dividend, the current scenario is leading the country towards a demography divided.
(Priyanka Chaturvedi is a Deputy Leader & National Spokesperson, Shiv Sena.)
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All these puzzles except one (which??) have the Fibonacci numbers as their answers.
So now you have the puzzle and the answer - so what's left? Just the explanation of why the Fibonacci numbers are the answer -that's the real puzzle!!
Puzzles on this page have fairly straight-forward and simple explanations as to why their solution invovles the Fibonacci numbers;.
Puzzles on the next page are harder to explain but they still have the Fibonacci Numbers as their solutions. So does a simple explanation exist for any of them?
Contents of this Page
Puzzles that are simply related to the Fibonacci numbers
• Brick Wall patterns o Variation - use Dominoes
• Making a bee-line with Fibonacci numbers
• Stepping Stones
• Fibonacci numbers for a change!
• Telephone Trees
• Leonardo's Leaps
• Two heads are better than one?
• Boat Building hew
• Pause for a little reflection
• A Puzzle about puzzles!
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If we want to build a brick wall out of the usual size of brick which has a length twice as long as its height, and if our wall is to be two units tall, we can make our wall in a number of patterns, depending on how long we want it:
There's just one wall pattern which is 1 unit wide - made by putting the brick on its end.
There are 2 patterns for a wall of length 2: two side-ways bricks laid on top of each other and two bricks long-ways up put next to each other.
There are three patterns for walls of length 3.
How many patterns can you find for a wall of length 4?
How may different patterns are there for a wall of length 5?
Look at the number of patterns you have found for a wall of length 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Does anything seem familiar? Can you find a reason for this?
Show me an example of whythe Fibonacci numbers are the answer
Variation - use Dominoes
A domino is formed from two squares. In this variation of the Brick Wall puzzle, we are not interested in the spots on the dominoes, just their shape. If you like, turn the dominoes over with the spots underneath so that they all look the same.
Start by placing n dominoes flat on a table, face down, and turn them so that all are in the "tall" or "8" position (as opposed to the "wide" or "oo" orientation). Pack them neatly together to make a rectangle.
Take the same number of dominoes and, using this rectangle as the picture to aim at in a jigsaw puzzle, see how many other flat patterns you can make which have exactly this shape. This time dominoes can be placed in either the tall or wide direction in your design.
Make a table of the patterns you have found and the number of patterns possible using 1 domino (easy!), 2 dominoes, 3 dominoes, and so on, not forgetting to include the original rectangle design too.
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Here is a picture of a bee starting at the end of some cells in its hive. It can start at either cell 1 or cell 2 and moves only to the right (that is, only to a cell with a higher number in it).
There is only one path to cell 1, but two ways to reach cell 2: directly or via cell 1.
For cell 3, it can go 123, 13, or 23, that is, there are three different paths. How many paths are there from the start to cell number n?
The answer is again the Fibonacci numbers. Can you explain why?
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Chairs in a row: 1
This time we have n chairs in a row and a roomful of people.
If you've ever been to a gathering where there are teachers present, you will know they always talk about their school/college (boring!). So we will insist that no two teachers should sit next to each other along a row of seats and count how many ways we can seatn people, if some are teachers © (who cannot be next to each other) and some are not ©. The number of seating arrangements is always a Fibonacci number:
2 chairs ©© or ©© or ©© 3 ways since we do not allow ©©
3 chairs ©©©, ©©©, ©©©, ©©© or ©©© 5 ways this time ©©©, ©©© and ©©© are not allowed. You can write the sequences using T for Teacher and N for Normal, oops, I mean Not-teacher !!
There will always be a Fibonacci number of sequences for a given number of chairs, if no two teachers © are allowed to sit next to each other!
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Chairs in a Row: 2
Everyone, teacher © or not must not sit on their own, but a teacher © must be next to another teacher © or the teacher will be blue, and a non-teacher © must be next to a non-teacher © or she will be red-faced with embarrassment!
So we can have ... (iiXiiXii)... since the two teachers have the other teacher next to them. The non-teacher on the right of these 3 will now also need another non-teacher on his other side so that he too is not left on his own.
A special extracondition in this puzzle is that any seating arrangement must also start with a teacher!
5 chairs: ©©©©© or ©©©©© or ©©©©© 3 ways There will always be a Fibonacci number of arrangements if we start with a teacher.
What happens if we start with a non-teacher always?
What happens if we have no restriction on the first seat?
The answers to these two questions also involve the Fibonacci numbers too!!
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Some stepping stones cross a small river. How many ways back to the bank are there if you are standing on the n-th stone? You can either step on to the next stone or else hop over one stone to land on the next.
If you are on stone number 1, you can only step (s) on to the bank: 1 route.
If you are on stone 2, you can either step on to stone 1 and then the bank (step, step or ss) OR you can hop directly onto the bank (h):
step step ss
2 sequences
From stone 3, you can step, step, step (sss) or else hop over stone 2 and then step (hs) or else step on to stone 2 and then hop over stone 1 to the bank (sh):
3 sequences
Why are the Fibonacci numbers appearing?
[With thanks to Michael West for bringing this puzzle to my attention.
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Fibonacci numbers for a change!
Some countries have coins or notes of value 1 and 2. For instance, in Britain we have coins with values 1 penny (1p) and 2 pence (2p). The USA has 1 cent and 5 cent coins but not a 2 cents coin, but it does have ten dollar and twenty dollar bills ($10, $20). This problem uses coins or notes of values 1 and 2.
If we have just 1p and 2p coins, in how many ways can we make up a given amount of money with just these two coins? For instance:-
3p = 1p+1p+1p or 1p+2p or 2p+1p -- three ways step step
Since we are letting 1p+2p and 2p+1p be different solutions, then we are interested in the order that the coins are given also. You will have guessed how many ways there are to make up 4p and the general answer by now! But the challenge is: can you explain why the Fibonacci numbers appear yet again?
Follow up: What if we are interested in collections of coins rather than sequences? Here 1p+2p is the same collection as 2p+1p. How many collections are there? If the coins sum to n pence, these are called partitions of n and have many applications.
Can you find a simple link between answers to the Change puzzle and your answers to the Stepping Stones puzzle?
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No one!
Your younger sister is playing with her colouorange rods. They are of various lengths, from single ones (length 1 which are cubes) which are orange, length 2 are magenta, length 3 are blue and so on.
length 1
length 2
length 3
length 4
length 5
However, her brother has just taken all the length 1 rods (the orange cubes) to play with but has left her with all the rest.
So in how many ways can she make a line of length N if there are no rods of length 1? For a line of length 3, she can use only a rod of length 3.
But for a line of length 4, she can use either a rod of length 4 or else two rods of length 2. When it comes to making a line of length 5, she has several ways of doing it:
one rod of length 5:
a rod of length 3 followed by one of length 2:
OR she could put the rod of length 2 first and the 3-rod after it:
We can summarise this as follows: 5 = 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 and we can collect the possibilities in a table which just uses numbers:
We can summarise this as follows: 5 = 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 and we can collect the possibilities in a table which just uses numbers:
So what we are doing is listing sums where the number ONE must not appear in the sum. The order of the numbers matters so that 2+3 is not the same sum as 3+2 in this problem.
Technically, the collection of sums which total a given value N are called the partitions of N. Here we are finding all the partitions of N that do not use the number 1. It will always be a Fibonacci number!
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Telephone Trees
Easier Fibonacci Number puzzles This problem is about the best way to pass on news to lots of people using the telephone.
We could just phone everyone ourselves, so 14 people to share the news with would take 14 separate calls. Suppose each call takes just 1 minute, then we will be on the phone at least 14 minutes (if everyone answers their phone immediately).
Can we do better than this? We could use the speakers on the phone - the "hands free" facility which puts the sound out on a speaker rather than through the handset so that others in the room can hear the call too. For the sake of a puzzle, let's suppose that 2 people hear each call. That would halve the number of calls I need to make. My 14 calls now reduces to 7.
Can we do better still?
Well, we could ask each person who receives a call to not only put the call through the loudspeakers but also to do some phoning too. So if two people hear the message, they could each phone two others and pass it on in the same way and so on. Here's what it looks like if I have 14 people to phone in this system as the calls "cascade". In the first minute, my first call is heard by A and B. A's call is heard by both C and D; B's call by E and F, and so on as in this diagram:
me first minute second minute third minute
So all 14 people have heard the news in only 3 minutes! [This is an example of recursion - applying the same optimizing principle at all levels of a problem.]
Can we do even better than this?
Yes - if all the people got together in one room, it would only take one minute! So let's assume that I cannot get everyone together and I have to use the phone.
Now here is your puzzle. The phones in my company are rather old and do not have an external speaker (and no "conference call" facility) - only one person can hear each call. So I decide that I will phone only two people using two separate calls. I shall give them the news and then ask that they do the same and phone just two more people only. What is the shortest time that the news can pass to 14 people?
1. Draw the cascade tree of telephone calls, or the telephone tree for this problem. It begins like this:
first minute A \
second minute C \ B
How does the tree continue?
2. What is the maximum number of people in the office that could hear the news within N minutes using this method? Why is the answer related to the Fibonacci numbers?
^^ Inspired by Joan Reinthaler's Discrete Mathematics is Already in the Classroom - But It's Hiding in Discrete Mathematics in Schools, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 36, 1997, pages 295-299. This is a great book!
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Leonardo's Leaps
I try and take the stairs rather than the elevator whenever I can so that I get a little more exercise these days. If I'm in a hurry, I can leap two stairs at once otherwise it's the usual one stair at a time. If I mix these two kinds of action - step onto the next or else leap over the next onto the following one - then in how many different ways can I get up a flight of n steps?
For example, for 3 stairs, I can go
1: step-step-step or else 2: leap-step or finally 3: step-leap
How many ways are there to climb a set of 4 stairs? 5 stairs? n stairs? Why? Adapted from
^^ Applied Combinatorics (Third Edition) by A Tucker, Wiley, 1995, Example 2, pages 280-281.
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Fix or Flip?
Permutations are re-arrangements of a sequence of items into another order. For instance, we can permute D,B,C,A into A,B,C,D.
before: DBCA after : ABCD
Here the D has swopped places with the A whilst the B and C have not moved.
In general, since we can place A in any of the 4 places, leaving 3 places for B (4x3=12 ways to place A and B) and so C can go in any of the remaining 2 places (so D has 1 choice left), then there are 4x3x2=24 permutations of 4 objects. In general, there are nx(n-1)x...x3x2 permutations of n objects.
Suppose we restrict how we may move (permute) an object to either fix it, leaving it in the same position or flip it with a neighbour - two items next to each other swop places (they cannot now be moved again).
However, not all permutations are made ofjust these two kinds of transformation. Here are 4 examples of permutations on 4 objects: A, B, C and D:
before after
This is not a fix-or-flip permutation since the A and D have moved more than 1 place.
before after
However, this is since nothing has moved - all 4 items were fixed!
before after
B and A have flipped and C and D remain fixed and so this is a fix-or-flip permutation.
before after
All objects have been flipped with a neighbour.
For 3 objects, ABC, we have 3x2x1=6 permutations:
before: ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC after : ABC ACB BAC BCA CAB CBA
Only the first three are fix-or-flip permutations. In the fourth A has moved more than 1 place and in the last two C has moved 2 places.
How many fix-or-flip permutations are there for 4 objects? for 5? for n objects? Why?
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Two heads are better than one?
Usually, if using a coin to make a decision, it is something like "Heads I win, Tails you lose" !!
What about tossing a coin until two heads appear one after the other? If we toss a coin twice, then there are four possible outcomes:
In only 1 of these four do we get two heads.
What happens if we have to wait for exactly three tosses before we get two heads?
TTT, TTH, THT, HTH, HTT, and THH Note that we do not have HHT or HHH as we would have got two heads after only 2 tosses which was covered earlier. So there is again just 1 way to get two heads appearing, H on the second and H on the third toss.
How many ways are there if HH appears on the 3rd-and-4th tosses? TTTT, TTTH, TTHT, TTHH, THTT, THTH, HTHH,
Can you find a method of generating all the sequences of n coin-tosses that do not have HH until the last two tosses? Can you find a formula for how many of these will end in HH?
OPTIONAL EXTRA!!! What about the number of sequences of n coin tosses that end with three Heads together? Does this have any relationship to the Fibonacci numbers?
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Leonardo's Lane
This puzzle was suggested by Paul Dixon, a mathematics teacher at Coulby Newham School, Middlesbrough. A new estate of houses is to be built on one side of a street - let's call it Leonardo's Lane. The houses are to be of two types: a single house (a detached house) or two houses joined by a common wall (called "a pair of semi-detached houses" in the UK) which take up twice the frontage on the lane as a single house.
For instance, if just 3 houses could be fitted on to the plot of land in a row, we could suggest:
DDD: Three detached houses
DDD: Three detached houses
SD: a pair of semi's first followed by a detached house
DS: a detached house followed by a pair of semi's
If you were the architect and there was space for just n dwellings on the Lane of just the two kinds mentioned above, what combinations could you use along the lane?
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Boat Building
[Suggested by Dmitry Portnoy (7th grade)]
A boat building company makes two kinds of boat: a canoe, which takes a month to make and a sailing dinghy and they two months to build.
The company only has enough space to build one boat at a time but it does have plenty of customers waiting for a boat to be built.
Suppose the area where the boats are built has to be closed for maintenance soon:
if it is closed after one more months work, the builders can only build one boat - a canoe - before then. Let's write this plan as C;
if it is to be closed after 2 months work, it can EITHER build 2 canoes (CC) OR ELSE build one dinghy (D), so there are two plans to choose from;
if it closed in three months time, it could make 3 canoes (CCC) or a dinghy followed by a canoe (DC) or a canoe and then a dinghy (CD); so there are three choices of plan. What choices are there if it closed after 4 months?
You can adapt this puzzle:
1. .. to larger boats: patrol boats taking a year to build or container ships which take two years to make
2. .. or you can make the problem smaller, and consider model boats, a small kit taking one month on your desk or a larger kit taking two months.
How many more ideas can you come up with for a similar puzzle? MEW
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If you look at a window of one sheet of flat, clear glass, what's on the other side is quite clear to see. But if you look through the same piece of glass when it is dark on the other side, for instance into a shop window when the shop is dark, you can see your own reflection. This time the clear glass is behaving like a mirror.
If you look very closely, you will see that your reflection is actually doubled - there are two images of your face side by side. This is because your image is not only reflected off the top surface of the glass but also gets reflected from the other side of the glass too - which is called internal reflection.
So a natural question is what happens if we have double glazing which has two sheets of glass separated by an air gap, that is, 4 reflecting surfaces?
Hang on a minute ... what about three surfaces?? Let's look at that first!
For three surfaces (for example two sheets of glass resting on each other) what happens depends on whether we are looking through both sheets of glass (the rays of light come in on one side of the window but exit from the other) or whether we are looking at our own reflection from the sheets (the rays of light enter and leave from the same side of the window).
We can ignore the reflection off the top surface - the light bounces off and we get one reflection. The other cases are the interesting ones - where all the reflections are internal reflections. In other words, the light rays must have actually penetrated the glass and we can get reflections from one or perhaps both or even none of the two internal surfaces. We may even get more reflections as the light bounces off the surfaces again and again, some of the light escaping each time.
The diagram here shows the possible reflections ordered by the number of internal reflections, starting with none (the light goes straight through) to a single internal reflection (from either of the internal surfaces so there are two cases) and then exactly two internal reflections and finally we have shown 3 internal reflections.
If you reflect on this, you'll notice that the Fibonacci numbers seem to be making themselves clearly visible (groan!). Why?
[Advanced puzzle: What does happen with 4 reflecting surfaces in a double glazed window?]
Reflections across Two and Three Glass Plates by V E Hoggatt Jr and Marjorie Bicknell-Johnson in The Fibonacci Quarterly, volume 17 (1979), pages 118 - 142.
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A Puzzle about Puzzles
This is a puzzle about puzzles - the puzzle is to design your own puzzle!!
You might have noticed that quite a few of the puzzles above are really "the same" but the names and situations are changed a bit. It is fairly easy to see how Leonardo's Leaps is the same as the 1p and 2p coin change puzzle and also it is just Leonardo's Lane but slightly disguised. So...
can you devise your own puzzle where the answer is the Fibonacci numbers? The reason the puzzles above are "the same" is that the explanation of the solution of each of them involves the Fibonacci (recurrence) Rule:
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2) together with the "initial conditions" that F(0)=0 and F(1)=1 Your puzzle should be based around this relationship.
Do you want to see your name on this page?
Please do email me with any new variations that you find. You can then share your idea with all the other readers of this page. Let's see how big a collection we can build!
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As discussed previously, ClickFunnels is the best sales channel software application around today.
The company makes the bold case of providing you whatever you need to market, sell, and deliver your items online – and they most definitely supply.
A common channel will use an opt-in page (to accumulate email addresses), an email auto responder (to send emails to your customers), plus an extra sales web page with some material as well as an order kind, possibly followed by added content, a membership site, and so on
. Formerly, you would need to use different platforms as well as devices to complete all of these jobs such as:
- Create a site
- Find Hosting
- Discover an autoresponder solution
- Locate membership site software application
- Discover split-testing software application … and so on
Yet ClickFunnels takes care of everything with their system. You not just conserve a ton of loan by not needing to acquire various products/services, yet you additionally stay clear of the technological mess of having to establish every little thing up, and also can focus on what's actually crucial – expanding your organisation.
ClickFunnels supplies a Totally free 14-Day Test, so you get to check out the tool and truly see if it's appropriate for your organisation.
Preferred Features
* Swiftly Develop Pages Using Templates and Elements *.
Before getting also much, it's important to comprehend that a funnel is a collection of web pages put together in a calculated order, with the goal of transforming as lots of leads into customers. And a page is merely a collection of different aspects created to obtain somebody to take a particular activity.
ClickFunnels uses more than 50 various aspects to help you build the ideal page. The editor is very simple to utilize and also all you need to do is drag and drop different aspects on the web page, and upgrade the text and also look to fit your needs – no coding abilities called for!
ClickFunnels additionally makes your life less complicated by providing you with a lots of complimentary design templates.
Actually, ClickFunnels supplies over 37 sorts of pages for you to blend as well as match with. These are broken down right into the complying with 10 classifications:
- Presell Pages: Study Web Page, Short Article Web Page, Presell Page, Clickpop Page
- Optin Pages: Press Web Page, Reverse Press Page, Lead Magnet, Promo Code
- Thank You Pages: Thanks Web Page, Offer Wall, Bridge Web Page, Share Web Page
- Sales Pages: Video Clip Sales Page, Sales Letter Web Page, Item Introduce Web Page
- OTO Pages: Upsell Page, Downsell Web Page
- Order Forms: 2 Step Order Web Page, Conventional Order Web Page, Video Clip Sales Letter Order Page, Sales Letter Order Web Page, Product Introduce Order Web Page
- Webinar Pages: Webinar Registration Page, Webinar Confirmation Page, Webinar Broadcast Space, Webinar Replay Room
- Subscription Pages: Accessibility Page, Member's Location
- Associate Pages: Accessibility Web Page, Associate Location
- Various Other Pages: Application Web Page, Ask Web Page, Store Front, Web Page, Hero Page, Hangout Page, Live Demonstration Web Page
The pre-built themes are fully personalized, and are exactly what most individuals use.
You have the ability to select a theme, edit or replace the elements with your personal, and also your new page is ready to go.
You could additionally link any funnel you develop with your personal email marketing solution (if you don't utilize the one consisted of in ClickFunnels), and also make use of the ClickFunnels built in payment system.
This is likewise a blast to discuss that ClickFunnels supplies very beneficial and understandable training video clips when you initially sign up. I very suggest going through those because they promptly enable you to utilize the tool at its full capacity, as well as you'll have extra fun messing around. Clickfunnels Edit Url
* Produce One-Click Membership Sites *.
One of the best attributes with ClickFunnels is the capacity to quickly produce membership sites and also supply web content to your audience in one location.
Your membership site will come full with enrollment pages, subscription accessibility pages, and web content web pages which you could easily secure or leak feed to your clients inning accordance with acquisitions they made in your funnel.
ClickFunnels subscription sites enable you to send out emails, easily manage your emails, as well as construct a community all while removing the stress that's connected with various other solutions such as Kajabi, or WordPress platforms.
It's really helpful to not have to get a different software or plugin to develop membership websites.
* Email Assimilation & Actionetics *.
With every funnel comes e-mail checklist building chances.
ClickFunnels supports e-mail assimilation with all of the significant e-mail automation systems such as:
- Active Campaign
- Aweber
- Constant Contact
- ConvertKit
- Drip
- Get Response
- Hubspot
- InfusionSoft
- Mad Mimi
- MailChimp
- Market Hero
- Ontraport
- Salesforce
- Sendlane
- And others
Nevertheless, ClickFunnels additionally has their own powerful automation device called Actionetics.
Although you can develop, schedule, and provide e-mails as with any other e-mail marketing system, Actionetics is so much more.
I love Actionetics since it not only replaces your e-mail marketing but messenger advertising as well as SMS advertising softwares too. This takes automation to an entire brand-new level as well as aids you interact the perfect message to your consumers, specifically when they require it. A video clip review of Actionetics will be provided even more below.
* Billing and Payment Combination *.
An impressive attribute within ClickFunnels is the ability to accumulate every one of the payment information from your customers exactly on your sales web page. Offering is made a lot simpler when customers don't have to leave your website.
ClickFunnels incorporates with major payment entrances such as PayPal, Red Stripe, and also InfusionSoft, to name a few.
ClickFunnels Prices.
While you could begin with the Free 14-Day Trial, there are three various rates alternatives with ClickFunnels:
- $ 97/month.
- $ 297/month.
- $ 997 bulk discount rate plan (advised).
I'll explain for every of these strategies listed below.
1. ClickFunnels Requirement Plan – $97/month.
The common plan consists of every one of the attributes you would certainly require within ClickFunnels, yet with limitations on the number of funnels (20) and also pages (100) you can have in your account, in addition to the number of site visitors (20K) could see your pages each month.
You additionally do not obtain advanced functionality such as ClickFunnels very own e-mail marketing and also associate monitoring devices.
2. ClickFunnels Etison Collection – $297/month.
This plan includes all the bells as well as whistles of the standard plan, without any limitations. It additionally includes 2 added products generated by ClickFunnels called Actionetics (e-mail advertising) as well as Knapsack (associate management platform).
In Actionetics – you can take care of all of your contacts that register for your checklist, send email broadcasts, as well as create a host of other automations. Clickfunnels Edit Url
The difference in between both strategies actually is the constraints, as well as Actionetics/Backpack. If you are a basic customer and don't anticipate to use greater than 20 funnels in your account – the Standard Strategy need to be adequate.
Nevertheless, if you intend to have an associate program or want to maintain your e-mail marketing within ClickFunnels and not utilize a third party software, the Etison Collection is for you.
You can always begin on the lower plan and upgrade if needed.
3. Funnel Hacks System – $997
For anybody that's serious regarding their business, the ClickFunnels Funnel Hacks System is the deal of the century.
The $997 Funnel Hacks System consists of durable training programs packed with 6-month access to the ClickFunnels Etison Collection.
This is an extraordinary offer since outside of this program, 6-months of Etison Collection alone would cost you $1782.
Not only are you saving $785 yet you're obtaining a ton of trainings and guides to help you get one of the most out of ClickFunnels!
ClickFunnels Benefits And Drawbacks
- Developing funnels is really straightforward, very easy, and also fast
- All-in-one platform with everything your service should win
- Split screening and also conversion monitoring consisted of
- Email assimilation with all of the major email autoresponder systems
- Repayment processing capabilities within ClickFunnels
- ClickFunnels is constantly adjusting and also upgrading to the times
- There is always support offered (whether real-time or not).
- Exceptionally active Facebook Group Area.
- Free 14-Day Trial – permits you to try it take the chance of totally free.
- As incredible as ClickFunnels is, it most definitely is not a low-cost solution as well as needs a constant subscription to make use of
- Assistance isn't constantly the fastest as well as may draw from 1 minute to 1 Day depending upon the issue.
ClickFunnels vs. Every person Else.
Lots of people ask exactly how ClickFunnels compares with other landing web page builders such as Leadpages, Unbounce, and Infusionsoft.
Essentially it's not truly a reasonable comparison since each of these tools succeeds is one location or the various other.
The chart over gives an extensive analysis – but I'll highlight some of the major contrasts listed below.
ClickFunnels vs Leadpages
Before ClickFunnels, Leadpages was the big dog.
Leadpages is merely a lead capture software program – nothing more. You can develop touchdown pages, lead boxes, gather leads … that's pretty much it. Furthermore, the Leadpages templates are additionally limited on customization.
ClickFunnels is far more functional – it's much easier to utilize as well as does so much more compared to produce lead capture pages.
Simply put, Leadpages is truly just a touchdown web page contractor, while ClickFunnels is focused around constructing extremely integrated funnels.
ClickFunnels vs Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is not a touchdown web page or sales web page contractor. It has some of that performance constructed it, however that's not just what it's understood for.
At it's core, Infusionsoft is a CRM system – one that permits you to handle your entire customer data source. ClickFunnels has this capacity with Actionetics, yet it's not nearly as advanced as Infusionsoft.
Infusionsoft is additionally incredibly expensive and pressures every brand-new consumer to pay $2000 for a mandatory kickstart training package just to find out the best ways to use the complicated system (which is notoriously tough to use).
ClickFunnels Affiliate Program
There are 2 major paths individuals decrease as ClickFunnels individuals.
Those that choose to make use of the tool for their service – in hopes of eventually attain the Two Comma Club (over $1M in revenue).
And also those that have an interest in making passive income as a ClickFunnels Associate and also winning the Desire Vehicle Competition (where they pay $500/$1000 in the direction of your dream auto if you reach 100/200 energetic month-to-month signups, respectively).
With a massive 40% regular monthly repeating compensation, ClickFunnels conveniently has one of the greatest affiliate programs of any system available.
That's right – you make money a continuous 40% payment on every affiliate signup you make via the ClickFunnels Associate Program. Yet, just what does that actually equate to?
The standard strategy is a $97/month financial investment and also the Etison Suite strategy is a $297/month investment. therefore you make $38.80 each standard strategy as well as $118.80 each Etison Suite plan … each and every month!
Usually, every 100 signups will certainly generate $4000/month in affiliate compensations (basically relying on how many Etison Strategy individuals are in there).
Go here to get more information about becoming a ClickFunnels Affiliate.
The Bottom Line
ClickFunnels is by far the best system if you are wanting to quickly build high converting sales funnels.
Because it was developed from the ground up to be the very best sales funnel contractor, it vanquishes all of the competition because regard.
On the surface, it may not be the least expensive product available – however if you use it to its complete ability, your business will end up being extra lucrative as well as you will certainly save money from not having to make use of other devices. Clickfunnels Edit Url
If you've read this much into my ClickFunnels Review, I advise you see on your own with a Free 14-Day Test right here.


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I'm Glad I Wasn't Drinking Anything When I Found Out the Slingers Were Returning
Because there would have been spit-takes for days!
Holy heck, you guys! The Slingers are returning to Marvel Comics in September! What a neat idea! I'm a Slingers fan from way back in the '90s, when they were actually around. And I've patiently followed the individual characters' exploits in the decade since their comic was cancelled. Did you know Prodigy was the first superhuman arrested under the Superhuman Registration Act in the first Civil War? Yep!
Anyway, writer Peter David, himself a fan of the 90s, is bringing the Slingers back in the pages of his pro-90s comic, Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider!
According to the issue solicitation, which came out today, there's someone going around in costume as a new Hornet in Las Vegas (the original died). The Slingers head to Vegas to get to the bottom of it, with Scarlet Spider caught in the middle. How many Slingers are even still around? Prodigy and Ricochet are still active, but is Dusk? I think so…
Anyway, I think it's super neat that Peter David is going to bring them out of the mothballs for a comic book adventure! I only hope he doesn't kill them all over the course of the story, or turn them into villains. It still stings what happened to Phil Urich…
Everybody Lives! (At Least the Characters I Care About)
The final issue of The Clone Conspiracy landed in our laps this week and it was actually pretty cool! The last issue was probably the best issue of the event. It had excitement, tension, team-ups, funny bits and a deep and abiding use of some of Spider-Man's strongest relationships.
And best of all, my favorite characters are still alive!
No spoilers here in the opening crawl. You'll have to join me after the jump to see who I'm talking about.
For now, I enjoyed The Clone Conspiracy for the most part, especially this final issue. But the problem with The Clone Conspiracy is that it was more idea than actual story, and even then, not a very clever or original idea. Basically, the Jackal comes back, clones a bunch more people, and when Spider-Man refuses to join him, he threatens to kill everybody. Spidey and his allies then flip a switch and the day is saved.
The event was mostly characters explaining the idea to Spider-Man, with a few twists and sub-plots peppered into inflate the running time.
Like I said, it was fine. Not writer Dan Slott's best Spider-Man event, but I enjoyed it all the same.
Now then, who gets to live?
We Are Totally Getting a Ben Reilly as Scarlet Spider Comic Book
The inevitable is now confirmed: the original Scarlet Spider will be getting his own comic again. Right now, Ben Reilly has come back from the dead in Clone Conspiracy as the semi-villainous Jackal. The story isn't over, but Marvel is totally cool about revealing that he'll survive the story and come out the other side as the star of Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider.
His costume isn't very good.
It also looks worse than the last guy to star in a Scarlet Spider comic, Kaine. That black and red costume was the bomb.
Speaking of whom, Kaine will also be a major character in the new comic, so that's awesome. I find myself liking Kaine more than Ben these days. I look forward to seeing the two of them butting heads in the new comic!
The series was announced on Comic Book Resources. You can read the brief interview with writer Peter David, whom I like, and artist Mark Bagley, whom I also like. This is a pretty awesome Spider-Man creative team.
You-Know-Who is Finally Back in Spider-Man Comics — About a Decade Too Late!
There was a big, huge, super crazy and explosive character twist in the latest issue of the Clone Conspiracy, writer Dan Slott's latest Spider-Man event comic. This was the sort of reveal that would crack the Internet in half!
And had it happened 10 years ago, I would probably be over the moon. But as it is, I'm mostly meh about the twist. It couldn't have happened at a more boring time. And I'm filled with little but dread at the future possibilities.
I don't want to spoil the reveal in case somebody really super cares, so join me after the jump for the real discussion.
Hooray, the New Scarlet Spider is Back!
So I've noticed for awhile now that I've been slacking in my blogging. I post a List of Six on Wednesdays and comic book reviews on Saturdays, and then pretty much just Youtube videos every other day. That's no way to blog! That's no way to Internet! I haven't gone on a good rant in awhile. Or written something just for the fun of it.
Well that's hopefully going to change. I need to take back this space and have some actual fun with it. And from now on, that's going to include just some quick, fun posts about my pop culture thoughts. I don't need to do full length movie reviews for everything I see; a quick review is good too. And when something happens in comics that I like, I should mention that too!
For example, as the headline suggests, Kaine is back!
I used to do full length reviews of the Scarlet Spider series back in the day because I'm a huge fan of the character. Then he was killed in Spider-Verse and that was sad. Well time heals all comic book wounds, and Kaine returned in the second issue of Clone Conspiracy this week!
This is just fun news.
I'm not going to spoil too much of Clone Conspiracy for anybody. Just gonna say that Kaine seems to be doing something heroic, and that's pretty cool. I hope writer Dan Slott has some fun plans for him.
To explain why I care, the original Clone Saga in the 1990s was my first real entry into comics. I started out reading the leftovers from when my dad collected in the 60s and 70s, but the 90s was when my brother and I really dove in for ourselves, and Spider-Man was our entry point. We loved the Clone Saga, and especially loved Ben Reilly, the original Scarlet Spider. Kaine was cool too.
Flash forward to now, and while Ben died a long time ago, Kaine continues to be an ever-evolving character who is actually a pretty cool guy. He's this jerk clone of Peter Parker who still has spider-powers and is trying to sort of do some good with his life. He's like Spider-Man's jackass cousin, and is definitely the best lasting effect from the original Clone Saga.
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You will learn: The precise meaning of the essential accounting terms The purpose of the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement The differences between cash based and accrual based accounting The 'revenue recognition' principle and the 'matching' principle How depreciation, prepayments and bad debt are allowed for I Was Never One for Finance Like any manager, my focus was on getting the best out of my team and improving the bottom-line of the company.
As a result, I was constantly devising strategies and plans to enhance productivity and commitment. I was never one for finance.
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The people in finance kept trying to explain what the statements showed but I didn't learn too much from them. Their eBook on Accounting Principles takes the technical aspect out of financial statements and strips them down to their bare bones. For a non-accounting person like me, this is something very important.
Now I have a clear idea of what the three major statements, i. Not only that, I can measure the performance of my team in terms of tangible numbers, something I previously used to overlook.
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After reading Accounting Principles, I started working in tandem with the accountants to find ways to curb the outflow of cash. This is an achievement for someone unfamiliar with even the basic accounting concepts before then. In the current economic climate, it is important for business managers to have a keen insight into the accounting aspect of their company.
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For instance, I had no idea what accrual based accounting was but I do now. Same goes for the revenue recognition and matching principles of accounting. I was confused about the expenses which have to be accounted for yet where no money is being spent, like depreciation and bad debts. Let alone understand how they are shown in the accounts, I didn't have a clue why they were termed as expenses in the first place.
I am to the point in my career where it's time to dive into the accounting world if I want to be promoted. Because I thought that accounting was so complex, I have always let others take over that aspect of the business.
I really needed a basic book with terms simply defined so that an average person, without an accounting background, could understand. Thankfully for my career, I have found it! This book is free and only 30 pages long. It does not get any more simplistic than that. Before this book, I could not tell you what an income statement, balance sheet, or statement of cash flow was.
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Controversial Athletes Are Here To Stay
Whatever you make of the arrogant demeanour, or questionable views of athletes such as Conor McGregor, controversial athletes may well continue to play a key role in growing sports, both financially and by attracting new fans. Most recently, McGregor's brand has become the blueprint for other fighters, such as Colby Covington, who has described himself as the "super villain" of the UFC. Covington's deliberately inflammatory statements – such as calling a Brazilian crowd in Sao Paolo "filthy animals" whilst wearing a MAGA in support of Donald Trump – highlight how other athletes have cottoned on to the fact that using controversy, whether being genuine or not, can increase their stock.
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Every democracy survives on the basis of fair and constructive criticism. However, ever since prime minister Modi came to power in 2014, the Congress has shown its true colours. The poor standard of debate and criticism by the Congress is unbecoming of the oldest party in India. Several Congress leaders have come out making unacceptable personal remarks about prime minister Modi that do not set a very good precedent for times to come. They have brazenly resorted to name calling and connecting prime minister Modi with what the Congress thinks are menial jobs. This reeks of elitism and disrespect towards certain professions. It is disgusting that in a democratic country, the Congress has the audacity to look down upon certain professions.
This trend of name calling started with Sonia Gandhi's maut ka saudagar (merchant of death) barb at Modi. At that time he was the Gujarat chief minister. After that, the Congress has not been able to hold its horses and in the process has shown its elitist and stereotypical mindset. The biggest indication of Congress' elitist mindset rooted in the Lutyens' culture was at display when senior Congress leader, Mani Shankar Aiyar called prime minister Modi 'chaiwala' and had the audacity to state that a chaiwala cannot become the prime minister. This actually came back to haunt the Congress as the electorate punished it for its elitist mindset and also gave prime minister Modi a narrative to push during the 2014 elections.
One would have thought that the Congress would rein in Aiyar following this controversy. But the fact remains that the Congress leadership does not feel that there is anything wrong with this attitude. That is why Aiyar recently again made a contemptible barb at prime minister Modi and called him 'neech' (a lowly person). This shows that the Congress openly propagates that only the elites who belong to the Lutyens' zone have the right to power corridors of the country while all others will be looked at as inferiors.
It is not only the Gandhi sycophants who have been making such contemptuous remarks. Even the Congress president Rahul Gandhi has been guilty of indulging in name calling and ugly criticism about the present prime minister. Rahul Gandhi's recent "jawano ke khoon ki dalali" comment about prime minister Modi has not gone down very well given the dignity of the post that prime minister Modi is holding. However, the Congress chief crossed all his limits when he went overboard with his baseless allegations about the Rafale deal and openly called prime minister Modi a thief. Speaking at a public rally in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi went on to say that "Gali gali mein shor hai, Hindustan ka chowkidar chor hai (There is noise everywhere, the country's guard is a thief)." It seems that after all stereotypical references to prime minister Modi in the past, Congress and its leadership is now referring to him as chowkidar which once again shows the classist attitude that forms an intrinsic part of the Congress.
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