Archive for August, 2009

Outsourcing Can Help Grow Your Business

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Outsourcing is when you hire outside professionals or
services to take on part of your business workload. You
may want to outsource part of your work because you
don’t have the room, you need an expert, you have
periodic busy periods, or you need more production to
get orders out on time, etc. The following are ten ways
outsourcing can save [...]

Upsell Strategies That Will Increase Your Profits

Monday, August 24th, 2009

As you know it can be very expensive to attract new
customers. You can cut down on those expenses
by “upselling” to those new customers. For example,
let’s say you’re selling a computer with a 15″ monitor
for $1200. You tell people they can upgrade to a 17″
monitor for only $200 more. That’s upselling! Your
goal is to get more [...]

Tips For Writing A Profit Producing Ad

Monday, August 24th, 2009

1. You can get ad copy ideas by studying similar
product’s advertising material. Collect their sales
letters, classified ads, web ads, e-mail ads, etc.
2. Know exactly what you want your ad copy to
accomplish. It could be to qualify prospects, make
sales, generate leads, attract web traffic, etc.
3. Make a complete list of your product’s benefits
and features. Begin your [...]

Chan krasna (Cambodia); Agarwood (India); Alas, Garu, Gaharu,Ingkaras, Kaju alim, Kaju gaharu, Tanduk and Tengkaras (Indonesia); and Mai Kotsana (Laos).

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

INTRODUCTION
The Standard Malaysian Name for the timber of Aquilaria spp. (Thymelaeaceae). Vernacular names applied include kekaras (Peninsular Malaysia) and tengkaras (Peninsular Malaysia) for the normal wood and aloes wood (Peninsular Malaysia) and eagle wood (Peninsular Malaysia) for the diseased wood. Only one species is of importance, viz. A. malaccensis. The sapwood is not differentiated from [...]

aquilaria agallocha

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

The Forestry Compendium gives the following information for
Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. A. agallocha). I couldn’t find any publications
on A. malaccensis/A. agallocha in Brazil on TREE-CD.
For further information about the Forestry Compendium or TREE-CD
send an e-mail to publishing@cabi.org
Tim Green
Forestry Compendium
CAB International
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PREFERRED NAME
Aquilaria malaccensis Lam.
TAXONOMIC POSITION
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Thymelaeales
Family: Thymelaeaceae
OTHER NAMES USED
Aquilaria agallocha Roxb.
Aquilaria ovata Cav.
Agallochum [...]

gaharu ( valuable plan )

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Gaharu is a kind of timber with different shape and color of the special, and have a fragrant resin matrix measure, comes from a tree or part of gaharu tree that grows naturally and has been dead, as a result of the infections that occur either naturally or are made on the tree , and [...]

The Fact of gaharu

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Introduction Main Karas
bullet Aquilaria spp. is a principal in the family Thymelaecae.
Main bullet that has been cooked up so that it will be 40 meters high and berdiameter 40cm.
Main Karas bullet in the forest semulajadi resin gaharu issue began at the age of 20 to 45 years, depending on the resilience of principal and principal [...]

Why Gaharu/Agarwood is chosen?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Gaharu be one of the not wood forest result commodity (Indonesian called “HHBK”). The price is very special when compared with another HHBK. The high selling price of the Gaharu pushes society to cacth the opportunity. For example, in the early year 2001, at East Borneo (Kalimantan Timur) precisely at pujangan (kayan) Gaharu price can [...]

sustainable agarwood production aquilaria trees

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood, jinkoh, gaharu are names for the world’s most valuable incense. This resinous material is produced by tropical rainforest trees and has been used for centuries as incense and in traditional medicine. In the past, old growth Aquilaria and Gyrinops trees were indiscriminately cut to find the resin (usually hidden within the center [...]

AGARWOOD CONFERENCE

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I have just returned from three weeks in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. I was there for agarwood, my fixation, addiction and passion for the past 10 years. I am not a scientist but a sensualist and aromatic maven. I met an agarwood distiller friend in Laos, an unusual and also addicted person known locally [...]