Summer Renaissance by the queen B is our jam of the week!
Paperazzi Picks
Namah, a new brand on the block is doing contemporary wear and we love it when the local brands do it right! This black embellished jacket is definitely a head-turner.
Food
The Chocolate Cake at Dilara is every chocolate lover’s dream. It’s rich, decadent and would certainly fulfil your dessert cravings. Ah, heavenly!
Best Buys
The Caesar Lamp by Designs of a Pasha are a statement piece, perfect for adding a pop of colour to the room. Priced at 18,000 each.
Netflix
House of the dragon is a prequel of Game of Thrones, set about 200 years before the events of GOT. Remember the great civil war that tore the Targaryen family apart? This show is all about the origins of that war and we’re clearly hooked!
Hot Couple
Rumour has it that Dua Lipa and Trevor Noah are dating after they were spotted dining out together in New York City. Hot couple or no?
Hot Stuff
iPhone 14 plus arrived today with a 6.7 inch screen and a longer battery life. It starts at $899 and is available in 5 different colours.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a yearly initiative to increase understanding of this complicated condition and collect money for studies into its causes, remedies, and cure. Every October since 1985, groups of people, organizations, and towns have come together to demonstrate their support for the numerous breast cancer survivors. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a good opportunity to think back and help others.
Pakistan has the highest incidence rate of breast cancer among Asian countries. One in every nine women has a lifetime risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Different people will experience different breast cancer symptoms. Some people completely lack any symptoms or warning indications.
Some indicators of breast cancer include:
New lump in the breast or underarm (armpit).
Swelling or thickening of a breast region.
Breast skin irritation or dimpling.
Redness or flaky skin, in the breast or nipple area.
Nipple pulling in or pain/discomfort in the nipple area.
Nipple discharge other than breast milk, including blood.
Any modification to the size or shape of the breast.
Pain in any area of the breast.
Remember that illnesses other than cancer might cause similar symptoms as well. Be sure to visit a physician if you experience any warning signs or symptoms.
Effectively reaching your target audience is one of the major challenges you face as a marketer. Getting the appropriate message to the right audience is the core objective of digital marketing. You must learn how to effectively reach your target market if you want to achieve that correctly.
Your effort and money will be wasted if you sell your goods to the incorrect demographic. To promote your products, you must determine how to get in front of your target market. Here are the actions you need to follow to reach your target audience more successfully.
Step 1: Define your target audience:
You must first identify your target audience to reach them. To achieve this, create a consumer persona. A generic description of your ideal customers is known as a customer or buyer persona. To better understand your target audience, you list their preferences and demographic and psychographic characteristics.
Then you can only advertise your company and its goods to people who are really interested in them. As a result, there will be a greater likelihood of leads and conversions. By doing this, you can make more money with less investment.
Step 2: Create useful and relevant content
Providing your target audience with relevant and helpful material is the best method to attract their attention. Your audience will be more receptive to your writing if you write about subjects that they are interested in.
Video marketing – Videos have a very interactive and engaging quality. A high-quality video can quickly grab the audience’s attention.
Blog posts and articles – While written material may not be as effective as movies and photos, it still aids in capturing your audience’s attention. Just be sure the subjects you write about are both interesting to and helpful to your intended audience.
Social media content – Social media platforms are another way to reach your target audience. You can communicate with them more effectively and engage them with a combination of text, graphics, and videos.
Step 3: Influencer marketing
Digital marketers have quickly adopted influencer marketing as their preferred method of advertising. The strength of social media influencers might help you more successfully connect with your target market. You collaborate with influencers in this type of marketing to promote your company to their audiences. Influencer marketing is a highly successful marketing strategy that can assist you in achieving a variety of marketing objectives.
You can contact potential clients who could be interested in your brand or niche by collaborating with relevant influencers from that field. This enables the development of qualified leads and aids in reaching your target market.
Step 4: Use targeted advertising
By implementing tailored advertising, you can more successfully contact your targeted audience. Whether you’re using social network ads or Google ads, each one offers sophisticated targeting tools to help you find your target market. Based on the audience’s demographics, geographic area, and interests, you can target the adverts.
This will guarantee that only people who are likely to be interested in your brand will see your adverts. This means that reaching your target audience, who are more likely to convert than anyone else, doesn’t require you to spend a fortune on advertising.
Step 5: Referral marketing
A referral scheme is used by many companies to increase their clientele and produce leads. You can leverage the strength of your existing clientele to increase your reach by implementing a referral system. You can offer a referral code to your clients and reward them for spreading the word. You may rapidly and cheaply contact your target audience in this manner.
The people that sign up via such a technique might be enthusiastic about your company and its goods. Businesses have benefited from using this technique to expand and build their networks.
Step 6: Use hashtags
Social media platforms are crucial for reaching your target audience because consumers are spending more time on them. However, you must employ hashtags to target potential customers for your brand.
You can increase the audience for your social media material by using appropriate, sector-specific hashtags. Additionally, it will ensure that it is seen by those who could truly be interested in it.
BRB Group, a premier luxury real estate developer of Pakistan, sponsors Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Pathway Cricket Programme with the aim to bring forth and promote local talent. BRB Group is well-known for its commitment to support such initiatives that focus on enhancing the local talent and empower them to compete in international arenas.
The PCB-BRB Group partnership will support 100 junior cricketers by providing them PKR 30,000 monthly retainer while bearing the cost of their education. The Quetta Gladiator’s Titanium Sponsor and Housing Partner during PSL 7 was ecstatic to be able to play its part in strengthening the cricket ecosystem of the country.
Chairman PCB, Ramiz Raja, also thanked Khawaja Bilal Azam, Chairman BRB Group, for his company’s contribution towards this great cause and said that Pathway Cricket Programme is very close to his heart.
Ramiz Raja while addressing the media during the event mentioned that “we want to thank the BRB Group for their support for the PCB Pathway Cricket Programme that will shape the future of Pakistan cricket. I have personally taken great interest in the project, and it remains very close to my heart.”
Mr. Khawaja Bilal Azam while speaking on the matter also explained that this is just the beginning and, in the future, BRB Group will strengthen this initiative further by expanding the horizon of the programme to support and promote the sport in the country. He believed BRB Group is elated to be able to contribute to the development of future stars by making a long-term commitment. Terming the programme revolutionary and much-needed to groom local talent, Mr Khawaja Bilal Azam said that “we closely followed the progress of the first camp last month. We are very pleased with the way the programme is being run especially the involvement of world-class foreign coaches.”
Ramiz Raja couldn’t contain his excitement during the event and compared the initiative with scoring a century on debut at Lord’s.
Raja was quoted saying that “today is a special day for me, I took the charge as the PCB Chairman with some dreams and the pathway cricket programme is surely one of them. It feels like scoring a century on debut at Lord’s.”
Chairman PCB considers this partnership with BRB Group as a “long-term asset-building alliance,” as the junior cricketers who will get monthly stipend and free education will go on to represent Pakistan in future. It is undoubtedly a unique initiative that may help Pakistan bring home several trophies and joy home.
According to a study on Islamophobia conducted by the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV), India is the country where anti-Muslim content on Twitter is most prevalent.
The ICV, an Australian-based Muslim organization that represents 270,000 members of the community, discovered that 55.12% of the Islamophobic propaganda on Twitter comes from India. 86% of the anti-Muslim tweets were from the UK, the US, and India. Only 14.83% of the hate content was removed during 2017-2019. Comments of politicians can have a “considerable impact on the prevalence of Islamophobia”
According to the study, political commentary can have a significant effect on the prevalence of Islamophobia. Together, three nations were discovered to have posted 86% of the anti-Muslim comments on the micro-blogging website.
While the UN had cautioned last year that Islamophobia has “epidemic proportions,” platforms like Twitter have done nothing to delete such information but have urged the international community to combat anti-Muslim prejudice.
According to the report, the US, the UK, and India produced most of the content from 2017 to 2019. According to TRT World, social media users in India have accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of promoting bigotry and discrimination.
The report also points out that Donald Trump, a former US president, frequently appeared in anti-Muslim tweets. The UK’s anti-Islam sentiment extends beyond social media, as seen by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s casual comparison of Muslim women who wear the niqab to “letter boxes.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s cause of death is listed as “old age”, in the register of deaths published on Thursday.
Paul Lowe, the registrar general for Scotland, verified that the Queen’s death was reported on September 16 in Aberdeenshire.
According to the record, the 96-year-old queen passed away on September 8 at 3:10 p.m. at Balmoral Castle in Ballater. Princess Anne registered her mother’s death.
Douglas James Allan Glass is noted as the certifying registered medical practitioner. There were no additional causes of death given, only old age. The doctor who certified the death at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire was Douglas Glass, whom Buckingham Palace says was an “apothecary to the Queen”.
According to the records, the Queen passed away just over three hours before Buckingham Palace released a statement at 6.30 p.m. announcing the news.
Old age is admissible if the physician who certified the patient’s death had provided long-term care, was unaware of any illness or injury that may have led to the patient’s demise, and had noticed a steady deterioration in the patient’s overall health and functional state.
During her later years, the Queen had intermittent mobility issues and frequently used a walking stick in public. She started using a walking stick after being hospitalized in a private London hospital in October of last year for “preliminary investigations” — her first overnight stay in eight years.
Global leaders recognised the contribution the Queen had given to the world over her 70-year reign, and on September 19, the world said goodbye to the monarch with a state funeral drenched in the spectacle.
Presidents, prime ministers, members of the royal family, and dignitaries gathered at Westminster Abbey for a solemn service as tens of thousands of people flocked to the nearby streets and the 25-mile route of the procession from central London to Windsor in an effort to see the sovereign’s flag-draped coffin as it traveled by hearse to her final resting place.
Calm down by Rema & Selena Gomez is our jam for the week!
Paperazzi Picks
Leave it to We Wear Zola to come up with up exceptional stuff. A local brand nailing western wear so we don’t have to worry about getting it from abroad. Also, kudos to the team for a striking creative direction. Definitely a treat for the eyes and the wardrobe!
Food
The Summer Salad from The FigTree Restaurant consists of greens, peaches, candied walnuts, beetroot and in-house made feta served with a super yum vinaigrette. It’s healthy yet delish and we couldn’t ask for more!
Best Buys
Pierregemme by Hur’s Ocean Rings are super quirky yet make a statement accessory. We’re obsessed!
Netflix
We’re currently watching Dahmer, a Netflix series that follows the murders of the late infamous serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. It’s a crime drama with some twists and turns, definitely not for the faint-hearted but an interesting show!
Hot Couple
Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Taylor York just confirmed they’re dating and we’re so happy for them. Such a cute couple!
Hot Stuff
The Saint Laurent SS23 show was all about ultra-refined, elongated silhouettes. We’re digging the muted coloured long wool coats & trenches with shoulder pads. A major inspo for the upcoming fall season!
While a smartphone, tablet, or computer can be a very useful tool, excessive usage of these gadgets can have a negative impact on relationships, jobs, and education. It may be time to re-evaluate your technology use if you find that you spend more time on social media or playing video games than you do engaging with actual people.
You may overcome the habit and achieve a better balance in your online and offline lives by using these suggestions.
Put your phone aside one day of the week:
Take active measures to control your cell phone use. Set your phone away one day every week (often a Saturday or Sunday). Make it a habit after that.
Modify the phone’s settings:
One of the most popular suggestions for limiting cell phone use is to change your phone’s settings.
The most typical suggestions are:
Set a longer passcode, use airplane mode, disable notifications, change the screen to black and white, remove distraction-generating apps from your home screen, and enable do not disturb.
Delete addictive apps:
Your likelihood of using your phone decreases with the reduction in the need to glance at it. Consider removing the app that gets the most use on your device.
Try removing certain apps from your phone for a few days, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, or several games you play excessively. After a few days, if you feel more in control of your phone usage, you might think about reinstalling some of them.
Don’t charge your phone near your bed:
Do you want to know a wonderful way to put your phone away? Don’t charge it in your bedroom.
By keeping your cell phone out of your bedroom, you can avoid many of the side effects of excessive use such as bad sleep and hampered communication.
Make it difficult to use smartphones:
When we keep our gadgets next to our bedside tables, in our purses, or our pockets, we make it far too simple for someone to take them up and start browsing. The theory is that if you give something a little friction or deterrence, people will be less likely to do it.
You can make your device just functional enough to save you the effort of checking it by putting it in another room or locking it away. It might be enough of a deterrent to limit your use if you do something as easy as wrapping your phone in a hairband.
Apps for productivity:
The app gives you the power to change bad habits by giving you the flexibility to set your time limits with features like “alerts,” “take a break,” and “planned breaks.” When necessary, these capabilities can assist you in managing and restricting your consumption.
Get over your fear of missing out:
Learn to accept the possibility of missing out on things. When we check our phones most of the time, we find nothing interesting. Each of us has the ability to rule our own lives. Use your ability to break free from your phone and resume enjoying life.
Apple reportedly urged its suppliers to enhance iPhone manufacturing with the introduction of the iPhone 14 series since the company anticipated high demand during the holiday shopping season. However, it now appears that Apple has gone back on its plans as the company will no longer increase iPhone 14 production soon.
Tuesday’s Bloomberg report stated that the sales of the iPhone 14 are insufficient to support the increase in production. The report says that “an anticipated surge in demand failed to materialize.” Typically, Apple ups its manufacturing at this time of year to match the demand of the holiday shopping season.
According to sources cited in the report, Apple’s initial goal was to produce at least 6 million extra iPhone 14 units by the end of the year. That scheme has now been abandoned.
Recently, Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst, claimed that Apple had asked Foxconn to produce the iPhone 14 Pro at 10% more. The expert claims that the Pro models are by far the most popular iPhones this year, while sales of the standard iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus have been “poor.”
The new phones’ beginning price points of $799 for the iPhone 14 and $899 for the iPhone 14 Plus are quite like those of the iPhone 14 Pro, which starts at $999 and includes a brand-new always-on display with Dynamic Island, a 48-megapixel wide camera, and the new A16 Bionic CPU.
The largest smartphone market in the world, China, is experiencing a severe economic downturn that has impacted domestic producers of mobile devices as well as the sales of the iPhone. According to a Monday report from Jefferies, purchases of the iPhone 14 series during its first three days of availability in China were 11% lower than those of its predecessor the year before.
Additionally, the world’s demand for personal electronics has been restrained by the Ukraine conflict, fears of a recession, and rising prices. According to estimates from industry watcher IDC, the smartphone market is anticipated to decline by 6.5% this year to 1.27 billion units.
Meanwhile, Apple continues to offer the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12 at lower costs, which some customers might find more alluring than the forthcoming iPhone 14.
Habit tracking is a way for you to monitor how well your daily, weekly, or monthly habits are being maintained. An effective habit tracker can take many different forms, from an advanced app to a piece of paper and a pen.
Why tracking your habits is beneficial?
Tracking habits is the key to building new habits. By tracking your habits you’ll have a better chance of succeeding. You’ll feel more in control of your future and more self-assured by breaking down your big goals into manageable habits and keeping track of them.
Having a tracking habit encourages us to remain dedicated. Without any form of accountability, we are more likely to completely forget about our new habits.
Tracking habits gives you motivation and acts as a reward. You can keep track of your habits and form new ones by employing these strategies.
1. Bullet Journal
A bullet journal is one of the most popular techniques for tracking habits. All you need to create a habit tracker is a pen and notebook, the name of your habit, and some space next to it for tracking.
2. Printed Templates
Printed templates are another way to track your habits. Choose a printable template to save time if you find the drawings and fillings required to complete a Bullet Journal to be tiresome. There are many free printable templates available online and you can pick one according to your liking.
Computerized habit tracking is another method used to track habits if you don’t prefer the manual method. If you have an aptitude for numbers and statistics, you can use spreadsheet programs like MS Excel or Google Sheets.
4. Habit Tracking App
The use of a smartphone or browser-based app is the most advanced and digitalized method of habit tracking. You can easily use these apps without spending a lot of time creating templates.