PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

8 Tips Menjual Sukses

saco-indonesia.com, Berikut ini delapan tips belajar cara menjual yang sukses. Mari simak…

• ACTION. Seperti kalau anda ingin bisa berenang, anda harus ACTION berenang. Nyemplung ke dalam kolam, dan mulai belajar renang. Begitupun kalau anda mau pintar berjualan, anda harus mulai menjual. Jika anda tak pernah mencoba menjual, anda tak akan pernah tahu bagaimana rasanya menjual. Yang perlu anda lakukan hanyalah cari produk dan tawarkan ke orang. Baik anda lakukan itu secara online maupun offline.
  Dan tak perlu peduli seandainya anda belum berhasil menjual di kesempatan pertama. Ndableglah! Tetap semangat tawarkan produk anda sampai terjadi penjualan!
• Antisipasi penolakan. Ditolak saat anda hendak menjual itu sudah biasa. Yang penting, anda tahu apa alasan mereka menolak penjualan anda. Biasanya orang menolak karena misal tidak punya uang, tidak suka produknya, dan sebagainya. Karena itu, anda harus siapkan jawaban untuk semua penolakan itu.
• Siapa prospek anda. Kenali siapa orang yang mau anda tawari produk anda. Mengenali prospek amat penting agar anda bisa menjual dengan lebih efektif.
• Yakin. Yakinlah kalau anda bisa menjual. Saat menawarkan yakinlah kalau anda bisa closing. Yakinlah bahwa anda punya penawaran yang dahsyat.
• Tawarkan ke lebih banyak orang. Ilmu menjual sebenarnya sederhana. Semakin banyak yang anda tawari, semakin besar penjualan tercipta. Jadi, rajinlah untuk mencari prospek.
• Jangan pernah menyerah. Tidak mudah patah semangat. Terus jual, jual, dan jual! Tak ada satupun yang akan membuat semangat anda turun.
• Jangan anggap sales. Saat anda menawarkan, jangan pernah menganggap anda sebagai sales sekalipun itu posisi anda. Sebab akan banyak yang memandang sebelah mata. Sebaliknya, bersikaplah seperti CEO. Bayangkan anda sebagai CEO dan anda akan terlihat berbeda.
• Cek suara. Cek 1, 2, 3! ya, seperti kalau anda cek sound, suara anda harus mantap. Jangan sampai suara anda terdengar membosankan. Suara yang mengesankan ini penting kalau anda ketemu orang langsung maupun untuk video/audio marketing.
  Anda bisa rekam suara anda dan putar ulang untuk mengetahui bagaimana suara anda. Minta pendapat dari teman bagaimana mengenai suara anda tersebut.

Inilah delapan tips cara belajar menjual agar berhasil. Mari praktekkan.

Salam ACTION!

CARA BERBISNIS JASA RENTAL MOBIL

kira- kira apa ya yang dibutuhkan untuk dapat menjadi pengusaha rental mobil??? bisnis ini memang tergolong sangat menjanjikan karna selain perputaran uang nya yang cepat juga pangsa pasarnya dari golongan menengah keatas dan menengah kebawah... tentu saja hal yang telah dibutuhkan pertama adalah mobilnya!!! bener tidak??? hehehehehe... kalau tidak ada mobil, delman juga tidak papa.,,.. (kidding)

1. Jika anda mempunyai mobil pribadi dengan tahun muda dan tidak terlalu banyak digunakan, sebaiknya dititipkan saja dengan perusahaan rental mobil yang nanti dimana ada perjanjian kontrak perjanjian sewa mobil antara anda pemilik mobil dan pihak perusahaan rental mobil sekian tahun , tentunya anda juga menitipkan mobil anda dengan orang yang anda bisa percaya dan dapat dipertanggung jawabkan.
Apabila ada kerusakan dan perbaikan adalah tanggung jawab dari perusahaan rental mobil itu tersebut itu harus ada didalam perjanjian kontrak.

2. Jika Anda ingin mengelola usaha ini sendiri, hal yang paling utama adalah pemasaran dari sewa mobil anda, Intinya marketingnya harus bagus... kalau tidak ada marketing  bisa- bisa mobil anda mandek semua
dan tidak jalan karna tidak ada yang order,, karna tidak tau... hehehehehe.. anda harus bisa kalkulasi kira minimal berapa kali mobil keluar dalam 1 bulan baik itu klien tetap ataupun klien baru pengguna jasa mobil anda, dari sana anda bisa kalkulasi dan mempekerjakan supir untuk rental

3. Mulailah terima order dari yang kecil-kecil dulu.. misalnya antar jemput untuk wilayah jakarta , antar jemput bandara, jemputan hotel.

4. Untuk dapat menghitung laba anda minimal anda harus tau type mobil yang bagaimana menghabiskan bensin untuk 50km meter berapa liter, atau daripada anda pusing- pusing anda cukup menyewakan mobil saja dan bensinnya biar Customer anda yang mengisi dengan catatan pada saat mobil disewa bensin full dan pulang ke kembali ya harus Full..

5. Pergunakanlah media internet sebagai salah satu promosi jasa rental mobil anda, zaman sekarang orang lebih sering mengakses om Google dari pada membaca surat kabar, entah itu anda buat web, iklan dsbnya.. yang penting promosi rental mobil anda dapat dibaca oleh orang yang mengakses internet baik melalui Handphone atau komputer, Laptop dan Ipad. serta jangan lupa buat kartu nama dan brosur untuk menunjang bisnis anda. Apalagi anda mempunyai teman yang paham tentang blog. web dan internet bagaiama caranya
iklan atau web anda muncul dihalaman pertama google dari keyword atau kata kunci yang dicari orang ini merupakan nilai++ bagi anda.. Karna Order kan cepat Datang... TArARARARA...

6. Usahakan terima order sewa mobil 1 hari sebelumnya untuk meminimalis kekacauan jadwal user.
     Kalau anda ada dana berlebih pasanglah GPS pada masing mobil anda untuk memantau di daerah mana mobil anda saat itu dan untuk meminimkan resiko dijalan.

7. Jika anda membuka lowongan untuk driver maka hal yang penting untuk diperhatikan selain pandai mengemudi dan hapal wilayah dalam kota ataupun luar kota jakarta  adalah sikap dan tata krama driver... karna dia lah yang akan menentukan  citra baik dan buruknya rental mobil anda dimata klien.. jika bagus dan klien suka, maka dia akan langganan dengan jasa sewa mobil anda. Untuk menerima driver untuk rental mobil anda surveilah rumah mereka agar andatau keaadaan dari calon driver anda, hal ini juga akan meminimkan resiko penipuan...

8. jangan lupa cek pasaran harga sewa mobil yang diberikan oleh perusahaan rental mobil agar harga sewa yang anda berikan tidak terlalu mahal dan tidak terlalu murah, biasanya sewa mobil per 12 jam dalam kota/ per 24 jam luar kota

SETYA KEMBALI DIPERIKSA KPK

saco-indonesia.com, Bendahara Umum Partai Golkar Setya Novanto telah kembali dipanggil oleh penyidik Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK). Kali ini, Setya juga akan diperiksa dalam kasus dugaan suap penanganan sengketa Pilkada di Mahkamah Konstitusi.

"Diperiksa sebagai saksi terkait dugaan TPK atas tersangka Akil M," ujar Juru Bicara KPK Johan Budi SP, melalui pesan singkat.

Selain Setya, penyidik KPK juga akan memanggil Sekretaris Jenderal Partai Golkar Idrus Marham. Idrus rencananya juga akan diperiksa sebagai saksi dalam kasus yang sama dengan Setya.

Belum dapat diketahui apa kaitan Setya dan Idrus dalam kasus yang telah menjerat mantan Ketua MK Akil. Namun, berdasarkan informasi yang telah dihimpun, pemanggilan keduanya berkaitan dengan sengketa Pilkada di Jawa Timur.

Diketahui, Setya bolak balik diperiksa penyidik KPK dalam kasus suap PON Riau. Setya telah menjadi saksi untuk tersangka Rusli Zainal, gubernur Riau non-aktif.

Oleh Nazaruddin, terpidana dalam kasus suap Wisma Atlet Palembang, Setya disebut terlibat dalam dugaan korupsi proyek e-KTP. KPK belum mendalami kasus ini.

Dalam kasus Akil sendiri, sejumlah pejabat negara telah ditetapkan sebagai tersangka. Yakni Gubernur Banten Ratu Atut Chosiyah, adiknya Atut, Tubagus Chaery Wardana alias Wawan, pengacara Wawan bernama Susi Tur Andayani, anggota DPR Chairunnisa, Bupati terpilih Gunung Mas Kalimantan Tengah Hambit Bintih. Akil diduga telah menerima pemberian hadiah atau janji terkait kepengurusannya dalam Ketua MK.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

CARA NABI MUHAMMAD SAW MELAKSANAKAN MANASIK HAJI

Haji adalah ibadah wajib bagi umat Islam yang mampu melaksanakannya, baik mampu secara fisik,mental, maupun finansial.

Menurut para ulama, kewajiban menunaikan ibadah haji dan umrah diterima oleh Rasulullah SAW pada tahun 6 Hijriah/628 Masehi. Untuk menjalankan perintah Allah SWT tersebut, pada tanggai 6 Dzulqa’dah tahun 6 Hijriah, Rasulullah SAW bersama 1.500 pengikutnya bertolak menuju Makkah untuk melaksanakan umrah.

Namun, di tengah perjalanan tepatnya di daerah Hudaibiyah yang berjarak sekitar sembilan mil dari Makkah, mereka dicegat oleh orang- orang kafir. Menghindari pertumpahan darah, kaum muslimin bersedia melakukan perundingan dengan orang-orang kafir.

Dalam perundingan itu, sebuah kesepakatan yang kemudian dikenal dengan Perjanjian Hudaibiyah diteken oleh kedua belah pihak. Salah satu butir dalam isi perjanjian tersebut adalah bahwa kaum muslim tidak diperkenankan melaksanakan ibadah haji tahun itu. Mereka baru diizinkan pada tahun berikutnya, itu pun hanya dalam waktu tiga hari.

Sebelum Rasulullah SAW melakukan ibadah haji, konon beliau sudah pernah melakukan umrah sebanyak empat kali. Demikian diriwayatkan dari Aisyah, Ibnu Umar, dan Anas bin Malik. Umrah pertama dilakukan pada tahun 6 Hijriah/628 Masehi atau dikenal dengan umrah Hudaibiyah.

Umrah kedua dilakukan pada tahun berikutnya, umrah ketiga pada bulan Dzulqa’dah tahun yang sama, dan umrah keempat ketika beliau mengerjakan ibadah haji.

Selain riwayat dari tiga tokoh di atas, ada banyak informasi lain tentang berapa kali Rasulullah SAW menunaikan ibadah. Namun dari berbagai informasi tersebut, pendapat paling sahih menyatakan bahwa Nabi hanya melakukan umrah sebanyak tiga kali.

Umrah pertama dilaksanakan pada tahun 7 Hijriah/629 Masehi, umrah kedua dilakukan pada tahun 8 Hijriah/630 Masehi dan dikenal dengan umrah Dzulqa’dah atau umrah Ji’ranah, dan umrah ketiga terjadi pada tahun 10 Hijriah/632 Masehi, yaitu ketika Nabi mengerjakan Haji Wada’.

Manasik haji yang dikenalkan oleh Rasulullah SAW adalah penyempurna dari manasik haji para nabi sebelumnya, termasuk manasik haji Nabi Ibrahim AS.

Manasik haji yang dikenalkan oleh Rasulullah SAW dapat diuraikan dalam urutan, yaitu: ihram; thawaf; shalat dua rakaat di Maqam Ibrahim; sa’i (berlari-lari kecil) antara bukit Shafa dan Marwah; wukuf di Padang Arafah; bermalam di Muzdalifah; melempar Jumrah Aqabah; menyembelih binatang kurban; melaksanakan thawaf ifadhah; tahallul atau bercukur; mabit atau menginap di Mina; melempar tiga jumrah pada Hari Tasyriq (tanggai 11, 12, dan 13 Dzulhijjah); dan melakukan tawaf wada’ atau tawaf perpisahan.

Sewaktu mengerjakan Haji Wada’ atau haji terakhir, Rasulullah SAW berpesan agar umat Islam mengikuti manasik atau tata cara haji yang beliau contohkan. Manasik haji tidak boleh dimodifikasi sebab ditetapkan secara langsung melalui wahyu Allah SWT.

Demikianlah ritual haji yang disyariatkan kepada Nabi Adam AS, Nabi Ibrahim AS, hingga Nabi Muhammad SAW. Setiap ritual haji yang diturunkan kepada nabi-nabi tersebut mengalami penyempurnaan dan pembersihan dari segala macam pencemaran.

Sumber : http://www.jurnalhaji.com

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HAL YANG HARUS DIPERHATIKAN DALAM SEBUAH KANTOR SEWA

saco-indonesia.com,

Jika Anda ingin memilih kantor yang tepat, mengambil identitas perusahaan Anda dan pada saat yang sama meningkatkan citra perusahaan Anda. Jadi apakah Anda bisa mendapatkan sama sekali. Salah satunya adalah stabilitas keuangan gagasan rencana “dan apa yang Anda inginkan Kecuali Anda berada di kantor,. Dan kami juga masih tidak bisa membeli, maka menyewa adalah pilihan yang sangat baik. Tersedia untuk dapat menawarkan pemeriksaan ruang kantor .. Ketika tujuan bisnis dari pelanggan Anda dan apa yang kita inginkan adalah kesan yang baik dari ide Berikut adalah beberapa hal yang perlu dipertimbangkan ketika memilih Kantor Rent, sebagai berikut:

    Lokasi juga harus mudah diakses oleh pengguna. Jika sulit untuk tempat, maka jangan, setiap perusahaan juga dapat menjadi alasan bagi pelanggan.
    Juga, staf karena jarak, mungkin sulit untuk pergi bepergian. Kantor tapi tinggalkan pekerjaan, atau mungkin untuk menolak alasan.
    Besar merek, atau bahkan orang yang telah memiliki ambisi yang sangat besar dan penting untuk dapat menjaga di kantor, untuk dapat menarik perhatian pada bersih dan rapi.
    Dari luar, itu juga harus meyakinkan dan pasien kusam atau membosankan, perumahan tidak akan terlihat. Jika memungkinkan, Anda juga harus bertemu dengan furnitur.
    Klien tidak boleh dianggap sebagai pertemuan formal dan informal dan bertemu dengan Anda untuk dapat mencapai keputusan bersama bahwa kita di kantor. Semua ini harus mempermudah kantor dukungan akan dilengkapi dengan hubungan berkualitas tinggi.
    Jika Anda berada di kantor, sehingga saham preferen dapat disewa. Sumber daya bersama, seperti air, bisa sumber daya, karyawan manusia, atau bahkan saat ini, penjaga, resepsionis, dll Tersedia
    Periksa semua fitur dan pastikan bahwa kantor dalam kondisi baik. Mekanik, listrik poin, air, dll, semua harus mengikuti. Menurut orang, termasuk konsumen, karyawan yang baik, dan, tentu saja, karena akan membuat kesan yang sangat baik.
    Pelajari cara untuk dapat menyewa kantor Anda sebelumnya, dia akan membuat deposit, ketentuan sewa, semua penutup, dll
    Anda juga harus tahu bagaimana untuk dapat memarkir mobil di karyawan dan klien mereka. Meskipun ini adalah tempat kecil, parkir yang baik.
    Jika Anda harus pergi ke perabot kantor Anda. Ini juga akan menjadi kantor multi-tujuan dan tidak boleh kelebihan beban. Ini juga menggambarkan suasana kantor profesional.

Setelah bergerak, telepon, internet akses, teh dan makanan ringan, Xerox, dan lini bisnis lainnya, memberikan semua yang Anda butuhkan untuk dapat mempersiapkan ruang kantor. Jika Anda hati-hati memilih dan melengkapi kantor, pekerjaan dapat ditangguhkan.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Jozef Paczynski, Inmate Barber to Auschwitz Commandant, Dies at 95

Mr. Paczynski was one of the concentration camp’s longest surviving inmates and served as the personal barber to its Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss.

Advertisement Politics Obama Finds a Bolder Voice on Race Issues

As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’

In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

Dave Goldberg Was Lifelong Women’s Advocate

Even as a high school student, Dave Goldberg was urging female classmates to speak up. As a young dot-com executive, he had one girlfriend after another, but fell hard for a driven friend named Sheryl Sandberg, pining after her for years. After they wed, Mr. Goldberg pushed her to negotiate hard for high compensation and arranged his schedule so that he could be home with their children when she was traveling for work.

Mr. Goldberg, who died unexpectedly on Friday, was a genial, 47-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built his latest company, SurveyMonkey, from a modest enterprise to one recently valued by investors at $2 billion. But he was also perhaps the signature male feminist of his era: the first major chief executive in memory to spur his wife to become as successful in business as he was, and an essential figure in “Lean In,” Ms. Sandberg’s blockbuster guide to female achievement.

Over the weekend, even strangers were shocked at his death, both because of his relatively young age and because they knew of him as the living, breathing, car-pooling center of a new philosophy of two-career marriage.

“They were very much the role models for what this next generation wants to grapple with,” said Debora L. Spar, the president of Barnard College. In a 2011 commencement speech there, Ms. Sandberg told the graduates that whom they married would be their most important career decision.

In the play “The Heidi Chronicles,” revived on Broadway this spring, a male character who is the founder of a media company says that “I don’t want to come home to an A-plus,” explaining that his ambitions require him to marry an unthreatening helpmeet. Mr. Goldberg grew up to hold the opposite view, starting with his upbringing in progressive Minneapolis circles where “there was woman power in every aspect of our lives,” Jeffrey Dachis, a childhood friend, said in an interview.

The Goldberg parents read “The Feminine Mystique” together — in fact, Mr. Goldberg’s father introduced it to his wife, according to Ms. Sandberg’s book. In 1976, Paula Goldberg helped found a nonprofit to aid children with disabilities. Her husband, Mel, a law professor who taught at night, made the family breakfast at home.

Later, when Dave Goldberg was in high school and his prom date, Jill Chessen, stayed silent in a politics class, he chastised her afterward. He said, “You need to speak up,” Ms. Chessen recalled in an interview. “They need to hear your voice.”

Years later, when Karin Gilford, an early employee at Launch Media, Mr. Goldberg’s digital music company, became a mother, he knew exactly what to do. He kept giving her challenging assignments, she recalled, but also let her work from home one day a week. After Yahoo acquired Launch, Mr. Goldberg became known for distributing roses to all the women in the office on Valentine’s Day.

Ms. Sandberg, who often describes herself as bossy-in-a-good-way, enchanted him when they became friendly in the mid-1990s. He “was smitten with her,” Ms. Chessen remembered. Ms. Sandberg was dating someone else, but Mr. Goldberg still hung around, even helping her and her then-boyfriend move, recalled Bob Roback, a friend and co-founder of Launch. When they finally married in 2004, friends remember thinking how similar the two were, and that the qualities that might have made Ms. Sandberg intimidating to some men drew Mr. Goldberg to her even more.

Over the next decade, Mr. Goldberg and Ms. Sandberg pioneered new ways of capturing information online, had a son and then a daughter, became immensely wealthy, and hashed out their who-does-what-in-this-marriage issues. Mr. Goldberg’s commute from the Bay Area to Los Angeles became a strain, so he relocated, later joking that he “lost the coin flip” of where they would live. He paid the bills, she planned the birthday parties, and both often left their offices at 5:30 so they could eat dinner with their children before resuming work afterward.

Friends in Silicon Valley say they were careful to conduct their careers separately, politely refusing when outsiders would ask one about the other’s work: Ms. Sandberg’s role building Facebook into an information and advertising powerhouse, and Mr. Goldberg at SurveyMonkey, which made polling faster and cheaper. But privately, their work was intertwined. He often began statements to his team with the phrase “Well, Sheryl said” sharing her business advice. He counseled her, too, starting with her salary negotiations with Mark Zuckerberg.

“I wanted Mark to really feel he stretched to get Sheryl, because she was worth it,” Mr. Goldberg explained in a 2013 “60 Minutes” interview, his Minnesota accent and his smile intact as he offered a rare peek of the intersection of marriage and money at the top of corporate life.

While his wife grew increasingly outspoken about women’s advancement, Mr. Goldberg quietly advised the men in the office on family and partnership matters, an associate said. Six out of 16 members of SurveyMonkey’s management team are female, an almost unheard-of ratio among Silicon Valley “unicorns,” or companies valued at over $1 billion.

When Mellody Hobson, a friend and finance executive, wrote a chapter of “Lean In” about women of color for the college edition of the book, Mr. Goldberg gave her feedback on the draft, a clue to his deep involvement. He joked with Ms. Hobson that she was too long-winded, like Ms. Sandberg, but aside from that, he said he loved the chapter, she said in an interview.

By then, Mr. Goldberg was a figure of fascination who inspired a “where can I get one of those?” reaction among many of the women who had read the best seller “Lean In.” Some lamented that Ms. Sandberg’s advice hinged too much on marrying a Dave Goldberg, who was humble enough to plan around his wife, attentive enough to worry about which shoes his young daughter would wear, and rich enough to help pay for the help that made the family’s balancing act manageable.

Now that he is gone, and Ms. Sandberg goes from being half of a celebrated partnership to perhaps the business world’s most prominent single mother, the pages of “Lean In” carry a new sting of loss.

“We are never at 50-50 at any given moment — perfect equality is hard to define or sustain — but we allow the pendulum to swing back and forth between us,” she wrote in 2013, adding that they were looking forward to raising teenagers together.

“Fortunately, I have Dave to figure it out with me,” she wrote.

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Nepal’s Young Men, Lost to Migration, Then a Quake

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.

Taiwan party leader affirms eventual reunion with China

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.

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Top News China’s Intents Are Questioned as It Builds in Antarctica

HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.

So perhaps it was not surprising when he turned up last fall in this city on the edge of the Southern Ocean to put down a long-distance marker in another faraway region, Antarctica, 2,000 miles south of this Australian port.

Standing on the deck of an icebreaker that ferries Chinese scientists from this last stop before the frozen continent, Mr. Xi pledged that China would continue to expand in one of the few places on earth that remain unexploited by humans.

He signed a five-year accord with the Australian government that allows Chinese vessels and, in the future, aircraft to resupply for fuel and food before heading south. That will help secure easier access to a region that is believed to have vast oil and mineral resources; huge quantities of high-protein sea life; and for times of possible future dire need, fresh water contained in icebergs.

It was not until 1985, about seven decades after Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to the South Pole, that a team representing Beijing hoisted the Chinese flag over the nation’s first Antarctic research base, the Great Wall Station on King George Island.

But now China seems determined to catch up. As it has bolstered spending on Antarctic research, and as the early explorers, especially the United States and Australia, confront stagnant budgets, there is growing concern about its intentions.

China’s operations on the continent — it opened its fourth research station last year, chose a site for a fifth, and is investing in a second icebreaker and new ice-capable planes and helicopters — are already the fastest growing of the 52 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty. That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

But Mr. Xi’s visit was another sign that China is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s resource potential when the treaty expires in 2048 — or in the event that it is ripped up before, Chinese and Australian experts say.

“So far, our research is natural-science based, but we know there is more and more concern about resource security,” said Yang Huigen, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, who accompanied Mr. Xi last November on his visit to Hobart and stood with him on the icebreaker, Xue Long, or Snow Dragon.

With that in mind, the polar institute recently opened a new division devoted to the study of resources, law, geopolitics and governance in Antarctica and the Arctic, Mr. Yang said.

Australia, a strategic ally of the United States that has strong economic relations with China, is watching China’s buildup in the Antarctic with a mix of gratitude — China’s presence offers support for Australia’s Antarctic science program, which is short of cash — and wariness.

“We should have no illusions about the deeper agenda — one that has not even been agreed to by Chinese scientists but is driven by Xi, and most likely his successors,” said Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former senior official in the Australian Department of Defense.

“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”

That approach was evident last month when a large Chinese agriculture enterprise announced an expansion of its fishing operations around Antarctica to catch more krill — small, protein-rich crustaceans that are abundant in Antarctic waters.

“The Antarctic is a treasure house for all human beings, and China should go there and share,” Liu Shenli, the chairman of the China National Agricultural Development Group, told China Daily, a state-owned newspaper. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.

Because sovereignty over Antarctica is unclear, nations have sought to strengthen their claims over the ice-covered land by building research bases and naming geographic features. China’s fifth station will put it within reach of the six American facilities, and ahead of Australia’s three.

Chinese mappers have also given Chinese names to more than 300 sites, compared with the thousands of locations on the continent with English names.

In the unspoken competition for Antarctica’s future, scientific achievement can also translate into influence. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years. It is an expensive and delicate effort at which others, including the European Union and Australia, have failed.

In a breakthrough a decade ago, European scientists extracted an ice core nearly two miles long that revealed 800,000 years of climate history. But finding an ice core going back further would allow scientists to examine a change in the earth’s climate cycles believed to have occurred 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

China is betting it has found the best location to drill, at an area called Dome A, or Dome Argus, the highest point on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Though it is considered one of the coldest places on the planet, with temperatures of 130 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a Chinese expedition explored the area in 2005 and established a research station in 2009.

“The international community has drilled in lots of places, but no luck so far,” said Xiao Cunde, a member of the first party to reach the site and the deputy director of the Institute for Climate Change at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. “We think at Dome A we will have a straight shot at the one-million-year ice core.”

Mr. Xiao said China had already begun drilling and hoped to find what scientists are looking for in four to five years.

To support its Antarctic aspirations, China is building a sophisticated $300 million icebreaker that is expected to be ready in a few years, said Xia Limin, deputy director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration in Beijing. It has also bought a high-tech fixed-wing aircraft, outfitted in the United States, for taking sensitive scientific soundings from the ice.

China has chosen the site for its fifth research station at Inexpressible Island, named by a group of British explorers who were stranded at the desolate site in 1912 and survived the winter by excavating a small ice cave.

Mr. Xia said the inhospitable spot was ideal because China did not have a presence in that part of Antarctica, and because the rocky site did not have much snow, making it relatively cheap to build there.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of a soon-to-be-released book, “China as a Polar Great Power,” said Chinese scientists also believed they had a good chance of finding mineral and energy resources near the site.

“China is playing a long game in Antarctica and keeping other states guessing about its true intentions and interests are part of its poker hand,” she said. But she noted that China’s interest in finding minerals was presented “loud and clear to domestic audiences” as the main reason it was investing in Antarctica.

Because commercial drilling is banned, estimates of energy and mineral resources in Antarctica rely on remote sensing data and comparisons with similar geological environments elsewhere, said Millard F. Coffin, executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart.

But the difficulty of extraction in such severe conditions and uncertainty about future commodity prices make it unlikely that China or any country would defy the ban on mining anytime soon.

Tourism, however, is already booming. Travelers from China are still a relatively small contingent in the Antarctic compared with the more than 13,000 Americans who visited in 2013, and as yet there are no licensed Chinese tour operators.

But that is about to change, said Anthony Bergin, deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “I understand very soon there will be Chinese tourists on Chinese vessels with all-Chinese crew in the Antarctic,” he said.

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