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Asian Business Etiquette – Doing Business with Companies from Asia

Working with companies from South East Asia, Singapore & Malaysia, Japan, Korea or China requires different business etiquette than Western nations. Below is a video crash course in the art of the Asian business card exchange.

Following these simple tips and honoring protocol in their countries will win you huge points and guarantee respect. Not following these cultural business guidelines could result in lost deals or reduced business from Asian companies.

My generation, (Generation X) is not as formal as our previous generation, and some people lament that the United States is slowly losing formality & etiquette that makes for a respectful and polite society. This video contains important information for the younger business professional who may have no experience with Asian business culture and working with international firms.

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May 26, 2010 18 CommentsOnline Business

Affiliate Summit East Coupon Code 10% off Conference Registration

Affiliate Summit is the place you want to be and is the conference that will take your online business to the next level. The next event is in New York city, Aug 15-17, 2010 at the Hilton New York, and they are expecting over 3000 attendees.

Platinum Affiliate Summit conference passes cost $1,249 each but you can get them for $1124 with this discount code.

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There is a special group rate discount of 20% for 5-9 passes and 25% off of 10 or more passes. Pool your resources in the comments and join as a group to get an even cheaper Affiliate Summit ticket.

If you used this 10% discount coupon code and the 25% group rate discount, you would only pay $615 for a Platinum Pass. That is a great deal.

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May 22, 2010 7 CommentsAffiliate Marketing, Coupon

When E-commerce Websites Intentionally Avoid SEO

When would a website not want to optimize for search engines?

When they have more to gain from a closed system. It worked for AOL for a long time, maybe it can also work for
Gilt Groupe, Groupon, and other localized social shopping discount websites.

Most interestingly, neither of Gilt nor Groupon try search engine optimization to sell their offers: traditional SEO is the antithesis of their businesses. These custom shopping sites get special deals from merchants who can offer lower prices because the products will not appear in Google searches and there is no fear of price wars from competition.

Efficient pricing is great for the open internet, but bad for businesses. Ubiquitous, instant, free, continual, direct product comparisons drives price towards marginal cost quickly and can reduce profit to zero. Information inefficiency is the best way for e-commerce retailers to protect their profit margins, and they can do this with teaser offers on targeted social shopping websites such as Groupon.com and Gilt.com.

Information inefficiency was the natural state in which we existed pre internet, but now it must be carefully manufactured.

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May 19, 2010 10 CommentsOnline Business, Search Engine Optimization

$50 Free Myspace Coupon Code for Myads Advertising

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May 17, 2010 27 CommentsCoupon, Search Engine Marketing

Money Mindset Review and Free Demo – Business Coaching Video Program

Use the money mindset to overcome information overload and learn how to focus to accomplish more work and be more productive.

This is a review of the Money Mindset program, which is a simple video training course that outlines the steps you should take to achieve greater success in your online business.

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May 13, 2010 27 CommentsOnline Business, Search Engine Marketing

$50 Ask Sponsored Listing Credit

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May 5, 2010 10 CommentsCoupon, Search Engine Marketing

Microformats Allow You To Optimize Unstructured Pages

As webmasters try to improve their click through rates (CTR) from search engine results pages (SERPs) through search engine optimization we have more tools available for rank improvement. Microformats are a set of agreed upon HTML conventions used to describe content, and are used by every major search engine to define webpages. Microformats can give…

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May 3, 2010 5 CommentsSearch Engine Optimization

Wireless SMS Email Addresses

Find out the SMS email address to use to send short messages through your wireless phone carrier. All cellphones can receive text messages sent from any device including standard email. To send an email to a mobile phone use the email address that corresponds to the users cell phone plan Wireless email addresses Virgin Mobile:…

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May 2, 2010 13 CommentsOnline Business, Web Development

New PRweb Coupon Code $25 Off Press Release

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April 30, 2010 17 CommentsCoupon, Search Engine Marketing

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March 21, 2010 46 CommentsCoupon, Search Engine Marketing