Culture Tips & International Links
Here is a quick summary of my social media activities this past week. Don’t miss this week’s tweets below. They are full of useful links for international sales & marketing.
Week In Review
This week was about social bookmarking.
Social Bookmarking – You can see the BizSugar, Reddit and StumbleUpon icons at the top of each post. I prefer the neat and tidy rows of small icons that are popular. But I never click on them. They involve too many clicks. This is the reason I am testing these 3 icons in addition to the Tweetmeme button. The Reddit and the BizSugar are just one click right here if they have already been submitted. The StumbleUpon button is very easy to use too, if you are a StumbleUpon user. I would also like to add a Sphinn button but I have not found an easy solution to put it in yet. Nothing is in stone. I am having fun testing these and will see what they bring in.
Sales Tweets - My revised Tweet Plan is being introduced in stages. This week you will see the extra sales tweets. This blog is about cross-cultural competence for international sales… and I have neglected the sales part when tweeting.
Guest Post – This week I wrote an article to help Shane Gibson on his 24 hour Blogathon for the Vancouver Food Bank:
More of the Tweet Plan will be implemented next week.
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Useful Resource Pages
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- The Decline of Advertising and the Rise of Content Spending - by @juntajoe
- RE: @BridgetAyers Thanks for the inspiration to make presentations easy to read for a global audience.
- The Seven Most Important Words for Cross-Cultural Collaboration – via @ullmen
- The first ever intercultural podcast? – via @CultureMatters
- Virtual Worlds: A Potential Tool for Cross-Cultural Training – via @ecomunidades
- Council of Europe “White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue” – via @DavidComp
- Intercultural Communication Resources – via @Tips4College
Content Marketing
Cross-Cultural Communication
- The unwelcome gift: Marketing and cross-cultural differences – via @bcultral – a very good read
- FT’s Lucy Kellaway on Unhappy lessons in smiling – via @Jacqui_K
- Study Explains Marketing And Cross-cultural Differences | HULIQ – via @biztricks
- Classroom etiquette – a cross-cultural study of classroom behaviors .pdf – via @sjhannam @trylingual @daylemajor
- How Do You Define Diversity? Intercultural Talk: Anthropology – via @christiantang
- Weekly Immigration Wire: It’s a Multicultural World, After All – via @immigrations
- Discussing Difference, Discovering Similarities: a student toolkit to improve cross-cultural exchange
- Global Marketing is a critical element for achieving international business success. – via @tia2nina_11
- Global American Technology Alliance – a blog on international business
- Going global international interviews with C-Level (eg CEO, CTO etc) execs – via @CultureMatters
- Some Important Points To Consider About International Collection Agencies
- Bridging Cultures: Tips for Managing a Multicultural Practice | State Bar of Wisconsin – via @wiprobono
- 4 Lessons from Jeff Bezos – Must Watch Video | Life Beyond Code – via @pstanoch @UpbeatNow
- RT @Dosborn2009 is looking for international business connections in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Mexico
- Define International Business – How real are your international client relationships?
- Replacing the Dollar: China’s Big Plans for Its Currency – TIME
- neilmckenzphoto @brandoneculture
- Great Article from Nichi Bei Times: Do You Speak…? Multicultural Awareness in Okinawa – via @mixedchickschat
- Why ‘Cross-Cultural’ Marketing Can Make Your Brand A Latino Leader RT @hispanicfilms @HeyErica
- Putting the ‘Multicultural’ in Multicultural Marketing - via @BlendImages
- How to Build a Multilingual, Multicultural Customer Experience by Harvard Business – via @rickmans
- Great interview re -multicultural branding – via @padmamedia
- Will America Ever Be A ‘Post-Racial’ Society? | NEWS JUNKIE POST
- @renbor walks up the emotional side and down the rational side of Sales Street #sales #STA #leadership
- RT @SkipAnderson – Selling landscape design services & products: the futuristic customer?#sales training
- RT @neshthompson: celebrating the 52nd Sales Cartoon and a year of sales humour – the time has just flown by
- RT @CompassNorthInc Turnaround Recipe for Execs & Owners
- @renbor says always Hire a Sales Rep – Not a Product Guy #sales #STA #hiring
- RT @SkipAnderson I’ve had it with the law of attraction- It’s time we salespeople accept the “Law of Distraction!”
- Is pipeline management a good use of time, or a feel good exercise? @renbor #sales #STA #pipelinemanagement
- RT @neshthompson: Time restraints on decision makers can be quite difficult for sales people. What is your answer?
- CindyKing How often do you need to explain your business to international clients?
- RT @SkipAnderson The wrong way to overcome customer objections
- Top 100 Blogs to Boost Your Sales Skills
- RT @renbor – A painful search for missing customer service #STA #sales #customerservice
- What stories do you tell your international clients to make the sale?
- RT @SkipAnderson15 Signs You Shouldn’t Work in Sales #sales
- Agendas help both sellers and buyers focus and get the sale done! @renbor #sales #STA
- How well do you prepare your international sales meetings? #sales
- RT @neshthompson “One of the key mistakes managers make is not getting a commitment to change” from @stevenarosen
- Overcoming negative attitudes by @SalesBlogCast Don’t miss the comments too - via @neshthompson
- RT @SkipAnderson Sales managers, so you know anyone with PTSD? (Post traumatic SALES disorder)
- Porsche crashes as result of family feud; they could have avoided it – read how @CompassNorthInc #strategy #STA
- What do you focus on when selling to international clients: cultural differences or similarities, or both?
- How do you know what information you need to give your international clients for them to make their buying decision?
- How do you adapt your written communication in your international sales process?
- RT @SkipAnderson What’s a favorite of salespeople everywhere? “The Random Sales Process”
- Blogging vs Tweeting – Which is more productive? – via @perrybelcher @zaibatsu @katahdinme
- 22 Why Reasons People Go Online: Which is Your Blog Connecting With? RT @problogger
- How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business
- The Dark Side of Twitter: What Businesses Need to Know
- Luxury brands and social media: a natural (yet to be started) evolution | Sonnez en cas d’absence
- Community Manager Survey: The Results Are In | Kommein
- RT @shanegibson: Blogathon 2009 Blog Entry #1 What is a Blogathon? Video #Blogathon
- The Traveler IQ Challenge
- Trip To Europe – Prague: a photo commentary of a recent trip by @dragosroua
- When Quitting Get’s You Ahead – via @katahdinme
- Upbeat by Rajesh Setty
- The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration at the intersection of women’s collaboration, representation & advocacy
- Euro English - An Old Culture Joke
- Black males’ fear of racial profiling very real, regardless of class – Los Angeles Times
- Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily – Yahoo! News
- RT @shanegibson The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Leaders #blogathon 2009. Update #7
- Some Fun Videos On Muslims & Islam
- Local Search Citations in Continental Europe – or “web references” to your business on some other website.
- How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard – the best guerrilla tutorial I’ve seen on this
- @guioconnor Cool, just figured out how to get to the new Yahoo.com – Purple! & some nifty icons
- Multilingual & Multi Domain Corporate Sites in WordPress – Yoast – Tweaking Websites
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Want To Be Featured Here Next Week?
The articles and useful resources featured here come mainly from people I interact with and links I find on social media .
So leave your leave a comment, say hello – DoFollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv are enabled – and join me on the networks below.
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If you have an interesting link on international business, or something of cultural interest, it will probably catch my attention and find its way here next week.
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