Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 30 of 2009

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:

• Can You Use Social Media To Get International Sales For Your Business?

More of the Tweet Plan will be implemented next week.

Content Marketing

1. The Decline of Advertising and the Rise of Content Spending - by @juntajoe
2. RE: @BridgetAyers Thanks for the inspiration to make presentations easy to read for a global audience.

Cross-Cultural Communication

3. The Seven Most Important Words for Cross-Cultural Collaboration – via @ullmen
4. The first ever intercultural podcast? – via @CultureMatters
5. Virtual Worlds: A Potential Tool for Cross-Cultural Training – via @ecomunidades
6. Council of Europe “White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue” – via @DavidComp
7. Intercultural Communication Resources – via @Tips4College

Cross-Cultural Differences

1. The unwelcome gift: Marketing and cross-cultural differences – via @bcultral – a very good read
2. FT’s Lucy Kellaway on Unhappy lessons in smiling – via @Jacqui_K
3. Study Explains Marketing And Cross-cultural Differences | HULIQ – via @biztricks
4. Classroom etiquette – a cross-cultural study of classroom behaviors .pdf  – via @sjhannam @trylingual @daylemajor
5. How Do You Define Diversity? Intercultural Talk: Anthropology – via @christiantang
6. Weekly Immigration Wire: It’s a Multicultural World, After All – via @immigrations
7. Discussing Difference, Discovering Similarities: a student toolkit to improve cross-cultural exchange

International Business

8. Global Marketing is a critical element for achieving international business success. – via @tia2nina_11
9. Global American Technology Alliance – a blog on international business
10. Going global international interviews with C-Level (eg CEO, CTO etc) execs – via @CultureMatters
11. Some Important Points To Consider About International Collection Agencies
12. Bridging Cultures: Tips for Managing a Multicultural Practice | State Bar of Wisconsin – via @wiprobono
13. 4 Lessons from Jeff Bezos – Must Watch Video | Life Beyond Code  – via @pstanoch @UpbeatNow
14. RT @Dosborn2009 is looking for international business connections in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Mexico
15. Define International Business – How real are your international client relationships?
16. Replacing the Dollar: China’s Big Plans for Its Currency – TIME

Multicultural Marketing

17. neilmckenzphoto @brandoneculture
18. Great Article from Nichi Bei Times: Do You Speak…? Multicultural Awareness in Okinawa – via @mixedchickschat
19. Why ‘Cross-Cultural’ Marketing Can Make Your Brand A Latino Leader RT @hispanicfilms @HeyErica
20. Putting the ‘Multicultural’ in Multicultural Marketing - via @BlendImages
21. How to Build a Multilingual, Multicultural Customer Experience by Harvard Business – via @rickmans
22. Great interview re -multicultural branding – via @padmamedia
23. Will America Ever Be A ‘Post-Racial’ Society? | NEWS JUNKIE POST

Sales

24. @renbor walks up the emotional side and down the rational side of Sales Street #sales #STA #leadership
25. RT @SkipAnderson – Selling landscape design services & products: the futuristic customer?#sales training
26. RT @neshthompson: celebrating the 52nd Sales Cartoon and a year of sales humour – the time has just flown by
27. RT @CompassNorthInc Turnaround Recipe for Execs & Owners
28. @renbor says always Hire a Sales Rep – Not a Product Guy #sales #STA #hiring
29. RT @SkipAnderson I’ve had it with the law of attraction- It’s time we salespeople accept the “Law of Distraction!”
30. Is pipeline management a good use of time, or a feel good exercise? @renbor #sales #STA #pipelinemanagement
31. RT @neshthompson: Time restraints on decision makers can be quite difficult for sales people. What is your answer?
32. CindyKing How often do you need to explain your business to international clients?
33. RT @SkipAnderson The wrong way to overcome customer objections
34. Top 100 Blogs to Boost Your Sales Skills
35. RT @renbor – A painful search for missing customer service #STA #sales #customerservice
36. What stories do you tell your international clients to make the sale?
37. RT @SkipAnderson15 Signs You Shouldn’t Work in Sales #sales
38. Agendas help both sellers and buyers focus and get the sale done! @renbor #sales #STA
39. How well do you prepare your international sales meetings? #sales
40. RT @neshthompson “One of the key mistakes managers make is not getting a commitment to change” from @stevenarosen
41. Overcoming negative attitudes by @SalesBlogCast Don’t miss the comments too  - via @neshthompson
42. RT @SkipAnderson Sales managers, so you know anyone with PTSD? (Post traumatic SALES disorder)
43. Porsche crashes as result of family feud; they could have avoided it – read how @CompassNorthInc #strategy #STA
44. What do you focus on when selling to international clients: cultural differences or similarities, or both?
45. How do you know what information you need to give your international clients for them to make their buying decision?
46. How do you adapt your written communication in your international sales process?
47. RT @SkipAnderson What’s a favorite of salespeople everywhere? “The Random Sales Process”

Social Media

48. Blogging vs Tweeting – Which is more productive? – via @perrybelcher @zaibatsu @katahdinme
49. 22 Why Reasons People Go Online: Which is Your Blog Connecting With? RT @problogger
50. How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business
51. The Dark Side of Twitter: What Businesses Need to Know
52. Luxury brands and social media: a natural (yet to be started) evolution | Sonnez en cas d’absence
53. Community Manager Survey: The Results Are In | Kommein
54. RT @shanegibson: Blogathon 2009 Blog Entry #1 What is a Blogathon? Video  #Blogathon

Travel

55. The Traveler IQ Challenge
56. Trip To Europe – Prague: a photo commentary of a recent trip by @dragosroua

Trivia

57. When Quitting Get’s You Ahead – via @katahdinme
58. Upbeat by Rajesh Setty
59. The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration at the intersection of women’s collaboration, representation & advocacy
60. Euro English - An Old Culture Joke
61. Black males’ fear of racial profiling very real, regardless of class – Los Angeles Times
62. Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily – Yahoo! News
63. RT @shanegibson The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Leaders #blogathon 2009. Update #7

Videos

64. Some Fun Videos On Muslims & Islam

Web Marketing

65. Local Search Citations in Continental Europe – or “web references” to your business on some other website.
66. How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard – the best guerrilla tutorial I’ve seen on this
67. @guioconnor Cool, just figured out how to get to the new Yahoo.com – Purple! & some nifty icons
68. Multilingual & Multi Domain Corporate Sites in WordPress – Yoast – Tweaking Websites

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