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International Marketing Review #57

Cindy King — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:00:07 +0000

International Marketing Review – A Different Night Out

One of the easiest ways to break the ice in cross-cultural encounters is through food. It is natural to offer to share a meal with people from different cultures. In fact, in some cultures this is an obligatory rite of passage: you must share a meal before a business deal is concluded.

It is not always easy to eat different foods. They may not appear appetizing if you are not used to them. Different foods is not the only challenge. There are sometimes different customs when eating.

Let’s have some fun and take a look at some different dining experiences.

Dans le Noir

The concept is simple and symbolic: all the waiters are blind and for the duration of your meal, the tables are turned. The waiters are in command: you rely on them to lead you to your seat, to deliver the meal and to lead you back to the ante-room.

On arrival, we choose a menu colour: white (could be anything), red (no seafood), blue (seafood) and green (vegetarian). Then, leaving bags and anything light-emitting – mobile phone, electronic car key, even a watch with a fluorescent dial – in the lockers provided, we are instructed to hold the shoulder of the person in front while our waiter, at the head of this tentative conga line, guides us through the curtain into the gathering gloom. I’m not afraid of the dark but am not exactly enamoured of claustrophobia. Reviewed by Ian Gilbert.

Ithaa Undersea Restaurant

Ithaa, which means pearl in Dhivehi, is the world’s premier undersea restaurant, secured five metres (15 feet ) below sea level, surrounded by a coral reef , at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives

“We have used aquarium technology to put diners face-to-face with the stunning underwater environment of the Maldives “, says Carsten Schieck, General Manager of Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa.”Our guests always comment on being blown away by the colour, clarity, and beauty of the underwater world in the Maldives, so it seemed the perfect idea to build a restaurant where diners can experience fine cuisine and take time to enjoy the views – without ever getting their feet wet.” Created by MJ Murphy Ltd, a design consultancy based in New Zealand, Ithaa’s distinctive feature is the use of curved transparent acrylic walls and roof, similar to those used in aquarium attractions. “The fact that the entire restaurant except for the floor is made of clear acrylic makes this unique in the world,” continues Schieck, “We are currently planting a coral garden on the reef to add to the spectacular views of the rays, sharks and many colourful fish that live around the area.

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

The new Yellow Treehouse Restaurant by New Zealand based Pacific Environments Architects Ltd. (PEL) is a stunning architectural feat perched high above a redwood first. Appearing for all the world like an enormous chrysalis grafted onto a 40-meter-high redwood tree, the project is constructed of plantation poplar slats, redwood balustrading milled at the site, and makes extensive use of natural lighting throughout.

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International Marketer Review #22

Cindy King — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:03:37 +0000

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Welcome to the 18 October 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review. Eric presents How To Travel As Long As You Want Without Going Broke (Interview) posted at TravelBlogs saying “This is the third article in our series of posts about perpetual travel.” Dominique presents Traffic driver with results – commenting on posts posted at Dominique Hind’s Collective saying “I have been trialling a few things to help drive traffic to my blog over the weekends. There is normally a dramatic drop to around 20 – 30 views for one day of the weekend. This weekend, I tried something new and commented on a number of blogs talking about Dell, retail email marketing and digital training. Even though a lot of the posts were from late September – early October it drove an increase in the amount of traffic to my blog” Connie Bensen presents What should you know about Intellectual Property posted at Connie Bensen saying “The purpose of this is to start discussion & get you thinking about intellectual property & your online presence. What I have learned has been through experience & it taught me some valuable lessons.” C+C Arts presents Cross-Border Art posted at Cross-Cultural Branding saying “The London based artist from Finland, Riitta Ikonen, has found an interesting way to test the limit of our cross-cultural borders understanding of what some common objects stands for. Since 2004 the artist has sent A6 size packages to her friend, from Japan, Finland, Spain, Russia & England.” KZ Blog presents Kumys Doesn’t Count posted at KZBlog saying “A man in Kazakhstan was arrested for drinking under the influence of alcohol but charges were dropped because he was drinking kumys, not beer. Kumys is, of course, fermented mare’s milk and it is slightly alcoholic.” Charles Hamel presents Conservation Techniques posted at Charles Hamel saying “I came across a story having to do with conservation techniques. Once again here in Hokkaido, specifically at the New Chitose Airport, have recently announced that they will use snow collected during the winter season to provide up to 30% of it’s cooling needs in the summer.” SheR presents Travelling to Religious Countries posted at Travel Heart saying “I wonder how many travellers out there are aware when they are travelling to religious countries? To observe certain religious customs at specific times of the year, etc..?” CK presents 5 Reasons Why Singaporeans Return To Singapore posted at A Singaporean In London saying “There is no free health care in Singapore. That being said, the people aren’t taxed for it either. At least you don’t see it as a separate category in your income tax form.” Emily presents The Garbage Calendar posted at Four Seasons saying “We know that Japan is a very clean country, one way of maintaining this in our place were providing a unique calendar in every household for everyday disposing of household garbage and unnecessary things inside the house Those garbage and unwanted things should be brought into the garbage box for a specific day and time because dumped truck will come and take it to appropriate places.” Melbel presents France for Retirement posted at An American in France saying “Many Americans at retirement age, find themselves in a new home somewhere around the world. France is becoming increasingly popular for those who wish to retire abroad.” The Business Viking presents 2008 Presidential Debate: Communication. posted at The Business Viking Blog saying “If you caught the third and final 2008 Presidential Debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, then you noticed a difference between this one and all of the other debates – the high level of energy led by John McCain. McCain switched his style of communication and almost everyone agreed that his last debate was his best.” Erik Johnels presents Going Green Has Moved From Idealism To Smart Business posted at The Weakest Link saying “In the past, companies have gone green as part of both an ideology and to send a message about their community responsibility. It’s mostly been considered an expense attributed to Marketing and Public Relations.” That concludes this edition of The International Marketer Review. Technorati tags:

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International Marketer Review #21

Cindy King — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:10:16 +0000

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Welcome to the 11 October 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review. Dominique Hind present Dell’s journey to listening – IdeaStorm posted at Dominique Hind’s Collective saying “Whenever anyone asks me what my favourite campaign is, I always answer with two: Dell IdeaStorm and Nike+. The reason I love Dell IdeaStorm is that Dell were a brand that was is a really bad position (financially and from an advertising/marketing perspective). Their batteries were blowing up, their customer service was really bad and there was so much negative chatter about them in the blogosphere. Rather than being a defeatest, they started to trial new marketing ideas and got involved with the online community – a community that was losing trust in the brand quickly.” Eric presents Earn $5 a Day? You Can Travel Forever posted at Travelblogs.com .saying “If you can earn $5 a day, you can travel forever.” That’s Andy the Hobo Traveler’s motto, at least. And he can talk: for close to 11 years, Andy has been perpetually traveling the globe, with no intention of returning home. Online Languages presents Marketing Practices Throughout the World posted at Online Languages Now saying “Most of the contemporary business enterprises use marketing mix when establishing their marketing strategy. The four P’s are: Product, which is cargo and passenger travel in the case, Place, which is worldwide, Price- determined by particular case and Promotion- involves many steps and techniques.” C+C Fashion presents Cross-Cultural Exploitation posted at Cross-Cultural Branding saying “Crossing-culture is a tight rope excercise and when shallowness drives the initial concept, while living in the “hub” world of fashion, editors & art directors better not even start to try.” Easton Ellsworth presents Now Entering Blog Action Day 2008 Mode posted at Visonary Blogging saying “Please, please help me. Throw your weight into Blog Action Day. Let’s pull together. Let’s change the conversation for one day and change the world – even if only a little – forever.” Jim Durbin presents When Should You Add A Social Media Consultant? posted at Social Media Headhunter saying “If you want to get involved in social media, the time to do so is months before you want to use the platform to push a message. Building a reputation in a community and laying the groundwork for search engine optimization and traffic should be occurring months before you write the first piece of code or buy your first ad. The reasoning is simple.” Connie Bensen presents Joining Techrigy & Building Community for SM2 posted at Connie Bensen saying “I’m excited about SM2 for a number of reasons! I’ve been using various tools since 2006. The trick is to efficiently identify the relevant information & respond. The other aspect is the reporting & to be honest I’m a bit of a stat’s junkie.” Sid Savara presents Am I Saving Money – Or Just Wasting My Time? posted at Sid Savara saying “Following the theme of time-management in previous posts about paying myself first with my time, saving 10 hours a week by outsourcing my cooking, and my experiment outsourcing via virtual assistants, I’ve been wondering whether some of the things I do to save money are really just wasting my time. Specifically, I wondered about waiting in long lines for cheaper gas.” Jeff Herring presents 3 Tested Tips That Expand Your “Article Reach” posted at Alex Mandossian saying “Extending the reach of your articles simply means to get your articles in front of as many eyes as possible … in as many consumable forms as possible.” That concludes this edition of The International Marketer Review. Technorati tags:

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International Marketer Review #18

Cindy King — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:57:42 +0000

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Welcome to the September 20, 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review.

Last weeks most popular post was 7 Questions To Ask If Your Advertising Doesn’t Work, with 31% of the overall votes. Let’s see who comes out on top this week.

Blog Review

Market Across Cultures presents 5 Factors To Consider When Marketing To Different Cultures posted at Market Across Cultures.

Jay M presents Entrepreneurship in the conceptual economy – endless opportunities posted at 4 entrepreneur, saying, “4entrepreneur.net is one of a kind blog for entrepreneurs, full of resources, original videos and interviews, expert columns..”

Copywriting

International Marketing Widget presents Translation Plugin posted at International Marketing Widget.

Allison Nazarian presents Can your Virtual Assistant blog and website be one and the same? posted at CopywritingForVAs, saying, “Now you’d like to create a blog, and you’re wondering if your site and your blog can be one and the same.
The answer is, actually, yes. In fact, there’s an easy way to set them up together.”

International Marketing Tools presents Guide to Online Tranlsation Tools posted at International Marketing Tools.

Tips & Tricks

Nicholas Powiull presents How to Attract Money into Your Life & Get into the Mind-Set of Abundance posted at Conscious Flex, saying, “The most important thing you need to know about money when blogging! A MUST READ! Thank you ”

John Crickett presents 7 Questions To Ask If Your Advertising Doesn’t Work posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas, saying, “Drive more traffic to your site by making sure your advertising works. These 7 simple questions will guide you to more effective advertising.”

Anna Farmery presents How Stories Link to Brand Building posted at The Engaging Brand.

WordPress Hacker presents Auto Create Navigation Tabs for New WordPress Pages posted at WordPress Hacker, saying, “In this article I explain how you can setup your blog to automatically create main navigation links/tabs when new pages are published by using custom fields to mark those pages you want to appear in the navigation menu.”

Anya Portnik presents How to destroy sales rapport real fast! posted at Gavin Ingham.

Research International Markets presents 4 Success Elements For International Business Development posted at Research International Markets.

International Success Basics presents Which Search Engines Are You Relying On? posted at International Success Basics.

Anya Portnik presents 7 tips for selling in an economic downturn posted at Gavin Ingham.

Anna Farmery presents Making Innovation Work in Green Marketing posted at The Engaging Brand.

Sagar Satapathy presents Top 25 (Non-Obvious) Ways RSS Can Make Your Life Easier posted at Virtual Hosting.

Steve Faber presents The Most Important Sites For Internet Marketing Success posted at Home Based Business Success, saying, “Here it is; the list of just about any resource you could ever need to start, learn or improve your business. Discover how to do just about anything, from copy writing to getting web traffic and writing code, finding new products to sell and creating a perfect product mix that sells. You could go from a total newbie to expert marketer, really.”

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International Marketer Review #17

Cindy King — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:00:36 +0000

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Welcome to the September 13, 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review.

Last weeks most popular post with over 40% of the votes was Mind Map – What Is Culture. Let’s see who comes out on top this week.

Copywriting

John Lenaghan presents How To Come Up With Killer Email Subject Lines posted at Internet Marketing Chaos.

Allison Nazarian presents Can your Virtual Assistant blog and website be one and the same? posted at CopywritingForVAs.

Kelly Sonora presents 50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Writers. posted at BestCollegesOnline saying “I thought I’d bring it to your attention in case you think your readers would find it interesting.”

International Business

Cindy King presents Let Me Help You Develop Your International Business posted here at Cindy King.

Website Optimization

Andrew King posted An In-Depth Review of Website Optimization Secrets at Website Optimization.

Tips & Tricks

Ozone presents Can’t Miss Online Poker Promotions posted at Online Poker Strategy, saying, “Article describes some of the latest online poker promotions available.”

WordPress Hacker presents Auto Create Navigation Tabs for New WordPress Pages posted at WordPress Hacker.

Anna Farmery presents Making Innovation Work in Green Marketing posted at The Engaging Brand.

Nicholas Powiull presents How to Attract Money into Your Life & Get into the Mind-Set of Abundance posted at Conscious Flex.

John Crickett presents 7 Questions To Ask If Your Advertising Doesn’t Work posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas.

Anna Farmery presents How Stories Link to Brand Building posted at The Engaging Brand.

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International Marketer Review #16

Cindy King — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:04:07 +0000

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Welcome to the September 6, 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review.

Copywriting

John Lenaghan presents How To Come Up With Killer Email Subject Lines posted at Internet Marketing Chaos.

Andre Thomas presents How To Increase Response Without Changing A Word In Your Copy posted at Web Copywriting Tips And Secrets.

Business & Sales

Get International Clients presents Mind Map – What Is Culture? posted at Get International Clients saying

Anya Portnik presents What are your favourite sales questions? posted at Gavin Ingham.

Maryland SEO presents Maryland SEO Consultant Reveals 5 Strategies for a More Profitable Business Website posted at Maryland SEO and Internet Marketing.

Edith presents BizTechDay – Use Technology to Grow Your Business, Saturday October 25 San Francisco posted at BIZtechDay.

Anya Portnik presents Why practise makes perfect when sales training posted at Gavin Ingham.

Tips & Tricks

Raymond presents Best Business Credit Card For Your Small Business posted at Money Blue Book.

Jack S. Keifer presents Top 10 Internet Marketing Web Design Mistakes posted at Jack S. Keifer.

Anand presents 10 Advantages of Being a Young Entrepreneur posted at Anand Dhillon, saying, “Young people have some distinct advantages in entrepreneurship. This article details some of the ways you can benefit by starting your own business right now.”

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 Excellent Web Tools for Healthy Eating posted at Nursing School Search Blog.

Hans presents his Core Audience Members of September 2008 posted at Catch The Posts.

Ozone presents Can’t Miss Online Poker Promotions posted at Poker Tips.

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International Marketer Review #15

Cindy King — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:56:05 +0000

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Welcome to the August 30, 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review.

Last week The Power and Profit of Teleseminars received 29% of the votes to be our best weekly post. Congratulations to Kathleen Gage.

Copywriting

Andre Thomas presents How To Increase Response Without Changing A Word In Your Copy posted at Web Copywriting Tips And Secrets By Andre Thomas.

Product Review

Raymond presents How To Get Your Free FICO Credit Score posted at Money Blue Book.

Jack S. Keifer presents Top 10 Internet Marketing Web Design Mistakes posted at Jack S. Keifer.

Raymond presents Best Business Credit Card For Your Small Business posted at Money Blue Book.

Tips & Tricks

Skellie posted Number + Adjective + Contents: What Happens When a Formula Dies?at skelliewag saying “Posts based on the Number + Adjective + Contents headline formula are probably the most popular form of web content we’ve ever seen. For every one person who loathes them there are one-hundred people who are enchanted by them.”

Anand presents 10 Advantages of Being a Young Entrepreneur posted at Anand Dhillon . com, saying, “Young people have some distinct advantages in entrepreneurship. This article details some of the ways you can benefit by starting your own business right now.”

Hans presents10 Strategies to Create Valuable Content Based on Existing Material posted at Catch The Posts saying “I this article I’ll be focusing on 10 strategies that will allow you to create new content based on existing material. Thus, I will bring your attention on how to transform or revisit articles and data to create valuable content.”

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 Excellent Web Tools for Healthy Eating posted at Nursing School Search Blog.

McHow2 posted How to Setup WordPress – A 50 Step Guide posted at Internet Marketing and Consulting.

International Sales

Get International Clients posted Join Us On The International Sales Road Map at Get International Clients saying “Starting September the Get International Clients Newsletter will become the ideal companion to follow the International Sales Road Map.”

Anya Portnik presents What are your favourite sales questions? posted at Gavin Ingham.

Maryland SEO presents Maryland SEO Consultant Reveals 5 Strategies for a More Profitable Business Website posted at Maryland SEO and Internet Marketing.

Brad Trnavsky posted In Sales Attitude is Everything! at Sales Management 2.0.

Edith presents BizTechDay – Use Technology to Grow Your Business, Saturday October 25 San Francisco posted at BIZtechDay.

Anya Portnik presents Why practise makes perfect when sales training posted at Gavin Ingham.

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International Marketer Review #14

Cindy King — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:38:07 +0000

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Welcome to the August 23rd, 2008 edition of the International Marketer Review.

International Sales

Kathleen Gage presents The Power and Profit of Teleseminars posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions saying ” Teleseminars, also known as teleconferences and teleclasses, are fast becoming one of the most valuable strategies you can use to increase your market position, your opt-in subscriber list and your profit margins. You can quickly become known as an expert in both your industry and your market through the power of teleconferences. Teleseminars are likely to be one of your most profitable revenue strategies available due to the relatively low cost to develop and market them. Find out essential things you need to know before you host a teleseminar.”

The Shark Investor presents How To Trade Domain Names And Websites posted at The Shark Investor.

Copywriting

llison Nazarian presents Writing a newsworthy press release that hits the mark posted at Allison Nazarian.

Marketing

HotelBlogs presents One Size Does Not Fit All In Online Travel Sites posted at Hotel Blogs.

starMedia presents starMedia’s ‘Daring Traveler’ Reveals a Spicier Side of Three Great American Cities posted at starMedia.

Internet

Will Mueller presents Top Free Hosts To Store Your Files Online posted at Make Use Of.

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