If you have had trouble while adjusting the dimensions of the Twitter header in your Twitter profile then you certainly are not the only person on the surface of the earth… Almost all of you have been toiling hard and burning midnight oil while looking to size your Twitter header appropriately. The issue is that despite the fact that Twitter …
How to use Instagram Hashtags for likes
I still remember how surprised I was when I saw a Twitter hashtag crop up in front of me on the television. “It is not here to stay”, was my knee-jerk reaction. Seven years down the line, and people are ending their phrases like “hashtag-I-told-you-so” and “hashtag-sorry-not-sorry”. My earlier dislike for the hashtags notwithstanding, they have become part and parcel …
A Comprehensive Guide to Tweeting
If you are have issues with figuring out how to get started with Twitter, we have put up this comprehensive guide to help you out. It incorporates some guidelines that will assist you to keep in mind the best practices that are being pursued on Twitter.
Guide to Branding Your Business on Facebook
If you are planning to being marketing your business on different interactive social media platform, then Facebook is the right place to start with. With over a couple of billion of users, Facebook is the largest social media platform out there and provides you with a fabulous opportunity to connect with people who are interested in purchasing your product, services …
Guide to Branding Your Business on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a fabulous spot for all business professionals from all over the world to connect with each other. Are you a LinkedIn user? Here are a few tips that will make your profile and company page appear professional. There are a couple of options available on LinkedIn for configuring a business profile: The Company Page and the Personal Profile. …
Team Development
Team Development It is all about the team. Mike’s Blog 157 Damon commented on a recent video blog (the stress vlog) that it is all about collaboration. I totally agree there – and community – and team. Today, while here in Cebu, I spent time with team development. Making sure people have the tools and knowledge is critical, and a …
Back in Good Ol’ Philippines
Back in Good Ol’ Philippines Mike’s Blog 156 Welcome back (insert sound clip of the Welcome back pop song). Philippines is always a nice place to come back to. Well – I think most would agree the traffic is not the best part – and unfortunately something you need to accept and deal with as soon as you leave the …
Going to USA – Feb 1 – 18, 2018
It has been over 2 years since I’ve been back to America. Time is flying, and it was October 2015 when Wendy, Miles, and I had stepped foot on American soil (sounds so obscure!). My daughter Maggie hasn’t even visited yet. So that is about to change. In February 2018, during Chinese New Year, we are taking the whole family …
Taking a Tour of Hua Qiang Bei, Shenzhen, China
Taking a Tour of Hua Qiang Bei, Shenzhen, China Mike’s Blog 142 When you get a group of amazing people together, exponentially awesome things happen. Since we had the Cross Border Matchmaker coming up, why not organize a tour of the electronics marketplace center of the world – Hua Qiang Bei? And we did just that – some of the …
Keep Going When Others Say To Stop
Keep Going When Others Say To Stop Mike’s Blog 138 On the way to Bangkok, and bumped into Winson on the airplane – pretty awesome. Both heading to the DCBKK conference – one that always pushes me every year to break limiting beliefs and just do it. Which leads me into this blog topic – keep going when others say …
Creating a Side Hustle Out of the Cross Border Bus Lifestyle
Creating a Side Hustle Out of the Cross border Bus Lifestyle Mike’s blog 136 Are you a bus rider? I’m a bus rider. Is that a word? The 10 years I’ve been here in China, and bouncing back and forth between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, I have taken hundreds of bus rides, If there are 52 weeks a year, and …
Interviewing Top Chinese E-commerce Executives
Interviewing Top Chinese E-commerce Executives. Mike’s Blog 134 Going deeper into the China side of cross border e-commerce export. Spent a ton of time this past week interviewing top Amazon FBA sellers in China and service providers. What is crazy to me is the rest of the world has no idea who they are – they are like a faceless …
Hangzhou, China Campaign
Hangzhou China Campaign Mike’s Blog 133 We are here in Hangzhou, China. A city not as well known as first tier cities such as Shanghai and Beijing – but one we should take note of. I’ve been fortunate enough to have gotten to know Lorenzo a lot more while he was down in Shenzhen earlier this year. He had lived …
Foreigners Accepted in China
Foreigners Accepted in China Will We Always be a Foreigner in China? Am I Just a White Monkey? We have discussed “rent-a-white guy” in the past on the blog. In China, as well as other parts of Asia – the media, the image of foreigners has always been highly respected and value. Some say it’s Hollywood, some say because of …
No Excuses
No Excuses Mike’s Blog 131 Writing this on a bus in Evernote app using one hand. My Mac charger totally died and I can’t charge my laptop to do my morning writing. I’m rushing to Chinaccelerator office to hope someone can let me in so I can charge my laptop and resume work. Then I will go to a market …