It certainly looks as though the prognostications for increased international sales mentioned in this previous post are coming true, as Amazon has reported a significant increase in profits due to international sales. If that’s not enough to get my fellow countrymen and women into international business I’m not sure what is, particularly given the state […]
Every now and then I get an email or a memo written in a language that I don’t speak. If I need to “get the drift” of the foreign message, I copy and paste the text into an online translator and - viola! - something resembling English comes back. I wouldn’t send this translation to […]
In a previous post, I wrote about decimal and date notation. I just found a list of which countries use which decimal notation, which I will share here. Additionally, my understanding of thousands separators has increased; I describe that below, also.
Decimal separators
According to Roy S. Freedman in his book “Introduction to Financial Technology”, the […]
Economic downturns sometimes lead to increases in enrollment in MBA and other similar programs, partially due to the inability of students and younger professionals to obtain the jobs they want, and partially due to the lower opportunity cost of studying during those downturns. If you find yourself searching for an MBA program with an international […]
As I alluded to earlier, the current weakness of the dollar is encouraging more and more US companies to try their hand at exporting. That, combined with the web, seems like a no brainer - after all, tapping world markets (or at least world markets where they speak English) is practically free, right?
Well, this article […]
I must hear the phrase “What time is it where you are?” at least once a week. In my company of 600 people, we have offices in 3 continents and 9 time zones (including our two offshore teams, one in Bulgaria, the other in India).
Counting the hours between the time zones isn’t that difficult; it […]
Decimal notation. You never notice something like that until it changes on you.
Today I was putting together some PowerPoint slides for our company president who is from the UK when I noticed that on some slides I had used a dot for a decimal point (as in 2.5) and in other slides I had used […]
Why bother with the travel to international trade shows when you can visit a virtual trade show 24/7 from your own desk?
Yes, virtual reality is encompassing more aspects of our business and personal lives every day. In the past year, virtual trade shows have not only gotten more press, they also have big businesses signing […]
Since we’ve been talking a bit about currencies, it’s interesting to recall old-fashioned notions of the gold standard and the 1 billion mark note seen in Weimar Germany during the 1920s. In an interesting post, the FT’s Undercover Economist reminds us that a currency only has value as long as those who desire goods think […]
For many people, January is the time to make plans for the coming year. One of the items on my to-do list is planning which trade shows and conferences to attend.
Biz Tradeshows claims to have the largest list of trade shows. They certainly do list a lot of shows, but I couldn’t find a […]
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