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How to connect to your international clients while you can not travel?

What do you think? afr.com/markets/equity…

”...everybody else is so busy selling out, or has sold out so often that when you come along and don’t sell out or compromise, you stand out immediately" - Robert Townsend This is true for #export as well. Too many people selling. Let your customers flower.

"Cognitive dissonance " was coined by Leon Festinger, a psychologist. It means the tension we feel when reality doesn't match our expectations or beliefs. Doctors, lawyers and economists all have this. Not to mention politicians. Open your heart and mind.

@kiranshaw mentioned “three types of companies”: 1. Ones that make things happen 2. Ones that watch things happen 3. Ones which wonder what happened Be the first one and bring value to the world. We need more manufacturers than AI.

India is known for IT, but "Mythbreaker-Kiran Mauzumda-Shaw and the story of India Biotech" told a successful business in #India that constantly ratcheted up and grow like a #flywheel. Must read if you want to do business in India. A great #BusinessWoman.

See my post about #Starbucks owner @HowardSchultz "Pour Your Heart into it", here is the story of #luckincoffee Coffee which plan to defeat Starbucks in China by opening more shops. It is not the capital but the heart to pour. bbc.com/news/business-…

I had my coffee today, but not from Starbucks. Do you know what the number one brand Chinese people missed the most during the strict lockdown is? Starbucks. If you are still locked at home "Pour your heart into it".

"Huge enterprises can be built by giving people a small moment of joy in their day." Howard Schultz This is true for any business - big or small. Keep your customers first and foremost.

“Companies who take profit as their purpose are like people who think life is about breathing. They’re missing something.” Peter Senge Which one do you agree or both?

“Making money for a company is like oxygen for a person; if you don’t have enough of it you’re out of the game.” Peter Drucker Do you agree? Read next post.

Just read the interview in Chinese. Then found the interview was conducted in English. Some bright ideas. Enjoy your coffee. youtu.be/XEkGcbYGi88

Positioning Al Ries & Jack Trout ”A product is something made in a factory. A brand is something made in the mind. To be succesful today, you have to build brands, not products.” Now, it is best time to build your brand while people are locked.

”There’s likely a place in paradise for people who tried hard. but what really matters is succeeding. If that , requies you to change, that‘s your mission." Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams During this tough time, don't forget your team building. Change with times.

"An industry begins with the customers and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill.” Theodore Levitt, Marketing Myopia. Don't forget your customer at this tough time.

There are things we know and unknown; things we can control and can't control. During this #COVIDー19 crisis, we need to learn more unknown and focus on things we can control. Together let's stay home. Now, inaction is the best action.

"Great companies outperform even in turbulent times" - Jim Collins Keep hope and be patience.

When did Ping Pong start? This photo shows miners playing ping pong in Queensland, ca. 1890 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/25… - #slqdigital @slqld

"The measure of a company is not how much it can expand In good times, but whether it is able to withstand downturns and crises and carve out a long-term future" - Jim Collins' Great by Choice. The risks and opportunities of Covid-19.

"Creating new markets let significantly less risky and more rewarding than entering established markets against entrenched competition" - Clayton Christensen. The first step of your export strategy is to find the best export marke suits you.