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Minimal Business Cards

I recently designed some new business cards for Randomwire and instead of the normal multi-field affair I wanted to make it as simple as possible. Since…

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Wasteful Watsons Water

Bottled water has never been an environmentally friendly way of consuming our most precious necessity but it’s convenience has people buying it in enormous quantities every…

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Social Media in Asia Presentations

While Facebook and Twitter might rule in the US and Europe it’s a whole different game in Asia. If you follow Thomas Crampton (Asia-Pacific director of…

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Chinese Business Etiquette Book

Whilst browsing a pile of stray Chinese books at work the other day I came across this gem of a title: “Etiquette: Your Etiquette is Worthy…

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Building The Perfect Company

If you were to start your own company how would it look? Would you create it along the traditional lines of a corporate enterprise or try…

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Chinese Culture 101 | Part 8 – Practical Tips

This post is the last of a series exploring Chinese culture. To get up to speed see the links at the bottom of this page for…

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Chinese Culture 101 | Part 7 – Differences

This post is part of a series exploring Chinese culture. See the links at the bottom of this page for more. Having explored some of the…

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World Connectivity Rankings

A study conducted by Professor Leonard Waverman (London Business School), commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks, has recently released their results which ranks the current connectivity levels of…

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Chinese Guerilla Advertising

In China a lot of business is done below the radar in the informal sector but while these businesses may be faceless their advertising is not.…

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Chinese Web 2.0 Clones

Many western web companies have struggled to gain traction into the Chinese market (or ignored it completely) as most Chinese internet users tend to stick to…

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