Archive for November, 2009
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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I hate to pick on one of my favorite media outlets twice in seven days, but something definitely is going wrong over at Sports Illustrated. Earlier in the week there were strange reports of Peyton Manning discriminating against teams that ate blini. (Possible ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
While we may have created a few dodgy budgets at RightSite, we still haven't figured out how to create a subversive spreadsheet. Despite this, it seems that while Google docs are accessible in China today, any of the spreadsheets that you may have created are not.
At this time, we are ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Sometimes I wonder if this blog starts to sound a bit paranoid, but when you run your own business you start to realise how many unscrupulous folks out there are trying to help you part with your cash. And one of the biggest scams victimising online businesses these days is ...
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
It's Saturday in Shanghai and that makes it time to celebrate another victory at RightSite. We completed another week of productive work under substandard conditions. We successfully produced a our latest newsletter, got about 90 new property listings added to our directory, and have gained considerable ground on completing our ...
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
One of the few time wasting pleasures that I have maintained even during our start-up regimen here at RightSite is my daily scanning of the NFL news from the US. Reading about the drama of football gives me a break from sifting through the latest real estate data and investment ...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
From talking with Shanghai's business cognescenti in the bars up and down Tongren Lu, the mood of late has been that business is getting back on its feet. And from the recent news in the China Daily (if this is a worthy source) the uptick in business is reflected in ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
One of our primary missions this year at RightSite.asia, my online b2b for industrial property, has been to build up our web traffic, and our primary means for doing this has been through search engine optimisation (SEO). Lately the RightSite team has scored a number of victories in this mission, ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
It's been a while since I checked in here at Mingtiandi, but that's only because of how much work we've had to do building RightSite.asia.
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One of the benefits of building RightSite has been getting the opportunity to find out more about some ...
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