Archive for the ‘management’ Category

Event Marketing in Suzhou

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_454" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Proudly Sponsored by RightSite.asia"][/caption] Since it's Sunday, it's now this week, and last week is history, or at least it will be when we record what happened for posterity. While this may not be recorded in the college textbooks for future scholars to ponder, September 3 -5th marked ...

Get a Chinese Domain Name and Get More Traffic

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_432" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Just Make Sure Not To Use This In Your Name"][/caption] The highways of China are littered with the roadkill carcasses of foreign Internet giants who stumbled, staggered, and got left for dead in their quest for the world's biggest Internet audience. eBay, Google and Yahoo have all ...

The Centre Holds As Things Don’t Fall Apart

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_396" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The RightSite Wiki in all its Glory"][/caption] We are wrapping up a busy month at RightSite and the focus this month has been on team-building. We've added three new team members and interviewed more than 60 people.  But as always, we have tried to do all of ...

Problems Accessing Google Docs in China

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

I love Google Docs.  We use Google Documents for sharing files across RightSite.Asia and it has help us work together more efficiently.  Until this week. This week we have often been unable to access our Google documents When we have been able to access our Google documents, we have at times not ...

Learning Some New Trix

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_286" align="alignright" width="211" caption="Our phone system has nothing to do with the Trix rabbit"][/caption] We've finished another week here at RightSite, and besides completing our performance appraisals, we also seem to have figured out our trixbox-based phone system. After looking into various equipment options, we've made some decisions and ordered some ...

Made to Measure

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

This is maybe the only metric that we don't use in RightSite's performance appraisalIt's January, so not only are we suffering from chilly toes here at RightSite, but we are struggling through our semi-annual performance appraisals for staff. Actually, I shouldn't complain.  Although administering the performance appraisal process is a pain ...

Love Them and Leave Them

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignright" width="300" caption="You can bet that Doris Day didn't play hooky very often"][/caption] There are a lot of "I's" in RightSite, but that doesn't mean we are not all about team.  And since building our team and managing our staff effectively is out top priority at RightSite, we put ...

That Was 2008, Now Let’s Do This 2009 Thing

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

We have just finished our first year of Mingtiandi and our first year (almost) of RightSite.Asia.  Although, I may be biased, I would have to say, "Not bad."  Here's what I think our major accomplishments during the past 12 months: Built the beta version of the RightSite.Asia's first stage Assembled a database ...

Event Marketing at RightSite

Monday, December 8th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_240" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Glamcham event that we organised at my last company"][/caption] Last week we had RightSite's first official event, the Private Beta Private launch party, and we are happy to announce that it was a success.  Out of the thirty-three people we invited, about 14 showed up, but many ...

RightSite Launches in Private Beta

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_230" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Beta Ray Bill is not part of the Private Beta"][/caption] This week marks a big event in China's industrial property history (or at least a big event for us) -- the launch of RightSite's private beta. It only took about eight months of development, but the site is ...

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