PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

rakuten.com

Mar

12

It is an interesting move by Rakuten's part to drop buy.com name and move it to rakuten.com. Rakuten is a Japanese company famous for asking employees in Japan to speak only English.

http://www.rakuten.com

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First PSPINC Office

Feb

28

PSPINC #1 Office Site

This is the office building I rent first few months after I started PSPINC in Mercer Island, Washington. I rented a small office on the 2nd floor. I paid 1 year rent in advance so that I will not run out of money.

When we left this building, we occupied about the 1/2 of the entire second floor.

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INC 5000

Feb

28

PSPINC was listed at #3638 on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in the US for 2012. There were 127 companies in Washington state that made the list, and of those we were also #85 for the Seattle Metro Area.

http://www.inc.com/profile/pacific-software-publishing

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Seattle Executives Association

Feb

27

Every Wednesday, I attend Seattle Executives Association with 100 other business owners. It is a very different organization design to benefit companies. If you own a business in the greater Seattle area and would like check out this association, please let me know.

Just remember there is one company per business category, so if your business category is already taken by the current member, you are not allowed to join.

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Visiting Video Production Company

Feb

15

We have visited a video production company who is also a member of Seattle Executives Association.

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Tissue Paper Marketing

Feb

7

Pocket Tissue with Advertisement

It is common in Japan to distribute pocket tissue paper packet to people near train station with advertisement. I think it is a great idea.

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KanjiWORD

Jan

9

KanjiWORD by Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

KanjiWORD is one of the very first software package that PSPINC published in the US. This software enabled non Japanese version of Windows 3.1 to process Japanese text. That was back in 1993~1994 ... two years before PSPINC start its Internet hosting business.

The last technical support for KanjiWORD was just last year. One of the user lost the 3.5" installation diskette. We try to replace it but we realized that we did not have any computer in our company with disk drive. We needed to take one of the PSPINC display computer to duplicate the disk.

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Facebook Account vs Page

Jan

8

https://www.facebook.com/PacificSoftwarePublishing

Many small business owners have opened the Facebook accounts and use them to promote their business. I have done the same but I learned that is not how it should work. You create PAGE which looks and act like an Facebook Account to promote your business.

In my case, I own https://www.facebook.com/uchikura account. I use thios account to create following pages to promote my company and products.

https://www.facebook.com/Pspinc
https://www.facebook.com/PSPINCJP
https://www.facebook.com/PacificSoftwarePublishing
https://www.facebook.com/pspnewsmail

PAGES have more functions than the account. You get to see the traffic to your PAGES. You also can have multiple PAGES from your account. You can also assign other people to be the administrator of your PAGES.

If you have any question, please contact me or my company.

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Zip Car is Now a Part of Avis/Budget

Jan

2

My Zipcard

Newsletter from Zip Car

I just received the email (newsletter) saying the Zip Car is now a part of Avis/Budget Rent-a-Car group. It makes it bigger but less trendy, I just became a ip Car member last year.

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