PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

S A K U R A

Mar

28

SAKURA is cherry blossom in Japanese. This flower tells people that spring is here. I was playing golf today and found SAKURA blossom. Flower is pretty, but sure doesnt feel like spring.

#Outdoor

Here is a picture of my dog PomPom. He is a 6 year old Shih Tzu and Pomeranian mix. I bought him at Absolute Puppy on NE 8th in downtown Bellevue. I do all his glooming myself. I do not want to spend money and I do not want him at the glooming place for hours. I gloom him every 5 or 6 weeks. I gloom Tiny and Nano as well. They are Shih Tzus and I know them since they are baby.

My company allows employees to bring their dog to work. Usually there are 3 to 5 dogs in the company at any given days. We actually bought current office buildings so that we can bring our dogs.

This picture was taken at my house.

#Blog

What should I write on my blog???

Mar

26

I am asked many times by the business people what should I write on my Blog? My answer often is anything but advertisement of your company or product. How many advertisements can you write? Do you watch TV to see the advertisements? I dont think so. You watch the show and as a result you watch the advertisements.

The show is you. You must sell you on the Internet. You must be attractive enough to attract audiences. There is no point for you to advertise when there is nobody to see it. Think about what you know, what you like, what you dont like, and then write about them. Regardless of where your blog is, unless you update them often, you will not attract anyone.

Some of the topics people may choose to write are

(1) What you eat
(2) Pets
(3) Where you go
(4) Whom you met
(5) Business Failure
(6) Business Success
(7) Advise you received (Good or Bad, Worse)
(8) Health and Diet
(9) Economy and Politics
(10) Current News

Again, you need to update your blog as often as possible. Also, pictures will make your blog more attractive.

#Blog

Mr. Yoshida - Introduction Video

Mar

26

This is the video used at the beginning of Mr. Yoshida's presentaion yesterday at Seattle Executives Association.

This video is streamed from the free video streaming service of Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. called "Web de Video". For more information, please contact me.

#Business #Marketing

Seattle Executives Association

Mar

25

Today, we have invited Mr. Yoshida of Yoshida Group to Seattle Executives Association (SEA). SEA invites only few speakers to talk to their weekly meetings. I was very dynamic, funny and motivating. I think everyone at the meeting enjoyed. I will try to post his video as soon as I can.

#Business #Marketing

Unknown but Wonderful Vietnamese Food

Mar

24

I had Vietnamese food last night. The only Vietnamese food that I know was PHO. I had no idea the food like this existed. I was really wonderful.

I have no idea what it is called. You cook meet and wrap tem in the thin round paper like thing with vegetables and noodles that I dipped in the hot water to soften it. I had this in Portland, Oregon. I wish I have something like this in Washington.

#Gourmet

Do you know this person?

Mar

24

Do you know this man?

He is one of the most successful business people that I personally know. He is Mr. Junki Yoshida. We went to meet Yoshida-san, chairman of Yoshida Group, in Oregon. He owns and operates 18 companies including Yoshida Foods, Oregon International Airfreight. He is an extremely busy person, but he always spend entire afternoon. He sits on the board of directors of my company.

He will be involved more with the company that I am creating too. He is coming to Seattle to speak at Seattle Executives Association where I am a second VP. I will get to introduce him tomorrow.

#Business #Marketing

The Great Wolf Lodge

Mar

24

We went on a day trip to Portland Oregon. It is about 180 miles (290km) one way. It usually takes little less than three hours on Interstate 5. About a half way there, there is a place called Tenino and we saw great building being built for last several trips. The place is called The Great Wolf Lodge.

We decided to visit and have breakfast there. It was an amusement park with huge indoor swimming pools and rides. There are a lot of customers. It was a lot more than we were expecting. We had buffet style breakfast ($13 each). We all thought it was an Indian Tribal Casino, but no casino there. We were really surprised by the amount of businesses they are generating being in middle of Seattle and Portland.

No recession there! It is a good sight to see.

#Business #Marketing

On the way back from Portland

Mar

23

I am on the way back from the day trip to Portland. It will take two more hours.

I am writing this using my cellular phone.I will post something about this trip tomorrow.

#Travel

Japanese Tourists in Korea

Mar

22

My friend just came back from Korea. He tells me there are so many Japanese tourists everywhere in Korea. That is because of the currency. Compared to a year ago, Korean won is about a half. That means, everything that you see in Korea is a half price.

Last tome I was in Japan, there was a line of people checking in to the flight that is bound for Seoul and Pusan. Economy is a funny animal. Regardless of the financial situation, there is flow of money from the high to low. That is what we learned in college (Economics 101). Let the economy do its thing, it will somehow work out.

Let the private companies be private. There is nothing government can do. If the government can do anything about the economy, Soviet still be a communist country.

#Life #Politics #Society