I read a very interesting article this morning. Yes, I do read sometime called Is Your Business Ready for The New Normal?The only thing that you have control as a business is the cost. How do you reduce cost without reducing services that you provide to your customers?Take a look at your IT cost. Ho...

Would you buy "MADE IN THE USA" even if the product is more expensive?The answer is ... "NO"Let's not kid ourselves by thinking products made in the USA would sell. It used to be true. Why? Because Made in The USA used to mean "better" products. Unfortunately, many products are not better.The questi...

From time to time, I will select a product that is available in both US and Japan and compare a price for you based on the current currency exchange.LEXUS LS 460 Base ModelUS Retail $66,000JP Retail Y7,960,000 = $94,761The same car costs $28,761 more in the US than it is in Japan. This is 43% more. ...

Mayumi Nakamura, president of PSPINC, flew to Long Beach this morning. She will have over 10 meetings in 3 days with several Japanese corporations headquartered in southern California.I think we are expanding our web hosting business to southern California where there are more than 70,000 Japanese p...

Since the release of the new bloguru admin we are effectively dropping support for our classic skins and by the end of September any users using a classic skin will be automatically moved to a new skin. To avoid being caught by this move, please log in to the admin panel and select a new skin.If you...

Travelex ... You have seen them at airport. They say NO FEE foreign currency exchange. This is a rip off. The current Japanese Yen to US Dollar is about 86 yen to 1 dollar. At this stand they sell Japanese yen at 73.99 yen to a dollar.They are making 14% or 12 yen profit every time they sell 1 US do...

I took this picture this morning at out side of baggage claim at SEATAC this morning. This area used to be smoking area for the airport but it is not more. However, it is used as a smoking area anyway as you can see on top of the trash bin and the lady smoking sitting down.I used to smoke so I know ...

Today, PSPINC deployed the new rule for detecting SPAM email on our SPAM Filter. It should detect another 70% plus SPAM coming to your mailbox. Please let me know if we stamp any valid email as SPAM.We are trying very hard to eliminate as many SPAM as possible without stamping a valid email.

I was at the SEATAC airport waiting for people on DELAT 182. The arrival notice said it is arriving little after 3pm. Originally it was supposed to arrive at 11:30am. I waited until 4:30pm and found out that the flight was cancelled. The online, arrival information and Delta rep. on the phone never ...

Today I attended Seattle Executives Association Golf Tournament. It was really a nice day. Although we shot 9 under par (scramble format), best team shot 4 strokes better than we did.We did not win but Mayumi got Longest Drive and Nearest to the Pin. I won two ruffle prizes and those were tickets to...