PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

THEO CHOCOLATE

10月

18日

There is a chocolate factory right in the middle of Fremont called Theo Chocolate. I bought some chocolates for my business trip to Japan. It is a very popular place. There were lots of people came in while I was there.

http://www.theochocolate.com/
http://www.facebook.com/theochocolate

#Gourmet

Thank you NW Asian Weekly

10月

17日

Posted on Northwest Asian Weekly.
http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2011/10/kenichi-uchikura-a-software-publishing-visionary/

#Blog

No advertisement on Bloguru

10月

17日

Your company need easy way to update your home page ... possibly every week or even every day. The way to do that is to create a company blog.

Bloguru is one of the few blog system that has no outside advertisement. Companies who want to promote their service cannot afford to use the blog that could advertise other companies.

#Blog

Presented by Asian Weekly

10月

16日

I was one of the honorees of Asian Americsm Pioneer in Social Entrepreneurship.

#Life #Politics #Society

Beautiful Saturday

10月

16日

It turned out to be a beautiful autumn day in Seattle. I played golf today at my club, but it was cloudy and somewhat cold. I saw this blue sky when I came back to Bellevue.

#Nature

Web Site, SNS, Email are tools.

10月

15日

Web Site, Social Networking and Email are very important tools that you can use to promote your business. But remember, they are tools not your business. You are not building Internet (.com) company. You are what you are. And you now can use Web Site, Social Networking and Email to promote your business.

You cannot sell things on the internet you can not sell regularly. Internet is not a special world that you can sell anything. Internet is not a magic wand. It is a very useful tool but that is what it is. You must use them and use them well to stay ahead, but you are not transferring your business to cyber space.

#Business #Marketing

iCloud is available for Mac OSX Lion

10月

14日

iCloud is now available on one of my Mac which I upgraded to LION. My laptop, however, is still SNOW LEOPARD and is not compatible with iCloud. Not cool. I would like to upgrade to LION but I know one of my application will not run on LION. What should I do?

And another thing. If I setup iCloud to sync my address book ... I will loose Google Sync. That is not cool.

#Computer #Internet

VISA BLACK CARD

10月

14日

I received the invitation to VISA BLACK CARD ... Cool!
I read the contract. It cost $495 annually ... No cool!

For $495, I get concierge service ... no cash back, no points ...
Other than the status of owning carbon fiber black card, you get nothing much.
They say only 1% of people qualify ... I say only 1 out of 100 is crazy enough to pay $495. And I am not one of them.

I wish a BLACK CARD is free and only presented to 0.001% of people instead of 1%. If I qualify, that means BLACK CARD is not that much of a status. Besides, PSPINC provide Domain Name, Web and Email hosting for small companies for $250 a year. That is about the half of this credit card costs. You got to be kidding.

#Business #Marketing

$84,000 and $108,000 for every hour

10月

13日

Cloud migration is cheap compared to IT downtime.

Hello Kenichi (Ken),

“On average, businesses lose between $84,000 and $108,000 (US) for every hour or IT system downtime.”
Assessing the Financial Impact of Downtime, IT Director, April 26, 2010

When you consider that 59% of Fortune 500 companies experience a minimum of 1.6 hours of downtime per week, the costs associated with the above figures can be staggering.

Investing in cloud services is the biggest step you can take toward mitigating those costs, maintaining business continuity and managing change in an evolving business environment. Experts agree that an investment in cloud services is a bargain compared to the alternative:

“Spending on IT will have to happen even if the economy is weak. Otherwise, many companies won’t be able to stay in business because of failing data centers.”
IDC: Boom In Global IT Spending Forecast Despite Short-Term Economic Concerns, Silicon Valley Watcher, August 3, 2010.

What is wrong with this quote that I got from the local telephone, Internet company?
"businesses lose between $84,000 and $108,000 for every hour ..."

We don't and most companies do not even make $84,000 and $108,000 for every hour. If you think fortune 500 companies are the average companies ... this company need to learn about the reality.

99% of companies that we work with has less than 10 email accounts. Ad they make a lot less than $84,000 and $108,000 an hour. They pay average of about $22 per month and they uptime is better 99.9%. If your company is making less than $84,000 and $108,000 an hour but still like to get >99.9% availability, call us.

#Business #Marketing