PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

YouTUBE and Business

5月

14日

YouTUBE provides a way for anyone to upload video and embed in your web page or blog. It is a great tool until you start using it to promote your business or products.

When you display the promotion video using YouTUBE, at the end of the video the display screen will look like image above. This case, this video was to promote the golf swing training aid. At the end of this video, YouTUBE is showing other video related to the video you just show. That means, YouTUBE might show the product or business that is competing you.

It is a good idea to use YouTUBE to display your promo video, but you should never embed YouTUBE in your web or blog. For that reason PSPINC created Web de Video. It is a free video streaming system like YouTUBE, except it has no commercial to other sites. Try it for free.

www.webdevideo.com

#Computer #Internet

ScannedCards.com PART 2

5月

13日

Advertising or No Advertising.

Once we have the central database of contact information, we can update it anytime we want. And when the contact information is updated, the updated information will be available to everyone you exchange your contact information with.

We can make this a free service and run it using the advertising money. But I am sick and tired of advertising. I thought it is better if the site is run by the contribution of users. If we can charge very small charge like $10 or $20 per year and run it without advertisement, people will be more responsible.

During the beta stage, we are no charging anything to register. Please take a moment to register with ScannedCards.com.

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ScannedCards.com PART 1

5月

13日

How many business cards have you collected last year? How about a year before that? Have you taken a time to put them in your contact database? Or you just have them in your drawers or boxes. Even if you put them on your contact database, you will never know if the information in your database is up to date.

The picture you see above is the business card of Lincoln in 19th century. We have added telephone number, fax number and email address, but the business card itself has not evolved at all since it was developed. We need better way to exchange contact information wit each other. We need a central database of contact information.

This is the thought behind the development of ScannedCards.com.

I will get into more detail tomorrow. Please take your time to register your contact information at ScannedCards.com.

#Business #Marketing

My first SAM'S CLUB

5月

13日

I used the one-day membership coupon and went to SAMS CLUB. I am used to COSTCO, but the product, layout and prices are very similar to COSTCO with one exception.

The exception is that at SAMS CLUB there are hardly any customers. I was able to park right outside the front entrance. How often does that happen at COSTCO.

They told me there is a 10% surcharge on the product that I purchase as one-day member. But manager there waived that fee. I purchased few gifts for my Japan trip like chocolates and vitamins. I bought them at SAMS CLUB because almost everything sold at COSTCO here are also sold there in Japan. That would not make good gifts.

Unlike COSTCO, SAMS CLUB takes Master Card, Discover Card and Debit card for the payment. But they do not take VISA. I have VISA and AMEX. I ended up using my cash card to pay for everything I purchased.

Do I like SAMS CLUB?

It is not bad at all. Only if they are little closer, I might consider joining. I went to Renton SAMS CLUB. I live in south Bellevue and go to Kirkland COSTCO.

#Shopping

SAM'S CLUB FREE ONE DAY MEMBERSHIP

5月

12日

I found this on the net. With this, you should be able to shop at SAMS CLUB without becoming a member. I am a Costco member and have never been to SAMS CLUB. But I always wanted to see how good or bad.

I cannot guarantee that you will be able to get inside with this, but we have nothing to loose. Try it out and let me know what it is like.

#Shopping

ScannedCards.com is in beta.

5月

11日

Have you ever seen a bar code like this before?
Do you know what it can do?

This is one of the new technologies that we used to create ScannedCards.com.

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Fremont Washington

5月

11日

I dont go Westside (Seattle Side) very often, but I drove through Fremont area yesterday. I have seen those before but I never had chance to stop in front of them. So I took a picture Does anyone know what and why they are there?

#Life #Politics #Society

Looking at Downtown From West Seattle

5月

11日

I took a guest to see Seattle downtown from West Seattle, Alki Beach. Here is the picture I took. Unfortunately, it started to rain when I got there. When is the sun coming out???

Click on the picture to enlarge.

#Outdoor

Cheez Burger

5月

9日

I went to NWEN breakfast meeting this morning to listen to the founder of Pet-Holding which owns and operates www.icanhascheezburger.com site. His name is Ben Huh. If you have never heard of this site, you should visit it. And if you are like me, you would say, it is cute but so what. Do you know this site is one of the most growing sites in the world and have more than 9.5 million visitors every month?

To put his venture in perspective, when you Google cheese burger, this site will come up on top. And this is done organically, not by advertising with Google. I was really pleased with the presentation he gave and was informative and very interesting. I actually learned some things this morning.

Companies like Netflix, at&t and Dominos advertise on this site. He talked about the business model. It was really interesting. At the bottom of this post, you will see the link to the presentation he used this morning.

http://www.benhuh.com/nwen.pdf

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icanhascheezburger.com

5月

8日

Have you ever heard of icanhascheezburger.com? If so you are ahead of the curve. Tomorrow morning, Northwest Entrepreneur Network (http://www.nwen.org/) will host a breakfast meeting in Bellevue, Washington. The guest speaker of this meeting is Ben Huh. Ben is the CEO of Pet Holdings which is the creator of icanhascheezburger.com.

icanhascheezburger.com is a web site that is based on the blog engine that people can post the picture of cats with a little comment.

So what? You may ask.

Well, this site is ranked around 2,500th in the world with millions of visitors everyday. The company has only 11 people I need to know what is happening here. I wil be at the NWEN breakfast. If you are coming, look me up.

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