Over the past few years, I saw a common pattern of how the poor saves their money in such a way that they can still have money ranges from $100,000 to $300,000 even though their monthly salary is only $2,000 or even lesser, and yet they are not savvy or risk-taking investors at all. Mentality more »
The more you trim your web work, the better focus you will get!
15 September 2011 By Leave a Comment
Recently, I had a chance to speak to Mr Vincent Lauria (a successful startup geek from United States) over a coffee at Starbucks. He has enlightened me a lot in many of things that I have done. I am not sure where I should start in this blog post to talk about his enlightenment. However, more »
The importance of a web division in a company
4 September 2011 By Leave a Comment
Since 2007 when Jeffrey Zeldman blogged about “Let there be web divisions“, I have yet to see many companies having a web division today. It is still either falling under marketing department or IT department. In fact, web belongs to neither of them. Who should be in charge of the web? Both marketing department and IT more »
Pareto 80/20 rule may no longer apply in sales and marketing today
31 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
When I was doing sales as well as my own businesses, I was taught by my mentors that I should focus on the 20% of my customers who are the best customers, and refer away 80% of my customers to other people who are wasting too much of my time. This used to be a more »
It may take a while for companies to change their focus to relationship building
25 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
For many years, people have been working professionally. They are here to sell their products and services. They are investing in something, and they are expecting a return out of it. This is what they called “Return-on-Investment”. But they are missing out something over here. Yesterday, our salespeople had trained us to be aware of more »
Our iconic bookstore – Borders – is closing down at Wheelock Place
20 August 2011 By 2 Comments
Initially, when I was listening to the news that Borders has closed down in other countries, the very first thing in my mind is whether our iconic bookstore at Wheelock Place is going to close down too. It turned out to be true that Borders is closing down its flagship store at Wheelock Place. I more »
I am now in the process of revamping my blog
16 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
Apologize if you are surfing the site while I am revamping my blog. I have just removed all the files in this blog, while retaining the contents that I have blogged since June 2007. Now, I felt that it is a fresh new start for Charles Lau dot Com again. I am using Genesis framework more »
Revamping my sites for my personal brand
15 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
This recently, I have been looking through my domain names and projects that I have with my team. There are a couple of things that I need to re-organize, and I have to get them out as soon as possible. Even for this blog, I have been thinking if I should remove all my contents more »
Charles is a change agent.
8 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
I simply love the Internet. As I keep striving to be better than yesterday, I have seen a couple of resistance due to the usual unspoken rules. Nevertheless, I am here to change the situation and to make a better place for everybody. It is a known fact that social media is here to stay, more »
Catching up with the social media
8 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
While working on my full time job as a senior e-marketing executive, I have the opportunity to catch up with my social media endeavors. It has led me to discover even more things for my colleagues to explore while they can focus on the more important things. I started writing a weekly update to my more »
