Marketing

Kleenex in Taiwan

I understood my first marketing tagline just the other day. Here in Taiwan toilet paper and Kleenex are one and the same. You buy big packs of them and you use them for just about everything in your house. Also, you do not flush toilet paper in Taiwan, so every bathroom has a small trash [...]

China, Consumer, Learning Chinese, Marketing, Taiwan

Japan – Bar Code Technology

When I first visited Japan in 2006, the entry stamp I received at immigration was actually a sticker with a 2d barcode.  This time around, I got the same entry stamp when I entered the country, and I’m seeing it other places. This is old news in Japan, and 2d barcodes have been introduced in [...]

Economy, Marketing, Travel, Web / Internet