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We have extended the multi-lingual section of our Web site to support our growing Chinese speaking customer base. The Web site now displays Simplified and Traditional Chinese - as well as Japanese and Korean for our customers in the Asia/Pac region. In addition to this we have customer services personnel who speak both Mandarin and Cantonese, so when customers call using our toll free numbers from PR China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore etc., they can ask us questions in the language they are most comfortable using, plus they get a fast answer to their questions in their own time zone. We can also quote them pricing for your products in their local currency of choice: Chinese Yuan, Hong Kong Dollar, New Taiwan Dollar, Singapore Dollar, Australian Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Korean Won or Japanese Yen. You have no exchange rate loss risk in these volatile times or bad debt risk from the customer failing to pay for whatever reason - we take care of all that risk for you and pay you in your usual currency.
ComponentSource now has 9 different languages displayed on our Web site - including English, French, German, Italian & Spanish, as well as the 4 languages for the Asia/Pac region above. We also have customer services teams in Atlanta, GA, Reading, England & Tokyo, Japan that speak 9 different languages and give your customers front line 5x24 pre-sales & post-sales product support. With 49 toll free numbers from 47 countries around the world and product pricing available in 20 different currencies, we are capable of handling and growing your international sales - plus we always pay you on time. No debt risk - just good cash flow in these challenging economic times.
To find out more about how we can help market and distribute your products to Chinese speaking customers, please email Scott Sata: scotts@componentsource.co.jp
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You may have noticed a few technology magazines disappearing or merging over the last few years... so is print dead? I guess you can argue the case either way - we certainly did not have a printed paper catalog when we first started ComponentSource in 1995/96 - we had CDs full of product information, evaluations and un-lockable products. Then in 1998 we moved to use our Web site for evaluation download and order fulfilment and we stopped our CDs in 2000-2. Everyone uses the Web to get information and news is spread in a variety of ways using RSS feeds, blogs, forums, emails etc. - but I think there is still a place for quality magazines and printed catalogs. A lot of people are using "green issues" as a reason to cut costs and save money, which is very laudable and understandable, however, with the decline of other print media, we are finding increased demand for our paper catalogs from our product publishers or partners. The fundamental reason for this is that our catalogs reach a very high quality global audience - namely our best customers in the US, Europe, Japan & Korea.
So rather than seeing a decline in paper catalogs printed this year, in 2009 we will print more paper catalogs than in any previous year and we will use them to help take your products to a high quality and focused global audience. In total we will print approximately 270,000 paper catalogs this year and distribute them quarterly to our best customers in the US, Europe, Japan & Korea. We will also distribute them with our partners at various trade shows including Microsoft Tech Ed USA in May in LA and Microsoft Tech Ed Europe in Nov in Berlin, Germany.
Plus we insert them with major international magazines in the US, UK, France, Germany, Korea and Japan. So they are a relatively inexpensive way for you to reach people who are not only interested in your product area - but who have probably already bought a similar product from us here at ComponentSource. I guess you cannot find a better target audience than that... so if you want to use print advertising to help differentiate your product or launch a new software release perhaps you should give our international paper catalogs a try? We have English language editions - printed with pricing for the US, UK and European markets and we have both Japanese and Korean language editions for Japan & South Korea.
To find out how you can appear in one of our paper catalogs please email Chris Brooke: chrisb@componentsource.com
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Did you know that we now have 66 SharePoint products on our Web site? That is pretty impressive and we know you all have a lot more SharePoint compatible products on the way. Compared with other hot new areas - like WPF with 67 products and Silverlight with 55 products - this shows that SharePoint is a fast growing market and a great opportunity for you! Where are your SharePoint products?
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ComponentSource US News
Meet ComponentSource at Microsoft Tech Ed Conference in May 11-15 in Los Angeles. To arrange a meeting please email us:
Sam Patterson from our US office will be there: samp@componentsource.com
Chris Brooke from our US office will be there: chrisb@componentsource.com
Kerry West from our US office will be there: kerryw@componentsource.com
Scott Sata from our Tokyo office will be there: scotts@componentsource.co.jp
Harry Kelly from our European office will be there: harryk@componentsource.com
ComponentSource European, Middle East & Africa News
A new way to advertise in Europe - why not split your advertising budget to reach 3 different countries? If you are interested in reaching the French, German and UK market, but have a limited budget please email Harry Kelly to discuss how we can spread a 6 advert campaign over 6 months, in 3 different countries. Reach more people, grow your European sales and save money! harryk@componentsource.com
ComponentSource Asia/Pac News
If you need help with product sales in PR China, Hong Kong or Taiwan - our Asia/Pac Customer Services Team will be able to help you immediately - so please email our CEO for the Asia/Pac region Scott Sata to discuss this further: scotts@componentsource.co.jp
Market News
After IBM dropped out of their negotiations with SUN, Oracle has now announced that they plan to acquire SUN, giving JAVA a new home and starting a debate about the future of MySQL. Comment from The Register and also about IBM's reaction and what the Oracle executives think about SUN Microsystems software.
Plus Google Android is moving in an unexpected direction - more from The Register. |
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