#50 Taiwan: Thomas Kuiper [Gandi] "No Bullshit" communication & business development strategy

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Episode in English: find out Gandi's "No Bullshit" strategy proved to be successful to develop business in Asia

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- Main topics covered in this episode:

• Living in Taiwan for 15 years, working for Taiwanese companies
• Foreign vs Taiwanese: how to get feedbacks from local staff
• Japan VS German VS French culture, being a German working for a french company
• Business development: conferences, target developpers with a « no bullshit » marketing and offer
• Create a website, CRM, Wordpress VS Wix, Content Square…
• Having operations based in Taiwan to cover APAC market
• Taiwan vs Singapore, banking system, staff, geographic position
• Payment solutions in China: Union Pay, Alipay
• Fapiao (invoice) challenge in Taiwan when starting operations
• Sending an email to company and getting a job in Asia after a lunch with the boss
• Working as foreigner for taiwanese companies, work culture, management
• Operations in China, firewall, political situation
• Gandi offer: domain names and hosting
• Brand protection, security, the importance of domain names
• Entrepreneurs need to check out if a new domain names extensions in your industries have been created (.law , .beauty…)
• Share your knowledge, let people know about you, what you know and what you have to offer
• Be Open source!

Links:

• Gandi

Thomas Kuiper on Linkedin