My BFF Hiromi sends me Christmas gift every year during this reason. All the goodies from Japan. The left one is green tea leaves from Yame, Fukuoka. Yame's green tea is well known for its quality and flavor. Totally different from the ones you find here. I love drinking tea and serving tea whenever we have guests at home. Tea lovers enjoys my tea collections. The middle top … [Read more...] about Christmas Gift from Japan
Tourism/ Marketing
Focus Language for 2015
I am a language freak. I have English, Japanese and Korean CD-ROM's in my head as well as developing ROM's with conversational Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin). Looking back year 2014, my focus was on Japanese reading and writing for my dream to publish a book. Yes, I want to publish a book about my fun experience and knowledge on tourism marketing in Japan. My Tourism … [Read more...] about Focus Language for 2015
Book Launch Party @US Grant
It is interesting how the world reacts to you as you take actions. One beautiful Saturday afternoon, I attended a petit party at US grant- lots of positive, smart, professional people were there. Business cards are exchanged and interesting talk was shared. Pretty inspiring experience. Becky Carroll is a customer relations marketing professional and her Customer Rock Blog tells us how successful … [Read more...] about Book Launch Party @US Grant
Mexican Beach
I spent a day at the wonderful beach in Puerto Peñasco, México. Enjoy the pics! Mayan Palace Puerto Penasco Puerto Peñasco is located 2 hours and half from the US/ Mexico border. Arizona people visit for vacation because it is the closest beach. The scale is incredible. This part would be only 1% of the whole resort. Lobby Entrance My … [Read more...] about Mexican Beach
List of Classes
All the classes I am taking now is supporting my career/ personal activities. Here I made a list of classes I took so that I can reflect what I have studied in the last year. Marketing Marketing Planning (San Diego Pop-up Store) New Media Marketing Meeting and Event Marketing SEO & SEM Project Management Branding and Positioning Practical Marketing Research Presentation … [Read more...] about List of Classes
San Diego brand
I am taking Business Management/ Marketing certificate program at UCSD Extension. In a class, we are creating a marketing plan to promote San Diego brand. This project is REALLY interesting. I am excited. I mean, it is Friday night and I am working on the project. I know.. I love San Diego so much... I am in love. Even once my ex was jealous on San Diego. Oh well. I just wanted to show off some … [Read more...] about San Diego brand
Social Technographics Ladder
Resource: Groundswell <- great book on social media marketing. Great investment. This is the six groups of onlines customers. Among those who use the Internet, some are information transmitters (just like me writing about new restaurants and cafe), some are readers. There are more social media users than blog writers. As a social media marketing practitioner, you need to know the … [Read more...] about Social Technographics Ladder
What is Social Media
and how powerful is it?? I am learning Marketing via New Media at UCSD Extension and our teacher Becky shared this video in class. You can learn more about her and new media on her blog. Super simple, and FUN!! This will be a great tool to explain your boss why social media marketing is so important these days and how it works. … [Read more...] about What is Social Media
Social Media
Social Media is becoming one of the major tools for company's public relations. According to the social media workshop hosted by San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, twitter is a perfect tool for destination marketing. Social media allows people to share experience and story, get and provide travel advice, etc. Here are some interesting statistics on travelers' behavior in terms of social … [Read more...] about Social Media
Consumer behavior- South Korea
Here I would like to share some interesting findings about South Korean consumers. I conducted a little research sending an email to my 10 friends in South Korea asking if they know the Korean TV drama actor Gyu-Woon Jung, the California’s new celebrity ambassador. What I found it intresting is that all my friends who wrote me back said that they got online and checked who the guy was and which … [Read more...] about Consumer behavior- South Korea