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Author Archives: alfons
Bali’s finest…
Just returned from Bali after a strategic session with the management and staff of the Bali Export Development Organization (BEDO). It is a dynamic and interactive process of rethinking and redesigning the strategy of the organization, to be lean and mean(ingful). In this second strategic session, a breakthrough was realized in conceptualizing a new business ... more »
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Workshop website promotion in Vietnam
Conducting a 2 days workshop in Ho Chi Minh city, in Vietnam on Internet strategies and website promotion. Some 40 companies participate. Subjects covered include search engine optimization, search engine advertisement, usability, critical success factors for Internet strategies and engagement through social media.
Posted in Coaching, Export marketing strategies Tagged Online marketing, social media, Web 2.0 Leave a comment
Building market research expertise
We touched down in Cebu, the Philippines to conduct a number of market research sessions.
We just concluded a session with Filipino export marketing consultants, about optimizing social media like blogs, Twitter ‘mentions’ and LinkedIn for market research.
We also did a a session on primary market research techniques: identifying and contacting experts and buyers in target ... more »
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Website promotion seminar for tourism operators
From March 1-7, we’re conducting a seminar in Rotterdam on e-marketing, SEO and social media strategies for tourism operators from developing countries. The seminar is hosted by the centre for promotion of imports from developing countries (CBI). The close to 40 participants are operators of community based tourism and ecotourism from countries ranging from Georgia ... more »
Posted in Online marketing, Project, Training Tagged facebook, Online marketing, social media 3 Comments
iD consultancy in matchmaking
On December 30, 2010, the NL EVD International, part of the NL Agency – a department of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs – announced that the consortium of iD Consultancy, ProFound Advisers in development, and Facts, Figures and Future, have won an international tender procedure for the Netherlands matchmaking facility. In 2011, we will ... more »
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Social Accountability Auditing
From November 1 – 5, 2010, Bastiaan and Alfons (together with 4 colleagues from the iD consultancy training network) attended a 5 days auditing course on the SA8000 standard, in Istanbul, Turkey. The course was conducted by senior trainers from Social Accountability International, the non-governmental organization from the US that developed the standard.
The training proved ... more »
Adding value in the Market Intel seminar
Last week, we co-organized the annual Market Intel seminar, hosted by the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI), in Rotterdam. A seminar for managers and staff of trade promotion organizations who are involved in trade information services.
From Afghanistan to Zambia
There were some 26 participants from amongst others Afghanistan, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, ... more »
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Trade Information Networking or ‘Not working’?
Upon request of the United Nations International Trade Centre (ITC) the team of iD consultants prepared a set of papers on their experiences with the development of trade information networks. The papers reflect on experiences in Europe, Latin America and Africa. The issues covered in the papers are: The need for trade information networks, the ... more »
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Trade Promotion Best Practices revamped
We are proud to announce the launch of the revamped best practice community for professionals in international trade promotion. The WordPress powered website makes it easier than ever before to publish and share best practices. It also makes a great platform to learn from the experiences of fellow professionals in the trade promotion business.
The community ... more »
Filipino consultants trained in CSR auditing