http://www.quarkis.com/blog Multilingual Web Marketing Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:02:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter already stated earlier in the week that it was geting about 50 million tweets being sent out per day. New data released shows that approximately half of those tweets are in non-English language. Approximately 25 milion foreign languge tweets being sent out per day. A lot of people are using ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/half-of-twitters-tweets-in-foreign-languages.html The folks at MyGengo, a foreign language translation services company recently published a report covering the market conditions for the language learning industry. Here some interesting facts revealed: Chinese, Spanish and English represent only 30% of the worlds spoken language by population. But these languages make up roughly 60% of the ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/multilingual-e-commerce-statistics.html The domain name calling out a website's web address, also called a URL, is about to become multilingual as we first reported last week. AP writer Kelly Olsen reports that as early as November 16th 2009, we may start to see the use of non-latin scripts such as Korean, Chinese ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/truly-multilingual-internet-coming-soon.html This is one of the best presentations I've seen concerning the impact of viral factors in social games: Metrics for Social Games by David King and Siqi ChenView more documents from justinsmith. http://www.quarkis.com/blog/the-viral-factor-of-social-games.html They're coming! Perhaps around mid 2010, domain name URL's written in non-English language will become available for the internet. So a new gold rush is set to begin. The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/foreign-language-domain-name-urls.html Entrepreneurs, here is a great video and document from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on how to build a web business from the ground up. Any serious webpreneur should take note and follow this advice.   Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo.   Startup Building 101 - http://www.quarkis.com/blog/how-to-build-a-web-business.html Derek Silvers of Oreilly net wrote a simple but great article on the value of ideas related to that of execution. It's a concept I've felt but never knew exactly how to articulate.   All entrepreneurs seem to understand, "It's all about the execution", that's been the mantra, at least for webpreneurs. This ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/ideas-versus-execution.html Dave Lakhani has an interesting post on the future of marketing and mass communication in which he coorelates it with singularity. So as I studied The Singularity it occurred to me that the answer to how do you get your message to the masses and have it be heard most likely ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/future-of-marketing-and-mass-communication.html Inc. Magazine outlines the best industries for entrepreneurs to start a new business right now. They are as follows: Iphone Apps Healthcare Technologies Beer, Wine Liquor Wholesale Software as a Service (SaaS) Home Health Care Yoga Products and Services Technical and Trade Schools Fast Casual Dining Green Consulting Niche Consulting Education Technology Temporary Staffing Government Services Accounting Services Repair Services Self Improvement Energy http://www.quarkis.com/blog/top-industries-for-starting-a-business.html Great video on the difference between manipulation and persuasion in sales situations. The basic premise Dave Lakhani outlines on the difference between manipulation and persuasion in the sales process comes down to one thing... Intent. Dave's definition on persuasion: "Getting people to come to their own most logical conclusion which happens to ... http://www.quarkis.com/blog/sales-101-manipulation-versus-persuasion.html