TIPS OF THE DAY

TIP OF THE DAY 1: NEVER suggest a 'quick call', 'connect briefly', 'brief discussion', 'a few minutes', etc. It's offensive, insulting, unprofessional, inconsiderate, disrespectful, clueless, moronic and the kiss of death for your business.

TIP OF THE DAY 2: NEVER use a translation service for English. Your deficient defective English will be quickly exposed in your dishonestly arranged video call with the prospective Western buyer. Realising that you have lied to him about your spoken and written English, he'll immediately terminate the call and blacklist you.

TIP OF THE DAY 3: LOSE the Indglish and the thick Indian accent.

TIP OF THE DAY 4: LOSE the wobblehead.

TIP OF THE DAY 5: NEVER ask a Western prospect for his budget. It's none of your business. No Western buyer in his right mind will tell you.

TIP OF THE DAY 6: BE PREPARED for that all-important initial video call. Your video must work perfectly. Your audio must work perfectly. No fluorescent light. No green screen. You must be exactly on time or early. Know the prospective customer's relevant business intimately. No sensible Western business will suffer an amateur.

TIP OF THE DAY 7: NEVER use a video call service not stipulated by the prospect. If he says 'Zoom', he means it.

TIP OF THE DAY 8: NEVER say 'We will share the video link with you shortly' or similar. It's annoying, rude, disrespectful and dysfunctional.

TIP OF THE DAY 9: NEVER require a phone number in your contact form.

TIP OF THE DAY 10: NEVER have anything to do with an NDA or with anyone who wants one.

TIP OF THE DAY 11: DON'T bother with any ISO certification.

TIP OF THE DAY 12: NEVER record or transcribe anything without the counterpart's prior express genuinely fully informed written permission.

TIP OF THE DAY 13: DON'T lie that you have any presence outside India.

TIP OF THE DAY 14: NEVER use fashionable procedural gibberish eg 'jump', 'hop', etc. The idiotic American phrase 'reach out', for 'contact', is particularly unacceptable.

TIP OF THE DAY 15: IF you photograph with folded arms, any sensible person anywhere will consider you a repellent untouchable grade-A idiot moron jackass.

TIP OF THE DAY 16: NEVER have an idiotic physical address eg 247, 5th floor, AIWT Plaza, Chauk Road, near TWHRWOEYF bus stand, three feet from the 5th cowpat on the left, underneath the 2nd street light on the right, 4th enclave, behind the fruit stall, in front of the chai stall, 9th sector, next to the tuktuk when he's there, 15th enclave, 27th sector, Civil Lines, next to the ATM with the guard sleeping on his 19th-century empty shotgun, not that close to the kulfiwallah with the orange beard, etc.

TIP OF THE DAY 17: NEVER use Indian punctuation in numbering and never talk about crore or lakh.

TIP OF THE DAY 18: NEVER use the word 'team'.

TIP OF THE DAY 19: NEVER refer to Indian time. Always use the counterpart's local time.

TIP OF THE DAY 20: NEVER cancel or try to reschedule a scheduled call.

TIP OF THE DAY 21: LOSE the phony endorsements. We'll check out every one of them, and then what?`

TIP OF THE DAY 22: HAVE a website that reflects the whole truth of exactly who you are and exactly what you do and how you do it. Any sane Western business will do due diligence on you, so you might as well make it easy.

We're trying to help you!

You're an Asian business aspiring to sell to Western buyers the same services and or products as thousands of your competitors.

You're not doing well.

In our direct documented experience dealing directly with hundreds of Indian IT freelancers, the typical Indian IT freelancer is a compulsive loser.

He is illiterate, incoherent, unintelligible, unprofessional, pretentious and presumptuous. His behavior is comprehensively outrageous. He has no idea how to run his own business.

He shouldn't expect, and doesn't deserve, to earn a bent cent from anyone in his right mind.

He is unfit to interact with any Western business.

(If you consider any of this unfair generically or specifically, let us know with particulars. We'll share our irrefutable conclusive evidence with you and send you the bill.)

It is not honest to claim that there is no room for huge improvement.

Selling to Western buyers requires:-

intelligence
advanced technical English spoken without a thick Indian accent
the ability to think
the ability to conduct an intelligible intelligent business and technical conversation
marketing skills, sales skills, production skills, delivery skills, after-sales skills

and much else besides.

That's where we come in.

We are experienced Western businessmen who know Western buyers, Western culture, Western standards, Western business practices, Western requirements, Western expectations, Western finances and Western tolerances.

We offer three Western-facing services to qualifying Asian businesses:-

sales agency
consulting
educational and networking events including an annual conference.

We guarantee that:-

we will dramatically improve your business procedurally and financially
you will recoup from sales all the (tax deductible) fees that you pay us.

And we offer three services to qualifying Western businesses:-

we find Asian suppliers that meet our standards. If they exist, we'll find them
we perform deep due diligence on your candidate Asian businesses
we provide a quick discrete dispute resolution service.

We're the real deal.

Our sectors

We sell your services and products, and consult, principally in these sectors, among others:-

outsourcing, including call centers
printing
publishing
pre-press and editorial digital services
software manufacture
website development, design, SEO.

Our territories

We are fully familiar with law, lore, practice, procedures, cultures, standards, procurement processes etc. in:-

the USA federally and in each state
the UK
all Commonwealth countries
all European Union member states.

Concerned

We know the problems you face from your own bad practices. We see the damage you're doing to your own business.

Our own growing file of disastrous emails and Zoom calls is a debris trail of dangerously disorganised, undisciplined, incompetent and incoherent Asian businesses.

We know exactly what you're doing wrong.

Optimistic

We have solutions and will fix things for you quickly, economically and effectually.

We're seasoned, senior, correctly calibrated, fully aware, well-connected Western businessmen, motivated to use our knowledge, skills and connections to radically and urgently help you sell, and keep selling, to appropriate Western buyers.  

Who is AsianCredible.com?

AsianCredible.com is the initiative of Richard J. Szrabe, a retired London barrister extensively travelled throughout India, increasingly familiar at first hand with disastrous Asian business practices, and determined to spread the word that the fixes are relatively simple and inexpensive.

In every AsianCredible.com assignment he will be directly involved and work closely as needed with specialists in relevant sectors.

He has many relevant business and professional contacts and connections throughout the English-speaking business world.

He puts his professional skills, and his procedural and substantive mastery of general, technical, professional and commercial English, at the service of every AsianCredible.com customer.

He is uncompromising in his intolerance of incompetence, incoherence, illiteracy and inefficiency.

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