English
Abysmal. Illiterate, fundamentally flawed. The most appalling vocabulary, grammar, etc. Where on earth did you pick it up? Sometimes, interestingly, acceptable written English that must have been written by someone else
Articulation and pronunciation
Abysmal. Inarticulate, incoherent, incomprehensible. Embarrassingly bad. Some conversations impossible. Spoken English is one of your biggest liabilities.
Websites and CVs
Trite, boring, devious, derivative, misleading. Too fancy. False claims. Fake referees.
Written and oral communications
Procedurally and substantively idiotic, insulting. The inconsistency between the plausible suspicious written response and the always disappointing conversation in person. (Don't forget that moronic exclamation mark!)
Proposals, presentations
Illiterate, tone-deaf, not responsive, vacuous, meaningless, padded, churned, overdone, bloated, prolix, verbose, hopelessly overdone. Suspiciously alike from apparently disparate respondents. Often patently dishonest.
Prices and delivery schedules
Unrealistic, uncommercial, preposterous. We've seen some stunning over-pricing and unacceptable delivery schedules. Backing down from your first ridiculous quote, and proposing a protracted schedule, suggest dishonesty.
Work process
Unstable, unreliable, irritating. The Western buyer wants to scrutinise your work processes, including to check your efficiency and the accuracy of your rendition. Let's make it all correct and presentable in real time. No 'problems', no excuses.
Work product
Deficient, defective, sub-standard, embarrassing, unusable. A total waste of time and money. What you hope to get away with, not what you've tried to get right. Now you're in trouble.
Attitude
Disrespectful, unprofessional, tiresome ("What's wrong with it?", "Give me five minutes", "hop", 'jump", "quick call", etc.) Some of it can be fixed in some cases. (If you're unpleasant to deal with, rude, disrespectful, defensive, 'overwhelmed', devious, uncivilised, if you have entitlement syndrome, etc., AsianCredible.com is not for you.)
'Team'
You think that lying about a 'team' is impressive. You think that a real team is appropriate. A 'team' is fifth-rate dishonest Stone Age baloney. The well-adjusted Western buyer detests a 'team' and its imposition. He requires individually selected, genuinely necessary, personally responsible, directly accountable named individuals. No teams.
Punctuality
You think that deliberately being a minute late for a video call is… what exactly? (Likewise, you shouldn't tolerate the unpunctual Western buyer: any unpunctuality on either side is always unacceptable.)
Personal appearance
That all-important video call might be your one and only chance. Too close to the camera; too far away; a vacuous grin; fluorescent lighting, blurred background, green screen, etc.: it's not professional.
Comprehension, compliance
What's so difficult about the job spec? Why are you getting busy and creative? Stick to the script!
Terms of business
Do you even have any? What terms do you really need? How to evaluate the buyer's terms of business.
Trial work
Must always be free. We've seen some monstrously bad examples. Good that they were free!
Rapacity
An Asian IT unknown pressing for money before delivery is suspicious and annoying.
Here's a familiar cautionary tale for you. We've seen it many times—with Asian IT companies as much as Asian IT freelancers.
You've finally cajoled that over-indulgent Western buyer into a no-second-chance make-or-break video sales call. Now press the self-destruct button:-
slow Internet connection
defective camera (blurred, unstable)
inappropriate camera angle (we don't want to see up your nose, and why should we?)
defective microphone (muffled, faint)
screen too small; not enough screens
fluorescent lighting
pretentious desperate persona
flippant supercilious attitude ("quick call")
transparently false sales patter
lamentable, wholly inadequate spoken English
you showed up two minutes late
you weren't ready ("Can you give me five minutes?", "last-minute technical issue")
you weren't prepared ("You emailed me what?")
you hadn't bothered to study the opportunity ("What do I think of it?")
you couldn't conduct a spontaneous Western-quality conversation
you questioned the job description
you were an insult to the buyer's intelligence
the buyer terminated the call in anger.