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Happiness On The Job- Exceed Expectations

Editor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:15:11 +0000

The world is filled with people who are prepared to do no more than the absolute minimum necessary to get by. Do you want to be happy in your work? Do you want to experience promotion and financial reward? If so, you’re going to have to consistently do more than is expected of you; get more done than is required; and bring more excellence to your work than the minimum standards demand.

It’s an important key to finding happiness on the job.

-Mac Hammond

IT work In Japan.. Amazing!

Editor — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:32:59 +0000

Special thanks to our partners! 2009 was amazing.

In 2009 we saw the continued decline of the market. The US government continued to mess up their currency and the dollar has tanked. That hurts for those with savings in USD (c’mon guys, remember the strength of the republic is small government and little involvement in our lives) . More importantly it makes it difficult for American companies with USD-based capital to do as much.

I am sitting here on one of the last days of the office for 2009 and looking at the performance of AINEO. We have had a great year. As one of our sales team told a partner on a recent phone call, “They keep talking about the ‘financial downturn’, but I have not experienced any downturn this year. It has been a great year”.

Technically, we should have seen a downturn as everyone around us seems to have. The number of recruiters decreased. For recruiters, we saw Hudson close their Tokyo office, Access Technology shut down, and Ingenium sell themselves to an IT company. Countless other small recruiters just closed up. The big boys like Robert Walters and Robert Half also had to weather the storm.

In 2009 it wasn’t just recruiters, manufacturers were getting fewer orders, advertising companies lost deals to the crunch, and even the Japanese SME’s were holding off on ordering new equipment. It has been a tough year.

Despite all this, AINEO has had a great year. The reason we had a good year is due to our great partners. If you work with AINEO, I am convinced your business is going to prosper. I think there are two reasons why AINEO is such a great team of professionals.

1) People like AINEO Networks because we do what we say and we are transparent.

2) Working with AINEO brings corporate rewards and our partners expand their businesses.

Special thanks to everyone who has partnered with AINEO in 2009! We will do everything we can to make sure your business can grow.

We are looking forward being a strategic part of your business expansion in 2010!

Insights On Afghanistan

Editor — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:31:26 +0000

There’s No Limit

Editor — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:52:19 +0000

“There’s no limit to what we can accomplish if no one cares who gets the credit.”

-Sign of Ronald Reagan’s Desk, as Governor of California, and President of the United States.

The Afghan War

Editor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:11:00 +0000

From this week’s Economist magazine. This weeks comic seems to really make their point.

The Afghan War

Japan Broadband Providers ISP

Editor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:05:12 +0000

If you have just come to Japan, you’ll definitely want to experience the internet that they have here. There is a great list of the various companies you can use for your internet access here.

The most cost effective seems to be Excite. From their website, they seem to use this as a way to bring in users for their adult site business.

Next up is Asahi Net, who seems to be the first legitimate provider for the cost. They even have an English homepage if you don’t speak Japanese here.

The amazing thing about Japanese providers is they all provide email addresses with 100 or 200 MB of disk space. Wow! We are in the broadband revolution, I am surprised they haven’t made it to at least 1GB yet.

In the US, for example, Comcast has 10GB even for the add-on accounts.

If you travel much, you’ll see that Japan definitely has the best throughput for broadband internet access in the world.

GFI Mail Security For Exchange

Editor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:04:00 +0000

Back in 2002 AINEO was the first to bring GFI products to Japan. If you are on MS Exchange, you definitely want to be on GFI. I am probably speaking more to administrators than users of mail servers.

The below video does a good job shows a simple but understandable explanation of the threat to PC users.

Business Relationships

Editor — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:07:44 +0000

Many a new enterprise has failed because the owner never understood this truth—all business is ultimately about relationships. It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that business success is purely a result of having the best product or the lowest price.

- Mac Hammond

America Is Great..

Editor — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:20:00 +0000

Thought for Today: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, French author (1805-1859).

How To Live Long And Strong

Editor — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:33:02 +0000

Living, caring for others, challenging yourself, could these be the secrets to life?

Check out this article.