Basic marketing for a freelance writer
I work with a lot of beginning freelance writers, and enjoy seeing them move up to larger publications. They all […]
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Five Step Question Meditation
I learned this at a business seminar in Shanghai a few years ago, and no longer remember the source, but […]
Dabble Postmortem
Tomorrow is the last day for Dabble DB, an online database services on which I ran my company for the […]
Give me that old-time COBOL code
Just take those manuals off the shelf I’ll sit and read them here all by myself Today’s software ain’t got […]
Maria and Fons on the radio
My business partner Fons Tuinstra and I were interviewed today by David Iwinski of American Entrepreneur Radio on his The […]
The Media versus Marginal Cost
If you have two companies producing the same product then, over time, the price to the consumer will eventually start […]
Free content isn’t killing journalism
Another one of our clients — a Wall Street newspaper — shut down publication this month. A couple of staffers […]
Two paths from DabbleDB
Over the past few years, my company has become very dependent on DabbleDB, an online relational database run by a […]
Working in the sun
I do not, normally, consider myself a low-energy person — I am, after all, running two companies (Trombly International and […]
Migrating away from DabbleDB
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s […]
Migrating away from DabbleDB
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s […]
International Channel Shanghai
Maria Korolov Trombly (center) appeared several times as a guest on the Culture Matters television talk show, airing on the […]
‘A Changing China’ released
The China Speaker’s Bureau First book — A Changing China — is now out in print and available from Amazon. […]
How to Become a Shanghai Entrepreneur
This article originally appeared in Shanghai Expat. By Maria Korolov Trombly I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to […]
How to Become a Shanghai Entrepreneur
I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to Shanghai when I was in town the last couple of months. As the U.S. and European economies head south, I guess that people are looking at the growth numbers, noticing that China is still in the positive digits, and hopping a plane over here, hoping to […]