THINKBIGBEBIG ENTREPRENEURS » Japanese business http://www.thinkbigbebigentrepreneurs.com Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:46:08 +0000 english hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 The World’s ‘Most Typical Person’ http://www.thinkbigbebigentrepreneurs.com/2011/03/the-world%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98most-typical-person%e2%80%99/ http://www.thinkbigbebigentrepreneurs.com/2011/03/the-world%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98most-typical-person%e2%80%99/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:21:53 +0000 Timothy Bosworth http://www.thinkbigbebigentrepreneurs.com/?p=3420

The world is changing and more interestingly the people within the world are changing. As part of a year-long series on the global population of seven billion people, National Geographic has unveiled an image of what it calls “the most typical person”. And that person is Chinese.

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The Japanese are extremely good at most things.  One thing they are particulary good at is creating cute cartoon characters like pokemon

Here is a quick 5-min talk given by Yong fook of egg-co.com at Startonomics Tokyo. In the video he discusses his findings about some Japanese web / tech mascots and how they can help you and your business.

Mascots help in the following ways

  1. lower the level of intimidation for your brand
  2. Gives your product or service a face
  3. Makes product development and design more creative
  4. Can be used to sell merchandise
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