My Guest Post
I’m very excited to say I’ve guest-posted on Flooring The Consumer blog, by Christine Whittemore. Christine and I met here at the blogsphere, through the Z-list, and have been communicating with each other ever since. She invited me to guest post on her blog about my transcultural point of view on the US retail environment. [...]
Don't take it personally
I don’t know if it’s just me and the way I was raised (I tend to believe that most people I know from Brazil are like that too), but I used to to take personally many things people told me. This is certainly a bad thing to do… Here in the US, people are not [...]
5 Things You Should Know about Me…
I got tagged! Twice! So, no more excuses not to participate, right? This meme is really fun actually Ok, here are the 5 most important things you should know about moi 1. I’m happily married to a wonderful man who has taught me marketing, Spanish and how to grab life by the horns (and to [...]
Rice vs. Rice
Last Sunday, my husband and I had his cousin from Panama over for a gathering/lunch. I told her I was going to cook “bacalhoada”, a traditional Portuguese dish of cod fish, and she offered to bring “arroz con pollo”, “rice with chicken” (literally translated), which is a very traditional dish in all of Latin America. [...]
That's How We Are…
Today I had an interesting conversation with my American colleague about sales techniques, but mainly body language involved in the sales process. He even remembered and was describing the body language of Jaime, a Hispanic male we met Saturday at a party. Relating back to our sales techniques/body language conversation, my colleague was very presice [...]