Alexandro Colorado

Comming back to Mexico I start to getting the backlash and counter-cultural-shock usually experienced by people who got used to live as a foreigner. However I also start living the limitations that this country have specially on the buisiness enviroment and the lack of infrastructure and digital culture.

Talking with a friend we started talking about the stagnation of e-business in Mexico and to what degree is Mexico falling behind. One of the things that websites havent really become a business priority is that business online has been none-existent.

At the core of this reasoning lies the stagnation of doing business online in mexico. The lag of a complete automatize way to operate, from money transfers until invoicing and delivery makes the e-business enviroment next to impossible.

Mexico has just launched a digital signature however the context that this digital signature is implemented only work with EDI process and even after this process the SAT (Tax office) needs a paper checkup which means that the process is far from being automated. Not only that but is also more expensive than before making pushing a fee by force and just another layer of bureacracy to do business.

So what is there to do? By living all over the world I became a citizen of the planet, the advantage is that my appreciation to allocate assets in mexico becomes an option I can avoid and the more international, on demand, internet access service, the better it\’s for me and for business.

First of is paypal, a highly critizised but far safer than the mexican financial legislation, then is banks such as e-gold which make resiliant to inflation or oil prices. The third layer is the international financial houses in new york.

I am still in Mexico city and I got not just one but up to 5 different leads on pushing the INGOT certification and making new assesors and academies around Mexico City.

So far I get a free trip to Mexico city and that will make me have the next round of meetings with IBM and will also make me able to start getting some cash.

So far the project will go through some intense discussion however it seems they are already in the bandwagon and the questions have been resolved. I think this will make start having INGOTs certificates.

A challenge and homework will be to start managing the documentation of a contract with INGOTs UK and an apostille contracts will need to be available.

With virtually 6 business agents on INGOTS, we are ready to move on to focus on strategies in Yucatan, Veracruz and Monterrey and start pushing INGOTs on the west coast.

Fortunately I will be having better budget for the research of new entities.

Tomorrow is a heavy day, I got multiple meetings and it will start early. So I hope I can have the strenght and luck to start making the right sales.

So far the INGOTs has been slow mainly because of a lack of strategy. I guess I need to realize my new role as a sales man rather than a technologist.

Yes INGOTS innovate and improve the current standard but really a better and more focus strategy on the appeal is what is needed to push INGOTs out the building.

Making a certification a sexy choice is rather where the feeling most come from and hopefully I will do that tomorrow.

Today we start the promotion of INGOTs through out all the city. We start sunday with a Fax campaign where we will be able to get the first step towards getting ourselves acquainted. Then we will schedule a meeting this will take part throughout the week.

The latest will be a personal meeting and demonstration of the certification, we hope that we will get a very busy and strong week. INGOTs is definetly a value proposal and it will work for the private schools in the area.

We hope that at the end we will have enough leads to get enough interest to get at least 1 school signed by the end of the month.