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Blog tour secrets from @home in Dubai author, Anne O'Connell

This week, Anne O’Connell’s brand new book, @home in Dubai, is launched! Anne is a PR consultant, lives in Phuket, Thailand, and is running a PR campaign from her home by the sea. Inevitably, the backbone of her campaign will be a blog tour. In this ten minute interview, Anne shares the secrets of her virtual book tour, taking place this week all over the [...]

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Writers Abroad radio show 28 - Anne O'Connell PR pro publishes At Home in Dubai

When a professional writer and PR expert writes a book you can bet that she knows what she is doing. Anne O’Connell began with the end in mind when she began work on @home in Dubai, a book that details the nitty gritty of getting through red tape in this popular Emirate. She began with a survey and is enlisted the help of countless expats living there already in order to create this comprehensive book. To find out from the experts how to get your marketing right you cannot afford to miss this interview [...]

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Phew! Companies do care about spousal work permits

Phew! it seems that companies are behind the hard work of the Permits Foundation, after all. This organisation works hard to get governments to offer spouses work visas, and late last year decided it was time to check whether their tireless lobbying still matters. It seems it does.

If you care about the way expat spouses [...]

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Robin Pascoe's Family Matters! Survey is up at last

My great mate Robin Pascoe (The Expat Expert) conducted a large international relocation survey earlier this year, sponsored by Canadian movers AMJ Campbell International, entitled “Family Matters!”

Thanks to those of you who read my blog and newsletter and who responded to the terrific attempts at publicity by countless others who, like Robin, know how much [...]

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Easyexpat posts results of HSBC expat explorer survey

I’ve just had a look at the HSBC survey, downloading the results from the “>Easy Expat blog. I had a bit of a mooch around the site and it looks pretty good, though I was fed up to see neither my books nor Robin Pascoe’s in their list – but maybe I did not [...]

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Spousal adjustment research by Dr Nina Cole

Dr Nina Cole is associate professor to the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Ontario, Canada. This week she released the results of her research study on expat spouses.

Dr Cole’s abstract is here, below, but you can read the executive summary on her website or mine in the Reading Room.

Spousal adjustment issues, [...]

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Impact group do a survey on transition issues

Laura of Impact group has been in touch with me to tell me about their brand new survey addressing the transition issues faced by the whole family. Completing it will help to increase understanding of what it is really like to be a global nomad. It will only take 10 minutes to complete they promise.

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