About Getting Through Customs

Getting Through Customs is an Internet product and training firm for global business travelers. Clients include AT&T, American Airlines, AEP, Cypress Semiconductor, Deloitte & Touche, Dun & Bradstreet, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, PJM, SABRE, and universities like Cornell, Harvard, The Wharton School, and Oxford.

Getting Through Customs' online database is called Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: Expanded Edition (XE). Kiss Bow: XE is the leading online database for international business travelers, and includes the following premier data:

  • Business Practices
  • Cognitive Styles
  • Cultural I.Q. Quizzes
  • Cultural Overviews
  • Getting Around/Travel
  • Historical Chronologies
  • Religious and Social Influences on Business
  • In-country viewpoints
  • Cultural Notes
  • Holidays
  • Literature
  • Protocol
  • Quotations
  • 5 Cultural Tips
  • Religious and Societal Influences on Business
  • Economic and Political data
  • Know Before You Go
  • And hundreds of articles

    • Kiss, Bow: Expanded Edition runs on the intranets of firms such AEP, AT&T, Cypress Semiconductor, DuPont, HP, SABRE, IBM, PJM, and Lucent Technologies. The Kiss, Bow XE Database can either run directly on corporate and educational intranets, or can be hosted by Getting Through Customs. A demo is available at www.getcustoms.com

    Getting Through Customs' President and Owner, Terri Morrison, is the co-author of five books, including Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Over Sixty Countries (newly revised in 2006!) and Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World. She conducts seminars in intercultural communications and has written for many publications, including American Airlines' in-flight magazine American Way, Swissair's Gazette, Sabena's PASSPORT, CEO Magazine, OAG Frequent Flyer Magazine, and Industry Week online. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Charlie Rose, Bloomberg, and repeatedly on NPR.

    Getting Through Customs has been profiled and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Asia Times, Investor's Weekly, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fast Company, National Geographic Adventure, ESPN, and Fortune Magazine.

    GTC employs the authors of several best-selling books on international business customs. These books include:

    Kiss Bow or Shake Hands: The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in Over 60 Countries
    2ndedition release date August 2006
    U.S. $24.95, Adams Media, 1-800-872-5627 ISBN#1-593373686)
    Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands is used by corporations such as Boeing, Price Waterhouse, Motorola, IBM, and Bank of America.
    Amazon.com #1 business etiquette book 2005.

    Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World, (Revised 2000) by Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conway and Joseph J. Douress (Prentice Hall, 800-947-7700 or 515-284-6751, ISBN 0-13-531484-4)

    The International Traveler's Guide to Doing Business in Latin America by Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway (U.S. $16.95, Macmillan, 800-428-5331, ISBN 002-86-17-55X)

    The International Traveler's Guide to Doing Business in the European Union by Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway (U.S. $16.95, Macmillan, 800-428-5331, ISBN 002-86-17-568)

    Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands’ World Holiday Guide 2006
    Online edition available at www.getcustoms.com

    Terri Morrison at:
    E-mail - TerriMorrison@getcustoms.com
    Voice - (610) 725-1040

    Or Visit our Websites:

    www.kissboworshakehands.com
    www.getcustoms.com
    www.terrimorrison.com