Yet another poll on www.chinasuccessstories.com (sorry for not having enough time to write more articles for this blog currently) is up. Here are the results of the last one.
Doing business in China, shooting for the stars, you currently are ...
• Partner: 10%
• CEO: 21%
• Manager: 17%
• Employee: 15%
• Self employed: 12%
• Employer: 3%
• Retired: 0%
• In between jobs: 5%
• Student: 17%
As we are upgrading our China Business website, I'm making an inventory on articles published in recent months. It is a great joy to see what headlines we have covered so far. Here's my top fifty China Business articles we have run (thanks to many true China Experts, who's web sites you should visit if you are looking to make the most of your business in China).
The list of articles is huge. And best of all: all of them are free to access and read. So take your pick, and if you quickly want to find one particular one, use the search-function on the top right-hand side of http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/!
Enjoy, M
Intellectual Property in Franchising Relationships - the view from China and Hong Kong
Credit Cards and Debit Cards in Nanning China
Doing Business in China
Opportunity Knocks in China
How could SMEs get business in China? Winning big brands by product fit
Strategic Management in China: How To Be Fast And Focused
How to order a quality inspection
Assess Your Risk, Plan, and THEN Outsource to China
Effective sourcing in China requires Western companies to change
Hao Bizarre, How Bazaar
18 Practical Tips on Working with a Chinese Partner
China's Mandatory Welfare and Insurance Payment System
How to Close Down a Representative Office in Shanghai
Chinese Business & Culture
The communication skills of Sun Tzu
Guanxi at the Dinner Table
Investing China: Risks, opportunities, incentives
Tips for doing business in China
Working with Chinese factories
Common staffing mistakes in China, and how to avoid them
Chinese Lawyers: The New Generation
China Business Resources
Five ways to tarnish your company's image in China
Sun Tzu the Art of War Strategy - Is this the forbidden knowledge of success
IP Protection - Best Practice Tips
Understanding China
Humor in Sino-Western business relations
Are China Expats De-Facto Colonialists?
A (Consumer) Storm in a (Foreign) Coffee Cup
The Nature of China's Business Press
How to manage your Operation management department in China
Misfortune in Chinese Business Start-up
Innovation: China story a problem
Building a Business in China
Mentality, Mindset, Mianzi – How to Avoid a Crisis
How do you keep your Intellectual Property secret when it's your sales pitch?
Selling in the world's largest consumer market
7 Reasons Why You Should Come to China!
Scientific study on Guanxi in Business
The Internet Marketing Situation In China
Licensing Your Trademark in China: One More Thing to Remember
Due Diligence in China: Revealing the Dark Side of the Moon
Business and travel Etiquette in China
How to work with interpreters
The Many Faces of China
Pirates of the Middle Kingdom
What is wrong with Chinese TV?
Man Man Chi
Building rapport and negotiations with Chinese, or "No Relationship…No Business!"
Open Your Mind, Change Your Paradigm
Face, it is all about respect
China Business Practice and Business Etiquette Tips
Surviving Dinner & the Drinks
Business cards: your Chinese identity!
China's Five Surprises
Finding Manufacturers in China: Building a Network the Wrong Way
Doing business in China Chinese Social and Business Culture
Understanding Chinese Employees
Five Unpleasant Truths of Doing Business in China
Summary of Registration for Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China
"No commerce, no evil" is no more: how China's ethical standards affect your business
Import from China: Getting Started
Doing Business in China: Opportunities and Challenges for European Companies
Impressive list, right?
Imagine: we have only just started. So if you are in any way looking to get that extra leverage doing business in or with China. Or if you want to prevent yourself from making mistakes that cost others, who found out the hard way, many millions; then you should visit http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/ immediately (and make sure to subscribe to the – also free – newsletter).
Jump to a crazy – way to early to decide – conclusion? Why not. Don’t forget there are many more things to deduct from this data – not to mention what Crazy Egg’s confetti feature has to offer. But here’s what I think matters to potential advertisers:
Drum roll?
From this day on I’m convinced that advertisers (China Business related, or any for that matter) should demand a spot in the top section of your pages, and should be well happy to pay at least xx times more for that spot than the amount paid for advertisements on the bottom of pages.
Also: they should demand text based ads. As our site for instance draws many people looking for China Business, China market, China sourcing, China law, etc. make sure to get those words in in your copy, and you’ll be looking forward to a crazy response on your China advertising dollar!
M
Here's PART of a collection of sites and web 2.0 type of communities, blogs and other internet hubs that I use to get the word out on www.chinasuccesstories.com. It is quite a (web 2.0) list, well worth visiting obviously. But does conquering the China Business community really need all this effort, or am I just being impatient? Let's see. You – now that is defining web 2.0 isn't it – be the judge:
More China Business promotional sites?
Many! I'll get back on you on communities like http://clubchina.klm.com and http://www.fcclub.com/ sometime later. And on what commenting on blogs does to your ranking. Deal?
Meanwhile I'm making sure that if you can't remember www.chinasuccessstories.com you can find us on:
http://www.myfeedz.com/feed/98728
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/China-business
Among a lot of others.
But let's get back to web 2.0 shall we?
Here is where YOU fit it in. Again more (or less China) web 2.0 sites. Demanding YOUR (2.0!) attention:
Add a positive comment here:
http://www.searchles.com/links/show/chinasuccessstories.com?add_comment=true
Vote for us here:
http://www.bestezines.com/?China-Success-Stories&id=4161
Subscribe to our newsletter here:
http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/free-newsletter-on-how-to-do-business-in-china/
Favorite us on Technorati here:
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.chinasuccessstories.com
Digg us here:
http://www.digg.com/business_finance/China_Success_Stories_on_Chinese_Business_and_Commerce
Wiki away on us here:
http://www.chinglish.com/community/show/China+Success+Stories
Check our ranking here:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=chinasuccessstories.com
Recommend us here:
http://topsites.blogflux.com/sitedetails_106368.html
Whatever you do review us here:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.chinasuccessstories.com/
Done yet?
Web 2.0 is starting to cost all of us too much time isn't it?
;-)
M
My new friend and much appreciated contributor to China Business Success Stories is Ted Lee. An ambitious, friendly, bright and 100% passionate young guy from Guangzhou, who wanted to bookmark us using del.icio.us only to find out, www.del.ico.us is not accessible in China – or at least from his part of China. Shame because I think these types of sites are getting more and more important for sites like Google to determine whether you are worth a proper ranking. China should reconsider del.icio.us in that respect as far as I'm concerned, would you agree?
M
As my China Business project (www.chinasuccessstories.com) is aiming to welcome as many US entrepreneurs as possible, I'm testing an ad for MSN livesearch through http://marketingsolutions.yahoo.com/. The keywords targeted are:
china manufacturer, china business consulting, china marketing, china market research, china business strategy, doing business china, china advice, business opportunity in china, china business to business, foreign investment in china, china consultancy, china business consultant, china strategy, doing business in asia, guanxi , china business opportunity, business culture in china, law china, china business culture
Market:
United States and Canada
I wonder what max 10ct CPC and 10$ per day will do for us: I guess not a lot, because a similar campaign though Enhance will take a year to finish a 100$ deposit, because I refuse to pay more than 10ct a click.
The ad looks like this:
China Business Success Stories
Business China, the new how-to China Guide with inside tips 'n tricks.
www.chinasuccessstories.com
Would you click on it?
M
Visited a Holland Casino today. Need I say more? It's genetic I think. The combination of Chinese genes and the impossible mathematics of gambling is a surefire win-win. No - as in zero - risk business. Good luck with this piece of advice!
M
Sent out China Business Success Stories newsletter (summary) today. Meantime wanted to check stats. And posted a new China Expert Guest Blog item. That was overdoing it for our server (I think). It shut down. What to do? Ignore: I think it affected less then 20% of our readers, many of whom will read it later again. Or resend? Let's see. I think: do nothing, better luck next week, and after all, Tuesday is the China Business summary of last week, so no harm missing it if you subscribe to our China newsletter to be on top of things (which is every Friday). Agree?
M
Microsoft live search, a gift to SEM? It might. Not because it even comes a tiny bit close to Google, but its suggested / related searches provide great insight into what other people are looking for. See, I want www.chinasuccessstories.com to perform on the - actually spot on - keyword combination “china business”. So I make sure the Web site contains those words as often as is relevant, and pray for the best. In comes Live Search. If I search for China Business, Live Search tells me what others are looking for (or so I think). It suggests:
· China Business Directory
· Doing Business In China
· China Business Wholesale
· China Business Inflatables
· Understand China Business Culture
· China Legal Business · Business Leaders To China
· Business Etiquette In China
So? Well if anything it gives me focus on what topics (see previous post also) to focus on if I want to be found on China + Business. Worth figuring out if Microsoft is right on this, isn’t it?
M
Just posted a new survey on www.chinasuccessstories.com
Favorite China Business Topic?
• Chinese Law
• Importing from China
• Guanxi intricacies
• Marketing in China
Click here to vote or see results!
Just starting this China Business supporting blog it seems quite silly to ask the visitors (10 a day ;-) what to do. With that being said, why not go out on a limb. Here's the question. Remember: I am the one who changed Twitter overnight (see previous post, with http://twitter.com/FishinChina/statuses/159544332), and the same guy that develops lighting speed according to Alexa with http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/. You know: that modest dude.
Question is: should I put my time, effort and money into making this world a better place, before or after making some (pocket change) money? Think Bill Gates on this one. If I want to help improve the lives of many, Chinese, African, Brazilian, should I sacrifice all I have right now – which is about 0,001% of what Bill has – or should I push forward doing what I love doing (fishing, doing business & thinking of China) to make sure I actually have something to spend by the time payback is due. You decide. If you happen to be Chinese your vote counts double. Let me know!
M
