A Chinese saying: With money you can buy a clock, but not time. Quick poll question: What’s your annual income (in USD)?
Answer here ->
http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Quality Control in China
Quality Control in China
May 20th, 2008 by China Business Success Stories
Tags: business, Life in China, Product quality
Quality Control is a crucial part in the process of importing from China. Pressure on production costs, distance, time and cultural differences make it unavoidable. Implementing Quality Control allows the importer to :
- Minimize the risks (and associated costs) linked to quality, loading, warehousing or non-compliance issues : “My products have been rejected by customs because the labelling done by my Chinese supplier does not comply with European standards.”
Read the rest of “Quality control in China” or post a comment>>
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I'm posting this here to see which of our supporting blogs delivers the most/best traffic to our China site. Do you want this blogspot site to outperform our Yahoo 360 one, or the one on Bloglines, or the shared Google reader one, or... ;-) Then select one of the hyperlinks above!
M
May 20th, 2008 by China Business Success Stories
Tags: business, Life in China, Product quality
Quality Control is a crucial part in the process of importing from China. Pressure on production costs, distance, time and cultural differences make it unavoidable. Implementing Quality Control allows the importer to :
- Minimize the risks (and associated costs) linked to quality, loading, warehousing or non-compliance issues : “My products have been rejected by customs because the labelling done by my Chinese supplier does not comply with European standards.”
Read the rest of “Quality control in China” or post a comment>>
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I'm posting this here to see which of our supporting blogs delivers the most/best traffic to our China site. Do you want this blogspot site to outperform our Yahoo 360 one, or the one on Bloglines, or the shared Google reader one, or... ;-) Then select one of the hyperlinks above!
M
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
China Business Success Stories’ PageRank by Google
We did it! Just as I was about to stop focusing on PageRank as a means of determining just how much Google loves us, www.chinasuccessstories.com went from 4 to 5. I wrote about it a few times here. Wondering what the changes in Google’s algorithm were that kept us on 4, while it should have turned 5 a while ago. Thinking old school.
What changed? We kept publishing a lot. We kept building back links. We stayed true to our focus of providing decent content. We added some pages. But apart from that? Not sure what it was exactly. My guess is a combination of things. Plus some governments sites linking to us. Come to think of it. That is what probably did it! Combined with Yahoo beating Google at their game and Google learning from them? Alexa.com changing their completely weird algorithm with Google following? Technorati giving us more authority? LinkedIn driving quite some traffic to us? What makes Google tick? You tell me.
M
PS I suspect Google of looking at the traffic we get without their help, to determine our worth. At least that is what I would take into account if I was Google.
What changed? We kept publishing a lot. We kept building back links. We stayed true to our focus of providing decent content. We added some pages. But apart from that? Not sure what it was exactly. My guess is a combination of things. Plus some governments sites linking to us. Come to think of it. That is what probably did it! Combined with Yahoo beating Google at their game and Google learning from them? Alexa.com changing their completely weird algorithm with Google following? Technorati giving us more authority? LinkedIn driving quite some traffic to us? What makes Google tick? You tell me.
M
PS I suspect Google of looking at the traffic we get without their help, to determine our worth. At least that is what I would take into account if I was Google.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Flying to China for Business?
Flying to China for Business, do you book First, Business or Economy class? We asked. You answered:
First class: 6%
Business class: 29%
Premium Economy: 18%
Economy class: 46%
New poll coming up!
M
BTW We are looking for an intern, preferably living in The Netherlands, please see http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/2008/04/24/stage-china/ (Stage is Dutch for Internship), refer a friend!
First class: 6%
Business class: 29%
Premium Economy: 18%
Economy class: 46%
New poll coming up!
M
BTW We are looking for an intern, preferably living in The Netherlands, please see http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/2008/04/24/stage-china/ (Stage is Dutch for Internship), refer a friend!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
What's your Naymz in Chinese?
OK, in my effort to grow http://www.chinasuccessstories.com through SMM, this will be the last China / non-China community I join, for a long time to come. It is called Naymz. And I need you there for what they call 'rep score'. My reputation, assessed by you, seen through the eyes of Naymz.
My assessment of Naymz so far?
Where beauty is in the eye of the beholder, reputation according to Naymz seems to have a lot to do with adding email addresses and websites to their database. Also the features that look promising are paid services after a 30 day trail. So I'm not sure what to think of it. But I do like the fact that they strive to get your sites better noticed by Google.
Anyway: look me up. For another 28 days, my Chinese Business rep is at stake through http://michiel.boer.name
My assessment of Naymz so far?
Where beauty is in the eye of the beholder, reputation according to Naymz seems to have a lot to do with adding email addresses and websites to their database. Also the features that look promising are paid services after a 30 day trail. So I'm not sure what to think of it. But I do like the fact that they strive to get your sites better noticed by Google.
Anyway: look me up. For another 28 days, my Chinese Business rep is at stake through http://michiel.boer.name
Monday, March 31, 2008
China XING
Just wrote this welcome message for new members joining our China group on XING. Hoping it will grow as fast as our China Business group on LinkedIn does (over 2000 members and counting):
Welcome to our group on XING, an extension of www.chinasuccessstories.com and following our mission statement aiming to “help you get that extra leverage doing business in or with China, and prevent you from making mistakes that cost others, who found out the hard way, dearly.”
What you can do to help make the China Business Lounge Group a success: simply being a member and responding to fellow associates if they ask a question, is all it should take to benefit from the combined knowledge of the members. If you want to add more value please consider inviting friends, coworkers, employees, associates, relatives, family members, colleagues: anybody with a professional link to China to become a member as well. It is quite easy, forward this message, or simply email this link:
http://www.xing.com/net/chinalounge / http://www.xing.com/group-17865.9f20cb/7874904
Also, if you are on LinkedIn, you are welcome to join us here as well: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36656/50377703F693 It does not offer the functionality XING does, it is a lot more basic. But it might just help you find even more kindred spirits.
In the weeks to come, we will be building the China Business Lounge Group. Adding more tools for members and making sure it will prove to be of added value for you. Meantime: if you want to help out, have an idea, a question for other members, or hold any thoughts you'd like to share, do not hesitate! Just let me know, I'd be happy to help you out!
Michiel
PS If you want to add me to your professional network on XING, please see www.xing.com/profile/Michiel_deBoer3.
Welcome to our group on XING, an extension of www.chinasuccessstories.com and following our mission statement aiming to “help you get that extra leverage doing business in or with China, and prevent you from making mistakes that cost others, who found out the hard way, dearly.”
What you can do to help make the China Business Lounge Group a success: simply being a member and responding to fellow associates if they ask a question, is all it should take to benefit from the combined knowledge of the members. If you want to add more value please consider inviting friends, coworkers, employees, associates, relatives, family members, colleagues: anybody with a professional link to China to become a member as well. It is quite easy, forward this message, or simply email this link:
http://www.xing.com/net/chinalounge / http://www.xing.com/group-17865.9f20cb/7874904
Also, if you are on LinkedIn, you are welcome to join us here as well: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36656/50377703F693 It does not offer the functionality XING does, it is a lot more basic. But it might just help you find even more kindred spirits.
In the weeks to come, we will be building the China Business Lounge Group. Adding more tools for members and making sure it will prove to be of added value for you. Meantime: if you want to help out, have an idea, a question for other members, or hold any thoughts you'd like to share, do not hesitate! Just let me know, I'd be happy to help you out!
Michiel
PS If you want to add me to your professional network on XING, please see www.xing.com/profile/Michiel_deBoer3.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Chinese fortune
LinkedIn, Plaxo, Spock, Facebook... and then some. New addition? -> http://www.fcclub.com/profiles/chinabusiness The fortune connection club. Look me up, let's stay connected!
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