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Customer service key for China sales – Ben Cavender
Gone are the old queues of eager customers lining up in China’s cities, selling to Chinese customers has become a challenge. The quality of your customer’ services is going to be key for your sales, explains retail analyst Ben Cavender in CKGSB Knowledge.Read More →
Why champagne is trailing cognac in China – Paul French
Getting in favor of China’s rich is easier for some brands than others. Retail analyst Paul French explains in Business Week why the plan to make champagne a hit, like cognac is already, might not work in the Middle Kingdom.Read More →
The fake stories by Fu Ping – Zhang Lijia
Critics, including Fang Zhouzi, have taken apart the book Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by the US CEO Fu Ping. Her ‘rags to rich’ story contained too many unbelievable stories. Fellow author Zhang Lijia went through the book, and on her weblog she sides with the critics. “Too many holes to make it believable.”Read More →
Going global: tough for food products – Paul French
Globalization might be high on many corporate agenda’s, but food products offer special challenges, as tastes and eating habits vary. Retail analyst Paul French illustrates in CKGSB Knowledge a few strategies by Chinese food companies.Read More →
Baidu’s Focus: emerging markets – Kaiser Kuo
Chinese companies are going global, but they would rather take on developing countries. Those are not always the easiest markets, tells Kaiser Kuo, communication director of the country’s largest search engine Baidu in CKGSB Knowledge. Read More →
China internet hacks no surprise – Wendell Minnick
Much of the news this week is dominated by the discovery of China hacks into the US, linked directly to the People’s Liberation Army, with names, addresses and pictures of offices. Defense analyst Wendell Minnick tells the VOA he is not really surprised by the report.Read More →
Lessons from the Sino-Vietnam war – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia just returned back from a short trip to Vietnam, and tries to draw lessons from the Sino-Vietnam war. “I hope my Chinese compatriots holding hawkish nationalist views over Diaoyu Island would look back and learn exactly what happened,” she writes on her weblog.Read More →
Changing mindset on domestic violence – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia researches her upcoming book in prostitution in China, and dives into the conservative mindset on wife-beating. In the South China Morning Post she tells about her meeting with Chen Guihua in Tianjin. She sees some bright spots for the future.Read More →
The internet nightmare for business – Shaun Rein
The quality of the internet in China has become so bad over the past months, it is jeopardizing business operations because of the governmental filters, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in the Wall Street Journal. Pulling out of China is no option, but business might scale down.Read More →
Carrots nor sticks deter Pyongyang – Wendell Minnick
The latest nuclear test by North-Korea shows the rogue country is not going to be stopped, not even by its closest ally China, writes defense analyst Wendell Minnick in the Army Times.Read More →
Be careful in the year of the snake – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia gives some good advises just ahead of the Year of the Black Snake, on her weblog. Be careful, she warn, in business, marriage and other decisions, since it is a year full of uncertainty and danger. About the Chinese New Year.Read More →
Amazon: hardware sells in China, not content – Shaun Rein
Amazon is trying to sell its books in China, but is not yet selling its hardware – for regulatory reasons. A mistake, says business analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg, because in China you cannot make money with content, only with hardware.Read More →