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How can e-commerce platforms gain consumer’s trust? – Ashley Dudarenok
E-commerce platforms are doing very well in China, but that does not mean they can easily gain consumer’s trust, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok on Marketing-Interactive. A few tips: the platform should be easy to use, and the quality of the products should be impeccable, she adds.Read More →
Zhang Wenhong: China might open border partially in second half 2022
China might be ready to open its borders again partially in the second half of 2022, says leading virus expert Zhang Wenhong on a health forum in Qingdao in June, according to the South China Morning Post. That partial opening will depend on the speed of China’s vaccination program, he added.Read More →
How can brands sell in China? – Ashley Dudarenok
Newcomers come often with a romanticized idea of how to sell their brand products in China. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok puts them straight at her weblog.Read More →
What Shein has been doing right – Matthew Brennan
E-commerce firm Shein from Nanjing has been operating much under the radar, until last week it last week came with plans of an IPO in New York with a valuation of US$47 billion. E-commerce expert Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance” explains at Yahoo Finance what Shein has been doing right. Read More →
Data security rules for the automotive industry – Mark Schaub
China’s legislators have set another step on regulating data security, this time for the automotive industry, but publishing a draft for comments. China-lawyer Mark Schaub gives an overview of the plans for the China Law Insight. “Companies would be well advised to conduct a systematic review and assessment of the current state of their data handling,” he concludes.Read More →
Why Bytedance’s CEO Zhang Yiming left – Matthew Brennan
When Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of successful internet giant Bytedance, left last week his post, speculations on a relation with the government crackdown on internet firms was easily made. Internet analyst Matthew Brennan, who wrote a book on Bytedance, says there might be a link, but different from what was mostly suggested, he says in Marketscreener.Read More →
China women lead in global entrepreneurship – Rupert Hoogewerf
Two-thirds of the world’s richest women come from China, says the latest Hurun Rich List report. “If we want to understand the global women entrepreneurship, we have to start from China. China has been home to more than two-thirds of the world’s most successful women entrepreneurs in the past decade,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief research officer of Hurun Global Rich List in the state-owned Global Times.Read More →
Jewelry: no longer gifts for women, but for self-rewarding – Ashley Dudarenok
Consumers in China are very different from those elsewhere. Take jewelry, says consumption guru Ashley Dudarenok: they used to be gifts for women, but nowadays they purchase themselves, as a reward, she says at her vlog.Read More →
Privacy app users high on legal agenda – Mark Schaub
China is gettings its digital agenda for its legislation in order, especially the protection of users’ privacy, writes China-lawyer Mark Schaub on the China Law Insight. He looks at the call for comments on the Interim Provisions on the Administration of Personal Information Protection of Mobile Internet Apps.Read More →
Beauty brands line up for China market, but still face legal challenges – Mark Schaub
China has been removing legal challenges for foreign brands to enter its lucrative domestic market, like compulsory animal tests. But China lawyer Mark Schaub warns there are still barriers in place and might stop fast market entry, he tells in Vogue. He lists two major ones.Read More →
Censoring feminism does not solve China’s population problem – Zhang Lijia
China’s internet censors have been cracking down on feminist groups because they are considered by the government to be extremist by opposing traditional marriage. A wrong signal, says author Zhang Lijia in the South China Morning Post, and it will certainly not help the country in solving its demographic problems.Read More →
China consumption is back on post-COVID19 recovery track – Ashley Dudarenok
China’s consumption is growing again and sales growth is recovering on a solid post-COVID10 track, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok on her vlog. Government, tech companies, and consumers have their noses in the same direction.Read More →