My friend David Zhang (@digitalboy I’ve known a few years in China, going back to a punch party events we both spoke at punch party event in 2009, he is a very bold and charismatic Chinese businessman, influential in social media, and uses community building to build his business….selling his own brand of “geek products” in the Chinese market, using the name “geekcook”. His business has been growing quite well during the past couple years since he has opened, and even though his website is only in Chinese, he gets english inquiries.
While he does speak and type English pretty well, he wants me to be his agent for overseas sales. I am quite honored, and again like my huawei chinese brand phone and I have been saying for years, especially in Xiamen SEO event in April 2010 Chinese manufacturers must build their own brand to survive as the manufacturing base leaves China to South East Asia.
But back to my buddy Digitalboy. We are building an english website, en.geekcook.net and also promoting on facebook and other social media outlets in English.
We’re making a survey to find the top products in his product line that will sell best in the Western world. We are going to send a select set of inventory to Los Angeles, USA warehouse for sample shipments to potential distributors as well as sell on some B2C channels.
In addition, as my idea to expand New York Bar Store to be more than “just bar products” I will add his product line here as well. 
Some of his products include:
- OUT INSIDE CROSS-PORTABLE PACKAGE
- CLOCK: A WOODEN CLOCK
- CLOCK: THREE-COLOR HOURGLASS ALARM CLOCK
- WALL HOOK: M16
- WALL HOOK: AK47
- WALL CLOCK: SWING PROUD MONKEY
- WALL CLOCK: OMNIDIRECTIONAL
- WALL CLOCK:ZERO ICON
- “RED” ALUMINUM NOTEBOOK
- “ACQUAINTANCE”: RED AND BLACK ALUMINUM DOUBLE-SIDED BUSINESS CARDS
- DIY TWITTER BIRD BAG
- LIKE BAG DIY THUMB
- DIY LAMP: INTRUDER
- WALLET:GMAIL
- PURSE: ANDROID
- PURSE: TWITTER BIRD
- BAMBOO’S TALK:IPAD2
- BUSINESS WEEK MAGAZINE COVER PHOTO FRAME
- PLAYBOY MAGAZINE COVER PHOTO FRAME
- ELLE MAGAZINE COVER PHOTO FRAME
- “AN MENG” COUPLES EDITION MOBILE PHONE ORNAMENTS READER
- BAMBOO’S TALK:IPHONE4
- DIY ANDROID BAG
- DIY E-MAIL BAG
- WIRED MAGAZINE COVER PHOTO
- TIME MAGAZINE COVER PHOTO
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE COVER PHOTO FRAME
- 8BIT PIXEL FRAME
- 8BIT PIXEL WALL CLOCK
- BUBBLE WALL CLOCK
- LUCKY CAT LAMP / PIGGY BANK
- BOMB LAMP
- DOUBLE-SIDED STORAGE BOX KID LAMP
- FOOTPRINT WALL CLOCK TIME / FRAME (SQUARE)
- FOOTPRINT WALL CLOCK TIME / FRAME (ROUND)
- RESIDENT EVIL RIMLESS LUMINOUS BALL FACING THE WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- NUCLEAR LUMINOUS BALL FACING THE WALL CLOCK FRAME / CLOCK
- MIRROR WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- 24 HOURS A DAY WOOD WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- THE NUMBER OF GRACEFUL WOODEN WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- TURN BACK THE CLOCK WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- CANON DIY SLEEVE
- GOLDEN LOTUS DIY SHUTTLE SLEEVE
- MICROELECTRONICS LUMINOUS WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION
- FRESHWATER CRAB WALL CLOCK / CLOCK
- MYTUBE TV PHOTO FRAME
- BLACKBERRY PHOTO FRAME
- IPAD PHOTO FRAME
- DIY SMALL DOG LAMP / STORAGE BOX
- DIY FELT SHOULDER BAG
- DIY WOODEN CLASSIC TABLE LAMP
- DIY TO CABLE BOXES / STORAGE BOX / CARD CASE
- DIY ROBOT TISSUE BOX 2.0
- DIY MOBILE SHELVES
The hardest part I think for the Chinese manufacturer to know how to do is…which products do foreigners like, what price is a good RETAIL price (as Chinese are notorious for driving prices down too low to destroy the market), and how to reach potential USA customers.
So we’ll add geekcook to the USA B2C market, put it in english, get a product survey made to get feedback and ideas from Americans and my friends, and hopefully build a successful case to show other Chinese factories to build up their own brands for export.
The future is coming so quickly….and its exciting.