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In the Center of China / USA Talks

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Chinese president Hu Jintao is in America these days, and it seems like everything connects….China seems to be “opening up” more to American demands by agreeing to the following this week: * Buying more American goods – planes from Boeing, cars, and other services. But its not saying specifically if it will help American companies that are in China. * …

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Survey result for future meetings

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Dear friends, thanks for doing the survey for future meetings. Really appreciate your  enthusiasm and efforts. According to the survey up to now, the future meetings would be held in English monthly at certain Saturdays from 1pm to 5pm/6pm in Nanshan or Shekou. For the 2nd meetup, it will be after Chinese New Year holiday, either Saturday Feb. 19 or Saturday Feb. 26. For the topic,  we now have top …

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Survey for future meetings, need feedback

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Dear attendees of last Saturdays’s 1st Shenzhen Ecommerce Meeting, I was overwhelmed a bit with the great turnout of both Chinese and Foreigners at last Saturday’s event. As promised, I am sending out this email to get more feedback from you guys on what you want from this Kindly take this short survey, link as follows: http://survit.com/mysurvey.php?A1=1537640&B1=752215 Also, to centralize …

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Powerpoint Presentations from the First Meetup

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For our first Shenzhen Ecommerce meetup, we had 3 presentations: First was a basic overview of the differences between Western and Chinese ecommerce, speaker was Michael Michelini, slides here: differences in usa and china ecommerce Second was Tristan, Guang Yao, who went over Chinese social media. Chinese Social Media Third, Huck Liang could not attend, so Michael went over the …

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Trying to Embrace Change, not Resist Change

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That has been one of my biggest changes and challenges in my life….to adapt to rapidly changing environments, both physically (as in geographical locations) and business and economical changes (international currency risk, global competition)….While I still naturally resist change, I realize I cannot change the way the world is going, and instead have to embrace this dynamic, rapidly changing world …

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First Shenzhen Ecommerce Meetup

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The Shenzhen Internet Marketing Group is organizing a meetup on Saturday afternoon, Jan 15, in the afternoon from 1pm to approx 5 or 6pm. 1) cost – its FREE. the room is given to us for free from King Dee cmpany, and speakers are doing it as volunteers. Maybe future events will have a cost, we can discuss 2) Directions, …

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Studying How to Import Products Into China

In china business by Michael Michelini31 Comments

Update This post is so popular, I made a much more detailed and specific guide on my business blog: 3 Ways to Import Products Into China Check it out! Monday morning here in factory land Dongguan, China! I went over the process of importing into China via Hong Kong this past saturday at the Sheznhen ecommerce meeting, and because so …

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Successful First Shenzhen Ecommerce Meetup

In china business, websites by Michael Michelini8 Comments

I am getting on a roll making these meetups in all the cities I am traveling. Seems to be building on itself, but I have to say, I get more interested people to meet about business when I am in China. Seems this is where the most densely populated area of people, both local Chinese and foreigners, who want to …