What a wild few months – and I definitely tested the relationship with my wife, kids, business partners, and many in my network. I consciously decided to push the limits and try to pull this off: And not even mentioning where I type this now – in Devcon With another trip – Ninja Retreat in Philippines with our amazing Shadstone …
Cross Border Mastermind 2024 (Phuket)
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We Did It – Amazing Cross Border Summit 2024 (Sixth Annual)
Amazing we are able to level up each and every year – our sixth annual Cross Border Summit was epic – and even while the event was happening was able to record this vlog – from leaving Canton Fair in China to the after party, enjoy!
More Time at Canton Fair (Longest Time at Canton Fair)
Though I have lived in China for over a decade, and been to Canton Fair dozens of times – this trip “hits different”. I am living in Thailand and a “Visitor now” And I have been here for 2 phases and stayed in Guangzhou for the entire 10 days (normally would go back to Shenzhen and do quicker 1 – …
Speaking at China / USA Seller Forum Experience
Bringing me back to the pre-covid days again! Memories of our previous Cross Border Summits and Cross Border Matchmaker events – the good old days when we could bring different cultures together and have them share and network. It is happening again, people are opening up – and I joined Amy Wees and her co-organizer during the Canton Fair trip …
Keeping China Connections: Reconnecting with Slan
Here in Guangzhou for a 10 day Canton Fair trip and had to make a trip out to see Slan. Slan is a friend I met at a Xiamen SEO conference in 2009! We have various blogs with him over the years here And had to reconnect – talk business, talk Amazon, ecommerce – Temu, all of them. He had …
DCBKK Experience – 2024’s Annual Pilgrimage of Digital Nomads
October and November each year, I just gotta block off everything from my calendar and say it is intense events. And of course a big highlight is DCBKK annual conference by the Dynamite Circle community. Each year in Bangkok, we get to gather for multiple days of meetups, round tables, masterminds, and speaker sessions. I try to share at meetups …
The Final Asia Roadshow – Shenzhen, China
The end, the final one. Three weeks, six cities – and wrapping up the final one – in my “headquarters” of Shenzhen, China. Our biggest turnout as well – and the feeling of “hungry” to sell their business and make deals was palpable. Just an amazing hyperactive networking session again. Filling the wechat contact list and talking about cross promotions, …
Hong Kong, Networking & Prison Museum: Asia Roadshow 5
This is the third week of this trip – and has been a defining trip making quality relationships and strengthening of existing ones. In a quick 1 day Hong Kong stop over – spent time with Chris visiting his place and seeing his chameleon! Fed some crickets then off to the old Hong Kong prison which is now a mix …
Roadshow 4 – Hanoi, Vietnam! Quality Ecommerce Connections
Event number 4! This has been an intense amount of travel and networking from Thailand to Vietnam and then to Hong Kong and Shenzhen! Have to be honest – Hanoi’s had the lowest amount of pre-registrations – but a lot more came than expected. And not just numbers – quality, highly influential people from the ecommece industry. It was also …
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam – The Asia Roadshow 3
Getting halfway through this six part, three week road show – The Asia Roadshow has now gone to Vietnam and this Tuesday evening Oct 1 we had our third meetup – this time inside the Amazon offices here on the 36th floor of a very downtown area. Have to say – Vietnam was one of the lower amount of registrants …
The Asia Roadshow 2: Bangkok, Jam Packed Networking
So time for our second road show “The Asia Roadshow” – a co-event with Flippa and our Global From Asia community – as we lead up to the sixth annual Cross Border Summit happening Nov 3-5, 2024 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This one was the one where I started my travel, as the first was in my “home city” of …
First “The Asia Roadshow” in Chiang Mai, Leading to Cross Border Summit
Just can’t help myself- gotta do this hyper networking and hyper travel. This is the first in a 6 part roadshow – “The Asia Roadshow” we (our community at Global From Asia) is doing with Flippa. It started with connecting with Fiona at Flippa about podcasts and Cross Border Summit – which they came through and sponsored our summit (thank …
Integrating Family and Business, Weekend Business Meetings
Family and business, you know I am a workaholic. Typing this up physically and mentally exhausted from intense creating and building. To have your own business is a blessing, yet is also a massive pressure. To add on top raising a family – and many of you know the thought process and challenges. For me, I am trying to integrate …
Business Development Grind – Ecomm Meetup, Encounters, Seller Dinners
Just taking the video camera with me on another “outside day” doing business development. Had our regular Chiang Mai ecommerce meetup – the format people like is going around the room introducing yourself quickly, highlighting who is doing what. Then this time we had a few people come up on stage and share for 5-10 minutes about some of their …