Have had my ‘tour guide’ hat on the past couple day, and expect to keep it on for the rest of March. I was tour guide of the year at my university, being one of the first tour guides to start during my first year enrolled there. I enjoy showing people around new places and giving them insight and advice. …
Trip to Guangzhou, TV Interview on GDTV Facetime
Seriously things have been happening so quickly in 2012. Over the past couple weeks Amy and I have been talking to Halley at GDTV (Guangdong TV) located in Guangdong province’s capital, Guangzhou This TV show is called FaceTime, which is a series of interviewing foreigners living and working in China. It is not actually aired inside China, but instead its …
First Impressions of Shenzhen, China to an “Outsider”
This is my blog’s first guest blog post, written by Nick and Tim from TEL (The Elevator Life) American friends of mine living and working over in Guangzhou, China who spoke at last week’s Startup Tuesday. So here we go! Let me clarify the term “outsider.” I live in Guangzhou, a neighboring metropolis less than 1 hour by train. I’d …
Canadian University Visiting China, Recruiting more Chinese to enroll!
Gotta love the photo with me and all the beautiful Chinese women today at lunch! It got a bunch of feedback on my Chinese weibo, some sarcasm but overall laughter! As China develops into a larger and larger economy by the day, with upper class families still respecting the Western university over the domestic Chinese college, Western Universities are noticing …
Startup Fever! Pushing upcoming Shenzhen #SZSW @startupweekend April 6-8
1:30am here and I’m forcing myself to get this blog out before crashing. “I got the fever”…startup fever. And though many of my “trusted mentors and advisors” have tried to slow down my “NGO” work before I starve (haha, yes in a way some have said it to me this directly) but I do have a passion for connecting and …
Excited for next 3 topics at Shenzhen Startup Tuesday!
Worked over the past couple days to queue up speakers and topics to keep the Startup Tuesdays rocking after an awesome Boyd Jones talk last tuesday, Rachel + Henry from comfortworks home decor australian ecommerce startups, they have some experience in the Australian startup weekends and event management – taking a huge load off my shoulders updating the Shenzhen Marketing …
Happy to Have Boyd Jones, Shenzhen VC, at Startup Tuesday
Yup, just back from Manila earlier this week, digging out of emails, getting some SEO training started, planning 2 events in March, and ended today with an AWESOME Shenzhen startup Tuesday! I’ve been trying to get Boyd Jones to speak at a meetup for months now, and finally our request was fulfilled! Also, a really awesome boost is Rachel & …
Taking Americans to Visit Baidu for China SEO
As China continues to develop as a consumer market, more and more American and foreign companies contact me about selling online in China. While in the past, my main focus has been English language SEO and e-commerce, I do see the growing opportunity for Americans and other companies who are seeing the growing China market and are lost as to …
Preparing for the Biggest SEO Conference in China, March 30-31
I’m really excited this year will be the 4th time I have gone to the largest SEO conference in China, in the city of Xiamen, China called the GOMX Global Online marketing expo. In 2009 I first went, and met Gillian Muessig, founder of SEOmoz and featured on Sina tech news for my talk on keyword research. In 2010 had …
Blog Reader Asking For Advice Moving To China
I have blogged about Americans wanting to move to China in a few different ways, and I have answered why I moved to China …..but again and again my email box becomes flooded with questions like the below from Ricardo: On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Ricardo wrote: Hey Michael! How are you? I’ve found your website on …
Social Media Brainstorming Session, Sat Feb 18 afternoon, Chai Huo
After a very successful first Social Media training seminar in January before Chinese New years, we have been trying to make an agenda and a plan for future events. Hero Meets Hero group (aka hiwto, a Chinese ecommerce group I’m marketing to Foreigners) ….we ran a survey in QQ…..posted feedback on Sina Weibo. Followed up with those who attended…..everyone was …
Hong Kong Hackers coming to Shenzhen, Sat Feb 18!
So many events…I really need a solution to showing everyone all the upcoming events. Saturday, Feb 18th, the Hong Kong hackers group (HK HackJam) are organizing an event to Shenzhen, China electronics market (Hua Qiang Bei)….being the “resident HK representative” here in Shenzhen, I can’t wait to meet Hong Kong people “taking the risk to come into dangerous China!!!” (for …
Recap from Lifecraft’s Haegwan visit to Shenzhen Startup Tuesday
Catching up those who missed our first Shenhen Startup Tuesday since 2011, you missed something great! Even though we moved the location to Chaihuo, causing there to be a few lost and confused people calling my mobile throughout the evening, we had about 20 quality entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts there. I was typing on my mobile during the event, and …
Crossroads of Culture – American Superbowl + Chinese Lantern Festival!
What a way to start a week! Being an American living in China, I’m lucky I never was a big sports fan….with the timezone difference, evening games in the USA are bright and early in the morning here in China! I have been here for a few years, and never wake up for a sports game…even prior Superbowls. But this …
First Startup Tuesday Shenzhen After a While, Cooperating at ChaiHuo
This Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012, We’ll start the Startup Tuesday again, now that Chinese News is over…and sadly, as SZteam location is currently closed, I will have to update the SZteam website to tell future visitors they can stop by the Chai Huo hackerspace, as Eric Pan is more then welcome to let those interested in startups, entrepreneurship, and “product …