A lot of foreign brands cost more in China, and Chinese shoppers tend to buy many products from overseas. With the attractive potential ahead, new players joined this game without hesitate. This May, I attended the 5th Cross-border eCommerce conference China 2016 in Shanghai. The meeting lasted two days, the first day focusing on import and …
Build my profile in China In China, football is on it’s way up and many overseas independent contractors want to be a part of it. Pedro, A previous professional football player in England come to me for a proper China market entry strategy and some advice. Pedro wants to build his own profile and expand …
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New Present for Doodling I bought Emily a 3Doodler Start Kit from Brookstone at Boston Logan International Airport last Sunday. Emily was excited to have this new present and we started creating 3D names using the pen.
Emily, my daughter dislikes her car seat since it becomes uncomfortable when she grows up. We also found it quite difficult to adjust and occupies too much space. So we decided to change a lite one which is easy to carry and set up. But all car seats in China physical store are quite traditional …
This Thursday evening, the eve of 2016 Singles’ Day (Nov. 11, 2016), there is not much traffic on the streets. Chinese consumers were busy collecting coupons, searching and adding products into their shopping carts. Deep Discounts Online shopping discounts encourage consumers to spend more on this special day, sales have already outdone Black Friday and Cyber Monday …
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How Do Chinese Online Shoppers Buy From Overseas? Chinese shoppers have been engaged in cross-border import trade over recent years. Buying overseas products is generally referred to as “HaiTao” in Chinese. “Hai” (Sea) means overseas, “Tao” (Search) means find and purchase. Official Brand Web Store It is the most reliable way for Chinese …
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China Government Policy Evolution The HaiTao market was not regulated in the early stage and had been operated in the gray area for several years. Chinese government has launched several new regulations to bring order to this chaotic market. New rules always bring different results for different players, and they are not always good news. …
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It is quite difficult to categorize the import eCommerce models in China since I did not learn how to be a good librarian. Some of the following 12 models might be overlapping due to the different rules. Another reason might be that the market is way too dynamic and some companies have also changed their …
As a China cross border consultant, I was invited by Paypal to shoot this video sharing my career life and experience of receiving overseas payments. I started using Paypal in 2004 when I was building on my own web store then. It is quite early for Chinese merchants and it brought me initial foreign client.
Develop Your China Online Payment Strategy You need to have a payment strategy when you step further to eCommerce in China. The decline rate for Chinese merchants is quite high in online credit card payment, and some websites do not even accept Chinese credit cards. This made Chinese consumers impossible to shop buy themselves in many situations. Now …
