Taking a Tour of Hua Qiang Bei, Shenzhen, China Mike’s Blog 142 When you get a group of amazing people together, exponentially awesome things happen. Since we had the Cross Border Matchmaker coming up, why not organize a tour of the electronics marketplace center of the world – Hua Qiang Bei? And we did just that – some of the …
Just Let Go
Just Let Go Mike’s Blog 141 Processing Thoughts In a Flow State Fight club. An amazing movie that I have watched way too many times. We need to just let go and be who we are. And I have used this so many times for a flow state. I am wondering how to keep the juices flowing after an intense …
It’s Christmas Time for Digital Nomads
It’s Christmas Time for Digital Nomads Mike’s Blog 140 Keep on making forward progress. The yearly pilgrimage for the Dynamite Circle – DCBKK is happening in today’s video. I’m such a fan boy – but Dan and Ian at Tropical MBA have done such an amazing job building up this community of digital nomads. Not really digital nomads I’d say …
Content Creators, Surrounding Yourself With People Like You
Content Creators, Surrounding Yourself With People Like You Mike’s Blog 139 If a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? That is how I feel a lot of times in my daily life. Doing things that you feel are awesome and amazing but people around you don’t understand or even see what …
Book Review – Fully Lived: Keep things flowing – keep things going.
Life is going pretty fast – but the key is to keep them going and flowing. Back from Bangkok, a small jet lag (one hour difference) still affects my morning routine as it takes a day or so to get the exact timing of wake up and going to sleep right. Think I’m doing better than previous conferences, in the …
Post DCBKK 2017 Reflection – Ripping Off The Bandaid Again
Another year, another DCBKK conference. Always use this as a time to reflect on what I have accomplished since the previous year, “compare” to others in the conference and challenge myself to do even more before the next conference. Here’s some of what I learned and recap: Also it is worth noting – the official conference is only 2 days …
Keep Going When Others Say To Stop
Keep Going When Others Say To Stop Mike’s Blog 138 On the way to Bangkok, and bumped into Winson on the airplane – pretty awesome. Both heading to the DCBKK conference – one that always pushes me every year to break limiting beliefs and just do it. Which leads me into this blog topic – keep going when others say …
You are Going to Win!
You Are Going To Win Yes, you are! Mike’s Blog 137 Get in the ring and do it. There are some days we may not want to get out of bed – but too many of those in a row and we have a problem. Steve Jobs test of looking in the mirror every day and if you are not …
How to Write a Winning Business Proposal: The Complete Guide
Guide to Writing a Killer Business Proposal It is crucial for every business owner or entrepreneur to learn how to write a compelling business proposal. Here is a complete guide. Increasing competition characterizes the modern day business environment. When you factor in increased consumer sovereignty, the situation even gets tough. Business people have been forced to master the art of …
Creating a Side Hustle Out of the Cross Border Bus Lifestyle
Creating a Side Hustle Out of the Cross border Bus Lifestyle Mike’s blog 136 Are you a bus rider? I’m a bus rider. Is that a word? The 10 years I’ve been here in China, and bouncing back and forth between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, I have taken hundreds of bus rides, If there are 52 weeks a year, and …
Asking
Asking Mike’s Blog 135 We need to just get out there and ask for what we want. We want to sit on the sidelines and hope people will see what we are doing and ask us to get involved or give us what we want. Well, that is me most of the time anyway. It is why I love the …
Interviewing Top Chinese E-commerce Executives
Interviewing Top Chinese E-commerce Executives. Mike’s Blog 134 Going deeper into the China side of cross border e-commerce export. Spent a ton of time this past week interviewing top Amazon FBA sellers in China and service providers. What is crazy to me is the rest of the world has no idea who they are – they are like a faceless …
Hangzhou, China Campaign
Hangzhou China Campaign Mike’s Blog 133 We are here in Hangzhou, China. A city not as well known as first tier cities such as Shanghai and Beijing – but one we should take note of. I’ve been fortunate enough to have gotten to know Lorenzo a lot more while he was down in Shenzhen earlier this year. He had lived …
Foreigners Accepted in China
Foreigners Accepted in China Will We Always be a Foreigner in China? Am I Just a White Monkey? We have discussed “rent-a-white guy” in the past on the blog. In China, as well as other parts of Asia – the media, the image of foreigners has always been highly respected and value. Some say it’s Hollywood, some say because of …
No Excuses
No Excuses Mike’s Blog 131 Writing this on a bus in Evernote app using one hand. My Mac charger totally died and I can’t charge my laptop to do my morning writing. I’m rushing to Chinaccelerator office to hope someone can let me in so I can charge my laptop and resume work. Then I will go to a market …