In a taxi ride back to the factory in the Chang An district of Dongguan, about a 45 minute drive from the city center I just spent my evening. My long term networking and openness in China has paid its dividends over time, and I have gotten to know I internet marketing friend more residing here in Dongguan – Slan …
First Shenzhen Ecommerce Meetup
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, …
Studying How to Import Products Into China
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 …
Groupon Coming Fast Into the Chinese Market, will it succeed?
Yet another foreigner coming to China to make quick money in the biggest population internet users! To give you readers the background story, I think many of us in the internet world hear about Google trying to buy Groupon last month for like 6 billion US dollars (I’m too lazy to find PR links), only to then turn around and …
Moving From Shenzhen to Dongguan, Still Cleaning up the mess from 2010
Currently typing this in the passenger seat of those Chinese blue moving trucks, I love it! Horns blowing next to me, the wind and smog blowing in my face and up my nose, rock on! When I closed up the biz in china in 1 day lease contract with my 3 story villa office a few months ago, before leaving …
Successful First Shenzhen Ecommerce Meetup
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 …
What Will Happen When The World Is Flat?
I am a believer in the idea that “the world is flat” where as the global economy will continue to advance and costs of goods and labor will be the same everywhere……and I have this feeling that it is happen at a much more rapid pace than anyone expected… Maybe its also because I am surrounded and entrenched in the …
Is all this Social Networking Really Worthwhile? Its exhausting
I think my whole life I have been a somewhat natural networker. I think it comes from my dad, I remember going to church with him as a little boy, he knew everyone, and would take the time to say hello to almost each and everyone after mass. I remember getting annoyed, (1) because I didn’t really enjoy going to …
The Hustle Doesn’t Stop – Manila, Cebu, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan
Currently writing this on a plane from Cebu to Manila, with a crying baby 2 rows ahead of me. I’m proud of how I am able to work with so many distraction around me….as it allows me to travel. What an amazing week this is and will continue to be….had come back to Manila for New Years and some meetings….then …
Back in Cebu for a few days, quick cebu meetup
Been on a roll with these meetups as I’ve been traveling……was using twitter to gather people, but really picking up more of an audience of like minded, open minded people in the couchsurfing community and while I took a quick trip down to Cebu from Manila, I posted an open ended meeting at Ayala Mall, Moon Cafe this past Tuesday …
Addictive Social Hyper Buying / Selling – “I Got The Fiverr”
It must be pronounced FEVER , like “I got the fever“, the site is pretty addictive….I created my fiverr profile (“five dollar” & fever) and quickly linked my paypal account….with their damnquickpay you don’t need to go in and out of paypal each time you make a purchase….. What will people do for 5 bucks? Seems people get creative, here …
Need More Stuff – George Carlin – A Minimalist
Always liked George Carlin stand up…remember listening to it with my hometown friends Andrew Moran and others in grade school (yea, weird a little bit to listen to this stuff at such a young age). Listened a few times to this video “stuff” lately, while in USA (when re-uniting with Andrew, Scott, and others) as well as over here in …
Partaking more in the couchsurfing movement, formally.
It’s strange, to me and to my friends, that I have not earlier been involved in couchsurfing websites, making my couchsurfing.org profile more complete lately. I have been “couchsurfing” for almost as long as I have been traveling, depending on how you define it. And this is why I love twitter and blogging and social media, because you can more …
Converting Philippines Office into Clear Cafe Internet Cyber Cafe!
Tonight had a rather long meeting with my Philippines accountant and Marie about converting the startup office into an internet cyber cafe “CyberCafe.com Inc”. For the most of 2010 I have been “dabbling” with doing business in the Philippines…..having home based workers, leasing a small startup office, training programs, interviews at Philippines government centers, and running a quick twitter social …
Going Crazy, Surrounded by Mandarin, Cantonese, and Tagalog! RMB, HKD Pesos!
Just landed in Manila a few days ago, jeez, my brain is on overload…this hyper travel between Manila, Hong Kong and south china (Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan) has got my head spinning. Really, if this was USA, the geographical distance between these places is similar to going from south florida to Puerto rico…..except there are 3 currencies and 3 languages and …