WeChat is a great marketing tool to use if your business is targeting China, the main reason being that it has 768 million daily active users! It is the biggest social network in the country, a platform offering a myriad … Read More
China offers huge opportunities for international businesses, but it is important to understand the unique Chinese internet landscape, language, culture and present challenges when running a business in China. Today we will highlight some of the common misconceptions and mistakes … Read More
For most businesses, an international strategy will include China – simply because of the size and scale of the opportunity there. Yet from language to culture to the law, this market is vastly different from any other country and success … Read More
For years, Baidu has been perceived as the main channel for paid search in China because of its dominating position in the Chinese online market; however, do we, overseas advertisers, really know how to advertise on Baidu? Baidu is a … Read More
Nicknames and made-up names are becoming a thing of the past in China: No more fake Putins, Obamas or Financial Times columnists. No more anonymous bloggers. From pop-stars to politicians, and everyone in between, from 1st March 2015 Chinese users … Read More
The next Chinese New Year will be on Thursday 19th February 2015 and will be the Year of the Sheep. Chinese New Year is celebrated in China, obviously, and also anywhere else in the world with a significant Chinese population. … Read More
Sometimes, you might not want search engines to crawl or index some pages of your website – for example if they contain confidential documents, are only meant for registered users or are out-of-date. Normally, you can achieve this by implementing … Read More
If your business is targeting overseas markets, the chances are that China is on your radar. Now the biggest internet market globally and fast becoming the largest e-commerce market in the world, many organisations see the huge opportunity in reaching … Read More
Since China has replaced Japan as the second largest economy, and the continued appreciation of Chinese Yuan (CNY), the Chinese market is getting more attention than ever. For international businesses to reach Chinese customers, the optimisation of their Chinese websites … Read More
The answer is simply, yes. Weibo is a micro-blogging site, known as the Chinese version of Twitter, and it is one of the fastest growing social networks in China. In fact, since launching in August 2009, the network has become … Read More
Making up a whopping 1 in 4 people online, the Chinese internet market is the biggest in the world, with 600 million users. And excitingly, it’s still growing – making it a very attractive target for businesses. Social media is … Read More
Yes, China’s internet audience is massive. Yes, China has got the potential to catapult your company’s revenues into the stratosphere. Yes, China’s digital market is in many respects already too big to ignore. China is all that and much more. … Read More
As almost 1 in 4 internet users globally are Chinese, it is little wonder that international marketers are fast gathering their troops as part of a mission to conquer the future battlefield that is China. To date, however, there are … Read More
With a population that exceeds 1.3 billion, you’d think Chinese businesses have their hands more than full catering to this market alone. While this happens to be the case for most companies, China’s leading tech forces are increasingly eyeing expansion opportunities beyond … Read More
Many of Australia’s most popular websites have encountered some interesting statistics over the course of the past 3 months. That is an increasing amount of visitors coming from China, 1 in 3 websites in Australia will have China as a … Read More
