Its that time of year again! Conferences in the spring pop up like crazy in China – and for the past 5 years I have been going to a Xiamen based event groups – TimeV – which has been the largest Chinese internet event each year. This year, they...
As part of my trip to Beijing, this coming Monday Sept 17 I will speak at a Chinese SEO + SEM internet marketing conference. I have been asked to speak about how social media affects SEO, and integrating the 2 to optimize your search campaign.
This will be a...
Been attending this major Chinese internet marketing conference since march 2009, have met so many people, and learned so much during these 2 short days…I can remember how nervous and anxious I was when I attended my first conference here…now I see familiar...
Been really getting to business…especially since the Chinese year of the Dragon started….I was tempted to go to Bali with my Shenzhen buddies for a holiday / TropicalMBA meetup…but locked myself in my “cave” and worked the majority...
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...
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...
What is getting more and more funny…and crazy at the same time…is that I am getting busier and busier on my Sina Weibo, Tencent Weixin and QQ, talking about English social media and American vs Chinese culture and way of life.
Those of you following...
Still makes me laugh, and a bit worried at the same time….discussing Facebook, Google+, Twitter inside of China – where the country blocks these online social media platforms. But again, these export-based internet and ecommerce businesses cannot allow...
Seriously, I overextend myself and then get all crazy (emotional roller coaster) . This year’s USA trip was much more organized and planed than *** last year’s mania. But still, I overbooked myself, and feel like I let a bunch of people down….rushing...
As I’ve been saying, doing tons of networking these days….I do enjoy it the most, its like link building people…and connecting people to add value to society does give me that sense of fulfillment. This saturday was our 5th Shenzhen ecommerce...
Speaking to my friend Fion at Timev, the Xiamen China SEO company that organizes various internet meetups in China, she helped translate my Social Media presentation in Xiamen.
I have been in touch with her on weibo (Chinese twitter) and its great she is explaining...
Life is the path you make it…and when people ask me how I get myself into certain situations….its such a long string of events….networking, knowing people, as well as being in the right place at the right time.
James Sung, my friend in Shenzhen...
Man, we all love Alibaba, its a great brand, Jack Ma is looked upon like the god of ecommerce in China. But today’s news about how he signed off to spin off Alipay to a different holding company in China where he is majority shareholder…without talking...
In 2010 and even more in 2011 I’ve been organizing twitter meetups and getting more professional with ecommerce meetups. As I’m doing these, been doing a lot of hyper networking, and met the “Chinese side” of the Shenzhen ecommerce meetups...
Just another day in China, I got a scanned letter today, it was hand delivered to my Florida, USA address. I’m not going to say I’m getting cocky that “nothing can happen to me, I’m in China” attitude (though many of my Chinese friends...
