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Archive for China

China and Feeling For Stones: a Conversation with Zhang Hai Hua

Author of Think Like Chinese on Des Walsh & Friends show The other week on my Des Walsh & Friends show on BlogTalkRadio, I had the pleasure of speaking with a woman of great accomplishment and business sagacity, a specialist in cross-cultural communication, especially for business between China and the rest of the world. ZHANG

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PitchEngine Asia

As regular readers and subscribers will know, one of the things I do these days is look after the Australia and New Zealand market for social media release platform PitchEngine. Some exciting news for me this week on the PitchEngine front, with particularly practical implications for the many Australian and NZ companies marketing into China

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Twitter-Generated Business: China Travel 2.0

I have to admit I have no idea how pervasive the online social networking site, Twitter, is in China, let alone its current relevance for doing business in China. This post is about one instance in which Twitter seems to have served a good business purpose – i.e. putting a couple of entrepreneurial people together,

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Does it Make Sense to Talk About “Baby Boomers” in China?

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am working with some US colleagues on a proposal for a panel session on Boomers, for the October 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo. I’m also working with colleagues in China on projects to do with marketing to people there. I’m conscious all the time of the

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PR 2.0 Optimization Seminar April 8, Guangzhou and Web

When I’m speaking to business people about social media I find it helpful to have illustrative stories from my direct, personal experience.  That’s why, in conversations over the past couple of weeks, leading up to this coming Wednesday April 8th’s PR 2.0 Optimization seminar in Guangzhou, China and on the Web, I’ve been enjoying having

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