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How many times a year do you go to China?
2008-03-13 00:51:00 As we are currently getting our website ready for advertisers, sponsors, affiliates and other partners, we started conducting some additional research on our demographics. The results of which I am happy to share here. First up we asked, How many times a year do you go to China ? The results are:I haven't been yet: 25%1 - 2 times: 23%3 - 5 times: 18%6 - 9 times: 4%10 times or more: 4%I live in China: 27%Next question to the 50% of our visitors that fly quite regularly to China, and the 25% that seems to be planning to do so in the future? Fly over to our China site to find out!Please check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Times , Year
From China with love
2008-03-06 10:10:00 I have been rather quiet on this blog, because of some other time consuming hobbies. One of which being my China Business site www.chinasuccessstories.com The good news is that it has been worth the wait though, as I found something that you will love. If you love getting traffic to your site from Google that is, and if you love to get some traffic from the biggest Chinese Search Engine: Baidu.The key to unlocking lots of love from Google and Baidu is called Taragana. It is a plugin for your (Wordpress) blog, that translates your pages into numerous other languages. What makes this plugin different from others is the fact that it caches translated pages for instant access, and for indexing by, yep you guessed it, Google and other search engines.Within a couple of weeks this is what happens. If your site consists of say 1500 pages, in no time Google thinks it consists of well over 10.000. Have a look: http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=navc lient&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGL. .. More About: Love , With Love
Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder?
2008-01-30 00:50:00 While Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama were busy splitting the votes these past few weeks, our electoral college on www.chinasuccessstories.com was faced with a much easier choice to make. After redesigning our China Business site we asked: what do you think of our new design? Now some say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If there is some truth in that, we are faced with a problem…Here are the results:Excellent job: 42%Nice: 34%Better than before: 8%Poor: 3%Ugly: 14%Now that is a big – huge! – compliment to the designer, isn’t it? We will make sure to let him know!The problem, as far as beauty is in the eye of the beholder is concerned, is this. With well over 75% of our visitors liking the looks, we either have:...an extremely homogenous demographic (with people from all over the world visiting?)...made an award winning design (we take pride in what we do, but we simply cannot be the world’s most beautiful website; our budget doesn’t allow for it)..... More About: Beauty
Starting a business in China
2008-01-22 17:48:00 "This article is among the most helpful I’ve ever seen if you are considering starting a business." And... "This post ought to be subtitled “The Fantasy Edition” as it has virtually no connection to reality." What are they talking about? And who's right or wrong? You be the judge: http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/2008/0 1/09/starting-business-china/Please check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Business
Social networking for China Success Stories
2008-01-12 15:04:00 Thanks to my activity on LinkedIn, I keep getting introduced for Spock and Plaxo. So I decided to give them both a go. From now on you can meet me here as well:http://www.spock.com/Michiel-de-Boer -TrrD1uS (check out my 'Spock Power')On Plaxo I don't know if I have a unique URL yet. But you will find me through the China Business group I started on:http://china-business.plaxogroups.com/ What I like about Plaxo is the fact that it is easy to import feeds from other platforms. But I do not completely trust them (yet?). What I like about Spock is the simplicity. In both cases, I doubt if they will mean more to my business then LinkedIn has so far.If you want to connect without using Spock or Plaxo, you can still find me here:www.xing.com/profile/Michiel_deBoer3 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mmcdeboerHope to meet up with you anytime soon!MPS Almost forgot, I'm here as well: http://community.globeforum.com/profile/m ichiel_deboerPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuc... More About: Social , Social Networking , Stories , Networking
China online
2008-01-10 00:39:00 Yeeaaah! We did it: we launched the v2.0 of www.chinasuccessstories.com Many thanks to R, N, S, big G and last but not least our Alpha male J. Still a lot of work left though, so I hope to find some China time-off time soon to keep you updated on what works best as far as SEO/SEM is concerned. In terms of content, according to our visitors this is what we need:China Business Success Stories v2.0 should feature:A China Wiki: 21%Chinese culture Q&A: 21%Business directory: 37%Chinese Trade Fair calendar: 21%With one of these four online, hopefully you'll forgive me for keeping this a brief post ;-)MPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Online
China Business community, II
2007-12-11 21:41:00 The results are in! We asked which is your Favorite China Business community? Without further ado, here are the results: LinkedIn: 35% XING: 14% Facebook: 14% F&B and Fashion business1: 7%KLM Club China1: 7% Lenovo1: 6% Globe Forum Business Network1: 5% Guanxi1: 4% China dialogue1: 2% Tianji1: 3% Hello World1: 1% Language1: 1% 1 = Added by a guestNow I know KLM Club China, we have quite some friends there, but what is F&B and Fashion business? Globe Forum Business Network was new to me as well, I signed up and I must say it looks quite nice! Will do an update on what that does to our on-going Chinese Networking endeavor soon.That’s it for now, oh and BTW, China Law Blog added us to their Blogroll, do check their site out on http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china _sucess_stories_new_blogr.html , it is excellent!MPS If XING and LinkedIn is your thing, look me up: find a direct link in the menu on the right.Please check my China business site out on http://www.chi... More About: Community , Sine , Unit
China SEO look at social media marketing
2007-12-11 01:44:00 Still absolutely excited by the way traffic to http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/ is increasing, I just read a 100% non-Chinese post by SEOmoz that perfectly describes the way I feel about the importance of social communities. For your website ranking, appreciation / valuation and ultimately: traffic.It complies with what I pointed out in ‘Long live social bookmark exchange’, fully agrees with the added value of sites like Facebook, and underlines the importance of sites like LinkedIn and del.ico.us as described in 'Del.icio.us the China sequel’.So without wanting to risk dropping too many links here, go ahead and read this: a truly magnificent article on the Basics of Social Media Marketing . -> http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-visual-tour- through-the-basics-of-social-media-market ingMPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com
Favorite China Business community?
2007-11-23 23:45:00 Which is your Favorite China Business community? As the poll is about to close be sure to make your vote count on www.chinasuccessstories.com. The results so far:LinkedIn: 39%XING: 16%Facebook: 18%Other: 27%MPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Community , Sine
China website statistics
2007-11-18 12:00:00 Curious to find out who is visiting www.chinasuccessstories.com? Want to know what the best referring websites are for your China Business site? Feel free to join me as I scroll through this week’s statistics. To make it a timely snapshot, I will only look at the last 10.000 visitors:Top 10 countries (number of visitors):1. United States (2.049)2. China (1.679)3. Netherlands (714)4. United Kingdom (535)5. Canada (391)6. India (382)7. Australia (299)8. Hong Kong (283)9. New Zealand (276)10. France (231)So far no surprises. What is interesting is the fact that visitors from Canada visit an average of 2,95 pages and spend an average of 5:59 minutes on our site, whereas visitors from New Zealand only visit 1,22 pages and leave after 29 seconds. I’ll have to find out how to come: maybe we are listed on an off topic site somewhere?Referring websitesHere is a selection of current top referrers. Please keep in mind I’ve only taken the last 10.000 visitors into account, so next week th... More About: Website , Statistics
Link exchange is dead, long live bookmark exchange (if I was Google)
2007-11-10 14:45:00 If I was Google I’d always be on the lookout for websites trying to manipulate their way into top ranking. So no surprise they do that, and - needless to say - with a lot of success. If I was Google I’d prefer to look as closely as I could to what makes humans actually tick (click) and like. And I’m pretty sure they do this as well. Through offering Google Analytics for free for instance. Through Gmail. Docs, Maps, etc.By offering quality tools for free, Google gets great insight into which sites deserve high ranking and which don’t. Effectively killing the old game of counting links pointing at your site to determine whether you matter, or not. Still… backlinks matter a little bit. Just like your content, Title (and other) tags, etc. The big landslide this fall was that reciprocal links were pulled out of the equation. Somebody linking to your site, who receives a link back to return the favor, simply isn’t doing it for Google any longer. Fair enough. Good call, I think... More About: Link Exchange , Bookmark , Exchange , Link
Angelina Jolie and me (Brad Pitt), part II
2007-11-08 21:10:00 One of the first posts on this blog was titled “Angelina Jolie and me (Brad Pitt )”. It was inspired by the best read post on Chinalyst.net. A few months later I decided to join www.chinalyst.net with our China Business Blog. A great site for those who want to spare themselves the hassle of finding English language China blogs, and the trouble of subscribing to each and every one of them. It is also a well organized site in the sense they give credit where credit is due, meaning also they let you share in their (I guess meager) revenues.Today I checked what the all-time popular content is. Here’s what it says:Angelina Jolie Shows Off Her Tattoos (93849)Women Receive Gifts to Shop in their underwear (41607)6 Hottest Pictures of Zhang Ziyi Plus 3 of Her Nudity Double (SFW) (34763)China's Top 5 Nude Girl Posters for 2006 (31154)China's Top Ten Hottest Girls (26609)Series - China's Hottest Women - # 2 - Maggie Q (24343)This time I’ll leave it up to you to draw conclusions on... More About: Part
China Business Plans
2007-11-03 14:09:00 Just as my China Business Plans for Google PageRank 5 were picking up speed, Google decided to flip the book on me… Why? Not sure. We kept PR4 which isn’t bad – 4 is the new 5 (I comfort myself ;-) Question remaining: what will it take to move up the China ranking ladder from now on. First let’s analyze what we have going for us now. After that I will unveil my China Business Plans for higher ranking (and please let me know if you have any suggestions whatsoever!):FirstlyWe offer great China Business how-to content on www.chinasuccessstories.com The new site will make it easier to browse through all the articles. As we are currently redesigning over a thousand pages, we must be careful Google doesn’t get lost in the process as it has already indexed most of our content: http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=navc lient&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ ,GGLJ:2006-29,GGLJ:nl&q=site:chinasuc cessstories%2ecomSecondlyWe secured a great amount of back links. Over 10.000 (!) ... More About: Sine
Top fifty China Business articles
2007-10-24 20:56:00 As we are upgrading our China Business website, I'm making an inventory on articles published in recent months. It is a great joy to see what headlines we have covered so far. Here's my top fifty China Business articles we have run (thanks to many true China Experts, who's web sites you should visit if you are looking to make the most of your business in China).The list of articles is huge. And best of all: all of them are free to access and read. So take your pick, and if you quickly want to find one particular one, use the search-function on the top right-hand side of http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/!Enjoy , MIntellectual Property in Franchising Relationships - the view from China and Hong KongCredit Cards and Debit Cards in Nanning ChinaDoing Business in ChinaOpportunity Knocks in ChinaHow could SMEs get business in China? Winning big brands by product fitStrategic Management in China: How To Be Fast And FocusedHow to order a quality inspectionAssess Your Risk, Plan, and THE... More About: Articles , Sine
Favorite China Business information source?
2007-10-22 23:39:00 What is your Favorite China Business information source? That was the question we asked on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/ Here are the results:China Business Web sites, blogs: 41% Books and magazines on China Business: 19% Business fairs, seminars, conferences: 16% China network clubs, groups, communities: 12% Your (www.chinasuccessstories.com) website! (1): 7%Answers marked with 1 are added by a guest, so they obviously don't weigh as much.The winners are therefore China Business Web sites, blogs and Books and magazines on China Business. Did we miss any China Business information topics?Please check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Information , Source
China Business Blog goes LinkedIn
2007-10-16 00:22:00 Dear China friends,You are most welcome to join our (as in: www.chinasuccessstories.com) China Business group on LinkedIn! I'm positive you will benefit from it, being able to get into contact with other China Business minded professionals like yourself. Please visit http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36656/50377 703F693 for details.M(I am assuming you've subscribed to our newsletter on doing business in China on www.chinasuccessstories.com already. If you haven't, you should do so before requesting to join the China Business group on LinkedIn).Please check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Blog , Goes , Sine
Facebook’s China traffic killer app?
2007-10-06 21:20:00 Imagine having 50 China friends on Facebook (which is not a lot), imagine 10 of them installed the Blog Friends app (which is not a lot) and 10 of their China interested friends did the same thing (trying to make this a simple explanation). Every time you publish a new post to your (China Business or else) blog, a hundred profile-pages (10x10) are updated with your feed! Broadcasting to an audience of like-minded people has never, ever, been easier as far as I'm concerned. Try it! Look me up: my name on Facebook is Michael de Beer, you will recognize me easily by the China-red Puma/Tuna avatar. -> http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=michael+d e+beer&n=-1&init=s Whatever you do, do not hesitate to add me as a blog friend. Doing so, your blog will show up on my pages, viewed by many, and my China Business Blog, www.chinasuccessstories.com will show up on yours to return the favor. Forget link exchanging. This will have a way bigger effect in the long run, driving much more high... More About: Traffic , Killer
China Business SEO / SEM world speed record for Google?
2007-09-17 22:12:00 This week China Business Success Stories achieved an important milestone in its effort to become one of the top China Business web sites out there. In what should qualify as an official world speed record, we accomplished one of our short term objectives: reaching the top ten spot in Google , searching for China Business. Big deal? Huge! It means we beat around 700 to 800 million others, leaving but a few to outperform us on this particular search. Forget top 1%. Forget being ranked in the first 1% of the first 1% searching for China Business. If I'm not mistaken, we are now in the first 1%, of the first 1%, of the first 1%, of the first 1%, and then some. Effectively leaving more than 99,999999% other China Business sites behind us!World record?Is it a world record? Well if anything, it goes to prove – make sure to discuss this with your online marketer – that within 8 months you can establish amazing results, if you are willing to spend the time and effort (in our case 1FTE of... More About: Speed
What’s your favorite China Business Topic?
2007-09-10 23:57:00 That was the question we asked on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/ Here are the results:Chinese Law: 11%Importing from China : 37%Guanxi intricacies: 5%Marketing in China: 15%Banking & Finance China1: 7%electronics1: 10%chinese gadgets1: 2%euopean law1: 2%chinese gadgets1: 2%import export1: 7%petroleum1: 2%Glassine paper1: 1%Recruitment in China1: 1%All answers marked with 1 are added by a guest, so as some were added later, they obviously don't weigh as much. The winners are therefore Marketing in China, Banking & Finance China, import export and Importing from China. Did we miss any China Business topics? Please check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Topic , Favorite , Favor
Crazy Chinese Business Analyses
2007-09-04 00:34:00 As promised: I’d get back on Crazy Egg's analysis of our China Business site. And – call me crazy – I couldn’t wait and ran a test this weekend. The results of which I’m happy to share. What makes our China Business site click? Have a look!My First conclusions (make sure to click for the large version of the jpg):Most visitors click in the top 10 or 20% of your page if it is as long as ours is. So it is love at first sight, or you are out.Big surprise to me was that almost nobody clicks on the pictures (they link just as well, but somehow most people prefer the text link). What is the expression? Mind over matter; function over form; something like that? Help me out here. Content is king? You tell me…People absolutely love to click on poll radio-buttons (bet your statistics program never found that out for you until now, right?).When provided for, visitors actually use the search function on your web site – also quite remarkable. I mean with Google toolbar in place to... More About: Chinese , Analyses , Analyse
China crazy!
2007-09-02 01:13:00 Two non Chinese words: crazy egg. Much oblige to Johan from www.avblog.nl (excellent Dutch AV review blog). Best thing to happen to my humble China SEM/SEO life in long time. Sounds kinda sorry. Don’t get me wrong though. It’s not because I am in such worse condition, it is just that www.crazyegg.com is in that good shape.I encourage you to try it. I do not endorse it in the sense that I get paid to do so (wish I was – I’d get rich overnight), let’s be clear on that. It is simply helping my China Business SEO effort in a major way. I’ll make sure to demonstrate how and why in the next post! So go ahead, try it – it is free to try – and if you don’t like it, you must definitively be crazy! Or, as crazyegg.com says: ‘you must be crazy not to try this’. They are right!Currently I’m running my fourth heat-map-test of my China Business Blog (http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/) and never before – in my ten years of being an Internet stats addict – have I seen ... More About: Crazy
Del.icio.us the China sequel
2007-08-28 00:41:00 Digging Stumpleupon, I decided it is time to put some of my China time and effort into del.icio.us dot… 'oh-no-that-was-the-domain-extention-alre ady', dot-nothing, just type http://del.icio.us then-nothing ;-). http://del.icio.us/ ok? Back to business! I look for del.icio.us users who a share the similar China interest as the target audience of http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/ and add them to my network (http://del.icio.us/MMCDEB). Now I hope those China Business enthusiasts will do the same and add me to their network. This will help my China bookmarks get out there, helping many China oriented entrepreneurs out in the first place, while driving some quality traffic to my China Business site on the other hand. Just in case, I've added http://del.icio.us/rss/MMCDEB to this blog as a widget. And I installed del.icio.us as an app on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=7 91032597). Next? Give it thumbs up on Stumbleupon? Or – in an effort to remain on topic here ... More About: Sequel
Add URL to Naver.com?
2007-08-22 23:11:00 In an effort to make sure our China Business site is listed on the one and only search engine that manages to dominate Google – www.naver.com that is, in South Korea – I just wasted half an hour looking for the submit website / add URL page on Naver . Translating the site via www.worldlingo.com didn't help much. Nor did searching Google for "add url" / Naver.com. I've given up, I'll 'naver' manage to find it on my own. Anybody out there knows how to submit www.chinasuccessstories.com to Naver?MPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com
China web 2.0?
2007-08-16 22:46:00 Here's PART of a collection of sites and web 2.0 type of communities, blogs and other internet hubs that I use to get the word out on www.chinasuccesstories.com. It is quite a (web 2.0) list, well worth visiting obviously. But does conquering the China Business community really need all this effort, or am I just being impatient? Let's see. You – now that is defining web 2.0 isn't it – be the judge:LinkedIn: find me on http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/898/4a7 and our executive editor http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/392/425 and some others linking to www.chinasuccessstories.comTwitter: I actually like this app. Look me up on http://twitter.com/FishinChina and make sure to press 'follow' to get the short version of updates from www.chinasuccessstories.comMSN Live Spaces: http://chinabusinesssuccess.spaces.live.c om/ (I'm not a big fan of this one)Facebook: look for Michael De Beer (I will add pictures and high school details soon ok?)Google(reader): sort of summarizing all the rest...
Del.icio.us in China?
2007-08-15 01:34:00 My new friend and much appreciated contributor to China Business Success Stories is Ted Lee. An ambitious, friendly, bright and 100% passionate young guy from Guangzhou, who wanted to bookmark us using del.icio.us only to find out, www.del.ico.us is not accessible in China – or at least from his part of China. Shame because I think these types of sites are getting more and more important for sites like Google to determine whether you are worth a proper ranking. China should reconsider del.icio.us in that respect as far as I'm concerned, would you agree?MPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com
Business China, the new how-to China Guide with inside tips 'n tricks
2007-08-11 15:48:00 As my China Business project (www.chinasuccessstories.com) is aiming to welcome as many US entrepreneurs as possible, I'm testing an ad for MSN livesearch through http://marketingsolutions.yahoo.com/. The keywords targeted are:china manufacturer, china business consulting, china marketing, china market research, china business strategy, doing business china, china advice, business opportunity in china, china business to business, foreign investment in china, china consultancy, china business consultant, china strategy, doing business in asia, guanxi , china business opportunity, business culture in china, law china, china business cultureMarket:United States and CanadaI wonder what max 10ct CPC and 10$ per day will do for us: I guess not a lot, because a similar campaign though Enhance will take a year to finish a 100$ deposit, because I refuse to pay more than 10ct a click.The ad looks like this:China Business Success StoriesBusiness China, the new how-to China Guide with inside t... More About: Tips , Tricks
Mianzi book China
2007-08-08 19:35:00 Should I create a Facebook profile to help draw attention to www.chinasuccessstories.com or not? And if I do, do I put on my China hat, or shouldn't I.Face facts?‘Mianzi’ (面子) means ‘face’. And in Chinese culture Face is an important theme. Not to be taken lightly.Hmmm....Please check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Book
Big (huge) China profit plan?
2007-08-05 02:57:00 Visited a Holland Casino today. Need I say more? It's genetic I think. The combination of Chinese genes and the impossible mathematics of gambling is a surefire win-win. No - as in zero - risk business. Good luck with this piece of advice!MPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Profit , Huge , Plan
To send or not to send China newsletter?
2007-07-31 21:51:00 Sent out China Business Success Stories newsletter (summary) today. Meantime wanted to check stats. And posted a new China Expert Guest Blog item. That was overdoing it for our server (I think). It shut down. What to do? Ignore: I think it affected less then 20% of our readers, many of whom will read it later again. Or resend? Let's see. I think: do nothing, better luck next week, and after all, Tuesday is the China Business summary of last week, so no harm missing it if you subscribe to our China newsletter to be on top of things (which is every Friday). Agree?MPlease check my China business site out on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com More About: Newsletter , Send
China Business according to Live search
More articles from this author:2007-07-27 22:50:00 Microsoft live search, a gift to SEM? It might. Not because it even comes a tiny bit close to Google, but its suggested / related searches provide great insight into what other people are looking for. See, I want www.chinasuccessstories.com to perform on the - actually spot on - keyword combination “china business”. So I make sure the Web site contains those words as often as is relevant, and pray for the best. In comes Live Search . If I search for China Business , Live Search tells me what others are looking for (or so I think). It suggests:· China Business Directory· Doing Business In China· China Business Wholesale· China Business Inflatables· Understand China Business Culture· China Legal Business · Business Leaders To China· Business Etiquette In China So? Well if anything it gives me focus on what topics (see previous post also) to focus on if I want to be found on China + Business. Worth figuring out if Microsoft is right on this, isn’t it?MPlease check my China ... 1, 2 |
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