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Dear Reader, How was your week? If it was as good as ours, you should be pleased. At least in the sense of accomplishing some of things you set out to achieve. Like? Well in our case:
All of us at China Success Stories PS: For all of you interested in internet marketing, we have a gift waiting for you at: http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/2007/05/20/china-business-google-gift Feature Article Logistical Highway to China
China Expert Guest Blog Sun Tzu the Art of War Strategy - Is this the Forbidden Knowledge of SuccessBy Osama El-Kadi
Positive Mental Attitude, NLP, lateral thinking, spirituality and meditation training are great skills to learn and a pleasant way to go through life with. Only of course, if their promoters confine them to what they are, and also explain their limitations and limited applicability to guide our success in life.
I came to the UK 28 years ago from Egypt at the age of 24, full of education, hopes, dreams and enthusiasm to make great success in the UK….Read the rest or post a comment » Facts & Figures
Fastfood figures
You never know when these statistics might prove to be of value to you. So without further ado, here’s our weekly top 10. |
| 1 | USA |
148.612.900.000 |
| 2 | Japan |
13.875.100.000 |
| 3 | Canada |
12.709.900.000 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 12.062.400.000 |
| 5 | China |
9.765.000.000 |
| 6 | South Korea |
9.249.100.000 |
| 7 | Germany | 7.376.900.000 |
| 8 | Australia | 7.376.900.000 |
| 9 | Brazil | 4.967.300.000 |
| 10 | India | 4.914.700.000 |
(Source: Euromonitor, ‘The World Market for Consumer Foodservcie, 2004’)
China Expert Guest Blog
Building a business in China
Running athletic hurdles without a clear finish lineBy Martijn Hovinga, CEO BilltoBill – Payment Solutions in China
Could anything be easier than achieving success in the world’s fastest growing and potentially biggest market? Isn’t it just about riding the economic tide and sharing in the continuous growth of about 10% in Gross Domestic Product per year? Foreign companies in China tend to fail more often than that they succeed. In my experience the main obstacles to success are arrogance and ignorance. Virtually every foreigner, including the author of this article and extremely successful companies such as eBay and Google, are guilty of both when starting a venture in China.
As CEO of BilltoBill, a payment services company helping airlines and other merchants selling online in China, I wish to relate some of my personal experiences in building a business in China from scratch. Read the rest or post a comment »
Site of the Week
China Law Blog
The information about China you find surfing the web tends to be cluttered and often tainted. Notwithstanding the fact there are many excellent Web sites as well. In every edition we briefly credit some of those good ones out there. This week we rated the online newspaper China Law Blog:| Content |  |
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| Total 4/5 |
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China Expert Guest Blog
Guanxi. The First Word in Chinese Trade
By: Peter Bennett
A colleague once told me that a good indicator of economic confidence was the number of construction cranes on the skyline. If he's correct, Beijing is feeling good about its prospects, very good in fact.
According to figures recently published by the Associated Press, China's economy grew at a blistering 9.4 percent in the first three quarters of 2005 alone. Yet a pan-European business poll by parcel firm UPS revealed that almost a third (31 percent) of UK business leaders do not consider Asia to be an important trading or production market. Read the rest or post a comment »
