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The marketing of information products online is one of the most lucrative areas of internet markeing and has blossomed in the last 5 years. There appears to be a very definite set of strategies employed by those successful in this area.

In the past marketers have been able to identify their competitors and plan their strategies accordingly, but in the fast-paced online marketing environment, there is a real sense of urgency with any product launch.

Piracy is perhaps the biggest problem that information product marketers face, and is the one that is often quoted as being the main obstacle to selling digitally delivered information products to China. There is a perception that whatever product is sold there will be copied, rebranded, and resold in no time.

But realistically, doesn’t this happen now anyway – whatever country you are selling to? Sure, there are copyright laws in place in most countries, but who among us has the financial capabilities to pursue copyright infringers through the courts, sometimes international courts? The Microsofts, Googles and IBM may be able to do this, but the average marketer – no way.

So the strategy remains the same whether you are selling to China or to the US, UK or Australia. Make a great information product, pre-sell it, create some real interest from qualified prospects, and promote it well through forums, blogs, article marketing. Keep up the pace and you WILL benefit. If your product is copied – do what you can to stop it, but maintaining your credibility as the developer/author is sometimes the best you can do. Get hit, make a hit, and then plateau – seems to be the way it goes.

Now having addressed the piracy issue, let’s ignore the naysayers for a while, and take a closer look at the OPPORTUNITIES in China.

The state network information center of China is the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)and in July 2008 it released a “Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China”. Here are some of the main points in this big report that will be of particular interest to the marketers of information products.

253 million Internet users

That’s two hundred and fifty three MILLION internet users in China! This puts China clearly in first place for internet use worldwide. That figure is an increase of 91 million from June 2007 (43 million of this in the six months to June 2008).

84.7% of users connect via Broadband

At the end of 2007 this equated to 168 million, the figure has increased to 214 million. There is a massive 84.7 million individual computers connecting to the internet from homes (dispelling the myth that most internet access in China is via internet cafes).

73.05 million access the internet via mobile phones

Though certainly not their main means of internet access, this is a growing trend. Demographics? 86% of these people are under 30 years of age and 39.7% are students.

Penetration rate of 19.1%

On a population figure of 1.325 billion, this a LOT of people. Sure, when compared to neighboring countries (Japan 68.4%, and South Korea 71.2%), 19.While 1% doesn’t sound a lot, but the current growth rates in China indicate that it will reach the world average of 21.1% by the end of 2008.

158 million registered IPv4IP addresses

This represents a 33.7% growth rate for the year to June 2008. With 1.91 million websites in China, 71.4% are .cn websites.

E-commerce

The report clearly shows that online shopping is a growing trend in China. 63.29 million people (25%) have shopped online, with the major cities claiming most of the shoppers.

Another one of those myths to be blown out of the water by this report is the lack of online payment and banking facilities in China. Facts: 22.Online payment is used by 5% (which is 23.79 million people) and 23.4% use online banking. These figures represent a growth rate of a whopping 71.7%.

Online education has grown to 18.5% of Chinese internet users becoming involved: 46.69 million people on the path to self-improvement, online.

Perhaps you have an information product that deserves a slice of the Chinese pie?

A strategic view in favor of China Sourcing can provide an outcome as to how one can profit from blockages in supply chains.

Many of North American and European businesses for the past many years have ridden the upsurge in China sourcing. China’s supply of low cost labor is the main attracting factor. But, nothing is permanent and sourcing from China has shown many disadvantages. The factory side is not an issue in China but the supply chain which is supposed to get raw materials to assembly plants and finished goods to retail units on time is an issue. The failure to do likewise can have a major blow on operating margins as victory depends on having what is selling in stock at the correct time. A new study says that companies that manage the increasing supply-chain troubles with creative solutions will get a profit from this challenge.

In view of China Sourcing, Mr. George Stalk Jr, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and partner of Boston Consulting Group of Canada Ltd, talks of surviving the China Sourcing adversaries. There are options for North American and European businesses to steer clear of the growing traffic at ports and also in freight transportation systems. These disturbances, such as those which occurred at U.S. West Coast ports affecting the 2004 Christmas sales, where profit margins were affected adversely. Stalk notes that fast development of ports and rail communications to manage the increased cargo from China is unlikely.

The China Sourcing market is attracted by cost effectiveness. Attractive low costs alternatives such as air-freight which may appear costly initially but may actually lower expenditures by lowering the hidden costs of stock outs. Light, high-margin, highly unpredictable demand products like fashion goods can be benefited by this. Investment in premiums and an increase in capabilities – for example, for priority checks or improving their internal abilities to move goods in a fast and efficient way around congestion, are good.

According to Mr. Stalk diversifying with many suppliers and supply chains or producing major components and products locally in domestic market, accepting high unit manufacturing costs as a cover for lower supply- chain costs and dependable delivery schedules will help greatly. For example, they can transport some or all manufacturing operations to domestic terrains that is- moving them closer to home. This causes China manufacturers to be cautious in dealing with the International trade.

International trade is cost effective. Labor costs are much higher in parts of South America, Mexico and the Caribbean islands but significantly lower than in United States. So these are a favorable option other than China for U.S. Companies.

China Sourcing has emerged a winner as a primary commodity supplier for items like minerals, vitamins, calcium products, amino acids etc. Stalk advises that it will not be a cakewalk for businesses in China Sourcing to find out their own solution but with the correct strategy, they can turn the supply chain hazards into a golden opportunity.

this is a big store for here, something like Price Chopper in my town, but in greater America, maybe more like Costco..

Winding Up A Company

In these hard economic times business is very hard. If you are a company director looking for a bit of advice because your chinese restaurant business is struggling, you have come to the right place. I have created many articles which try to help a director take the right steps in either closing his business or pre-packing a sale and starting again.

Firstly if your chinese restaurant company is insolvent you have a duty as a director to close the company and not incur any further debt, unless you can be pretty sure that you can put in place a rescue plan to turn that business around. If you can’t them you need to liquidate the company yourself or take professional advice on how best to close the business in an orderly fashion.

By far the most popular choice is to engage an insolvency practitioner to call a meeting of creditors on your behalf, prepare the statement of affairs, hold the meeting and then deal with all the procedural aspects necessary to make sure all creditors now what is going on and how they can participate in any dividend.

There is a fee for all this and generally it will be about £5000 whoever you use around the country. There are some advertisements for liquidations at less than this but by the time all costs are accounted for, it will still come in at about the same sum.

These costs can come out of the assets of the chinese restaurant company and indeed many businesses do have just enough assets or cash to take this final step. For many businesses, the central core of what the business does is still profitable and so often directors will want to continue to trade. This is easily possible and a sale of assets can be arranged to a new company and a lease re-assigned by a landlord, which often leaves the new company trading on in the same line of work from the same premises.

Spending yearly vacation in a fantastic country would be the dream of every vacationer. But, for an enjoyable vacation, an effective plan must be devised, which should include everything vital to make a vacation memorable. In other words, you should ask yourself a number of questions before devising an effective plan for vacation, such as which destination would you like to go for vacation, what are the activities you are planning during your vacation, whether you are interested in exploring new places or culture of a place, or would you like to enjoy adventure trips, and so on. However, it would be quite confusing for a common man to plan a vacation. Here comes the importance of tour agents. No matter what your tastes are, they will take all steps to make your vacation an enjoyable as well as a wonderful experience.

With umpteen destinations to choose from, one of the best destinations preferred by most of the people across the globe is Hong Kong/China destination. China is the world’s third largest country, with great cultural and ethnic diversities. As per the records of the World Tourism Organization, China is the fifth most popular tourist destination in the world, and is estimated to become the first in the next 15 years.

In addition to being home to the Great Wall – one of the Seven Wonders of the World, China has to its credit a continuum of tourist attractions, with 23 provinces, four municipalities, five autonomous region, and two administrative regions. Beijing – the capital city of China – comes with such renowned attractions as Temple of Heaven Park, the Summer Palace, and the Imperial Palace Museum within the Forbidden City, which in turn is the world’s largest palace complex. Along with cities such as Macau, Shanghai, and Lhasa – Hong Kong is also one of the much famed tourist places in China.

Now we will discuss some of the top attractions in the city of Hong Kong. The city boasts of such a great number of attractions that it takes months to explore all of them. Just few among the Hong Kong attractions are the peak tower with Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum and rooftop observation area; Man Mo Temple; Wong Tai Sin Temple, an ancient shrine famed for its fortune-tellers; the Bank of China Tower, one of the tallest building in the world that is noted for its architecture; the Avenue of Stars, which is graced and illuminated with tons of twinkling lights; the Clock Tower – one of the oldest landmarks that is situated on the site of the old Kowloon Station; Hong Kong Park, featuring a 1400 sq mt conservatory, air-conditioned sports center, and Olympic Square; and Statue Square, a popular pedestrian in the central district. Equally important are such attractions of Hong Kong as Hong Kong Disneyland, Central District that is home to many government buildings, Ladies Market, Repulse Bay, and Mongkok that is much favored for its teaming activities.

Hong Kong also offers excellent opportunities to enjoy a range of activities. Taking a helicopter ride, riding the peak tram, riding the cable car, riding the century-old tram, and taking a harbor cruise are just few among them. In addition, superb facilities are made available to enjoy exciting and interesting sport activities like sedan chair race, horse racing, swimming, and wind surfing. Also, worth mentioning is the night life in Hong Kong, with its British as well as Irish themed bars, dance clubs, and modern bars offering live music shows and fun. Nightlife in Hong Kong is mainly spread throughout three areas in Kowloon: cocktail bars in Tsim Sha Tsui, pubs on the Ashley Road, and clubs on the Prat and Chatham Roads. Apart from this, Hong Kong boasts of a chain of music clubs and theaters, each of them ensuring fun and entertainment in a relaxing environment.

Above all, Hong Kong hosts a great number of festivals and events, such as Chinese New Year; Birthday of Che Kung, dedicated to Che Kung – the general of the Sung Dynasty; Spring Lantern Festival; and Hong Kong International Film Festival, which is to honor Asian film festivals as well as eminent film makers. Also, great is the gastronomy of Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s hall mark is perhaps its world-class cuisine, covering regional, English, continental, and western. An array of restaurants, pubs, bars, and eateries can be seen here.

So what all to dream? Just plan your vacation with us and feel relaxed. All you have to do is to logon to our website and share your interests and likes and dislikes with us.

Learning the best way to eat healthy when going out to Chinese restaurants. The basic ins and outs on what you should avoid when dining out.

“www.shcri.comOnline shopping market contains B2C and C2C. As for this article, B2C only covers the entity trade market (not including service of reserving rooms and booking tickets, etc.). Compared with shopping in store, online shopping has the advantage of low cost. And compared with C2C, B2C is better in the aspects of reliability, types of goods and after-sale services, etc. Electronic business has developed in China for more than 10 years. During the period, Chinese netizens mainly buy books and music and video products at the beginning however now they purchase mostly digital products, adult supplies and so on. Generally speaking, due to the concept limitation, such as income/consumption concepts, there are still relative few merchandize varieties bought online in China and the majority trait of these products is the low average value.

In 2008, China’s B2C online shopping market scale kept stable growth and reached 12.5 billion RMB (1.78 billion USD). 

Till the end of 2008, the number of Chinese netizens was upon 280 million which was the steady base for the development of online shopping market in China. About one-fourth netizens bought things online in 2008.

With the continuous development of online shopping in China, the way of payment online developed better. The invention of the third party payment tools—- Alipay, Paypal reduce the risk of online shopping for the netizens.  Meanwhile, it is much more convenient to deal in the same city with the upgrade of logistics and the service of delivery to door as well as payment after receipt.

As the number of Chinese netizens and online consumers increasing continuously, it is no doubt that online shopping market in China certainly sees a rapid rise and great developing potentials with many investing opportunities.

In the field of B2C, most websites still focus on certain industries, such as IT products, books and MV, adult products, presents and flowers etc. The flourish of B2C in China has attracted foreign investment gradually. Some of them adopted mergers and acquisitions——Amazon buying JoYo, and some of them set chain stores directly in China.

Despite the great market potential, the competition is more and more fierce.  In such circumstance, service and product orientation, analysis of consumers’ behaviors all need to take into considerations.

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China, a nation in East Asia, is home to world’s oldest continuous civilizations. With Beijing as its capital, China holds a total geographical area of 9,596,960 sq. km. Its climate is tropical in south to sub-arctic in north.

Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Harbin and Chengdu are some of the major places of attraction. Han Chinese is the largest ethnic group in China who comprise around 91% of the total population. Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uygur, Yi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Buyi and Korean are some of the other ethnic groups which dominates the area.

The Republic of China was formed on 1st January 1912 which leads to the end of Quing Dynasty. Sun Yat-sen, belongs to National Party, was declared as the president of the new republic.

China is almost same size as the United States of America and the eastern part of china is surrounded by the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea. China shares its border with India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam to the South; Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to the West; Mongolia and Russia to the North and North Korea to the East.

China is home to several world famous tourist attractions including Great Wall of China, Tibet, Silk Road, Hainan island and tropical paradise. It also holds dozens of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Most of the places in China have famous Buddhist arts. Yungang Grottoes, around 1500 year old, in Sichuan province has more than 51,000 Buddhist carvings.

You can see art and manuscripts dating back to the 4th century in the Mogao Caves situated near Dunhuang in Gansu province. Dazu Rock near Chongqing and Longmen Grottoes near Luoyang hold carvings which date from 5th to 13th century.

China has several sacred mountains which attract tourists in large number. Mount Tai, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Mount Heng and Mount Song are the five great mountains associated with Taoism: The country also holds four sacred mountains associated with Buddhism and three main sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism including Mount Emei, Mount Jiuhua, Mount Putuo, Mount Wutai, Mount Kailash, Kawa Karpo and Amnye Machen.

Beijing, literally means Northern Capital, is the capital city of China – the most populous county in the world. Untill the fomation of the Republic of China in 1911, Beijing was the seat of Ming and Quing dynasties. It holds several places of historical importance ans government institutions. Famous for its uniformity and standard construction, Beijing has only one hill in the city limits. Beijing has concentric rectangular ring roads which run around the metropolis.

There are many tourist places which attracts lot of people around the world. The Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, Hutongs, Beijing Zoo, Beijing Botanical Gardens, Beihai Park, Yonghegong, Fragrant Hills, Hutongs and Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution are some of the major places of attaction in Beijing.

Also known as the Palace Museum, Forbidden City is really the spot to value the strength and splendor of the Imperial Chinese court during the height of its power in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Built by Mao, Tiananmen Square is the largest square in the world. The square is surrounded by Soviet-style monuments and government buildings. It still remains as an amazing place and a place to stay behind and see visitors from all over the world.

Temple of Heaven, situated to the south-east of Qianmen and the Tiananmen Square, is a marvelous sight for tourists. The temple was the place where the king prayed every year for superior harvests and good weather. Summer Palace houses widespread gardens and the ruins of palaces constructed by the Qing emperors in the ancient era. Beijing Zoo has an aquarium which is one of the biggest in the world, and extremely remarkable.

Beihai Park consists of big island and white pagoda which was built in the 17th century. Also known as Lama Temple or Palace of Peace, Yonghegong was built by Chinese emperors in the ancient time. Many Tibetan and Mongolian monks lived and taught here over the years. The temple houses an 18m statue of Maitreya Buddha carved from a single piece of sandalwood. Situated to the east of Tiananmen Square, Legation Quarter was famous for Boxer Rebellion. Now it is occupied by government offices and army offices.