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Cross Border E-Commerce in China

With the rise of E-Commerce in any industry and segment the next big thing is cross border E-Commerce.

China Digital and WeChat insights at macromedia Hochschule Hamburg

What is cross border E-Commerce about? Basically it is about selling into another country.
What are the opportunities and challenges when selling to China?
The team of Chinawechatting.de discussed this together with the international law firm TaylorWessing at the macromedia Hochschule in Hamburg.

China Digital and WeChat insights at macromedia Hochschule Hamburg

To enter a new market and to sell with success you need to

  • Know your target group and adjust product, price and marketing campaigns
  • Know the relevant players for E-Commerce and
  • Understand where the search traffic goes to
  • Understand the investment costs and setup time of different platforms
  • Understand the legal implications

Based on those there are different ways to enter the market.

If you decide to go full scale with TMALL etc or are on a tighter budget – if you want to play in China you need WeChat.

  • It is where consumers are, they listen and they buy
  • Ideal to build your brand
  • Take the next step and generate e-commerce revenues via wechat

Over 80% of Wechat users do shop online. But more interstingly. 30% of all WeChat users do shop on Wechat. That are over 250 million consumers. For example,60% shop for apparel – and spend 32% of their total online spending for apparel on WeChat.

To best leverage and grow followers…

  1. You need an official account
  2. You need Content & Emotion
  3. You need Advertising & Key Opinion Leaders
  4. You need promotional campaigns
  5. You need a WeChat E-Commerce

Conclusion – What WeChat offers

WeChat is #1 social media in China with 800m+ Users

  • Use WeChat to target your Chinese audience
  • create your brand in China
  • generate E-Commerce revenues

Get in contact with us to discuss more deeply how you can enter the chinese market.

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Doing Business in China – is your social media strategy up to date?

Social Media plays a vital role in a successful business – worldwide. Who is engaged in China already is aware that in China the social media channels of relevance are different to the ones known in the western world. Partly because some channels are blocked (i.e. facebook, twitter, google) but also partly because the Chinese incumbent channels are superior. Namely WeChat. With 806 million monthly active users (Q2 2016)-

Recently there is a lot of buzz around WeChat – not only for playing in China but also because Tencent, the company of WeChat, is a true innovation leader.  A good example can be found here:

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21703428-chinas-wechat-shows-way-social-medias-future-wechats-world

 

WeChat is truly different to the channels westerners are accustomed to and hence requires a very dedicated marketing and sales strategy.

Or do you

  • Use QR Codes on your products?
  • Employ Bot-like keyword replies?
  • Integrated your online shop into social media?
  • Already have an in-app social media website?
  • Profit from the build-in loyalty programs?
  • Have a social commerce strategy?
  • Sustainable O2O (online to offline) approach?

If so, congratulation! 

If you are not too sure about 

  • what exactly the China team is working on and 
  • want to understand more and in detail what is possible and relevant with WeChat and 
  • how this can support your China digital strategy 

we should talk!
 

Foto-mit-Kragen-150florian@chinawechatting.de

torsten-sollitzer 150torsten@chinawechatting.de

 

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Presenting the China Digital Ecosystem to the Taipeh representative office in Hamburg

The ChinaWeChatting.de Team at the Teipeh Representative Office in Hamburg
The ChinaWeChatting.de Team at the Teipeh Representative Office in Hamburg

We were honored to be invited by the Taipeh representative office in Hamburg to speak about the digital ecosystem in China. A big group of Taiwanese Business men and women were attending to not only learn more about how to generate more business in mainland China but also to explore opportunities to export to Europe.

IMG_2350[1]In our presentation we laid our focus on E-Commerce and Social Media.

To start off Florian gave some updates on hot topics on Marketing Strategy and why social media must be a vital part of everyone’s marketing strategy. He reminded the audience that they always need to understand their target group and based on that find out what channels best address the target group. He shared two best practices of his work with Facebook and Linkedin.

Then we dived into the latest trends and mayor players in the China digital ecosystem.

We talked about Baidu, TMALL, Tencent, Weibo and WeChat.

How to best engage with Chinese consumers was one of the questions the audience was very interested in.

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What really left an impression were the insight on how vast the options with WeChat are. From setting up your official account growing your followers with campaings like surveys, lucky draws, votings etc to the final step of setting up an own E-Commerce store in WeChat. It is a very good option if you want to test your products in China or want to enter market with a tighter budget.

We concluded the session with a very interactive Q&A session – again WeChat strategy was the main interest – and would like to thank all participants for making this a very successful event.

If you want us to present at your event, please do not hesitate to contact us: grow@chinawechatting.de

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WeChat is the most innovative social media app… and your gateway to China

We have helped many international companies with successful WeChat marketing campaigns. Our one-stop WeChat management solution will take care of all WeChat marketing activities for you, from content strategy to content implementation, and customized function development.

We will help you with:

  • Content strategy, creation and distribution on WeChat
  • WeChat follower interaction
  • WeChat campaign creation and management
  • Analysis and reports