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A Hainan Strategy: Unlocking the Potential of Hainan as a Luxury Shopping Hub

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Chinese consumers are global heavyweights in the luxury spending arena, with their share of purchases doubling last year. According to Bain, they will become the biggest spenders on luxury by 2025. However, the comparatively high costs of luxury goods in China has been a long-standing problem for domestic buyers. How China’s domestic luxury shopping environment […]

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5 Major Trends of Double 11 Festival, the Biggest Shopping Event in China

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November 11th is Double 11, also known as 11.11 or Single’s Day. It’s the single biggest shopping event in the world and is four times bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In 2020, Alibaba, with its Tmall and Taobao e-commerce platforms, raked in US$75 billion in sales and fellow e-commerce giant JD.com took in

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5 Important Social Media Marketing Platforms for Travel and Tourism Businesses in China (With Case Studies)

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In today’s digital world, social media has become an essential element for travellers. Users not only turn to online resources to book and pay for their vacations but also when they are researching and planning their trips. Research shows that social media can significantly impact travel plans. 52% of Facebook users report that pictures of

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How to Launch Your Product on China’s Popular Fashion Platform Red (Xiaohongshu)

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While most of you are using Amazon and eBay, people in China are shopping on sites and apps like Tmall,  Taobao,  JD,  Suning,  Kaola,  VIP.com, and the very popular new kid on the block, Xiaohongshu. Xiaohongshu (小红书), or Red, first came to my attention when I heard two colleagues discussing beauty products. “I’ve been looking for waterproof

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A Comprehensive Guide to External Links on WeChat

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While the majority of luxury brands operating in China have opened WeChat Official Accounts, many of them are still reluctant to run their businesses entirely on WeChat, instead opting to drive their subscribers to external websites and e-commerce platforms. In this article, we’ve summarized some key points about external links on WeChat, so you can use them

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5 WeChat Sales Campaign Ideas for Fashion and Cosmetics Brands That Get Results

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In 2016, the annual growth of retail sales volume of cosmetics products in China witnessed an increase of 8.3%, while the sales volume of cosmetics and personal care products on JD.com saw a much higher growth of 102%. China is a huge market with tremendous potentials for the fashion and cosmetics industry. Nowadays, Chinese social

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Selling on Weibo: A Simple Guide to Weibo Window

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Promoting sales is the crucial goal of most marketing campaigns. To sell on Weibo or WeChat directly is what many marketers have been thinking about. In fact, early in 2015, Weibo, in cooperation with two mainstream e-commerce platforms, Taobao and Jumei, launched Weibo Window (微博橱窗) to facilitate sales on Weibo. What is Weibo Window? Weibo

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The “Live Streaming +” Mode is Flourishing in China

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Starting in 2016, live streaming in China has been making headlines in mobile Internet news. Its breakthrough in the booming mobile internet sector is because it offers smartphone users a new, more exciting and more immediate communication approach. Video can be streamed live using a multitude of mobile apps in addition to several traditional internet-based

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Luxury Brands Finally Begin to Master WeChat Commerce

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Although the global personal luxury market is stuck in a holding pattern for the foreseeable future, China is likely to continue to make up for weaker demand elsewhere. China’s Domestic Luxury Market Expands Data published by global management consulting company Bain & Company in 2016 shows that China’s domestic luxury spending has been on the

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Live Streaming in China: The Top 5 Platforms

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Live streaming in China is becoming the most popular video format with more than 325 million online viewers in total, or 45.8% of Chinese netizens, according to The Chinese Live Streaming Report 2016. The revenue in live streaming is increasing along with its popularity and it’s predicted to be a US$5 billion market by the

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