Victor over at Mobile Marketing Watch has an interesting idea. With all the product recalls in the news (most from China), retail stores should send out text messages to customers who have purchased these products. When the “tainted spinach&...

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past month, you may have heard about the millions of toys recently recalled. Since there is a lot of speculation about toys being made and/or painted overseas, I thought this might be a great time for us b...

Say ‘Goodbye’ to your 2007 gains (if you haven’t already done so, on reading the title of this post). For those of you who seen your mutual fund gains vanish after the China scare earlier this year, and haven’t checked on them ever...

Young Chinese salesmen have two general methods for dealing with objections to their sales pitch. Some give up right away while others act like they are playing badminton and try to swat it back. Let’s take another approach. Let’s let the prospect ...

Sales management in China has two aspects: operational and leadership. Good sales-managers are usually the best sellers that the company can lay its hands on. But they also usually have to lead a team that is probably quite management-intensive and is ...