China – November 2021

Hello, welcome again to Aim2D for Tuesday November 2nd, 2021. Over the past couple of articles we have looked at the upcoming 11/11 or Double Eleven sales whatever in China. Also called Singles day in some foreign media. Today will will look at singles, from another angle. Also, take a quick look at Yum brands.

Happy Birthday to us!

Yes, today is our birthday – 18 years old. Saturday, 29th October 2003 we officially launched WordPerfect Marketing Studio, a legally licensed and registered China business. Later to be the grandmother of Aim2d. Coincidentally – not – it was also Everlyne’s Birthday. Today is a double celebration Those were tough years. No digital back then.

Preparing for China’s 11/ 11

In our past 2 posts we have talked generally about China’s shopping festivals and the marketing frenzy in the lead up to the Chinese New Year or Spring festival. Today, our last post for October we focus a little more on Double Eleven (11/11) and build on our last article; China Double Eleven and revisit

China Double Eleven

Hello, warm greetings again from Shunyi for October 26th, our penultimate issue for this month. Previously, last Thursday to be exact, we mentioned that China is entering the crazy season – a busy time for marketers and delivery gals and guys alike. Hopefully a boom time for brands and sellers internationally.

Create China Customer Connections

Greetings again from Aim2D in Shunyi for Thursday 21st October. Was it not, just a few days ago we were looking forward to the beginning of October and a 10 day break? Now we are but the same number of days away from November.

LinkedIn out of China

Hello, good morning from Shunyi for Tuesday October 19th. During last weekend news broke that Microsoft had decided to pull the plug on their China operations. This was apparently in response to what they saw as Chinese censorship of their platform. Let’s take a quick look at that.

Aim2 D: Raison d’être

Hello, welcome back for Thursday 14th October as China struggles back to work after a long 10 day (for some) China National Day holiday. While we were scouring the Internet recently we stumbled apon a story re China’s victory over the US in the supposed war of AI and her technical superiority. Now, for anyone

Yum: Bucking the Trend in China

Hello, greetings and welcome again from Shunyi. Covid has, as we all know, wreaked havoc on many industries. Among those hit hardest was the hospitality industry. Especially food and drink. Aim2D today looks at one brand that is bucking the trend, at least in China. China has around 10 days National Day holiday, so see

Rise and fall of foreign auto’s in China

Hello, greetings from Shunyi for Thursday 21st September. Last week we looked at European Auto Brand History in China which focused briefly on the rise of the motor car in China and the foreign brands driving it. This article looks at where things may be now in this bloody, vicious battleground and bitterly competitive market.

Thinking Differently

Hello, and again, welcome from Shunyi for September 21st. ‘Tis Mid Autumn Festival celebration in China, Asia. Colloquially called Moon Cake day. We talked about that here: So today is actually a holiday – we are closed. That means we have an opportunity to talk about something other than China Marketing Business directly.

2021 Met Gala and China

Hello again from Shunyi for Thursday Thursday September 16. Diverting somewhat from our usual strategy to bring an excerpt from an article written by Adina Laura Achim published the other day on Jing Daily. One of our “Goto” sources for cutting edge China news.

Foreign EV in China

Hello, and greetings, again, from Shunyi for September, Tuesday 14th to be precise. Last Thursday, September 9th, we published a short article titled EV in China in which we commented that it seems non Chinese brands of NEV / EV were arriving late for the party. In particular, the Detroit makers. Today, we will expand

EV in China

A shorter article today, for Thursday September 9th, as there is so much other news to compete with. As our title suggests we will quickly look at EV in China from 2 angles. Firstly a quick look at the growth of EV sales in China, then we tke a look at another possible clone or

Pretty Chinese Men

Hello, welcome to Aim2D for Tuesday September 7th coming to you as always from the Beijing Airport Tech Zone, in sunny Shunyi. ‘cept it’s grey and raining today – again. Never mind, let’s march on John. Last Thursday we ran this story and briefly commented on the take over of cosmetics sales by males in

Best of British

Hello again for Thursday, not just any Thursday, it has the distinction of being the first Thursday in September. Moving on. A few weeks back we featured a video from Alibaba re Tea Pigs, Selling Tea to China, the British brand of tea bag. Seems unfair to dismiss them so lightly, but anyway today we

Bicyu / Uengager: What we do.

There are many truisms in life, for example, China is a very big country. Yet it is not just one very big market. It is instead a multitude of markets, that often overlap or interlock and can, indeed, even be further segmented. In today’s post we endeavour to answer one of the most frequent questions

The NEW Order

One thing about life you can be sure of is you can never be sure of anything. OK, yes, corny, pseudo philosophic introduction. We could just have easily said that nothing in life stays the same. Thinking of some of history’s great empires, Greek, Roman, British – where are they now? Replaced by a new

Selling Tea to China

If you have been following us or have read our “About Us” page you will know that we were originally founded as WPBeijing, a Sino British company back in 2003. Of the two partners, the Chinese side was represented by Everlyne Yu with The Bic standing in for the British. Both partners continue to drive

Art Reflects Life.

Hello, greetings from Shunyi for Tuesday August 17th, 2021. To day we are revisiting Sixthtone who we have mentioned before. Sixthtone present a slightly different view of life in China, capturing more of the realty that Chinese customers face in society.

#32 week that was – China Biz News

Hello from Shunyi again for Friday 13, unlucky for some but lucky for Xiaomi it seems. We also feature TikTok news, China Valentines, Huawei, and of course, our elephants.