Sourcing, or finding suppliers of the products you want to import from China, can be intimidating if you’ve never done it before. However, with the right agency and tips on how to find one, it can be quick and easy to get the process started and on its way to making your business more profitable. […]
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Every year, companies and entrepreneurs introduce 30,000 new products into the market. Unfortunately, 95% of these products fail. If you are a business owner asking yourself what could go wrong in product development, the statistics say almost everything. The resources you invest in launching a new product could go down the drain. Are you wondering how you
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In the current international geopolitical climate, companies doing business internationally must take additional steps to protect their supply chains from disruption. If you sell goods or services to anyone in Russia or Ukraine, then the political and economic instability in those countries could affect your business in more ways than one. By taking these seven
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The fighting between Russia and Ukraine still ravages, and detrimental impacts on global economy are pretty much just right around the corner. China manufacturing is such a critical part of global supply chains, which had just made some delightful recovery from the pandemic and now once again fallen prey, that there’s no way it’d ever
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Outsourced manufacturing can offer a lot of benefits to startup companies, but it isn’t necessarily something that every business needs. Here are the top five reasons why outsourcing your manufacturing to China can be an asset to your startup company, and also why it may not be so beneficial to your company at all! Direct
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China’s growing concern over low birth rates and an aging population have once again been enhanced by the latest numbers for 2021 released just recently by the National Bureau of Statistics of China(NBSC). The birthrate fell to 0.752%, the lowest point since 1949 when the PRC was founded[i], which has had analysts worried about Beijing’s
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You may have heard about China’s quality control issues. Many people were worried that China would never improve, and this fear kept them from investing in the world’s most populous country. However, if you take the time to look at what China has been doing to solve its own problems, it becomes clear that many
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All too many entrepreneurs and small businesses have gone out of business because of complications with product manufacturing. Many great ideas have been abandoned because of inexperience and lack of good information on how to develop and produce a custom product. When good ideas or viable products aren’t pursued, it could mean the loss of
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Another cultural aspect in Chinese society that is as major as our the “Face” concept indicated in our last CNY 2022 Special, is the “relationship” (关系, guanxi). In fact, the phrase guanxi is way beyond a cultural nuance now, but a concept commonly seen and acknowledge even on academic materials about international business, as China
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Our previous CNY 2022 Special has illustrated the tendency of not saying No in Chinese culture and the reasons behind this mindset. Many Chinese people have been raised to not say “NO”, or at least to indicate in an unnoticeable way, regardless of the circumstances. In the case of communicating with a supplier from China,