Zhubajie.com interesting crowd sourcing Marketing in China

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Man power is probably still the way to go in Social Media Marketing now which counts for large portion of the online marketing. Especially for small sellers on Taobao in China, Social Media Marketing by using Sina weibo, forum posting, and renren.com is the most effective way to attract buyers in China. One often finds it time-consuming.

zhubajie the crowd sourcing leader in china

Thanks for Zhubajie.com, now you can actually buy man power online according to your will. Zhubajie, a god of pig, is the name of the crowd-sourcing firm.Zhubajie.com is growing rapidly and it even expanded to US. The US website takes a different form and adjusted functionality, so we are just now focusing on the Zhubajie.com in China since you want to do good Chinese Social Media Marketing.

On Zhubajie.com, you can post any task according to your own specifications and pay the money until you are satisfied with the result. For example, I wanted to spread the words out on basketball forum about my cheap basketball shoes. I will just post a task on Zhubajie.com and tell people to do this on targeted forum, and put links on the post. Many people called Weike will do the posting first and send the forum link to me. I will then click into the forum link and see if I am satisfied with their posting. If I am happy I will click pay them so they will get paid for the forum posting and links!

That was easy right! The good news is you don’t have to pay until you are satisfied! To buy forum posts is cheap, usually 1 RMB for 1 posting. that is about 15cents USD. One more good news is that there are lots of talented people there on Zhubajie.com! Your marketing online in China will be much easier with their help!

Jeremy Lin jersey selling on eBay

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Linsanity! That is the word!

 

Jeremy Lin’s success is huge for NBA and NBA store. Lin’s jersey and tshirt has topped Derrick Rose’s Jersey on the NBA store. Other than that, eBAY just claimed on their first page that Jeremy Lin related searching phrase is ranked number 1 recently. Well, that is a money-making opportunity if you have a small tshirt making shop in China! The fact is that when NBA store online is updating there inventory everyday on J-Lin’s apparels, Taobao’s sellers have already copied some of the design and are making tons of sales!

One interesting thing to notice is that if you search on eBay for jeremy’s t-shirt, you will notice most of them are having the ” the jeremy lin show” and ” linsanity” design. I think these shirts does not have any thing do interfere with NBA’s copyright, so they are perfectly legal. It is also important to notice that most of them having the item location at Hong Kong. Why many cheap goods are from Hong Kong on eBay? For example, a Jeremy’s T-shirt only sells for 10 dollars with free shipping. Why? It is true! Because it sells for only 50 RMB(yuan) on Taobao, and Hong Kong Postal Service is the slowest but cheapest way to ship small goods to US.

So far the most popular design are shown as follows, and snap your t-shirt at eBay now! (cuz it takes a month to ship from Hongkong to US)

the jeremy lin show, we believe

There are many ways to buy a large quantity of jeremy lin’s tshirt from China. The common way is to search for it on Aliexpress. The better way is to go on to Alibaba or Taobao, because usually the price is lower there. Contact dreamsberry if you want a large inventory of Jeremy Lin’s t-shirt!

Another Huge Joke: Groupn Star Naming Gift Set

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Many of you have seen the deal on groupon about star naming gift set! in another word, fake certificate and several pieces of paper that make you believe that you own a star！

First of all, I was an Astronomy student in college having 4 years of experience working at an observatory. In my years of working at the observatory, I have seen numerous people coming to me and ask me to point the telescope to the star they just “bought”.

groupon is posting a spam deal

How ridiculous is that? This trick has been going on and on for decades and decades. Every time, a family present me the star they bought in the star map and told me that the star is the little girl’s birthday gift, I did not tell them the truth but instead point the telescope to a random star in that constellation!

Well, unless you are super-rich or you did contribution to astronomy, you won’t get to name a star! Please refer to the IAU (International Astronomy Union) on the rules of naming stars! It is true though there are more stars in the universe than the 6 billion population on earth.

Please, don’t buy a star! Because practically unless you found a new comet or asteroids independently as a amateur astronomer nowadays, you won’t name a star.

The following is found on Groupon website:

What You Get

  • For $14, you get an instant gift-set plus from Name A Star Live (a $29.90 value), which includes:
    • Star certificate with name, registration date, coordinates, and personalized message
    • Star chart showing star location
    • Launch certificate verifying rocket flight details
    • Astronomy e-book
  • For $29, you get an instant gift-set premium with Virtual Planetarium software from Name A Star Live (a $79.80 value), which includes:
    • All features included in the instant gift-set plus
    • 8.5″x11″ astro photograph
    • Virtual planetarium astronomy software
  • All included materials are delivered electronically.

How ridiculous is that? This trick is played on Groupon now! and so far more than 1000 people has bought their star with certifications! I guess I could make millions of dollars by doing this on Groupon right before Valentines day! Remember, it is on Groupon! It is so sad that so few people has the knowledge and understanding of astronomy community now.

Please leave a comment to show the support and stop Groupon posting such non-sense deals! Star Naming Gift Set- simply bullshit.

 

The Superbowl Chinese Food Guide!

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Super Bowl is coming in a week! IndyRen as the largest online Chinese Community in Indianapolis is trying to help fans coming to indianapolis to AVOID the american chinese food (ACF) in indy downtown! Only 15 minutes away from the center of downtown, there are two very good authentic Chinese food restaurant, and just 30 minutes away, there are 3 more authentic Chinese food restaurants and Buffet!

Chinese Food Superbowl Indianapolis

Here starts the 2012 Super Bowl Ultimate Chinese Food Guide: (written by Chinese Community IndyRen)

Best 2 choices:

1. Szechwan Garden: with the best reputation, Szechwan Garden is just 15 away minutes from Lucas Oil Stadium by taking I-65North and exit at 38th Street! The exact location of the restaurant is at

3649 Lafayette Rd, Indianapolis, IN

Telephone: (317) 328-2888

Website: szechwansavory.com

It serves authentic Sichuan cuisine and Dimsun on weekends!

More info about the menu go to their website at http://szechwansavory.com/menu/szechwan-garden-menu

2. On Time Seafood Restaurant: it is just a minute away from Szechwan Garden, basically you just take the same route I-65 North from downtown, and you will arrive there in 10 minutes. On Time Seafood Restaurant is next to the international grocery store SARAGA. It serves similar authentic Chinese food compared to Szechwan Garden, but more Dim Sun Choices on the weekends.

Their location and contact info is,

3623 Commercial Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46222-1681

(317) 293-8888 ‎

 

More Choices:

Just to Name a few more authentic Chinese Food places near Indy, on the north side of downtown, there are:

1. Shanghai Lil right next to the Fashoin Mall at Keystone. It is less authentic compared to the best choices we have mentioned, and longer driving time from downtown. But if your hotel happens to be close to Keystone area, that’s a good place to go.

2. Also on the same street, 82nd street on the northside, Beijing 8 buffet is one of the oldest great Buffet place to go.

3. Again on the same street, 82nd street, there is a little restaurant called Taiwanese Tea House. The menu is not as fancy as the one from Szechwan Garden and On Time. But if you just want taiwanese snack, that’s the place to go in Indy.

4. In Carmel, north of downtown Indianapolis, Sichuan is also one of the best Authentic Chinese Food Place to go. On Saturday lunch time, it will serve authentic Chinese food Buffet! That’s something unique you should not miss!

 

Buffet Places:

1. Formosa: The Second Best seafood Buffet in Indy, serves Dim Sum!

6304 E. 82nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46250 TEL: 317-595-8885

 

2.Journey: The Best seafood Buffet in Indy, no Dim Sum!

http://www.thejourneyin.com/

 

Both Buffet Places are pretty close at the north east side of the town.

 

This concludes the 2012 Super Bowl Chinese Food Guide! Remember to search for the coupons on Indyren.com to save some extra money!

TRYX(TR100) again! this time selling TRYX to China is more competitive

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A month ago, I summarized my experience of selling Casio TRYX EX-TR100 camera on Taobao in China. If you have read that article at that time, you might be thinking selling TRYX to China is easy and you can make a lot of money. But this time, I would say no.

Casio TRYX price trend in China

First, it is the disadvantage you will never avoid when selling on Taobao. It does not matter if you are the first seller ever of this TRYX camera. The fact that you are the first seller of this camera on Taobao does not have any affect to make sure you make the most money of it! This is almost true to everything selling on Taobao in China. Especially for C2C sellers like me, every one else has the right to sell the same product and every one else has the access to buy a TRYX camera. This makes the competition high! Well, at least here is the lesson we learn! To be the first seller of a potential hot product is not really a big advantage unless you have enough money in your pocket to keep yourself dedicated on selling this product! This way, you can dominate the quantity of the products e.g.TRYX on Taobao. The quantity gives buyers great confidence to buy the same product from you but not from your followers who start selling TRYX later than you do.

Second, many pro-sellers have so many means to buy the products from wholesale. They have the confidence to sell TRYX at a lower price. This eliminates competitions from small and medium sellers.

Third, pro-sellers are willing to pay ads on Taobao. This drives them more traffic than most small and medium sellers.

Fourth, pro-sellers will import a huge stock of TRYX without a fear! This is something no small and medium Taobao sellers can do. After the cameras arrive in China in there warehouse, people are more willing to buy from them because they don’t need to wait very long time compared to buying directly from US.

The last reason why TRYX is no longer a place for small and medium Taobao sellers to be in is the fact that TRYX’s production has not stopped!

So the question is where is the next Gold Rush? Mini-TRYX? Kindle Fire? To dominate the selling of a potential hot product is always the key on Taobao.