Importing Chinese wholesale products for profit
Written by admin on November 3, 2008.
Last week - on Tuesday and Friday - I talked about how a Confucian saying got me to look at business-building in a new way.
On Friday, I explained that Confucius’s directive to grow the “population” first can be translated into business-building if you think of it as increasing the amount of momentum you generate. The more momentum you have, the easier it will be to get your business up and running.
Written by admin on November 3, 2008.
Arriving in Beijing, we are amazed. First, by the cleanliness of the airport. And then by the efficiency of the passport and immigration personnel. Stepping into the arrival zone, K and I are greeted by two valets from our hotel who welcome us in English, take our bags, and escort us to a waiting van. The driver gives us bottles of water and cold towels to refresh ourselves. We sit back and learn something about China:
Written by admin on November 3, 2008.
Ever since my first trip to Hong Kong in the early 1980s, I’ve been impressed by the level of service you get from travel-related Asian businesses. Even the best service you receive in the States - first-class accommodations on the best U.S. carrier or a stay at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel - doesn’t measure up to what you get in Asia.
Written by admin on November 2, 2008.
Part 2: The First Stage of Business Growth
Since our job at ETR is to find little secrets in our quotidian world that illuminate wealth and power and personal success, I’ve been dutifully mulling over that saying by Confucius since I read it the other day:
Written by admin on November 1, 2008.
On the flight to Beijing, I read a book K had bought for me, Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman. It is an account of the author’s time as a teacher and martial arts student in Canton, China. It’s skillfully and subtly written, giving a detailed look at China and its people in the early 1980s.
Iron & Silk is full of accounts of Salzman’s funny and frustrating experiences with the culture that predominated then: an interesting mix of cloistered naivete, bureaucratic tyranny, and traditional values.