Chinese Marketing Practices

Chinese Marketing Practices
Author: G. Radha Krishna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2006
Genre: China
ISBN:

With the advent of liberalization measures and the WTO into China, the country has become a market place for international players to compete with local and international players. Now, Chinese local markets have become so competitive that the companies th

Doing Business in China Online

Doing Business in China Online
Author: Val Kaplan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2017-02-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781520627281

Digital marketing in China is quickly becoming the central element of the overall business strategy for companies entering this rapidly growing market. What makes it particularly challenging for foreign companies is the absence of familiar digital marketing tools such as Facebook, Google, YouTube etc. On the other hand, the presence of the local digital marketing and ecommerce ecosystem, which is relatively unknown outside of China, demands localized approach with new set of strategies.This book covers all aspects of developing successful digital marketing programs for China - from market research to search engine marketing to mobile and social media and other marketing channels.Chinese consumer is also becoming more sophisticated and discerning which leads to intensified competition among product makers and service providers. Local market specifics often require companies to significantly pivot their marketing strategy to adjust to the new reality.Essentially, this is what this book is all about - how foreign companies can adapt their existing marketing practices to Chinese market and devise new effective marketing strategies that deliver real results.The primary focus of this book on online digital marketing is due to two reasons. First, practice proves that it is the most efficient and cost effective channel in China and it is becoming increasingly so. It is also widely predicted that digital aspect of marketing will inevitably become the most important element in overall marketing strategy as people will continue moving more of their traditionally offline activities into online realm.The second reason is the unprecedented proliferation of ecommerce in China. Chinese ecommerce market is already larger than that of US and is predicted to pass $1 trillion mark in 2019. This makes digital marketing a natural choice for promoting anything that can also be bought online, which, in China's case, is pretty much everything. The ability to place a point of sale just a click away from an ad shortens the sales cycle and makes conversions much faster and easier to achieve.This book will not only give you a solid understanding of digital marketing landscape in China but also serve as guide to develop your own marketing strategy for your business.

Research Frontiers on the International Marketing Strategies of Chinese Brands

Research Frontiers on the International Marketing Strategies of Chinese Brands
Author: Zuohao Hu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317205928

This book proposes a theoretical framework identifying external and internal factors that influence internationalization strategy of Chinese brands and brand performance. It explores several key strategies e.g. standardization versus adaptation, price leadership versus branding, OBM export versus OEM export, and incremental versus leap-forward internationalization model. The relationships are examined between various international marketing mix e.g. distribution channel and pricing strategies, and brand performance. Through case studies the text also analyses the internationalization of contract-based firms.

Marketing Strategies of Chinese Companies

Marketing Strategies of Chinese Companies
Author: Fenghua Tang
Publisher: Diplomica Verlag
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3836690985

Ten or fifteen years ago global business was mainly in the hands of a select number of multinational giants. Small and medium-sized business concentrated on their home markets and perhaps one or two neighboring countries. Not so any longer. Even the smallest businesses have realized that they have something to market in distant countries. Under these circumstances, Chinese companies of all sizes in various industries have recently opened to foreign competition. According to the Chinese Commerce Ministry's new release on relevant report, the Chinese foreign investment reached a new record of 26,51 billion US-Dollars in 2007. This represented a growth of 25,3 percent compared to 2006. After the quantity expansion, the quality offensive comes silently. Today, Chinese companies throw not only millions of T-Shirts, toys or plastic bowls in the international market but also wireless LCD-televisions, telecom-equipment and precision tools as well. Chinese companies have realized that a competitive advantage based on low costs, low prices and large quantities in a global economy cannot defend itself long. Consequently, they focus consistently on innovation and brands. In addition, China's globalization also needs strong mental forces. China does not just want to be a world factory, but instead be an internationally competitive market place that Western competitors already are. In the involvement of Chinese companies abroad aimed at specific markets, several strategies are recognizable. German and European companies are facing new chances and challenges at the same time. People must correctly assess the situation and corporate strategies and business concepts, with which they respond effectively and sustainably. The following questions are the focus: In what areas and branches do Chinese companies concentrate in German market? Which Chinese companies go abroad? What are their market entry strategies? What are their competitive strategies? And what are the steps of Chinese investments? What problems in the Chinese M&A business in Germany? How to overcome or avoid them? What are other problems? What branches are suffering from Chinese competition in Germany and EU? Chances or threats? How can German companies face this shift in a global economy and respond appropriately?

Brand New China

Brand New China
Author: Jing Wang
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2010-04-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674268237

One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a unique perspective on the advertising and marketing culture of China. Jing Wang’s experiences in the disparate worlds of Beijing advertising agencies and the U.S. academy allow her to share a unique perspective on China during its accelerated reintegration into the global market system. Brand New China offers a detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China. Wang takes us inside an advertising agency to show the influence of American branding theories and models. She also examines the impact of new media practices on Chinese advertising, deliberates on the convergence of grassroots creative culture and viral marketing strategies, samples successful advertising campaigns, provides practical insights about Chinese consumer segments, and offers methodological reflections on pop culture and advertising research. This book unveils a “brand new” China that is under the sway of the ideology of global partnership while struggling not to become a mirror image of the United States. Wang takes on the task of showing where Western thinking works in China, where it does not, and, perhaps most important, where it creates opportunities for cross-fertilization. Thanks to its combination of engaging vignettes from the advertising world and thorough research that contextualizes these vignettes, Brand New China will be of interest to industry participants, students of popular culture, and the general reading public interested in learning about a rapidly transforming Chinese society.

Cultural Influences on Consumer Goods Marketing in China

Cultural Influences on Consumer Goods Marketing in China
Author: Mark Fernandez
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3346100049

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,0, TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Professur für Englische Fachsprache der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und technischen Wissenschaften), language: English, abstract: In recent years, China has witnessed the most skyrocketing economic growth in history. For Germany, China has become the third most important trading partner. Especially for German key industries like the automotive branch and mechanical engineering, the Chinese market has become vitally important. The shift from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market in China with an excess of supply over demand is accompanied by extreme competition between countless suppliers, which forces competing companies to implement efficient and effective marketing strategies in order to acquire customers. Cultural factors in China and Germany differ so much that they affect the entire success of business. They act as invisible barriers that must be overcome, not only in order to build competitive advantages, but in order to be competitive at all. When entering the Chinese market, foreign firms must consider that they will operate in a completely different culture, in which perception, communication, norms, values and other aspects cannot be compared to their respective German counterparts. As this thesis will show, many foreign firms fail in the Chinese market due to their inadequate altercation with cultural specifics, an unwillingness to adapt their strategy to the cultural environment, or a product-market mismatch based on cultural dissimilarities. In order to implement marketing strategies flexibly and effectively in a completely different environment for a completely different target clientele, it is indispensable for German marketers to learn about Chinese culture mindfully. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to prepare German marketing professionals for conducting marketing activities in the Chinese market by demonstrating the impact of culture on marketing, making German marketers more familiar with Chinese culture, and by providing useful advice for their marketing strategies.

Market Entry in China

Market Entry in China
Author: Christiane Prange
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319291394

This book compiles brand new case studies on the intricacies and market entry strategies of different companies in China. The sheer speed and scope of China’s growth makes it unique and investment opportunities are very attractive. Despite the potential, many western companies fail in their market entry strategies. This book traces the major sources of failure and uses cases to illustrate how firms can better cope with the challenging Chinese market. With a special focus on marketing, positioning, and branding, this book presents issues and solutions of both large multinationals and small niche market players.

Consumer Behavior in Asia

Consumer Behavior in Asia
Author: Erdener Kaynak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131794836X

Understand the Asian consumer’s demands and effective marketing strategies! The emergence of China as a viable consumer market has created tremendous opportunities for international or multinational firms looking for market entry or expansion in China. At the same time, the evolution of the Chinese economy and the increasing heterogeneity of Chinese consumers also pose a great deal of challenges for global marketers trying to assess and evaluate the Chinese market. Consumer Behavior in Asia: Issues and Marketing Practice will help marketers and market researchers understand Asia’s consumer market by providing you with a consumer segmentation of China’s 1.25 billion population as it explores Asia’s cultural values, consumer perceptions, and attitudes. From this book, you will discover everything from perceptions and preferences toward advertising and different consumer goods to the emergence and growth of different upper class sectors. Consumer Behavior in Asia provides you with demographics, psychographics, and life-styles of Asian consumers to assist you in successfully entering the Asian market. Academics and business executives will be able to examine the emergence of the Asian markets and focus on the similarities and differences of Asian consumers with Western counterparts. Consumer Behavior in Asia will enable you to accurately assess market demands and enact effective marketing strategies. With this essential book you will explore several studies that reveal information on Asian consumers, including: marketing strategies for firms to adjust and thrive as fast food providers in Asia market segmentation considerations for rural and urban areas a complete outline of China’s population segments, buying preferences, and spending power consumer decisions based on the country-of-brand and brand of product Asian generation X-ers’perceptions toward advertising influences of cultural forces on consumer behavior, such as the importance of gift giving Consumer Behavior in Asia provides you with a complete overview of China’s economy and highlights the attractiveness of the growing market. The plethora of business opportunities in China is epitomized by the encouraging words one would say to an ambitious merchant--“Go west, young man--to the East!”

Greater China in the Global Market

Greater China in the Global Market
Author: Yigang Pan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780789011886

Learn the secrets of doing business successfully in China! From tips on how to run joint ventures with Chinese companies to research on the tastes of Chinese consumers, Greater China in the Global Market contains the most up-to-date information on business and marketing strategies in China. This volume brings you the practical advice and empirical research of top experts in the field, including John Farley of Dartmouth College, John Child of Cambridge University, and Rohit Despande of Harvard University. Tapping China's huge economy can be highly profitable, but only if you understand the subtleties of doing business in the Chinese culture. Greater China in the Global Market offers insider's views of guanxi, the Chinese concept of relationship that can make or break international business ventures in China, as well as the expertise in Chinese corporate and consumer cultures you will need to establish successful business strategies. Greater China in the Global Market presents a comprehensive view of the essential factors in marketing to China, including: the difference in corporate culture between joint ventures and state-owned enterprises the most effective ways to manage the value chain activities in joint ventures the merits and limitations of various entry strategies, including umbrella companies, franchising, and contractual joint ventures, among others the influence of risk-absorption capability and risk-dispersion mechanisms on the choice of entry mode the factors that influence timing your entry into the market the changing tastes of Chinese consumers the correlation between brand consciousness and income in younger consumers a thorough literature review of twenty years of marketing research on China Greater China in the Global Market is a valuable resource for front-line marketing executives in China as well as corporate decision makers in their headquarters at home. It is a must read for academics and business practitioners with an interest in China.

How to make a Western brand successful in China: should it rely on its Western image or adapt to its products’ market?

How to make a Western brand successful in China: should it rely on its Western image or adapt to its products’ market?
Author: Isabelle Idrac
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2013-08-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3656477035

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, Tongji University, language: English, abstract: The Chinese market has become very attractive for Western companies. It is a huge consumption market with more than 1, 3 billion inhabitants and it is at the same time a goods’ provider with a very low labor cost. Western companies can nowadays be very successful in China because the population knew lately huge changes. Chinese people purchasing power is rising and they can afford goods that they could not reach before because it was too expensive or not available. The development of a rich elite and a large middle class has been accompanied by a rising strong taste for Western image, particularly in the luxury field. But the Chinese market is still quite different than Western ones. The Chinese culture is totally divergent than in the West and the economy doesn’t work the same way and that impact on the Chinese consumers’ profile. Besides, there are huge inequalities in China since the whole country doesn’t evolve in a homogeneous way. To be successful on this market for a Western brand, it is necessary to develop a marketing strategy adapted to the Chinese consumers’ expectations according to the products’ activity segments. In the present thesis, we study which marketing strategy a Western brand should follow to be successful on the Chinese market according to its activity segment. Indeed, we assume that a mass market brand should rather follow a Chinese consumer’s adapted strategy and that a luxury brand should keep the same Western strategy in China.