Podcast transcript #31: How to build an influential corporate culture in a global business

Find here the full China paradigm episode 31. Learn more about Matt Cogner’s story in China and how he implemented a corporate culture in a global business and find all the details and additional links below. Full transcript below: MATTHIEU DAVID: Hello, everyone. I am Matthieu David, the founder of Daxue Consulting and its podcast, […]
Podcast transcript #30: A revolutionary online marketplace in the meeting industry in China

Find here the China paradigm episode 30. Learn more about Julien Delerue’s story in the meeting industry in China and find all the details and additional links below. Full transcript below: Matthieu David: Hello everyone. I am Matthieu David, the founder of Daxue Consulting and the China marketing podcast, China Paradigm. Today, I am with Julien […]
[Podcast] China Paradigm 46: Understanding CRM in China

Enjoyce Zhu, COO at Edenred China speaks with Matthieu David-Experton about CRM in China. In this episode of China Paradigm, Enjoyce tells us about Edenred China’s CRM solution, streamlining its products, and how companies use the CRM solution to do business. Highlights of this episode include: Defining the steps of CRM businessing in China 2019 […]
[Podcast] China paradigm #23: How tech companies can engage consumers in China

China Paradigm interviews Dmitry Shklyar, founder and CEO of Eastidea, a company that represents tech companies in the Chinese market. This episode explores how Eastidea assists tech companies with delivering their products to their targeted audience. Dmitry Shklyar explains how important it is to have relevant content that engages Chinese consumers and how to successfully […]
[Podcast] China paradigm #17: How to best engage consumers in China

In this episode of China Paradigm, Matthieu David interviews Eliza Mao, the customer service director at SPLIO, an omnichannel marketing platform helping brands manage their loyalty programs and marketing campaigns from one platform. In this interview, Eliza shares WeChat marketing strategies, online and offline strategy for customer engagement, and explains how to carry out successful […]
SK-II’s Viral Chinese Campaigns: Contributing to the (exhausted) conversation of “Leftover Women” | Daxue Consulting

In the weeks following Chinese New Year, SK-II premiered the latest video in their #changedestiny campaign, titled Meet Me Halfway. Following Marriage Market Takeover (2016) and The Expiry Date (2017), the latest installment continues the narrative of “leftover women” as three Chinese young single women working in cities far from home ask their parents to […]
How can foreign automakers be a part of China’s future driven by electric vehicles | Daxue Consulting

Electric vehicles (EVs), including vehicles mainly powered by electric motors, are gaining increasing attention from governments and the automaker industry globally. China has become the biggest EV market within only a short period of time and is forecasted to continue rapid growth because of the support from the Chinese government and changing car purchase preference […]
What international brands should know about WeChat’s latest update | Daxue Consulting

On December 21, 2018, WeChat released an update, which brought a lot of changes and new features. For those who are not familiar with it, WeChat is the most popular multifunctional messaging, social media and mobile payment app in China with over 1 billion monthly active users. It is one of the most powerful tools […]
Unpacking the world’s largest Auto market: Is new energy vehicles the future of China’s car industry?

Since 2009, China has been home to the world’s largest automotive market. What’s new in China is also the leading automotive manufacturer worldwide. In 2016, China’s annual vehicle production accounted for nearly 30 percent of all vehicles produced worldwide, exceeding that of the European Union or that of the United States and Japan combined. Starting in the […]
International brands should enter the Chinese perfume market before it is too late | Daxue Consulting

Chinese perfume market shows fast growth, the market size reached RMB 15.2 billion (USD 2.2 thousand million) in 2017. Yet the Chinese perfume market is far from mature and therefore holds great potential. The history of perfume in China Many people believe that perfume is a new thing in China, however, this is far from […]
D&G issue in China: Why the video about chopsticks suddenly went viral on Chinese social media | Daxue Consulting

The D&G issue in China and Daxue Consulting suggestions for international brands on the Chinese market Two weeks ago, several official news accounts and KOLs on different social media platforms in China, including Weibo, WeChat, Tencent Video (腾讯视频,a Chinese video streaming website with over 500 million mobile monthly active users and 63 million subscribers) and Bilibili (a […]
[Podcast] China paradigm #12: From WeChat to Douyin, how to master China’s e-commerce landscape

Matthieu David, founder of China Paradigm, interviews Jenny (Tingyi) Chen, Co-founder and COO of WalkTheChat, a WeChat marketing agency and software platform specialized in China’s e-commerce landscape. Chen describes how strong shared values allowed solidified the cross-cultural partnership with WalkTheChat’s other co-founder Thomas Graziani. Though neither of the co-founders are developers, they were able to […]