Rise of WeChat Social Commerce E-commerce experience on WeChat is nothing like shopping on Taobao or Jingdong. It starts with content and ends up with an impulse purchase. This is WeChat social commerce. Different from customers on a shopping platform, traffic directed by the social commerce is extremely targeted and largely influenced by the endorser, making purchase action the natural continuation …
Toutiao (头条) is maybe the second biggest news/article mobile platform, besides WeChat. Toutiao has 260 million monthly active users and 50 million daily active users. The average user spends 70 minutes on the app. This week, Taotiao released a Mobile Content Report Half- year 2016. Here are some highlights of this report. Mobile content consumption across all mobile platforms has been rapidly …
Mary Meeker’s Internet Report has just been released. What does it say about WeChat this year? WeChat Tencent is the clear winner in the mobile market in China, representing more than 50% of mobil usage. WeChat alone represents 35% of time spent on mobile, which is more than Baidu and Alibaba combined. This is a 7% increase from last year …
Chinese tourists spend a lot of money when they travel. According to WSJ, Chinese tourists spent more than $229 billion in 2015, a 53% increase from the previous year. Many shopping malls and tourist centers hire Chinese speaking staff. But when it comes to payment, most of places still haven’t caught up with the more popular mobile payment method in China. Today …
Online sales of imported goods have grown at a compounded rate of 63 percent in the five years to 2015, reaching 638 billion RMB ($98 billion) and accounting for 17 per cent of China’s total online retail sales, according to data from Mintel Group Ltd. Last week, the government released a new Tax rule for cross-border commerce that will tighten the control …
On Feb 24th, WeChat made an upgrade to its analytics backend. The newly available information includes: Source of traffic (where does the reading come from): Official Account push messages, account posting history page, WeChat Moments, Directly shared by a friend, and Other source. Transparency about the number of reads and the number of unique users Number of users who shared the article (used …
How to setup a Cross-border WeChat account? In order to set up a Cross Border WeChat account, you need to have three things: a China-visible WeChat account a WeChat cross-border payment account a WeChat e-commerce website. China-visible WeChat account To apply to a China-visible WeChat account, companies will most often need to have Chinese business license. Each Chinese business license can …
We analyzed 3 platforms enabling you to set up a membership program on WeChat: User can have their own membership profile, keep track of order history Incentivize your customers to repurchase with membership points Expand customer base through referral programs. For example, three-layers revenue sharing systems so that users who make referrals get to share part of the revenue Enable to track users data …
