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As the new-generation of Asian travellers are much more tech-savvy and knowledgeable, travel agencies and hotels have to find new ways to provide a full brand experience to their consumers. WeChat offers the global tourism industry a real opportunity to establish connections with them without necessarily having a physical presence in the country. Let’s see 10 strategies than can be …
Of all the challenges of running a WeChat account, one is particularly difficult to overcome: creating great WeChat content. It is a costly and time consuming process, especially for young or small companies. But a new rule from Tencent just changed everything. Read on… Why is WeChat content so hard? There are two reasons why WeChat content is hard. First …
According to Accenture, competition from PayPal, Alipay, WePay and the likes could reduce traditional bank revenues by one third by 2020. This phenomenon represents a major challenge to the banking sector, as one quarter of banks’ revenues are generated from processing payments. Let’s look deeper into it. 1) The Banking System: How banks make money? Let’s first have an overview of …
Western companies such as Facebook, Twitter and SnapChat have recently been striving to find new ways to monetize their user base. With nearly 13 billions in revenues, 90% of which come from “value added services”, Tencent is a great role-model for these Western tech giants. So what can be learned from WeChat? 1) How are American messaging apps walking in …
Yesterday, WeChat releases a mobile version of their Official Account content management system (WeChat CMS). Now you can simply manage your WeChat official account from your phone. What can you do with this mobile WeChat CMS? You can use this version of CMS to the the three following things: 1. Check message and reply to users Although this made it so …
If anything, the main change about WeChat lately has been its accelerating pace: more companies are using it, more people are sharing, and each user is involved in a rising quantity of groups. In such a context, trends fade away quickly, and companies much be quick in order to leverage them. Here are 5 social trends that companies managed to leverage …
Weidian is the biggest WeChat e-commerce platform in China. Since it’s release on the 1st of January 2014, it grew to more than 29M shops spead accross the globe (in slightly more than a year, as of the 31st of March 2015). Here is data they just released about their amazing growth.
WeChat just released the first oversea Official Account with WeChat payment. And it’s a great one: UNICEF. Support children victim of the Nepal earthquake via WeChat The account was created in reaction to the Nepal earthquake, in order to provide emergency aid. In addition to enabling financial gift for Nepal, it enables donators to focus on giving specific life-enhancing supplies …
Events are a good way to drive O2O interaction. Although WeChat does not offer solution for companies to publish their event and collect payment, a lot 3rd party event platforms do, and some even provide this service for free. We compared the 5 most popular WeChat event platforms in China that provide payment solution, and are all easily sharable on WeChat. …
