Author Archives: Robert Ness

China Businesscast: Strategic Consulting with Shaun Rein

Posted on 2007-01-14 by Robert Ness

Shaun Rein is the chief executive at CMR China Market Research Group, based out of Shanghai. Shaun believes that the end is near for the strategic consulting companies that depend on the Henry Kissinger model of using personal relationship networks … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Mobile Marketing

Posted on 2006-12-22 by Robert Ness

Continuing China Businesscast’s series on the mobile space in China, David Turchetti is founder and CEO of 21 Communications, a service provider that designs and carries out mobile marketing campaigns for consumer brands in China. Mobile marketing in China had … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Mobile Space in China

Posted on 2006-12-15 by Robert Ness

In the second part of our series on the mobile space in China, your correspondent interviews Richard Robinson, CEO of Dada Asia. Richard makes a case for why entertainment applications are the most compelling in the mobile business. Aside from … Continue reading →

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Mobile Business in China – podcast

Posted on 2006-11-28 by Robert Ness

If you are like me, you have sat in restaurants and bars nursing your drink in awkward silence wishing you knew enough to join in the conversation about things called 3G and TD-SCDMA. If so, then you be pleased about … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: The Future of Chinese Media

Posted on 2006-11-05 by Robert Ness

Earnshaw talks about running a lifestyle magazine in China and believes the death of magazines is imminent. The Chinese expression 从无到有（cong2wu2dao4you3), to emerge from nothingness, would be a fair way to describe how traditional and new forms of Chinese media … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Posted on 2006-10-16 by Robert Ness

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Interview with Ogilvy

Posted on 2006-10-04 by Robert Ness

In this episode, I interview Debby Cheung and Johan Vakidis of the Shanghai office of Ogilvy, the international marketing, advertising, and public relations firm. Having just interviewed Vanessa Seow of PR company Weber Shandwick, this interview sheds more light on … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: China PR Expert Vanessa Seow

Posted on 2006-09-23 by Robert Ness

Vanessa Seow works in technology PR at the Beijing HQ of the multinational PR agency Weber Shandwick. She gives insight into what makes the Chinese PR industry different from PR anywhere else in the world. Listen Suscribe to China Businesscast … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: TongTong.com

Posted on 2006-09-13 by Robert Ness

In this episode of China Businesscast, I interview Guy and Terrance, two of the co-founders of TongTong.com, a social networking site in China meant to bring globally minded people in and outside of China together. This episode brings insight on … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Fritz Demopoulos, CEO Qunar.com

Posted on 2006-09-05 by Robert Ness

This episode kicks off a China Businesscast series on entrepreneurship in China. Fritz Demopoulos is CEO and co-founder of Qunar.com, a travel-focused vertical search engine. Fritz is a veteran China entrepreneur and has a lot of valuable insights about starting … Continue reading →

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