Should your business use eCommerce? The question seems to have an obvious answer (“yes!”) for most B2C businesses, but what about B2B? It still can be a subject of many debates – when it comes to B2B, there are a number of issues that stand in the way of this fundamental element of digital transformation. …
The original version of this article was written in 2018. We monitor the situation with the bonded warehouses in China, keeping this material up to date. Latest version was updated in February 2022. It’s never been easier to sell to China from abroad than now. The Chinese government has made a concerted effort to simplify …
The first version of this article was published on our website in 2017. The Chinese eCommerce landscape is one of the fastest changing in the world – we have been updating this material yearly to keep up to speed with these dizzying developments. The latest update was in February 2022. Surviving China’s eCommerce landscape isn’t …
We have published the first version of this article in the beginning of 2020, not too long after China’s new eCommerce Law went into effect in 2019, when all the major cross-border eCommerce platforms have finished their transition to full compliance. Since then we have been updating this post yearly, tracking the changes that happened …
eCommerce in China is estimated to exceed 1.5 trillion USD in 2022 – which is about a third of the global eCommerce market. The growth rate of eCommerce in the world is quite fast, about 9-fold in the last decade, but the Chinese staggering growth rate eclipses even that – in China the eCommerce market …
The cross-border eCommerce market is growing in many countries, especially in countries in South East Asia, China and India. There are more and more solutions and services for merchants, entry thresholds getting lower and lower. Yet, when it comes to actually starting a cross-border eCommerce business, there is still an air of insurmountable challenge, of …
Drawing a blueprint of a successful pharmaceutical B2B eCommerce In this post we’d like to express our warmest congratulations to Henry Schein and their Chinese B2B eCommerce project. TMO Group was happy to participate in the inaugural event in the First Hemao Mall in Guangzhou, where the successful launch of the new platform hshemao.com has …
Last year TMO debuted our first Data Pack series, focusing on the China Health Supplements market. It’s been a great success, covering key data like China’s best-selling supplements each month! (In case you missed it, here’s our wrap-up of the China Health Supplements market in 2020). Building on that success, we’re continuing to launch new …
The answer is USERS. You need to research your users. Every now and then, companies contact agencies like TMO Group asking to help them figure out why their new website or new app is failing. They have spent so much time and money on this project to make it look good – the fact that …
It has been about 30 years since direct sales entered China in the early 90s. It was a tumultuous journey, with multiple ups and downs — from legal crackdown and strict legislation on one side to explosive growth and the “golden decade” of direct sales on the other. Latest development came in 2019 in the …