Posts by Damien

Getting Into Chinese E-commerce Utilizing Cross-Border Ta...

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Guest author Mike Michelini talks about Getting Into Chinese E-commerce Utilizing Cross-Border Tactics Are you like the many small and medium sized businesses around the world raring to get into the Chinese e-commerce market? Feeling overwhelmed with where to go and how to start? To do it 100% correct, we should setup a Chinese entity. […]

FREE EBook: How To Set Up & Protect Your Online Busi...

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The teams at Online Business Asia and Dragon Law have joined forces to bring you this FREE Ebook: How to set up and protect your online business.                                             Follow the 10 steps inside this […]

Why Singapore is set to become the No.1 choice for start-...

Why Singapore is set to become the No.1 choice for start-ups

There’s a real buzz in the start-up community across Asia that Singapore is THE place for high tech start-ups to establish a business. In fact, some have gone so far to say it is set to become the new Silicon Valley. We set out to discover why Singapore is set to become the no.1 choice for start-ups […]

Crowdfund Your Debt Away!

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Today’s post comes courtesy of Coverrme (Crowdfunding 2.0) founder Rob van Haaren. Think Kickstarter and Indiegogo are the only crowdfunding platforms out there? Or that crowdfunding is only for tech companies and smart-watch startups? Think again! Over to Rob: Sometimes, life can throw you nasty curve balls: unexpected medical bills, sudden job loss, or creeping […]

Why Your Business Needs a Virtual Assistant

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Procrastination can be hazardous to your business! (Why Your Business Needs a Virtual Assistant) Guest author Nadia Chiang Geary, founder of The Hong Kong Virtual Assistant, shares her insights on habits of successful entrepreneurs and why your business needs a virtual assistant.   Being an entrepreneur takes a lot of courage and motivation. While most […]

The Cheapest Way to Acquire New Customers Online

The Cheapest Way to Acquire New Customers Online

I’ve looked over a good number of business plans in the past few years, and I’d say this is the most under-prepared section in the average startup’s strategy documents: specifically how are we going to acquire customers, and how much is our Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) really going to be? Inevitably, those people go on to ask the question, […]

Legal Documents for Online Entrepreneurs, Made Simple

Legal Documents for Online Entrepreneurs

Today’s post is all about key Legal Documents for Online Entrepreneurs. Which documents do you need to legally cover yourself before operating a website and running an online business? That’s exactly what I was asking myself when I set up my first ecommerce store www.PrivateSales.hk Luckily, our friends at Dragon Law have helped us with the following […]

12 Steps to Optimise ecommerce Conversion Rates

12 Steps to Optimise ecommerce Conversion Rates

Guest writer Nishant Kapoor, Founder of PetProject.hk, LifeProject.hk, and entirecommerce.co, shares his 12 Steps to Optimise ecommerce Conversion Rates:     We broadly define conversion as those people that buy something, or perform a pre-defined action on our website, as a percentage of the number of people who visit our website. Conversion is the holy […]

Resolutions, Life Goals, and Working for Yourself

Resolutions, Life Goals, and Working for Yourself

Happy New Year! It’s around this time of each year that we find ourselves thinking about the resolutions we should make (or tried last year to keep), what we have achieved so far in life, and perhaps even if this is the year we should go out on our own in business? Forget New Year […]