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	<title>China Business &#038; Management Solutions: ChinaSolved</title>
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	<description>China Business Solutions for International Managers</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Demographic shifts right under our noses</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/17/demographic-shifts-right-under-our-noses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/17/demographic-shifts-right-under-our-noses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of expat managers in Shanghai still seem to be thinking that maybe this will all go away if we close our eyes and wait a while.  Well – something is certainly happening, but it’s not an economic recovery.  It’s a set of demographic shifts that is going to affect your choice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Chinese Economy &#038; You</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/15/the-new-chinese-economy-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/15/the-new-chinese-economy-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Sales Management</category>
	<category>Managing in China</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese economy is already starting to look a little more protectionist and inward-looking.  If you need proof, take a look at Sunday’s FT  article that quotes a directive from China’s Civil Aviation Administration,
‘It also exhorted domestic airlines to unite and develop together &#8220;to form a &#8216;fist&#8217; in the face of international competition&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you barking up the right tree in China?</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/12/are-you-barking-up-the-right-tree-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/12/are-you-barking-up-the-right-tree-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Expatreprenuership</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news?  China is going to weather this thing in better shape than Western economies.  The bad news? You may not be in the part of the Chinese economy that will do well.  Most expat-run businesses in China focus on private Chinese enterprises or other multinationals.  But all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the bridge or lower the river?</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/10/raise-the-bridge-or-lower-the-river-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/10/raise-the-bridge-or-lower-the-river-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raise your top line or lower your expenses?  Both?  2/3 of one, half of the other?
The problem with raising the top line is that it’s expensive and risky.  Lowering expenses makes sense – for a while &#8212; but it’s not a career.  Even in Shanghai we now have enough confirmation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Capitulation, Competitive Devaluation and Thou</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/08/market-capitulation-competitive-devaluation-and-thou/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/08/market-capitulation-competitive-devaluation-and-thou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Bear wrestling</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shanghai got noticeably colder last week.  It wasn’t just the mercury that dropped sharply for us after an overly long autumn threw us off-guard.  Suddenly all the woe and hardship on Wall Street suddenly jumped the barricades and invaded our real life.  Unemployment and collapsing demand finally showed up in the US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling to the local China market is a risky Plan B</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/03/selling-to-the-local-china-market-is-a-risky-plan-b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/03/selling-to-the-local-china-market-is-a-risky-plan-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Expatreprenuership</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
	<category>Bear wrestling</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know of more than a few Shanghai-based expat businesses that are suddenly discovering that they are in China.   This startling revelation took place almost immediately  the herd of cash-rich expat-packaged Americans and Europeans started thinning out.  When your big spending Western clientele disappears it’s natural to you start looking to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Year-End Message to Staff, Customers and Partners</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/01/your-year-end-message-to-staff-customers-and-partners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/12/01/your-year-end-message-to-staff-customers-and-partners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>HR</category>
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to December.  2008 is almost over – but not quite.  Still a bit of business to take care of.  For some China managers December is the busy holiday season – for others it is time to do the paperwork and collect the bills from the Christmas manufacturing rush.  
This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a marketing generalist or a specialist?</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/11/28/are-you-a-marketing-generalist-or-a-specialist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/11/28/are-you-a-marketing-generalist-or-a-specialist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Sales Management</category>
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your China business specialize, or are you a generalist?
The answer to that shouldn’t be a story or a long, vague discussion.  If there is a difference between your target market and your actual buyers, then you have a problem on your hands.  During boom markets the specialist-generalist dichotomy doesn’t matter a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t neglect your OLD network during the holidays.</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/11/27/359/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/11/27/359/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Expatreprenuership</category>
	<category>Managing in China</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe this is a good time to re-activate your OLD network.  I mean the one back home.  It’s holiday time and you’ll be talking to lots of old friends. Try looking through your old books of business cards or Outlook address books and reconnecting with former associates.  Right now, managers are being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will your China business look like in 18 months?</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/11/26/what-will-your-china-business-look-like-in-a-18-months/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2008/11/26/what-will-your-china-business-look-like-in-a-18-months/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
	<category>Bear wrestling</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re getting a little more visibility into the nature of this crisis, and the good news is that we are starting to understand the bad news.  China isn’t going to be a safe haven – though it may not be battered as badly as the US and Europe.
But just because China will be less [...]]]></description>
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