The movie “囧妈” (Lost in Russia) is, in many ways, tailor-made for the Chinese New Year festival. It features superstar actor Xu Kun. The protagonist gets stuck on a 6-days train ride to Moscow with his mother, during which he will have to tackle the unspoken issues of their relationship. It is a family-centric show targeting people visiting their loved …
Amazing SaaS companies on WeChat
WeChat provides a unique environment for many SaaS systems to thrive. (WalktheChat is one of them). During the last WeChat Open Class conference in Guangzhou, two SaaS companies really stood out… Qingcheng Tech Around 2 years ago, I noticed most gyms I know around Beijing started to use the same system to handle member signup on WeChat. The system is …
WeChat decided to take the lead in e-commerce and search optimization
WeChat released some impressive result during the WeChat Open Class last week: WeChat Mini Program’s daily active users reached 300 million 800 billion RMB of transactions happened via WeChat Mini program in 2019 WeChat launched Mini Program notice subscription template to replace template messages WeChat is planning to improve the user experience for accessing “short content” WeChat will support the …
How to sell fruits via Douyin?
Fruits are one of the hardest products to promote online. They are perishable, a commodity good, and have no consumer loyalty. Yet due to their affordable price, fruits are one of the best products for impulse purchases on social media. Some fruits became extremely popular on social media. How did these fruits become online superstars? Product selection These popular fruits …
2020 China Digital Marketing Trend
Live-streaming, private traffic, and KOC defined the year 2019 for social media marketing. What’s the trend for 2020? Highlight of 2019 Live-streaming Taobao live-streaming made a big buzz this year. Taobao live-streaming Daily Active Users increased by 130% to 41.33 million during the Single’s Day. Top KOLs like Li Jiaqi and Viya made headlines of their record-breaking 1 billion RMB …
WeChat launched 3 features to fight-off Douyin
Digital marketing in China used to be all about WeChat. Therefore, Tencent could rest on its laurels for a while. WeChat got lazy about making WeChat Official Accounts a good way to access content, it missed the boat on the explosion of online videos and provided a sloppy search engine. But Tencent is now paying for staying too idle for …
Live-streaming triples WeChat conversion rates (and 4 other industry reports)
Today, WalktheChat selected nuggets of insights from 5 industry reports published during the last couple of weeks. Enjoy! Live-streaming triples WeChat conversion rates in female apparel The success of Taobao live-streaming has been widely covered in recent tech news. Hosts such as Li Jiaqi and Wei Ya are now emblematic of massive impulse purchases. But live-streaming is not limited to …
How to set up WeChat Pay? A Simple Guide
WeChat Official Account: a simple guide
WeChat Official Accounts are drawing a lot of interest these days, as WeChat has risen to dominate the Chinese social media space (Chinese users spend ⅓ of their smartphone time on WeChat). We will address the following questions: What is WeChat Official Account Click here How do users find your WeChat Official Account Click here What are the different types …
Youzan: the Booming Leader of WeChat Commerce
There is no shortage of providers of WeChat stores (WalktheChat is one of them!). But, whether we like it or not, we all have to admit that there is one leader in the market: Youzan. Let’s take a closer look at the largest WeChat store provider in China. We also wrote a step-by-step guide for how to create a WeChat …