China Businesscast: ChinesePod

Ken and Jenny (pictured right) deliver the Chinese language to your iTunes

In this episode I interview Ken of ChinesePod, the language podcast that set the standard for language learning podcasts. Ken explains how one builds a business around a free language learning podcast. Much thanks to ChinesePod for letting us record with their equipment, making this the best sounding China Businesscast to date.

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Henry Winter of Smart Club

Henry Winter is CEO and founder of Smart Club, which allows consumers to earn points from their purchases and exchange them for prizes. He gives insight into the economics of consumer points or "jifen" (积分) and how the virtual currency economy in China works in general.

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Mobile Space in China: Richard Robinson Part 2 of 2

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China Businesscast: Interview with Ogilvy

In this episode, I interview Debby Cheung and Yohan 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 should shed more light on the PR and marketing landscape of China. Among the topics covered are handeling PR crises in China, interactive PR and marketing, and viral marketing in China. Special thanks to Helen Shu for setting up this interview.

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Check out Robert Ness's blog on entrepreneurial trends in China's new media called The China Venture. Contact him at robert(a)danwei.org.

TongTong.com

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 the advantages and disadvantages of doing a Web start-up in Mainland China.

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Robert Ness is interested in web and mobile application development in Asia. He has a blog on entrepreneurial trends in China called The China Venture.