Member-only story
New Marketing Ideas From China
How I could potentially expand my reach to millions of new users.
When I went to China, one thing that hit me hard was my inability to access Google and all my social media sites.
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube; all the social sites I use to generate traffic to my Get Good At Badminton website were completely banned. Plus I couldn’t write on Medium.
“No matter,” I thought, “I have a VPN that works.”
It was only a few days into my trip to China when China suddenly upped the power of its firewall and my VPN was rendered useless.
After a frustrating period of tinkering with my VPN and finding new ones, I finally gave up and laid in bed staring at the ceiling.
The next few days were busy. I got myself set up with a new phone to use in China as well as my badminton training.
Badminton training was Monday to Friday with two two-hour sessions every day from Monday to Wednesday, and one two-hour session for Thursday and Friday.
Then on the weekends, my grandparents had planned for me to go sightseeing at various museums, parks, and other Changsha tourist destination places.
I didn’t have enough energy to write any blog posts, so I ended up spending whatever spare time I had on…