New Marketing Ideas From China

Kevin Shan
6 min readDec 29, 2019
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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…

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Kevin Shan

Stock market analyst and athlete, writing about investing, self-improvement, and more. Subscribe to me here: https://bit.ly/45SEtzK