Big day yesterday. We pitched at 36kr oday one of the biggest events of the year in china over 800 attendees. Our focus and goal was to get more sales AGENTS (lets not call it jobs or assistants anymore) and we have been overwhelmed with applications on qq and weixin and some on website signip. Amy Gu did an amazing …
Advice for Following up your Chinese Business Leads
As we grow more businesses on our sales lead platform, we have been getting more and more feedback on how to best follow up with these qualified (contacted) leads that our crowdsourced salesforce finds. Recently we have also marked the lead as B2C / B2B in the lead details, so you know what price to quote them, and to be …
China continues to move towards consumption of products made outside of China
Client Spotlight” is a new series where we hope to highlight some of our clients and get some public feedback and reactions. TMO group, is currently looking to leverage Social Agent to build more sales leads for its business. I met Dominiek, the General Manager, in Shanghai a couple months ago and he has been working with one of our …
Pitching at Echelon Satellite Hong Kong!
What a wild ride it has been! Just this Friday afternoon our Social Agent startup received an email from echelon that we are one of the top 100 startups in their pool for this year’s Echelon 2013 event! Rock on! Below is the exciting email I received from Joash Wee in the e27 organization. from: Joash to: mike date: Fri, …
Social Agent Sponsoring Startup Weekend Shenzhen
The core team behind Social Agent has a soft heart to Startup Weekend. Amy and I have helped organize many of these events and are happy to see the volunteer team and organization grow in the China market. In an effort to continue to grow and support Startup Weekend in Shenzhen, China we will offer the following sponsorship as a …
Welcoming Terry Deng to the Social Agent Team
Hope everyone in China enjoyed the May holiday. Thursday May 2nd is the first work day of the month and we are excited to announce Terry Deng will be joining the Social Agent startup team full time starting this month. He was one of our first part time sales assistants and has been extremely hard working and eager to grow …
Building Amazing Team Of Chinese Sales Assistants!
This is a lot of FUN! As the Social Agent software continues to develop, we have been hearing over and over that our users want to have a social media sales specialist to assist with this in their company. Even those who have workers in their company, do not have the skillset to find and followup with these leads generated …
Social Agent Demo at Echelon + Shenzhen Innovalley
Seems April is the month where startups are highlighted to the public! We have had a bit of a roadshow from Singapore to Hong Kong to Shenzhen demo-ing all our hard work on Social Agent – getting tons of amazing feedback (and yes, some critical feedback too – but that is helpful!). Its also been an amazing team building experience …
Social Agent attends Singapore’s Startup Asia
Its been a long ride, and we at Social Agent still have quite a ways to go, but these kind of startup celebrations make it all worthwhile! Chris, Doug, and I made it down from Shenzhen and Hong Kong to Singapore (my first time there) to host a booth at the Startup Asia event and also pitch at the Startup …
An exciting today here in the Social Agent office. We launched a Weibo campaign for one of our clients – Expander, to help them get more buzz and feedback about their QR tracking system. Paula and Ollie, from Expander, got in touch with me from a Startup Weekend NZ connection and then we got right to work last week. Paula …