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Market Opportunity

The Chinese renminibi, or yuan, is increasingly growing in strength against the weakening US dollar, creating increased demand for US goods. With the world’s largest population of 1.3 billion and the third largest economy (behind the United States and the European Union), China is one of the most lucrative and promising markets in the world with the third-largest purchasing power of $6.991 trillion. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2005, the per capita disposable income in China is about $1525 in urban households and $473 in rural households. Although the Chinese amount of disposable income is lower than the US’s $28,000 real disposable income per capita, this amount is steadily increasing; in 2005, the People’s Daily Online reported that the amount of per capita disposable income increased by 12.9%, or 11%, if price factors are deducted. Also, with growing population in the middle-class group, the Chinese consumption rate is expected to increase from 58 percent in 2002 to 65 percent by 2010 and to 71 percent by 2020, very close to the rate in developed countries, said Chen Xingdong, chief China economist with BNP Paribas Peregrine in Beijing, adding that China has a potential enormous consumer market.

China’s middle class is constantly growing. According to the People’s Daily Online, a French investment bank’s definition on the Chinese mid-class group covers the well-educated professionals and white-collar employees (brain workers) with per capital annual income of 25,000-30,000 yuan (about $3,600-$4,300), household annual income of 75,000-100,000 yuan (or around $11,000-$14,500) and participants in the decision-making and management of companies. In June 2004, this group includes around 13.5 percent of the total Chinese population (about 175,500,000 people). In 2002, 50 million Chinese families were qualified for the standard, with per household having annual income of 75,000 yuan (around $11,000) and owning 310,000 yuan (around $45,000) of assets on average. By 2010, the figures will double, with up to 100 million families qualified for the standard, per household having annual income of 150,000 yuan (around $22,000) and owning assets of 620,000 yuan (around $90,000), according to the BNP Paribas Peregrine.

Figure 1: Graph of the US Dollar to Chinese Renmibi (or Yuan) Exchange Rate

Best Industry Segments

Based on the details released by the USA government and Sinomania! Research, the best export opportunities for USA businesses in non-agricultural products are in (1) information technology, (2) telecommunications equipment, (3) computer software, (4) oil and gas, (5) medical equipment, (6) pharmaceuticals, (7) pollution control equipment, (8) airport and ground support equipment, (9) building and decoration materials, (10) auto parts, and (11) agricultural chemicals. With the fall of the dollar and the steady and unfaltering rise of the Chinese economy, the Chinese consumers and businesses are inevitably gaining more buying power in the world.

Regulatory and Tariff Landscape

In March 2008, the average overall tariff rate is at 9.4% and 7.4% for USA priority products. In 2002, China began cutting tariffs to meet its obligations to the World Trade Organization. Then, in 2005, most products saw their final tariff cuts in 2005. Since then, few products have had their rates cut. Furthermore, in its 2007 annual report to Congress, the US Trade Representative said that China’s reduced tariffs contributed to another significant increase in overall US exports, which rose about 17% from January to September 2007 when compared to the same period in 2006.

Online Marketing Opportunities

Even though, says China Internet Network Information Center, China’s level of online penetration is low (15.9%) when compared to the United States’, Japan’s, and Korea’s percent of penetration (all of which are above 65%), China holds an abundant amount of promise. In fact, in 2007, the number of Internet users in China surpassed the number of Internet users in the United States, which formerly had the largest population of Internet users. This number of Internet users will continue to grow. According to news site of the year Timeonline.com, experts say that the number will swell rapidly in the next few years as hundreds of millions of Chinese still toiling as low-paid farmers or labourers experience a rise in their incomes that will enable them to go online. BDA China, a Beijing technology company, estimates that China’s web population will grow by about 18 per cent a year, putting the total at 490 million by 2012 – more than the population of the United States.

Online Language Preferences

Even though more than 300 million Chinese people, or nearly a quarter of the country’s population, have studied English according to Xinhua, most (mainland) Chinese people prefer to read content in their simplified Chinese characters. This is the case for the most part, but in the southernmost provinces in China and especially in Hong Kong, the usage of English has a moderate to strong presence. Since nearly a quarter of the country’s population has studied in English, it is recommended that a business has some of its content in Chinese so that the Chinese consumers could click through that Chinese webpage to reach and use the English version of the website.

Search Engine Profile

Unlike most countries in the world, the Google search engine has not dominated this market. The search engine here of predominance is Baidu (baidu.com), which is the local search engine that has the biggest market share in China (about 60%). In second, Google claims 20%, and in third, Yahoo claims 10%.

Summary

With the largest number of online users in the world, an increasing rate of online penetration, an expanding middle class, a continually fast-growing economy, and much room for growth, China provides excellent opportunities for global online marketing. For the above reasons, Global e-Marketer would rank China as a tier 1 country for developing an online market presence.

The concept is not complicated. When these criteria meet, you have a franchise concept. For those entrepreneurs wondering how franchise works, have these considerations into account.

- You allowed someone to use your brand

- You authorized a person or company to use your system or business platform

- Your received payment of a fee at the signing the contract, payments for sales, royalty, as well as contribution for the marketing promotional program.

Don’t get confused by selling licenses. The licensee pays an initial fee and a price for each item sold. The licensor usually has less control over the people or company promoting the product. When you franchise your business, you receive the payment for the right to use your brand name and system of operation. You will have to train them on how to use the business platform and provide consistent assistance. The new franchisee will work at least 2 – 4 weeks in a designated facility at his or her own cost and invest in all the capital needed it to duplicate your system. This most probably will include buying the land or space, building expenses, equipment, inventory, state licenses, insurances, etc. Franchisees need to have enough start up money to cover for the next 6 -12 months operational expenses, these will vary depending the nature of the business.

My experience with franchisees is to teach them every detail; even those, which may seem insignificant such as what type of garbage bag, need to use as to teach them to maximize their POS or prepare the best empanada ever. Among the benefits of working under a franchise system, besides the proven system, is the marketing support, brand awareness, purchasing power and information provided by constant training. The Advertising fees from franchisees should be kept in specific account and use only for that purpose. Usually the franchisor (You) will prepare a detail report on how these funds were allocated. The main objective for a franchisor is to create value for everyone.

To have a network of franchises producing revenues to return a profit on the licensing, technology, system support and training. The franchisee needs also benefit in having his or her investment returned ASAP and securing the American Dream.

A little quiz on quotes relating to politics in America, try to figure out who said it and when they said it:

1) In reference to why political parties have lost the confidence of the public: “Their machinery of intrigue, their shuffling evasions, the dodges. the chicanery, and the deception of their leaders have excited universal disgust, and have created a general readiness in the public mind for any new organization that shall promise to shun their vices.”

2) Also in reference to why political parties have lost the confidence of the public: people “saw parties without any…difference contending for power, for the sake of power. They saw politics made a profession, and public plunder an employment. They beheld our public works the plaything of a rotten dynasty, enriching gamblers, and purchasing power at our expense.”

3) “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except for Congress.”

4) “The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employees, the special interests.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

5)”Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”

6) “An election cannot give the country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in a pod.”

Great quotes, all of them. Unfortunately, it seems as if we are living everyone one of them today. The interesting thing is that these quotes are quite historical, not contemporary:

1) According to the Real Politics website, this quote was from the book, “The Origins of the Republican Party” by William E. Gienapp and the quote is dated from 1855. The New York Times called it “dodges”, today we call it “spin doctoring.” The Times called it “universal disgust,” we call it having Congressional approval ratings around only 20%. The Times called it “chicanery”, we call it a variety of names including earmarks and outright corruption. It is remarkable how closely a quote from 155 years ago captures the nightmare we are living through today with our political class.

2) This quote is also from the Gienapp, also from 1855, and it appeared in the New York Evening Post. This also captures our current state of political affairs. We also see most of our politicians vying only for power, not for the opportunity to make the country better. With their high salaries, great benefits, many, many perks, our current day politicians fit the Post’s description that politicians “saw politics made a profession, and public plunder an employment.” Without term limits, our politicians see being elected not as a service to the nation but as a life time job. And their gerrymandering Congressional districts, rigging campaign finance laws, and handing out taxpayer dollars as earmarks allows them to ensure perpetual re-election, regardless of the quality of their work.

3) This third quote is from Mark Twain and is obviously well over a hundred years old. However, even back then he realized that the power allocated to politicians many times results in outright criminal behavior. Congressmen Traficant, Jefferson, Cunningham and other Congressional politicians have served time due to their corrupt and unlawful behavior while in office. How many former Illinois governors have either served prison time, are currently serving time, or are aggressively trying not to serve prison time? Charles Rangel and Maxine Walters, two current members of Congress, are likely to face a House Of Representatives trial within the next few months on ethics and corruption charges. The House ethics office has investigated or is currently investigating potential crimes by other members of Congress. The more you list out what has happened to our contemporary politicians, you marvel at how right Mark Twain may have been way back when.

4) This quote is from Woodrow Wiilson who said it early in the last century. At that time, he realized the influence that non-voting entities can and do have on government functions and corruption. Wilson called them “special  interests,” we call them lobbyists.

5) My source attributed this quote to Groucho Marx and is likely more than fifty years old also. Back then, even comedians like Groucho recognized that politicians were not any good at identifying the root causes of problems, if a problem even existed, and then putting together a coherent, efficient and cost effective plan to solve that problem. Our politicians are no different: 
Nixon declared War On Drugs in the 1960s and we are no closer today to having a coherent national drug strategy and policy than the day he declared war.
Carter muddled through the oil crises in the 1970s and we are no closer to having a coherent, national energy strategy and policy than we were when we waited in long lines at gas stations.
Reagan identified the problems with public education with a Presidential Commission in 1983 and 27 years later, U.S. public schools badly trail many, many other nations in the education of their children.
Clinton presided through numerous terrorist attacks including the first World Trade Center bombing and the African embassy bombings and never came up with a coherent terror defense policy and strategy, resulting in the death of almost 3,000 Americans on 9-11.
Over the years over 10 million illegal aliens have come across our borders with no politician able to come up with a coherent immigration strategy and plan.

Unfortunately, Groucho was right back then and he would be right today if he saw the incompetence of today’s politicians.

6) This last quote is from Franklin Delano Roosevelt and is at least 65 years old. When you really come down to it, are the Republican politicians much different from the Democrats? Sure they pick their friends and identify their enemies, e.g. Republicans are generally pro-life and pro-guns while Democrats are generally pro-choice and anti-guns. But when you look at their records, neither party has accomplished much of anything positive over the past fifty years. Just look at what we listed above under Groucho’s quote: no solutions to the drug, immigration, terrorist, public school and energy problems. The only reason they pick their friends is to get money to finance their constant re-election, not to solve any meaningful problems.

While Obama the candidate promised change you can believe in, Obama the President is hardly any different than Bush. Obama drew down U.S. forces in Iraq but it was on the timetable Bush established. Bush set up the terrorist prison in Guantanamo and so far, Obama has kept it open. Our border still leaks illegal immigrants and we still have no new policy or plan for energy or public schooling. Bush enacted the Patriot Act and Obama basically rubber stamped its renewal. Gay rights are no further along under Obama than under Bush and the amount of earmarks in our national budget is as high under Obama as under Bush. The only significant difference between Bush and Obama is that the Obama administration has run up spending deficits orders of magnitude higher than Bush.

This is why the whole area of U.S. politics can get so depressing. The incompetence and corruption we face today appears to have been going on for a long, long time. The only difference may be is that government is so much larger, wasteful, and intrusive then it was in 1855 or when Twain, Roosevelt, Marx, and Wilson spoke their quotes above. That is why we need to find a way to start shrinking the size of government immediately in order to start cutting back on the corruption and waste that apparently is inherent in the genes of all politicians:

Step 1 - start the government shrinkage process by reducing all government functions and budgets by 10% a year for the next five years.
Step 2 – aggressively step up fraud and corruption activities in all government areas, hopefully including the investigation of fraud and corruption from our elected officials.
Step 3 – implement term limits for all politicians in order to avoid the problem discussed in the Post quote above, i.e. politics should not be a profession, it should be a temporary calling and service calling.
Steps 4 – set up intelligent problem solving processes to systematically attack and solve the problems that politicians have been unable to solve with their own capabilities and intelligence including drugs, energy, schooling, and immigration.

Hopefully by implementing these steps we will eventually end up with contemporary solutions to our problems and finally put to rest the historically pessimistic view of our political class.

When we talk about the US dollar value, we are typically talking about two things:

1. The purchasing power of the dollar and how that purchasing power changes in a specific economy (the United States) over time.

2. The value of the dollar relative to other global currencies.

The change in the relative purchasing power of a dollar in the United States is measured and reported each year by changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Another way of referring to these changes is inflation (or in some cases deflation).

In our increasingly global economy, the value of the US dollar is measured continuously by comparing changes in its value to other currencies. For example, once can measure and track its relative value vs. the Japanese Yen, or the European Euro over a period of months or years. Its value compared to other currencies is reflected in its exchange rate. The exchange rate is simply the rate at which you can trade or convert one currency (the US dollar, for example) for another currency (Japanese Yen, for example). Historically, the US dollar has remained relatively stable and has been considered a strong currency because it maintained a high value relative to other currencies. Recent years, however, have seen some significant declines in the value of the dollar vs. other global currencies. This has been caused by a number of factors, including the rising US national debt, an increasing annual US deficit, and the trade imbalances that have been increasing in favor of other exporting countries over time.

As the value of the dollar declines relative to other global currencies, U.S. produced goods become cheaper and more competitive when compared to goods and services produced by foreign countries. This has a positive effect on US firms who are exporting goods to other countries. However, it also increases the prices of goods being shipped in to the US (in dollar terms). A declining currency value translates quickly into a reduction in purchasing power. In other words, US consumers are able to buy fewer and fewer of the now relatively more expensive foreign produced goods with our weakening legal tender. The escalating prices of products imported from foreign countries can also result in higher inflation over time.

These persistent trends have resulted in a substantially weaker dollar over the past several decades relative to other major global currencies. In fact, during period between 2000 and 2007, its value declined by about 40% vs. the European Euro.

It is important to note that in the last few years (late 2008 and early 2009), this weakening trend has reversed itself to a point. As the global economy has begun to sink deeper and deeper into an economic recession, investors are increasingly drawn to the US dollar as a safe haven for their investment portfolios. The United States is still perceived to have long-term financial staying power even when compared to other substantial and historically strong and stable economies and currencies such as those of the European Union and Japan.