… China. That part of our business has grown, but we have also added a large offline component–BDL Direct, which delivers direct marketing to Chinese consumers via the postal system. Whereas many traditional companies slowly find their footing to get online, we started strong online and then added (not moved) services to our offline arsenal.
(The future is not print or offline for our company. We do not plan to do many more offline/print services. Instead, we want to do more online …

The 9th Annual China International Travel Mart begins tomorrow, and all of our sales and marketing staff from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong offices are converging on Kunming today for the 4-day event. CITM is the biggest and most important travel-related expo each year in China, and it's alternatively held in Shanghai and Kunming. Last year I attended since it was down the road in …

… for market development, media, and other related travel organs will all attend.
Paul Doyle, BDL Media's president and China Hospitality News publisher, will be leading a delegation of staff from the companies offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Beijing to the Kunming event. BDL Media will not only be promoting its China Hospitality News, but also its other travel-related promotional and technology services such as Xinwengao.com, ChinaNewswire.com, Xianzai.com, …

BDL Media Ltd has moved to a new office space in Hong Kong, effective November 1, 2007.
The new address is:
38th Floor, Tower One
Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway
Hong Kong
BDL Media's telephone number in Hong Kong remains the same: (852) 2523 1979.

I wrote early last year about problems with Palm in China , and with my own Palm Treo 650 , and their subsequent lack of support. I inadvertently had to use one again for many more months, but as of yesterday I have fled Palm, for good.
China Mobile gives away phones with certain plans, so I am now using a Nokia e62 . It is far from the newest phone available, and it lacks wifi, but it uses …

Congratulations to our longterm client InterContinental Hotels Group for their new global rebranding campaign .
My business partner Paul Doyle gets back from the United States in a few hours. As the publisher of our bilingual ChinaHospitalityNews.com , IHG flew him business-class from Beijing to Dallas for the 3-day event held in Texas. During the event, he was bathed in freebies, …

As a Network Partner, BDL Media is supporting Global Reporting Initiative's Readers' Choice Awards initiatives in China via press release distribution and advocacy through many of BDL Media's services, publications and websites.
From October 1 until December 31, 2007 executives around the world are invited to select and score the sustainability reports of global companies and take a short survey to explain more …

Last week we launched a new beta service on our SinoLinx.com to allow searches on SinoLinx's expansive index. [ See this press release ]
SinoLinx has been running since 2000 and has built up a very large index of Chinese-language and English-language aggregated news. In truth, many of the links are dead now, since news websites die or change their URL constructions, but SinoLinx has also …

… for the thousands of Internet media SinoLinx.com monitors each day," says Paul Doyle, chairman of BDL Media Ltd, [...]

… for the thousands of Internet media SinoLinx.com monitors each day," says Paul Doyle, chairman of BDL Media Ltd, which owns SinoLinx.com. "The next step in the coming months will be to also open the Chinese-language side of the business to users, for free."
Since launching in 2000, SinoLinx.com has been providing a combination of free news aggregation services to Internet users and premium paid Internet media monitoring services. Daily aggregating thousands of Chinese-language and …

We officially launched BDL Direct today in China. It's the old-school way of advertising– direct mail via the post office.
Our company's services have involved email and digital marketing for the last ten years, and we also manage hundreds of lists and databases for clients, but we always received requests, and usually fulfilled them, for direct marketing campaigns via snail mail. So, today we officially …

BDL Media has launched a new service in China aimed at ensuring public relations professionals, marketers and advertisers have better access to Chinese executives, high-wealth individuals and companies in China's largest cities.
The new service is called BDL Direct and allows marketers to effectively target customers with a postal direct mail campaign in China. A direct mail piece makes a …

… of the high winds and typhoon rain.
Tonight is the opening of the Shanghai Oktoberfest, and BDL Media has been a sponsor for the past five years. I had planned to attend with staff, but we just sent all staff home 15 minutes ago and word from the venue, the Renaissance Yangtze hotel, is that the outdoor tents have been nixed in favor of pushing the festivities into the hotel lobby. They apparently are doing without the oompah band from Germany while the activities are held in the lobby …

… of the world's largest companies and some of Asia's most enduring brands. XZList is a service of BDL Media Ltd, a company operating services and in China spanning communications, software, public relations, publishing, and media and with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
 

Online marketers have a number of considerations to make prior to deciding to embed Flash animations in their email campaigns says a new white paper titled "The Perils & Promise Of Flash Email Marketing Campaigns In China", issued by XZList, the leading email mailing list management service in China. (more…) …

BDL Media CEO Danny Levinson was chairman of the two-day "CSR Best Practices" conference that ended today in Beijing. Organized by Marcus Evans, the conference highlighted corporate social responsibility initiatives from companies operating in Asia and how CSR affects their marketing and public relations efforts. (more…)

Representatives from dozens of companies and organizations met tonight in China's capital city for a China CSR Forum event called "Corporations Building Sustainable Ties with Communities in China". (more…) …

BDL Media's Danny Levinson was invited to Shenyang today to provide a seminar on best practices for dealing with email, spam, email marketing, and phishing in China. (more…)

China Hospitality News, the bilingual monthly digest of corporate and leisure travel planning, has launched the "China MICE Planner", and enhanced online listings directory of travel incentives, meeting deals, convention packages, and exhibition offerings from China's leading hotels, airlines, and meeting planning companies. (more…) …

For the second year in a row, BDL Media is sponsoring the first student organized international corporate social responsibility annual conference in the Asia Pacific region. (more…)

ChinaFranchiser.com, BDL Media's four-year-old website devoted to covering the latest in franchise-related news and information in China, has upgraded and merged with ChinaRetailNews.com to provide busy corporate executives even more China information. (more…)

ChinaCSR.com, the only daily website devoted to covering important information about sustainability and corporate social responsibility in China, has revamped and re-launched its Chinese-language site at www.chinacsr.com/cn/ . (more…) …

The Harvard China Review celebrated its tenth anniversary this past weekend and BDL Media attended the conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts to provide insight into growing business opportunities in China. (more…)