Same Time, Different Place
It’s easy to keep track of the time in China; you don’t even have to change your watch. It’s exactly 12 hours ahead of Atlanta time. Now, it’s 2:00 p.m. Wednesday but it’s only Tuesday in Atlanta. We left on Monday, so I missed Tuesday altogether. (One time time my sister flew to the other side of the world and missed here birthday completely. If you want to stay young maybe that’s a good trick.)
After 3 flights, including a 16 hour plane ride from Chicago to Hong Kong on a 747-400, we arrived in Guangzhou for the trade show last night. The trade show is huge. We spent the morning in a big show until we figured out it was the wrong one. Currently, I’m in the right one but lost. I got separated from the group so I wandered into an Internet booth and got online. Next, I’ll see if the phone card I bought works and try and call them.
Everyone over here has a cell phone but of course mine doesn’t work. Of course, it barely works in Atlanta, so it’s not a surprise that it doesn’t work here.
So far, the food has been great, but the McDonald’s across the street is starting to look pretty good.
Posted by Brad Fallon on Wednesday, October 27th, 2004 at 1:57 am 
Hope you can post interesting news from China!
Jean
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Have a great time in China.
I have a question. Is the following true:
it takes 8 PR 1s to = a PR2
it takes 64 PR 2s to = a PR3
it takes 512 PR 3s to = a PR4
it takes 4096 PR 4s to = a PR5
it takes 32,768 PR 5s to = a PR6
Is that correct?
Raul
Should have downloaded some Chinese on your PDA … then you can simply pick a phrase you want to ask and let it do the talking for you. Really helped me.
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Sounds like you’re having a good time. Looking forward to hear what you have to say and updates on the Stomper Forum. Also, has anybody out there figured out RTML? I have played with it and figured out a fair amount but still have some questions, looking to trade questions and ideas with someone. Cheers!
Wes
Sure glad the internet booth works even if the mobile doesn’t! Looking forward to hearing more news from China.
Andy
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Try the teriyaki burger, Brad. My boss said that they’re pretty good.
Marc Bowker
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New action figures and collectibles at fair prices.
have a good trip in china! they habe pizza hut too!
matt
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To answer your question Tony check out this link: http://www.compar.com/infopool/articles/PR-calculation.html#page-rank-calculation-chart
Also you may wan to check out this article: http://www.seocompany.ca/pagerank/page-rank-calculation.html
I don’t know how you made it thru that 16 hour plane ride. I would have went nuts!!!
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Well we’re glad to see you survived the trip. I hope you see LOTS of wonderful goodies in China. Can’t wait for the wholesale wedding favors biz to get started. AND if you do plan to go for the Big Mac…I understand you better bring some BIG $.
HAVE FUN!
Michelle
Stomping for Swimp3
Hi Brad,
This is my first stop (of many I’m sure) to your blog. Somping the SE’s rocks! Gary Halbert turned me on to it. I’m on fire with ideas!
Keep up the good work!
Doug
Stomping like crazy…
Oops!
I didn’t mean “Gary Halbert” Correction: “Gark Knuckles”!
Sheeesh.
Brad:
Take this advise from a Chinese-American.
There are lots of “pet shops’ in Guangzhou ,
Becareful, there are restaurants actually., do not fall in love with your “foods
One other thing, China has best “pocket picker
Wishing you a great trip in China and hope to hear some interesting points from there too.
Buying a Home Foreclosures
Don’t fall in love with China girl…
Mars
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Good luck on your product sourcing trip. When you get back we should try to totally surround the wedding favors market!
If anyone needs that type of thing they should go through you and/or one of us.
Happy Thursday or is it Friday or Wednesday??? Glad its your jetlag and not mine!
Cheers,
Kent
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Being in the UK I’m forever having trouble working out the time difference between here and the states.
As most of our traffic comes from the US It’s a great feeling to go to bed then wake up having made sales ;o)
Richard
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Brad,
You obviously don’t know anything about time travel in today’s economy. Yes you can keep from aging by flying backwards around the Earth.
However, with the state of the airlines, you would probably starve to death on airline food and peanuts long before you could take advantage of the time warp. Nanoo nanoo!
Mike
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Have an awesome time in China. Somping the Search Engines is truely a great piece of work. I have been listning to it all over the place (GLAD I CAN TAKE IT IN MY IPOD… Even listning to it before going to sleep. I will keep checking this site to learn more. I know that the tips that you gave are going to help me in all of my endeavors.
Would love to hear how things go, I am located in Hong Kong and I would love to get together with you on your return back here. We have been sourcing products for a very long time here in China, and testing the search engine waters as well. Send an email to me if you wish, and I will pass on my HK mobile number to you.
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That China trade show building it BIG. They’re doing it up American style to attract the buyers.
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Enjoy China and get out to see some sights.
Keith
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HELP!
I am working with a local web master on a Downe Syndrome web site. I am fairly new to crating web sites. While discussing the Down Syndrome site we also talked about my Yahoo store. I told him I am having a hard time getting crawled by search engines. He said it the Yahoo program, Site Builder. He told me when you save the pages in yahoo it saves as html, but if you look at the text codes on the pages it shows up as picture files. Is this true? If it is what do I do to fix it? I would really hate to do a lot of work and it not work. :blush:
My web site is http://www.pointverona.com.
Thank you,
Amy
Guangzhou? I have a lot of students from there. Most of them suggest that you don’t try the Civet Cat special…something about SARS
Got my stopping CDs the other day…sucking up a lot of info from them..thanks.
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Enjoy your stay.
I was at a seminar with Ken McCarthy last weekend and even he was saying how great Stomping is.
Andy
http://www.learn-seo.com
Hi Brad,
Have a great time in China, should be quite a culture shock, enjoy the show and let us know whats gong on in China.
James
Discounted Wine
Can’t wait to here about china’s internet
markets and there market for USA stuff
Thanks
JJ
http://www.quickentutorial.com
Hope your having a great time. How’s the Stomping Ground coming?
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How rookie of me. Sorry for the trash post above. Hope it works this time.
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I just ordered Stomping for tow days. I hope it comes to me soon.
I am a Chinese,but not live in Guangzhou,I am living in Shanghai.In Shanghai there is another big trade show.
Thanks for your great help on stomping the SE’s!
Want to know more about Fitness or buikspieroefeningen in dutch?
Brad Can’t wait for the show news
JJ
http://www.quickentutorial.com/
Hello
Any one heard any more on the stomming ground I have been holding off on actively trading links with stommpers waiting for the forum and also looking forward to Brads new linking strategy. I have been adding links and tweaking like mad and am moving up nicely in the serps.
Ed
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I was there once and loved the food… very spicy though…
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Speaking of China and trade shows in China.
Does anyone have any information on good places/ways to import consumer goods from China for sale on the net?
Thanks for any information that may come out of this request.
Eric
Fishing Reels
Hi Brad
Hope your trip is going well
I really enjoyed the stomper, great advice, looking forward to “Stomping Ground”
Dave
Hi Brad,
Sounds like a fabulous trip. I checked out the trade show site… Enjoy the rest of your time there!
Talk to you soon.
Ellen
I wonder if you can claim a rtefund from the airline for the lost day..
now that could be a big class action!
Hope the trip goes well Brad.
mattg
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I’m assuming Brad and Jennifer must be on their trip home now. Probably sleeping on the airplane most of the way
It will be interesting to hear more about your ‘buying trip’.
Nancy
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Hi Brad – glad you could check in at last! Can’t wait for you to settle in and get the Stomping Ground up and running!
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Brad, I would stay clear of Mc’doggies” if I were you. Just have to visit a public market to see your share of skinned cats and dogs for the roastin’!!!
david
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Brad:
How difficult is it to travel and trade with China? I know guys (from ATL) that trade with China thru the port here in Charleston (SC) and have to do little more than make phone calls.
Thanks,
Jason
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Something tells me that I didn’t do that HTML right.
Now that you’ve been around the world…was the trip worth it? Both in terms of dollar vs. time and the cultural impact?
What’s the next step?
You don’t need to go to China to loose a cell phone connection..
Just come to my house.
I can loose a signal just shifting in my seat.
Warren Whitlock
Book Marketing Expert
http://marketingresultscoach.com
Brad, is my google toolbar messed up or does your blog not have any PR anymore?
How does that impact your linking strategy?
Sounds like an amazing trip! We are looking forward to our first trip to China. Keep up the great work!
Brock
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That is some tough jet lag to recover from.
Dealer Holdback
Google isn’t updating pr anymore and the word on the street is … it may drop public pr all together? That doesn’t mean much has changed really, just that we won’t be able to see pr anymore….
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Are the internet connections fast or slow in China, or in the Net Cafe places. I’m sure they must have a pretty good communications infrastructure in place if they can host a trade show so large.
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Just received the Stomping the Search Engines and didn’t know you went to China. Looking forward to some really cool favor ideas that you brought back. Hurry and get them up on your website.
Forget to let you know my website–www.efavors.com
Started listening to Stomping the Search Engines and can’t sleep because it is really exciting! Look forward to seeing you on page1!
Happy Holidays!
This is getting exciting. Right?