Global From Asia

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Everyone needs tools for selling on Amazon, we have a few of the popular ones here

• Amachete
• Jungle Scout
• Cash Cow Pro
• AMZ Tracker
• AMZ One

Read our full Merchant Account comparison page for full details and outlines and information. We will continually update it.

• Worldpay – We have a podcast with someone who went through the application process here
• Stripe (finally in Hong Kong) – Easy to use, easy to integrate merchant account to accept credit cards from customers online. We begged them to come, you can listen to our podcast asking for Stripe to Consider Hong Kong
• Asiapay Also We have a podcast with them here
• Paypal has a Paypal Pro option in Hong Kong See our full guide on Paypal here

If you sell on an international Amazon marketplace and have payment remitted to another – you should be using a third party solution! Why? Amazon’s FX rates are extremely high! Here’s a few to choose from:

• Transferwise
• Aurelia Pay
• OFX
• Remitsy Payments
• World First
• Payoneer
• Currencies Direct

• Remitsy for payments into China
• bitfinex
• ANX
• Bitcoin ATM

Check out our blog post, Visiting 20 banks in 2 days

Also check out our full service bank account opening package.

• HSBC Commercial Banking
• Standard Charter
• Hang Seng (62% owned by HSBC)
• Bank of East Asia
• DBS
• CitiBank HK
• Wing Luk
• ABN Amro HK

Below are budget hotels for those looking to save cash on their travel in Hong Kong.

We also wrote a couple blog posts detailing these and others:

• Try out GFA Travel Portal
• Hotels in Hong Kong
• Hotels in Shenzhen, China
• Airbnb
• High Hide (Andre’s place in TST (Airbnb listing)
• Hong Kong Yes inn – hk hostel hostel
• King’s Hotel (Wan Chai), 309 Jaffe Road
• Ming court hotel, 137-147 Lockhart Road‎, Wan Chai, +852 2135 8692

We all need to get our own websites setup, for e-commerce or business in general. Here are a couple we have used and recommend:

• Bluehost
• Wp Engine
• Shopify e-commerce shopping cart
• BlogVault – protect your wordpress with 3rd party hosting
• Bigcommerce shopping cart
• Active Campaign for email marketing

Because you can’t live in China without one!

• NordVPN
• Astrill
• StrongVPN
• Speedify VPN (Free account with up to 4 gb a month)

• Codeaholics
• Web Wednesday
• HK Computer Society
• Startup Weekend
• Startup Grind
• HK Web Analytics
• HK Freelancers
• Startups HK
• Mobile Monday
• Open Data HK
• SME Creativity Centre
• Dim Sum Labs

Logistics from Hong Kong has been a tricky one, with the real estate levels so high, most ship from mainland China directly. Below I have some various services I have been told about and hope to build up this list and interview them on the show!

• 1ShipDirect.com – ask for Samson or [email protected]
• In2Log Ask for Kornilia
• InXpress (Listen to the Logistics podcast interview here), Ask for Nick Bartlett
• Floship (with free ebook for GFA readers), ask for Chris Moore
• After Ship Ask for Andrew Chen
• Easy Ship
• Oriental Logistics (Listen to the cross-border logistics interview here) Ask for Danny Sung
• http://www.anchanto.com/
• International freight aggregator based in Hong Kong: www.freightos.com/
• www.agilitylogistics.com +852 2211 8659
• www.ups.com Mobile: 852-9865 5045 l
• www.dhl.com Office: +852 3507-5027

• Bridges Executive Centre
• Jumpstart Offices Hong Kong
• Regus
• Compass
• HK Commons (Sheung Wan & (Lai Chi Kok)
• Cocoon (Tin Hau)
• Fill in the Blank (Wan Chai)
• The Hive (Wan Chai)
• Retro Creative OR Retrospot.hk (Quarry Bay)
• The Crafties (Sheung Wan)
• Innovation Lab (Kennedy Town)
• Wynd (Central)
• Office8hk (Central)
• Cyberport Smart Space (Cyberport)
• Paperclip (Sheung Wan)
• Platform (Sai Ying Pun)
• The Loft (Diamond Hill)
• Cowork CHM (Lai Chi Kok)
• Good Lab (Prince Edward and Cheung Sha Wan)
• 8080 Space (Kwun Tong)

• Tips to Maximize Your China Trip
• Overview of Interpretation in Hong Kong, Cantonese, Mandarin, & English w/ Loretta Tam – GFA44

• Cyberport.hk
• InvestHK
• StartMeUp.HK
• StartupsHK.com

• Listen to our podcast about a HSBC Hong Kong credit card
• HSBC Credit Card

Global From Asia provides our own training for corporate and business operations.

• Enter China community
• Import Dojo
• China Sourcing Academy