China Kiosk, Digital Signage and Mobile POS Android Handhelds
For the longest time we have kept the Chinese companies “separate” from US, South American, and EMEA. Historically they used to be known for extensive picture taking at tradeshows, and weeks later those model turning up on their website.
As a semi-major connector on LinkedIn, I receive 10 or so requests a week for connections, but I never connect. I hide my connections to other connections but I still keep them separate.
Guidelines For Participation
- Are you interested in the US and European market? If yes, keep reading.
- Send email to [email protected]
- Preferably with a sample quote with your price
- I send weekly msgs to the WhatsApp group for APAC. I connect on WhatsApp and add you to the group — https://chat.whatsapp.com/LEPOhAaxLRaB6Dw9rLxJgx
- Here is For Sale list which includes products from RCStars and Chainway for example
- Subscribe LinkedIn Tech View + our monthly newsletter
- Here is my LinkedIn — bear in mind I rarely connect but instead establish chat
- Here is link to Kiosk group on LinkedIn — IMPORTANT this is read-only for non-members. Non-members that try and post “salesy” stuff are automatically blocked from the group. You can reapply via msg to me
Membership Options For Priority
- Featured visibility on China page (this page) and Listly — $500 for two year listing
- Joining as Associate Member (lowest entry level) – $1000 for two years. That gets you hyperlinks and ability to post content for starters.
- Associate Membership also gets you one on one working relationship with Craig
- Free listings are always available for those who like free. Here is overview of List.ly — https://list.ly/craig-keefner/lists and you can input your company to Free Company Listing — You can also add items to the For Sale list. All of these lists have traffic over 10,000
Only Chinese and Asian companies allowed.
WhatsApp and Wechat supported — WhatsApp has some problems in China and some use the government supported Wechat
We have a separate newsletter for Asia and APAC which we send curated content to once a week. Send an email to craigkeefner@duck.com to be added or join the Whatsapp group and I will add you.
China Kiosk Products For Sale – Vetted
Typically the prices are for shipping to China. International duties and international shipping charges will apply. For most screens the glass will be from BOE. LG and Samsung in larger formats.
- 14 inch countertop kiosk , with capacitance touch screen , HDMI IN version (no computer ) : 218$/unit
- 17 inch countertop kiosk , with capacitance touch screen , HDMI IN version (no computer ) : 258$/unit
- 17 inch countertop kiosk , with capacitance touch screen , HDMI IN version (no computer ) : 243$/unit
- 17 inch countertop kiosk , with capacitance touch screen , HDMI IN version (no computer ) : 285$/unit
- Worth noting this unit via Taiwan and includes full range of aux I/O (USB and Audio e.g.) – Rachel @ IT
- Android Handheld Computer for $229 for Mobile POS
- 55 Inch Indoor Digital Signage – $1100
Vetted deals
- Insight Touch – Rachel in California
- TDS Touch – California, Annie
- RCStars – Helen and Kendra
- Victory Digital – Vicky and Nina
- Chainway for mobile handhelds – Heidi
I’ve learned a lot of new information and also confirmed much of the old. Some quick observations
- English is still a second language (barely)
- Voice calls are difficult
- The main market for Chinese companies is China right? But times are tough right now and so you see blurbs and pitches on LinkedIn
- The main tactic is we offer cheapest, best buy so send us an order.
- There are the exceptions of course
- Sales process for Chinese customer and US customer are radically different, yet the Chinese companies persist in blitzing emails, almost harassing and with bad misspellings for example
- What takes 2 minutes to communicate to US based company, takes at least 20 minutes, several times over. Inefficient for sure and then you will wonder.
- The Chinese tend to offer fixed products for fixed price. US is much more variable.
- Kiosks tend to be fixed. Whatever you buy is $900 but you will take what you get
- Hours of interaction work against them. I am in Denver on MT and 6PM here is 9am there
- Many of them use very high quality – Rcstars for example uses LG displays which a ultra-quality
- It is a beautiful country outside of Shenzen/Hangzhou/etc\
- Managers there will generally never invest in US though they want to expand sales.
I’m putting together database. Here is example
chinese kiosk digital signage
As things progress
We are looking at Asian chapter for Kiosk Association. We have multiple members from Korea so headstart on that.
What do you think? craigkeefner@duck.com
Other Contacts
- CJTouch and Gena
- Chainway and Heidi
- Joey Chen
- Krissy Tan
- Sophie
- Vicky with Printers
- Yan with SuperView
- WeChats
- Kendra with Rcstars
- Helen with Rcstars
- Cherry Jiang
- Heidi