Top 30 wechat Q&A that foreigners must know.
Questions 1-10
1. How to start an active WeChat group? How to attract people to join?
Start a group from 3 people. Today I gathered a group of 5 people, to encourage each other to write a post everyday, feeling good. Spread the group QR code to your moment, your chat, and keep creating value in the group. Do something awesome with the people in the group.
2. What are the most common tools to sell my products in WeChat?
If you want to provide training, use 小鹅通（https://www.xiaoe-tech.com/）
If you want to sell goods, use 有赞（https://www.youzan.com/）
3. How would this work for a luxury item, original/ new fashion branded products, in its early stages of marketing? (What are the risks and benefits)——Vanes
Luxury items are not common in groups, but I have a friend, whose focus is on customizing luxury beautiful dress for women, got very high income in her WeChat groups. She generated 3 million RMB in one month from just one of her WeChat group.
Normally the bestselling item in WeChat groups is below 1,000 RMB. If you want to sell luxury item in WeChat groups, you need to gather your customer first. It's OK that people don't buy at first. After they feel the quality and taste of your product, they will gradually order from the group.
4.WeChat Work 3.0 and how to utilize it? ——Mohammad
WeChat Work is good for companies, to do customer service, and branding. Currently there are still some limit on WeChat Work groups, you cannot send "favorite notes" into a WeChat Work group, and the maximum number of a group is different with personal WeChat.
5. Are there any legal restrictions for sellers that are not duly registered as a business?
Sellers on WeChat need to pay tax with their income when selling on WeChat. But they don't have to register a company to sell.
Simply put, can anyone (eg. students) sell on WeChat?——Kristie
Yes, currently anyone can sell on Wechat.
6. How can I sell my products on online platforms like Taobao, PDD etc?——Andre
Register an account from Qianniu. They have specific steps you can follow.
7. Do you need to declare any revenue earned through WeChat groups for tax?——Josefine
Yes.
8. Can you register 5 person accounts by using same phone number? Or you need to have different phone numbers?——Thomas
You need 5 phone numbers to get 5 accounts.
9. What are your suggestions for introducing WeChat to one's current community outside of China, particularly when they are already engaged with platforms such as Whatsapp? ——Jo-Ann
It is based on your social community's habbit. You can share with your friends your updates on WeChat, and they will be attracted because you are using it. Gather a small group, and keep sharing.
10. What are some top marketing blunders to avoid on WeChat? ——Jo-Ann
Do not send too much advertisement in your moment. Try to plant the need and beauty of the product before you want to sell it.
Questions 11-20
11. How best to work with WeChat KOL's? ——Jo-Ann
The best way is to be a KOL by yourself. When I started to do KOL business, I gathered a group of KOLs, and now we have more than 300 KOLs in the group.
12. What are your top tips for desigining a successful WeChat social media strategy?——Jo-Ann
The best way for designing a WeChat social media matrix, is to express yourself, the real you. It is the most efficient way and attracts people's attention. Keep up the good work and people will observe your progress, and follow your news.
13. How/Which ways are better to use for motivating people/customers to join or to follow your WeChat group/platform/official account ——Thomas
Lottery, prizes. Asking them to gather likes in their moments to win prize. Try some flash groups to do some creative activities.
14. How can WeChat be tailored to suit different business models?——Jo-Ann
It depends on what you want to sell. Almost you can try any ideas on WeChat, with some other tools, such as Wetool, Shimo, Mini Program, etc.
15. What type of content works best for a WeChat account?——Jo-Ann
Find your favorite content first, and find your audience. Then the content will come out natually. Basic rules: valuable, inspirable, sincere.
16. What does good storytelling look like on WeChat?——Jo-Ann
No need to be perfect. People feel they can also do it and you can be good friend with them.
17. How to choose a suitable wechat official account? ——Hammady
Use 订阅号 to provide daily content to convey your value and communicate with your followers.
Use 服务号 to provide service and company announcement.
18. My question is whether Cactus Academy is an agent that represents KOLs. If yes, what are Cactus Academy's requirements for agreeing to work with a KOL? （i.e., does the KOL have to have a certain number of followers?）
Cactus Academy provides training programs for KOCs and services for our business partners.
19. How can you have so many wechat accounts??
Everyone can register 5 WeChat accounts. If you want to have more than 5, you can ask your family members to help.
20. How do you keep the groups vibrant? How do you define the purpose of the group?
Think about why you gather them, what is your product, and what can you provide, how your group service can improve their daily life.
Questions 21-30
21. And when do you retire a group?
When the group topic is not needed, and the purpose of the group is not important.
22. How do you retire a group properly? ——Anna
Send a group notice 24 hours in advance to delete the group. And ones want to keep in touch are welcome to join the new group.
23. How to attract people into ur group without any outsource. Most of small businesses can’t afford professional education or any other kind of PGC content. Otherwise how to create value with minimal investing——Drew
Operate the group with friends or business partners together. You can share your customer number together.
24. Would you give us an example of how you earn money in one of your wechat groups, please? How does the money collection work?——Daniel Mape
We sell some education products in the groups and the money collection happens in WeChat mini programs or H5.
25. Hi ! How do you create 5 personal WeChat accounts——Debi
I registered 5 phone numbers to create 5 personal WeChat accounts.
26. how can we reach out to businesses who might want to use my service ? how to find their contacts——Idris
Create valuable content for your users, and learn from your competitors.
27. Do you need to have a licence to sell in wechat——Debi
No.
28. You mentioned some tools that can be used to enhance advertisement. Kindly send the names in the official WeChat group.——Kristie
Wetool: to manage WeChat group.
Shimo: to share contents and teamwork.
29. How to attract the other companies who would like to post their advertisement in your WeChat articles? Do you feel this might overdrat your personal credit if the ad. is not appropriate?
There are some advertisement agent to find you when your average view number gets high. You should choose the ad very carefully. Your advertisement shows your taste. You need at least test every product you advertise, and be honest about the products for your followers. My followers always appreciate my recommendations.
30. how to do the gift or locky games in WeChat?
There is a mini program called “抽奖助手”, works very well.
If you have further questions, please scan the QR code, and leave me a message.
1. How to start an active WeChat group? How to attract people to join?
Start a group from 3 people. Today I gathered a group of 5 people, to encourage each other to write a post everyday, feeling good. Spread the group QR code to your moment, your chat, and keep creating value in the group. Do something awesome with the people in the group.
2. What are the most common tools to sell my products in WeChat?
If you want to provide training, use 小鹅通（https://www.xiaoe-tech.com/）
If you want to sell goods, use 有赞（https://www.youzan.com/）
3. How would this work for a luxury item, original/ new fashion branded products, in its early stages of marketing? (What are the risks and benefits)——Vanes
Luxury items are not common in groups, but I have a friend, whose focus is on customizing luxury beautiful dress for women, got very high income in her WeChat groups. She generated 3 million RMB in one month from just one of her WeChat group.
Normally the bestselling item in WeChat groups is below 1,000 RMB. If you want to sell luxury item in WeChat groups, you need to gather your customer first. It's OK that people don't buy at first. After they feel the quality and taste of your product, they will gradually order from the group.
4.WeChat Work 3.0 and how to utilize it? ——Mohammad
WeChat Work is good for companies, to do customer service, and branding. Currently there are still some limit on WeChat Work groups, you cannot send "favorite notes" into a WeChat Work group, and the maximum number of a group is different with personal WeChat.
5. Are there any legal restrictions for sellers that are not duly registered as a business?
Sellers on WeChat need to pay tax with their income when selling on WeChat. But they don't have to register a company to sell.
Simply put, can anyone (eg. students) sell on WeChat?——Kristie
Yes, currently anyone can sell on Wechat.
6. How can I sell my products on online platforms like Taobao, PDD etc?——Andre
Register an account from Qianniu. They have specific steps you can follow.
7. Do you need to declare any revenue earned through WeChat groups for tax?——Josefine
Yes.
8. Can you register 5 person accounts by using same phone number? Or you need to have different phone numbers?——Thomas
You need 5 phone numbers to get 5 accounts.
9. What are your suggestions for introducing WeChat to one's current community outside of China, particularly when they are already engaged with platforms such as Whatsapp? ——Jo-Ann
It is based on your social community's habbit. You can share with your friends your updates on WeChat, and they will be attracted because you are using it. Gather a small group, and keep sharing.
10. What are some top marketing blunders to avoid on WeChat? ——Jo-Ann
Do not send too much advertisement in your moment. Try to plant the need and beauty of the product before you want to sell it.
Questions 11-20
11. How best to work with WeChat KOL's? ——Jo-Ann
The best way is to be a KOL by yourself. When I started to do KOL business, I gathered a group of KOLs, and now we have more than 300 KOLs in the group.
12. What are your top tips for desigining a successful WeChat social media strategy?——Jo-Ann
The best way for designing a WeChat social media matrix, is to express yourself, the real you. It is the most efficient way and attracts people's attention. Keep up the good work and people will observe your progress, and follow your news.
13. How/Which ways are better to use for motivating people/customers to join or to follow your WeChat group/platform/official account ——Thomas
Lottery, prizes. Asking them to gather likes in their moments to win prize. Try some flash groups to do some creative activities.
14. How can WeChat be tailored to suit different business models?——Jo-Ann
It depends on what you want to sell. Almost you can try any ideas on WeChat, with some other tools, such as Wetool, Shimo, Mini Program, etc.
15. What type of content works best for a WeChat account?——Jo-Ann
Find your favorite content first, and find your audience. Then the content will come out natually. Basic rules: valuable, inspirable, sincere.
16. What does good storytelling look like on WeChat?——Jo-Ann
No need to be perfect. People feel they can also do it and you can be good friend with them.
17. How to choose a suitable wechat official account? ——Hammady
Use 订阅号 to provide daily content to convey your value and communicate with your followers.
Use 服务号 to provide service and company announcement.
18. My question is whether Cactus Academy is an agent that represents KOLs. If yes, what are Cactus Academy's requirements for agreeing to work with a KOL? （i.e., does the KOL have to have a certain number of followers?）
Cactus Academy provides training programs for KOCs and services for our business partners.
19. How can you have so many wechat accounts??
Everyone can register 5 WeChat accounts. If you want to have more than 5, you can ask your family members to help.
20. How do you keep the groups vibrant? How do you define the purpose of the group?
Think about why you gather them, what is your product, and what can you provide, how your group service can improve their daily life.
Questions 21-30
21. And when do you retire a group?
When the group topic is not needed, and the purpose of the group is not important.
22. How do you retire a group properly? ——Anna
Send a group notice 24 hours in advance to delete the group. And ones want to keep in touch are welcome to join the new group.
23. How to attract people into ur group without any outsource. Most of small businesses can’t afford professional education or any other kind of PGC content. Otherwise how to create value with minimal investing——Drew
Operate the group with friends or business partners together. You can share your customer number together.
24. Would you give us an example of how you earn money in one of your wechat groups, please? How does the money collection work?——Daniel Mape
We sell some education products in the groups and the money collection happens in WeChat mini programs or H5.
25. Hi ! How do you create 5 personal WeChat accounts——Debi
I registered 5 phone numbers to create 5 personal WeChat accounts.
26. how can we reach out to businesses who might want to use my service ? how to find their contacts——Idris
Create valuable content for your users, and learn from your competitors.
27. Do you need to have a licence to sell in wechat——Debi
No.
28. You mentioned some tools that can be used to enhance advertisement. Kindly send the names in the official WeChat group.——Kristie
Wetool: to manage WeChat group.
Shimo: to share contents and teamwork.
29. How to attract the other companies who would like to post their advertisement in your WeChat articles? Do you feel this might overdrat your personal credit if the ad. is not appropriate?
There are some advertisement agent to find you when your average view number gets high. You should choose the ad very carefully. Your advertisement shows your taste. You need at least test every product you advertise, and be honest about the products for your followers. My followers always appreciate my recommendations.
30. how to do the gift or locky games in WeChat?
There is a mini program called “抽奖助手”, works very well.
If you have further questions, please scan the QR code, and leave me a message.
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