Tip For Gmc, Potential 1,3 billion members Options

[ztevie]

Hi!

I recently went to China, and spent a few weeks there. I noticed a few things that could be a goldmine for GMC, you have many, many potential members there. I see on the GMC location map that noone from Asia have registered...

Fact 1: Cities in China have well developed internet possibilities. I have visited a few familys there and they all had a computer and internet with between 1-10 mB connection. If you have a phone jack, you can get hi-speed adsl there. They are pretty well developed in this area.
Fact 2: Guitar is an increasingly popular activity among young people there. I was in China a few years ago, visited a music shop in Zhuhai. Then there were only two acoustics hanging on the wall, the rest was pianos and local intruments. This year, they had 20 or more guitars. When asked, they said that it's getting very popular to play guitar, especially electric guitar is wanted by many younger guys. Also, english is taught in school nowadays, many young speak fairly good english.
Fact 3: I surfed the internet every day, could not open GMC from any computer, neither in peoples homes, or at internet cafees. Every site I usually visit had no problems whatsoever, only GMC... I know China have this Great Firewall, as they call it, where they ban some sites that does not fit into the governments thought of unharmful websites. GMC could not be one of them, I've seen people surfing to pornsites in those internet cafees...

You see the dilemma and the potential here? I think GMC should find out why their site can not be opened in China. I think it has something to do with the webhost you use? Wasn't there a problem last year, where we in Europe couldn't reach the site due to webhost closing traffic to Europe? Could it be closed to China now aswell? If so, I think you should find another host...

You have several million of potential new members here! Young people in the cities there are very modern, they've adopted a capitalistic lifestyle, with commercial everywhere, they eat at PIzza Hut and McD. They surf the internet, they hear new music every day. They listen to metal, rock, pop... And... they want to play instruments like the western rockbands do.
Make no mistake about it, a site like this would be huge in China, if it gets known it is possible to join that is.

By the way, do you have any chinese members at all? From Hong Kong maybe?

EDIT: Imagine some commercial on chinese national tv, where you have some cool riffing, announcing the website.. Cool, huh? It would be well invested money
If you need to know more, just ask, I have in-depth connections in China...

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This post has been edited by ztevie: Jan 29 2009, 03:20 PM

[Alexiaden93]

Some very wise words, ztevie ! I'm sure this website could develop greatly with at least a few more thousand members (imagine what a million could do !), and the more, the merrier, I guess ! More members = more instructors to answer the demand maybe thanks to higher payment, again thanks to a superior constant income from monthly membership payment... Imagine the possibilities !

But first, strike down the Great Firewall of China !

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