A Guanxi relationship is built on trust between persons 
that has developed over time. It helps you keep loyal 
customers in the long run, maintain a profitable business, 
and compete successfully in a competitive marketplace. 
Almost all Chinese businesspeople consider Guanxi to be 
one of their utmost important sales and marketing tools. 

It is also widely acknowledged that guanxi constitutes 
a key strategic factor affecting company performance in 
the greater China area. Evidence shows that guanxi-based 
business variables have a profound and positive impact 
on firm efficiency and growth.

In guanxiCRM, guanxi is considered from a marketing and 
sales perspective, a guanxi is an object linking a person 
outside the company (a contact) and a particular sales 
opportunity,  a guanxi is "strong" if one considers that 
the person having important influence on opportunity's succes.

As the opportunity moving from one sales stage to another, 
you keep track of all guanxi concerning this opportunity 
and manage interactions with different guanxi to maximize
the probability of transforming the opportunity into 
effective sales.

Mianzi (the face) is another cultural factor that is 
important to deal carefully with in Asian Contries. 
guanxiCRM lets you manage naturally mianzi status of 
your contact/guanxi.

If you are interested in helping this project, you can contact
me by this email address:  wjue@hotmail.com