B2C e-commerce site Letao.com is cutting its advertising budget by 80 percent, says its CEO, Mr. Bi Sheng, as it burns through approximately half of the company’s expenses. That onerous overhead is one that apparently all smaller online retailing sites are suffering, as competition in this sector gets ever more fierce. Beijing-based Letao started out specializing only in shoes, though it has since taken an adventurous turn into mobile gaming related merchandise on the ‘Applife’ section of its site, where it sells official clothes and shoes from gaming hits Angry Birds, ...
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