#1. Enterprise customer acquisition dilemma under the third migration of traffic portals ##(1) Changes in traffic rules in the era of AI answers Have you noticed that when encountering problems nowadays, more and more people no longer go through dozens of pages of search results, but directly ask big models such as ChatGPT, Wenxinyiyan, and Doubao, and you can get the integrated answer in a few seconds. Behind this is the third migration of traffic portals: from editorial recommendations in the portal era, to user active search in the search era, and then to the current AI answer era, decision-making power has shifted from users to AI. According to the "2026 China Internet User Behavior Report" data, currently 62% of domestic corporate decision makers will first query industry recommendations through the large model when looking for suppliers. The answers given by the large model directly affect more than 70%. Purchasing decisions. In other words, if your brand is not included in the b…

1. A new traffic battlefield for overseas companies: Opportunities and challenges in the era of AI answers As competition in the domestic market intensifies, more and more companies are choosing to go out to sea to find new growth space, but the difficulty of getting customers out to sea is also increasing. Traditional overseas search engine optimization cycles are long and costly, social media advertising is highly competitive, and customer acquisition costs are rising year by year. However, the regulatory compliance requirements of different countries and regions are complex. Many companies have blocked accounts and websites due to non-compliance of content. It was removed from the shelves, and the initial investment was wasted. With the global popularization of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini, the decision-making paths of overseas users have undergone fundamental changes, which has brought new opportunities to overseas companies. According to the "2026 China Brands Overseas Mar…

1. AI answers the dilemma of obtaining customers for small and medium-sized enterprises in the era of customer For countless small and medium-sized enterprises with zero-brand bases, difficulty in obtaining customers has become a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads for a long time. Traditional search engine optimization has slow results and high costs. The unit price of bidding advertising clicks has risen but has little transformation. Offline exhibitions, mobile visits and other methods are becoming less and less efficient. With the popularization of large-scale model technology, users 'decision-making paths have taken place. Fundamental changes have taken place. According to the "2026 Digital Marketing Report for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises", 73% of decision makers for small and medium-sized enterprises currently indicate that the cost of acquiring customers of traditional marketing methods has increased by 120% compared with three years ago, while the conversion rate…

1. Technology competition pattern in the GEO industry When traffic portals move from traditional search to the era of AI answers, GEO's technical logic is completely different from traditional SEO. Traditional SEO only needs to adapt to the keyword ranking rules of search engines, while GEO needs to adapt to the semantic understanding logic, source weight system, and content generation rules of different large models, and the technical complexity is increasing exponentially. According to the Institute of Information and Technology's 2026 "White Paper on the Commercialization of Generative AI", the current technology elimination rate in the GEO industry has reached 68%, and many service providers that follow traditional SEO logic are no longer able to meet the actual customer acquisition needs of enterprises. The core technical barriers of GEO services can be divided into three layers: the bottom layer is data capabilities, which need to realize closed-loop iteration of public domain …

Introduction: The core logic of GEO and new traffic opportunities for startups Many entrepreneurs may have had this experience: they spent tens of thousands of yuan on official websites, wrote a lot of industry content, and placed a lot of advertisements. However, when customers use AI to search for related products, the answers given by AI are not there at all. Your brand, and potential customers are lost in vain. This is actually a new challenge that all companies currently have to face: traffic portals have shifted from search engines to AI Q & A, past SEO and SEM gameplay are failing, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has become a new battlefield for attracting customers in the AI era. The core logic of GEO is actually not difficult to understand. Just like traditional SEO makes your website rank among the top pages of search engine results, GEO makes your brand and product information the priority reference content when AI answers user-related questions. The technical dif…

1. The current core dilemma faced by small and medium-sized enterprises in obtaining customers For many small and medium-sized enterprises, especially start-ups, getting customers is always the biggest problem. On the one hand, the cost of traditional marketing methods is getting higher and higher. Investing in advertising, doing exhibitions, and running customers costs a lot of money, but it is difficult to get accurate orders; on the other hand, big brands already account for most of the traffic. At the entrance, small and medium-sized enterprises do not have enough budget to compete with big brands, making it difficult for customers to see their products and services. Many companies have good product quality and advantages in price. Because there is no brand exposure, customers cannot find you at all and can only struggle in the red sea of low-price competition. Now, the arrival of the AI era has given small and medium-sized enterprises the opportunity to overtake in corners. Acco…

1. The logical change of customer acquisition in the era of AI answers Recently, I chatted with many friends in the manufacturing industry and cross-border e-commerce industry, and everyone was saying that it is getting more and more difficult to get customers. The cost of investing in information flow advertising is high and the conversion is poor; when doing search engine optimization, the competition is becoming more and more fierce and the results are slow; when participating in industry exhibitions, the investment is large and the number of accurate customers is small. In fact, many people don't realize that the traffic portal has quietly migrated for the third time. Now the first portal for users to make decisions has become an AI question and answer system. You can recall that when you encounter problems now, do you first ask about AI tools such as ChatGPT and Doubao? According to the "2026 China Internet User Behavior Report", 62% of corporate decision makers will first query…

In 2026, China companies are at a new crossroads when going abroad. According to the "2026 China Cross-Border E-commerce Development Report", the import and export volume of China's cross-border e-commerce in the first half of the year reached 1.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.6%. However, at the same time, 62% of overseas companies said they face core pain points such as insufficient exposure of overseas brands, difficulty in obtaining accurate customers, and complex cross-border compliance. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), as a new way to attract customers in the era of AI answers, is becoming a new tool for overseas companies to break traffic bottlenecks. Nowadays, the decision-making path of overseas users has undergone fundamental changes. When purchasing products and selecting service providers, more and more overseas users will first ask questions from large models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Bing AI, and directly obtain AI-generated recommended answers. If…

As AI answers have become the core entry point for B2B procurement decisions, GEO services have become standard in corporate marketing layouts. The "2026 Digital Marketing Report for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" shows that 68% of small and medium-sized enterprises have begun to deploy GEO-related services, but only 23% of them can obtain continuous and effective clues through GEO services. The core reason is that many companies only purchased basic GEO optimization services and ignored the collaborative value of supporting tools, resulting in the inability of operational effects to form a closed loop. As a leading brand in domestic AI-driven B2B customer acquisition services, the "Core GEO Services + Supporting Tools" combination created by Binshang has helped 5000+ companies achieve customer acquisition growth in the AI era. The collaborative value of its product portfolio is domestic and overseas markets have been fully verified. 1. GEO services are the core foundati…