Do I need to prepare for my next meeting with my foreign counter part?
Your next meeting with your foreign peer could be more painful, stressful and less productive than you planned.
You can be dealing with regional differences that are not visible. The most current visible differences are the one’s with borders. But these are only the known differences. There are issues that only locals have an insider knowledge of that you need access to.
Do you know proper written greetings, titles, introductions that will make you emails not offend your counter part? Do you know the process of how other cultures do business? Are you offending repeatedly by how you reach out, respond and ask for the purchase or the way you try to be connected with their boss?
What cultural mistakes are you making and do now know you are making them?
Be prepare for your next meeting. Get an insider’s guide. Know the correct greetings, timing to ask for a connection or a sale. Know how to help your counterpart save face, take credit and provide all their cultural elements and steps they have to process through.
They are more likely to set you up for success rather than stall. It’s not personal. It is cultural. Help them help you by being educated and trained by one of their own.
Get a cultural expert to give you insight and direction of what moves to make along the way. Get a guide to take you through the mental thought process of your counterpart.
Sales does not have to be difficult.
Selling to another culture can be very expensive when it can be affordable. Selling in another country can result in loss sales. It can result in loss marketshare. It can get you and your company in trouble with the government.
Selling is difficult as it is. Make selling in foreign lands and cultures easier with the help of a guide. Experts can help you create more time, money, and build a good relationship with the target market and government.
The mistakes that outsiders make are being made everyday by executives of large companies.
Everyone can use a guide as an insurance policy to avoid fines and legal trouble.