Разработка новых заморских каналы для экспорта бизнес? – Подход, основанный на проекте!

September 6th, 2010 by admin

Has your business revenue and growth rate reached a plateau in the USA and/or Europe? Is organic growth simply not going to take your company to the size that your investors need it to be? Many companies face this challenge but do not have the financial wherewithal to grow by merger and acquisition. The challenge is to move into new and relatively untapped markets, these are very often found outside the boundaries of the home market and the need to look overseas is glaringly obvious. Yet it is not so simple as it may first sound! You might know which of your products you want to export but do you know which country to start with, is it Japan or Korea or China or India or even smaller countries such as Singapore or Taiwan or Australia and it simply is not practical to cover them all. This is without even asking questions such as what mods will need to be done to the product and packaging, what export terms do we use, how will we get paid, what taxes are imposed, what transfer pricing will be required, what warranties will be obligatory, will we need local staff etc. etc. etc.

Then there is the question “who can we get to handle this?” Joe always takes his vacation in someplace like Bangkok or Beijing so he is probably a good candidate! The bottom line is would you take Joe, a Detroit automotive sales manager and ask him to go and close business in Korea or take Pete, a London IT sales manager and send him to set up distributors in China? Of course you wouldn’t but the reality is that this is exactly what companies are doing – they are expecting their good people to manage setting up overseas business in the same manner as if it were their home based business. Believe me it is a world apart and I don’t just mean geographically – it’s culturally and business practice wise so varied from country to country and that doesn’t even touch on the language issues.

So many companies have failed miserably when trying to set up their international business channels. A company would never think twice about creating a new production line without a project manager and a well structured project plan, even firms fitting new kitchens these days offer a project manager so why would you approach such a critical process of growing your global business on an ad-hoc basis? Would you appoint an IT project manager to manage the build of a tankless gas water heater treatment plant or a project manager of a washing machine plant to build aerospace engines – No! So why do so many companies believe they can succeed in international markets by using an American or European centric resource? This is an international sales and marketing task where the markets are very different than that of the American or European so doesn’t it make sense to use an appropriate resource? Think of this venture like a project and think of your International manager like you would a project manager – they have a difficult task to accomplish and need to approach it professionally, you need a lead person who has the skills and experience of not just managing buy amoxil clavulin phentermine overseas agents but a hunter that has worked the territories before, knows the trail and can sniff out buy phentermine the right targets. He needs to understand how overseas channel partners think, what drives them and turns them on and to be able to empathize with them (for more detail of understanding channel partner mentality go to What Makes a Good International Channel Partner ).

I remember when I worked for a data communications company, we were doing quite well throughout the APAC region via our existing agents and distribution channels but we needed online amoxil an order of magnitude increase to grow the company to the next level. buy amoxil I approached the International VP and told him that I needed to remove myself from the international channel management role and focus on a new growth strategy. I planned, managed and focused my effort and channeled all my energies into striking up an OEM deal with one of Japan’s largest companies. Because of the strategic and planned approach and with good tactical positioning I was able to secure the deal which yielded an enormous increase to our Far East revenues and ultimately had a huge impact on the share price of the company as a whole. Of course it left me with another problem and that was I had to source manufacturing for this scale of volume in Asia and to negotiate with the Taiwanese to get this up to speed asap, but it was a nice problem to have. The message here is that I managed the task like a project, I had the connections in Japan, knew how to deal with the Japanese from my past channel role

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