Get International Clients

this is the first Get International Clients Sunday Blog Carnival and we have a short list to start with. Note to people starting a blog Carnival, give yourself more than 3 days to get the first set of posts and blogs. This week we go from sales to internet marketing and include one post in French, so there is a little something for everyone.

Starting of this week is Robert Phillips. As a means of statistical analysis, on May 6th Robert Phillips looked up the page ranks and Alexa ranks of his blog carnival submission service. This was done for the purpose of tracking these sites over time. Last week, Robert went back and looked at the PR & Alexa rank again with some very interesting results. Read on as Robert presents: How to Quickly Improve PR & Alexa posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY

Anya presents the ATSCo embers Conference, June 5th 2008 where sales motivational speaker Gavin Ingham will be speaking: ATSCo (Association of Technology Staffing Companies) Members Conference, June 5th 2008 posted at Gavin Ingham.

Marcus Hochstadt has decided to not use a FeedBurner, and presents his reasons why in: Why I Do Not Use FeedBurner posted at Internet Business Guide. If you go to Marcus’ home page you can also see how he is tracking all of his different internet rankings. He is probably one of the most serious

Ed Rivis, as part of his pre-launch for Stats Faceslap ran a contest asking “What would you most like to know about the people who visit your site” and he presents the winner here: Question Time Close: The winner is… posted at Web Marketing with Ed Rivis. Ed delivers Web Marketing Strategy for Small Business Success.

Philippe Douay presents his monthly newsletter. His website presently services a portion of France but he is looking to commercialize this product for use in any country, any region. La lettre d’information du site Entreprise 77 posted at entreprise 77.

Anya posts an article on salespeople. These people need common sense, to be able to get along with others, to be able to build rapport with a wide variety of people, to be able to understand the problems and issues that different people face and, most importantly, they do need to be able to help their clients to make the right decisions to solve those issues in the right way. All this and more in: Why people think salespeople are stupid… posted by Gavin Ingham.

Terry presents an important fact that is true no matter where your client sits; “If there was one skill you could learn that would almost guarantee the success of your Internet business, it would be copywriting.” Art of Persuasion posted at Internet Business Coaching by Terry Dean . Terry dean created MyMarketingCoach in 2006 as a solution for entrepreneurs who are overworked, overstressed, and not earning the kind of income they want in their business.

Cindy King received a question on how to make sure that your clients can read foreign characters when presenting in different languages, the example was for posts in Russian. Making the change is easy and she presents how to do the changes at: How To Set Your Computer To Read Foreign Languages posted at Cindy King.

As I’ve said before, both your domestic and you international clients benefit from good internet marketing practices.

In internet marketing, as in traditional marketing practices, you need to spend some time identifying how your target prospects prefer to hear from you.

The different channels of communication using the internet include: emails, websites, ezines, podcasts, blogs, and forums.

Internet marketing targeted to a domestic market you know well makes it easier to evaluate the best marketing channels to use.

But when it comes to using internet marketing for international markets you need to spend a little more time researching and testing the best channels for the message you want to transmit. Read more

I’m sure many of you have already heard about Blog Carnivals. Some of you may have even discovered Get International Clients through one of the many Blog Carnivals that have published my articles.

I’m happy to announce the Get International Clients Sunday Blog Carnival.

I’ll be posting links to articles on 3 primary areas every Sunday:

• Multicultural, International and Internet Marketing
• International Business & Sales
• Cross Cultural Communications

And I’ll be seeking article submissions from all over the world, from English speakers and non-English speakers. Read more

Building Trust With These 3 Tiny Changes In Your Communication Will Get International Visitors To Listen To You

It is often said that working in international business is like working in a minefield, where the mines are cross cultural communication blunders.

There are not really minefields online. It’s more like quicksand or a scene from a horror film where your friend, or in this case your international prospects or clients, just vanish without a trace.

Since the first time one culture tried to communicate with another there has always been at least one major stumbling block in cross cultural communication:

Trust

Trust is something businesses strive to create with Read more

You can’t learn to ride a bike without…well, a bike. Can you?

International business involves cross cultural communication. It is the inherent nature of the business.

To develop good cross cultural communication skills you need foreign communication exposure. With people. Live.

Cultural skills are fairly easy to develop. But you can’t pick them up reading books. You need hands on practice. Most people only need the desire to communicate with other cultures and some practice to put them on the right track.

But good cross cultural communication skills are not easy to develop if you are an online business without much direct contact with your foreign clients. Read more

Sometimes the obvious difficulties in cross cultural negotiations lead people to forget the most basic things.

Jumping to automatic assumptions and entering into negotiations with the wrong person.

Identifying the right person you need to negotiate with is easy in your own culture. But in cross cultural negotiations several factors can come into play. Read more

Businesses with strong international sales know how to use information products effectively in their lead generation strategies.

Your business is probably already using information products. But are you getting all of the sales value you possibly can with your information products? Read more

International business development still remains risky and expensive in the minds of most brick and mortar companies. And that is if they are even able to envisage markets for their current products abroad.

Information Products To Create International Sales

And yet, any business can use the internet for international sales and lead generation. Brick and mortar companies of all kinds can create their own international business using the internet from their physical office.

There is always a way to use information products distributed on the internet to either get international leads or make international sales.

Here is how information products are used to generate sales on the web. Read more

It usually takes brick and mortar companies months and months to create a new product and make a first sale.

So of course business owners are continually looking for ways to increase their business with what they have. And they often look at their own current products or services to see if there are any new ways to market them.

Brick and mortar businesses tend to look at the market they know and identify themselves with. New sources of revenue often require a long, slow process.

This drawn out process offline is in stark contrast to what the infopreneur does online. An infopreneur can create a new product totally from scratch, put the sales and promotion in place and have a first client in a weekend. And he does this all by himself. Read more

Internet can be daunting for brick and mortar businesses. Small companies feel they don’t have the time to learn all of this technical stuff. They may even feel pressured into getting a website for international business. All they want to do is provide the technical geeks with the content for the website and let the business roll in.

Many small businesses end up paying a web expert to set up their website. The website usually stagnates, until the information on the website becomes obsolete, or the small business becomes frustrated with the lack of sales and wants to get more out of it. Read more