Month: April 2020

There are several main reasons why coping with international clients is harder than appealing to a neighborhood market. The fundamental reason being the belief that dealing with international clients relies greatly on trust, and trust becomes very fragile whenever you take cultural differences into mind. Cultural differences or cross-cultural differences often create trust-breaking situations you could not even notice until the latter area of the relationship or business transaction.

Why does culture play an extremely significant part of the trust-building process? On a personal level, it plays a very crucial part because you have to endure your reactions and feelings towards different situations that are affected and initiated by culture. The thing you have to understand is how to not permitted this to restrict the business enterprise. Learning how to deal when situations where personal ethics and culture clashes is not a simple feat. But the rewards are fantastic and …

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I have traveled to some countries around the globe, without a doubt China and India offer an excellent opportunity for start-up business start-ups. BUT, those that travel to Asia without having done any serious homework on business ideology and cultural relationships will find themselves at a great disadvantage. To be successful, you need to ‘re-learn’ almost everything you thought you knew about business.

The saying “When in Rome, do because the Romans” is quite true in Asia. The only real advantage you have is the fact that there are many sellers today than buyers. This gives you some room to negotiate price, but little or no on terms. The few ‘bad apples’ present in both clients, has built up a degree of distrust on both sides.

Entering the Asian market without a minimum of some experienced people behind you does place you at a and the higher chances of failure …

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