Hiring a European sales rep, your biggest mistake?
To grow your sales in Europe: should you hire a rep to generate sales or generate sales before you hire?
The Key to Success in Europe
A few years ago I made the difficult decision to cease working with a client. I had started exploring opportunities for his company in a European country, visiting end-users, generating initial leads and connecting with potential partners.
Picking the Best Channels for your Expansion in Europe
Having the right partner is an essential part of your strategy when expanding to Europe. Thus you have to evaluate them carefully. Here are a few things to take into account when choosing your partner .
Part 5 Success with Distributors : Stop the debacle, get high performing distributors
Now you have engaged your distributors on a plan for the year. More often than not, then companies forget to manage that programme!
Part 4 Success with Distributors : Stop the debacle, get high performing distributors
In the initial stages, you may not need a very sophisticated distributor programme. The focus will mainly be hand-holding your distributor. Remember that they have other products to sell and naturally their sales representatives won’t focus on a hard sell. As a new product in their range, they may feel that it is a harder sell than their usual products range.
Part 3 Success with Distributors : Stop the debacle, get high performing distributors
In this third episode, we will uncover a critical step when working with distributors. This step sets the basis for either success or failure. This is where small businesses often don’t know how to frame their approach to distributors or partners.
Part 2 Success with Distributors : Stop the debacle, get high performing distributors
In the first Episode, we have looked at profiling your distributor. Now we will focus on selecting your distributor. Too often, I have discussed with small Australian businesses that just signed up a distributor that approached them. They just had not gone through a selection process
Five reasons Australian exporters should exhibit at International Trade Shows
Here it comes again. It’s Trade Show season in Europe and in other parts of the world. My business Exportia is involved in six major trade shows between August and December, representing clients from a broad range of industry sectors including welding, safety, education, leisure vehicles and trucks.
Selecting the right channels, the key to success in Europe for small and medium sized businesses
A few years ago, I made the difficult decision to cease working with a particular client. We had started exploring opportunities for them in a European country – visiting end-users to get a feel for the market and generating initial leads, as well as connecting with potential partners. My challenges dealing with this client stemmed from the fact that he wanted to do business in Europe exactly the same way as in his home market in Australia.
Part 1 Success with Distributors: Stop the debacle, get high performing distributors!
For the last ten years, I have been working with Australian small businesses from various high-tech sectors
