A quick overview from an American on the 10 Things You Need TO KNOW Before Taking Your Business To America. This is a two-part series. America is the largest and easiest market you can possibly choose to do business in. It’s not difficult, but it is very different than your home country and there are a few things you need to know and to do before you go there.

A quick overview from an American on the 10 Things You Need TO KNOW Before Taking Your Business To America. This is a two-part series. America is the largest and easiest market you can possibly choose to do business in. It’s not difficult, but it is very different than your home country and there are a few things you need to know and to do before you go there.

Here are three business development tips you’ll need to be successful: 1) make the f’ring phone call, 2) have something the client wants and 3) actually deliver on what you said you’d deliver. That’s right, sounds simple but hey that’s the fun of having the rubber hit the road.

Some say marketing, some say sales, some say business development. The sale happens where these three come together. Your marketing is the physical manifestation of your strategy; it’s the web site, brochures, videos and ads. Sales is the stuff inside the web site, brochures, videos and ads. And, business development, we’ll that’s a fancy term for when you get your butt out of the office and start knocking on a customer’s door.

Making the point that you can use humor to 1. make a point, 2. stimulate a conversation or 3. make someone laugh. Enjoy April Fool’s Day!

An over reliance on using the cheapest forms of communications by many entrepreneurs – particularly those outside the US – results in lost venture capital, lost customers and lost partners who simply could not hear what you had to say. So put Skype down and pick a regular phone to make all those critical calls (and they’re all critical by the way).