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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business Review

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets.

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You Found Your Product-Market Fit. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. With no travel budget and no field offices, the numbers pencil out nicely. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. in quota for a rep (i.e., $1m