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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. A New Type of Local Partner. The rise of social media has created a new type of local partner: local digital influencers.

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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. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. Generating a high volume of leads for the telephone sales rep is the key to making this model work.