Assistance in organizing initial contacts

Assistance in organizing initial contacts
The following are some key tools for use in organizing your initial contacts abroad:
• Matchmaker Events: Such events are organized for brief and relatively inexpensive overseas visits to prospective foreign associates for a small business group or groups with common interests. (See Exporters-sources.com - index page - 12.)
• Overseas Trade Missions: These groups of U.S. business persons missions are conducted on overseas visits to confer with influential foreign business and government representatives. Individual appointments will be arranged in the cities visited. (See Exporters-sources.com - index page - 12.)
• Overseas Catalog and Video/Catalog Shows: These shows offer an inexpensive contact, organized by industry experts, who present your sales literature through a third party to foreign audiences in several countries. (See Exporters-sources.com - index page - 12.)
• Foreign Buyer Program: This program offers trade shows in the United States with a high level of foreign buyer attendance, organized in part by ITA, which provides special assistance for foreign buyer contact. (See Exporters-sources.com - index page - 9.)
• Overseas Trade Fairs: ITA arranges for a special U.S. presence in established trade fairs overseas and assists with arrangements to meet buyers and assess the competition. (See Exporters-sources.com - index page - 12.)

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