How we work with you
Our export management experience spans (most) aspects of exporting – whether 1 day, or years, are required from AplusB (Yes, we have taken on both 1-day and multi-year missions), we can apply our export management experience to your benefit
As an example, let’s take a ”Turn Key” mission, consisting of building a strong, profitable export sales business for your company, from scratch – here is how it would unfold:
Step 1 – Planning and Organizing – you state your export objectives - we advise on how meet these objectives, estimate resources and time needed - Any building starts with a good set of drawings – a plan if you will – therefore, working with you, we develop your Export Marketing Plan - it will include objectives, budgets, challenges (CE marking may be one) and how to overcome them, resources needed, timing, and any other subjects that need to be addressed before we start building your export sales network.
Step 2 – this is where we roll up our sleeves and gather information on market potential, regulatory compliances, competitive assesment – we identify, and qualify, overseas partners ( with the help of organizations such as the U.S. Department of Commerce and State Department of Development) - this is the most challenging step - and this is where we excel – our permanent presence in Europe will save you months, and thousands in expenses, in setting up and maintaining solid relationship with local distributors – of course, you will need to meet with your future partners, once we have qualified them – we plan and organize logistics (a crucial piece of the puzzle)
Step 3 - This is when we fire-up your export sales network - with the help of your US staff (which, by then, we will have trained) we manage and control your export sales network on a day-to-day basis - our permanent presence in Europe makes this effective – we oversee your export sales network, keeping your best interests in mind – for details on how this works, please get in touch.
Remember when we were told about the 3 components of Management? Plan, organize and control? That’s exactly what Export Management is all about!
How we ask to be compensated
You want AplusB to be 100% committed to your success – all right, simply stated, we ask for a monthly retainer plus a commission on sales - simple and effective – we are thus driven to turn your export sales into a major, profitable, part of your success - which will also be our success