Go Global-US meet-up 6th Jan 2010
As a way to push start the new year, TeAM, NEF and MDeC are organizing a get-together for potential Go Global-US participating companies. The main purpose of this event is for bonding and experience sharing among companies heading to US, including those who visited US within the past 6 months. Only parties that have presented their pitch during our Go Global pitching sessions are invited. If you have not done your pitching but have strong interest to join Go Global-US, please contact our secretariat to register your name.
Experience Sharing:
1. Rico Ho from CRN Solutions will be sharing his recent marketing experience in US and Australia.
2. We encourages other members to join the experience sharing session as speaker.
Date & time: 6 Jan 2010, Wednesday 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Venue: Plug & Play Technology Gardens, Level 7, The Gardens South Tower, Mid Valley City
Cost: RM10.00 per person (snacks and drink provided)
Thank you.
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We have a roomful of turnout for this meet-up, with most attendees has some interest in the US market.
Rico Ho from CRN Solutions started off the event with a briefing of his recent journey exhibiting his product at Las Vegas. He was quite surprised having to pay for electricity at his booth; carrying a 24″ LCD monitor for 1km from the parking to the exhibition hall just to find out that his monitor is the smallest and half the size among the hundreds of exhibitors in the area; having a cramped booth even though he spends a lot of money in it. Despite the pitfall, his presence at the function did paid back positively, indirectly.
The session follows up by Rani from Cworks Systems. Among the thousands of customer they have, a huge number of it comes from North America. They didn’t setup a physical presence in the country until they have few hundred customers there back then. He shares strategies of selling software worth hundred thousand dollars apiece, to a vast market with a price below $500. As the humble Rani speaks, till date Cworks has customers all over the world, and in spite of the recent economy downturn, they are constantly taking feedbacks from the customer and enhance the product.
Dr. V Sivapalan, who are the founder and current advisor for TeAM, share his experience dealing business in the states, compare to the market in UK and some other part of the world. Americans in a small crowd, such like a user group get-together, are much more interactive compare to Asians in a similar crowd size. Malaysian business people should not be shunned to representing a Malaysian product or service, and should learn and live the American culture while dealing business there.