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Not Bad!...In a world-wide context in which the English language tends to impose itself as an unquestionable lingua franca in the business world, the multilingual strategy like that the British government promoted on a large scale, in close cooperation with business organisations and centres for linguistic services, gives us considerable food for a number reasons, as much for its approach as for the models of organisation adopted.

How can we/I help?

Thank you for responding.

Some of the areas where I seek help, are as follows:

1. The cultures, languages, religions, upbringing etc of most of clients are different than mine.

In order for me to do business in these various countries,

a) I must have access to local advise, so that all of my clients dealings comply with their local laws, religion, and culture etc.

b) I must be able to present my clients business concepts to them in a language which they completely understand. (in most cases this is the vernacular and not English)

c) My translator must be able to fully understand my clients business concept in English and then translate into the vernacular. This is a primary reason for choosing this site. It has an educated international community who are fluent in technical English, and I assume most are capable of translating into their native language.

2. I am of an older generation than most of you. I don't have the computer nor new generation marketing skills of anyone here.

Most marketing organizations with whom I am familiar, are closer to my generation than to yours, and in my opinion, just like me, they are getting a bit rusty. I feel that a motivated team from here may do a better job.

The team should have modern internet marketing skills, and members who can both communicate and market our ideas via the net in German, Russian, Spanish,French, Portugese, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, Thai, Arabic, Vietnamise, for a start. Basically make our client a household name.

My ability is to bring the clients, the funding, the projects.

I need the team.

Nice idea. I am curious as to why you left out Japan and USA. Seems like you could make a good deal of money in those countries as well.

Thank you for your comment.

In answer to your question:

My Clients have their machinery manufactured in China. Each plant is built to the purchaser's specifications and is then shipped and assembled by Chinese staff, assembly takes about 8 weeks and requires about 30 specialised workers, and the turnkey plant costs around US$30million.

Purchasers normally sign on for 30 year maintenance contracts which are handled also by the Chinese manufacturer.

As you are aware acquiring a USA work visa is very difficult, acquiring work visa's for 30 Chinese technicians(per plant), would be a lengthy process and almost impossible.

Manufacturing costs in the USA would cost 3/4 times more.

The populations of China, India, Indonesia, Africa are equal to around 2/3 of the Worlds population.

The purchasers of this technology are either municipalities or large corporations who need to reduce their carbon footprint.

Our business plan is.

a) We have for the moment built a better "mousetrap" The market potential is huge. We have around a 2/3 year window of opportunity before competitors appear on the horizon ?

We have saturate the market ASAP.

b) China has the manufacturing capabilities to meet with the logistics of volume sales, and an abundance of highly trained technicians available for assembly and maintenance.

c) It is easy to get short term visas in our target countries, for Chinese assembly technicians.

"Go with the Flow"

Up until now our marketing has been by "word of mouth" the clients (local governments) came to us., from all of the above countries. We have established from this that access to the above countries is welcomed by their governments.

So far we have not been approached by Japan, like the USA we would love to be invited.

That is why we want to assemble a team which will maximize this opportunity.

Sounds like a good, well-thought-out idea. I think the biggest problem is IP protection though - once you start dealing with the big corporations and the stakes become higher, NDAs become less valuable...

Still, good luck with it all!

Thank you for the comment.

I understand your concerns with regards to Intellectual Property rights
And Non Disclosure Agreements, and agree with your analysis.

In this instance I am not trying to develop a business which I will sell on.
I an trying to put together a team of young talent, such as is found on this site. The intended purpose of this exercise is to develop and execute new ideas for promoting Green Technologies and Education.

I am willing to fund this project, and contract my client companies to share any profits accrued with the team.

I am trying to propose what I consider to be a Win Win Scenario.

a) The team get compensated for their work, a) They client company grows. c) The team participate in the profits if any. d) The team get to
test their theories in the real world, playing with real marbles. e) I get
my idea tested.

If it works: a) I make a lot of money c) everybody makes a lot of money.
c) The team can either as a team or individually share the I P Rights.

If it fails: a) The team get compensated for time. b) The Team get to test their indivudal theories. c) I get an expensive education.

Neat idea. I like it. I'm a grad from international trade and like your idea. I might be able to help. If you can break the process down into steps, that would be helpfull for me to see where your going with this. Thank you

Hi, Thanks for the response.

a) Our Clients are multinational public companies.

b) The client companies already have large annual advertising / promotion budgets.

c) We are looking to develop new concepts/ideas with regards to prompting/advertising our products.

d) In order not to interfere with the creativity process, we would wish to limit our input to the minimum.

e) We have discovered a pool of talent on this site.

c) We are at least a generation older than the average person on this site.

d) Our wish is to find an " intermediary" that is a person/group to whom we can communicate our ideas in non technical english, that person should be technically competent enough to translate these concepts to technically minded people/ and more importantly translate back to us.
A huge amount of business is NOT being done on account of the inability
to COMMUNICATE. Perhaps we should bring back Napoleon, The French had this same problem 200 years ago Lol ?

Basically the idea is to find someone on this site with whom we can communicate' in what we consider to be the Queens English. We wish to share our ideas with this person/group, then have the group execute our ideas.

A current situation is that one of our client's "Green Technologies" has been embraced by country X. The client wishes to obtain maximum benefit from this endorsement, i.e. with regards to Share price, additional business etc etc.

This event will be announced shortly on the normal newswires, how dow we maximise this ?

Great idea; what about spanish speaking Countries?

Hi,

We have just recently commenced negotiations in Mexico, other than that we are not properly introduced into the Spanish speaking world.

COMMUNICATION is our main problem, and is the main reason for us seeking help at this site. It is very difficult to find people who are totally bi-lingual in scientific and technical languages.

Our technologies are very high spec and cutting edge. Software, operational manuals etc; have to be translated, complex scientific and technical concepts have to be be explained to local enviromental agencies and scientists. These same concepts have then to be presented to the general voting public in laymans language.

This is a huge project, we need help, new ideas etc. We would love to be more active in the Spanish speaking world. We must however complete the groundwork first.

CharonV,
I am a bilingual Civil Engineer from Colombia, to me this is a very interesting idea and I think I can give you a hand because I know some people that can be helpful; just write me to elemer100@gmail.com so we can get in touch.

Dear CharonV,

If you need assistance in Dutch, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, Flanders, or in the Netherlands, let me know.
good idea.

Hello Charon V,

Very nice idea and business concept. Any interest in Brazil? With the Amazon there, "green ideas" would be welcomed. I'm a Brazilian who's been living in the US for 10+ yrs. I've also have a sister (Brazilian) at Chicago based Leo Burnett. She would be a great source for this project. Please let me know what you think!

Hi Leo C,

Yes we are currently in discussions in Brazil, to convert "Sugar Bagasse"
into Green Energy, thereby also generating Carbon Credits in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol.

We would love to hear from interested parties.

Quote:"“Carbon Credit” means a unit issued pursuant to the Kyoto Protocol as well as all other relevant International Rules and represents a GHG Reduction of one metric tonne of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent, calculated in accordance with the International Rules. “International Rules” means the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, the Marrakesh Accords, decisions of the CDM Executive Board, decisions of the COP/MOP and any successor or supplementary international agreements or decisions, as amended from time to time."

I love this idea! Most companies would love to have this training/service/support easily and accessibly outsourced.
Count me in. :o)