Greetings, Our organization delivers training seminars and
workshops www.6sigma.us. We deliver both open enrollment and onsire
programs. We are based in the USA. What is the procedure to delivery
our same seminars
in other countries. There are a number of compnanies based in the UK
or offer seminars around the world in our area of Six Sigma. They seem
to offer in many different countries.
http://www.ixperion.com/events.htm
http://www.wcbf.com/quality/
http://www.iqpc.com/
For specifics like consider Canada, Australia, UK, Italy and Germany.
How would we set up payment (The UK companies seem to take money into
UK by credit card, wire etc)? What permits and visas are needed? What
VISA would the seminar leaders need? Would we just contact the hotel
directly to for the venue? Would be have any taxes to pay? Are there
any specialist who could assist us if we wanted to get started? |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
24 Jan 2006 14:03 PST
peterp-ga,
I'd be surprised if any of the researchers here could directly answer
your questions, as it would require familiarity with the business
rules in half a dozen different countries.
However, since you are a US-based business, there are tremendous
resources that the federal government, and many state governments,
make available to business owners to assist them with marketing their
services internationally.
One of the best types of assistance the government provides is working
to hook you up with an experienced mentor -- usually a retired
business executive -- who knows the ropes for your particular
business, and can assist you in expanding your services overseas.
If this sort of service is of interest, let me know, and I'd be glad
to provide all the relevant specifics so that you could begin taking
advantage of the government's services almost immediately.
Let me know what you think,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
peterp-ga
on
24 Jan 2006 14:10 PST
Thanks for the tip. I just spent 30 minutes with two conference
planners and I am already making progress. I am sure there will be a
researcher who will get me some good direction on this. I have
traveled to 20 countries in the past but in all cases the programs
where sponsored by one company. These would be more public programs.
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Clarification of Question by
peterp-ga
on
26 Jan 2006 05:25 PST
OK Researchers. I have already had two people send me emails outside
of Google Answers with good information on this. Did pafalafa-ga scare
everyone off? I release this could take work but I am not expecting to
have the constitution from every country analyzed.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
26 Jan 2006 05:30 PST
If you can give us a bit of a summary of the good information you've
been getting thus far, it would help us to focus our efforts on
follow-up work, and avoid re-inventing the wheel.
Though I still think your best option might be the government
assistance services I mentioned earlier.
paf
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Clarification of Question by
peterp-ga
on
26 Jan 2006 06:23 PST
Well, I provided a list of three companies that are delivering
conferences around the world and making money on it. I am sure they do
not have offices in all the countries the offer conferences. One
person suggested that I have a partnership with a local company and we
split the money in whatever country we deliver a program. I
perosonally called event planners in Canada and Australia and both
told me there were no issues in doing this. I have been told in other
countries I only need a hotel to sponser and event and then we are on
the road. In theory the local economy gains with hotel, food travel
etc. In theory this could be no different than a travel tour compnay
from Brazil who takes money from people from whereever and then goes
to Italy for a tour. Technical the money they received was in their
country. There are hundreds of organizations offering international
seminars and perhaps a researcher could see if there is a pattern in
how they collect the money. Maybe even call them and ask for details.
For example the organizations I mentioned send me material from the UK
and the money normally needs to be sent to the UK. This may be the
angle to do this. Maybe they just create local "media partners" as the
entry. Perhaps this angle only works in the US. In Europe if we did
this would be need to collect a VAT tax for example?? These are some
ideas. Clearly I am expecting this will take some effort and as a
result I posted $150.
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