Sell to Japan

We're the Japanese Market Specialist

  Thanks to strong demand and interest in our consulting services, I receive many questions about the services these days.

  One of the most frequently asked questions is this: "Can you help us market and sell our products in any other Asian countries than Japan?"

  My answer is, no. We solely focus on the Japanese market.

  I appreciate asking that question and I understand that many people want to do business in Asian countries such as rapidly growing China and South Korea, and there are other appealing Asian markets as well.

  Nevertheless, we recommend making Japan your primary target in Asia, especially if your products or services are unique and high quality. After all, Japan is the largest market in Asia (See figures below). Japanese businesses and consumers can be excellent purchasers when you can provide them good quality and value.

From our standpoint, the reason why we focus only on Japan is that the market has quite different characters from other Asian countries. Asia is highly diverse in terms of history and culture. A good business manner in Japan could be a taboo in China, and vice versa. A marketing strategy that works remarkably well in Japan could devastate the similar market in other Asian countries. Frankly, I am not sure how "Asian Market Specialists" do their jobs in this enormous area.

  We are, therefore, the Japanese Market Specialist. We are proud of being able to provide our strength, experience and hands-on knowledge of business in Japan for you. We offer you our business sense that we acquired from our real business, we gained from many meetings with our own customers, and we felt from discussion with our vendors everyday in this country. We are not an armchair consultant who studies sales and marketing from books. We work together with you to lead you into great success in this exciting market.

  When you make a real success in Japan, that will be a great milestone toward greater success in other countries for you as an international company (regardless of size. I'm a strong believer in the age of small multinationals). That's what we hope for as the Japanese Market Specialist.

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For more on our consultation services, see:

The first-step marketing package

Other marketing vehicles

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The first-step marketing package

  Thanks to strong demands to our simpler marketing package these days, we've decided to publish our most popular marketing package, "The first-step marketing package to sell to Japan".

  What we will do with the package is:

1. We create a simple web page describing each product of yours in Japanese language for you.
2. We translate your brochure to Japanese and make it PDF file to post it on the simple web.  (1&2: Basic designing charge and translation charge for less than 1000 English words (combined) are included in the basic price. *)
3. We contact 10 prospects in Japan with using those materials above.
4. We help your company and the prospects in Japan communicate each other including translating the e-mails.
5. We help your company to send their product samples to Japanese prospects. (Some optional charges may apply for shipping and handling)

  By using our first-step marketing package, your company, at a very low initial cost, will get those peerless marketing tools in Japanese and great prospects with a great opportunity.
  Benefits to your Japanese prospects are including:

• Your prospects can be aware of your products easily in Japanese.
• Your prospects can contact us by phone, FAX or e-mail comfortably in Japanese.
• Your prospects can receive sample products without hassle over importing.

  This easiness encourage your Japanese prospects to try your products, that means, you will have greater chance to sell in Japan.

  The basic price of the first-step marketing package (inclusive from 1 to 5) is 500,000 yen (that is equivalent to about 4,500 US dollars depending on the exchange rate) excluding taxes.

  After the first-step, we can go ahead to next steps such as arranging business trip for you to have meetings with the Japanese prospects and having a booth in trade shows etc. (For other marketing vehicles we can offer, see this post.)
  Obviously, We can tailor our service depending on your needs, but for many customers who have never tried to sell to Japan, this should be a good start. (If you have more particular needs, please let us know. We are more than happy to discuss how we could help you.)

* Optional charge:
  If the amount of the translation is more than 1000 English words, the price per one word after the 1001st word is 28 yen.

** Payment options:
  Bank wire transfer in Japanese Yen.
  Other payment options such as PayPal in US Dollar are also available. Please contact us for details.

*** Our portfolio:
  Here are sample brochures that our designer and copywriter have created in powerful (and natural, of course) Japanese wordings to convey strong marketing messages to Japanese prospects:

  Sample 1
  Sample 2

  (Adobe PDF format, Japanese character set is required)

  We hope this will help you. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Contact Information:

Yasu Miyata
President

Beyond IT Co., Ltd.

Address: 11-1-6 Ichinotsubo Nishi-Hirano Mikage-cho
Kobe, 658-0058 Japan

Phone:  +1-408-512-1363 (US number. Our affiliate, Kenxa Corp.)
Fax: +81-50-3588-4563 (In Japan)

E-mail:

Web: http://SellToJapan.com

Introducing our consulting service to sell to Japan

  I have established my company and have officially started consulting business to help you sell your products to Japan. We mainly focus on helping US businesses, but we are willing to offer our services to businesses all over the world.

  Please take a look at the following message and contact us!

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  Do you face difficulty in selling to Japan?

  Let us help you boost or jump-start your market entry to the world's 2nd-largest economy.

  Many US companies have excellent products that can fit the diverse and dynamic Japanese market, yet only a small number of them, most of which are large multinationals, have enjoyed success in the huge market whose GDP is 4,623 US billion dollars.

  You might have heard a horror story about an American sales rep who was kicked out of a Japanese company just for improper handling of his customer's business cards. Ignorance of cultural difference (even on that small scale!) could harm business relationship.

  There should be a better way. That's what we are offering you. With our successful experience and thorough understanding of the dynamics of the Japanese business culture, we can help you sell successfully in Japan.

  We can help you sell your products in the huge and lucrative Japanese market by:

1. Consulting and outsourcing: Instant access to our successful local sales reps who know the Japanese business culture. Instead of hiring your own Japanese speaking sales reps that are extremely rare breed in the US labor market, you can use our expertise in selling in Japan. With our help, you can also find the best partners/resellers in Japan that are active in your corresponding industry.

2. Business travel: Facing difficulty in making appointments to Japanese prospects and visiting them? We can help your business trip to Japan. We help you make appointments with importers, dealers and large retail chains in advance and go to those prospects with you as a presenter and interpreter.

3. Trade show: How would you get the most out of trade shows in Japan? We can help you have your own booth at trade shows in Japan. We'll help you present your products to Japanese buyers as your representative. This can be a great opportunity to meet key players in the market at one place.

4. Marketing research: We provide marketing research service about your product in English. We'll help you to build solid marketing strategy in Japan.

5. Brochure and Website: The first step to market your product in Japan is to have good marketing materials written in correct and modern Japanese language. We have successful experience of conveying strong message to Japanese consumers. We offer consulting, translation and proof reading services. We with our partner can even print the brochures in A4 or B4 paper and/or build a web site for you.

  These services can be tailored depending on your needs. Please let us know what you want us to do for you so that we can make more precise proposals for you. We can also draw up an estimate for the service you specifically need.

  Let's talk!

  Contact Information:

Yasu Miyata
President

Beyond IT Co., Ltd.
Address: 11-1-6 Ichinotsubo Nishi-Hirano Mikage-cho
Kobe, 658-0058 Japan

Phone: +1-408-512-1363 (US number, our affiliate, Kenxa Corp.)
Fax: +81-50-3588-4563 (In Japan)

E-mail:

Web: http://SellToJapan.com