How to manage a project to sell abroad? Smart export assistant takes care of it

Access to new markets is a must for Italian companies: in today's environment, new choices and new business expansion strategies, such as the Smart Export Assistant, are required for companies to export successfully.

Octagona launches its Smart Export Assistant service. Internationalization is becoming, day by day, an increasingly important phenomenon for our companies: SMEs necessarily need to open up to new markets and export their products to countries where made in Italy is in demand. Today, the greatest business opportunities are looming more and more abroad and less and less within national borders, and given the high level of appreciation enjoyed by our products around the world, it is easy to understand how internationalization becomes a necessity capable of being a driving force for the growth of the entire system. After all, recent statistics show that our exports are steadily increasing (Italy today represents the eighth largest exporting country globally and it is absolutely appropriate to continue along this line, indeed much more can be done.

Precisely for this reason, Italian entrepreneurs, even in the face of ruthless international competition, need to reformulate their business strategies to find new outlets and opportunities. In this regard, today we hear with increasing insistence about “Temporary Export Manager,” which is a dedicated manager who works as an external consultant, supports and assists the company in a path of business expansion, and is capable of managing export projects.

In fact, SMEs do not always have the necessary resources available to internationalize, and they cannot always count on internal figures capable of designing a business development plan, identifying the most suitable markets and managing the entire export process; precisely because of this, the presence of such a professional figure is aimed at increasing company profits.

The Smart Export Assistant designed by Octagona, which has been operating for more than ten years in internationalization by providing services for the growth of companies abroad, goes precisely towards this direction and greatly expands what are the prerogatives of the Temporary Export Manager. It is, in fact, a tool specifically developed to support SMEs in their sales activities: the Smart Export Assistant designed by Octagona, in addition to selecting markets, identifying clients, subsequently managing their relationship and the follow-up phase, works in synergy with the company so as to exploit the technical skills, know-how and knowledge of the entrepreneur and his collaborators, thus leaving in the company's assets all the material and information gathered during the activity, through a process of training and constant and methodological support. Therefore, the Temporary Export Manager according to Octagona is not just an export manager, but a real resource who operates at 360 degrees in close contact with the company, integrating and complementing with his expertise the activities and needs of the entrepreneur.

The company, thus relying on such a resource, will be able to delegate its development operations in foreign markets (optimizing time and costs), being able to count on a professional capable of planning and developing the company's business operationally, thanks to his expertise, international experience and relational and contact management skills.

If you would like more information regarding Octagona's activities and if you would like to learn more about the Smart Export Assistant, please contact us by phone at 059.9770184 or email at [email protected]: we will give you all the answers you need.

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