Yes -- you can start and solidify a business relationship via telephone, Skype or email, but nothing cements it better than an in-person (face-to-face) visit with your international customer. It's essential.
Building personal trust through face to face relationships is a very important part of foreign business transactions. Other countries rely less on contracts to ensure agreements are kept and more on gut instinct. Pretty smart considering the difficulty of enforcing international contract law.
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Building personal trust through face to face relationships is a very important part of foreign business transactions. Other countries rely less on contracts to ensure agreements are kept and more on gut instinct. Pretty smart considering the difficulty of enforcing international contract law.
Daisy
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