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Taking an account-based marketing (ABM) approach pinpoints your focus on a few high-opportunity, high-value accounts who are more likely to pay attention to your communications because they actually need your product and have the budget for it.

Keep your edge and grow with targeted strategies and tactics. The key is to adapt what works at home and translate it into international marketing success.

 You’re an Israel-based cybersecurity company that has successfully proven a new solution in the local market. Now it’s time to expand. The question is where? United States, Canada, India, and Korea are all viable markets. Choosing the right international market is critical.

It’s a given that international marketing is key to long-term business success. You just need to balance the risks with the rewards. We try to look on the bright side of life, so let’s start with the rewards.

Successful international marketing requires more than cloning your domestic marketing efforts

If you think it’s time to break into new markets, don’t just plan to clone your domestic marketing efforts. The strategy and messages that may resonate with home-country audiences may not work in foreign business landscapes. Before you start your global expansion plans, check these five marketing tactics:

The past decade has seen a clear trend toward attenuated press releases. Gone are the days of public relations people writing long screeds, with endless quotes and reams of data. This is partially an outgrowth of the use of email, social media, and chat as the preferred forms of communication between the public relations community and the press (which, for our purposes, includes bloggers and analysts). The explosion of technologies and information, in general, has, in turn, led to journalists’ exploding email boxes. Press releases, though, are still important, perhaps even more important than ever; as AI is perpetually hungry, and your press releases can feed the beast. 

We've been supporting clients at trade shows since DRUPA in 2004 and our first RSA in 2008 and MWC in 2009. That’s all after my many years as a trade show exhibition manager.

Here's how K2 can provide you with the critical assistance you need for a successful trade show:

• Trade show evaluation – Some industries have more than 20 conferences from which to choose. We can help you decide which events will give you the most ROI, from the major show that you need to be at to "be seen" to the smaller events that directly reach your targeted audiences. 

• Speaking opportunity application process – We can work with your team to brainstorm and write a compelling application that will get you in front of the conference decision-makers.

Plan for success.

Trade shows are one of the few places where you can meet many potential buyers personally, putting your solutions center stage and making a great first impression on potential customers.

You need to remember that successful trade shows and getting great ROI from your enormous investment depend not only on having the best exhibit space, attention-grabbing graphics, high-tech demos and free takeaways. It also depends on avoiding common mistakes often made by both new and veteran marketers. Even seasoned professionals could fall into trade-show traps.

Instead, here are our tips about how to be prepared.

These days, you can DIY a lot of things, but PR isn’t necessarily one of them.

You want to get your message out there and generate buzz around your brand or product, but you DON’T want to deal with the costs associated with hiring a PR professional. These days when social media is king, you figure you might as well do it yourself. After all, it just seems faster, cheaper, and more effective to put out the word via LinkedIn.