Working with US Based Companies

We got a document that outlined how US companies do business. It had some tips for us Aussies. Matt from our US office found these points.

A few truisms from the Austrade doc that I found funny when called out…

US business persons will rarely leave their office to meet you, so meet them at their office or at a venue of their choice.
Makes us sound like hermits – which is sad but very true.

Americanize your website and preferably have a URL ending in ‘.com’ or ‘.us’. The ‘.au’ is
unfamiliar to U.S. business persons and reminds them you are foreign.
This is definitely one to keep in mind in general.

Voicemail is used by companies across the USA as a filtering device. Messages are rarely
returned.
Haha – for cold calling, definitely – but this one’s mostly a generalization.

Do not provide an Australian mobile phone as your point of contact, many U.S. business persons maybe unfamiliar with dialling internationally.
I bet 20% of people could tell you how to dial international.

They forgot to mention "The title on your business card is very important" as we found out last year.