Penetrating the chinese and japanese market?

[frara]

I want to enter these markets for my (german) company which ranks very well in the european and english-speaking countries. I have no idea of kanji and i am not able to do any SEM in these countries, so my idea was to make a miniweb (about 5-10 pages) for both of the countries. Then hire a SEM company that can do the translations, get a country domain and get listed in the most important directories.
Has anyone done something like this before?
With any success? Can someone recommend a company that can do this (sticky mail)?
Or do you have other ideas how to handle this?
It's all about electronic products, but a rather small and specific b2b market.

Thx in advance
Frank

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld frara.

It sounds like you're on the right track here. You need to have information in the local languages. Just make sure that you can handle any follow-up inquiries in those languages as well. Japanese customers in particular are a bit more customer service oriented. They often need a bit more hand-holding before they part with their Yen. Of course this will all depend on the product or service you're offering.

[frara]

Hi Bill
Thanks for the welcome:D

It's not a big problem with the languages, because we already have a distributor for china and a few asian countrys, but they are not very familiar with online marketing and so we decided to do it ourselves and lead the customers to him.
In Japan there is no distributor, but i think when we appear in the market there will be some people asking for the job :-)
I've got a japanese friend but he is not capable doing the technical translations.

So if you or someone else could give me a hint where to find a good translation service and maybe seo company it would be very helpful.

Thanks Frank

[Kubano]

Hi Frara, I am in germany too trying to promote our products in Asia: i am going next monday to Düsseldorf to a China-Seminar.

If you want we can exchange experiences. What branche do you work for?

[redstorm]

where is your web site,let's have a look. it's not a difficult work.