Is it effective to have intro pages in multiple languages?

Can this improve results in International SE's and enable intl PPC ads?

[kilo]

My company has customers across the world, We develop softwart and have distributors in many different countries. While our site is currently only available in English we are thinking of making intro pages in other language that would link to the distributor sites (Written in their language) and also have a link to the English site(with a msg saying that it is in English).

Would this enable us to have international Overture and Google ads? say for French and German.

And how can this affect our results on international search engines?
Our domain name will remain as ".com" so just single introductory pages will be written entirely in the international language.

So i'm just wondering how effective this is, and if anyone has tried this out before? thanks

[mona]

Hi, Kilo. I can't answer your questions, but you may have better luck getting responses if you post this over in the Google Adwords [webmasterworld.com] forum or possibly in the European Search Engines [webmasterworld.com] forum.