24Feb 2021 by ggarciadme@gmail.com
Seven deadly sins in US market entry

Seven deadly sins in US market entry

Business
By Gonzalo Garcia, Founder and CEO of Markentry USA CONTENTS Introduction  1. Not adapting the 4 Ps of the ‘marketing mix’ to the target market 2. Ignoring regional differences or acting in the wrong state 3. Landing without the local support of experts in the target market 4. Acting without a subsidiary or choosing an inappropriate structure for it 5. Designing a complex and rigid business plan 6. Underestimating costs and deadlines 7. Underestimating the impact the US can have on the business Conclusion Conclusion Introduction The challenge faced by international companies and foreign entrepreneurs when trying to enter the US market is as great as the payoff obtained from succeeding. We are talking about a market of 330 million people with a per capita income of $65,000, which being…
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29Sep 2020 by ggarciadme@gmail.com
The «Dunning-Kruger» effect and the importance of feasibility studies in business internationalization to the US market

The «Dunning-Kruger» effect and the importance of feasibility studies in business internationalization to the US market

Strategy
By Gonzalo Garcia, Founder and CEO of Markentry USA 1. The Dunning-Kruger effect and other cognitive biases The Argentinian actor Ricardo Darín, in the fabulous film "The secret in their eyes", awarded an Oscar for the best foreign film, defined in an anthological scene two types of idiots: the one who knows he is an idiot and is therefore harmless, and the one who thinks he is a genius and does nothing but generate problems. The truth is that we are all exposed to behaving like both kinds of idiots in many fields, as modern psychology has amply shown. This is the "Dunning-Kruger" effect, discovered by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, which is defined as the inability to recognize our own ineptitude. It is a cognitive bias that means that…
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