By Jeff Klingberg | 2010 February 03 
North American success for foreign corporations can be elusive. A recent LinkedIn post asked for experiences from foreign national corporations who have had trouble introducing their products and services to the North American market.
From our experience in this area, foreign national corporations typically encounter the following issues.
1. Send a foreign national to open the operation just because someone believes there is a large untapped market in North America, but no research is done and …Continue reading
By Jeff Klingberg | 2010 January 14 We are pleased to announce the addition of HYDROMECH to our roster of clients. HYDROMECH is a start-up company who has designed a new, patent-pending hydraulic lift system for recreational vehicles, boat lifts and residential construction. The proprietary hydraulic pump distributes the appropriate amount of fluid to each linear actuator to enable a synchronized lift action in applications like pop-up campers. To learn more about their products visit www.hydromechusa.com.
We will be assisting them in developing a corporate identity and marketing materials, and conducting business development and public relations efforts among other services.
By Jeff Klingberg | 2009 October 01 
Sample of Visimation’s GoShapes. Alternative Energy Suite
We are pleased to announce the addition of Visimation to our roster of clients. Visimation, Inc. is a software development company. They develop custom and standard shapes/stencils, add-on applications and templates for Microsoft Visio. They sell their Visio add-ons, shapes and templates through their ShapeSource.com store. Additionally, they conduct Visio training seminars and maintain a blog with tips on how to more effectively use Visio. …Continue reading
By Jeff Klingberg | 2009 July 27 
What’s your top 10 inventions? Who are your top 10 designers/engineers?
Since the dawn of time, humans have been full of curiosity. They’ve asked what if, and used their ingenuity to create products and machines that have solved a problem, and made people’s lives easier, more efficient or safer. Some of the millions of marvelous inventions that have changed world in small and major ways, include the …Continue reading
By Jeff Klingberg | 2009 June 27 
Six steps to your organization’s social media and networking success.
The Internet, more specifically social media and networking has changed the way people and organizations connect, create, stay in touch or seek help from others.
Citizen journalists are using social media tools like blogs, microblogs, and video sharing to inform the world of the events surrounding the 2009 Iranian election protests when traditional journalists were banned from the country. It helped to topple …Continue reading
By Jeff Klingberg | 2009 June 24 
Business owners invest in their firms, not stocks is the headline AP Business Writer Joyce M. Rosenberg used for her article in Crain’s Detroit Business, June 24th Small Talk section. It discusses how business owners, like you, are intending to invest in their businesses instead of the stock market, since it’s such a risk.
If business owners are truly going to (re)invest in themselves as the article states, then they really have to understand that …Continue reading
By Jeff Klingberg | 2009 June 20 
A recent post in the Hydraulics & Pneumatics magazine’s discussion group on LinkedIn asks: Is fluid power on the decline?
As a person who worked in the industry for 10 years and has provided consulting services to the industry for the past 16 years, I believe it is — especially in the United States. And, if they don’t wake up immediately, they’ll find themselves in the history books and museums alongside dinosaurs — extinct.
Like a …Continue reading
By Jeff Klingberg | 2009 June 14
Fluid Power Technologies International and Konstanz Kommunikations undergo consolidation with Mountain Stream Group to form new, Chicago-based experiential communications design consultancy.
Thanks to the Internet the world’s getting smaller and moving at an ever-increasing pace, communication methods are expanding, and an organization’s success is increasingly dependent on fluid global communication.
The number of internal and external, seen and unseen points where your stakeholders touch, experience and hopefully …Continue reading
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